Patents by Inventor Yurika Tanaka

Yurika Tanaka 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: 20220097848
    Abstract: A terminal program configured to cause a computer as a terminal apparatus to execute operations, the operations including: outputting an image captured by an unmanned aircraft; accepting an operation made by a user of the terminal apparatus for designating, on the image, a meeting point between the unmanned aircraft and the user; and transmitting, to the unmanned aircraft, positional information for the meeting point designated by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ai MIYATA, Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Katsuhiro OHARA, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220100210
    Abstract: A processor included in a first controller and/or a second controller generates a route for flying preferentially over a road and a waterway, based on a current position of an unmanned aircraft, a destination, and map information. Further, the processor controls flight of the unmanned aircraft based on the generated route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ai MIYATA, Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Katsuhiro OHARA, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220101210
    Abstract: A method performed by a server includes accepting a reservation for an unmanned aircraft in response to a request from a first user who provides a charging facility or a standby spot for the unmanned aircraft, and determining a first usage fee for the unmanned aircraft to be charged to the first user, based on actual use of the charging facility or the standby spot by the unmanned aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ai MIYATA, Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Katsuhiro OHARA, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220101252
    Abstract: A control apparatus, communicably connected to a delivery apparatus and at least one sensor, includes a controller configured to receive sensor information from the sensor and identify an act of a user from the sensor information, determine whether the identified act includes an act during which the user is not able to receive a package, and control the delivery apparatus to have the package arrive at the user, in a case in which the identified act does not include the act during which the user is not able to receive the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ai MIYATA, Yurika TANAKA, Hideo HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki SUZUKI, Katsuhiro OHARA, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220103396
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute operations including: identifying a user; acquiring attribute information for the user, the attribute information being stored in association with the user; estimating, from the attribute information, a power consumption amount for an environment preferred by the user; determining whether the power consumption amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; upon determining that the power consumption amount is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, guiding the user to a first space; and upon determining that the power consumption amount is less than the predetermined value, guiding the user to a second space, wherein a power consumption amount for the first space is greater than a power consumption amount for the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shuichi Sawada, Shintaro Matsutani, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220084655
    Abstract: A more appropriate proposal is made far an action to be performed by a user in a free time of his or her schedule. A controller is provided which performs: obtaining schedules of a user; and transmitting to a terminal of the user, based on a content of a first schedule among the schedules of the user, a proposal for an action of the user to change his or her mood in a first free time in which the user has no schedule immediately before the first schedule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Matsubara, Ibuki Shimada, Keisuke Shoji, Shuhei Yamamoto, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Satoshi Komamine
  • Publication number: 20220082873
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to acquire a detected value of a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside one or more openings that is formed in a wall surface of a first building, each of the one or more openings using light control glass, the wall surface facing outside, and control transmittance of the light control glass based on the detected value of the sensor. A building includes one or more opening that is formed in at least a wall surface that faces outside, the opening using light control glass; a sensor that detects presence or absence of a person within a predetermined range outside the one or more openings; and a control device that controls transmittance of the light control glass based on a detected value of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya MATSUBARA, Ibuki SHIMADA, Keisuke SHOJI, Shuhei YAMAMOTO, Hideo HASEGAWA, Yurika TANAKA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20220076572
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus controls a road surface marking apparatus configured to form any road surface marking by changing light emission patterns of a plurality of light emitters provided on a road surface. In the information processing apparatus, a control unit detects, when switching from a second traffic lane through which a pedestrian is allowed to pass to a first traffic lane through which a pedestrian is prohibited from passing is executed, a user who is a pedestrian remaining in the first traffic lane after the switching. Then, the control unit causes the road surface marking apparatus to form an urging marking used for urging the user to withdraw from the first traffic lane after the switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Shin SAKURADA, Yasuhiro BABA, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220071567
    Abstract: A controller comprising at least one processor of an information processing apparatus executes: acquiring first information about a condition of a body of a user; and acquiring second information about a condition of an environment around the user. Then, the controller of the information processing apparatus executes: executing a predetermined judgment process for judging whether predetermined symptoms occur on the user within a predetermined period, based on the first information and the second information; and notifying the user that predetermined medicine for coping with the predetermined symptoms is to be used, if a positive judgment is made in the predetermined judgment process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Takaharu Ueno, Yu Nagata, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Shintaro Matsutani, Syouta Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20220067822
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to monitor movement of at least one object that is owned by a first user, based on information detected by a sensor, and create a list of lendable objects from the at least one object, based on the movement of the at least one object. The controller adds an object a frequency of use of which is smaller than a first value, among the at least one object, to the list as the lendable object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Matsubara, Ibuki Shimada, Keisuke Shoji, Shuhei Yamamoto, Hideo Hasegawa, Yurika Tanaka, Satoshi Komamine
  • Publication number: 20220068107
