Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Publication number: 20210337180
    Abstract: A first stereoscopic image display device (2) is provided with a light guide plate (20) including a plurality of reflectors (31a, 31b, 31c), the first stereoscopic image display device (2) causing an observer to recognize an undistorted stereoscopic image even when the observer views a stereoscopic image from an angle being a high angle with respect to a direction normal to the front surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Hirose, Yutaka Okayasu, Keiichiro Tanaka, Yoshimasa Osumi, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Mitsuru Okuda
  • Patent number: 11157797
    Abstract: An evaluation device may include: a receiving unit that receives an image of the semiconductor substrate, the image captured by an imaging device provided on the semiconductor substrate manufacturing apparatus; a determination unit that determines, using a neural network, at least one value representative of a probability of a machine learning device outputting an erroneous output for the image, the machine learning device configured to: (i) receive the image of the semiconductor substrate, (ii) perform computation using the received image, and (iii) output information indicating the quality of the semiconductor substrate based on a result of the computation; and an output unit that outputs an output based on the at least one value representative of the probability. The neural network has been trained using: images of manufactured semiconductor substrates; and information indicating, for each one of the images, a level of erroneousness for an output from the machine learning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tanichi Ando, Hiroshi Sugahara
  • Patent number: 11159116
    Abstract: The present invention improves performance of a motor control device. A slave device (90) includes: an inverter (73) configured to drive a motor (74); and a control section (10) configured to control the motor (74) via the inverter (73). The control section (10) includes: a feedback signal obtaining section configured to obtain a feedback signal indicative of a predetermined physical quantity corresponding to an operating state of the motor (74); a communication section (120) configured to communicate with a PLC (100); and a PWM signal output section (130) configured to supply a motor driving signal to the inverter (73). The control section (10) is implemented by a single IC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Kiribuchi
  • Patent number: 11155208
    Abstract: In order to achieve an image display unit having excellent degree of freedom in designing the position of a display image, an image display unit (1A) is provided with: an imaging unit (10) configured to capture an image of a space to be viewed; an image display device (11) configured to display an image captured by the imaging unit (10) in a display area in real time; and an image forming unit configured to form an image in a space where there is no screen by projecting the image displayed by the image display device (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Gouo Kurata, Norikazu Kitamura, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yuto Mori
  • Patent number: 11156641
    Abstract: A power distribution network monitoring system includes a CT sensor and a power management device. The CT sensor includes a measurement component and a transmitter. The measurement component is installed at a plurality of predetermined positions along a power line constituting the power distribution network, and measures current of the power line at each predetermined position. The transmitter wirelessly transmits, as transmission data, the power spectrums of the fundamental wave, third harmonic, and fifth harmonic, as well as the effective current values used to detect abnormalities in the power distribution network, the data being at least part of the data measured by the measurement components. The power management device includes a receiver and a management database. The receiver receives the transmission data. The management database stores the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeya, Tatsuya Adachi
  • Patent number: 11157297
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to prevent a conflict between variable names and consequently the unintentional overwriting of data when a plurality of programs that define a shared variable exist. A control device (1) is equipped with a program management part (11), a data storage part (13a), and a shared variable symbol table (13b). The program management part (11) acquires an identifier for a first user program, generates a shared variable name that includes the identifier and a variable name of a shared variable defined in the first user program, associates the shared variable name and an address of the shared variable with each other, and records these in the shared variable symbol table (13b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru Arai
  • Publication number: 20210326600
    Abstract: An information management device includes: a first data storage unit which stores first data relating to at least one of data on equipment and operation behavior data concerning the equipment up to occurrence of an event; an event information generation unit which classifies the event on the basis of the first data and generates event information associated with the first data; a second data storage unit which stores second data in which the data on the equipment encompassing before and after maintenance work in response to the event is associated with maintenance behavior data concerning the equipment; a maintenance information generation unit which associates the event information with the second data and generates maintenance information corresponding to each piece of event information; and a maintenance information storage unit which stores the generated maintenance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi KATAHATA, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Yuki HIROHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210323146
