Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Oe

Yoshihiro Oe 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: 20200034982
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a vehicle, and a server configured to communicate with the vehicle. The vehicle generates a captured image of scenery outside the vehicle. The vehicle or the server: starts a first detection processing of successively detecting a first subject in the captured image; determines, as a target region, a partial region of the captured image including a prescribed number of first subjects when the prescribed number of the first subjects are detected; terminates the first detection processing of the target region; and performs image processing of lowering visibility of an image on the target region. The server then transmits the captured image subjected to the image processing to a transmission destination other than the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190337531
    Abstract: A driving assistance device for a vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store a position of a first point on a road map where a traveling environment of a road changes, and a controller configured to output an alarm for alerting a driver of a vehicle after the vehicle has passed through the first point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190266424
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor configured to determine, on the basis of information concerning traveling of a vehicle obtained when an image is taken by an image pickup unit of the vehicle, a scene present when the image is taken; and transmit information indicating the determined scene and the image to a terminal connected to the information processing apparatus via a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE
  • Publication number: 20190164267
    Abstract: A failed vehicle estimation system includes an processor configured to: store vehicle information including vehicle ID information and positional information of the vehicles and failure information of a failed vehicle or at least one image obtained by imaging an outside of the vehicles with a camera mounted in each of the vehicles, the failure information being obtained from at least one specific image; specify at least one specific vehicle existing on a periphery of a mounting position of a specific camera having captured the at least one specific image from which the failure information of the failed vehicle is obtained; estimate the failed vehicle from among the at least one specific vehicle; and notify a terminal apparatus associated with the failed vehicle of information relating to a vehicle failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190156147
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a storage unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire an image outside a vehicle captured by a camera installed in the vehicle. The determination unit is configured to determine whether or not a determination target image is similar to a reference image based on luminance values of the reference image and the determination target image. The reference image is selected from pieces of image acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination target image is captured after the reference image is acquired. The storage unit is configured to store the image acquired by the acquisition unit excluding the determination target image determined to be similar to the reference image by the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190156677
    Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus includes: a measurement unit configured to measure a distance to a front side position which positions front side of an obstacle in a vehicle front-rear direction of a host vehicle from the host vehicle when the host vehicle stops temporarily before an intersection in which a blind spot caused by the obstacle is present; and a vehicle controller configured to stop the host vehicle such that a distance between a front end portion of the host vehicle and the front side position satisfies a predetermined criterion based on the distance measured by the measurement unit when the host vehicle moves forward from a position at which the host vehicle temporary stops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE
  • Publication number: 20190156671
    Abstract: A server device includes a storage unit configured to store vehicle information including vehicle behavior information and position information, a region specifying unit configured to specify a warning road region where a sudden stop of a vehicle occurs a plurality of times based on the stored vehicle information, and a notification unit configured to, when the sudden stop of the vehicle occurs in the specified warning road region, notify terminal devices that correspond to vehicles located in the warning road region and in a vicinity of the warning road region of information regarding the warning road region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190130760
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes first circuitry configured to: detect that a predetermined lane change has been made in a vehicle; acquire information indicating acceleration of the vehicle, the acceleration being an acceleration at a time when the lane change is made; judge a traveling environment of the vehicle, the traveling environment being a traveling environment when the lane change is made; decide a first risk level by comparing the information indicating the acceleration acquired by the first circuitry with one or more first threshold values; and determine a risk level of the lane change using the first risk level decided by the first circuitry and the traveling environment of the vehicle judged by the first circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190126932
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling information indicating traveling conditions of a first vehicle traveling on a road, a determination unit configured to determine one or more driving operations of a driver driving the first vehicle by using the traveling information acquired when a second vehicle approaches the first vehicle, an evaluation unit configured to perform evaluation of safety related to the driver's driving by using determination results of the determination unit, and an updating unit configured to acquire first evaluation results of the evaluation unit during a first predetermined period to compare the first evaluation results with second evaluation results of the evaluation unit during a second predetermined period before the first predetermined period, and to update the second evaluation results based on comparison results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE
  • Publication number: 20190130222
    Abstract: A machine learning system includes a generation unit configured to generate a classifier that classifies a plurality of image data items into a plurality of categories by performing supervised learning about which of the categories the image data item is to be classified into for each of the image data items, a selection unit configured to select a representative image data item as a representative of the image data items classified in each category among the plurality of image data items, and a deletion unit configured to delete remaining image data items except for the selected image data item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190108752
    Abstract: A driving assistance device for a driver of a vehicle includes an electronic control unit configured to, before the vehicle passes through a predetermined position in a predetermined direction, acquire information relating to a predetermined traffic regulation to be applied when the vehicle passes through the predetermined position in the predetermined direction, acquire an observance tendency of an other driver relating to the predetermined traffic regulation, a degree of similarity between a predetermined characteristic of the other driver and the predetermined characteristic of the driver of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, before the vehicle passes through the predetermined position in the predetermined direction, output a warning to prompt observance of the predetermined traffic regulation, and change an output state of the warning to prompt observance of the predetermined traffic regulation based on the observance tendency of the traffic regulation of another driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190096237
