Patents by Inventor Wataru Kaku

Wataru Kaku 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).

  • Publication number: 20240127769
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface, a display, an input interface including a touch panel superimposed on the display, an imager configured to capture images of a user, and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller is configured to receive, from another terminal apparatus, information for generating a model image representing another user who uses the other terminal apparatus based on a captured image of the other user, and information on a drawn image that is drawn by the other user on a touch panel of the other terminal apparatus, and to display, on the display, an image for display in which the model image and the drawn image are each horizontally flipped and are superimposed on each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20240126495
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a controller configured to generate, based on a positional relationship between a virtual light source, a display object corresponding to a first display, and a user object corresponding to a first user who operates a first image displayed on the first display, which are disposed in a virtual three-dimensional space, an image of a shadow of the user object, as a second image, display the first image on a second display toward a second user and superimpose the second image on the first image on the second display, upon detecting a change in a relative position of the first user, adjust a relative position of the user object according to the detected change, update the second image based on a change in the positional relationship resulting from adjustment, and reflect an update of the second image on the second display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20240129439
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller receives information for generating a 3D model that represents another user who participates in a call in a virtual space using another terminal apparatus and also represents a direction of focus of the another user and outputs information for displaying an image for display obtained by rendering the virtual space in which the 3D model is placed to be focusing in the direction of focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20240121359
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface, a transparent panel configured to display an image and accept a drawing, a display superimposed on the transparent panel, an imager disposed near the display and configured to capture an image of a user, and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller is configured to receive, from another terminal apparatus, information for displaying a model image representing another user who uses the other terminal apparatus based on a captured image of the other user, and information on a drawn image drawn by the other user using a drawing tool on a transparent panel of the other terminal apparatus, and to display the model image on the display of the terminal apparatus and a hand image of a hand of the other user holding the drawing tool and the drawn image on the transparent panel of the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Wataru KAKU, Tatsuro HORI, Jorge PELAEZ
  • Publication number: 20240119674
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a communication interface, a display, an imager configured to capture images of a user, and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller is configured to receive information for displaying a 3D model representing another user, who uses another terminal apparatus, based on a captured image of the another user and a supplementary image that includes an invisible portion of the captured image, and control the display to display a 3D model in which the invisible portion in a 3D model based on the captured image is supplemented by a 3D model based on the supplementary image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Patent number: 11953900
    Abstract: A service management device manages a service delivered in a predetermined area. The service management device has an operator interface including a display that displays information for an operator and receiving an input from the operator. The service management device communicates with an autonomous robot used for delivering the service in the predetermined area to acquire, from the autonomous robot, service robot information indicating at least a position and a status of the autonomous robot. The service management device displays a map of the predetermined area and the position of the autonomous robot on the display, based on the service robot information. When the autonomous robot displayed on the display is specified by the operator through the operator interface, the service management device displays a status window indicating the status of the autonomous robot specified by the operator on the display, based on the service robot information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Otsuki, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Haeyeon Lee, Wataru Kaku, Kota Oishi
  • Publication number: 20240094980
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus supports dialogue using dialogue apparatuses used by a plurality of users located remotely from each other. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to estimate, during execution of a remote dialogue, a parameter of each interlocutor with respect to a topic of the remote dialogue based on a video of each interlocutor, display an alert, on a first dialogue apparatus of a first user, indicating each interlocutor whose estimated parameter is less than a threshold, and when the first user gazes at and speaks to an interlocutor displayed with the alert among a plurality of interlocutors as second users displayed on a screen of the first dialogue apparatus, transmit first audio data with a high volume to a second dialogue apparatus of the interlocutor and transmit second audio data with a low volume to second dialogue apparatus of interlocutors other than the interlocutor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Aiko SAWADO, Daisuke KIKUCHI, Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20240094812
    Abstract: A method performed by a terminal apparatus configured to communicate with a server, the method includes displaying, on a screen, a plurality of objects including first objects indicating faces of other users who are interlocutors of a user of the terminal apparatus, detecting an object on the screen at which the user is gazing, as the user's gaze object, transmitting information indicating the user's gaze object to the server, receiving information indicating each interlocutor's gaze object from the server, and controlling orientation of each of the first objects and arrangement of the plurality of objects so as to satisfy, on the screen, a first condition that each interlocutor's line of sight is directed to the interlocutor's gaze object, and a second condition that there are no objects, in each interlocutor's the line of sight, other than the interlocutor's gaze object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Patent number: 11893695
    Abstract: A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator projects or displays a virtual space image on a screen installed at a position distant from a user in a real space and not integrally moving with the user. More specifically, the VR simulator acquires a real user position being a position of the user's head in the real space. The VR simulator acquires a virtual user position being a position in a virtual space corresponding to the real user position. Then, the VR simulator acquires the virtual space image by imaging the virtual space by using a camera placed at the virtual user position in the virtual space, based on virtual space configuration information indicating a configuration of the virtual space. Here, the VR simulator performs adjusts a focal length of the camera such that perspective corresponding to a distance between the real user position and the screen is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20240037807
