Information processing system, information processing method, and program
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248520
The information processing system includes a classification unit, an acquisition unit, a selection unit, an evaluation unit, and a generation unit. The classification unit classifies a plurality of fragrances into segments defined corresponding to a combination of one of first classification items on a first classification axis with one of second classification items on a second classification axis. The acquisition unit accepts input of information related to the first classification…
Information processing device that acquires a rotational angle of a head of a user, method that acquires a rotational angle of a head of a user, and storage medium that acquires a rotational angle of a head of a user
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249235
An information processing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and being configured to: acquire a rotation angle by which a head of a user has rotated and a maintained time during which the rotation angle has been maintained, and in a case in which the rotation angle is less than a preset angle, or in a case in which the rotation angle is equal to or greater than the preset angle and the maintained time is less than a preset time, cause a notification unit to…
Deterioration estimation device, method, solar system, and vehicle
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249198
A deterioration estimation device that is provided in an in-vehicle component (such as an ECU) mounted in a vehicle includes a processor, and the processor is configured to acquire information about a temperature variation of the in-vehicle component based on electric power generated by a solar panel mounted in the vehicle, and estimate deterioration of the in-vehicle component based on the acquired information about the temperature variation of the in-vehicle component.
Partial sensor data sharing for connected vehicles
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249193
A method of partial sensor data sharing is described. The method includes detecting an occluded area relative to a receiver vehicle. The method also includes defining an area of interest (AoI) based on a traffic topology and state information of a selected sender vehicle. The method further includes transmitting the area of interest to the selected sender vehicle. The method also includes receiving a sensor data corresponding to the area of interest when the detected occluded area is…
Vehicle taillight recognition based on a velocity estimation
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249161
A method for controlling an ego vehicle in an environment includes associating, by a velocity model, one or more objects within the environment with a respective velocity instance label. The method also includes selectively, by a recurrent network of the taillight recognition system, focusing on a selected region of the sequence of images according to a spatial attention model for a vehicle taillight recognition task. The method further includes concatenating the selected region with the…
Object assessment device, storage medium storing computer program for object assessment, and object assessment method
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249160
An object assessment device determines whether or not an object is present within a predetermined range, and has a processor configured to determine whether or not first object detection information detected at a first detection time point and second object detection information detected at a second detection time point after the first detection time point, are detecting a same object, determine whether or not a predetermined region including a location of the vehicle at the second…
Information processing device
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248982
A market electric power price predicting unit predicts a trading price of electric power traded in a P2P electric power trading market. The trading price includes a price of renewable energy electric power and a price of non-renewable energy electric power. A renewable energy index setting unit sets a renewable energy index indicating a degree of the renewable energy electric power in electric power purchased in the P2P electric power trading market. A trading price setting unit sets a…
Battery replacement control device and battery replacement control system
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248959
A server (battery replacement management server) includes: a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires number-of-users information (situation information) in a battery replacement apparatus; and a processor (control unit) that adjusts, based on the situation information, an incentive given to a user of the battery replacement apparatus.
Center, distribution control method, and non-transitory storage medium
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248777
A center is configured to distribute, to a vehicle, update data of software of a control device mounted on the vehicle. The center includes one or more processors configured to make a determination on whether to distribute, as the update data, update software or difference data between current software and the update software based on first information on the software of the control device mounted on the vehicle. The center then transmits the determined update data to the vehicle.
Ota master, center, system, update method, and vehicle
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248774
An OTA master is configured to control software update for an electronic control unit mounted on a vehicle. The OTA master includes a communication unit configured to receive, front a center, a distribution package including update data for an electronic control unit on which a first-kind non-volatile memory having one storage area is mounted and update data for an electronic control unit on which a second-kind non-volatile memory having two storage areas is mounted.
Information processing device, information processing method, storage medium on which an information processing program is stored, and vehicle
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248498
An information processing device receives a request signal, read out a user class or a storage region class from a memory, based on which user class and storage region class the request signal requests, and generates an object corresponding to the read-out class, wherein each user class is a class relating to users and each storage region class is a class relating to storage regions utilized by the users, based on the generated object and the request signal. The information processing…
Conveyance robot
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248324
A conveyance robot includes a main body at which a conveyed object can be placed; a driving wheel provided at the main body; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to control the driving wheel such that a progress direction of the conveyance robot is configured to match an extension direction of a running path guide portion, the running path guide portion extending along a running path that is along a wall face of a wall disposed in a building.
Apparatus, method, and computer program for determining sections for map update
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12247844
An apparatus for determining sections for map update includes a processor configured to calculate a score indicating the degree of improvement of drivers' convenience provided by generating or updating map information regarding two or more road sections selected from road sections where the map information is unavailable, based on handover costs between autonomous driving and manual driving, calculate the score while replacing one or more of the two or more selected road sections with…
Hydrogen filling method
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12247700
A method of filling a tank with hydrogen includes: a step of attaching a filling tank to a filling device; and a step of controlling hydrogen filling from the filling device to the filling tank based on a temperature sensor provided in a dummy tank.
High-pressure tank
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12247699
A high-pressure tank comprising: a resin liner for a high-pressure tank including at least one opening portion; an aluminum mouth portion attached to the opening portion; and a reinforcement layer formed on an outer surface of the liner, wherein an aluminum oxide coating is formed on a surface of the aluminum mouth portion, the aluminum oxide coating includes a porous surface layer in which columns with an average height of 10 to 100 nm are arranged in a dispersed state, an average value…
High-pressure tank and method for producing the same
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12247698
A high-pressure tank that enables end portions of a first reinforcing layer wound around a body of a liner to sufficiently contribute to the strength of dome portions of the tank. In the high-pressure tank, a reinforcing layer includes the first reinforcing layer that covers the body and a second reinforcing layer that covers the first reinforcing layer and side end portions of the liner. The first reinforcing layer includes a hoop reinforcing layer formed through hoop winding of a…
Driving assist apparatus
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12240451
In a driving assist apparatus which carries out a collision avoidance assist that is an assist for avoiding a collision of a self-vehicle and a collision risk object that is an object judged to have a high possibility to collide with the self-vehicle when the collision risk object is judged to exist, an object which does not exist in an object detection range of a front side radar and whose predicted running locus and a predicted running locus of a self-vehicle intersect at a position…
Apparatus, method, and computer program for generating map
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12240463
An apparatus for generating a map includes a processor configured to: detect an intersection and roads connected to the intersection from a bird's-eye view image, detect, for each road, an entry lane for entering the intersection and an exit lane for exiting the intersection included in the road, detect, for each road, a road marking represented in the road or a road structure from the bird's-eye view image, the road marking and the road structure indicating a direction in which vehicles…
Driving support apparatus
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12240461
The driving support apparatus performs deceleration control of the vehicle. The driving support apparatus includes: a sensitivity setting unit configured to set an actuation sensitivity of a deceleration control; a deceleration execution unit configured to execute the deceleration control based on the actuation sensitivity; and a brake operation detection unit configured to detect a brake operation by a driver. The sensitivity setting unit changes the actuation sensitivity based on a…
Vehicle driving assist apparatus, vehicle driving assist method, vehicle driving assist program, and vehicle comprising vehicle driving assist apparatus
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12240454
While an ordinary moving assist control is executed, a vehicle driving assist apparatus stops the ordinary moving assist control and execute an ordinary moving control to accelerate an own vehicle, based on an accelerator pedal operation amount when an accelerator override state is produced due to an operation of an accelerator pedal of the own vehicle. While an economy moving assist control is executed, the vehicle driving assist apparatus accelerates the own vehicle by an optimum…
