Patents by Inventor Yoichiro Yamazaki

Yoichiro Yamazaki 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: 11657342
    Abstract: A server includes: a communication part which receives from an orderer terminal operation request information input by an orderer and including a specific operation content and an operation time set for the specific operation content; and a display data generation part which generates based on the operation request information display data on which a master device displays an operation selection image showing the operation content and the operation time set in combination with each other to allow a selection of a desired time segment of the operation time set. The master device includes: a display control part which generates the operation selection image based on the display data so that a display part displays the operation selection image; and an operation part which receives a selection instruction of the operator that the operator selects the desired time segment of the operation time set shown in the operation selection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Saiki, Yoichiro Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20230128501
    Abstract: There is provided a device or the like capable of causing a result of an operator, remotely operating a working machine, perceiving a motion aspect of the working machine to approximate to a result of the operator perceiving a motion aspect of the working machine when the operator gets on the working machine. When there is represented a relative motion of a first component (lower traveling body 410, upper revolving body 420) and a second component (upper revolving body 420, bucket 445 (working unit)) that constitute working machine 40, based on a result of detecting an operation aspect of a remote operation device 20, control is performed on individual sound output aspects of a plurality of sound output devices 2220, 2221 and 2222, each arranged at different locations in a remote operation space for the operator who operates the remote operation device 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki MORITA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yusuke FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20230092296
    Abstract: A work assistance server 10 according to the present invention includes a first assistance processing element 121 that generates a surroundings image including a region around a work machine 40 when a request to start work by the work machine 40 is made, and a second assistance processing element 122 that permits the work by the work machine 40 on condition that the surroundings image is displayed on an image output device 221 of a remote operation apparatus 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230073325
    Abstract: There is provided a technology capable of, when a remote operation target through a remote operation apparatus is switched from one work machine to another work machine, making it easy for an operator to respond to an environmental change of the remote operation target. A first work environment image based on first picked-up image data acquired through a work machine image-pickup device 412 of a first work machine which is a current remote operation target of a remote operation apparatus 20 is outputted on a remote output interface 220. In addition, a second work environment image based on second picked-up image data acquired through a work machine image pickup apparatus of a second work machine which is the next remote operation target of the remote operation apparatus 20 is outputted on the remote output interface 220.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230056789
    Abstract: A remote operation support device 100 is provided that is for improving the work efficiency of a remote operation performed by an operator, without fogging a front window 425F of a work machine 40 that is remotely operated by the operator. The remote operation support device 100 includes: a meteorological data obtaining unit 103 that obtains meteorological data at a designated time; an intra-cab temperature estimation unit 104; an intra-cab humidity estimation unit 105; a fogging determination unit 106; and an anti-fogging control unit 107. The anti-fogging control unit 107 performs an anti-fogging process for preventing the front window 425F from being fogged when a determination result by the fogging determination unit 106 is affirmative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230056724
    Abstract: A display mode of a picked-up image in a central image output device 2210 (specified image output device) is variably controlled so as to display all of respective specified portions PPL and PPR of a pair of pillars 4240L and 4240R configuring a cab 424 in the central image output device 2210 (specified image output device). The specified portions PPL and PPR are part of the pillars 4240L and 4240R overlapping a specified image region R that extends in a belt shape between left and right bezels 2210L and 2210R.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Yusuke FUJIWARA, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230046110
    Abstract: The possibility of a work machine 40 being affected by a disaster in a second designated area including an existence position of the work machine 40 is predicted based on an amount of rainfall in a first designated area. A hazard map representing a result of the prediction of the possibility of the work machine 40 being affected by a disaster in the second designated area is outputted to a remote output interface 220 in a remote operation apparatus 20 (a client) (or a management output interface 620 in a management client 60). Accordingly, a user can take measures to reduce the possibility of the work machine being affected by a disaster, for example, to communicate with the persons involved in order to move the work machine 40 from a current position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230046933
    Abstract: There is provided a technique capable of appropriately controlling a warm-up completion timing of a work machine in view of scheduled use of the work machine. A warm-up period elapsed until a measurement value of an internal state variable satisfies a designated condition, i.e., warm-up is completed since a warm-up operation of a work machine 40 was started is predicted based on a measurement value of an external state variable with an operation of the work machine 40 stopped. The warm-up operation of the work machine 40 is started at a first designated time t1 as an appropriate timing based on the predicted warm-up period such that the measurement value of the internal state variable of the work machine 40 satisfies the designated condition by a second designated time t2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230043651
    Abstract: A remote control system 1 having a function as an inspection system includes a plurality of cameras 25, 60 which are located in a location environment of a construction machine 10, a captured image processing unit 50a configured to cause a display unit 45 to display captured images, and a camera selection unit 50b configured to select an inspection camera from the plurality of cameras 25, 60 at a time of inspection of the construction machine 10. The captured image processing unit 50a is configured to receive an image captured by the selected inspection camera to include an image of a portion to be inspected and cause the display unit 45 to display the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230033706
    Abstract: A work support server 10 according to the present invention supports work in such a manner that a plurality of work machines 40 to be operated can be selectively remotely operated in response to an operation to be performed for a remote operation apparatus 20 including an image output device 221. A first support processing element 121 in the work support server 10 recognizes a position of each of the work machines 40, and a second support processing element 122 displays, when an operation target of the remote operation apparatus 20 is switched from a first work machine 40a to a second work machine 40b, an image including respective positions of the first work machine 40a and the second work machine 40b simultaneously captured on the image output device 221.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230023778
