Patents by Inventor Yu Nagata

Yu Nagata 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: 20250029142
    Abstract: A method executed by a terminal device of a user, the method comprising: determining whether a vehicle has parked in a target area based on position information of a vehicle of the user; and displaying an image linked to content related to the target area on a screen of the terminal device of the user when it is determined that the vehicle has parked in the target area and the target area is within business hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Takehira OTA, Daisuke TANIZAKI
  • Patent number: 12202494
    Abstract: A control unit of an information processing apparatus acquires the number of times of operations or an operation time of an operation unit provided in a vehicle at a time at which the operation unit has operated, acquires surroundings information around the vehicle at the time at which the operation unit has operated, and calculates a wear degree of the operation unit by multiplying a wear coefficient which corresponds to surroundings indicated by the acquired surroundings information by the acquired number of times of operations or operation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Nagata
  • Patent number: 12197210
    Abstract: A vehicle that is an automatic driving vehicle acquires a control program for an ECU from a control center by wireless communication. A server includes a keyboard and mouse to accept handling by a remote monitoring person that monitors the vehicle from the outside of the vehicle, a display to present information to the remote monitoring person, a communication IF configured to communicate with the vehicle, and a processor. The processor controls the display such that the server presents the change content of the control program to the remote monitoring person, when the control program for the vehicle has been updated. The processor controls the communication IF such that a notice of permission of traveling is given to the vehicle, when the keyboard and the mouse have accepted a remote monitoring person's handling for permitting the vehicle to travel in accordance with the control program after the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Nagata
  • Patent number: 12190649
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, when a suspension of operation occurs in an autonomous vehicle, positional information, vehicle information, a vehicle internal image, and a vehicle external image of the autonomous vehicle, and determine, in a case in which a suspension of operation occurs in a plurality of autonomous vehicles, an order of priority for a rescue team to go to the plurality of vehicles, based on the positional information, the vehicle information, the vehicle internal image, and the vehicle external image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Hiroshi Higashide
  • Publication number: 20240428624
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus configured to request a service to dispatch a service staff or a service vehicle to a location in which a user vehicle is parked and supply an energy source to the user vehicle, and a controller configured to, upon receiving destination data indicating a destination from the terminal apparatus via the communication interface, select a parking location according to the destination indicated by the received destination data and a position of the service staff or the service vehicle, and transmit notification data prompting a user to park the user vehicle in the selected parking location to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Shun HASHIMOTO, Kota YAMAZAKI, Akane MASAKI, Wataru ETO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Patent number: 12175230
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that executes acquiring information on update of a program implemented in a vehicle, and formulating a plan for updating the program while the vehicle is stopped in an operation plan based on the information on the update of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Toshihiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12175491
    Abstract: A server manages power adjustment resources electrically connected to a power network. The power adjustment resources include power equipment installed in a facility and configured to supply power from a vehicle to the power network and charge power from the power network to the vehicle. When reservation information for using the facility is received from a user, the server predicts a power supply-demand balance in the power network on a reserved date and time of use of the facility. When a DR for adjusting the power supply-demand balance is predicted to be performed on the reserved date and time of use, the server prepares a use plan for the facility so as to include the vehicle participating in the DR using the power equipment. The server gives an incentive to the user when the user accepts the use plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Yumita, Yoichi Onishi, Toru Ando, Ikuma Suzuki, Yu Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240416966
    Abstract: The control device includes a control unit that acquires information on a distribution of a loudness of sound in an area in which sound is generated, and controls movement of mobility with a conference room moving in the area based on the acquired information on the distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto AKAHANE, Yu NAGATA, Tomokazu MAYA, Masaaki TOMIYA, Yuko MINETA, Kayo TSUMOTO, Shinichi NIWA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20240420179
    Abstract: The method includes obtaining interest information indicative of an object of interest of a user, selecting advertisement information based on the interest information, and notifying the user of the advertisement information on a way to or from an event venue of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto AKAHANE, Yu NAGATA, Tomokazu MAYA, Masaaki TOMIYA, Yuko MINETA, Kayo TSUMOTO, Shinichi NIWA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20240418516
    Abstract: The control device includes a control unit configured to obtain information regarding a congestion level of at least two locations in which an event is held, and determine a transport route in which mobility moving between the at least two locations transports passengers based on the obtained information regarding the congestion level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto AKAHANE, Yu NAGATA, Tomokazu MAYA, Masaaki TOMIYA, Yuko MINETA, Kayo TSUMOTO, Shinichi NIWA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20240394607
    Abstract: The information processing device includes a control unit that predicts the number of users of each of the plurality of stations on the event date based on the identification information of the visitor and the person flow data of each of the plurality of stations in the vicinity of the event place, and determines a station that prompts the visitor to use based on the identification information and the predicted number of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makoto AKAHANE, Yu Nagata, Tomokazu Maya, Masaaki Tomiya, Yuko Mineta, Kayo Tsumoto, Shinichi Niwa, Satoshi Komamine
