Toyota Patent Applications

CONTROLLER

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250117014
A controller that controls an operation of a movable object that travels in self-driving includes a detecting unit configured to, when the movable object is traveling in self-driving, detect occurrence of an abnormal state including an abnormal stop of the movable object, and a control unit. When (i) occurrence of the abnormal state is detected and (ii) a predetermined first condition is satisfied, the control unit is configured to execute control to resume the self-driving of the…

TRANSMISSION OF POSITIONING REFERENCE SIGNALS FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATIONS

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250119865
A method for positioning in a sidelink communication. The method includes detecting, by an anchor component, a presence of at least one user equipment; and activating, by the anchor component, a transmission of a positioning reference signal to the user equipment responsive to the detected presence of the at least one user equipment.

CURRENT COLLECTOR FOIL FOR LIQUID CELL AND LIQUID CELL

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250118766
A current collector foil for a liquid cell includes: one first electrode foil having a pinhole; a first intervening layer; another first electrode foil having a pinhole; a second intervening layer; and a second electrode foil, the one first electrode foil, the first intervening layer, the other first electrode foil, the second intervening layer, and the second electrode foil being stacked in this order. Either the one first electrode foil and the other first electrode foil or the second…

SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250118470
A soft magnetic material and a method for producing the same. The soft magnetic material is: Fe100-x-y-z-wBxNiySizMw (In the formula, M is one or more inevitable elements selected from Nb, Mo, Ta, W, Co, and Sn, and x, y, z, and w are in atomic percent satisfying 12?x?17, 1?y?3, 0<z?1, 0<w?0.1). Soft magnetic material includes ?-Fe phase which contains crystals whose average particle size is 30 nm or less. The average particle size of crystals is average value of projected area…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250118296
A prompt text including a list of a plurality of first language models each specialized for intention understanding in a plurality of predetermined domains and a content of the utterance is generated, the prompt text is input to a second language model, the first language model having a domain corresponding to the content of the utterance is identified based on the content of the response obtained from the second language model, and the content of the utterance is transferred to the…

DRIVER COACHING SYSTEM WITH MODULATION OF FEEDBACK BASED ON STAIRCASE METHOD

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250118222
Systems and methods are provided systems and methods for driver training that modulate driver-training feedback on the fly based on a driver's ability to successfully perform vehicular maneuvers. In examples, sensor data is received from sensors on a vehicle. The sensor data is indicative of operation conditions of the vehicle executing a vehicular maneuver. An attribute of driver-training feedback can be adjusted based on a comparison of the operating conditions to a set of performance…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNCERTAINTY AWARE MONOCULAR 3D OBJECT DETECTION

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250118094
A method for 3D object detection is described. The method includes predicting, using a trained monocular depth network, an estimated monocular input depth map of a monocular image of a video stream and an estimated depth uncertainty map associated with the estimated monocular input depth map. The method also includes feeding back a depth uncertainty regression loss associated with the estimated monocular input depth map during training of the trained monocular depth network to update the…

EMBEDDING CODING SECRETS

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250117806
An example operation includes one or more of: detecting a request for a software application from a vehicle computer, wherein the software application includes source code comprising one or more embedded placeholders that are mapped to one or more secrets stored in a data store of a vehicle; identifying the one or more secrets stored in the data store that are associated with the one or more embedded placeholders; replacing the one or more embedded placeholders with the one or more…

NOTIFICATION DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250117280
A notification device includes a processor, and the processor is configured to: receive a signal that indicates occurrence of an abnormal state of a mobile body that is movable through unattended operation, and specify a notification target that meets a specification condition determined in advance from one or more specification targets that include at least one of a worker and a station; and send a notification to instruct handling of the abnormal state of the mobile body to the…

AUTOMATED VALET PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND AUTOMATED VALET PARKING MANAGEMENT METHOD

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250117028
An automated valet parking management system manages automated valet parking in a parking lot. The automated valet parking management system includes: one or more recognition sensors configured to recognize a surrounding situation of the parking lot; and one or more processors configured to execute: an allocation process of allocating a first target exit space to an exit vehicle from the parking lot; a monitoring process of using the one or more recognition sensors to detect entry or…

