Patents Assigned to Omron Corporation
  • Patent number: 11892819
    Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide a control device, control system, control method, and computer-readable storage medium, for enabling verification of the reliability of operation machine control. Provided is a control device comprising: a control part comprising a controller for outputting output data with regard to input data, said control part serving to control an operation machine using the controller; an acquisition part for acquiring attribute information including statistics of previously obtained input data and output data; and an evaluation part for, on the basis of a comparison of the attribute information with new input data being newly inputted into the controller and/or new output data being newly outputted from the controller with regard to the new input data, evaluating to what extent the new input data and/or the new output data deviate from the statistics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Ueyama, Takashi Fujii, Yasuaki Abe, Kazuhiko Imatake, Nobuyuki Sakatani
  • Publication number: 20240037451
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to improve precision when estimating the solution to a task expressed in a graph. A model generation device according to one embodiment of the present invention performs machine learning of an estimation module provided with a feature-incorporated network and an estimator. The feature-incorporated network is provided with a plurality of feature-incorporated layers. An encoder for each feature-incorporated layer is configured so as to incorporate the feature amount of the outflow edge and inflow edge of each vertex after reflecting the relationship with other vertices. Moreover, the encoder for each feature-incorporated layer is configured so as to derive the relative feature amount for each edge based on the feature amount for all of the edges inputted for a target vertex, without calculating the weighted sum of the features of the edges adjacent to each vertex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shusaku SONE, Atsushi HASHIMOTO, Jiaxin MA
  • Publication number: 20240037976
    Abstract: The present invention realizes an information processing device capable of accurately differentiating an object from within an imaged image regardless of imaging conditions. The present invention also realizes an information processing method and a control program. A first circumscribed polygon region calculation unit (32) calculates a first circumscribed polygon region as a convex hull circumscribed region that contains a feature region. A principal axis of inertia calculation unit (33) calculates a principal axis of inertia for the feature region. A region division unit (34) uses the principal axis of inertia to divide the feature region. On the basis of the area ratio of the two second circumscribed polygon regions and the first circumscribed polygon region as convex hull circumscribed regions that respectively contain the divided feature regions, a region selection unit (36) selects either the first circumscribed polygon region or the two second circumscribed polygon regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Chao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240033898
    Abstract: A table tennis robot (traveling body) includes a chassis and at least three drive modules, each of which includes an omni wheel driven by a respective motor and each of which is installed at the chassis, and includes an installation space provided at a central portion of the chassis and configured to be installed with an auxiliary device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro Mori, Kazutoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11886160
    Abstract: Upon receipt of a signal indicating occurrence of anomalies, an information processor displays the nature of the anomalies. The information processor accepts for each anomaly, an input operation for assignment of a worker who is to handle an anomaly. Based on the assignment, the information processor notifies a terminal device of the worker of the nature of the anomaly to be handled by the worker. The terminal device displays contents of a remedy for the anomaly. The terminal device transmits progress information to the information processor. The information processor displays the progress information. The information processor further accepts an input operation for updating the assignment of a worker who is to handle the anomaly. Based on the assignment updated, the information processor notifies the terminal device of the worker of the nature of the anomaly to be handled by the worker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Ishimura
  • Patent number: 11886217
    Abstract: A control device is connected to at least one solar cell module and an inverter, and controls the at least one solar cell module by MPPT control. The control device includes an opening/closing unit and a control unit. The opening/closing unit includes a semiconductor relay and a mechanical relay connected in parallel with the semiconductor relay. The control unit controls opening and closing of the opening/closing unit in response to a control signal from the inverter. In a case of connecting the at least one solar cell module and the inverter, the control unit turns ON the semiconductor relay to turn ON the mechanical relay, and then disconnects the semiconductor relay. In a case of cutting off the connection between the at least one solar cell module and the inverter, the control unit connects the semiconductor relay to disconnect the mechanical relay, and then disconnects the semiconductor relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Ogura, Tomoko Endo, Erica Martin, Tsuyoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 11885656