    Abstract: The image transmission system executes the following five steps. The first step is acquiring a first image by capturing a first person present in a first area by a first camera. The second step is generating a first person silhouette image representing a silhouette of the first person shown in the first image. The third step is projecting or displaying the first person silhouette image on a second object installed in a second area that is different from the first area. The fourth step is determining whether or not the first person performs a first trigger action based on the first image. Fifth step is when the first person performs the first trigger action, projecting or displaying a first person detailed image on the second object, wherein the first person detailed image is closer to a real image of the first person than the first person silhouette image is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke KIKUCHI, Wataru KAKU, Aiko SAWADO, Mina FUNAZUKURI, Masayuki SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 11878865
    Abstract: A logistics robot for transporting a package includes: a robot unit configured to make the logistics robot travel; and a storage unit configured to store the package. The robot unit and the storage unit are separable from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Otsuki, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Haeyeon Lee, Wataru Kaku, Kota Oishi
  • Publication number: 20230386096
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to communicate using the communication interface. The controller is configured to receive mode information from a terminal apparatus of each user among a plurality of users in a virtual event, the mode information indicating a participation mode of the user, and based on the mode information, transmit information to the terminal apparatus for generating an image of the virtual event in which an image of each user is placed at a position with a priority corresponding to the participation mode of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20230379442
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a first image of a first medium including a first region in which a character is written. The information processing apparatus projects the first image onto a predetermined position of a second medium. The information processing apparatus acquires a second image of the second medium including a second region in which a line of a different color from the character depicted in the projected first image is drawn. The information processing apparatus corrects color data of an overlapping region in which the first region and the second region overlap in the second image. The information processing apparatus projects the corrected second image onto the first medium so that the position of the character matches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20230377252
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is a terminal apparatus configured to display a user image being an image of a first user to a second user in a second space separate from a first space in which the first user is present, the terminal apparatus including a controller configured to display, on a vertical display plane extending in a vertical direction, a first image being an image of a desk or a floor, together with the user image, display, on a horizontal display plane extending in a horizontal direction, a second image being a continuous image with the first image, the horizontal display plane being adjacent to a lower end of the vertical display plane, and when displaying the first image and the second image, draw a pattern on the first image and a pattern on the second image as continuous patterns with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru KAKU, Daisuke KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230316612
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to flip text included in an illustration drawn by a first user on a virtual screen in virtual space to be legible as seen from a virtual camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke KIKUCHI, Wataru KAKU, Aiko SAWADO, Mina FUNAZUKURI
  • Publication number: 20230290097
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to adjust a virtual distance from a predetermined reference position in virtual space to an object in the virtual space, the object corresponding to an interlocutor of a user, so that the sum of a real distance from a display disposed in real space to the user in the real space and the virtual distance corresponds to a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Patent number: 11748938
    Abstract: A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator acquires a virtual space image by imaging a virtual space from a virtual user position corresponding to a real user position. The VR simulator draws the virtual space image on a curved screen installed at a position distant from a user. A virtual screen position in a virtual space corresponds to the installation position of the curved screen. An inverse curved screen is placed at the virtual screen position and curved inversely to the curved screen. The VR simulator acquires a first virtual space image by imaging the virtual space from the virtual user position, and draws the first virtual space image on the inverse curved screen. Further, the VR simulator acquires a second virtual space image by imaging the first virtual space image on the inverse curved screen from the virtual user position, and draws the second virtual space image on the curved screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mina Funazukuri, Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20230260076
    Abstract: A system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with each other. The first information processing apparatus is configured to acquire three-dimensional point cloud data including multiple vertices each having three parameters of x-, y-, and z-coordinates. A combination of the x- and y-coordinates is different from vertex to vertex. The first or second information processing apparatus is configured to convert the three-dimensional point cloud data into two-dimensional point cloud data in which each of the multiple vertices has two parameters of a parameter m with a different value for each combination of the x- and y-coordinates and the z-coordinate. The second information processing apparatus is configured to generate mesh data, using the two-dimensional point cloud data and information indicating correspondence between the combination of the x- and y-coordinates and the parameter m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20230244311
    Abstract: A controller of an information processing apparatus is configured to, for each of multiple viewers of a light field display: identify a three-dimensional coordinate position of eyes; generate an image according to the identified three-dimensional coordinate position of the eyes; identify, based on the identified three-dimensional coordinate position of the eyes, a channel to which the generated image is to be output, of a plurality of channels associated with a plurality of light rays to be emitted from the light field display, respectively; and output the generated image to the identified channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru Kaku
  • Publication number: 20230247383
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a display and a controller. The controller is configured to form a virtual sound source outputting sound emitted by an object, at an intersection between a screen of the display and a straight line connecting a position, in real space, of a mouth of the object disposed in virtual space viewed from a virtual camera and a position of a head of a user facing the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Wataru KAKU