Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kato

Yoshiyuki Kato 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: 11937410
    Abstract: A package-type fluid machine includes a compressor unit including a compression portion that compresses a fluid, a motor that drives the compression portion, and a cooling fan that is driven by the motor; a machine chamber in which the compressor unit is disposed; an inverter chamber which is adjacent to the machine chamber and in which an inverter is disposed; a partition wall that partitions off the machine chamber from the inverter chamber and has an opening; and an inverter intake port that is disposed in the inverter chamber to take in a cooling gas. The cooling fan is disposed on a side of the machine chamber, the opening being located on the side. The cooling fan is driven to cause the cooling gas to flow from the inverter intake port to the opening to cool the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Kato, Yoshiyuki Kanemoto, Hiroaki Saito, Daichi Oka, Akihiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11670255
    Abstract: A signal light display determination device includes a memory to store a program; and a processor to execute the program, wherein the processor executes the program to acquire image information regarding a first region and a second region that is in close proximity to the first region, the first region and the second region being within a region containing at least a portion of a display of a signal light that is image-captured by a camera, determine, based on the acquired image information regarding the second region, a display state of the display included in the second region, and correct the acquired image information regarding the first region when a determination is made that the display state of the display included the second region has not continued in a state below a threshold for a predetermined time period, the correction being made based on the acquired image information regarding second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20230091360
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus comprising at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to execute a first authentication process at a first authentication level based on first biometric information about a user acquired at a first timing; instruct the information processing apparatus to operate in a first operation mode in a case where a result of the first authentication process reaches the first authentication level, and the user corresponding to the first biometric information is judged to have first operation authority; execute a second authentication process at a second authentication level lower than the first authentication level, based on second biometric information about the user acquired at a second timing during the operation in the first operation mode; and execute a process according to a result of the second authentication process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 11474534
    Abstract: Each of three floors is adjacent to the other two floor robots so that a position at which three vertices selected each from the three floor robots face each other is set as a central point, and an information processing apparatus includes a floor robot guidance unit to specify an advancing direction and a walking speed of a walking person based on pressures detected by the floor robots when the walking person walks, to move the three floor robots at the specified walking speed in an opposite direction to the specified advancing direction, to specify, as a target vertex, a vertex that can be determined to lie in the specified advancing direction, other than the three vertices, and rotate at least one of the three floor robots so that the position of the target vertex is set as a new central point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20220260976
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a first generation unit that generates second layout information indicating a second layout including a first path as a path of conveyance of an object, the second layout information being information generated by changing first layout information indicating a first layout, a calculation unit that calculates a first conveyance distance as a conveyance distance of the object based on the first path, an acquisition unit that acquires a first conveyance amount indicating an amount of conveyance of the object, and a second generation unit that generates a first diagram indicating a relationship between the first conveyance distance and the first conveyance amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi SAKURAI, Yoshiyuki KATO, Kei GOMITA, Fengyi JIN
  • Publication number: 20220122272
    Abstract: A display processing device includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: (a) extracting a plurality of movement lines representing trajectories of moving bodies that leave a first area and arrive in a second area and/or trajectories of moving bodies that leave the second area and arrive in the first area; (b) obtaining, for each of the movement lines extracted by process (a), N-1 division points by dividing the movement line by a division number N, N being an integer not less than 2; (c) calculating N-1 average points by averaging coordinates of the division points obtained by process (b) and belonging to the different movement lines; and (d) drawing a movement line that passes through the N-1 average points obtained by process (c), the first area, and the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke NAKATA, Yoshiyuki KATO, Keiko IMAMURA
  • Patent number: 11297254
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory storing a program, and at least one processor that executes the program. The processor sets an exposure condition for video imaging, acquires an image of the video imaged under the exposure condition, and calculates a brightness distribution from the image. The exposure condition includes a first exposure condition for causing the imaging device to capture an image using a first exposure value, and a second exposure condition causing the imaging device to capture an image using an exposure value higher than the first exposure condition and/or causing the imaging device to capture an image using a lower exposure value than the first exposure condition. The processor sets the first exposure condition or sets the first and the second exposure condition, based on the brightness distribution of the image captured under the first exposure condition after the first exposure condition is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohiko Murakami
