Patents by Inventor Wataru MINOURA
Wataru MINOURA 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).
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Publication number: 20250012586Abstract: In a navigation system, a data center and a plurality of vehicles are connected via a communication network. The data center accepts specific section information, which can identify a specific section for which the capturing of road conditions is requested, from a capturing requester. The data center proposes capturing-requested routes, each of which goes through a specific section, to a user who performed a route search with a destination set using a navigation device, based on the specific section information. The data center stores, in a storage device, a video that was uploaded by a user, that was captured by a dashcam while the vehicle was traveling in the specific section, and that shows the road conditions of the specific section, along with capturing position information that can identify the position where the video was captured.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru Minoura, Masatoshi Hayashi, Yutaro Imamura, Fumihiro Nasu, Yuki Tatsumoto, Takehiko Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20250010859Abstract: A safe-driving assist system is equipped in a vehicle including a drive recorder. The safe-driving assist system includes a control device and an informing device. The control device executes acquiring an image captured by the drive recorder, detecting a peripheral vehicle shown in the acquired image, determining whether a driver sign is displayed on the detected peripheral vehicle, and outputting a warning signal when the peripheral vehicle on which the driver sign is displayed has been detected. The informing device informs a driver about existence of the peripheral vehicle on which the driver sign is displayed, when the warning signal output by the control device has been received.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru Minoura, Masatoshi Hayashi, Yutaro Imamura, Fumihiro Nasu, Yuki Tatsumoto, Takehiko Hasimoto
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Publication number: 20250010886Abstract: A vehicle includes an autonomous driving device and a navigation device. A control device for the vehicle is configured to display on the navigation device an evaluation window for evaluating a driver assistance function performed by the autonomous driving device. The control device is configured to adjust a parameter that is used when the autonomous driving device performs the driver assistance function, based on an input operation from a driver to the evaluation window.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumihiro NASU, Wataru Minoura, Yoshiki Terashima, Yoshiaki Motoyasu
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Publication number: 20240424989Abstract: An image providing apparatus is connected to a plurality of vehicles each including a drive recorder and a plurality of information input apparatuses via a communication network. The image providing apparatus receives and stores data of a video image captured by the drive recorder from the plurality of vehicles and in a storage apparatus. The image providing apparatus receives information for identifying a vehicle of a user and a condition for a wanted image from the information input apparatus, the information and the condition being input to the information input apparatus by the user. The image providing apparatus extracts and provides, from among a plurality of the data of the video images stored in the storage apparatus and for the user, an image that the vehicle of the user is viewed in and matches the condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240416930Abstract: A failure notification system mounted on a vehicle includes an imaging device, a processing device, and a transmission device. The processing device acquires video data of a preceding vehicle captured by the imaging device. The processing device performs failure determination based on the acquired video data. As a result of the failure determination by the processing device, when a failure of a brake light of the preceding vehicle is detected, the processing device causes the transmission device to transmit information indicating that the brake light is failed to a reception device of the preceding vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240412636Abstract: In a safe driving support system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center stores a position of a first vehicle of which a G sensor detects that behavior of the vehicle has been disturbed when caution information is received from the first vehicle as a caution-needed spot in a storage device. The data center transmits data of a caution image extracted from data of images in a predetermined period before the caution information has been received out of the data of the images captured by a drive recorder of the first vehicle to a second vehicle approaching the caution-needed spot when the caution information is received. The display of the second vehicle having received the data of the caution image attracts attention by displaying the caution image before the second vehicle arrives at the caution-needed spot.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240412523Abstract: An information providing device and an information providing method are provided. Processing circuitry receives, from a first vehicle, a piece of video data related to the moment the first vehicle passed an occurrence site. The first vehicle captures a piece of video data by a dashboard camera when passing the occurrence site of a traffic event requiring cautious driving. The processing circuitry extracts a piece of image data representing a situation of the occurrence site from the video related to the piece of video data, and transmits the piece of image data to the second vehicle. When the second vehicle reaches a notification location, a display device of the second vehicle displays an image related to the piece of image data in order to issue an alert.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240377214Abstract: In a navigation system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center receives video data and stores the received video data in a storage device, the received video data being data of a video captured by a drive recorder and provided from a first vehicle among the plurality of vehicles, the first vehicle having a destination that is set such that route guidance until arrival at the destination cannot be accomplished by the navigation device, the first vehicle having arrived at the destination. The data center transmits the video data stored in the storage device to a second vehicle among the plurality of vehicles, the second vehicle having the destination set in the navigation device. The navigation device of the second vehicle performs guidance to the destination by replaying the received video after the route guidance around the destination is terminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Wataru MINOURA, Masatoshi HAYASHI, Yutaro IMAMURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Takehiko HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240227839Abstract: The information processing device extracts one or a plurality of autonomously drivable sections in the traveling route of the vehicle to the destination. Further, the information processing device specifies the first section having the longest autonomous driving continuable time on the traveling route. Then, the information processing device outputs the autonomous driving continuable time in the first section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru MINOURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yoshiaki MOTOYASU, Yoshiki TERASHIMA
