Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Kitamura
Yasuhiro Kitamura 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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Patent number: 11978349Abstract: A setting unit sets the operating mode of an aerial vehicle to a first operating mode that transmits, data generated by a host aerial vehicle and data received from another aerial vehicle to a processing device, or a second operating mode that transmits data generated by a host aerial vehicle to another aerial vehicle. At this time, setting unit sets the operating modes of each of a plurality of aerial vehicles using a setting method corresponding to the attributes of an airspace in which aerial vehicle flies, from among a plurality of setting methods that set the operating mode of aerial vehicle. The attributes of an airspace include attributes determined in accordance with a degree of importance pertaining to the process of transmitting data from aerial vehicle to a server device and/or attributes determined in accordance with the extent to which processes are distributed among a plurality of aerial vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20240142952Abstract: An access authority is set for each data referred to by a program. A control system includes a control unit that controls a control target, a storage unit that stores a program executed by the control unit and each access authority for each of data referred to by the program, and an input unit that receives an access request for any one of the data. Each access authority includes information about an operation that can be executed by a user having each authority. The control unit refers to each access authority based on acquisition of the access request for any one of the data from the input unit, and determines whether the user who transmits the access request has the access authority for the data for which the access is requested based on each access authority.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Hisanori IGARASHI, Kotaro OKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240143803Abstract: Reliability of an instrument connected to a control device is verified. A control system includes a control unit and a communication unit. The control unit and the communication unit are configured to be detachable. The control unit authenticates the communication unit connected to the control unit using a common key, and allows the communication unit to access data in the control unit based on a result of the authentication checking that the communication unit has the common key.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro KITAMURA, Hisanori IGARASHI, Kotaro OKAMURA
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Patent number: 11948469Abstract: A flight information acquisition unit repeatedly acquires the respective flight status of a plurality of drones in flight. A flight irregularity determination unit determines whether or not the drones are flying in a manner deviated from a flight plan. When a flight status of a drone indicating flight deviated from the flight plan has been acquired, a first collision specification unit specifies the drone at risk of collision with a drone having that flight status. When a flight status indicating that there is a possibility of crash for a drone has been acquired, a flight status processing unit (such as a flight irregularity determination unit) sets a higher priority for processing based on the flight status acquired from that drone than for processing based on the flight status acquired from another drone.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11940114Abstract: An optical device includes: a light guide plate having a group of optical-path deflectors configured to change the optical path of light from a first light source to form an image in the space within a first angle range, and change the optical path of light from a second light source to form an image in the space within a second angle range, wherein the first angle range and the second angle range are separated from each other or adjoining each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshihiko Takagi, Masayuki Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Gouo Kurata, Norikazu Kitamura
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Patent number: 11823580Abstract: Time slot specifying unit reads out facility information of a facility to be inspected (specifically, a base station ID of a base station whose previous inspection day is included in a past predetermined period) from facility information storage unit. Daytime information acquiring unit acquires daytime information at positions at which base stations to be inspected are installed. Time slot specifying unit specifies non-backlight time slots based on the read-out facility information and the acquired daytime information. Operation plan generating unit generates an operation plan of drone in which facilities are shot in the specified non-backlight time slots. Operation plan outputting unit outputs the generated operation plan.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Syuusuke Watanabe, Tadashige Nagae, Mitsuteru Fukuyama, Masakazu Hamano, Takefumi Yamada, Takashi Hara, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11810462Abstract: A specifying unit 51 of a flying body operation management device 50 specifies an airspace in which a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value occurs in the uplink of a time-division duplex between a wireless communication terminal 30 and a wireless base station 41 to which wireless communication terminal 30 is wirelessly connected. Next, an assigning unit 52 of flying body operation management device 50 performs a process of assigning, with respect to each airspace, a flying body 10 having a wireless communication terminal 20. At this time, with respect to an airspace specified by specifying unit 51, assigning unit 52 limits the assigning of flying body 10 on which wireless communication terminal 20 is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa, Shinya Hanano, Takashi Yoshimoto, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11794900Abstract: Baggage is connected to an aerial vehicle in a state in which the baggage is suspended by a connector such as rope. A learning unit of a server device performs machine learning on the relationship between the piloting of an aerial vehicle and the behavior of baggage on the basis of an aerial vehicle behavior history and a piloting history acquired by a first acquisition unit and a baggage behavior history acquired by a second acquisition unit. With this arrangement, the automatic piloting of the aerial vehicle at the time of lowering baggage is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Jooin Woo, Hiroshi Kawakami, Kaori Niihata, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20230315573Abstract: A memory controller includes a request pipeline and a retry control circuit. The request pipeline receives an input of a request to a memory output from a processor core, stores the request, and causes the memory to process the request in order of storage. The retry control circuit stops a new request input to the request pipeline when an error occurs in the memory, and re-inputs, to the request pipeline, requests to be retried that includes the request in which the error has occurred and a subsequent request stored in the request pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11762561Abstract: An information processing device include: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive an access request directed to an access target and sets the access request in any one of a plurality of pending entries each of which includes latency information; issue a command that corresponds to the access request; control issuance of the command on a basis of the latency information of the any one of the pending entries; set a value that indicates latency for the access request in the latency information of the any one of the pending entries; and subtract a predetermined value from the latency information of the any one of the pending entries for each unit of time.