    Abstract: There is provided a controller that performs: determining, based on information obtained from a sensor configured to detect a physical condition of a target person, which of a plurality of predetermined categories the physical condition of the target person falls into; and transmitting a notification corresponding to the physical condition of the target person to a terminal of a notification destination that corresponds to a category into which the physical condition of the target person is determined to fall, wherein terminals of notification destinations are set for the plurality of categories, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takaharu Ueno, Yu Nagata, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Shintaro Matsutani, Syouta Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20220058379
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus monitors a plurality of persons on a premises by one or more image sensors installed on the premises. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a tendency of behavior of at least one person of the plurality of persons according to a length of a blank time, the blank time being a time during which the at least one person does not appear in an image captured by the one or more image sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki OIDEMIZU, Kazuyuki INOUE, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Yurika TANAKA, Tomokazu MAYA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20220059217
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to estimate a required time for medical care in relation to a user visiting a medical establishment. An information processing apparatus estimates the required time for medical care in relation to the user visiting the medical establishment. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a scheduled medical examination item as at least one medical examination item that is scheduled for the user, calculate a first required time based on the scheduled medical examination item, receive a correction of the scheduled medical examination item while the user is receiving medical care, and calculate a second required time based on the scheduled medical examination item after the correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takaharu Ueno, Yu Nagata, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Shintaro Matsutani, Syouta Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20220057760
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller acquires sunshine state information that specifies a sunshine state of at least one predetermined spot and repeated behavior information for a user that is associated with the at least one predetermined spot. The controller generates behavior proposal information related to performance of a repeated behavior of the user, based on the sunshine state information and on the repeated behavior information for the user, and outputs the behavior proposal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shuichi Sawada, Shintaro Matsutani, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220055860
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to predict a state of congestion of an elevator installed in a building and generate, based on the predicted state of congestion, a proposal message to propose a departure time for the building to a user planning to travel to the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideo HASEGAWA, Yurika TANAKA, Satoshi KOMAMINE
  • Publication number: 20220058721
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute detection that a first shopper has performed a specific behavior for a first product based on information acquired by a sensor, and determination of a reason why the first shopper has performed the specific behavior for the first product based on information related to the first product and at least one of information related to a second product that is a comparison target of the first product and information related to the first shopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220048394
    Abstract: A freight transportation system includes a first freight transportation apparatus configured to travel in a first section, a second freight transportation apparatus configured to travel in a second section, a power reception apparatus configured to receive regenerative power from the first freight transportation apparatus that is configured to travel in the first section, a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit the regenerative power to the second freight transportation apparatus that is configured to travel in the second section, and a control apparatus. The control apparatus is configured to perform control so that the second freight transportation apparatus starts traveling from a start point of the second section at a timing when the first freight transportation apparatus starts traveling from a start point of the first section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shuichi Sawada, Shintaro Matsutani, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno, Tomoya Makino
  • Publication number: 20220048515
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed controls a road surface marking apparatus capable of forming a desired road surface marking by changing the pattern of light emission of a plurality of light emitters provided on the surface of a road. The information processing apparatus has a controller. The controller obtains emergency information relating to the occurrence of a disaster and determines an affected area that is affected by the disaster on the basis of the emergency information. The controller changes a marking formed by a road surface marking apparatus provided on the road surface in the affected area into a specific marking that indicates the type of the disaster, an area to which people should evacuate, or an evacuation route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Shin SAKURADA, Yasuhiro BABA, Shintaro MATSUTANI, Tomoya MAKINO
  • Publication number: 20220051540
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to enable a warning to be issued to a person who is highly likely to be put; in danger at a risky point. In an information processing apparatus, a controller acquires information indicating a risky point, acquires a state of a person with a predetermined positional relationship to the risky point, and determines whether or not the state of the person is a state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, among a plurality of states of the person assumable at the risky point. Furthermore, in a case where the state of the person is determined to be the state where there is a high possibility of being put in danger, the controller causes an output unit to output information indicating a warning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yurika TANAKA, Shuichi SAWADA, Takaharu UENO, Shin SAKURADA, Daiki YOKOYAMA, Genshi KUNO
  • Publication number: 20220047919
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus disclosed has a controller. The controller obtains circumstances information defined as information relating to circumstances around the present location of a user. The controller determines a recommended exercise as a kind of exercise that is suitable for the circumstances around the present location of the user on the basis of the circumstances information obtained. Then, the controller sends suggestion information to a user's terminal used by the user. The suggestion information is information that suggests the user to do the recommended exercise at the present location of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yurika Tanaka, Shuichi Sawada, Shin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shintaro Matsutani, Tomoya Makino