Patents by Inventor Toshiki KASHIWAKURA

Toshiki KASHIWAKURA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11570254
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit/receive information to/from another apparatus using the communication interface. Upon receiving a request for vehicle dispatch from a terminal apparatus, the controller is configured to transmit an instruction to pick up a user of the terminal apparatus to a vehicle that includes a game apparatus corresponding to a game preference of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Akira Sasaki, Manabu Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11468724
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to generate an electronic key for unlocking a storage configured to be locked with an article stored therein, and a communication interface configured to transmit the electronic key generated by the controller to a terminal apparatus of a user in a case in which the user is forecasted to arrive at a store after a time slot for providing the article at the store has passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Manabu Ishihara, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Evan Vijithakumara
  • Publication number: 20220292409
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processors configured to: acquire request information including a desired date and time, a point of departure, and a destination, from a user placing a reservation for use of a moving body; derive a reservation result indicating whether the reservation is completed for the request information; derive, based on the request information, the reservation result indicating completion, suspension, or failure for the request information once or a plurality of times; derive, at a first time of deriving the reservation result, one of reservation results including at least the reservation result indicating the completion and the reservation result indicating the suspension for the request information; derive the reservation result indicating the completion or the failure by a predetermined deadline for the request information for which the reservation result indicates the suspension; and notify the user of the reservation result that has been derived.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Takahiro SHIGA, Tomoki NISHI, Keisuke OTAKI, Ayano OKOSO
  • Publication number: 20220270378
    Abstract: A lost item detection system includes: a vehicle that is capable of driverless and autonomous traveling, the vehicle being configured to travel with a user on board in a preset section; and a center server comprising a first processor configured to acquire a photographic image obtained by capturing an interior of the vehicle from the vehicle, detect a lost item of a user based on the image, specify an owner candidate of the lost item based on the image, acquire information regarding the owner candidate based on a fare settlement history of the owner candidate regarding the vehicle, and register lost item information including the image of the lost item and the information regarding the owner candidate in a lost item ledger in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji KONDO, Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Masanobu TAMURA, Takahiro ISHIHARA, Tadaaki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220164759
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor that: acquires history information indicating a history, about a first product, of storage in a repository or removal from the repository, the storage or the removal being detected by a sensor provided at the repository; acquires first information indicating a consumption pattern, for the first product, of a user associated with the repository, the first information being acquired based on the history information; and performs a process related to delivery of the first product to the user based on the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Yukiya SUGIYAMA, Kano ASAI, Hideo HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220164857
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a rotation sensor configured to detect the number of rotations performed by an object that rotates at a time of being consumed; and a processor configured to acquire the number of rotations from the rotation sensor, determine, based on the number of rotations from the rotation sensor, whether a consumed quantity of the object is at or greater than a predetermined threshold, and perform a predetermined process regarding replenishment of the object, in a case where the consumed quantity of the object is determined to be at or greater than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Yukiya Sugiyama, Kano Asai, Hideo Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20220163968
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire environment data obtained by observing an environment at a location, and control dispatch of a vehicle loaded with an article for a user who is located at the location, based on the acquired environment data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Manabu Ishihara, Toshiki Kashiwakura
  • Publication number: 20220148355
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to generate an electronic key for unlocking a storage configured to be locked with an article stored therein, and a communication interface configured to transmit the electronic key generated by the controller to a terminal apparatus of a user in a case in which the user is forecasted to arrive at a store after a time slot for providing the article at the store has passed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sasaki, Manabu Ishihara, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Evan Vijithakumara
  • Publication number: 20220135320
    Abstract: A sensor detects waste thrown into a trash can to obtain information about the waste, An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform: obtaining information about a consumption behavior of a user from the information about the waste; and executing predetermined processing based on the information about the consumption behavior of the user. The information about the waste is information capable of identifying a first product corresponding to the waste, and the controller obtains, as the information about the consumption behavior of the user, a disposal amount of the waste corresponding to a first product, and makes, as the predetermined processing, an instruction to deliver the first product to a place corresponding to an installation place of the trash can when the disposal amount of the waste of the first product reaches a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Yukiya Sugiyama, Kano Asai, Hideo Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20220092528
    Abstract: A controller of an information providing apparatus identifies, based on information input in the accommodation facility or the residential facility, an object, delivery of which is desired by the user. Furthermore, the controller outputs a provision request for the object. The provision request for the object includes delivery of the object to a place where the object is loaded onto an autonomous mobile body that is capable of transporting the object to an existing location of the user in the accommodation facility or the residential facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Osamu IZUMIDA, Xin JIN, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yoh IKEDA, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220092902
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, a controller acquires biometric information of a user at a time of reception for use of the facility by the user. Furthermore, the controller associates the biometric information of the user with information indicating the user. Moreover, the controller registers the biometric information of the user as a key to be used in the facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Osamu IZUMIDA, Xin JIN, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yoh IKEDA, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220048521
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit/receive information to/from another apparatus using the communication interface. Upon determining, based on behavior classification, that a behavior of a passenger detected from a captured image or a sound of the inside of a vehicle is threatening, the controller is configured to execute a process for evaluation of the passenger such that vehicle dispatch to the passenger is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Manabu Ishihara, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Akira Sasaki, Sachin Ahire
  • Publication number: 20220048464
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a controller configured to, upon determining, based on behavior classification, that a behavior of a passenger detected from a captured image or a sound of inside of a vehicle is threatening, transmit a first instruction to increase tension of a seat belt worn by the passenger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Manabu Ishihara, Akira Sasaki, Sachin Ahire
  • Publication number: 20220049964
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit/receive information to/from another apparatus via the communication interface. When a first boarding location is specified by a terminal apparatus, the controller notifies, to the terminal apparatus, a second boarding location which is within a predetermined distance range from the first boarding location, and reachable by a dispatchable vehicle earlier than the first boarding location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Manabu Ishihara, Akira Sasaki, Scott R. Meyer
  • Publication number: 20220038555
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit/receive information to/from another apparatus using the communication interface. Upon receiving a request for vehicle dispatch from a terminal apparatus, the controller is configured to transmit an instruction to pick up a user of the terminal apparatus to a vehicle that includes a game apparatus corresponding to a game preference of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Tatsumoto, Toshiki Kashiwakura, Akira Sasaki, Manabu Ishihara
  • Patent number: 10460598
    Abstract: A driving action classifying apparatus has a driving-action-symbol acquiring unit configured to acquire position information on a vehicle and driving action symbols, which are data obtained by converting driving actions of the vehicle into symbols; and a tendency symbolizing unit configured to collect the driving action symbols corresponding to a same or similar place acquired from a plurality of vehicles and generate driving tendency symbols, which are data obtained by converting into a symbol a frequency distribution of the driving action symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki Kashiwakura, Yusuke Tanaka, Chihiro Sannomiya, Keisuke Kurihara, Tadahiro Kashiwai, Ryo Neyama
  • Publication number: 20170148311
    Abstract: A driving action classifying apparatus has a driving-action-symbol acquiring unit configured to acquire position information on a vehicle and driving action symbols, which are data obtained by converting driving actions of the vehicle into symbols; and a tendency symbolizing unit configured to collect the driving action symbols corresponding to a same or similar place acquired from a plurality of vehicles and generate driving tendency symbols, which are data obtained by converting into a symbol a frequency distribution of the driving action symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiki KASHIWAKURA, Yusuke TANAKA, Chihiro SANNOMIYA, Keisuke KURIHARA, Tadahiro KASHIWAI, Ryo NEYAMA