Patents by Inventor Yoshimi Kobayashi

Yoshimi Kobayashi 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: 11794581
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: an acceleration prediction section that predicts a direction of an acceleration acting on a vehicle based on information including at least one of: information regarding a planned travel path of the vehicle, information acquired from a periphery information detection sensor that detects information regarding a vehicle periphery, or information acquired from an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle; and a display control section that, in a case in which an acceleration predicted by the acceleration prediction section is greater than a predetermined threshold, displays a direction of the predicted acceleration at a display portion in a vehicle cabin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Sakurai, Yoshimi Kobayashi, Kazuhisa Maeda, Nobuhiro Nakano
  • Patent number: 11477421
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor being configured to: output an image to a projection unit for projecting an image onto an interior surface of a vehicle; acquire vision information of an occupant of the vehicle; detect misalignment between a target image projected onto the interior surface and a design-reference state of the target image based on vision information acquired while the occupant fixates on the target image projected onto the interior surface; and correct an image projected by the projection unit based on the misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshimi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20220144086
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes: an acceleration prediction section that predicts a direction of an acceleration acting on a vehicle based on information including at least one of: information regarding a planned travel path of the vehicle, information acquired from a periphery information detection sensor that detects information regarding a vehicle periphery, or information acquired from an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration of the vehicle; and a display control section that, in a case in which an acceleration predicted by the acceleration prediction section is greater than a predetermined threshold, displays a direction of the predicted acceleration at a display portion in a vehicle cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Hideyuki SAKURAI, Yoshimi KOBAYASHI, Kazuhisa MAEDA, Nobuhiro NAKANO
  • Publication number: 20210306603
    Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor being configured to: output an image to a projection unit for projecting an image onto an interior surface of a vehicle; acquire vision information of an occupant of the vehicle; detect misalignment between a target image projected onto the interior surface and a design-reference state of the target image based on vision information acquired while the occupant fixates on the target image projected onto the interior surface; and correct an image projected by the projection unit based on the misalignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshimi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8649946
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing unit 16 collects vehicle information, which is information relating to the discharge amount of exhaust gas of at least one at any of a predetermined point, a predetermined section, and a predetermined period of time. An ecological traveling history DB 26 accumulates the vehicle information collected by the vehicle information processing unit 16 for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. A display device 30 displays the vehicle information accumulated in the ecological traveling history DB 26 by an image on a map including each point for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. Therefore, it becomes possible to allow a driver to recognize previous traveling performance at the point through which the vehicle has traveled, and to more effectively provide the driver with a guide or a motivation to perform ecological traveling, thereby providing a more useful in-vehicle apparatus which allows the driver to perform ecological traveling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Keiko Katsukawa, Minako Fujishiro, Yoshiharu Sato, Yukiko Nakamura, Yoshimi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120221215
    Abstract: A vehicle information processing unit 16 collects vehicle information, which is information relating to the discharge amount of exhaust gas of at least one at any of a predetermined point, a predetermined section, and a predetermined period of time. An ecological traveling history DB 26 accumulates the vehicle information collected by the vehicle information processing unit 16 for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. A display device 30 displays the vehicle information accumulated in the ecological traveling history DB 26 by an image on a map including each point for each point through which the vehicle has traveled. Therefore, it becomes possible to allow a driver to recognize previous traveling performance at the point through which the vehicle has traveled, and to more effectively provide the driver with a guide or a motivation to perform ecological traveling, thereby providing a more useful in-vehicle apparatus which allows the driver to perform ecological traveling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Hiroaki Sekiyama, Keiko Katsukawa, Minako Fujishiro, Yoshiharu Sato, Yukiko Nakamura, Yoshimi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100114480
    Abstract: The present invention provides a navigation apparatus that displays map information on a display unit to guide a route to a set destination. The navigation apparatus has a function of displaying information associated with points on the map, which is displayed on a screen, as balloons. The balloons are enlarged and emphasized in different ways during the route guidance to a searched destination and during other operations. In this way, it is possible to preferentially provide useful information to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Sugiyama, Minako Fujishiro, Yoshimi Kobayashi, Hirokazu Kadoki, Kazuya Yoneyama, Yukiko Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5835240
    Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide a facsimile communication supplementary service device that allows facsimile communication users to receive accurate service information from telephone switching facilities without performing any operations whatsoever. When a call is received, the facsimile signal analysis and decision part determines whether said call is a facsimile signal, and if it is, monitors the communication until it is completed. When the communication is completed, the charging system calculates the communication charge and the facsimile response part prepares the facsimile information. Then, if the originating party requested for the automatic immediate charge notification service, then the system calls back the originating terminal and sends said facsimile information. As a result, the originating terminal, if it is a facsimile terminal, can receive information on communication charge as a facsimile message. Consulting information may also be added to said charge information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Kokusai Denshin Denwa Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshimi Kobayashi, Hideki Amano