Toyota Patent Applications

METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND VEHICLES FOR DETERMINING A WAIT TIME AT A POINT OF INTEREST

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250077987
A method of determining a wait time at a point of interest includes obtaining a current occupancy signal of a parking establishment associated with one or more points of interest, obtaining a historic occupancy signal of the parking establishment, determining, with one or more processors, a predicted wait time for the one or more points of interest associated with the parking establishment based on the current occupancy signal and the historic occupancy signal, and communicating the…

CELL

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250079471
The present disclosure provides a cell using a deposition-dissolution reaction of metallic lithium as an anode reaction. The cell includes: a cathode including a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer; an anode including at least an anode current collector; and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode. The anode current collector is a resin current collector. The anode includes a first metal layer between the anode current collector and the…

GATEKEEPING SYSTEM AND METHODS TO DETECT AND ALERT ERRORS DURING PARTS RECEIVING

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078642
A computer-implemented method for identifying parts and determining errors in parts receiving at a parts receiving area and includes determining an output using a first sensor. The output is associated with at least one parts container. The computer-implemented method includes comparing the output to a stored expected output; and determining that the comparison exceeds a threshold. The comparison exceeding the threshold indicates an error with parts receiving. The computer-implemented…

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078588
An autonomous driving system for causing a storage unit of a vehicle to store output data related to autonomous driving control calculated based on a detection result of an in-vehicle sensor of the vehicle, the autonomous driving system including: a log acquisition unit configured to acquire a driving scene in which the output data is calculated and the output data as log data in association with each other; an influence degree acquisition unit configured to acquire a preset degree of…

TRAFFIC LIGHT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE FOR HOST VEHICLE, HOST VEHICLE, TRAFFIC LIGHT IDENTIFICATION METHOD FOR HOST VEHICLE, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078528
A traffic light identification device for a host vehicle identifies a traffic light existing at a driver gaze position among a plurality of traffic lights included in a front camera image as a traffic light for the host vehicle, when the preceding vehicle does not exist in front of the host vehicle, when the host vehicle is entering an intersection, and when a braking operation by a driver is detected.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078476
The terminal receives a local image feature amount of one or more first objects included in a first image from a server, acquires a local image feature amount of one or more objects included in a captured image for each of a plurality of images captured by the camera based on the result of detection of objects by the first sensor, and transmits a second captured image to the server as one of learning data for a machine learning model for use in image recognition. The server transmits the…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANIPULATING IMAGES BY COMPARING MAPPED STYLES AND DIMENSIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078431
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to organizing and altering selected images from a style map with learning models through factoring style dimensions. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a style map by transforming and clustering information from an image dataset with a visualization model within a computation space having reduced dimensionality, and the style map includes style features derived from the image dataset. The method also includes…

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078313
An autonomous vehicle includes a road surface image obtaining device, a memory unit that stores map data, an estimating unit that estimates a self-location, and a determining unit that is configured to execute a reliability determining process of determining a reliability of the self-location. The reliability determining process includes a process of determining whether the estimating unit is in a state capable of estimating the self-location, and a process of determining whether a…

TERMINAL, DISPLAY SYSTEM AND DISPLAY METHOD

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078144
A terminal includes a display device configured to display a grade of a product and an option of the product, an input device configured to receive an operation for selecting the grade and an operation for selecting the option, and a control device configured to control the display device to display price information of the product in a state in which the grade and the option are selected. The grade includes a first grade and a second grade. The control device is configured to, in a…

ON-PREMISES ENERGY STORAGE BASED ON PREDICTED ENERGY AVAILABILITY

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250078134
An example operation includes one or more of: determining an impact to a location with an energy storage device, when an energy-related event will occur, recommending an amount of charge at the energy storage device prior to the event; and, responsive to the energy storage device being charged within a threshold of the recommended amount at the event, providing a first amount of energy to the location.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AVOIDING OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE BASED ON PERSONAS