    Abstract: An information providing system includes a first information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information indicating a point at which a first vehicle detects a predetermined event on a road and first vehicle information of the first vehicle acquired by the first vehicle at the point, a second information acquisition unit configured to acquire second vehicle information of a second vehicle at the point, a determination unit configured to determine ease of road traffic at the point as levels using the first vehicle information of the first vehicle and the second vehicle information of the second vehicle at the point, and an information providing unit configured to provide the information on the road indicating ease of the road traffic using a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Publication number: 20190080182
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first communication control unit that receives a first signal from one or more terminals carried by one or more detection objects around a vehicle, a detection unit that detects the detection objects in a predetermined range from image data created by photographing the predetermined range that can be seen from the vehicle, a determination unit that determines whether the one or more detection objects can be seen from the vehicle based on a detection result generated by the detection unit and the first signal received by the first communication control unit, and an information providing unit that provides information on a detection object that cannot be seen from the vehicle when the one or more detection objects include the detection object that cannot be seen from the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OE, Hirofumi KAMIMARU
  • Patent number: 10220781
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with a driving environment information acquisition section, which acquires driving environment information, which is information on a driving environment of the vehicle. A center is provided with a driving environment evaluation section, which quantitatively evaluates the ease of traveling in the driving environment of the vehicle based on an analysis of the driving environment information acquired by the driving environment information acquisition section. A display section of the vehicle displays the result of evaluation by the driving environment evaluation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironobu Sugimoto, Teruhide Hayashida, Hirokazu Nomoto, Yoshihiro Oe, Kazuya Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20160046237
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with a driving environment information acquisition section, which acquires driving environment information, which is information on a driving environment of the vehicle. A center is provided with a driving environment evaluation section, which quantitatively evaluates the ease of traveling in the driving environment of the vehicle based on an analysis of the driving environment information acquired by the driving environment information acquisition section. A display section of the vehicle displays the result of evaluation by the driving environment evaluation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironobu SUGIMOTO, Teruhide HAYASHIDA, Hirokazu NOMOTO, Yoshihiro OE, Kazuya NISHIMURA, Yoshiyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 8665099
    Abstract: An inattentive state determination device includes an observed amount acquiring means for acquiring information on the driver's line of sight and at least one of either information on driving operations or information on the traveling state as an observed amount; and an inattentive state determining means for determining the inattentive state of the driver based on the stochastic relationship between the inattentive state and the observed amount as well as the observed amount acquired by using the observed amount acquiring means. In addition, the inattentive state determining means calculates the probability that the driver is driving inattentively and determines that the driver is driving inattentively when the calculated probability exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Namba, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Keisuke Okamoto, Yoshihiro Oe, Yoichi Sato, Yoshihiro Suda, Takahiro Suzuki, Daisuke Yamaguchi, Shiro Kumano, Kenichi Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 8606459
    Abstract: A fuel economy driving assistance apparatus includes advice provision means for providing a driver with driving advice that contributes to improvement of fuel economy of a vehicle; driving tendency estimation means for estimating a driving tendency of the driver in each driving situation; and advice mode changing means for changing a mode of the driving advice, according to the driving tendency of the driver estimated by the driving tendency estimation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sekiyama, Yoshihiro Oe
  • Patent number: 8576057
    Abstract: A fuel consumption saving drive supporting device which calculates a mileage of each driver and informs each driver of advice based on an increase or a decrease of the calculated mileage is disclosed. The fuel consumption saving drive supporting device extracts a drive operation of the driver or a drive condition of a vehicle of the driver for increasing the mileage, and informs the driver of the advice in the drive operation or the drive condition corresponding to the extracted drive operation or the extracted drive condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sekiyama, Yoshihiro Oe
  • Patent number: 8380431
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device 10 includes reception means 60 for receiving a telephone number and positional information about a first point location from a portable device 30, storage means 70 for storing telephone numbers and positional information about multiple second point locations, first comparison means 62a for comparing the telephone number of the first point location with the telephone numbers of the multiple second point locations, second comparison means 62b for comparing the positional information about the first point location with the positional information about the multiple second point locations, display means 63 for displaying a point of interest on a map on the basis of comparison results of the first and second comparison means by using either the positional information about the first point location or the positional information about one of the multiple second point locations corresponding to the first point location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takako Fukuda, Keisuke Okamoto, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Yoshihiro Oe, Tokuhiko Nishiba
  • Publication number: 20110161003
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device 10 includes reception means 60 for receiving a telephone number and positional information about a first point location from a portable device 30, storage means 70 for storing telephone numbers and positional information about multiple second point locations, first comparison means 62a for comparing the telephone number of the first point location with the telephone numbers of the multiple second point locations, second comparison means 62b for comparing the positional information about the first point location with the positional information about the multiple second point locations, display means 63 for displaying a point of interest on a map on the basis of comparison results of the first and second comparison means by using either the positional information about the first point location or the positional information about one of the multiple second point locations corresponding to the first point location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Takako Fukuda, Keisuke Okamoto, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Yoshihiro Oe, Tokuhiko Nishiba