Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Igarashi

Hiroaki Igarashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240167250
    Abstract: A work machine includes: a work device including a plurality of hydraulic actuators and a plurality of driving target members; a posture sensor that senses posture information of the work device; a control valve unit that controls flows of hydraulic operating fluid supplied from the hydraulic pump to the plurality of hydraulic actuators; a plurality of solenoid valves that generate pilot pressure for driving the control valve unit; and a controller that computes a command value of the pilot pressure to be generated by the solenoid valves, and outputs a control signal corresponding to the command value to the solenoid valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Teruki IGARASHI, Ryohei FUKUCHI, Yusuke SUZUKI, Hiroaki TANAKA, Mitsuhiko KANEHAMA
  • Patent number: 11991375
    Abstract: A moving image encoding device includes: a parameter correction unit that corrects an encoding parameter for encoding a moving image; a block arrangement determination unit that determines block information used for encoding the moving image; and an encoding unit that encodes the moving image, the block arrangement determination unit acquires the corrected encoding parameter, and determines and outputs the block information, and the encoding unit encodes the moving image by using the encoding parameter before correction and the block information output by the block arrangement determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20220284595
    Abstract: An object tracking device includes an object detection unit and a matching unit. The object detection unit includes a plurality of detectors having different processing speeds or accuracy. The object detection unit detects, for each of frames of image data input in time series, each object from the image data using one detector selected from the plurality of the detectors. The matching unit matches a current object detection result which the object detection unit generates from image data of a current frame with a previous object detection result which the object detection unit generates from image data of a previous frame before the current frame, and generates a tracking result of the object based on a matching result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki IGARASHI, Seiya SHIBATA, Liang FENG
  • Publication number: 20220201319
    Abstract: A moving image encoding device includes: a parameter correction unit that corrects an encoding parameter for encoding a moving image; a block arrangement determination unit that determines block information used for encoding the moving image; and an encoding unit that encodes the moving image, the block arrangement determination unit acquires the corrected encoding parameter, and determines and outputs the block information, and the encoding unit encodes the moving image by using the encoding parameter before correction and the block information output by the block arrangement determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 10834402
    Abstract: This quantization device includes a processor configured to calculate first costs in a plurality of data length candidates in consideration of the compression ratio and image quality deterioration due to compression of an image. The cost calculation processing is common processing partially performed among the plurality of data length candidates. The processor is configured to perform the common processing for the plurality of data length candidates, execute the distributed processes in parallel, and determine, as an optimal data length, a single data length for which a minimum cost is calculated among the first costs of the plurality of data length candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20190373262
    Abstract: This quantization device includes a processing unit which calculates the cost involved in a plurality of data lengths in consideration of the compression ratio and image quality deterioration due to compression of an image. A process for calculating the cost is partially common among the plurality of data lengths. The processing unit distributes the common process for the plurality of data lengths, executes the distributed processes in parallel, and thereby determines, as an optimal data length, one data length the cost for which is the lowest, among the plurality of data lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 10254733
    Abstract: A motor control device avoids the difficulties associated with safely controlling a motor using a second calculation unit when a first calculation unit malfunctions. A motor control device monitors a malfunction of a first microcomputer and a malfunction of a first CPU of the first microcomputer and performs a determination based on a result of a second external communication functional unit. When the determination is normal, the process proceeds determine that the first CPU is normal and a second CPU malfunctions. Therefore, it is possible to continue processing using the first CPU in this case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hatakeyama, Hiroaki Igarashi, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20180316920
    Abstract: A video image encoding device includes a generator that generates position information indicating, for each size of an image block, a position of each of a plurality of image blocks in an image, and an image processor that executes transform processing for an image block of a predetermined size at a position indicated by the generated position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki IGARASHI
  • Patent number: 9991785
