Patents by Inventor Rie Katsuki

Rie Katsuki 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: 20230122583
    Abstract: A route planning device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: calculate a tentative route passing through a plurality of tour points disposed in a virtual space that is acquired by removing an obstacle from a space including the obstacle; and derive a route with one or more via points added around an interference point between the obstacle included in the space and the tentative route with a calculation accuracy corresponding to a precision of via point calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Rie KATSUKI, Noriyuki HIRAYAMA, Toshimitsu KANEKO
  • Patent number: 11548387
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a map defining a target in a coordinate space in which a direction along a traveling direction of a moving object is one of coordinate axes, and approximate a movement route of the moving object with a specified shape area along a coordinate axis in the coordinate space, the specified shape area being a basic unit of collision determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Yuma Sano, Rie Katsuki
  • Patent number: 11541537
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an article posture changing device includes: a first end effector configured to grasp a projected tag of an article by adsorption; an arm unit configured to support the first end effector and move the first end effector along at least a vertical direction; and a controller configured to control the arm unit and the first end effector to grasp the tag, lift the article upward, separate the article from a placement surface, change an angle of the article by weight thereof, move the article downward, place the article on the placement surface, and release the grasp of the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Daisuke Yamamoto, Takafumi Sonoura, Junji Oaki, Hideki Ogawa, Junya Tanaka, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Kohei Nara, Keisuke Kamata, Rie Katsuki, Kazuhide Sawa
  • Patent number: 11536833
    Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Yuma Sano, Rie Katsuki
  • Publication number: 20220057795
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a drive control device includes a generation unit configured to generate autonomous driving control information to control a behavior of a mobile object using autonomous driving; a prediction unit configured to predict a behavior of the mobile object when switching from the autonomous driving to manual driving; a determination unit configured to determine a difference between the behavior of the mobile object controlled by the autonomous driving control information and the behavior of the mobile object when the switching to the manual driving is made; an output control unit configured to output information that prompts a driver of the mobile object to select the autonomous driving or the manual driving, when the difference is present; and a power control unit configured to control a power unit of the mobile object using the autonomous driving or the manual driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Rie KATSUKI, Toshimitsu KANEKO, Masahiro SEKINE
  • Publication number: 20220041165
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors. The processors generate a plurality of nodes at positions corresponding to an operation indicated by an avoidance pattern to avoid a first object on a first trajectory based on one or more avoidance patterns indicating one or more operations of a mobile object for avoiding an object. The processors search for a trajectory candidate whose moving cost is smaller than that of another trajectory candidate among a plurality of trajectory candidates connecting a plurality of nodes for each avoidance pattern. The processors select a trajectory candidate whose moving cost is smaller than that of another trajectory candidate from among one or more trajectory candidates searched for each avoidance pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Rie KATSUKI, Toshimitsu KANEKO, Masahiro SEKINE
  • Patent number: 10926760
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and one or more hardware processors electrically coupled to the memory and configured to function as a change unit, and a display controller. The change unit is configured to change a reference path to a position at a lateral distance when the lateral distance obtained from lateral environmental information indicating a lateral environment of the reference path referred to as a scheduled running path of a moving body is larger than a distance from a lateral end to a center of a running region of the moving body. The display controller is configured to display display information including the reference path on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rie Katsuki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki
  • Patent number: 10921143
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: arrange a node in a first region not interfering with an object on a scheduled traveling route; arrange a node in a second region around an interference region interfering with the object; and search for a route going through a plurality of nodes and having a moving cost from a first point to a second point on the scheduled traveling route equal to or smaller than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rie Katsuki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki
  • Publication number: 20200086484
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an article posture changing device includes: a first end effector configured to grasp a projected tag of an article by adsorption; an arm unit configured to support the first end effector and move the first end effector along at least a vertical direction; and a controller configured to control the arm unit and the first end effector to grasp the tag, lift the article upward, separate the article from a placement surface, change an angle of the article by weight thereof, move the article downward, place the article on the placement surface, and release the grasp of the tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Daisuke YAMAMOTO, Takafumi SONOURA, Junji OAKI, Hideki OGAWA, Junya TANAKA, Hiroshi OHTSU, Kohei NARA, Keisuke KAMATA, Rie KATSUKI, Kazuhide SAWA
  • Publication number: 20200003898
    Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TASAKI, Yuma SANO, Rie KATSUKI
  • Patent number: 10451735
    Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtain target information that indicates at least one of a distance to a target object or a position of the target object. The processing circuitry generate, based on the target information, map information of a space including a plurality of areas, the map information indicating presence or absence of the target object in a first area included in the plurality of areas, and a detailed position of the target object in the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Yuma Sano, Rie Katsuki
  • Publication number: 20190291724
