Patents Assigned to OMRON
  • Patent number: 11106904
    Abstract: A method for modeling crowd movement includes obtaining a temporal sequence of images of a physical venue and, for each of the images, subdividing the respective image into a respective set of logical pixels according to a predetermined mapping. For each logical pixel of each image, the method computes a respective crowd density representing a respective number of mobile objects per unit of area in the physical venue at the logical pixel, thereby forming a temporal sequence of crowd density maps that corresponds to the temporal sequence of images. The method then uses successive pairs of crowd density maps to train a model on spatiotemporal changes in crowd density at the physical venue. A method of predicting future crowd density maps at physical venues using a current image of the physical venue and the trained model is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Yonetani, Mai Kurose
  • Publication number: 20210260755
    Abstract: A gripping posture evaluation apparatus includes a gripping posture deriver that derives a gripping posture in which a robot hand (H) in a robot (RB) grips a workpiece, a load index calculator that calculates a load index value indicating a load to the robot (RB) gripping and transporting the workpiece with the hand (H) in the gripping posture derived by the gripping posture deriver, and a gripping posture evaluator that evaluates the gripping posture by determining whether the gripping posture is appropriate based on the load index value calculated by the load index calculator. In response to the gripping posture evaluator determining that the gripping posture is inappropriate, derivation of a new gripping posture by the gripping posture deriver, calculation of a load index value by the load index calculator, and evaluation by the gripping posture evaluator are repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichi KURATANI, Akane NAKASHIMA, Shinichi HOSOMI, Akihiro SUZUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210262786
    Abstract: This three-dimensional measurement device includes: a light source, a lens guiding light from the light source to a subject, a photomask disposed on the optical axis between the light source and lens and having a predetermined pattern, a driving device changing the position of one member from the lens and photomask or changing an optical characteristic of the lens, and a control unit controlling the driving device. The control unit fixes an image formation position for light/dark pattern light formed by the photomask at the position of the subject by fixing the position of said member or the optical characteristic of the lens when specifying a first mode, and varies the position of the member or the optical characteristic of the lens to vary the image formation position for the light/dark pattern light such that the light/dark difference caused by the light/dark pattern light is smaller than in the first mode when specifying a second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Motoharu OKUNO, Hitoshi NAKATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20210265934
    Abstract: A setting support device according to the present invention is provided with: a first identification means that identifies an evaluation index value indicating the stability or control performance of motor control by a motor control device in each of a plurality of load device states in which a load device is in mutually different orientations or situations; a second identification means that identifies, for each control device state, a combined evaluation index value representative of the evaluation index values in the plurality of load device states, identified for that control device state by the first identification means; and a recommended-value output means that identifies and outputs a recommended value of at least one control parameter on the basis of the combined evaluation index value identified for each control device state by the second identification means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takumi FUJIOKA, Mamoru EGI
  • Publication number: 20210260763
    Abstract: A path generation device including an acquisition unit, a setting unit, and a path generation unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire pose information relating to an initial pose and a target pose of a robot, position information relating to a position of the robot, obstacle information including a position of an obstacle present in a range of interference with the robot, and specification information relating to a specification including a shape of the robot. The setting unit is configured to, based on a positional relationship between the robot and the obstacle, set a clearance amount representing an amount of clearance to avoid the interference for at least one out of the robot or an obstacle present in a range of interference with the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Norikazu Tonogai, Haruka Fujii, Takeshi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20210263715
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to diversify the types of OS compatible with constituent elements of an HMI program. A support device receives a specification of UI elements of program code compatible with a first OS type, said UI elements constituting an HMI program executed by control devices which are targets of factory automation (FA); generates program code of UI elements compatible with a second OS type from the specified UI elements; and generates a wrapper program, which includes the program code compatible with the second OS type and an instruction code instructing to generate an execution module that includes the relevant program code, when a condition that the OS possessed by the target device is not the first OS type is satisfied. A program in executable code is generated from the HMI program having the wrapper program incorporated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yutsuka SHIGEMORI, Mark FURSEMAN, Nick APPS