VEHICLE OCCUPANT INTOXICATION DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115122
Systems and methods related to intoxication detection of one or more vehicle occupants are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor assemblies disposed at different locations within a vehicle. The system further includes a controller configured to determine which occupant among a plurality of occupants in the vehicle is intoxicated based on an analysis of sensor signals received from the plurality of sensor assemblies. The controller is further configured to output an alert…

COMPLEX AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING COMPLEX

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115714
An object is to provide a material in which properties of a conventional biopolymer are significantly improved. Provided is a complex containing: a polyamide compound containing a dicarboxylic acid unit represented by general formula (1) below, a dicarboxylic acid unit represented by general formula (2) below, and a diamine unit represented by general formula (3) below; and a glass fiber, where x represents an integer of 6 to 12, and y represents an integer of 8 to 18, …

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERSONALIZED AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115273
Systems and methods are provided for personalizing autonomous driving. The system can receive historical data on a driver of the vehicle's performance and population data indicating a population driving style. Speed data can be recorded as the driver of the vehicle drives the vehicle during a trial period. The historical data, population data, and speed data can be input into a machine learning model to determine a style for the driver. The system can receive one or more parameters from…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING A FIRST VEHICLE USING A SECOND VEHICLE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115272
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the protection of a first vehicle using a second vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes processing sensor data about surroundings of a first vehicle to identify suspicious activity in the surroundings of the first vehicle. The method further includes, in response to identifying the suspicious activity, controlling a second vehicle to perform a reactive maneuver.

MAXIMUM SPEED INFORMING DEVICE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115265
The maximum speed informing device includes a camera device that acquires image data by capturing a scene in front of the vehicle, a display unit configured to be able to display the maximum speed, and a controller configured to be able to change the maximum speed displayed on the display unit., the controller acquires a numerical value included in the captured scene as a maximum speed candidate based on the image data, acquires road structure information indicating a structure of a road…

CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115234
A control device is applied to a hybrid electric vehicle in which an internal combustion engine and a motor generator are provided as a prime mover, and the high-voltage battery is charged using the power of the internal combustion engine and the autonomous operation is performed. The control device executes a process of setting the idle rotation speed of the internal combustion engine while the vehicle is running during the execution of the automatic driving to be higher than the idle…

SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR SMART MULTI-TIER POWER RUNNING BOARD WITH GROUND SENSING TECHNOLOGIES

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115187
An apparatus, a system, and a method for providing a smart multi-tier power running board (PRB) with ground sensing technologies. The apparatus includes one or more support bars, one or more steps, an actuator connected to one end of each support bar of the one or more support bars, one or more sensors, and a controller coupled to the actuator and the one or more sensors. The controller is configured to: obtain data indicative of a request to move the one or more support bars from a…

VEHICLE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR POWER STORAGE DEVICE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115154
A management method for a power storage device includes: counting, for each day of week, the number of days satisfying at least a first requirement indicating that charging of the power storage device was performed, and a second requirement indicating that a time when use of the power storage device was started is included in a predetermined time period; identifying a day of week on which usage of the power storage device by a user is patterned, by using the number of days counted for…

VEHICLE DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115129
A vehicle display control device including a processor and a display section that is provided at a vehicle capable of executing driving assistance control, and that is configured to display a vehicle image representing the vehicle, wherein the processor is configured to determine whether or not a switching condition for switching the driving assistance control from a non-actuated state to an actuated state has been satisfied, and, when it has been determined that the switching condition…

CONTENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTENT GENERATING DEVICE, AND CONTENT PLAYBACK DEVICE

Granted: April 10, 2025
Application Number: 20250115127
A content generating device generates, on the basis of information relating to an internal space of a vehicle and information relating to traveling of the vehicle, content corresponding to a scene which changes as the vehicle travels.