Patents by Inventor Yasuhisa Obata

Yasuhisa Obata 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: 11574541
    Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Iida
  • Patent number: 11417113
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a controller, a storage unit, and a providing unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire vehicle information from a vehicle-mounted information processing device. The controller is configured to recognize the position of a target in a case where vehicle information including the target in the vicinity of a vehicle is acquired. The controller is configured to accumulate the target in a habitat database such that the target is correlated with the position. The controller is configured to generate habitat information of the target based on a habitat database. The providing unit is configured to provide the habitat information to a terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Iida
  • Patent number: 11373260
    Abstract: An information processing device include: a first accepting unit that accepts, from an owner, setting of conditions for renting his or her vehicle; a second accepting unit that accepts, from each of a plurality of users, setting of preferred conditions for using a vehicle; and a selecting unit that combines two or more of the preferred conditions for using a vehicle, which include at least a preferred condition that the user wants to use the one-way car sharing, compares the combined two or more preferred conditions for using a vehicle with the conditions for renting the vehicle, and if the combined two or more preferred conditions for using a vehicle match the conditions for renting the vehicle, selects each user having set the preferred conditions that match the conditions for renting the vehicle as users permitted to use the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20220051272
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of weather information and time information of a predetermined area as an environmental parameter, a use history unit configured to acquire a use history including a use section, a use time, and vehicle information of a vehicle previously used by a user, a prediction unit configured to perform a demand prediction of a vehicle to be used by the user based on correspondence information with the environmental parameter and the use history stored in association with each other, and a vehicle arrangement plan output unit configured to output a plan of arrangement locations of the vehicles planed based on the demand prediction of the vehicle performed by the demand prediction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Patent number: 11216754
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a reception unit configured to receive a use reservation of car sharing including designation of any one of round-trip car sharing and one-way car sharing, designation of a pickup location, and designation of a drop-off location from a user and store the use reservation in a use reservation database, and a selection unit configured to select, as users who share a ride in a vehicle, both of a first user who has made a use reservation for designating round-trip car sharing and a second user who has made a use reservation for designating one-way car sharing among a plurality of users who have made a use reservation with a pickup location and a drop-off location satisfying a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Patent number: 11210755
    Abstract: An information retrieval server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device communicates with servers of a plurality of business operators and a communication terminal of a user through a communication network, each of the plurality of business operators performing a car sharing service. The processing device presents information relevant to vehicles held by the plurality of business operators, to the user, acquires information input from the communication terminal, the information being information about a predetermined item included in a use condition for the car sharing service, causes the servers of the plurality of business operators to retrieve a vehicle satisfying a use condition determined by the acquired information, from the held vehicles, and sends information relevant to the retrieved vehicle, to the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Patent number: 11200586
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of weather information and time information of a predetermined area as an environmental parameter, a use history unit configured to acquire a use history including a use section, a use time, and vehicle information of a vehicle previously used by a user, a prediction unit configured to perform a demand prediction of a vehicle to be used by the user based on correspondence information with the environmental parameter and the use history stored in association with each other, and a vehicle arrangement plan output unit configured to output a plan of arrangement locations of the vehicles planed based on the demand prediction of the vehicle performed by the demand prediction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20210287537
    Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi MOMOSE, Hideto FUJISHIMA, Naoki KUROKAWA, Yuki TAO, Yasuhisa OBATA, Hiroki IIDA
  • Patent number: 11055994
    Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Iida
  • Publication number: 20200242925
    Abstract: An information processing device has an obtaining unit, a controller, and a giving unit. The obtaining unit can obtain vehicle information. The controller creates first warning information when the passability of a road in the vehicle information indicates non-passable. The controller creates recovery information when the passability of the road at the same position in the vehicle information indicates passable, after creation of the first warning information. The giving unit gives the recovery information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi MOMOSE, Hideto FUJISHIMA, Naoki KUROKAWA, Yuki TAO, Yasuhisa OBATA, Hiroki IIDA
  • Publication number: 20200218911
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a controller, a storage unit, and a providing unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire vehicle information from a vehicle-mounted information processing device. The controller is configured to recognize the position of a target in a case where vehicle information including the target in the vicinity of a vehicle is acquired. The controller is configured to accumulate the target in a habitat database such that the target is correlated with the position. The controller is configured to generate habitat information of the target based on a habitat database. The providing unit is configured to provide the habitat information to a terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi MOMOSE, Hideto FUJISHIMA, Naoki KUROKAWA, Yuki TAO, Yasuhisa OBATA, Hiroki IIDA
  • Publication number: 20200202229