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Publication number: 20240132094Abstract: The information processing device extracts one or a plurality of autonomously drivable sections in the traveling route of the vehicle to the destination. Further, the information processing device specifies the first section having the longest autonomous driving continuable time on the traveling route. Then, the information processing device outputs the autonomous driving continuable time in the first section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru MINOURA, Fumihiro NASU, Yoshiaki MOTOYASU, Yoshiki TERASHIMA
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Publication number: 20230324193Abstract: A control apparatus includes a memory configured to store a history of travel of a vehicle, a communication interface, and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface. The controller is configured to output a first history for a first period in response to a predetermined instruction during the first period and to refrain from outputting the first history, even upon receiving the predetermined instruction, during a second period partitioned from the first period based on information transmitted by a terminal apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20230316913Abstract: A service support apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus of a user or a staff member, and a controller configured to acquire status data indicating a parking status of shared vehicles at a plurality of locations, and transmit presentation data to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface upon detecting an excess of shared vehicles at a first location, a shortage of shared vehicles at a second location, or both based on the acquired status data, the presentation data encouraging the user or the staff member to travel to the second location in a shared vehicle parked at the first location.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20230319240Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from another apparatus via the communication interface, wherein the controller is configured to transmit information to a vehicle about a boarding point, designated by a terminal apparatus, at which a user is to board the vehicle, and transmit, to the terminal apparatus, a captured image of surroundings of the vehicle, the captured image being captured by the vehicle during travel to the boarding point.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20230194272Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit and receive information to and from other apparatuses via the communication interface. When the controller receives information for reserving use of a vehicle from a terminal apparatus, and a distance between an end point of a first use and a start point of a second use that starts after the first use is equal to or less than a reference distance, the controller is configured to transmit a movement instruction to a first terminal apparatus corresponding to the first use for a user to move the vehicle to the start point of the second use at an end of the first use.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Chikage KUBO, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Wataru MINOURA, Yuki TATSUMOTO, Soutaro KANEKO
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Publication number: 20210402992Abstract: An apparatus for setting a planned trajectory includes a processor configured to identify a travel lane on which a vehicle is traveling, detect, as a specific section, a section lacking at least one of left and right lane lines of the travel lane of the vehicle in a planned travel section, set at least one candidate of a planned trajectory to be traveled by the vehicle in the specific section, the at least one candidate including a candidate based on an existing one of the lane lines or a road edge, and set, of the set candidate, a candidate having a minimum variation in curvature or a minimum offset distance in a direction perpendicular to a travel direction of the vehicle at parts connected to the planned trajectory in sections ahead of and behind the specific section as the planned trajectory of the specific section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Shuichi MORIMOTO, Yuta ASAKA, Wataru MINOURA, Shun FUJIOKA, Takashi IENAGA, Takahiro OZAKI
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Publication number: 20190308622Abstract: A vehicle travel control system installed on a vehicle executes vehicle travel control that determines a travel lane and controls the vehicle to travel in the travel lane based on driving environment information. A restricted lane section is a lane and a section of lane in which a specific type of vehicle is prohibited from traveling. An avoidance target lane section is the restricted lane section in which the vehicle is prohibited from traveling. The driving environment information includes: vehicle type information indicating a type of the vehicle; and restricted lane section information indicating a position of the restricted lane section. The vehicle travel control system recognizes the avoidance target lane section based on the vehicle type information and the restricted lane section information, and executes the vehicle travel control so as to avoid the avoidance target lane section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Wataru Minoura, Kiyohiro Sogen, Yuichiro Nara, Shuichi Morimoto
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Patent number: 10207459Abstract: A working method for an end portion of a plate member includes heating and pressing the end portion of the plate member formed of a thermoplastic resin in a thickness direction to form a thin portion, folding the thin portion such that a pressed surface is positioned inside to move an outer peripheral end of the thin portion as an end portion on an outer peripheral side of the plate member to the vicinity of a main body portion of the plate member to which an inner end of the thin portion as an end portion on an inner side of the plate member is connected, and pressing the outer peripheral end of the thin portion in the thickness direction to move the outer peripheral end thereof further inward than a surface of the main body portion in the thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignees: MITSUIYA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Hasegawa, Wataru Minoura, Takuji Ono, Sachiko Nishi
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Publication number: 20160151967Abstract: A working method for an end portion of a plate member includes heating and pressing the end portion of the plate member formed of a thermoplastic resin in a thickness direction to form a thin portion, folding the thin portion such that a pressed surface is positioned inside to move an outer peripheral end of the thin portion as an end portion on an outer peripheral side of the plate member to the vicinity of a main body portion of the plate member to which an inner end of the thin portion as an end portion on an inner side of the plate member is connected, and pressing the outer peripheral end of the thin portion in the thickness direction to move the outer peripheral end thereof further inward than a surface of the main body portion in the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2014Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Satoshi HASEGAWA, Wataru MINOURA, Takuji ONO, Sachiko NISHI