Patents Assigned to Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.
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Patent number: 11828938Abstract: A small information display apparatus capable of displaying video information on a windshield as a virtual image is provided. An information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a windshield of a conveyance includes: a liquid crystal panel arranged as a video display apparatus configured to form the video information; and a virtual image optical system provided with a windshield for displaying the virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting video of the liquid crystal panel by means of the windshield. The virtual image optical system is configured by arranging a concave mirror and an optical element between the concave mirror and the video display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko, Shigeki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20230280590Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact head-up display device. The head-up display device of the present invention includes an image forming unit that emits image light containing image information, and an eyepiece optical system that displays a virtual image by reflecting the image light, in which the eyepiece optical system includes a concave lens, a free curved surface lens, and a free curved surface concave mirror disposed in order from the image form ing unit side along the emission direction of the image light.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicants: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Masahiko YATSU, Koji HIRATA, Shigeki HOSHINO
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Publication number: 20230252654Abstract: A video analysis device includes a camera control unit, an image analysis unit, a tracking determination unit, and an analysis camera selection unit. The tracking determination unit is configured to calculate or acquire, from analyzed information, a moving speed of a tracked person to be tracked. The analysis camera selection unit is configured to set a camera search range based on the moving speed, and select a camera present in the camera search range as an analysis target camera for next video analysis. In addition, the camera control unit is configured to transmit, to the image analysis unit, a video of only the analysis target camera selected by the analysis camera selection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Ryuji KAMIYA, Hironori KOMI, Hiroyuki KIKUCHI, Naoto TAKI, Yasuhiro MURAI
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Patent number: 11691829Abstract: A container screening device (200) including: a star wheel (60) arranged on or above a conveyance surface (201) on which inspection objects (101) are conveyed and having an outer periphery formed with plural housing portions (110) configured to house the inspection objects (101); a rotation shaft (220) arranged under the conveyance surface (201) and configured to rotate with the star wheel (60); a bearing portion (230) rotatably supporting the rotation shaft (220); air holes (60a, 60b, 220a, 220b) extending through interiors of the star wheel (60) and the rotation shaft (220) and communicating with the rotation shaft (220) and the housing portions (110); and an air coupling (240) fixed to a periphery of the rotation shaft (220) and configured to generate suction force in the air holes (60a, 60b, 220a, 220b) to suck the inspection objects (101) to the housing portions (110).Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Yongduo Xing, Hirohisa Fukuda, Kunitaka Asano, Tadahiro Katane
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Patent number: 11686937Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact head-up display device. The head-up display device of the present invention includes an image forming unit that emits image light containing image information, and an eyepiece optical system that displays a virtual image by reflecting the image light, in which the eyepiece optical system includes a concave lens, a free curved surface lens, and a free curved surface concave mirror disposed in order from the image forming unit side along the emission direction of the image light.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Yatsu, Koji Hirata, Shigeki Hoshino
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Patent number: 11675189Abstract: The information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a reflecting surface of conveyance includes: a display configured to display the video information; and a virtual image optical system configured to display a virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting light emitted from the display by means of the reflecting surface. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror and an optical element. The optical element is arranged between the display and the concave mirror, and is configured to correct distortion of the virtual image obtained so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver on a basis of a shape of the concave mirror and a shape of the optical element. The information display apparatus further includes a virtual image double image conversion reducer configured to reduce double image conversion of the virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11448877Abstract: A projection optical system includes an eyepiece optical system configured to refract and reflect a light emitted from an image forming unit for forming image information to display a virtual image, wherein the eyepiece optical system includes at least a concave lens, a folding mirror, and a concave mirror which are successively placed in order from the image forming unit including a liquid crystal display panel. The projection optical system configured as above is provided on a head-up display.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Yatsu, Koji Hirata, Shigeki Hoshino