  • Publication number: 20210333798
    Abstract: Each of three floors is adjacent to the other two floor robots so that a position at which three vertices selected each from the three floor robots face each other is set as a central point, and an information processing apparatus includes a floor robot guidance unit to specify an advancing direction and a walking speed of a walking person based on pressures detected by the floor robots when the walking person walks, to move the three floor robots at the specified walking speed in an opposite direction to the specified advancing direction, to specify, as a target vertex, a vertex that can be determined to lie in the specified advancing direction, other than the three vertices, and rotate at least one of the three floor robots so that the position of the target vertex is set as a new central point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20210306556
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory storing a program, and at least one configured to execute the program stored in the memory. The processor acquires a captured image, detects a detection target from the image, sets a detection frame being a range for detecting the detection target within the image, determines whether to shrink the detection frame every time a detection operation for the detection target over the entire image is completed, detects, when the detection frame is newly set, the detection target, based on a newly set detection frame, and sets, when determining to shrink the detection frame, a detection frame smaller than a detection frame at a time of the detection operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20210229233
    Abstract: To detect whether barrel lids are fixed. A centrifugal barrel polishing machine (A) includes: a plurality of rotary tanks (50) that rotate planetarily; barrel lids (26) that are attachable to and detachable from the rotary tanks (50); and a plurality of clamp shafts (32) that are provided individually in the plurality of rotary tanks (50) so as to be rotatable integrally with the rotary tanks (50). Each of the clamp shafts (32) is displaceable between in a fixing form for fixing the barrel lid (26) to the rotary tank (50) and in a releasing form for releasing the fixation of the barrel lid (26). It is detected by a first detection means (40) whether the rotary tank (50) is positioned in a detection area (D) on a revolution path of the rotary tank (50), and it is detected by a second detection means (43) whether the clamp shaft (32) of the rotary tank (50) positioned in the detection area (D) is displaced to the fixing form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: TIPTON CORP.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KATO, Yoshinari SAWADA
  • Patent number: 11039292
    Abstract: The present invention is to surely acquire an image of a part according to an instruction from a video regardless of presence or absence of communication connection and a communication state. A controller unit acquires instruction information (log) as instruction information to acquire an image, where the instruction information corresponds to time information related to time to acquire the image, and acquires an image of a temporal part indicated by the time information corresponding to the instruction information, from each of plural videos recorded continuously in terms of time, synchronized with the time information corresponding to the acquired instruction information, and different in content from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 10976985
    Abstract: A recording medium recording a program for causing a computer to execute a process including: acquiring a display target time by adding a fixed time to an average process time, which is an average of a sum of past times demanded for compression, network transfer, and decompression; acquiring a second time point when a decompression process of a data body is completed after reception of data which includes a first time point before a server compresses the data body; acquiring a current process time which indicates a sum of times demanded for compression, network transfer, and decompression of the data body by subtracting the first time point from the second time point; acquiring an adjustment time by subtracting the current process time from the display target time; displaying the data body by delaying the adjustment time; and updating a past average process time by including the current process time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Yukihiko Furumoto, Kazunori Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20210092274
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory storing a program, and at least one processor that executes the program. The processor sets an exposure condition for video imaging, acquires an image of the video imaged under the exposure condition, and calculates a brightness distribution from the image. The exposure condition includes a first exposure condition for causing the imaging device to capture an image using a first exposure value, and a second exposure condition causing the imaging device to capture an image using an exposure value higher than the first exposure condition and/or causing the imaging device to capture an image using a lower exposure value than the first exposure condition. The processor sets the first exposure condition or sets the first and the second exposure condition, based on the brightness distribution of the image captured under the first exposure condition after the first exposure condition is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohiko Murakami
  • Publication number: 20210073096