  • Publication number: 20210263612
    Abstract: An input device according to one or more embodiments may include a light guide plate configured to direct light entering from a light source so that the light exits from a light emitting surface and forms an image in a space, the image being an object for an input action from a user; a sensor configured to detect an object employed by a user for the input action; an input detection unit configured to detect an input from a user on the basis of a detection result from the sensor for the object; and a notification unit configured to notify a user that the input was detected when the input detection unit has detected an input from a user. The sensor may be placed in a space opposite the light emitting surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yasuhiro TANOUE, Norikazu KITAMURA, Yuto MORI
  • Patent number: 11101092
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay is provided with a housing; a first fixed contact terminal and a second fixed contact terminal secured to the housing; a movable contact accommodated in a chamber in the housing; a movable shaft with one end connected to the movable contact, and a solenoid configured to drive the movable shaft in a contact movement direction. A movable armature in the solenoid includes a groove that allows the movable shaft to be inserted from a direction intersecting with the contact movement direction. The other end of the movable shaft includes a first locking part and the groove in the movable armature includes a second locking part. The movable shaft and the movable armature engage in the contact movement direction with the engagement of the first locking part and the second locking part and move integrally in the contact movement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Ryota Minowa, Shingo Mori, Naoki Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11097072
    Abstract: With a nebulizer mesh selection method it is possible to achieve optimal treatment which fits a medicine and a patient. A nebulizer mesh selection method includes a step of acquiring a medicine attribute, by a computer, a step of acquiring a patient breathing ability, a step of selecting a mesh that corresponds to the acquired medicine attribute and patient breathing ability based on a mesh selection table in which a predetermined mesh corresponds to a combination of a medicine attribute and a patient breathing ability, and a step of outputting the selected mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Tabata, Takao Terada, Kei Asai, Masao Maeda, Yusuke Kato
  • Patent number: 11101583
    Abstract: A terminal block includes a housing having insulation properties, the housing having a holding portion provided in the housing and a terminal connection surface, a first opening portion through which a conductor portion of an electric wire can be inserted and pulled out and a second opening portion that is adjacent to the first opening portion and through which a jig can be inserted and pulled out being arranged in series in an array direction on the terminal connection surface and each communicating with the holding portion, and an opening surface being provided on a side of the holding portion in a width direction intersecting the array direction and a direction intersecting the terminal connection surface, and a terminal electrode portion and a leaf spring portion arranged in the holding portion. The housing is provided with a first movement restriction portion that restricts the movement of the moveable portion of the leaf spring portion in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Ono, Masato Matoba, Kiyotaka Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11097420
    Abstract: An interference determination apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires region information indicating regions set in a configuration space in which the angles of rotation of two or three specific joints of an articulated robot are indicated by coordinate axes, the regions including an interference region in which the robot is determined to interfere with itself or an obstacle based on the magnitudes of the angles of rotation of the specific joints, and a non-interference region in which the robot is determined to not interfere with itself or an obstacle based on the magnitudes of the angles of rotation of specific joints; and a determination unit that determines whether the robot interferes with itself or an obstacle, by determining whether coordinates indicating a posture determined by the angles of rotation of the specific joints belong to the interference region or the non-interference region indicated by the acquired region information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Haruka Fujii, Toshihiro Moriya, Takeshi Kojima, Norikazu Tonogai
  • Publication number: 20210256302
    Abstract: An image determination device includes 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 first training part which trains a first determiner so as to output first output data indicating first label data associated with a first training image on the basis of first feature data output when the first training image is input to the feature extractors; a second training part which trains a second determiner so as to output second output data indicating second label data associated with a second training image on the basis of second feature data output when the second training image is input to the feature extractors; and an output part which outputs, on the basis of the first output data and the second output data, output data indicating an overall determination result about an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki TSUCHIYA, Yoshihisa IJIRI, Yu MARUYAMA, Yohei OKAWA, Kennosuke HAYASHI, Sakon YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210253361
