Patents by Inventor Makoto Katsukura

Makoto Katsukura 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).

  • Patent number: 9746504
    Abstract: A fault detection device comprises: a measurement data acquirer that acquires measurement data for current flowing on power supply lines that are connected to multiple electrical devices; a clusterer that classifies the measurement data for a past fixed period into multiple clusters based on at least one of frequency and phase with respect to an AC cycle; a pattern analyzer that analyzes each of the clusters for an appearance pattern of measurement data that satisfy a preset standard; and a fault determiner that determines the occurrence of a fault when measurement data is acquired that differs from the analyzed appearance pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20170227940
    Abstract: A schedule data acquisition requestor requests and acquires schedule data from a sub controller. When a modification to the acquired schedule data is made, a schedule data update requestor sends the modified schedule data to the sub controller and requests an update. A schedule data update processor sends a permission notification to a main controller in response to the update request and writes the modified schedule data onto its own flash memory. Conversely, when a rejection notification is sent from the sub controller, the schedule data update requestor displays a warning message and new schedule data on a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto KATSUKURA, Taichi ISHIZAKA
  • Publication number: 20150309089
    Abstract: A fault detection device comprises: a measurement data acquirer that acquires measurement data for current flowing on power supply lines that are connected to multiple electrical devices; a clusterer that classifies the measurement data for a past fixed period into multiple clusters based on at least one of frequency and phase with respect to an AC cycle; a pattern analyzer that analyzes each of the clusters for an appearance pattern of measurement data that satisfy a preset standard; and a fault determiner that determines the occurrence of a fault when measurement data is acquired that differs from the analyzed appearance pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto KATSUKURA, Masanori NAKATA
  • Patent number: 9122473
    Abstract: A terminal device that is this program generating device generates program area specifying information that specifies the placement area of an operating program executed by a remote control device. Also, on the basis of the program area specifying information and a program counter value of the remote control device, the terminal device appends a program specifying process that specifies the operating program executed by the remote control device to a measuring program that measures the execution state of the operating program. As a result, there is generated a measuring program that measures changes in the operating state of software in real time while reducing the effect on the operation of the software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20150088441
    Abstract: A power measure calculates, based on a current and a voltage measured at a predetermined location in a power supply line, active power and apparent power for each predetermined time period based on utilization of plural kinds of electric facilities connected to the power supply line. A data memory accumulates and stores data regarding the active power and the apparent power calculated by the power measure in a time-series manner. A variation detector analyzes data regarding the active power by what corresponds to a predetermined time period and stored in the data memory to detect a time slot at which there is an operation change in any one of the electric facilities. A distribution estimator calculates, when the variation detector detects the time slot, a power factor in the time slot, and estimates power consumption for each kind of the electric facilities in the time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Nakata, Makoto Katsukura, Masaaki Yabe, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Patent number: 8970604
    Abstract: A state display device capable of reducing a processing load applied to a microcomputer by performing part of a GUI process by hardware and a display method of the state display device are obtained. A rendering processing device starts a process in response to a rendering request stored in a rendering request region when a starting command is stored in a start/end instruction register. When a rendering request specified by an instruction address is a rendering termination request, the rendering processing means terminates the process performed in response to the rendering request, stores a termination factor in an interruption factor register, and issues an interruption to a central processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Makoto Katsukura, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takuya Mukai
  • Patent number: 8930146
    Abstract: An apparatus state detector and its associates are provided to save time and effort for learning combinations of operation states of all apparatuses at home and commit fewer estimation errors even when an unknown apparatus starts operating. The apparatus state detector includes measuring means that measures a physical quantity of an environment in which an apparatus is placed, feature-quantity calculation means that calculates a feature quantity of the measured value measured by the measuring means, storage means that stores in advance the feature quantity of each apparatus and an apparatus state associated with the feature quantity in a reference-apparatus entry dictionary, and apparatus-state detection means that searches the reference-apparatus entry dictionary for a feature quantity by using a feature quantity calculated by the feature-quantity calculation means as a search key and detects an apparatus state based on the apparatus state associated with the retrieved feature quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Takeru Kuroiwa, Toshiyasu Higuma, Naoyuki Hibara, Yoshiaki Ito
  • Patent number: 8890878
    Abstract: An operation terminal for remotely operating an electronic apparatus includes a processing unit for remotely communicating with the electronic apparatus in accordance with a program, a memory on which the processing unit performs writing or reading of data, a nonvolatile memory for storing a basic screen image drawing command for drawing a basic screen image that is displayed before the operation terminal is operated, a drawing processor for creating a bitmapped image of the basic screen image in accordance with the basic screen image drawing command, and a display unit for displaying the bitmapped image on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takuya Mukai, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Patent number: 8823723
    Abstract: An application program changes a property value of a graphic object arranged in an object database. An object manager reads out the property value from the object database and then issues a drawing command. A graphics engine executes the drawing command to configure a memory image of the graphic object on a VRAM to display the image on a liquid crystal display via an LCDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Toshiaki Kikuta, Takuya Mukai
  • Patent number: 8797341
    Abstract: An application program changes a property value of a graphic object arranged in an object database. An object manager reads out the property value from the object database and then issues a drawing command. A graphics engine executes the drawing command to configure a memory image of the graphic object on a VRAM to display the image on a liquid crystal display via an LCDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Toshiaki Kikuta, Takuya Mukai
  • Patent number: 8736631
