Patents by Inventor Yuji Ota

Yuji Ota 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: 12115650
    Abstract: A robot control system according to a present embodiment is a robot control system for controlling a mobile robot that is configured to autonomously within a facility. When it is detected that one or more used trays, among a plurality of trays used for meal service within the facility, are returned to a first prescribed place, the system instructs the mobile robot to collect the trays returned to the first prescribed place and deliver the trays to a second prescribed place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 12111660
    Abstract: An autonomous movement system according to an embodiment is an autonomous movement system that performs autonomous movement in a facility including an elevator, in which the autonomous movement system moves a waiting position in a car of the elevator, based on a person that gets on the car or an object that gets on the car. The autonomous movement system may determine the person or the object before the car stops at a floor or before a car door opens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 12103550
    Abstract: An execution of a second task of a driver is assisted in cooperation with a user interface in an autonomous driving state in which a vehicle is an execution entity of a driving task. The second task is extracted, which is properly executable within task possible time estimated as time in which the second task is executable in a route to a destination of the vehicle. The second task extracted by the second task extracting unit is suggested through the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamamoto, Asako Nagata, Yuji Ota, Shizuka Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12098049
    Abstract: A medium processing apparatus includes a conveyor, a tray, a binder, a mover, and a switcher. The switcher includes a first passage, a second passage, and a movable wall. The movable wall guides a guided portion of the binder to the second passage when the guided portion moving along the first passage from an end side to a center side contacts the movable wall; causes the guided portion to pass when the guided portion moving along the second passage from the end side to the center side contacts the movable wall; guides the guided portion to the first passage when the guided portion moving along the second passage from the center side to the end side contacts the movable wall; and causes the guided portion to pass when the guided portion moving along the first passage from the center side to the end side contacts the movable wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Ota, Yohei Yamazaki, Yuji Miyachi, Yusuke Hirono, Yuta Yanai, Yuji Susaki, Masanobu Kimata
  • Patent number: 12093025
    Abstract: In a conveyance system, a conveyance object is conveyed by use of a plurality of mobile robots autonomously movable inside a facility. In a case where a blockade request event occurs in at least one area inside the facility, the conveyance system receives occurrence information transmitted from a facility management system configured to manage the facility and causes the mobile robots to execute an operation restriction to restrict operations of the mobile robots. In a case where a predetermined condition for the blockade request event is established after the mobile robots execute the operation restriction, the conveyance system reboots the mobile robots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 12084090
    Abstract: A vehicle switches between an autonomous driving state, in which the vehicle is responsible for implementing driving tasks including vehicle steering, vehicle driving, vehicle braking, and periphery monitoring, and a manual driving state or a driving assistance state, in which a driver of the vehicle is responsible for implementing at least one of the driving tasks. A processor implements the driving tasks based on a vehicle behavior plan, which indicates a vehicle behavior scheduled in the autonomous driving state, and generates a second task priority plan, which is the vehicle behavior plan until the driving mode is switched from the autonomous driving state to the manual driving state, such that a convenient finish time, at which a second task implemented by the driver in the autonomous driving state is conveniently finished, comes before the driving mode switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asako Nagata, Yuji Ota, Takeshi Yamamoto, Shizuka Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20240294181
    Abstract: A driving assistance system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. Based on use history data of a driving assistance function including positions at which the driving assistance function has been used at respective vehicles, which is collected from plural vehicles and stored in the memory, and based on position information indicating planned travel positions at which a specific vehicle is going to travel, the processor aggregates use frequencies of the driving assistance function at the planned travel positions of the plural vehicles, and, based on the aggregated use frequencies, the processor outputs information that suggests use of the driving assistance function at the specific vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro MIURA, Motohiro KOJIMA, Kuka ISHIYAMA, Tadahiro NISHIKAWA, Koji AIKAWA, Yuji OTA, Yasuhiro ISHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20240261676
