Patents by Inventor Kazutoshi Imai

Kazutoshi Imai 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: 20240105053
    Abstract: To improve efficiency of road surveillance, a road surveillance system includes a detection unit 122 and a processing unit 134. The detection unit 122 detects a road state being a state of an object on a road by processing an image in which the road is captured. The processing unit 134 performs, when the road state satisfies a first criterion, any of notification processing of making a notification of the road state that satisfies the first criterion according to notification setting related to the notification, and change-related processing related to a change in the notification setting, based on whether a second criterion is satisfied. The second criterion is a criterion related to a determination result of whether the road state satisfies the first criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shin Tominaga, Yusuke Imai, Kazutoshi Sagi, Yuzo Senda
  • Publication number: 20240104931
    Abstract: A road surveillance system includes a video acquisition unit, a target determination unit, and a display control unit. The video acquisition unit acquires a video that captures a road. The target determination unit determines, based on a result of comparison between at least one frame image constituting the video and a reference image, and a first criterion, whether the at least one frame image is an analysis target. The display control unit causes a display unit to display information based on a result of the determination. The display control unit includes a first control unit and a second control unit. The first control unit causes the display unit to display an analysis result of at least one frame image being determined to be an analysis target. The second control unit causes the display unit to display detection information indicating that a frame image not being an analysis target is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Tominaga, Yusuke Imai, Kazutoshi Sagi, Yuzo Senda
  • Publication number: 20240104680
    Abstract: To improve accuracy of a result acquired by analyzing, by using a machine learning model, an image in which a road is captured, an information processing system 100 is an information processing system for collecting a machine learning image, and includes a generation unit 122 and a storage processing unit 123. The generation unit 122 processes an image in which a road is captured, and generates capturing situation information indicating a situation related to capturing of the image. The storage processing unit 123 performs processing for storing an image, based on the capturing situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin TOMINAGA, Yusuke IMAI, Kazutoshi SAGI, Yuzo SENDA
  • Publication number: 20140090507
    Abstract: A robot arm includes a first arm having a base end portion rotatably connected to an arm base, and a second arm having a base end portion rotatably connected to a tip end portion of the first arm and a tip end portion to which a robot hand is rotatably connected. Further, the robot arm includes a link unit having a base end portion rotatably supported with respect to the arm base and a tip end portion inserted into the first arm at an intermediate portion of the first arm and supported to make relative rotation with respect to the first arm. The link unit rotates the second arm with respect to the first arm by transmitting the relative rotation to the base end portion of the second arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Kazutoshi IMAI, Nobuyuki FURUKAWA, Tadataka NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 7586283
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic encoder device capable of detecting a rotating angle of an actuator having a cavity structure. The magnetic encoder device includes a ring-shaped rotating body 11, a ring-shaped permanent magnet 12 which is inscribed in and fixed to an inner circumferential side of the ring-shaped rotating body 11 and magnetized in a direction perpendicular to a center axis of the rotating body 11, and a fixed body 13 which is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the permanent magnet 12 through an air gap and has a circular circumference and a cavity, and a magnetic field detecting element 14 disposed on an outer circumferential side of the fixed body 13 through the permanent magnet 12 and the air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Takefumi Kabashima, Ryuichiro Tominaga, Kazutoshi Imai, Yuji Arinaga, Motomichi Ohto, Hirotoshi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20070164733
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic encoder device capable of detecting a rotating angle of an actuator having a cavity structure. The magnetic encoder device includes a ring-shaped rotating body 11, a ring-shaped permanent magnet 12 which is inscribed in and fixed to an inner circumferential side of the ring-shaped rotating body 11 and magnetized in a direction perpendicular to a center axis of the rotating body 11, and a fixed body 13 which is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the permanent magnet 12 through an air gap and has a circular circumference and a cavity, and a magnetic field detecting element 14 disposed on an outer circumferential side of the fixed body 13 through the permanent magnet 12 and the air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takefumi Kabashima, Ryuichiro Tominaga, Kazutoshi Imai, Yuji Arinaga, Motomichi Ohto, Hirotoshi Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 6540473
    Abstract: A robot vehicle for hot-line job for transmission and distribution lines which comprises an insulating boom formed of an insulating material at a tip end stage of multiple stage booms, a base end of which is supported on an elevated work vehicle to be capable of swinging, pivoting up and down, and extending and contracting, and a frame provided on the tip end of the insulating boom, the frame mounting thereon double arm manipulators of multishaft construction for performing a distribution work, a slide device for sliding independently these right and left double arm manipulators front to rear, and lifting arms of multishaft construction having a function of lifting a heavy article, so as to allow an operator to perform remote control. An electric actuator is used for driving the double arm manipulators and the slide device, and hydraulic manipulators for driving the lifting arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Inokuchi, Toshihide Tomiyama, Yoshihiro Yurita, Shinji Murai, Yusuke Hirano, Shinji Harada, Kengo Tsuruta, Youichi Motomura, Kazutoshi Imai, Yoshiaki Haga, Yoshikatsu Nakamura, Yukio Hashiguchi, Mitsuhiro Matsuzaki, Hiromichi Yamada, Akihiko Mishima, Yoshinaga Maruyama, Kyoji Yano, Moriyuki Nakashima, Osamu Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20010055525
    Abstract: A robot vehicle for hot-line job for transmission and distribution lines which comprises an insulating boom formed of an insulating material at a tip end stage of multiple stage booms, a base end of which is supported on an elevated work vehicle to be capable of swinging, pivoting up and down, and extending and contracting, and a frame provided on the tip end of the insulating boom, the frame mounting thereon double arm manipulators of multishaft construction for performing a distribution work, a slide device for sliding independently these right and left double arm manipulators front to rear, and lifting arms of multishaft construction having a function of lifting a heavy article, so as to allow an operator to perform remote control. An electric actuator is used for driving the double arm manipulators and the slide device, and hydraulic manipulators for driving the lifting arms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Hirofumi Inokuchi, Toshihide Tomiyama, Yoshihiro Yurita, Shinji Murai, Yusuke Hirano, Shinji Harada, Kengo Tsuruta, Youichi Motomura, Kazutoshi Imai, Yoshiaki Haga, Yoshikatsu Nakamura, Yukio Hashiguchi, Mitsuhiro Matsuzaki, Hiromichi Yamada, Akihiko Mishima, Yoshinaga Maruyama, Kyoji Yano, Moriyuki Nakashima, Osamu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6325749
    Abstract: A robot vehicle for hot-line job for transmission and distribution lines which comprises an insulating boom formed of an insulating material at a tip end stage of multiple stage booms, a base end of which is supported on an elevated work vehicle to be capable of swinging, pivoting up and down, and extending and contracting, and a frame provided on the tip end of the insulating boom, the frame mounting thereon double arm manipulators of multishaft construction for performing a distribution work, a slide device for sliding independently these right and left double arm manipulators front to rear, and lifting arms of multishaft construction having a function of lifting a heavy article, so as to allow an operator to perform remote control. An electric actuator is used for driving the double arm manipulators and the slide device, and hydraulic manipulators for driving the lifting arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Kyushu Electric Power Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Inokuchi, Toshihide Tomiyama, Yoshihiro Yurita, Shinji Murai, Yusuke Hirano, Shinji Harada, Kengo Tsuruta, Youichi Motomura, Kazutoshi Imai, Yoshiaki Haga, Yoshikatsu Nakamura, Yukio Hashiguchi, Mitsuhiro Matsuzaki, Hiromichi Yamada, Akihiko Mishima, Yoshinaga Maruyama, Kyoji Yano, Moriyuki Nakashima, Osamu Yamashita