Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Ai Fujimura

Satoshi Usui

Chikage Kubo

Tohru Yanagida

Shunsuke Noda

Tomoyuki Kuriyama

Yusuke Kaneko

Junya Masui

Yui Nakamura

Keisuke Tsujimoto

An information processing apparatus comprising a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: acquiring a request that a first vehicle join up with a different vehicle; determining on the basis of a piece of route information indicating a travel route for the first vehicle and current locations of a plurality of vehicles different from the first vehicle, a joining cost related to joining up with the first vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles; determining a second vehicle that is to join up with the first vehicle and a joining point such that the joining cost satisfies a prescribed condition.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing apparatus comprising a controller comprising at least one processor configured to perform: acquiring a request that a first vehicle join up with a different vehicle; determining, on the basis of a piece of route information indicating a travel route for the first vehicle and current locations of a plurality of vehicles different from the first vehicle, a joining cost related to joining up with the first vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles; determining a second vehicle that is to join up with the first vehicle and a joining point such that the joining cost satisfies a prescribed condition.

An information processing apparatus comprises a control unit configured to: acquire information about a predetermined travel route of a vehicle that travels with a plurality of users on board; acquire a current position of the vehicle; compare the current position of the vehicle and the predetermined travel route against each other, and perform determination as to whether the vehicle is traveling along the predetermined travel route or not; and issue a notification to a predetermined device, in a case where a deviation of the vehicle from the predetermined travel route is determined.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

In a system that enables a person who possesses a portable device in which enablement data as data that permits operation of a vehicle is stored, to operate the vehicle, a relay device is provided for relaying the enablement data from a center server that issues the enablement data of the vehicle, to a portable device of a person scheduled to operate the vehicle. The relay device includes an obtaining unit that obtains the enablement data of the vehicle from the center server, a temporarily storing unit that temporarily stores the enablement data obtained by the obtaining unit, in a storage device, and a transmitting unit that sends the enablement data stored in the storage device, to a portable device used by a person in charge of operation of the vehicle.

Relay device, storage medium storing program for relay device, and control method of relay device

A leading system has an output unit configured to output a predetermined signal to a first area around a vehicle, and a terminal carried by a person. The terminal has a receiving unit configured to receive the predetermined signal when the person enters the first area and a first notification unit configured to automatically perform a first notification to the person when the predetermined signal is received by the receiving unit.

Leading system, leading device, and control method of leading system

A parking assistance service management device that manages a parking assistance service in which an agent provides parking assistance for a vehicle of a service user includes a reception unit configured to receive user information including information indicating a position of the vehicle from a terminal of the service user, a specifying unit configured to specify a terminal of the agent providing the parking assistance for the vehicle based on the user information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the information indicating the position of the vehicle to the terminal of the agent.

Parking assistance service management device, agent terminal, management method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A notification system includes a notification unit configured to notify a second person of position information relating to a parking position of a vehicle and auxiliary information to help the second person to find the vehicle after the vehicle is moved and parked by a first person.

Notification system, notification device, and notification method

An information processing apparatus determines a pickup point and a drop-off point for a first user traveling to a destination in a vehicle carrying a plurality of unspecified users. The apparatus includes a controller that obtains information on the place of departure and the destination of the first user; determines a pickup point for the first user based on the place of departure of the first user; defines a predetermined field including the destination of the first user and determines a drop-off point for the first user from a plurality of points except the destination, the points being included in the predetermined field; and transmits the determined pickup point and drop-off point for the first user to a device associated with the vehicle.

An information processing apparatus provided with a communicator that receives request data which is a request relating to a change in a traveling route of a vehicle from a first user among two or more users traveling in the same vehicle and a processor that executes determining incentives to be granted to second users accompanying the change in the traveling route, wherein the second users are a part of or all of the two or more users excluding the first user, presenting incentive information on the determined incentives and inquiries about whether or not to accept the change in the traveling route to the second users and creating granting data for granting the determined incentives to the second users when the second users accept the change in the traveling route.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

An information processing apparatus provided with a processor that executes acquiring user information which is information on each of a first users traveling in the same vehicle, calculating evaluation values indicating high interest for the first users about each of a plurality of topic candidate keyword included in user information of each of the first users, determining topic keywords based on the respective evaluation values of the plurality of topic candidate keywords, generating topic information from the topic keywords and providing the topic information to the first users riding in the vehicle.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

A management system that manages substitute parking service in which a substitute driver parks a vehicle of a service user, in place of the service user, includes a processor configured to generate path information indicating a path from a delivery location of the vehicle to a parking lot in which the vehicle is allowed to be parked, based on information indicating the delivery location, and information indicating a position of the parking lot, and the processor being configured to transmit the path information to a terminal of the service user.

Management system of substitute parking service, method of assisting use of substitute parking service, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing management programs

A parking assistance service management device includes a processor configured to receive, from a terminal of a user of a parking assistance service, a use request for using the parking assistance service. The use request includes point information and time information. The processor is configured to extract, in response to the reception of the use request, from a plurality of parking lots, a parking lot that is present within a predetermined range from the point represented by the point information and has an empty parking space at the date and time represented by the time information. The processor is configured to reserve a parking space for the date and time represented by the time information. The information notification unit is configured to notify a terminal of an agent of the parking assistance service and the terminal of the user of reserved parking lot information indicating the reserved parking lot.

Parking assistance service management device, control method for same, control method for terminal of user, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Growing community of inventors

Toyota, Japan

Ai Fujimura