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an electric power converting device with which can executes a ground fault detection in a short time with its inexpensive configuration. In one step, the electric power converting device performs level comparison of a difference between output values of low pass filters, with a threshold value ?E. If a W-phase is shorted to ground at a time when the U-phase and V-phase lower arm IGBTs are ON and W-phase upper IGBT is ON, the difference between the output values of the low pass filters and becomes small. In another step, a level comparison is made between the absolute value of a difference between the U-phase current value iu and U-phase current command value iu?, and a threshold value F. If the absolute value is lower than the threshold value, the result is determined to be normal, and if the absolute value is greater than the threshold value, the result is determined to be abnormal, because the U-phase is shorted to ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kashihara, Hiroaki Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9964579
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to diagnose a state of a voltage divider while performing a normal measurement to improve reliability. A voltage detection apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first resistor for dividing voltage of a detection unit into a first divided voltage value; and a test pattern insertion circuit unit including a second resistor for dividing the first divided voltage value into a second divided voltage value and a switching device, wherein the test pattern insertion circuit unit is connected to an equipotential connection point to the first divided voltage value, and wherein a state of the first resistor is detected based on the second divided voltage value when the switching device is conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Igarashi, Masayoshi Kashihara, Tatsuya Hatakeyama, Koichi Yahata, Hideyuki Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20170338733
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an electric power converting device with which can executes a ground fault detection in a short time with its inexpensive configuration. In one step, the electric power converting device performs level comparison of a difference between output values of low pass filters, with a threshold value ?E. If a W-phase is shorted to ground at a time when the U-phase and V-phase lower arm IGBTs are ON and W-phase upper IGBT is ON, the difference between the output values of the low pass filters and becomes small. In another step, a level comparison is made between the absolute value of a difference between the U-phase current value iu and U-phase current command value iu?, and a threshold value F. If the absolute value is lower than the threshold value, the result is determined to be normal, and if the absolute value is greater than the threshold value, the result is determined to be abnormal, because the U-phase is shorted to ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Masayoshi KASHIHARA, Hiroaki IGARASHI
  • Publication number: 20170131698
    Abstract: A motor control device avoids the difficulties associated with safely controlling a motor using a second calculation unit when a first calculation unit malfunctions. A motor control device monitors a malfunction of a first microcomputer and a malfunction of a first CPU of the first microcomputer and performs a determination based on a result of a second external communication functional unit. When the determination is normal, the process proceeds determine that the first CPU is normal and a second CPU malfunctions. Therefore, it is possible to continue processing using the first CPU in this case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya HATAKEYAMA, Hiroaki IGARASHI, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170089969
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to diagnose a state of a voltage divider while performing a normal measurement to improve reliability. A voltage detection apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first resistor for dividing voltage of a detection unit into a first divided voltage value; and a test pattern insertion circuit unit including a second resistor for dividing the first divided voltage value into a second divided voltage value and a switching device, wherein the test pattern insertion circuit unit is connected to an equipotential connection point to the first divided voltage value, and wherein a state of the first resistor is detected based on the second divided voltage value when the switching device is conductive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroaki IGARASHI, Masayoshi KASHIHARA, Tatsuya HATAKEYAMA, Koichi YAHATA, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8976551
    Abstract: A power converter includes an inverter unit that includes a plurality of semiconductor switching elements constituting upper and lower arms and converts DC power into AC power; a gate driving unit that outputs, to the inverter unit, a gate signal used to drive gates of the plurality of semiconductor switching elements; a driving control unit that supplies the gate driving unit with a switching control signal used for the gate driving unit to output the gate signal; a first abnormality detection unit that performs over voltage detection of the DC power and over current detection of the AC power and temperature detection of the upper and lower arms; and a second abnormality detection unit that detects abnormality of the plurality of semiconductor switching elements of the upper arm and lower arms, wherein the driving control unit includes a first protection circuit and a second protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Igarashi, Satoru Shigeta, Takashi Ogura