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit, a control unit and a giving unit. The acquisition unit can acquire vehicle information from an in-vehicle information processing device. The acquisition unit can acquire condition information from a terminal device. When acquiring the vehicle information, the control unit recognizes a weather when a vehicle detects clothes in the vehicle information. The control unit accumulates the clothes in a clothes database, in association with the weather and a position. When acquiring the condition information, the control unit recognizes a predicted weather at a designated time and a designated position. The control unit selects at least one kind of clothes, based on the clothes in the clothes database that are associated with the predicted weather and the position. The giving unit gives the at least one kind of clothes, to the terminal device that gives the condition information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirofumi Momose, Hideto Fujishima, Naoki Kurokawa, Yuki Tao, Yasuhisa Obata, Hiroki Ilda
  • Publication number: 20190311454
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a registration unit configured to receive registration of action schedules from users and store the action schedules in action schedule information; a selection unit configured to extract, from the action schedule information, users who registered an action schedule of heading for a prescribed destination, and select the extracted users as ride-sharing candidate, users; and a notification unit configured to notify, the ride-sharing candidate users, of proposal information that includes proposal of moving to the prescribed destination by riding on a shared vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190304010
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a storage unit configured to store rental conditions of a vehicle presented by an owner of the vehicle and rental result information of the vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire rental conditions and rental result information of the first vehicle from the storage unit; an analysis unit configured to extract rental result information of a second vehicle, the rental conditions of the first vehicle and rental conditions of the second vehicle being common in at least a part, compare and analyze the rental result information of the second vehicle and the rental result information of the first vehicle; a generation unit configured to generate, based on an analysis result, recommendation information on the rental conditions of the first vehicle for improving a rental result of the first vehicle; and an output unit configured to output the recommendation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190304045
    Abstract: An information retrieval server includes a communication device and a processing device. The communication device communicates with servers of a plurality of business operators and a communication terminal of a user through a communication network, each of the plurality of business operators performing a car sharing service. The processing device presents information relevant to vehicles held by the plurality of business operators, to the user, acquires information input from the communication terminal, the information being information about a predetermined item included in a use condition for the car sharing service, causes the servers of the plurality of business operators to retrieve a vehicle satisfying a use condition determined by the acquired information, from the held vehicles, and sends information relevant to the retrieved vehicle, to the communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190295205
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided that includes: a registration part that receives registration of a particular vehicle type and color from a user and stores the particular vehicle type and color as specified vehicle information; a vehicle place acquisition part that acquires a specified place where a vehicle according to the specified vehicle information is available; a positional information acquisition part that acquires positional information of the user; a judgment part that judges whether a distance between the specified place and a position indicated by the positional information is within a predetermined range, based on information acquired by the vehicle place acquisition part and the positional information acquisition part; and a notification part that notifies the user that the vehicle according to the specified vehicle information is available when the judgment part judges that the distance is within the predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190295108
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of weather information and time information of a predetermined area as an environmental parameter, a use history unit configured to acquire a use history including a use section, a use time, and vehicle information of a vehicle previously used by a user, a prediction unit configured to perform a demand prediction of a vehicle to be used by the user based on correspondence information with the environmental parameter and the use history stored in association with each other, and a vehicle arrangement plan output unit configured to output a plan of arrangement locations of the vehicles planed based on the demand prediction of the vehicle performed by the demand prediction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190287166
    Abstract: A car sharing system includes at least one processor configured to: acquire an evaluation result of a user who uses a vehicle; and set contents of a car sharing service that the user can use from a next time, based on the acquired evaluation result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190287034
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a reception unit configured to receive a use reservation of car sharing including designation of any one of round-trip car sharing and one-way car sharing, designation of a pickup location, and designation of a drop-off location from a user and store the use reservation in a use reservation database, and a selection unit configured to select, as users who share a ride in a vehicle, both of a first user who has made a use reservation for designating round-trip car sharing and a second user who has made a use reservation for designating one-way car sharing among a plurality of users who have made a use reservation with a pickup location and a drop-off location satisfying a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata
  • Publication number: 20190287202
    Abstract: An information processing device include: a first accepting unit that accepts, from an owner, setting of conditions for renting his or her vehicle; a second accepting unit that accepts, from each of a plurality of users, setting of preferred conditions for using a vehicle; and a selecting unit that combines two or more of the preferred conditions for using a vehicle, which include at least a preferred condition that the user wants to use the one-way car sharing, compares the combined two or more preferred conditions for using a vehicle with the conditions for renting the vehicle, and if the combined two or more preferred conditions for using a vehicle match the conditions for renting the vehicle, selects each user having set the preferred conditions that match the conditions for renting the vehicle as users permitted to use the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichiro Mitsumaki, Masato Endo, Ryota Kondo, Yasuhisa Obata