    Abstract: The game system includes a first acquisition unit that acquires vehicle information about a vehicle, and a first transmission unit that transmits the vehicle information acquired by the first acquisition unit to a personal terminal brought into the vehicle. A vehicle-mounted device mounted on the vehicle; a second acquisition unit that acquires the vehicle information transmitted from the first transmission unit; and the vehicle information acquired by the second acquisition unit, on the personal terminal and the personal terminal including a control unit that controls the progress of the game by using it as a parameter of the game that is being executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motohiro KOJIMA, Koji Aikawa, Morihiko Yoshida, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Yasuhiro Miura, Kuka Ishiyama, Hideki Kobayashi, Yuji Ota, Yasuhiro Ishiguro, Motoki Maekawa, Hiroshi Mizobata, Takashi Nonogawa
  • Publication number: 20240239192
    Abstract: The mobile device is provided with an operation restriction unit, and the operation restriction unit determines which seat of the vehicle is being operated from the captured image of the back camera. When determining that the captured image is captured by the driver's seat, the operation restriction unit restricts the operation of the process execution unit. Accordingly, in the mobile device, it is possible to prevent the mobile device from being operated in the driver's seat, which is appropriately restricted from being operated in the driver's seat in a vehicle or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro Miura, Kuka Ishiyama, Koji Aikawa, Tadahiro Nishikawa, Yuji Ota, Motoki Maekawa, Yasuhiro Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 12038755
    Abstract: An autonomous movement system according to an embodiment is an autonomous movement system for autonomous movement in a facility, the autonomous movement system changing a movement speed for the autonomous movement depending on a cooperation mode, a connection mode and a caution mode, the cooperation mode being a mode of moving while acquiring position information inside a first range in cooperation with a facility camera, the first range being a range that the facility camera photographs to generate image data, the facility camera being fixed in the facility, the connection mode being a mode of moving inside a second range and outside the first range, the second range being a range in which connection with an access point is performed by wireless communication, the access point being fixed in the facility, the caution mode being a mode of moving outside the first range and outside the second range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
  • Patent number: 12008284
    Abstract: An information presentation control device controlling information presentation to a driver in a vehicle equipped with autonomous driving function is provided. The information presentation control device is configured to: obtain a margin of the driver until an execution of driving change in which the driver takes over the at least partial driving task being performed by the autonomous driving; control a playback mode of a content presented by the information presentation device; stop the content, which is in a playback state, at a stop position in response to the execution of driving change; and set, according to the margin of the driver, a restart position of the content to which the content is rewound from the stop position to restart a playback of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shizuka Yokoyama, Asako Nagata, Takeshi Yamamoto, Yuji Ota
  • Publication number: 20240149900
    Abstract: An HMI control device is configured to control an HMI device mounted in a vehicle, which is capable of performing an autonomous driving as a first task. The HMI control device is configured to: acquire a possible duration for the autonomous driving; and present, by the HMI device, a second task that an occupant on a driver's seat is able to start executing during the autonomous driving based on the possible duration acquired by the time acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yuji OTA, Asako NAGATA, Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Shizuka YOKOYAMA, Takuya KUME, Kazuki KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11904881
    Abstract: An HMI control device is configured to control an HMI device mounted in a vehicle, which is capable of performing an autonomous driving as a first task. The HMI control device is configured to: acquire a possible duration for the autonomous driving; and present, by the HMI device, a second task that an occupant on a driver's seat is able to start executing during the autonomous driving based on the possible duration acquired by the time acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Ota, Asako Nagata, Takeshi Yamamoto, Shizuka Yokoyama, Takuya Kume, Kazuki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20230333807
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an audio device with which remote operation is possible without using a remote controller, even during audio output. [Solution] A wireless speaker 1 is provided with a speech command recognizing unit 17 which subjects a speech signal input into a microphone 11 to speech recognition processing to recognize an utterance of a listener, and detects a speech commands of the listener from the recognition result, and is additionally provided with; a motion command recognizing unit 18 which subjects a video signal captured by a camera 12 to motion recognition processing to recognize a gesture of the listener, and detects a motion command of the listener from the recognition result; and a main control unit 20 which implements various types of control of the wireless speaker 1 on the basis of the speech command recognized by the speech command recognizing unit 17 and the motion command recognized by the motion command recognizing unit 18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: D&M Holdings INC.