    Abstract: There is provided a server and a system capable of enabling an operator of a remote operating device to recognize which remote operating device remotely operates a work machine displayed on an output interface constituting the remote operating device. For example, a first work environment image indicating a situation of a work site acquired through an image pickup device 412 loaded on a work machine 40 is outputted on an output interface 220 constituting each of a plurality of remote operating devices 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220412055
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a remote operation assistance system used for assisting an operator OP in remotely operating a work machine. In order to achieve this purpose, the remote operation assistance system of the present invention includes: a distance acquisition unit 201 that obtains information on a distance from the operator OP to a moving body M; an attribute acquisition unit 202 that obtains an attribute to which the moving body M belongs; an interference determination unit 203 that determines a level of likelihood of interference occurring with the remote operation, based on the distance obtained by the distance acquisition unit 201 and the attribute obtained by the attribute acquisition unit 202; and an assistance control unit 204 that performs control to assist in the remote operation according to a result of the determination by the interference determination unit 203.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ryuichi HIROSE, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220412047
    Abstract: There is provided a system and the like capable of assisting remote operation of a work machine performed by a remote operator in such a way that contact between the work machine and an actual machine operator and other unfavorable situations can be avoided. Even in a situation in which a first evaluation result is affirmative and a work machine 40 can be remotely operated via a remote operation apparatus 20, but in a situation in which a second evaluation result is affirmative and it is highly probable that a worker carrying a portable terminal 60, such as an actual machine operator OP2, is so close to the work machine 40 or on the work machine 40 that short-range wireless communication between the work machine 40 and the portable terminal 60 is established, remote operation of the work machine 40 is inhibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Ryota HAMA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220412049
    Abstract: A work assisting server 10 includes a first assisting process element 121 and a second assisting process element 122 and communicates with a plurality of facility cameras 30 when an operator OP remotely operates a work machine 40 while viewing a captured image displayed on an image output device 221. The first assisting process element 121 extracts, as candidates, the facility cameras 30 including the work machine 40 in imaging ranges. The second assisting process element 122 selects the facility camera 30 that is able to obtain the imaging range including an optimal direction or size on the basis of movement of the work machine 40 and causes the selected facility camera 30 to output a captured image to the image output device 221.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220412048
    Abstract: Provided is a server and a system that can assist an operator in recognizing whether or not a work machine in a work-site birds-eye image output on an output interface constituting a remote operation device is subject to remote operation by the remote operation device. According to the captured image acquired through the image pickup device C, when a work machine 40 is in the work-site birds-eye image that is output on an output interface 220 constituting a remote operation device 20, whether or not the work machine 40 is a connection-target work machine is determined. If the determination result is positive, a first sign image ID1 associated with an actual machine image Q2 that represents the work machine 40 in the work-site birds-eye image is displayed on the output interface 220 of the remote operation device 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220412751
    Abstract: A memory stores, in advance, target line information indicating an arrangement target of an object to be conveyed and related to a target line denoted by at least one of a curve or a polyline. A controller is configured to: calculate, based on the target line information, target information which is at least one of information about a target coordinate of the object and information about a target direction of the object; calculate, based on the at least one of the coordinate of the object and the direction of the object detected by the detector, detection information which is comparable with the target information; calculate a deviation of the detection information from the target information; and cause a display to display a moving direction of the object which allows the deviation to decrease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro FUKUO, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI, Koji YAMASHITA, Yusuke KAMIMURA, Shingo SEKIGUCHI, Takayuki IINO, Hiroshi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20220409994
    Abstract: A display device 20 includes: a hinge 91; a first monitor device 21 including a first front surface 22; and a second monitor device 31 including a second front surface 32. Parallel planes from a virtual second front surface on a rear side by predetermined distances at a first angle a to a third angle c between the first front surface 22 and the virtual second front surface are defined as first to third virtual planes E to G. A rotation axis X1 of the hinge 91 is disposed on anyone of these three virtual planes or inside a space formed by the three virtual planes in a view in a direction parallel to the rotation axis X1, and the second front surface 32 is disposed at a position away from the rotation axis X1 on a front side of the second monitor device 31 by a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke SAWADA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Masataka MATONO, Kenshiro OKUDA, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220406211
    Abstract: A server and so forth are provided that enable an operator to gain experience in operation by a simulation while referring to a situation of an operation of a work machine by the operator himself/herself or another operator. A second operator can designate one time series of work environment images from archives registered in a database 102 through a remote input interface 210. Accordingly, the second operator can browse the time series of the designated work environment images on a remote output interface 220. The second operator can cause the remote output interface 220 to output a time series of simulation images which represent an action manner and an environment changing manner of a work machine at a virtual work site in accordance with a simulation operation manner in a remote operation mechanism 211.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Masaki OTANI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220403619
    Abstract: A remote control system 1 comprises a server 50 configured to acquire, for each of a plurality of construction machines 10, information indicating whether a predetermined event related to a machine control request timing which is a timing at which control of each of the plurality of construction machines 10 is to be started has occurred, and reporting devices 44, 45 configured to output report information to an operator according to an instruction from the server 50. With respect to any one of the plurality of construction machines 10, the server 50 is configured to, when acquiring information indicating occurrence of the predetermined event associated with the construction machine, output report information indicating the occurrence from the reporting devices 44, 45.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220398512
    Abstract: Provided are a server and system which allow a plurality of people involved in work to share information about an object requiring attention in a work area. A work environment image, which indicates an extension mode of a target object in a real space in a target object image region R that is a part of a captured image obtained through an imaging device (e.g., an imaging device 612) of a first client (e.g., a worker terminal 60) and target object related information, is outputted to an output interface (e.g., a remote output interface 220) of a second client (e.g., a remote operation device 20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yusuke SAWADA, Hitoshi SASAKI, Seiji SAIKI, Yoichiro YAMAZAKI