    Abstract: A flow-rate measuring apparatus transmits a first measurement signal having at least one first frequency by a first transducer, and receives the first measurement signal by a second transducer through a fluid inside a pipe. The flow-rate measuring apparatus determines a second frequency based on the first measurement signal. The flow-rate measuring apparatus transmits a second measurement signal having the second frequency by a third transducer toward an interface between the pipe and the fluid, and receives the second measurement signal reflected at the interface by a fourth transducer. The flow-rate measuring apparatus calculates a flow rate of the fluid inside the pipe so as to reflect a viscosity of the fluid based on the first and second measurement signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yui Ishida, Naoki Yoshitake, Yoshitaka Tsurukame
  • Patent number: 11886170
    Abstract: A control system includes a control device, one or more information processing devices, and an arithmetic unit. The control device executes a control program controlling a control target while managing process data of the control program, and includes a communication processor that periodically transmits one or more data sets, each data set including a value of one or more process data. The information processing devices executes one or more applications using the process data included in the data sets. The arithmetic unit determines a transmission setting of the data set, and includes an acquirer that acquires the process data for each application, and a determiner that determines a number of data sets transmitted by the communication processor and the process data to be included in each data set according to an evaluation criterion regarding a communication load based on the process data for each application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Nagata
  • Publication number: 20240028021
    Abstract: A network system for an electronic conference in which users interact by transmitting and receiving data by computers connected to a network is provided. The computers include one or more terminal devices, a control device that controls a target, and a server device that receives data and that distributes the received data to a device different from a transmission source of the data. The control device includes a module that executes a control arithmetic operation, and a detection module that detects an event indicating a matter generated in association with the target from an operation state of the target according to control. The network system includes a module that transmits a convocation notice to an electronic conference in order to correspond to the event to one or more users to be involved in correspondence of the event through the network when detecting the event by the detection module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru OKA, Yuta NAGATA, Yoshiaki KOBAYASHI, Yuya WATANABE, Takenori KUSAKA
  • Patent number: 11878229
    Abstract: A stroke decision device 30 includes an acquisition section 31 configured to acquire state information including a position, a velocity, and a rotational velocity of an incoming ball, and a stroke decision section 32 configured to decide a stroke condition including a position, a velocity, and an orientation of a striking implement at a time point when hitting back the ball toward a target arrival position, based on the state information for the ball and the target arrival position when hitting back the ball with the striking implement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaojun Liu, Kyohei Asai, Masamune Nakayama, Satoshi Yase
  • Patent number: 11880625
    Abstract: To provide a technique of being capable of reducing design man-hours of a screen visually representing a state of a drive device than before. A display device receives an information model representing a state of drive device and defining a plurality of variables defined in a predetermined standard, and a display rule relating to screen. In display rule, a kind of a display object visually representing a value of the variable and a display definition relating to display of the display object are associated with each other with respect to a part or all of the plurality of variables. Display device acquires the display object and display definition corresponding to each variable of a display target included in information model from display rule, and disposes each of the display objects on screen according to the corresponding display definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Nagata
  • Patent number: 11880174
    Abstract: A disturbance suppression apparatus includes a timing prediction device. The timing prediction device includes a dead time acquisition unit, a disturbance start time acquisition unit, and a timing prediction unit. The dead time acquisition unit performs PID tuning to acquire a dead time. The disturbance start time acquisition unit acquires a disturbance start time representing a period from a time point at which a start signal is input to a time point at which a temperature starts to be affected by a disturbance. The timing prediction unit predicts a disturbance manipulated variable application timing on the basis of the dead time and the disturbance start time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11879631
    Abstract: A right side portion, which is a light emitting device, comprises a side light guide plate and a front light guide plate as a plurality of light guide plates in which light is reflected by a prism and emitted from a light emitting surface. The side light guide plate and the front light guide plate are disposed in a row in a state in which the angles of the light emitting surfaces differ between adjacent light guide plates and the ends of adjacent light guide plates are butted against each other. An LED board is disposed at the end of the side light guide plate, and the end surface of one of the ends of the side light guide plate and the front light guide plate that are abutted against each other is formed as an inclined surface with a reflection function that changes the angle at which the light is guided and causes the light to be incident on the adjacent light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Takahiro Ono, Junya Fujita, Jun Kishimoto, Takehiro Agata
