Patents by Inventor Eiichi Saitoh

Eiichi Saitoh 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: 11690534
    Abstract: A gait evaluation apparatus that evaluates a training gait of a paralyzed patient suffering from paralysis in a leg includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of motion amounts of a paralyzed body portion according to a gait motion and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate that the gait motion is an abnormal gait in a case where at least one of the motion amounts acquired by the acquisition unit meets any one of a plurality of abnormal gait criteria set in advance. The abnormal gait criteria include at least two or more first criteria, which are criteria relevant to motion amounts of different parts of the paralyzed body portion, or at least two or more second criteria, which are criteria relevant to motion amounts of the same part of the paralyzed body portion in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei Nakashima, Masayuki Imaida, Takeru Fukagawa, Eiichi Saitoh, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Hiroki Tanikawa
  • Patent number: 11565165
    Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a display device installed such that the trainee views the display device while walking on the treadmill, a camera configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which a gait of the trainee is recognizable, a calculation unit configured to calculate a tilt of a body core of the walking trainee based on an image captured by the camera, and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display a body core line associated with the tilt, and an index indicating at least an end of a permissible range of a deflection of the body core line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei Nakashima, Nagisa Tanaka, Eiichi Saitoh, Akihiro Saito, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Takuma Il
  • Patent number: 11508258
    Abstract: The rehabilitation training system includes: an evaluation unit configured to evaluate rehabilitation training performed by a trainee; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of evaluation comments regarding the evaluation; a reception unit configured to receive, from an authorized training assistant, designation of an evaluation comment that is restricted from being presented to a specific trainee among the plurality of evaluation comments; a selection unit configured to select an evaluation comment to be presented to the specific trainee from the plurality of evaluation comments based on the evaluation for the rehabilitation training of the specific trainee that is performed by the evaluation unit and the designation; and a presentation unit configured to present the evaluation comment selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Eiichi Saitoh, Akihiro Saito, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Takuma Il
  • Patent number: 11484753
    Abstract: The walking training system includes: a treadmill; a determination unit configured to determine whether a walking of the trainee on the treadmill is an abnormal walking based on predetermined abnormal walking symptoms; a display unit configured to display a result of a determination of each of the abnormal walking symptoms; a reception unit configured receive a selection of at least one result of the determination from the results of the determinations, each of which displayed on the display unit, in which regarding pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in the result of the determination which the reception unit has received the selection, the display unit preferentially displays the pieces of advice that are common to pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in a result of another determination in which the determination unit determines the abnormal walking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei Nakashima, Takuma Nakamura, Taiga Matsumoto, Eiichi Saitoh, Akihiro Saito, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Takuma Il
  • Publication number: 20220062708
    Abstract: A training system generates a training plan for enabling a trainee to perform a plurality of kinds of training, and includes: a track record information accepting unit that acquires track record information regarding the physical action of the trainee; the target information generation unit that accepts environmental data of daily life of the trainee after the training plan is finished, and generates target information regarding a target of the function recovery of the trainee based on the accepted environmental data; the storage unit that stores statistical information regarding the function recovery in the training performed by a plurality of other trainees; and the plan generation unit that generates the training plan of the trainee based on the track record information, the target information, and the statistical information and outputs the generated training plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Iwata, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Hisataka Yuasa, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220032124
    Abstract: A training system generates a training plan for enabling a trainee to perform a plurality of kinds of training, and includes a storage unit, a track record information accepting unit, and a plan generation unit. The storage unit stores training information including the content of training, tool information indicating the type of a tool used for the training, and statistical information regarding the function recovery in the training performed by other trainees. The track record information accepting unit accepts track record information regarding the track record of the action of the trainee. The plan generation unit generates a training plan including the content of the training that the trainee conducts, the tool that is used for the training, and an execution period of the training based on the training information, the tool information, and the statistical information and outputs the generated training plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Takuya Iwata, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Hisataka Yuasa, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220032123
    Abstract: A training system generates a training plan for enabling a trainee to perform a plurality of kinds of training, and includes a storage unit, a track record information accepting unit, and a plan generation unit. The storage unit stores training information including the content of training, therapist information indicating the type of a therapist who is in charge of the training and assists the trainee, and statistical information regarding the function recovery in the training performed by a plurality of other trainees. The track record information accepting unit accepts track record information regarding the physical action of the trainee. The plan generation unit generates a training plan including the content of the training, the type of the therapist, and an execution period of the training based on the training information, the therapist information, and the statistical information and outputs the generated training plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisataka Yuasa, Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Iwata, Keisuke Suga, Masayuki Imaida, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220036994
    Abstract: A presentation system includes a storage unit, an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and an output unit. The storage unit is configured to store definition information defining a housing environment according to a physical ability. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire first physical ability information of a trainee who performs training for the purpose of maintaining or recovering the physical ability before the training, and plan information which is a plan of the training. The determination unit is configured to estimate second physical ability information which is the physical ability of the trainee after an end of the plan based on the first physical ability information and the plan information, and determine the housing environment corresponding to the second physical ability information based on the definition information. The output unit is configured to output presentation information including the determined housing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Miyagawa, Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Iwata, Hisataka Yuasa, Masayuki Imaida, Keisuke Suga, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka, Satoshi Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220015717