    Inventor: Yuji OTA
  • Patent number: 11597410
    Abstract: An automatic driving proposal device or an automatic driving proposal method is used for a vehicle that selects either a state of an automatic driving or a state of a manual driving by an occupant. The automatic driving proposal device or the automatic driving proposal method performs a driving change request to the occupant in the state of the automatic driving, determines whether the automatic driving is possible in the state of the manual driving, calculates a calculation value corresponding to a distance or a prediction time or calculates a change index, and proposes the automatic driving to the occupant on a necessary condition of determining that the automatic driving is possible and also determining that the calculation value is higher than a threshold value or determining that the change index is lower than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Kitagawa, Sei Iguchi, Norio Yamamoto, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Yuji Ota, Kazuyoshi Isaji
  • Patent number: 11586217
    Abstract: A route setting device includes: a route candidate generation unit that generates multiple route candidates from a current position to a destination; an index calculation unit that calculates, for each of the multiple route candidates, a change index that indicates a probability that an automatic driving system performs a driving change request when a vehicle travels along each of the multiple route candidates by using the automatic driving system; a display unit that associates the multiple candidates with the change index calculated for each of the multiple route candidates, and display the multiple associated route candidates and the associated change index; an input unit that receives a selection among the multiple route candidates by an occupant of the vehicle; and a route setting unit that sets a route among the multiple route candidates based on the selection received by the input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nozomi Kitagawa, Sei Iguchi, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Yuji Ota, Kazuyoshi Isaji
  • Publication number: 20230037467
    Abstract: An HMI control device, which controls an HMI device mounted on a vehicle. The HMI device presents information to a driver of the vehicle in a recognizable manner. The vehicle is capable of automated driving and travels following a preceding vehicle at a speed equal to or lower than a predetermined speed. The HMI control device is configured to: present attention information for calling attention of the driver when a congestion is determined to be cleared; acquire a behavior of the driver; and end a second task presented on the HMI device at an end timing corresponding to the behavior of the driver acquired after presentation of the attention information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Asako NAGATA, Shizuka YOKOYAMA, Yuji OTA, Takuya KUME, Kazuki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220379727
    Abstract: An HMI device for presenting information recognizably by an occupant of a vehicle capable of autonomous driving is controlled. An acceleration and deceleration state, which is an execution status of acceleration and deceleration control in the vehicle during autonomous driving, is acquired. Acceleration and deceleration information relating to the acceleration and deceleration state is presented in a mode corresponding to the acceleration and deceleration state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shizuka YOKOYAMA, Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Asako NAGATA, Yuji OTA, Takuya KUME, Kazuki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220340156
    Abstract: An HMI control device includes an automation level acquisition portion and a display control unit. The automation level acquisition portion acquires an autonomous driving level determined by a driving control device. The display control portion controls an image display operation of an HMI device according to the autonomous driving level acquired by the automation level acquisition portion. When terminating a high autonomous driving level as the autonomous driving level, the display control portion controls the HMI device to provide an action instruction display that instructs the driver to take a low-level associated state so as to handle a low autonomous driving level. The low autonomous driving level is the autonomous driving level under which an in-vehicle system including the driving control device is prohibited from performing at least one of a lateral motion control realized by performing steering and a longitudinal motion control realized by performing acceleration/deceleration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Asako NAGATA, Shizuka YOKOYAMA, Yuji OTA, Takuya KUME, Kazuki KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220289228
    Abstract: An HMI control device is provided to control an HMI device mounted in a vehicle capable of autonomous steering control. The HMI control device is configured to: acquire an execution status of the autonomous steering control; acquire congestion information; acquire an entry status of the vehicle into a congestion section included in the congestion information; present, on the HMI device, the congestion information and lane information related to a possibility of a lane change in a case where the autonomous steering control is being executed and the entry status indicates an entry into the congestion section; and present, as the lane information, lane change information in a case where (i) a traffic congestion occurs in the congestion section of a different lane and (ii) a congestion traveling after a lane change from an own lane to the different lane in which the traffic congestion is occurred is recommended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Takeshi YAMAMOTO, Asako NAGATA, Shizuka YOKOYAMA, Yuji OTA, Takuya KUME, Kazuki KOJIMA