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a measurement control device. A sensor unit 1 disposed at least in the horizontal direction perpendicular to the traveling direction in which the article G to be packaged is conveyed, and a pressing member detection unit D for detecting an article conveyance pressing member P mounted on the packaging device are connected to the measurement control device main body 2, and the measurement control device is provided with an acquisition signal stopping unit which stops acquisition of signals from the sensor unit 1 when the pressing member detection unit D detects the pressing member P, and a signal acquisition restarting unit which restarts acquisition of signals from the sensor unit 1 when the pressing member detection unit D does not detect the pressing member P.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki HIROHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210252714
    Abstract: A control device sets a relative relation amount between a plurality of target objects that are to be final objectives, repeatedly acquires observation data from a sensor and calculates the relative relation amount between the plurality of target objects existing in the environment from the acquired observation data. Further, the control device determines a series of the relative relation amounts in a state that is to be an objective from the relative relation amount at a time point at which control of the behavior starts until the relative relation amount as the final objectives is realized, and repeatedly determines control instructions so as to change the relative relation amount in a present state calculated from the latest observation data into the relative relation amount in a state of an objective to be transitioned to next. Then, the control device outputs the determined control instruction to a robot device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Kennosuke HAYASHI, Yoshihisa IJIRI
  • Publication number: 20210253289
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a measurement control device that makes it possible to: perform optimal film packaging; and perform film packaging that is visually appealing without wasting film. According to the present invention, a sensor unit 1 is arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction that are orthogonal to the direction in which articles to be packaged G are conveyed are connected to a measurement control device body 2. To the side of the measurement control device body 2 are furnished a distance calculation unit that calculates the distances to the articles to be packaged G based on information from the sensor unit 1, a width/height calculation unit that calculates the width and height of the articles to be packaged G from the distances, and a shape computation unit that computes the shapes of the articles to be packaged G additionally including the length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki HIROHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210255597
    Abstract: A technology for associating and ascertaining dependency relations between device variables corresponding to respective devices with dependency relations of device variables for respective parameters of a function in a control program is provided. A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph including a plurality of first nodes that respectively express device variables and edges that express having dependency relations, and a second directed graph including the plurality of first nodes, the edges, and a block that expresses the function, and switches and displays the generated first directed graph and second directed graph on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya OTA, Reiko HATTORI, Kosuke TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20210255881
    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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Wataru ARAI
  • Publication number: 20210254996
    Abstract: In order to take into account both the user's activity amount and factors other than activity amount to guide the user to have suitable lifestyle habits, this habit improving device is provided with: a first calculation unit which, for every first period, acquires an activity amount of the user totaled for each first period, and which calculates a distribution pattern that indicates the change over time in the activity amount during a second period, which includes a first period; a sorting unit which classifies multiple distribution patterns into one or more groups; a second calculation unit which, on the basis of factors other than activity amount, calculates, and associates with the groups, a target pattern as a target for the user; and a presenting unit which presents advice information to the user on the basis of the current distribution pattern and the target pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Taisuke NOMURA, Keiichi OBAYASHI, Seitaro MURA
  • Patent number: 11095160
    Abstract: A power transmission device 2 in a non-contact power supply device 1 has: a transmission coil 14 that supplies power to a power reception device 3; and a power supply circuit 10 that supplies AC voltage having a switching frequency at which the transmission coil 14 does not resonate, to the transmission coil 14. A power reception device 3 has: a resonance circuit 20 having a reception coil 21 that receives power from the power transmission device 2 and a resonance capacitor 22 connected in parallel to the reception coil 21; a rectification circuit 24 that rectifies power output from the resonance circuit 20; and a coil 23 connected in series to the reception coil 21, between the resonance circuit 20 and the rectification circuit 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Goro Nakao, Yusuke Kawai, Toshiyuki Zaitsu, Atsushi Nomura
  • Patent number: D929457
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Hamaguchi