    Abstract: A robot control device 10 is provided with: a reading device 40 that reads a marker 21 attached to a robot 20 and markers 31 attached to individual objects 30; and a CPU 111 that performs image analysis concerning the individual positions of the robot 20 and the individual objects 30 in real space based on information read from the markers 21, 31, and that simulates the operation of the robot 20 while disposing three-dimensional shape models of the robot 20 and the individual objects 30 in a virtual space based on information indicating the positions of the robot 20 and the individual objects 30 in real space, information concerning the three-dimensional shape model of the robot 20, associated with the marker 21, and information concerning the three-dimensional shape models of the individual objects 30, associated with the individual markers 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kennosuke HAYASHI, Yohei OKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210325838
    Abstract: A prediction control development device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a prediction model of a control amount by analyzing first time-series data of the control amount and provides the generated prediction model to a controller. The prediction control development device acquires second time-series data showing transition of a value of the control amount during prediction control using the prediction model, and evaluates prediction accuracy of the prediction model based on a difference between a prediction value by the prediction model and a value of the second time-series data. When the prediction accuracy of the prediction model is not allowable, the prediction control development device analyzes the second time-series data to newly generate a prediction model of the control amount, and provides the newly generated prediction model to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuaki ABE, Yuki UEYAMA, Takahiro TOKU, Shuji INAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210325840
    Abstract: A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph, which contains a plurality of first nodes respectively representing device variables, edges representing the existence of a dependency relation, and a block representing a function, and a second directed graph, which contains a plurality of first nodes, edges, a block, and a plurality of second nodes arranged in the block and respectively representing function parameters. In response to an instruction from a user the display device switches between displaying the generated first directed graph and displaying the generated second directed graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya OTA, Reiko HATTORI, Kosuke TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20210326648
    Abstract: Provided is an image determination device. The image determination device is provided with: feature extractors which output, on the basis of an image to be examined, each piece of feature data indicating a specific feature of the image; a determiner which outputs, on the basis of the feature data output from the extractors, output data indicating the determination result pertaining to the image; and a training part which trains the determiner so as to output, output data indicating the label data associated with the training image on the basis of the feature data output when the training image is input to the extractors, wherein the training part further trains, by using new training data, the determiner so that the output data indicating the label data associated with the image is output by the determiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki TSUCHIYA, Yoshihisa IJIRI, Yu MARUYAMA, Yohei OKAWA, Kennosuke HAYASHI, Sakon YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210323145
    Abstract: A robot control device is provided to accept information (201) specifying an object 170) manipulated by a robot (20) from among objects of a plurality of kinds and accept information (202) specifying a target relative positional relationship between the specified object (70) and the distal end of a hand of the robot (20). The robot control device extracts the object (70) from image information (501) obtained by photographing the objects of the plurality of kinds and the surrounding environment thereof, generates information (301) indicating the position and orientation of the object (70), generates an action instruction (401) from the result of learning by a learning module (103), the action instruction (401) serving to match the relative positional relationship between the object (70) and the distal end of the hand of the robot (20) with the target relative positional relationship, and outputs the action instruction (401) to the robot (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kennosuke HAYASHI, Yohei OKAWA, Yuki YAMAGUCHI, Yoshiya SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 11147461
    Abstract: A blood pressure analyzing apparatus includes: a blood pressure variation determiner determining whether first blood pressure information varies a threshold or more from second blood pressure information or not, the first blood pressure information corresponding to an arbitrary beat, the second blood pressure information corresponding to a previous beat to the arbitrary beat; a blood pressure variation cause determiner determining whether a blood pressure variation is caused by the move of the wrist or by another reason than the move of the wrist, based on, wrist move information detected in a detection period of a pulse wave serving as a calculation source of the first blood pressure information, when it is determined that the first blood pressure information varies the threshold or more from the second blood pressure information; and a recording controller recording a determination result and the first blood pressure information in association with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentaro Mori, Shingo Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11151016