  • Patent number: 11880194
    Abstract: A control device performs logging of information related to communication with an instrument and logging of information related to control of the logging operation. The control device includes: a first connector that connects a first network to which a control target belongs; a second connector that connects a second network to which an external instrument belongs; a control arithmetic unit that executes control arithmetic processing using data related to the control target, a communication unit that exchanges the data with the external instrument by secure communication through the second network; a first logging unit that logs information related to the secure communication performed by the communication unit; and a second logging unit that logs information related to control of a logging operation of the first logging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Maki, Jintaro Deki
  • Publication number: 20240019835
    Abstract: The present invention reduces the burden on a user when constructing a new system configuration for realizing the desires of the user. The input part (21) accepts a user's selection for the case. A comparison part (23) compares an existing user system configuration that includes a programmable logic controller (PLC), and a system configuration corresponding to the selected case. On the basis of the comparison results, a display part (22) presents, to the user, a new system configuration that includes the device necessary in order to realize said case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Ryuichi TESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240017409
    Abstract: In a recommended load determining device (10) utilizing an estimation model (18) that outputs a parameter related to a capability of a user calculated based on load data expressing a load imparted to the user and on motion data expressing motion of a single motion unit of the user under the load, an acquisition section (12) acquires load data expressing a load imparted to a target user who is a target for determining a recommended load, and motion data expressing motion of a single motion unit of the target user under the load, and a determination section (20) determines recommended load data expressing a recommended load for the target user based on a parameter related to the capability of the target user as output from the estimation model (18) by inputting the acquired load data and the acquired motion data into the estimation model (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Kurisu, Satoshi Yase, Masamune Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20240020470
    Abstract: The character input device includes a character input section, a candidate obtainment unit, a finalization unit, and a registration unit. A character string is input to the character input section. The candidate obtainment unit obtains a candidate character string registered in the dictionary and corresponding to the character string that has been received by the character input section. The finalization unit finalizes the candidate character string obtained by the candidate obtainment unit and selected, as a finalized character string for the character string that has been received by the character input section. If a part of the finalized character string finalized by the finalization unit is deleted, the registration unit registers, in the dictionary, the remaining character string that remains without being deleted, in association with the character string that has been received by the character input section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Atsuhiro NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11875266
    Abstract: An image determination device includes: a training model which outputs, on the basis of an image to be examined, output data indicating a determination result about the image; a training part which trains the training model to output, by using training data including a training image and label data, output data indicating the label data associated with the training image, when the training image is input to the training model; a dividing part which divides the training data into a plurality of pieces of sub-training data; a measurement part which measures accuracy of determination when the training part trains the training model by using each of the plurality of pieces of sub-training data; and selection part which selects at least any one among the plurality of pieces of sub-training data on the basis of the accuracy of determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Tsuchiya, Yoshihisa Ijiri, Yu Maruyama, Yohei Okawa, Kennosuke Hayashi, Sakon Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11874492
    Abstract: An illumination device (10) is attached to a gaming machine island including a plurality of gaming machines (40), and comprises LEDs (21a) that emit light, light guide plates (20), a rotating body (23), a plate-shaped member (24), a motor (31), a lower case (13), and a control unit 17. A plurality of light guide plates 20 are attached to the plate-shaped member 24. The light guide plates 20 each have an end surface 20a on which the light emitted from the LEDs 21a is incident, and a flat surface 20b from which the incident light is emitted. The rotating body 23 and the plate-shaped member 24 hold an LED board 21 and the light guide plates 20. The motor 31 rotates the rotating body 23 in the desired direction. The lower case 13 is provided with the motor 31, is connected to the rotating body 23 and the plate-shaped member 24 in a relatively rotatable state, and is installed on a gaming machine island that includes gaming machines 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaaki Sumi, Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Takahiro Ono
  • Patent number: D1011935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventor: Ramin Naghshineh