Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Ohe

Yoshihiro Ohe 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: 11368635
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes: a disaster determining section that determines presence or absence of damage caused by a disaster; and an activating section that activates a capturing section mounted on the vehicle. An information processing system is an information processing system that includes plural vehicles and a server. The vehicle activates the capturing section mounted on the vehicle at the time of the disaster, and sends a video image captured by the capturing section and location information to the server. The server accumulates the video images sent from the plural vehicles, and associates the video images with map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11336841
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes: a disaster determining section that determines presence or absence of damage caused by a disaster; and an activating section that activates a capturing section mounted on the vehicle. An information processing system is an information processing system that includes plural vehicles and a server. The vehicle activates the capturing section mounted on the vehicle at the time of the disaster, and sends a video image captured by the capturing section and location information to the server. The server accumulates the video images sent from the plural vehicles, and associates the video images with map information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Patent number: 11062599
    Abstract: In a traffic management system including a vehicle and a database, the vehicle transmits emergency vehicle information including position information of the vehicle to the database when an emergency vehicle is detected from an image which is captured by an imaging unit, and the database stores the emergency vehicle information transmitted from the vehicle. The traffic management system further includes an information processing device. The information processing device predicts a traveling route on which the emergency vehicle is to travel based on the emergency vehicle information stored in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200250970
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit configured to store traffic regulation information, which is information on traffic regulations, a control unit configured to determine, based on a video of the surroundings of a vehicle captured by an imaging unit provided in the vehicle and the traffic regulation information stored in the storage unit, whether a subject included in the video has made a traffic violation or not, and in a case where it is determined that the subject has made a traffic violation, identify the traffic violation made by the subject and a violation location at which the traffic violation has been made, and a communication unit configured to transmit the traffic violation and the violation location, identified by the control unit, to a database outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ayana TAKESHITA, Yoshihiro OHE, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Ryosuke TANIMURA, Yuhei SUZUKI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200250443
    Abstract: In a traffic management system including a plurality of vehicles and a server, each vehicle is configured to generate an image including a traffic sign during traveling, and transmit, to the server, the image including the traffic sign, and the server is configured to compare the image of the traffic sign transmitted from each vehicle with reference traffic sign images, accumulate a plurality of evaluation results of evaluating visibility of the traffic sign, and based on the accumulated plurality of evaluation results, determine a state of the traffic sign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhei SUZUKI, Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryosuke Tanimura, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200250973
    Abstract: In a traffic management system including a vehicle and a database, the vehicle transmits emergency vehicle information including position information of the vehicle to the database when an emergency vehicle is detected from an image which is captured by an imaging unit, and the database stores the emergency vehicle information transmitted from the vehicle. The traffic management system further includes an information processing device. The information processing device predicts a traveling route on which the emergency vehicle is to travel based on the emergency vehicle information stored in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro OHE, Ayana TAKESHITA, Shunsuke TANIMORI, Ryosuke TANIMURA, Yuhei SUZUKI, Hiromitsu FUJII
  • Publication number: 20200247404
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to acquire vehicle identification information for identifying another vehicle included in a surrounding image of a vehicle which is captured by an imaging unit based on the surrounding image and to evaluate a driving risk level of the other vehicle based on a traveling state of the other vehicle and a communication unit configured to transmit dangerous vehicle information including the vehicle identification information and the driving risk level of the other vehicle to a database outside the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Shunsuke Tanimori, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200252557
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes: a disaster determining section that determines presence or absence of damage caused by a disaster; and an activating section that activates a capturing section mounted on the vehicle. An information processing system is an information processing system that includes plural vehicles and a server. The vehicle activates the capturing section mounted on the vehicle at the time of the disaster, and sends a video image captured by the capturing section and location information to the server. The server accumulates the video images sent from the plural vehicles, and associates the video images with map information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanimori, Yoshihiro Ohe, Ayana Takeshita, Ryosuke Tanimura, Yuhei Suzuki, Hiromitsu Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200143458
    Abstract: A receiving section configured to receive a usage application message containing use start time of a vehicle intended for car sharing and a rent-out place of the vehicle, an identification section configured to, based on a current position of a transporter vehicle that is able to transport the vehicle, identify the transporter vehicle that reaches the rent-out place by the use start time, a first sending section configured to send a move instruction message to the transporter vehicle identified by the identification section to instruct the transporter vehicle to move to the rent-out place, and a second sending section configured to send information on the vehicle that is being transported by the transporter vehicle identified by the identification section to a source from which the usage application message is sent, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michio IKEDA, Kohei UEZATO, Yoshihiro OHE, Masashi YAMADA, Kenichi KOMURO, Toshiaki NIWA
  • Patent number: 10539962
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store a location of an autonomous driving prohibition section on a map in association with a release condition set based on a traveling state of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to acquire the traveling state of the vehicle including the location of the vehicle on the map from the vehicle through communication, the control unit being configured to determine whether or not to release the autonomous driving prohibition section based on the acquired traveling state of the vehicle, the location of the autonomous driving prohibition section and the release condition of the autonomous driving prohibition section, the location and the release condition being stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Sogen, Hiroyuki Aono, Yoshihiro Ohe, Akiomi Kunisa, Junichi Meguro
  • Patent number: 10464557
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of autonomous driving vehicles includes: a storage unit configured to store a location of an autonomous driving difficult section on a map in association with a predetermined release condition; and a control unit configured to acquire from the plurality of autonomous driving vehicles reporting data of each of the autonomous driving vehicles through communication, the reporting data including a location of the vehicle on the map and at least one of reliability of the autonomous driving, difficulty state information indicative of the autonomous driving being difficult or not difficult, and a result of driver intervention, and the control unit being configured to determine whether to release the autonomous driving difficult section based on the acquired reporting data and on the location and the release condition of the autonomous driving difficult section stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Sogen, Hiroyuki Aono, Yoshihiro Ohe, Akiomi Kunisa, Junichi Meguro
  • Publication number: 20180059671
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a vehicle includes a storage unit configured to store a location of an autonomous driving prohibition section on a map in association with a release condition set based on a traveling state of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to acquire the traveling state of the vehicle including the location of the vehicle on the map from the vehicle through communication, the control unit being configured to determine whether or not to release the autonomous driving prohibition section based on the acquired traveling state of the vehicle, the location of the autonomous driving prohibition section and the release condition of the autonomous driving prohibition section, the location and the release condition being stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Sogen, Hiroyuki Aono, Yoshihiro Ohe, Akiomi Kunisa, Junichi Meguro
  • Publication number: 20180056992
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a plurality of autonomous driving vehicles includes: a storage unit configured to store a location of an autonomous driving difficult section on a map in association with a predetermined release condition; and a control unit configured to acquire from the plurality of autonomous driving vehicles reporting data of each of the autonomous driving vehicles through communication, the reporting data including a location of the vehicle on the map and at least one of reliability of the autonomous driving, difficulty state information indicative of the autonomous driving being difficult or not difficult, and a result of driver intervention, and the control unit being configured to determine whether to release the autonomous driving difficult section based on the acquired reporting data and on the location and the release condition of the autonomous driving difficult section stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Sogen, Hiroyuki Aono, Yoshihiro Ohe, Akiomi Kunisa, Junichi Meguro