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11756436Abstract: Setting unit performs the setting of each of the operating modes of a plurality of aerial vehicles on the basis of communication quality information of the planned route of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Specifically, setting unit firstly specifies the planned positions and periods in which each aerial vehicle is to fly from the flight plan information of the plurality of aerial vehicles that fly in a group. Next, setting unit specifies a communication quality of first wireless communication unit of each aerial vehicle in each position and each period from the communication quality information that represents the communication quality in the specified positions and periods. Then, setting unit specifies an operating mode setting schedule of main unit mode and auxiliary unit mode, which sets an aerial vehicle having a specified communication quality, and sets the remaining aerial vehicles as auxiliary units.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Kaori Niihata, Tadao Takami, Koji Ishii, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yuichiro Segawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11675338Abstract: A control device includes a program execution module, a communication unit, and a collection module connected to the communication unit. The program execution module generates control instructions for a control target in accordance with a user program that is freely created. The communication unit transmits and/or receives communication data to and/or from an external device through a network. The collection module collects data satisfying a filtering condition from among the communication data that is transferred on the network. The collection module changes the filtering condition in accordance with an instruction included in the user program.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoichi Kurokawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11528096Abstract: The present invention is designed to improve the efficiency of the use of radio resources in retransmission control in future radio communication systems. A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention has a receiving section that receives a downlink (DL) signal, and a control section that, when a transport block of the DL signal is divided into a plurality of code blocks, controls transmission of retransmission control information representing an acknowledgment (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) for each code block, or representing an ACK or a NACK for each code block group, which groups fewer code blocks than the plurality of code blocks.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kitamura, Hiroki Harada, Ryosuke Osawa
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Patent number: 11528674Abstract: If a propagation delay equal to or greater than a threshold value is detected in the uplink of a time-division duplex between a first wireless communication terminal and a first wireless base station, a suppression unit 52 performs control pertaining to resources in the time-division duplex of a first wireless communication terminal. Thereby, communication errors that occur in a second wireless communication terminal wirelessly connected to the second wireless base station that is different from the first wireless base station, to which the first wireless communication terminal is wirelessly connected, is suppressed by uplink communication performed by the first wireless communication terminal in accordance with the propagation delay. For example, this suppression process is a process pertaining to the assignment of resources a time-division duplex with respect to the first wireless communication terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Takefumi Yamada, Youhei Oono, Yuichiro Segawa, Shinya Hanano, Takashi Yoshimoto, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 11516229Abstract: A control device includes: a program execution module that executes a program created depending on a control target; a detection module that determines whether a security event occurs in access from outside to the control device; and a notification module that provides a notification, upon detection of occurrence of the security event, to a notification destination corresponding to the occurred security event. The security event includes an event that does not conform to a predetermined rule.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Kitamura, Yoichi Kurokawa
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Publication number: 20220342557Abstract: An information processing device include: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive an access request directed to an access target and sets the access request in any one of a plurality of pending entries each of which includes latency information; issue a command that corresponds to the access request; control issuance of the command on a basis of the latency information of the any one of the pending entries; set a value that indicates latency for the access request in the latency information of the any one of the pending entries; and subtract a predetermined value from the latency information of the any one of the pending entries for each unit of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20220317649Abstract: A control device that has received a request for starting the execution of a control program issues a comparison request to two control devices that store shared information, the control devices that have received the comparison request each compare unique information created by the own control device with unique information on the own control device contained in a piece of the shared information stored in each control device, and when the comparison result satisfies a prescribed condition, the execution of the control program is permitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yasuhisa WATANABE, Naoki HIROBE, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20220319582Abstract: A memory management apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive a notification of issuance of an activation instruction to each bank included in a predetermined group among a plurality of banks included in the memory, count a number of the received notifications, cause the memory to be refreshed in a case where a count value of the counting reaches a refresh threshold, and reduce the count value by a value of the refresh threshold in a case where the memory is refreshed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Kitamura
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Publication number: 20220254154Abstract: Outward leg instructing unit provides a first instruction for causing drone to acquire examination data of a facility while flying in the vicinity of the facility. Position information acquiring unit acquires position information of a place of focus specified based on the examination data acquired in accordance with the first instruction. Return leg instructing unit provides, as a second instruction, an instruction for causing drone to acquire a greater amount of examination data than that acquired in accordance with the first instruction with regard to the place of focus indicated by the acquired position information, while flying so as to return on a path flown due to the first instruction. Return leg instructing unit provides as the second instruction an instruction to acquire examination data including image data of a greater number of shots, as compared with shooting performed in accordance with the first instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Syuusuke WATANABE, Tadashige NAGAE, Mitsuteru FUKUYAMA, Masakazu HAMANO, Takefumi YAMADA, Takashi HARA, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20220254262Abstract: Wind information storage unit acquires and stores wind information indicating the windspeed and wind direction of wind that blows at a plurality of spots neighboring a facility targeted for examination. Wind predicting unit predicts the windspeed and wind direction at the facility targeted for examination, based on the wind information acquired by wind information storage unit. Flight instructing unit instructs, with regard to drone that flies around the facility and acquires examination data of the facility, flight that avoids colliding with the facility due to wind of the windspeed and wind direction predicted by wind predicting unit, before arrival of the wind. Flight instructing unit gives an instruction for collision avoidance in the case where a change in the windspeed predicted by wind predicting unit is greater than or equal to a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Syuusuke WATANABE, Tadashige NAGAE, Mitsuteru FUKUYAMA, Masakazu HAMANO, Takefumi YAMADA, Takashi HARA, Yuichiro SEGAWA, Yasuhiro KITAMURA