  • Publication number: 20140092655
    Abstract: A power converter includes an inverter unit that includes a plurality of semiconductor switching elements constituting upper and lower arms and converts DC power into AC power; a gate driving unit that outputs, to the inverter unit, a gate signal used to drive gates of the plurality of semiconductor switching elements; a driving control unit that supplies the gate driving unit with a switching control signal used for the gate driving unit to output the gate signal; a first abnormality detection unit that performs over voltage detection of the DC power and over current detection of the AC power and temperature detection of the upper and lower arms; and a second abnormality detection unit that detects abnormality of the plurality of semiconductor switching elements of the upper arm and lower arms, wherein the driving control unit includes a first protection circuit and a second protection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Igarashi, Satoru Shigeta, Takashi Ogura
  • Patent number: 8605471
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: an inverter that converts a DC current supplied from a DC power source to an AC current by engaging a plurality of switching elements, which constitute an upper arm, and a plurality of switching elements, which constitute a lower arm, in switching operation; a control unit that includes a signal generation unit that generates a switching signal carrying a command for execution of the switching operation in correspondence to each of the plurality of switching elements constituting the upper arm and the plurality of switching elements constituting the lower arm, and outputs the switching signal thus generated as a control signal; and a drive unit that individually drives each of the switching elements based upon the corresponding control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ogura, Satoru Shigeta, Hiroaki Igarashi, Koichi Ono, Yasuo Noto
  • Publication number: 20110310644
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: an inverter that converts a DC current supplied from a DC power source to an AC current by engaging a plurality of switching elements, which constitute an upper arm, and a plurality of switching elements, which constitute a lower arm, in switching operation; a control unit that includes a signal generation unit that generates a switching signal carrying a command for execution of the switching operation in correspondence to each of the plurality of switching elements constituting the upper arm and the plurality of switching elements constituting the lower arm, and outputs the switching signal thus generated as a control signal; and a drive unit that individually drives each of the switching elements based upon the corresponding control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi OGURA, Satoru Shigeta, Hiroaki Igarashi, Koichi Ono, Yasuo Noto
  • Patent number: 8040088
    Abstract: A power inverter comprises a power module connected at least to a rotating electric machine, a gate drive circuit board which supplies switching power to the power module, and a rotating electric machine control circuit board which supplies a signal for controlling the waveform of the switching power to the gate drive circuit board. A noise reduction board is formed on a board different from the rotating electric machine control circuit board. The configuration of the noise reduction board is such that various signals for forming a signal for controlling the waveform of the switching power by means of the rotating electric machine control circuit board are inputted through the noise reduction board to the rotating electric machine control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Koichi Yahata, Masashige Tsuji, Takashi Fujimoto, Hiroaki Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20090243524
    Abstract: A power inverter comprises a power module connected at least to a rotating electric machine, a gate drive circuit board which supplies switching power to the power module, and a rotating electric machine control circuit board which supplies a signal for controlling the waveform of the switching power to the gate drive circuit board. A noise reduction board is formed on a board different from the rotating electric machine control circuit board. The configuration of the noise reduction board is such that various signals for forming a signal for controlling the waveform of the switching power by means of the rotating electric machine control circuit board are inputted through the noise reduction board to the rotating electric machine control circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Koichi Yahata, Masashige Tsuji, Takashi Fujimoto, Hiroaki Igarashi
  • Patent number: 7561448
    Abstract: A power inverter comprises a power module connected at least to a rotating electric machine, a gate drive circuit board which supplies switching power to the power module, and a rotating electric machine control circuit board which supplies a signal for controlling the waveform of the switching power to the gate drive circuit board. A noise reduction board is formed on a board different from the rotating electric machine control circuit board. The configuration of the noise reduction board is such that various signals for forming a signal for controlling the waveform of the switching power by means of the rotating electric machine control circuit board are inputted through the noise reduction board to the rotating electric machine control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Katayama, Koichi Yahata, Masashige Tsuji, Takashi Fujimoto, Hiroaki Igarashi