    Abstract: A three-dimensional space monitoring device generates a learning result by machine-learning operation patterns of a first monitoring target and a second monitoring target from first measurement information on the first monitoring target and second measurement information on the second monitoring target; generates a first operation space of the first monitoring target and a second operation space of the second monitoring target; calculates a first distance from the first monitoring target to the second operation space and a second distance from the second monitoring target to the first operation space; determines a distance threshold based on the learning result and predicts a possibility of contact between the first monitoring target and the second monitoring target based on the first and second distances and the distance threshold; and executes a process based on the possibility of contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20200341715
    Abstract: A recording medium recording a program for causing a computer to execute a process including: acquiring a display target time by adding a fixed time to an average process time, which is an average of a sum of past times demanded for compression, network transfer, and decompression; acquiring a second time point when a decompression process of a data body is completed after reception of data which includes a first time point before a server compresses the data body; acquiring a current process time which indicates a sum of times demanded for compression, network transfer, and decompression of the data body by subtracting the first time point from the second time point; acquiring an adjustment time by subtracting the current process time from the display target time; displaying the data body by delaying the adjustment time; and updating a past average process time by including the current process time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KATO, YUKIHIKO FURUMOTO, Kazunori Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20200311427
    Abstract: A signal light display determination device includes a memory to store a program; and a processor to execute the program, wherein the processor executes the program to acquire image information regarding a first region and a second region that is in close proximity to the first region, the first region and the second region being within a region containing at least a portion of a display of a signal light that is image-captured by a camera, determine, based on the acquired image information regarding the second region, a display state of the display included in the second region, and correct the acquired image information regarding the first region when a determination is made that the display state of the display included the second region has not continued in a state below a threshold for a predetermined time period, the correction being made based on the acquired image information regarding second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Publication number: 20190332256
    Abstract: A screen transmission system includes a first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor is configured to transmit first part of screen data by using a first communication protocol. The first processor is configured to transmit second part of the screen data by using a second communication protocol that is higher in transmission speed and lower in communication reliability than the first communication protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: YUKIHIKO FURUMOTO, Yoshiyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 10462448
    Abstract: Image generation apparatuses (10) are provided so as to correspond to areas (62), respectively, into which a target area (60) is divided, and each image generation apparatus (10) has a plurality of imaging apparatuses (50) connected thereto that each capture a corresponding area which is an area (62) corresponding to the image generation apparatus (10). Each image generation apparatus (10) generates, as partial image data (72), downward view image data for its corresponding area from imaging data (71) captured by the plurality of imaging apparatuses (50). An image integration apparatus (20) allows each of image generation apparatuses (10) provided so as to correspond to areas (62), respectively, that are included in a display area (61), to generate as partial image data (72) for its corresponding area, and combines the partial image data (72) to generate integrated image data (73) which is downward view image data for the display area (61).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kato
  • Patent number: 10237495
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a CPU which is operable to function as units comprising a processing unit which sets, as a first area, an area that is not a peripheral edge area in a captured image acquired by an imaging unit, sets an area including the peripheral edge area as a second area, and performs predetermined processing on one of the first area and the second area, and a specification unit which specifies whether the first area is subjected to the predetermined processing or the second area is subjected to the predetermined processing, based on orientation information of the imaging unit when the captured image is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yoshizawa, Naoya Okamoto, Hitoshi Tanaka, Kazunori Yanagi, Kazuaki Hagiwara, Yoshihiro Takayama, Yoshiyuki Kato, Tomohiko Murakami, Ken Fujita, Kenji Iwamoto, Takashi Onoda, Genki Kumazaki
  • Patent number: 10220781
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided with a driving environment information acquisition section, which acquires driving environment information, which is information on a driving environment of the vehicle. A center is provided with a driving environment evaluation section, which quantitatively evaluates the ease of traveling in the driving environment of the vehicle based on an analysis of the driving environment information acquired by the driving environment information acquisition section. A display section of the vehicle displays the result of evaluation by the driving environment evaluation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hironobu Sugimoto, Teruhide Hayashida, Hirokazu Nomoto, Yoshihiro Oe, Kazuya Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Kato