Patents by Inventor Atsushi Harada

Atsushi Harada 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: 11920553
    Abstract: A hydroelectric power generation system includes a water turbine disposed in a channel that carries a flow of a fluid, a generator driven by the water turbine, and a controller that performs a first control. The channel includes a first channel located on an inflow side of the water turbine. The controller controls, in the first control, a flow rate or a head of the water turbine so that any one of a pressure of the fluid in the first channel, a flow rate of the fluid in the first channel, and a liquid level of the fluid in a first reservoir from which the fluid flows out to the first channel approaches a first target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Harada, Atsushi Suhara, Takao Sonoda
  • Publication number: 20230157613
    Abstract: An electrocardiographic detection device for a vehicle includes: a steering wheel electrode provided at a lower layer of a covering material that covers a surface of a steering wheel; a steering wheel electrode provided at a lower layer of the covering material of the steering wheel and an insulating material of a predetermined thickness; a waveform generator detecting a differential voltage between the steering wheel electrode and a ground region; a waveform generator detecting a differential voltage between the steering wheel electrode and a ground region; and a signal processing section that generates an electrocardiographic signal on the basis of the differential voltage detected at the waveform generator and the differential voltage detected at the waveform generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Masaki KUNUGITA, Yusuke YAMANAKA, Atsushi HARADA
  • Patent number: 11135724
    Abstract: A jig according to the present disclosure includes N planes (N is an integer equal to or larger than 4) respectively attached with patterns, in which ?90°<?<90°??(1) 0?0??(2) where ? is an angle formed by, with respect to a reference normal vector perpendicular to a jig reference plane, the jig reference plane being one plane among the N planes, and having a direction from the jig reference plane toward a space in which the stereo camera is disposed, a non-reference normal vector perpendicular to a non-reference plane different from the jig reference plane among the N planes and having a direction from the non-reference plane toward the space in which the stereo camera is disposed. Non-reference normal vectors corresponding to N?1 non-reference planes among the N planes have directions different from one another with respect to the reference normal vector and do not have directions symmetrical with respect to the reference normal vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Atsushi Harada
  • Publication number: 20210303721
    Abstract: The data management server (10) includes a data acquirer (113) and an individual metadata generator (114a). The data acquirer (113) acquires main data including a plurality of pieces of device data. The individual metadata generator (114a) generates individual metadata including target data information and process information. The target data information indicates, as target data, one or more of the plurality of pieces of device data included in the main data. The process information is associated with a process performed on the target data indicated by the target data information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi HARADA, Masato NAGASAWA
  • Publication number: 20210034470
    Abstract: A data processing device (100) is connected to a backup storage (50) used for a backup of data and to a restore test storage (60) used for a restore test on the data backed up. A backup execution section (B-04) stores in the backup storage (50), a plurality of pieces of test divided data selected as restore test targets from among a plurality of pieces of divided data divided from backup-targeted data in a smaller size than a storage size of the restore test storage (60). A restore test execution section (C-05) repeats an operation of storing test divided data from the backup storage (50) into the restore test storage (60) and performs the restore test on the plurality of pieces of test divided data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya ISHIZU, Atsushi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20200122332
    Abstract: A jig according to the present disclosure includes N planes (N is an integer equal to or larger than 4) respectively attached with patterns, in which ?90°<?<90°??(1) 0?0??(2) where ? is an angle formed by, with respect to a reference normal vector perpendicular to a jig reference plane, the jig reference plane being one plane among the N planes, and having a direction from the jig reference plane toward a space in which the stereo camera is disposed, a non-reference normal vector perpendicular to a non-reference plane different from the jig reference plane among the N planes and having a direction from the non-reference plane toward the space in which the stereo camera is disposed. Non-reference normal vectors corresponding to N?1 non-reference planes among the N planes have directions different from one another with respect to the reference normal vector and do not have directions symmetrical with respect to the reference normal vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventor: Atsushi HARADA
  • Patent number: 10551821
    Abstract: A robot includes a movable part, and the movable part performs an action based on a position of a first marker obtained using first position and attitude of the movable part when a first image containing the first marker is captured by an imaging unit provided in the movable part and second position and attitude of the movable part when a second image containing the first marker is captured by the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Yamaguchi, Taro Ishige, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 10525597
    Abstract: A robot includes an instruction receiving unit that receives a calibration initiation instruction, and an arm that changes a positional relationship between a marker which indicates a reference point and a capturing unit when the calibration initiation instruction is received, in which the calibration of a coordinate system of the capturing unit and a coordinate system of the robot is performed on the basis of an image in which the marker is captured by the capturing unit after the positional relationship between the capturing unit and the marker changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Yukihiro Yamaguchi, Taro Ishige, Koichi Yasuda, Kazushige Akaha
  • Patent number: 10201900
    Abstract: A control device is capable of controlling each of a robot having a robot arm, and an imaging portion which is capable of capturing a first reference marker, a second reference marker, and a third reference marker, any one of the imaging portion, the first reference marker, the second reference marker, and the third reference marker is provided in the robot, and a posture of a reference surface parallel to a plane which passes through the first reference marker, the second reference marker, and the third reference marker, is acquired based on a first image in which the first reference marker is captured by the imaging portion, a second image in which the second reference marker is captured by the imaging portion, and a third image which captures the third reference marker by the imaging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Ishige, Atsushi Harada, Yukihiro Yamaguchi, Hiromitsu Abe
  • Patent number: 10195744
    Abstract: A control device controls a robot including an arm, an end effector provided in the arm, and a force detector provided in the arm and configured to detect force. After bringing a first portion of the end effector close to a work surface and detecting contact of the first portion and the work surface on the basis of an output from the force detector, the control device brings a second portion of the end effector different from the first portion close to the work surface, detects contact of the second portion and the work surface on the basis of an output from the force detector, and teaches the robot a position of the end effector with respect to the work surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Harada, Kenji Onda
