Patents by Inventor Shigenori Tanaka

Shigenori Tanaka 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: 11958725
    Abstract: A guide display unit for a crane, wherein a data processing unit: calculates a measurement area corresponding to the measurement area of a camera; the measurement area from the viewpoint of the camera and generates a first image; performs mosaic-processing on the image captured by the camera according to the particle size of the three-dimensional map and generates a second image; performs registration processing on the first image and the second image and calculates the amount of deviation between the first image and the second image; corrects the position of a guide frame figure with respect to the image of a suspended load and a feature on the basis of the calculated amount of deviation; and overlays the guide frame figure on the images of the suspended load and the feature and displays the result on the data display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao Ishikawa, Takayuki Kosaka, Keita Mashima, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Masaya Nakahara, Koki Nakahata
  • Patent number: 11887250
    Abstract: Provided is a guide display device that prevents misidentification of the same feature as a plurality of different features or the ground surface even if an occlusion area occurs. A guide display device for a crane includes: a laser scanner that scans a suspended load and a ground surface from above the suspended load; and a data processing unit that calculates a representative point for each grid using the point cloud data acquired by the laser scanner, creates a three-dimensional map based on the representative points, and updates the three-dimensional map if the newly calculated representative point differs from the existing representative point. When an occlusion area, which is a shadow of the suspended load, occurs in the three-dimensional map, the occlusion area is not updated even if the newly calculated representative point and the existing representative point are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao Ishikawa, Takayuki Kosaka, Keita Mashima, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Masaya Nakahara, Koki Nakahata
  • Publication number: 20230128542
    Abstract: Provided is a guide display device that prevents misidentification of the same feature as a plurality of different features or the ground surface even if an occlusion area occurs. A guide display device for a crane includes: a laser scanner that scans a suspended load and a ground surface from above the suspended load; and a data processing unit that calculates a representative point for each grid using the point cloud data acquired by the laser scanner, creates a three-dimensional map based on the representative points, and updates the three-dimensional map if the newly calculated representative point differs from the existing representative point. When an occlusion area, which is a shadow of the suspended load, occurs in the three-dimensional map, the occlusion area is not updated even if the newly calculated representative point and the existing representative point are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20230106308
    Abstract: The present invention provides a guide display device capable of recognizing a feature in a work area while distinguishing whether the feature is a moving body or not. In a guide display device of a crane, 3D maps are created for continuous frames; an altitude value for each grid in a 3D map that is created at time closest to the current time is obtained as a first altitude value; altitude values for respective corresponding grids in a predetermined number of 3D maps other than the 3D map that is created at time closest to the current time are obtained, and the average of the altitude values is calculated as a second altitude value; and it is determined that the feature is a moving body when the difference between the first altitude value and the second altitude value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20230094743
    Abstract: Provided is a guide display device with which incorrect recognition of a place having small features as a ground surface having no features can be suppressed in generating and updating a three-dimensional map. A data processing unit (70): detects an edge (Eg) of a feature (E) on the basis of a result of subjecting image data captured by a camera (61) to image processing, and recognizes the feature (E) on the basis of the edge (Eg); and accumulates, from a predetermined number of frames from before the time at which the image data was captured, point group data (P) of a nearby range (Ma) of the edge (Eg) of the feature (E) that was recognized as a ground surface (F), and generates, on the basis of the accumulated point group data (P), a three-dimensional map (M) of the feature (E) the edge (Eg) of which has been recognized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20230097473
    Abstract: A guide display unit for a crane, wherein a data processing unit: calculates a measurement area corresponding to the measurement area of a camera; the measurement area from the viewpoint of the camera and generates a first image; performs mosaic-processing on the image captured by the camera according to the particle size of the three-dimensional map and generates a second image; performs registration processing on the first image and the second image and calculates the amount of deviation between the first image and the second image; corrects the position of a guide frame figure with respect to the image of a suspended load and a feature on the basis of the calculated amount of deviation; and overlays the guide frame figure on the images of the suspended load and the feature and displays the result on the data display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Publication number: 20230055311
    Abstract: Provided is a guide display device with which it is possible to track a hung load and display guide information. Also provided is a crane including such a guide display device. A guide display device of a crane including a data processing unit that creates a plurality of surfaces using point cloud data, which is acquired by a laser scanner from above a hung load and which includes the hung load, and creates a three-dimensional map according to the plurality of surfaces, the three-dimensional map being created for each prescribed period, wherein the data processing unit is configured to set a reference position at the hung load in the three-dimensional map and also set a current surface present within a prescribed distance from a past reference position as the surface of the hung load, thereby tracking the hung load in the three-dimensional map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Keita MASHIMA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Masaya NAKAHARA, Koki NAKAHATA
  • Patent number: 11560292
    Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of a measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner. This top surface estimation method for hoisting loads and by acquiring, using the laser scanner, data point groups in a hoisting load region which includes a hoisting load and an object from above the hoisting load and the object, dividing the hoisting load region into layers which constitute a plurality of groups which have a prescribed thickness in the vertical direction, and allocating the acquired data point groups to the plurality of layer groups, and estimating the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the object in each layer group on the basis of the data point groups allocated to the plurality of layer groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Patent number: 11542127
    Abstract: To accurately present guide information which expresses the shape and height of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load. A guide information display device is equipped with: a data acquisition unit provided with a camera for capturing an image of a hoisting load region which includes at least a hoisting load and the ground surface below the hoisting load from above the hoisting load, and a laser scanner for obtaining a data point group in the hoisting load region; a data processing unit for estimating the top surface of the hoisting weight, the ground surface, and the top surfaces of objects, on the basis of the obtained data point group, and generating guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting weight and objects; and a data display unit which displays guide information obtained by overlapping the generated guide frames and the captured image with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Patent number: 11530119