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250077783
Systems and methods disclosed include identifying a topic and a perspective of an input text to be sent to a receiver, determining a receiver perspective based on the topic of the input text and a receiver persona associated with the receiver, determining, by comparing the perspective of the input text and the perspective of the receiver, whether the input text includes a language having an offensive probability beyond an offensive probability threshold, after determining that the input…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIMULATING CHARGER FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250077730
Methods and systems disclosed are directed to a virtual simulation of chargers in a real-world environment having a wiring system using, a camera, an augmented reality (AR) interface, and a processor operable to generate a virtual charger representing a charger superimposed on the real-world environment, receive data responsive to a user interaction using the AR interface to operate the virtual charger, update the virtual charger superimposed on the real-world environment based on the…

AUTOMATED VEHICLE TESTING SYSTEM BASED ON REQUIREMENTS WRITTEN IN NATURAL LANGUAGE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250077401
Provided are a method, system, and device for automated vehicle testing. The method may include, generating a ticket, wherein the ticket comprises at least one natural language testing requirement and at least one natural language incident scenario description; determining whether collected sensor data from a vehicle matches the at least one natural language incident scenario description in the ticket; based on determining that the collected sensor data from the vehicle matches the at…

VEHICLE INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250076992
A vehicle information display system an operation section provided at one side in a vehicle width direction relative to a driver seat, the operation section being structured so as to be operable by a vehicle occupant; and a display section provided at a position that is viewable from the driver seat, a vicinity information display region in which vicinity information of the vehicle being displayed being specified at a central portion of the display section, and a selection option display…

CONTROL DEVICE FOR SOLAR POWER GENERATION SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250076913
A control device performs: searching for a maximal efficiency voltage which is an output voltage of the first converter at which the output power of the first converter becomes maximal; storing the maximal efficiency voltage obtained by the searching; performing a voltage adjustment process of changing the output voltage of the first converter in a direction in which the output power of the first converter is increased by using the maximal efficiency voltage as an initial value; changing…

MOBILITY SERVICE SYSTEM

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250076883
A mobility service system provides a mobility service using a vehicle. The mobility service system includes one or more processors configured to assign a remote operator to a target vehicle in response to a request for remote support from the target vehicle. The remote support includes service support different from support of vehicle driving. When the remote support requested from the target vehicle is the service support, the one or more processors are further configured to execute a…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250076407
A control device is disclosed that is connected to a temperature sensor disposed in a drive device of a vehicle via a connector from outside the drive device. The control device executes a process of periodically acquiring the detected temperature by the temperature sensor, a process of calculating a first temperature difference which is an absolute difference between the detected temperature and the previously detected temperature acquired one cycle before the detected temperature, and…

BATTERY SYSTEM AND ESTIMATION METHOD OF FULL CHARGE CAPACITY

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250076398
The threshold cumulative value calculation unit calculates a threshold cumulative value. The current cumulating unit cumulates the charging current. When the first current cumulative value, which is the cumulative value from the start of charging, becomes equal to or larger than the threshold cumulative value, the maximum value detecting unit starts detection of the local maximum value of the amount of change in the voltage. The full charge capacity calculation unit calculates a full…

APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A LOAD COIL VALUE FOR A LOAD COIL CONNECTED TO AN ANTENNA

Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number: 20250076356
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determining a load coil value for a load coil connected to an antenna. The system may include at least one adjustable inductive coil. The at least one adjustable inductive coil may have a plurality of turns. The at least one adjustable inductive coil may be connected to the antenna. The system may include an actuator. The actuator may be connected to the at least one adjustable inductive coil and may be configured to adjust at least one…

CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

Granted: February 27, 2025
Application Number: 20250065880
The vehicle includes a prime mover, a propeller shaft that transmits a rotational output, a first drive wheel that transmits a rotational output without passing through the propeller shaft, a second drive wheel transmitted through the propeller shaft, a torque distribution unit, and a transmission device. The control device of the vehicle has an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode, when changing a gear ratio of the transmission device, the control device controls the torque…