    Abstract: The display color of, for example, a button image responsive to a command input into a facility operation display device is controlled by a palette value having a smaller number of bits than an RGB value. When the display color of the button image is changed, the palette value of a drawing object associated with the button image is changed to an RGB value. This eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-performance CPU as a central arithmetic unit. In addition, it is not necessary to pre-store images corresponding to several kinds of display colors specified by RGB values, to thereby eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-capacity storage medium in the facility operation display device. Accordingly, the device cost can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Mukai, Masanori Nakata, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Makoto Katsukura, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Publication number: 20130328899
    Abstract: A DMA controller reads image information recorded on a ROM by address unit from a front reading start position. A shift operator shifts a first data sequence of one row of the reading by only a designated number of bits, and generates a second data sequence. A DMA controller reads a third data sequence already stored in a VRAM writing start position. A controller performs a prescribed operation on the second data sequence and the third data sequence, and generates a fourth data sequence. The controller writes the generated fourth data sequence successively in a horizontal direction by address unit from the VRAM writing start position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Makoto Katsukura, Yoshiaki Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20130293560
    Abstract: A DMA controller operates independently from a CPU, reads image data stored on an ROM sequentially in given units from the first reading start position of the image data and writes the image data into a buffer. A DMA controller operates independently from the CPU, writes the data read into the buffer to a VRAM one byte at a time from the writing start position. The controller of a companion chip updates the writing start position in the VRAM to the position of the same column in the next row each time writing the data string in each row is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Makoto Katsukura, Yoshiaki Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20130232467
    Abstract: A terminal device that is this program generating device generates program area specifying information that specifies the placement area of an operating program executed by a remote control device. Also, on the basis of the program area specifying information and a program counter value of the remote control device, the terminal device appends a program specifying process that specifies the operating program executed by the remote control device to a measuring program that measures the execution state of the operating program. As a result, there is generated a measuring program that measures changes in the operating state of software in real time while reducing the effect on the operation of the software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20130185695
    Abstract: A source code for generating an operation program is converted into data including control blocks associated with source code patterns by performing a matching using the source code patterns. Next, the converted data including the control blocks are displayed using icons defined correspondingly to the respective control blocks. Accordingly, an operator of the software generation device can visually grasp the detail of the source code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
  • Patent number: 8339416
    Abstract: An image construction apparatus has functions of, based on an instruction from a user, creating a binary-coded program, creating a database, and associating the database with an image part. The use of those functions allows the user to easily construct an image including an image part associated with both the program and the database. Some embodiments enable easy association of information on an apparatus to be operated with image parts constructing an image displayed by a remote control apparatus. Some embodiments are suitable for constructing the screen of the remote control apparatus having a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20120176405
    Abstract: An image construction apparatus has functions of, based on an instruction from a user, creating a binary-coded program, creating a database, and associating the database with an image part. The use of those functions allows the user to easily construct an image including an image part associated with both the program and the database. Some embodiments enable easy association of information on an apparatus to be operated with image parts constructing an image displayed by a remote control apparatus. Some embodiments are suitable for constructing the screen of the remote control apparatus having a graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Katsukura, Masanori Nakata
  • Publication number: 20120120092
    Abstract: The display color of, for example, a button image responsive to a command input into a facility operation display device is controlled by a palette value having a smaller number of bits than an RGB value. When the display color of the button image is changed, the palette value of a drawing object associated with the button image is changed to an RGB value. This eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-performance CPU as a central arithmetic unit. In addition, it is not necessary to pre-store images corresponding to several kinds of display colors specified by RGB values, to thereby eliminates the necessity of incorporating, for example, a high-capacity storage medium in the facility operation display device. Accordingly, the device cost can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Mukai, Masanori Nakata, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Makoto Katsukura, Noriyuki Kushiro
  • Publication number: 20110273461
    Abstract: Provided is a development environment which makes it easy to verify the performance, processing load, and display status in an actual built-in device, enabling a reduced work cycle time during development and high work efficiency. Display means, central processing means, drawing processing means, and storage means are provided. The central processing means, at every predetermined operation unit clock, interprets content stored in the storage means at an instruction address and performs various computation processing. The drawing processing means shares the storage means with the central processing means and performs drawing processing. The display means shares with the drawing means a predetermined memory space starting at a display address in the storage means and makes a display device perform display in accordance with the memory state of the predetermined memory space starting at the display address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Komiya, Noriyuki Kushiro, Masanori Nakata, Makoto Katsukura
  • Publication number: 20110249009
    Abstract: A state display device capable of reducing a processing load applied to a microcomputer by performing part of a GUI process by hardware and a display method of the state display device are obtained. A rendering processing device starts a process in response to a rendering request stored in a rendering request region when a starting command is stored in a start/end instruction register. When a rendering request specified by an instruction address is a rendering termination request, the rendering processing means terminates the process performed in response to the rendering request, stores a termination factor in an interruption factor register, and issues an interruption to a central processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro, Makoto Katsukura, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takuya Mukai