  • Publication number: 20180323949
    Abstract: In order to provide feedback information of a transmission acknowledgement signal or the like appropriately even in change in DL/UL configuration in TDD, a radio base station that communicates with a user terminal by time division duplex that is capable of controlling change in DL/UL configuration is provided. The user terminal includes a receiver that receives information to change a DL/UL configuration in time division duplex, receives higher layer signaling including first information about HARQ feedback timing, and receives downlink control information including second information about the HARQ feedback timing. The user terminal determines the HARQ feedback timing for a downlink shared channel based on the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 10099380
    Abstract: A robot includes: a local coordinate system deriving portion which derives a local coordinate system having two shafts which are parallel to a work plane and orthogonal to each other, based on an image in which markers illustrating three or more points on the work plane which is not horizontal are captured; and a control parameter obtaining portion which obtains control parameters via the local coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Ishige, Atsushi Harada, Yukihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180243911
    Abstract: A robot includes an instruction receiving unit that receives a calibration initiation instruction, and an arm that changes a positional relationship between a marker which indicates a reference point and a capturing unit when the calibration initiation instruction is received, in which the calibration of a coordinate system of the capturing unit and a coordinate system of the robot is performed on the basis of an image in which the marker is captured by the capturing unit after the positional relationship between the capturing unit and the marker changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi HARADA, Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI, Taro ISHIGE, Koichi YASUDA, Kazushige AKAHA
  • Patent number: 9967861
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink resource scheduling method, a wireless base station and a mobile station. The method comprises: generating group dedicated signaling respectively for mobile station groups managed by the wireless base station, wherein group dedicated signaling of each mobile station group indicates uplink resources allocated to the mobile station group; multiplexing the generated group dedicated signaling into different positions of a first channel and transmitting the multiplexed group dedicated signaling; generating mobile station dedicated signaling for each mobile station in each of the mobile station groups, wherein the mobile station dedicated signaling at least includes group information indicating the mobile station group to which the mobile station belongs; and multiplexing the generated mobile station dedicated signaling into a second channel and transmitting the multiplexed mobile station dedicated signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaohang Chen, Anxin Li, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 9960875
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a base station, a communication system and a method thereof. The communication system includes three base stations adjacent to each other, and each base station serves at least one UE. The method includes: acquiring, by each base station, a channel matrix of a channel from the base station to an adjacent base station; calculating an interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix for each base station based on the channel matrices of the channels between the base stations; and precoding, by each base station, data to be transmitted with the interference alignment-based transmission precoding matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada, Hidetoshi Kayama
  • Publication number: 20180004188
    Abstract: A robot includes a movable part, and the movable part performs an action based on a position of a first marker obtained using first position and attitude of the movable part when a first image containing the first marker is captured by an imaging unit provided in the movable part and second position and attitude of the movable part when a second image containing the first marker is captured by the imaging unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Yukihiro YAMAGUCHI, Taro ISHIGE, Atsushi HARADA
  • Patent number: 9839029
    Abstract: A radio base station capable of reducing the impact of interference and improving the efficiency of the use of radio resources even when different DL/UL configurations are employed between neighboring transmitting/receiving points is disclosed. The radio base station can communicate with user terminals via time division duplex and is able to change and control DL/UL configurations, has a subframe type determining section that classifies subframes into fixed subframes or flexible subframes, in accordance with the relationship between the DL/UL configurations that are employed in the radio base station and the DL/UL configurations that are employed in other radio base stations, and a frequency allocation control section that applies mutually different frequency allocation methods to the fixed subframes and the flexible subframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Xiaolin Hou, Chongning Na, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 9819474
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to feed back feedback signals such as delivery acknowledgement signals properly even when the DL/UL configuration is reconfigured in TDD. A user terminal communicates, in time division duplexing, with a radio base station that reconfigures the DL/UL configuration, and has a judging section that judges a delivery acknowledgement in response to each DL subframe, and a feedback control section that allocates a delivery acknowledgement signal in response to each DL subframe to a UL subframe and sends feedback, and, when the number of DL subframes that correspond to a UL subframe is greater than a predetermined value in a radio frame after the reconfiguration of the DL/UL configuration, the feedback control section bundles at least part of the delivery acknowledgement signals for a plurality of DL subframes corresponding to the UL subframe, and sends feedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Kazuki Takeda, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 9788332
    Abstract: In order to avoid interference efficiently and control the amount of radio resources that are not used for interference avoidance, the present invention provides a radio base station connected to a neighbor radio base station via inter-radio base station interface. The radio base station has: a radio communication section that performs radio communication with a user terminal using a UL/DL configuration indicating a configuration of uplink and downlink subframes in a radio frame; an interference detecting section that measures and detects interference that the radio base station suffers from; and a selecting section that uses an interference detection result as a basis to determine which to apply to each subframe, between a resource allocation-unrestricted scheme and an inter-cell uplink/downlink orthogonalization scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chongning Na, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada
  • Patent number: 9712271
    Abstract: The present invention is designed to reduce the impact of interference even when different DL/UL configurations are applied between neighboring transmission points (radio base stations). A radio base station which can communicate with a user terminal by means of time division duplexing, and furthermore change and control the DL/UL configuration, has an interference measurement section that measures the interference level from other radio base stations in at least a UL subframe, and a scheduling control section that changes the feedback method of uplink control signals, which the user terminal feeds back in the UL subframe in response to downlink signals that have been transmitted in DL subframes, based on the measured interference level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Chunyi Wang, Xiaolin Hou, Atsushi Harada