    Abstract: To accurately obtain the shapes of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, and the height of the ground surface, and present an accurate warning display when the hoisting load approaches the object. A guide information display device is equipped with a data processing unit which: estimates the top surface of a hoisting load, the ground surface, and the top surface of the object, on the basis of a data point group obtained by a laser scanner; generates guide frames representing guide frames that surround the top surface of the hoisting load and the top surface of the object, and also generates height information and height information which represent the elevation of the hoisting load and the object; calculates the distance between the hoisting load and the object on the basis of the estimated top surfaces of the hoisting load and object; and outputs a warning display when the distance is equal to or less than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Patent number: 11414305
    Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of the measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Patent number: 11270450
    Abstract: Provided is a method for clustering the data point groups of one or more measurement targets located in the same region from among the acquired data point groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20220017336
    Abstract: A ground surface estimation method include: performing first estimation in which the continuous region having a largest number of the grids among the continuous regions is estimated as a ground surface; and performing second estimation including: calculating an average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in the non-adjacent continuous region for each of the non-adjacent continuous regions; calculating an average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in the predetermined range of the continuous region estimated as the ground surface; and estimating that a non-adjacent continuous region as the ground surface when a difference between the average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in the non-adjacent continuous region and the average altitude value of the representative point of the grids in a predetermined range of the continuous region estimated as the ground surface is equal to or less than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20220003544
    Abstract: A ground surface estimation method includes: a continuous region recognizing step for recognizing, when a difference in altitude value between a representative point of one grid and a representative point of another adjacent grid out of the plurality of grids is equal to or less than a threshold, the one grid and the other adjacent grid as a continuous region that is a region where the one grid and the other adjacent grid are continuous; and a ground surface estimation step for estimating a continuous region having the largest number of grids among the continuous regions as a ground surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Iwao ISHIKAWA, Takayuki KOSAKA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 11084692
    Abstract: To accurately present information about the shape and location of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, regardless of the orientation and operational state of the crane. A guide information display device, wherein a camera images part of a work region of a crane, a laser scanner obtains a data point group of the work region captured by the camera, and a data processing unit: removes, from the obtained data point group, a data point group located between a hoisting load hanging from a crane and the tip end section of the telescopic boom of the crane; estimates, on the basis of the remaining data point group, the top surface of the hoisting load, the ground surface of the work region, and the top surfaces of objects located in the work region; generates guide frames which surround the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the objects; and overlaps the generated guide frames on the captured image, and displays the same on a data display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignees: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki Kosaka, Iwao Ishikawa, Satoshi Kubota, Shigenori Tanaka, Kenji Nakamura, Yuhei Yamamoto, Masaya Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20210163270
    Abstract: To accurately obtain the shapes of a hoisting load and an object located near the hoisting load, and the height of the ground surface, and present an accurate warning display when the hoisting load approaches the object. A guide information display device is equipped with a data processing unit which: estimates the top surface of a hoisting load, the ground surface, and the top surface of the object, on the basis of a data point group obtained by a laser scanner; generates guide frames representing guide frames that surround the top surface of the hoisting load and the top surface of the object, and also generates height information and height information which represent the elevation of the hoisting load and the object; calculates the distance between the hoisting load and the object on the basis of the estimated top surfaces of the hoisting load and object; and outputs a warning display when the distance is equal to or less than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210147193
    Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of the measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20210147194
    Abstract: To estimate the top surface of a measurement target on the basis of a data point group that corresponds to the top surface of a measurement target and is obtained using a laser scanner. This top-surface estimation method for hoisting loads and objects is provided with: a data point group acquisition step in which a laser scanner acquires data point groups in a hoisting load region which includes a hoisting load and an object from above the hoisting load and the object; a group allocation step in which a data processing unit divides the hoisting load region into layers which constitute a plurality of groups which have a prescribed thickness in the vertical direction, and allocates the acquired data point groups to the plurality of layer groups; and a top-surface estimation step in which the data processing unit estimates the top surfaces of the hoisting load and the object in each layer group on the basis of the data point groups allocated to the plurality of layer groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicants: TADANO LTD., THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takayuki KOSAKA, Iwao ISHIKAWA, Satoshi KUBOTA, Shigenori TANAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masaya NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 10995384
    Abstract: There is provided a steel for solid oxide fuel cells which contains more than 0 and not more than 0.05 mass % of C, 0.05 mass % or less of N, 0.01 mass % or less of O, 0.2 mass % or less of Al, 0.15 mass % or less of Si, 0.1 to 1.0 mass % of Mn, 20.0 to 25.0 mass % of Cr, more than 0 mass % and not more than 1.0 mass % of Ni, 0.02 to 0.12 mass % of La, 0.1 to 0.5 mass % of Zr, 0.15 to 0.5 mass % of La+Zr, and Fe and impurities as a remainder. The following relational formula is satisfied, and an Fe and Zr-containing intermetallic compound viewed in a ferrite matrix is 1.1 % or less in terms of a visual field area ratio 5(7C+6N)/(7?4(7C+6N))?Zr?41(7C+6N)/(7+66(7C+6N)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamamura, Toshihiro Uehara, Shigenori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210033928
    Abstract: A light source substrate includes a substrate portion; a plurality of light sources mounted on the substrate portion in a row; a first terminal portion that is included in any of the plurality of light sources; a second terminal portion that is included in a light source, which is adjacent to the light source including the first terminal portion, of the plurality of light sources and that is fitted to the first terminal portion to be coupled to the first terminal portion; and a common pad that is disposed at a position at which the common pad overlaps the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion which fit each other on the substrate portion and that is connected to the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion which fit each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: KAITO YAMURA, SHIGENORI TANAKA