Toyota Patent Applications

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGE-DRIVEN OBJECT DETECTION FOR RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139913
System and method for reducing latency and bandwidth usage include a reality device and one or more processors. The reality device includes a camera to operably capture a frame of a view external to a vehicle. The one or more processors are operable to send the frame to an edge server, receive object detection data from the edge server, wherein the object detection data includes object information in the frame, and instruct the reality device to render a mixed reality environment with…

COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250141536
A communication device includes an NTN communication unit configured to connect to a non-terrestrial network, a sensor unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to: acquire, via the sensor unit, presence information regarding a range of presence of an obstruction in space including an outgoing or incoming direction of radio waves during communication via the NTN communication unit; and performs a process based on a line of sight in which the radio waves are transmittable…

BATTERY

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250140994
The battery includes an electrode body and a laminate outer encasement covering the electrode body, wherein the battery is disposed on an outer side of the laminate outer encasement, covers an entire surface of the laminate outer encasement, and includes a resin member including a polyurea resin, and the average thickness of the resin member is larger than 0.5 mm and smaller than 1.5 mm.

BATTERY, BATTERY MODULE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING BATTERY

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250140892
A battery 10, including an electrode body 30 that includes an electrode and a separator, and an exterior body 20A, 20B that is disposed around the electrode body 30, the battery being restrained by a restraining member, the electrode body 30 having a bonded portion at which the electrode and the separator are bonded to each other, and a non-bonded portion at which the electrode and the separator are not bonded to each other, and at least a part of the non-bonded portion of the electrode…

Electrode for Battery and Battery

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250140853
An electrode for a battery comprises a base material and a negative electrode active material layer. A cross section of the negative electrode active material layer parallel to a thickness direction includes a first region and a second region. In the thickness direction, the first region is interposed between the second region and the base material. The first region includes a first active material and a first binder. The second region includes a second active material and a second…

DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250140114
In the driving support device, when the light color of the traffic light at the intersection in front of the own vehicle is yellow, the output unit outputs information of a call attention for the driver of the own vehicle. The distance acquisition unit acquires a travelable distance of the own vehicle within a predetermined reference time. Even if the light color of the traffic light is yellow, the output unit does not output the information of the call attention when the own vehicle is…

DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250140113
The driving assistance ECU includes a speed limit acquisition unit that acquires a speed limit applied to the own vehicle, and a vehicle speed acquisition unit that acquires an own vehicle speed that is a speed of the own vehicle, and performs a first notification (a first speeding notification) when the own vehicle speed is higher than the speed limit. The driving assistance ECU performs additional notification (second speeding notification) when it is determined that a predetermined…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250140105
An information processing device executes the followings: determining a first section in which a traffic jam is occurring based on first travel data; performing a first detection process based on a first image captured by a vehicle positioned around the first section, the first detection process being a process of detecting an end portion of the first section; when an end portion of the first section is detected, acquiring second travel data from a plurality of vehicles positioned…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING A CURRENT BASE MODEL COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF IMAGES

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139983
Systems and methods for updating a current base model are provided. The systems include a controller programmed to obtain a current base model comprising a plurality of images, a 3D pointset, and geometric features, retrieve captured video data comprising a plurality of video frames with location data of a vehicle as the vehicle drives a route, localize the route of the vehicle and determine a pose of the vehicle using the video data from the vehicle and the current base model, identify…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESOURCE-OPTIMIZED MIXED REALITY USING USER-CENTRIC ADAPTIVE OBJECT DETECTION

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139966
System and method for reducing latency and bandwidth usage in reality devices include a reality device and one or more processors. The reality device includes a camera to operably capture a set of consequent frames of views external to a vehicle. The one or more processors are operable to monitor movements of one or more eyes of a user to obtain eye-tracking data using the reality device, identify an area of interest (AoI) in the frame based on the eye-tracking data, AoI history, or…

VEHICLE AND SYSTEM

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250135937
The vehicle is configured to provide electrical equipment and power transfer. The vehicle is configured to perform power transfer in either the first control mode or the second control mode. The first control mode is a control mode in which power transfer is performed based on an instruction determined by the vehicle. The second control mode is a control mode in which power transfer is performed based on an instruction determined by the electrical equipment. The vehicle is configured to…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MIXED REALITY APPLICATIONS WITH SELECTIVE FRAME TRANSMISSION

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139841
System and method for reducing latency and bandwidth usage include a reality device and one or more processors. The reality device includes a camera to operably capture a set of consequent frames of views external to a vehicle. The one or more processors are operable to select one or more frames of the set of consequent frames and skip rest of the set of consequent frames based on network quality metrics, user focus areas of a user, and a pending frame queue, and transmit the selected…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING DISTANCE PREDICTIONS

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250139796
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 determining a predicted distance to at least one object using an image acquired by a camera of a vehicle, inferring a contextual feature about the image, and in response to determining the contextual feature is associated with a correction factor, correcting the predicted distance using the distance correction factor.

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250137867
The control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires moving object information that is information about a moving object in a water leak inspection of a movable body that can travel by unmanned driving; and a control unit that controls at least one of a travel mode of the moving object and a control mode of the ejector according to the moving object information so that a positional relationship between the ejecting device that ejects liquid or gas to the moving object in the…

VEHICLE PARKING ASSIST APPARATUS

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250136151
A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires and registers first information on a parking lot from a camera image when a vehicle stops by the parking lot. The vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires and registers second information on the parking lot from the camera image when completing parking the vehicle in the parking lot by a parking assist control. The vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires the information on the parking lot as current parking lot information from the camera…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250136139
An information processing device includes a reference section that refers to a table in which a list of sounds defined by identifiers determined according to priority levels and sound types is recorded, and an arbitration section that, with respect to emitting instructions from one or more applications that are configured to be capable of being added or updated from an exterior and that cause a sound to be emitted, arbitrates a sound that is to be caused to be emitted, based on the…

TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250136111
A travel control device includes an automatic braking device that automatically brakes an own vehicle; and a driving support ECU configured to acquire information on one of a curvature and a curvature radius of a traveling road in front of the own vehicle, calculate a target vehicle speed of the own vehicle based on the information, and automatically decelerate the own vehicle by the automatic braking device so that the vehicle speed of the own vehicle becomes the target vehicle speed…

VEHICLE DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250136097
The driving support ECU calculates a first avoidance path for avoiding collision between the host vehicle and the continuous structure only by automatic braking, a second avoidance path for avoiding collision between the host vehicle and the continuous structure by forward automatic steering, and a third avoidance path for avoiding collision between the host vehicle and the continuous structure by reverse automatic steering when it is determined that there is a possibility that the host…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A MAXIMUM PHASE RECOVERY ENVELOPE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250136089
Systems and methods for determining a maximum phase recovery envelope are disclosed herein. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory having a vehicle control module. The vehicle control module includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine a critical point on a phase plane indicating a maximum defined recovery point a vehicle can recover from, perform forward and reverse simulations from the critical point to define…

BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Granted: May 1, 2025
Application Number: 20250135989
A battery electric vehicle includes a recess provided on a vehicle body, a charging port disposed in the recess and configured to allow connection of a battery charging plug, a cover that opens and closes an opening of the recess, and an indicator that is provided in the recess or on an outer surface of the cover. The indicator is configured to be turned off when the cover is locked, and configured to be turned on when the cover is unlocked.