  • Patent number: 12151649
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is mounted in a delivery automatic driving vehicle with a monitoring device for remote monitoring. The information processing apparatus includes a controller that suppresses a monitoring function of the monitoring device when determining that a delivery person does not exist inside the automatic driving vehicle in a stopped state of the automatic driving vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Ibuki Shimada
  • Publication number: 20240386515
    Abstract: A terminal program for requesting a service to supply an energy source to a user vehicle causes a computer to execute operations, the operations including accepting a user operation to specify, as a return location in which the user vehicle is returned to a user after the user vehicle is picked up from the user in a parking location and an energy source is supplied to the user vehicle in a supply location, a location that is different from the parking location, limiting a location to be specified by the user operation to a location that exists within an allowable range from the supply location, and transmitting notification data indicating the location specified by the user operation as the return location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Shun HASHIMOTO, Kota YAMAZAKI, Akane MASAKI, Wataru ETO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20240386394
    Abstract: A terminal program for requesting a service to dispatch a service staff or a service vehicle to a location in which a user vehicle is parked and charge a battery installed in the user vehicle causes a computer to execute operations, the operations including presenting method data indicating a charging method that can be used by a user for each service staff or service vehicle to the user and accepting a user operation to select a service staff or a service vehicle, and transmitting request data indicating the service staff or the service vehicle selected by the user operation and requesting the service to a server apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Shun HASHIMOTO, Kota YAMAZAKI, Akane MASAKI, Wataru ETO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20240386516
    Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus configured to request a service to dispatch a service staff or a service vehicle to a location in which a user vehicle is parked and supply an energy source to the user vehicle, and a controller configured to acquire status data indicating a status of the service staff or the service vehicle, adjust a fee for the service according to the status indicated by the acquired status data, and transmit fee data indicating the adjusted fee to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Shun HASHIMOTO, Kota YAMAZAKI, Akane MASAKI, Wataru ETO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20240383365
    Abstract: A terminal program for requesting a service to dispatch a service staff or a service vehicle to a location in which a user vehicle is parked and supply an energy source to the user vehicle causes a computer to execute operations, the operations including acquiring, before the user vehicle is parked in a parking location, first information regarding the parking location and transmitting request data including the acquired first information, and acquiring, after transmitting the request data, second information including information, not included in the first information, regarding the parking location and transmitting notification data including the acquired second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Shun HASHIMOTO, Kota YAMAZAKI, Akane MASAKI, Wataru ETO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Publication number: 20240386344
    Abstract: A notification apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus configured to request a service to dispatch a service staff to a location in which a user vehicle is parked, cause the dispatched service staff to move the user vehicle to another location, and supply an energy source to the user vehicle in a location to which the user vehicle is moved, and a controller configured to, upon detecting an act or omission of the service staff against the user vehicle, while the service is provided, that is different from boarding the user vehicle in order to drive the user vehicle, transmit notification data notifying a user of the detected act or omission to the terminal apparatus via the communication interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu NAGATA, Shun HASHIMOTO, Kota YAMAZAKI, Akane MASAKI, Wataru ETO, Makoto AKAHANE
  • Patent number: 12147798
    Abstract: A vehicle that is an automatic driving vehicle acquires a control program for an ECU from a control center by wireless communication. A server includes a keyboard and mouse to accept handling by an operation manager that manages operation of the vehicle from outside of the vehicle, a display to present information to the operation manager, a communication IF configured to communicate with the control center, and a processor. The processor controls the display such that the display presents an update condition of the control program to the operation manager, when the control program is updatable. The processor control the communication IF such that the communication IF gives a notice of approval of update of the control program to the control center, when the keyboard and the mouse have accepted an operation manager's handling for approving the update of the control program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yu Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240380224
    Abstract: The control device acquires information regarding an event held within a certain area, and based on the acquired information, the power supply has the function of supplying power to electronic devices used by the user from among multiple locations within the area. The control unit includes a control unit that determines a location to dispatch the mobility and performs processing to dispatch the power supply mobility to the determined location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto AKAHANE, Yu NAGATA, Tomokazu MAYA, Masaaki TOMIYA, Yuko MINETA, Kayo TSUMOTO, Shinichi NIWA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Patent number: 12128782
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control section. The control section predicts an amount of electricity demanded for charging of vehicles that a plurality of users use, respectively, and determines a time slot in which the amount of electricity demanded exceeds a threshold value, and when the control section determines that one user of the plurality of users will refrain from use of the relevant vehicle on the following day, makes charging of the one user's vehicle wait in the time slot and provides an incentive to the one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yu Nagata, Kazutaka Kimura, Tomokazu Maya, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Takaharu Tateishi, Yuki Yamashita