Patents by Inventor Satoshi Onuma

Satoshi Onuma 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: 11964402
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11926067
    Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11919168
    Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Taira, Shiro Oda, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma
  • Patent number: 11914397
    Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Patent number: 11914363
    Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shiro Oda, Tetsuya Taira, Satoshi Toyoshima, Yuta Watanabe, Takeshi Matsui, Takayoshi Nasu, Kei Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ota, Yutaro Ishida, Yuji Onuma, Kyosuke Arai
  • Publication number: 20230097720
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a tray, a paper feed roller that conveys a sheet, a first sensor that detects a front end and a rear end of the sheet, a second sensor that detects the front end of the sheet, and a scanner that reads an image on a front side of the sheet and reads an image on a back side of the sheet. A controller determines a first time duration that elapses from the detection of the front end of the sheet by the first sensor to the detection of the rear end of the sheet by the first sensor and operates the scanner to read the image on the back side of the sheet over a second time duration equal in length to the first time duration. The second time duration begins after the front end of the sheet is detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi ONUMA
  • Patent number: 11563867
    Abstract: An image reading device includes a tray, a paper feed roller that conveys a sheet, a first sensor that detects a front end and a rear end of the sheet, a second sensor that detects the front end of the sheet, and a scanner that reads an image on a front side of the sheet and reads an image on a back side of the sheet. A controller determines a first time duration that elapses from the detection of the front end of the sheet by the first sensor to the detection of the rear end of the sheet by the first sensor and operates the scanner to read the image on the back side of the sheet over a second time duration equal in length to the first time duration. The second time duration begins after the front end of the sheet is detected by the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Onuma
  • Publication number: 20180198951
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image reading unit that generates image data by reading an object. A background unit has a plurality of different background surfaces. A control unit determines whether the object has a non-standard size. When the object is determined to have a non-standard size, the image reading unit faces the object with a first surface, of the plurality of different background surfaces that is distinguishable from the object, positioned behind the object for reading. When the object is determined to not have a non-standard size, the image reading unit faces the object with a second surface, with a different color than the first surface of the plurality of different background surfaces, positioned behind the object for reading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventor: Satoshi ONUMA
  • Patent number: 8895570
    Abstract: The invention provides the compound of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compound and the use of the compound in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventors: Phillip Abbott, Roger Victor Bonnert, Thomas McInally, Stephen Thom, Hiroki Wada, Satoshi Onuma
  • Publication number: 20130338174
    Abstract: The invention provides the compound of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compound and the use of the compound in therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Phillip Abbott, Roger Victor Bonnert, Thomas Mcinally, Stephen Thom, Hiroki Wada, Satoshi Onuma
  • Publication number: 20090074490
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a reverse path for double-side scanning of an original and a paper discharge path for reversing the original after completion of double-side scanning are separately provided. On completion of its double-side scanning, a preceding original is turned into the paper discharge path, reversed in the paper discharge path and then discharged. Scanning of a face side of a subsequent original is stared immediately after completion of rear-side scanning of the preceding original.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Shoji, Seiji Iino, Satoshi Onuma
  • Patent number: 5371573
    Abstract: An image forming system for forming an image on a sheet includes a first receiving section and a second receiving section. A first transporting section transports the sheet-to the first receiving section. A second transporting section transports the sheet to the second receiving section. A selecting section selects either the first receiving section or the second receiving section. A detector detects that the second receiving section is in an abnormal condition while the selecting section selects the second receiving section. The selection of the selecting section is changed from the second receiving section to the first receiving section corresponding to the detection of the detector. The second transporting section is driven until all the sheets in the second transporting section are transported to the second receiving section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Kagaya, Kesao Shindo, Takashi Matsuoka, Satoshi Onuma
  • Patent number: 5031116
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus as provided which receives image data supplied from a host unit and forms an image on an image forming medium. Even if a desired image forming medium is not present, the received image data is edited to allow a desired image to be formed on an arbitrary image forming medium as a substitute for the desired image forming medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shukunami, Yasufumi Tanimoto, Satoshi Onuma
  • Patent number: 5018079
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided which forms an image on a sheet on the basis of image data selectively received from a plurality of host apparatuses. The image forming apparatus comprises a plurality of input/output ports, connected to the respective host apparatuses for receiving image data from the host apparatuses, keys for setting priority orders of the plurality of input/output ports, memories for storing the priority orders set by the keys, and a CPU for selecting one of the input/output ports in accordance with the priority orders stored in the memories, if image data is received simultaneously from two or more of the host apparatuses, a memory and photosensitive assembly for receiving image data from the input/output ports selected by the keys and for forming an image corresponding to the received image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1991
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shukunami, Yasufumi Tanimoto, Satoshi Onuma