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Patent number: 11328242Abstract: An operation control apparatus of the invention includes a KPI tree preparation field for accepting an issues-structure tree indicating a causal relation of an issue of an organization having a plurality of departments, and KPI definition information having a KPI for evaluating the issue mutually associated with the department responsible for the KPI, and a KPI tree generation field for generating a KPI tree indicating the causal relation of the KPI from the issues-structure tree indicating the causal relation of the issue by accepting a user's association of the KPI with the issue constituting the issues-structure tree.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Tomoko Ishino, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Nobuyuki Sonoda
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Patent number: 11327303Abstract: The information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a reflecting surface of conveyance includes: a display configured to display the video information; and a virtual image optical system configured to display a virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting light emitted from the display by means of the reflecting surface. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror and an optical element. The optical element is arranged between the display and the concave mirror, and is configured to correct distortion of the virtual image obtained so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver on a basis of a shape of the concave mirror and a shape of the optical element. The information display apparatus further includes a virtual image double image conversion reducer configured to reduce double image conversion of the virtual image.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko
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Patent number: 11281193Abstract: This invention implements a work system high in flexibility and speedy system development. The work system includes a plurality of modules each having software for work which performs predetermined in-module processing, and a service base unit which inputs and outputs event information to and from the modules. The event information includes an identifier and a payload. The service base unit has a function of receiving the event information from any of the modules, and a function of transferring the event information to the other module. The other module to which the event information is transferred determines based on the identifier included in the transferred event information whether the in-module processing is performed within its own module.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Tomoko Ishino
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Publication number: 20220043261Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compact head-up display device. The head-up display device of the present invention includes an image forming unit that emits image light containing image information, and an eyepiece optical system that displays a virtual image by reflecting the image light, in which the eyepiece optical system includes a concave lens, a free curved surface lens, and a free curved surface concave mirror disposed in order from the image forming unit side along the emission direction of the image light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicants: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Masahiko YATSU, Koji HIRATA, Shigeki HOSHINO
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Patent number: 11221480Abstract: A small information display apparatus capable of displaying video information on a windshield as a virtual image is provided. An information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a windshield of a conveyance includes: a liquid crystal panel arranged as a video display apparatus configured to form the video information; and a virtual image optical system provided with a windshield for displaying the virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting video of the liquid crystal panel by means of the windshield. The virtual image optical system is configured by arranging a concave mirror and an optical element between the concave mirror and the video display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Kazuomi Kaneko, Shigeki Hoshino
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Patent number: 11119315Abstract: A small-sized information display apparatus capable of displaying, as virtual images, different pieces of video image information at different positions in a wide area of a windshield. An embodiment has a virtual image optical system in which a flat display forming video image information is arranged, and that includes a projected member for causing virtual images to be displayed at a plurality of positions ahead of a vehicle by reflecting a video image on the flat display, thereby forming the virtual images at the plurality of positions so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver. The virtual image optical system is arranged so that video image light fluxes for establishing the respective virtual images are separated from and independent of one another between the flat display and a concave mirror, and is configured by arranging different optical elements so as to correspond to the respective light fluxes.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Kazuomi Kaneko
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Patent number: 10986317Abstract: A projection video display device includes a projection video display main body (main body) including a light source and a video display element and generating a video to be projected, a portrait converter that rotates the video generated by the main body around an optical axis by 90°, and a projection lens that magnifies and projects the video rotated by the portrait converter. The main body rotates directions of OSD (On Screen Display) images and in the video generated by the video display element to an opposite direction to or in the same direction as a rotation direction of the video by the portrait converter by 90°. Accordingly, the OSD image can be displayed in a direction in which it is easy for the user to see in portrait projection screens.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakamura, Kazuo Shikita, Satoshi Nakayama, Nobutaka Hotta, Hiroyuki Shinji
