Kentaro Oguchi

Toyota Motor North America, InfoTech Labs

A system and method for estimating a place affinity for a user is disclosed. The system comprises a gathering module, a communication module and a scoring module. The gathering module receives a place and retrieves rich place data associated with the place. The communication module retrieves user profile data associated with a user and a place affi...

A system and method for regulating media volume is disclosed. The system comprises a prediction engine and a regulation module. The prediction engine collects sensor data and scene category data. The scene category data includes data describing an environment in which the media volume is regulated. The prediction engine predicts a workload for a us...

A system and method for in-vehicle content recommendation is disclosed. The system comprises an aggregator module, a modeler module and a recommendation module. The aggregator module aggregates content data describing content such as a music, a news program, a podcast, an audio book, a movie, a television program, etc. The aggregator module also ag...

We propose a proactive route recommendation system based on Cyber-Physical system for vehicles. The system is capable of acquiring and analyzing data obtained from the automobile and the Internet. The system consists of two major technologies, prediction algorithms to estimate the driver's destination and route beforehand, and linkage of cyber info...

Information provision services in vehicle have started according to the progress of data communication infrastructure surrounding vehicles. In such information services, a large amount of data related to vehicles and drivers has been accumulated to the data-center and also been analyzed to provide proper information to drivers. Towards such technic...

In this paper, we present the architecture and implementation of a Semantic Web Knowledge System that is employed to learn driver preferences for Points of Interest (POIs) using a content based approach. Initially, implicit & explicit feedback is collected from drivers about the places that they like. Data about these places is then retrieved from...

In-vehicle information provision services have started according to the progress of data communication infrastructure surrounding vehicles. In such information services, a large amount of data related to vehicles and drivers has been accumulated to the data-center and also been analyzed to provide proper information to drivers. Towards such a techn...

In this paper, we present a semantic content-based approach that is employed to study driver preferences for Points of Interest (POIs), e.g. banks, grocery stores, etc., and provide recommendations for new POIs. Initially, logs about the places that the driver visits are collected from the cloud-connected navigation application running in the car....

Failure management is a particular challenge problem in the automotive domain. Today's cars host a network of 30 to 80 electronic control units (ECUs), distributed over up to five interconnected in-car networks supporting hundreds to thousands of software- defined functions. This high degree of distribution of hard- and software components is a key...

Vehicular communication is an emerging technology that has lot of potential to support transportation safety, traffic information and other ITS related applications. Due to its unique challenges and infrastructure requirements it is very difficult to evaluate new communication technologies in real world. A good simulation environment is required to...

Vehicular communication is an emerging technology that has lot of potential to support transportation safety, traffic information and other ITS related applications. Due to its unique challenges and infrastructure requirements it is very difficult to evaluate new communication technologies in real world. A good simulation environment is required ??...

This paper proposes a sequencing domain shell for a mixed-model assembly line and also discusses the application result from a practical production of a bumper coating line. The domain shell, SELES (SELEction tool for production instruction Scheduling), was developed to construct sequencing expert systems individually and provided the functions to...

This paper describes work in progress to develop an information broker of engineering parts that enables the user to describe his/her goal in terms of the function to be achieved. The desired function is described in the form of "to do X" with any number of qualifying terms. The system assists the user in incremental refinement of search goals. It...