Patents by Inventor Toshiyasu Yoshimi

Toshiyasu Yoshimi 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: 9451409
    Abstract: A mobile terminal guides a user to a destination by a navigation application and outputs destination information indicative of a destination upon arrival at the destination to information providing application and executes the information providing application. The mobile terminal on which the information providing application is running, determines whether the mobile terminal is staying at the destination by a motion sensor and starts counting a staying time. When the counted staying time reaches a predetermined length of time, the mobile terminal send to the user an inquiry to confirm that the present location is the destination. Upon confirmation that the user has been staying at the destination for a predetermined length of time, the mobile terminal transmits destination information to a server, obtains facility information corresponding to destination information, and outputs the obtained facility information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Otsuka, Toshiyasu Yoshimi
  • Publication number: 20150215797
    Abstract: Information acquisition unit acquires terminal identification information for identifying a communication terminal capable of receiving a signal from a communication unit. Status acquisition unit acquires a terminal status for determining whether the communication terminal identified by the terminal identification information acquired by information acquisition unit is staying in a predetermined area within a range in which a signal from the communication unit can be received. The determination unit determines whether each communication terminal is staying in the predetermined area, based on the terminal status acquired by status acquisition unit. Output unit outputs congestion degree information of a predetermined area in accordance with the number of receivable terminals that are staying in the predetermined area according to the determination by determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Yoshimi, Takayuki Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20150172867
    Abstract: A mobile terminal guides a user to a destination by a navigation application and outputs destination information indicative of a destination upon arrival at the destination to information providing application and executes the information providing application. The mobile terminal on which the information providing application is running, determines whether the mobile terminal is staying at the destination by a motion sensor and starts counting a staying time. When the counted staying time reaches a predetermined length of time, the mobile terminal send to the user an inquiry to confirm that the present location is the destination. Upon confirmation that the user has been staying at the destination for a predetermined length of time, the mobile terminal transmits destination information to a server, obtains facility information corresponding to destination information, and outputs the obtained facility information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Otsuka, Toshiyasu Yoshimi