Toyota Patent Applications

POSITION INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, POSITION INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029271
Provided is a position information acquisition system including: a position information acquisition unit configured to acquire position information from a plurality of sensors or devices operating on an object; and a switching unit configured to switch the sensor or the device for acquiring the position information according to a divided area, the divided area being a divided peripheral area of the object.

FUEL CELL WITH SERPENTINE WITH-IN SERPENTINE FLOW FIELD CHANNELS

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250030013
An apparatus for a fuel cell may include a plurality of flow field channels, wherein the plurality of flow field channels may include a plurality of ribs connecting an inlet and an outlet in a serpentine flow design. The plurality of flow field channels may further include a plurality of blocking ribs within the plurality of ribs. A method for creating a fuel cell may include creating a fuel cell with a plurality of flow field channels, wherein the plurality of flow field channels may…

EXIT ASSIST DEVICE AND EXIT ASSIST METHOD

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029497
An exit assist device has a processor configured to estimate a direction of a line of sight of a driver based on an image in which the vicinity of the driving seat is represented, and to decide on an exiting direction in which the vehicle is to exit from a parking space, based on the direction of the line of sight of the driver.

ROUTE INTELLIGENCE FOR CITY NODES

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029491
An example operation includes one or more of determining by a primary computing node that an en route vehicle will be delayed for a time-sensitive event, coordinating by the primary computing node with a secondary computing node at an event location and the en route vehicle to provide a real-time event experience to at least one device in the en route vehicle, managing by the primary computing node the real-time event experience between the secondary computing node and the at least one…

VEHICLE OCCUPANT HEALTH MONITORING APPLICATION

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029488
An example operation includes one or more of accessing, by an application providing assistance to a vehicle, sensor data associated with an environment inside and outside of a vehicle and profile data associated with a vehicle occupant, determining, by the application, an initial condition of the vehicle occupant based on the sensor data and the profile data, responsive to the initial condition being above a health condition threshold, accessing, by the application, health data…

DENSITY DESIGN FOR CITY NODES

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029482
An example operation includes one or more of receiving information at a vehicle in proximity to a first node from the first node, sending information from the vehicle to the first node, analyzing the sent information by the first node, determining by the first node that the vehicle will be in proximity to an adjacent node to the first node, after the vehicle is no longer in proximity to the first node, receiving the analyzed information from the first node at the adjacent node,…

MOBILE BODY AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029431
The mobile body includes a power storage device and a control device. The control device stores identification information of a first power storage device when the first power storage device is installed in the mobile body as the power storage device. When the first power storage device is replaced with the second power storage device and the identification information of the first power storage device stored in the control device is rewritten to the identification information of the…

DETECTION SYSTEM, DETECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029422
A detection system according to the present disclosure includes: a foot detection unit that detects a position of a foot of a detection target person; an upper body detection unit that detects a position of at least part of an upper body of the detection target person; and an estimation unit that estimates the state of the detection target person based on the moving distance of the foot calculated by using the detected position of the foot and based on the moving distance of the at least…

DROWSINESS SIGN NOTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NOTIFICATION OF SIGN OF DROWSINESS

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029404
A drowsiness sign notification device detects an eye-closed state of a driver of a vehicle from each of face images; determines whether a first eye closure ratio of the number of face images with the eye-closed state to the number of the face images generated in a first period exceeds a first threshold; determines whether a second eye closure ratio of the number of face images with the eye-closed state to the number of the face images generated in a second period longer than the first…

IMAGE ANALYZER

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029361
For easy visualization of features of an image representing a structure of a material, an image analyzer includes a transformer that performs a Fourier transform on each of a plurality of original images representing a structure of a material and acquires a plurality of power spectra; an analyzer that performs principal component analysis on the plurality of power spectra and acquires principal components and principal component scores; and a reconstructor that reconstructs an image…

METHOD EXECUTED BY TERMINAL DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029142
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.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029132
First data that is acquired while the first vehicle is traveling is provided to a first business entity, information about a benefit that occurs when a first business entity is provided is obtained, information about the benefit is presented to a user associated with the first vehicle, and the user is asked whether to consent to provision of the first data to the first business entity.

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029131
A first consent to utilizing first data collected from a first vehicle for a first purpose is obtained from a user of the first vehicle, a second consent to diverting the first data collected based on the first consent to a second purpose is obtained from a user of the first vehicle, and a predetermined process is performed to give a user of the first vehicle a portion of the benefit generated by diverting the first data to the second purpose.

WORK RECOGNITION SYSTEM, WORK RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029045
A work recognition system that uses a plurality of work component recognition models into which information of movement, touch, hearing, position, camera, and equipment, and tools at the time of a work performed by a worker is input, the work recognition system including: a product selection filtering unit configured to select the work component recognition model based on a production instruction; a progress filtering unit configured to select the work component recognition model in…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: January 23, 2025
Application Number: 20250029041
Information on a risk occurring when first data acquired during traveling by a first vehicle is provided to a first business is acquired, information on the risk is presented to a user associated with the first vehicle, and the user is asked whether to consent to provide the first data to the first business.

VEHICLE

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018951
The vehicle comprises a vehicle platform configured to be capable of receiving commands related to autonomous driving from the autonomous driving kit. The autonomous driving kit is configured to transmit a wake command to the vehicle platform requesting transition of the power mode of the vehicle platform to the wake mode. The vehicle platform transitions to the wake mode by the wake command only when the shift lever indicates parking and the vehicle speed is 0 km/h.

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018974
The present disclosure relates to an autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle. The autonomous driving system comprises a storage device and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute acquiring recognition data by recognizing a situation around the vehicle, generating a path plan for the vehicle based on the recognition data, performing autonomous driving control of the vehicle in accordance with the path plan, and storing a data log related to the…

AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018973
An automated driving system comprises one or more processors configured to perform automated driving control of a vehicle in accordance with a control parameter and one or more storage devices. The automated driving system stores log data related to the automated driving control in the one or more storage devices while performing the automated driving control. When a free capacity of the one or more storage devices is less than a threshold value, the automated driving system adjusts the…

DRIVER MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVER MONITORING METHOD AND DRIVER MONITORING COMPUTER PROGRAM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018968
The driver monitoring device includes a processor configured to: detect an object having a possibility of affecting traveling of a vehicle based on an external sensor signal, detect, among a gaze direction of a driver of the vehicle and an orientation of a face of the driver, at least the gaze direction based on a driver image, determine whether an object direction to the detected object is included within a peripheral visual range corresponding to a peripheral visual field of the driver…

VEHICLE SPEED ACQUISITION DEVICE AND ABNORMAL NOISE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM

Granted: January 16, 2025
Application Number: 20250018955
The vehicle speed acquisition device of the present disclosure acquires the position information at a predetermined first time interval, acquires the sound pressure of the sound emitted from the vehicle at the second time interval shorter than the first time interval, estimates the vehicle speed at the acquisition timing of the position information and the vehicle speed at the acquisition timing of the sound pressure based on the acquired position information and the first and second…