Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Gyota
Tomoaki Gyota 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).
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Publication number: 20230160590Abstract: A collector collects operation data indicating an operation status of a facility device system. An operation data storage stores the operation data. An evaluator calculates an evaluation value indicating an evaluation of the collected operation data based on a comparison between the collected operation data and the stored operation data. A determiner determines, based on the evaluation value, compensation for provision of the collected operation data. A presenter presents the determined compensation to a provider of the collected operation data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventor: Tomoaki GYOTA
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Patent number: 11422539Abstract: A control system includes a controller that executes, a first control process including acquiring data indicating a state of the facility device, and performing an operation for control of the state of the facility device based on the acquired data, and a second control process including the acquisition and operational processes, in which an amount of processing is less than that of the first control process. The control system also includes a switch that performs, a control to maintain or switch a state of the first control process to the stop state, and switch a state of the second control process to an execution state, and a control to switch a state of one of the first and second control processes to the execution state, based on predicted amounts of decrease in an electric power cost of and increase in the operation cost.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Tomoaki Gyota
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Patent number: 11349337Abstract: A reduction instruction receiver receives a reduction instruction for energy from a server. An energy setter sets, when the reduction instruction receiver receives the reduction instruction, individual target energies for the respective subsystems, the individual target energies each being a target value of a consumption energy for a corresponding subsystem such that (i) a total of individual target energies that are target values of consumption energies for the respective subsystems is smaller than a total target energy that is a target value of a consumption energy of an entirety of the subsystems, and (ii) a higher correlation among consumption energies of the respective subsystems provides an increase in a total margin energy, the total margin energy being a difference between the total target energy and the sum of the individual target energies. The control-instruction transmitter transmits control-instruction information for control of the facility device based on the set individual target energies.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Tomoaki Gyota
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Publication number: 20210313831Abstract: A reduction instruction receiver receives a reduction instruction for energy from a server. An energy setter sets, when the reduction instruction receiver receives the reduction instruction, individual target energies for the respective subsystems, the individual target energies each being a target value of a consumption energy for a corresponding subsystem such that (i) a total of individual target energies that are target values of consumption energies for the respective subsystems is smaller than a total target energy that is a target value of a consumption energy of an entirety of the subsystems, and (ii) a higher correlation among consumption energies of the respective subsystems provides an increase in a total margin energy, the total margin energy being a difference between the total target energy and the sum of the individual target energies. The control-instruction transmitter transmits control-instruction information for control of the facility device based on the set individual target energies.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventor: Tomoaki GYOTA
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Publication number: 20210064011Abstract: A control system includes a controller that executes, a first control process including acquiring data indicating a state of the facility device, and performing an operation for control of the state of the facility device based on the acquired data and a second control process including the acquisition and operational processes, in which an amount of processing is less than that of the first control process. The control system also includes a switch that performs, a control to maintain or switch a state of the first control process to the stop state, and switch a state of the second control process to an execution state, and a control to switch a state of one of the first and second control process to the execution state, based on predicted amounts of decrease in an electric power cost of and increase in the operation cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventor: Tomoaki GYOTA
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Patent number: 10928085Abstract: Provided is an air conditioning visualization system including an image capturing unit to capture an image, an air conditioner setting acquisition unit to specify at least one air conditioner exerting an influence on a space included in the captured image from a plurality of air conditioners and to acquire the operation setting of this at least one air conditioner, and a display unit to display a visualization image obtained by visualizing the influence exerted on the space by this at least one air conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Tomoaki Gyota
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Patent number: 10895394Abstract: Provided is an air conditioning visualization system including an image capturing unit to capture an image, an air conditioner setting acquisition unit to specify at least one air conditioner exerting an influence on a space included in the captured image from a plurality of air conditioners and to acquire the operation setting of this at least one air conditioner, and a display unit to display a visualization image obtained by visualizing the influence exerted on the space by this at least one air conditioner.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Tomoaki Gyota
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Patent number: 10867581Abstract: A facility equipment management apparatus includes an image display unit, a display control unit that makes the image display unit display an image, an operation input unit that receives a user operation, a color palette database that stores a color palette that includes a plurality of pieces of display color data, a color palette construction unit that changes the plurality of pieces of display color data of the color palette based on color information designated on the operation input unit, and a component image database that stores component image data which indicates a display component; wherein the display control unit constructs color component image data, which is the component image data including display color data based on the component image data and the color palette, and makes the image display unit display the image by using the color component image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Makoto Katsukura, Tomoaki Gyota
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Publication number: 20200020300Abstract: A facility equipment management apparatus includes an image display unit, a display control unit that makes the image display unit display an image, an operation input unit that receives a user operation, a color palette database that stores a color palette that includes a plurality of pieces of display color data, a color palette construction unit that changes the plurality of pieces of display color data of the color palette based on color information designated on the operation input unit, and a component image database that stores component image data which indicates a display component; wherein the display control unit constructs color component image data, which is the component image data including display color data based on the component image data and the color palette, and makes the image display unit display the image by using the color component image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2017Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Makoto KATSUKURA, Tomoaki GYOTA
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Publication number: 20190120517Abstract: Provided is an air conditioning visualization system including an image capturing unit to capture an image, an air conditioner setting acquisition unit to specify at least one air conditioner exerting an influence on a space included in the captured image from a plurality of air conditioners and to acquire the operation setting of this at least one air conditioner, and a display unit to display a visualization image obtained by visualizing the influence exerted on the space by this at least one air conditioner.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2016Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventor: Tomoaki GYOTA