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Patent number: 10949688Abstract: A monitoring system includes an imaging unit that captures an image including a monitoring target person in an interior compartment of a vehicle, a monitoring unit that detects a monitoring target part of the monitoring target person based on the image captured by the imaging unit and monitors a state of the monitoring target person based on a detected target part position serving as a position of the detected monitoring target part, and a display unit that is provided in the interior compartment of the vehicle and displays visual information representing a relative position of the detected target part position with respect to a preset appropriate monitoring position.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Katsumata, Kiyoshi Nasu, Hidekazu Ohashi
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Patent number: 10942353Abstract: Provided is a small-sized information display device displaying video image information as a virtual image by use of an eyepiece optical system including a concave mirror having desired reflection characteristics in a specific polarization direction, where a liquid crystal display panel is used as a video image light source. The information display device has a liquid crystal display panel as a flat display forming video image information disposed therein, and includes a virtual image optical system including a member to be projected for displaying virtual images in front of a vehicle by making a video image displayed on the liquid crystal display panel reflect on the member to be projected. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror, and a reflective film of the concave mirror has desired reflection characteristics in a specific polarization direction, so that virtual images having uniform brightness and chromaticity can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Masahiko Yatsu, Toshinori Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Kajikawa, Kazuomi Kaneko
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Patent number: 10887564Abstract: A projection video display apparatus and method for solving a problem of deterioration of visibility of video that is projected on a transparent or semi-transparent screen. In a projection video display method for projecting and displaying video light on a rear surface or front surface of a transparent or semi-transparent video projection screen disposed in a space by a projection video display apparatus, video light to be projected and displayed is generated, the generated video light is projected on the rear surface or front surface of the transparent or semi-transparent video projection screen, and at that time, a video display position recognition screen for making an observer of the video recognize a position where the video is projected is projected on the transparent or semi-transparent video projection screen before start of the projection of the video light or simultaneously with the start of the projection of the video light.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Koji Hirata, Kazuya Ozawa
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Patent number: 10871655Abstract: An image display apparatus 100 for a vehicle is provided with: an image display unit 2 that has a light source and a display element and outputs image light; a mirror 3 that reflects the image light output by the image display unit 2 toward a windshield 7; a mirror drive unit 4 that changes the angle and position of the mirror 3; and a control unit 10 that determines amounts of change in the angle and position of the mirror and controls the mirror drive unit 4. The control unit 10 makes determinations of the amount of change for the angle and position of the mirror in association with each other such that the image is visible even if the position of the driver's eyes 8 changes and the display state of the image with respect to the driver does not change.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Yuki Nagano, Souta Sato, Yuji Fujita, Takumi Nakada, Kazuomi Kaneko
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Patent number: 10852539Abstract: A compact head-up display device is provided. For that purpose, the head-up display device includes a projection optical system which includes an image forming unit to display image information and an ocular optical system to reflect light emitted from the image forming unit to display a virtual image. In the ocular optical system, a free-form surface lens and a free-form surface concave mirror are arranged in order from the image forming unit. The shape of the free-form surface concave mirror is such that curvature radius RY1 in projection on a vertical cross section of the coordinate system of an eye-box is smaller than curvature radius RX1 in projection on a horizontal cross section.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignees: Maxell, Ltd., Hitachi Industry & Control Solutions, Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Yatsu, Koji Hirata, Shigeki Hoshino
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Patent number: 10814723Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a projection optical system having a minimal optical configuration while ensuring necessary capabilities and a head-up display device having a tilted virtual image plane. The head-up display device according to the present invention includes an image forming unit to emit image light containing image information and an eyepiece optical system to display a virtual image by reflecting the image light. While a virtual image plane is tilted to display a virtual image in a range from a far distance to a near distance, a point on the image forming unit conjugating to a far point on the virtual image plane is optically farther from a light flux entering the image forming unit than a point on the image forming unit conjugating to a near point on the virtual image plane.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignees: MAXELL, LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRY & CONTROL SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Masahiko Yatsu, Koji Hirata, Shigeki Hoshino