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and one or more hardware processors electrically coupled to the memory and configured to function as a change unit, and a display controller. The change unit is configured to change a reference path to a position at a lateral distance when the lateral distance obtained from lateral environmental information indicating a lateral environment of the reference path referred to as a scheduled running path of a moving body is larger than a distance from a lateral end to a center of a running region of the moving body. The display controller is configured to display display information including the reference path on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rie KATSUKI, Tsuyoshi TASAKI
  • Patent number: 10410172
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an object detection apparatus includes an imaging unit, an extraction unit, an estimation unit, and a detection unit. The imaging unit acquires an image of a plurality of polyhedrons which are loaded, each of the polyhedrons having a marker on a surface, each of marker including a first straight line portion and a second straight line portion. The extraction unit that extracts a plurality of markers included in the image. The estimation unit estimates a region included in the surface by using the first straight line portion and the second straight line portion of the extracted markers. The detection unit detects a region having all corners provided with the markers as a surface of a desired polyhedron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takafumi Sonoura, Akihito Ogawa, Hideichi Nakamoto, Haruna Eto, Rie Katsuki, Junya Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10354150
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus for generating an occupancy grid map constituted with a two-dimensional grid around a first moving body includes processing circuitry configured to acquire data of a distance from the first moving body to an obstacle lying in surroundings of the first moving body; acquire first information indicating the movement status of the first moving body at current time and determine an operation mode of the first moving body; set a range of interest in a grid of a resolution higher than a resolution of the grid of the occupancy grid map, from the operation mode; and align the occupancy grid map to the range of interest and generate the occupancy grid map in such a manner that the obstacle exists in the grid of the occupancy grid map and the grid of the range of interest with respect to a position corresponding to the distance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masaki Yamazaki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki, Rie Katsuki, Tomoki Watanabe, Masahiro Sekine, Manabu Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 10256789
    Abstract: A displacement conversion mechanism of an embodiment is a displacement conversion mechanism which is provided with a base, a displacement element which is in contact with the base and is displaced in a first direction, a first displacement portion which is in contact with the displacement element and can be displaced in the first direction, a second displacement portion which connects to an end of the first displacement portion at a first connection portion, and connects to the base at a second connection portion, and a third displacement portion which connects to the other end of the first displacement portion, connects to an end portion of the second displacement portion at a fourth connection portion, and can be displaced in a second direction intersecting with the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahashi, Junya Tanaka, Rie Katsuki, Hiroyuki Kayano, Noritsugu Shiokawa, Tamio Kawaguchi, Hiroaki Ikeuchi
  • Publication number: 20190000272
    Abstract: Provide a cooking device capable of processing food with a simple configuration while inhibiting oxidation of food and also inhibiting pressure inside a cooking container from rising excessively. A cooking device processes food in an accommodation space by a processing tool rotated by a motor while an air in the accommodation space in which the processing tool to process the food is arranged is exhausted and includes a driving device (a closing member) and a check valve. The driving device opens/closes the accommodation space. The check valve allows an outflow of the air out of the accommodation space when the air in the accommodation space closed by the driving device is exhausted and also stops an opposite flow of the air after the air is exhausted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Rie Katsuki, Yuko Kobayashi, Toshikatsu Akiba, Yasuo Shima, Hideki Ito
  • Publication number: 20180360271
    Abstract: Provide a cooking device capable of processing food with a simple configuration while inhibiting oxidation of food and also inhibiting pressure inside a cooking container from rising excessively. A cooking device processes food in an accommodation space by a processing tool rotated by a motor while an air in the accommodation space in which the processing tool to process the food is arranged is exhausted and includes a driving device (a closing member) and a check valve. The driving device opens/closes the accommodation space. The check valve allows an outflow of the air out of the accommodation space when the air in the accommodation space closed by the driving device is exhausted and also stops an opposite flow of the air after the air is exhausted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services Corporation
    Inventors: Rie KATSUKI, Yuko Kobayashi, Toshikatsu Akiba, Yasuo Shima, Hideki Ito
  • Publication number: 20180364060
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory; and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: arrange a node in a first region not interfering with an object on a scheduled traveling route; arrange a node in a second region around an interference region interfering with the object; and search for a route going through a plurality of nodes and having a moving cost from a first point to a second point on the scheduled traveling route equal to or smaller than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rie KATSUKI, Tsuyoshi TASAKI
  • Publication number: 20180251029
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a map defining a target in a coordinate space in which a direction along a traveling direction of a moving object is one of coordinate axes, and approximate a movement rout of the moving objet with a specified shape area along a coordinate axis in the coordinate space, the specified shape area being a basic unit of collision determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TASAKI, Yuma SANO, Rie KATSUKI
  • Patent number: 10066951
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment has a recommended route generation function. The recommended route generation function generates a recommended route with a changed section involving a change in a traveling direction within a predetermined range on a scheduled traveling route, the changed section including a first line and a second line. The first line continues to a first position at an entrance of the changed section. The second line continues to a second position at an exit of the changed section. The second line is longer than the first line. A tangential line of the second line and an exit line of the changed section forms an angle within a predetermined angle range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Rie Katsuki, Tsuyoshi Tasaki