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Patent number: 10107516Abstract: A remote controller includes a user interface, a rotational state detector, and a controller. The rotational state detector detects a rotational state of the remote controller. The controller, based on the rotational state detected by the rotational state detector, selects a display mode from among a plurality of display modes depending on different user tiers. Then the controller causes the user interface to display an operation screen in the selected display mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Noriyuki Komiya, Takahiro Ito, Tomoaki Gyota, Hiroko Izumihara, Masatoshi Ito, Yuri Nakano
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Patent number: 10054328Abstract: A control device controls a plurality of equipment items for conditioning the environment in a room. The control device comprises an installation information memory and a space information memory configured to store information regarding the space the environment in which can be conditioned by each of the plurality of equipment items; a target setter configured to set a target location in the room and a target environment at the target location; a unit identifier configured to identify the equipment item that can condition the environment at the target location; and a controller configured to select one control pattern based on the power consumption when the control according to each control pattern is executed from among a plurality of control patterns for controlling the equipment item so as to condition the environment at the target location to the target environment and control the equipment item with the selected control pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
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Publication number: 20180094828Abstract: A remote controller includes a user interface, a rotational state detector, and a controller. The rotational state detector detects a rotational state of the remote controller. The controller, based on the rotational state detected by the rotational state detector, selects a display mode from among a plurality of display modes depending on different user tiers. Then the controller causes the user interface to display an operation screen in the selected display mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Noriyuki KOMIYA, Takahiro ITO, Tomoaki GYOTA, Hiroko IZUMIHARA, Masatoshi ITO, Yuri NAKANO
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Patent number: 9928558Abstract: The storage unit prestores element image data presenting an element image contained in a display image in an image data region that is a continuous storage region, and prestores draw command data containing data for creating display data presenting the display image in which the element image is placed in a draw command region that is a continuous storage region. The central processing unit makes reference to a screen management table when a predetermined drawing condition is satisfied to identify and output the draw command identification data corresponding to the satisfied drawing condition. The draw processing unit acquires from the storage unit the draw command data identified with the output draw command identification data, and creates and outputs to the display unit the display data placing the element image based on the acquired draw command data.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomoaki Gyota, Takuya Mukai, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 9816718Abstract: A device control determiner outputs a control information request containing a condition of facility devices in a data possessing device group possessing control information, and a kind of the control information. A connection relationship manager manages information regarding a connection relationship among each of the plurality of facility devices. A connection route database stores information regarding a connection route from a reference device that is a reference among the plurality of facility devices to another facility device. The device grouper creates a data possessing device group based on the control information request, the connection route database and information managed by the connection relationship manager. An information collective obtainer obtains control information from the facility device in the data possessing device group through a communicator, and creates a data array of the obtained control information.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Kobori, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 9715240Abstract: A facility equipment operation device includes an affected section determiner and a mismatch detector. An affected section determiner computes an affected section that is affected by a controlled equipment that is facility equipment with a changed control parameter, by referencing data including an installation position of facility equipment in an objective space, and a capability related to an area affected by the facility equipment. The mismatch detector detects a mismatched state on the basis of whether or not an effect exerted by the controlled equipment on the affected section when the controlled equipment operates according to the changed control parameter, and an effect exerted on the affected section by a facility equipment currently operating, are in a predetermined relationship.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Izumihara, Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata
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Patent number: 9535430Abstract: By efficiently holding only information necessary for a desired control from among information that can be obtained from equipment such as air conditioners, lighting devices and other devices, the control of the air conditioners and other devices according to the situation is obtained with small-capacity memory resources. This facilitates uploading to an air conditioner control device having a relatively small memory capacity and makes it possible to efficiently customize the installed control program.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Gyota, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Komiya
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Patent number: 9454221Abstract: A control device includes a storage device for prestoring rendering command data, a central processing device, and a rendering processing device. The rendering command data is data for generating a rendering command executed in order to generate display data indicating a display image to be displayed on a display device. The central processing device refers to a screen management table when a predetermined rendering condition is satisfied, and specifies and outputs rendering command specifying data corresponding to the satisfied rendering condition. The rendering processing device acquires the rendering command data specified by the outputted rendering command specifying data from storage device, generates display data based on the acquired rendering command data, and outputs the display data to the display device.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takuya Mukai, Tomoaki Gyota, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Masanori Nakata, Noriyuki Kushiro
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Patent number: 9335150Abstract: Probes of a conductor length measurement device are connected to piping, and an output voltage is applied to the piping through the probes. A frequency spectrum curve is subsequently calculated by subjecting a voltage signal to FFT. Resonant frequencies of the piping are then determined from this frequency spectrum curve, and the total length of the piping is calculated on the basis of the resonant frequencies. The total length of the piping can therefore be easily measured without the need to install, for example, any measurement instruments at branch terminals.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiyasu Higuma, Naoyuki Hibara, Tomoaki Gyota
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Publication number: 20160033154Abstract: A communication relay device comprises a processor, a reception unit, and a transmission unit. The communication relay device is connected to air conditioning units via a network. The air conditioning units comprise sensors and send unit signals containing output values of the sensors to a control device controlling the air conditioning units via the communication relay device. The reception unit receives the unit signals. The processor converts the unit signals received by the reception unit to unit signals containing values used for testing the operation of the control device and different from the output values of the sensors. Then, the transmission unit sends the unit signals converted by the processor to the control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2013Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Tomoaki GYOTA, Masanori NAKATA, Hiroko KOBORI