    Abstract: A control-program-development supporting apparatus (10) comprises an editing unit (11) and a display unit (14). The editing unit (11) executes editing of a control program and debugging of the control program. The display unit (14) displays the contents of the editing and the contents of the debugging. In addition, when the same processing is designated a plurality of times for a program construct or a variable to be debugged contained in the control program during executing debugging, the editing unit (11) causes the display unit (14) to display debugging supplementary information including at least one of past edited contents concerning the program construct or the variable to be debugged, changed contents of the control program, and related error information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Iwamura, Masatoshi Takahara
  • Patent number: 11154001
    Abstract: An inspection management system having a plurality of processes and managing final inspection performed to inspect a completed product and one or more intermediate inspections performed to inspect an intermediate product manufactured in the processes earlier than a final process includes: an inspection content data acquisition unit that acquires inspection content data including an inspection standard for each inspection item of the product; an inspection content setting unit that sets inspection content based on the inspection content data acquired by the inspection content data acquisition unit; a simulation unit that simulates inspection in accordance with assumed inspection content; an inspection standard calculation unit that calculates an inspection standard more appropriate than a current inspection standard based on the simulation; and an output unit that outputs base information indicating that at least the inspection standard calculated by the inspection standard calculation unit is more appropriate
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mori, Katsuki Nakajima, Takako Onishi, Isao Nakanishi, Mayuko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11147512
    Abstract: There is provided a pulse wave detector. A body portion includes a pulse wave detection sensor which detects a pulse wave from an artery in a wrist of a user. A strip-shaped band member secures the body portion to the wrist. In a secured state where the body portion is secured to the wrist with the band member, the body portion is placed in a position where a process of an ulna in the wrist or a process of a radius in the wrist is exposed. The band member includes a first region, and a second region which is higher in stretchability than the first region. In the secured state, the second region is at least in contact with the process of the ulna in the wrist or the process of the radius in the wrist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Reiji Fujita
  • Publication number: 20210315523
    Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes: a case including; a strap; a plurality of valves; a pump; and a power supply unit. The pump and the power supply unit are disposed with a gap therebetween. The pump is provided with a suction hole on a surface thereof opposite to the power supply unit. The device comprises a hole portion formed between each of a pairs of lugs of an outer case, an opening end being located at a position opposed to the gap in a first direction. The hole portion extends linearly, and one opening end of the hold portion is provided on the outer surface of the outer case closer to a wrist, and other opening end thereof is provided on the inner surface of the outer case closer to a windshield than the one opening end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicants: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi ONO, Takanori NISHIOKA, Shinji MIZUNO, Hirokazu TANAKA, Tomoyuki NISHIDA, Noboru KOHARA
  • Patent number: 11144028
    Abstract: The disclosure is provided to transmit a sensor value from a sensor to an external device with high efficiency. A sensor value of a sensor is acquired, basic data as time-series data is generated with reference to the acquired sensor value, differential data indicating a difference between the basic data and measurement data as time-series data corresponding to the sensor value acquired from the sensor is generated, and the differential data is transmitted to an external device through wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Nakano, Hidekatsu Nogami, Yahiro Koezuka, Arata Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11146191
    Abstract: A simulation device includes: a simulation system including a predetermined feedback system having at least a predetermined control block structure corresponding to a predetermined device-side configuration; a holding unit holding impulse response information for calculation that is information on an impulse response relating to the predetermined device-side configuration; a first response calculation unit calculating a time response of the predetermined device-side configuration to a predetermined input value by convolution processing using the impulse response information for calculation and the predetermined input value; and a second response calculation unit calculating a response of the simulation system to a command value input to the simulation system by using the time response of the predetermined device-side configuration calculated by the first response calculation unit. According to this configuration, simulation accuracy of a control system is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Urabe, Mamoru Egi
  • Patent number: 11144016
    Abstract: A temperature control unit has an acquisition unit that acquires first information regarding driving and stopping of a heater and second information indicating whether or not to subject a time proportional output to an SSR to autonomous control and an SSR control unit that performs time proportional output of an instruction to drive or stop the heater, to the SSR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kikunaga, Kenji Sato