    Abstract: An embodiment activity state analysis device includes a measurement unit configured to measure a piece of biological information including a heart rate or a pulse rate of a user, a storage unit configured to store a plurality of the pieces of biological information measured in time series, a representative value calculation unit configured to acquire the plurality of the pieces of biological information measured when the user is resting from the storage unit and calculate a representative value, and an activity state calculation unit configured to calculate an activity state of the user by using the representative value calculated by the representative value calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Takayuki Ogasawara, Rieko Sato, Masahiko Mukaino, Hirotaka Matsuura, Eiichi Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20210217509
    Abstract: A first calculation unit obtains an activity amount concerning the body movement of a measurement subject from a change in physical information measured by a physical measurement unit. A second calculation unit obtains a physiological load imposed on the measurement subject from a change in physiological information measured by a physiological measurement unit. A graph generation unit generates a graph concerning the activity amount obtained by the first calculation unit and the physiological load obtained by the second calculation unit. For example, the graph generation unit sets, as a first parameter, a change in the activity amount obtained by the first calculation unit, sets, as a second parameter, a change in the physiological load obtained by the second calculation unit, and generates two-dimensional graph data with the first parameter and the second parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Rieko Sato, Takayuki Ogasawara, Masahiko Mukaino, Eiichi Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20200384342
    Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a display device installed such that the trainee views the display device while walking on the treadmill, a camera configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which a gait of the trainee is recognizable, a calculation unit configured to calculate a tilt of a body core of the walking trainee based on an image captured by the camera, and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display a body core line associated with the tilt, and an index indicating at least an end of a permissible range of a deflection of the body core line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Nagisa TANAKA, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Publication number: 20200388187
    Abstract: The rehabilitation training system includes: an evaluation unit configured to evaluate rehabilitation training performed by a trainee; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of evaluation comments regarding the evaluation; a reception unit configured to receive, from an authorized training assistant, designation of an evaluation comment that is restricted from being presented to a specific trainee among the plurality of evaluation comments; a selection unit configured to select an evaluation comment to be presented to the specific trainee from the plurality of evaluation comments based on the evaluation for the rehabilitation training of the specific trainee that is performed by the evaluation unit and the designation; and a presentation unit configured to present the evaluation comment selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Publication number: 20200383607
    Abstract: A walking training system includes a treadmill configured to prompt a trainee to walk, a camera system configured to image the trainee at an angle of view at which at least a part of a gait of the trainee walking on the treadmill is recognizable, a determination unit configured to determine whether abnormal walking occurs in the trainee based on a plurality of predetermined determination criteria, an image processing unit configured to clip, as a video clip, a video in a predetermined period including a timing when the determination unit determines that the abnormal walking occurs from a video captured by the camera system, and perform image processing to emphasize an abnormal part of the abnormal walking determined by the determination unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the video clip subjected to the image processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Takuma NAKAMURA, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Publication number: 20200384312
    Abstract: The walking training system includes: a treadmill; a determination unit configured to determine whether a walking of the trainee on the treadmill is an abnormal walking based on predetermined abnormal walking symptoms; a display unit configured to display a result of a determination of each of the abnormal walking symptoms; a reception unit configured receive a selection of at least one result of the determination from the results of the determinations, each of which displayed on the display unit, in which regarding pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in the result of the determination which the reception unit has received the selection, the display unit preferentially displays the pieces of advice that are common to pieces of advice about adjustment items for improving the abnormal walking symptoms in a result of another determination in which the determination unit determines the abnormal walking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Takuma NAKAMURA, Taiga MATSUMOTO, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Publication number: 20200376340
    Abstract: A rehabilitation training system includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of training objective items, a first monitor installed at a position not visible from a position where a training person undergoes a training attempt and configured to display a training objective item of a first group from among the plurality of training objective items, a second monitor installed at a position visible from the position and configured to display a training objective item of a second group selected through the display on the first monitor from among the training objective items of the first group, and a control unit configured to control the training attempt to be undergone by the training person based on a specific training objective item selected through the display on the second monitor from among the training objective items of the second group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Taiga MATSUMOTO, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Patent number: 10675503
    Abstract: A walking training apparatus including a treadmill having an infinite orbital rotation type walking surface, the walking training apparatus including: a holding part that a walking trainee holds, in which the holding part is capable of supporting a load applied to the walking surface by the walking trainee and is movable in a direction including a component parallel to the walking surface, is provided. By providing a pseudo stick with the aforementioned structure, the trainee is able to perform training of the upper part of the body that uses the stick in parallel to training of the leg part that uses the treadmill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei Nakashima, Tomio Ikeda, Eiichi Saitoh, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Hiroki Tanikawa, Akihito Uno
  • Patent number: 10350131
    Abstract: A walk training apparatus includes a walking assist device, a first tensile portion, and a second tensile portion. The walking assist device is configured to be attached to a leg of a user so as to assist the user in walking. The first tensile portion pulls at least one of the walking assist device and the leg of the user toward a vertically upper side and toward a front side. The second tensile portion pulls at least one of the walking assist device and the leg of the user toward the vertically upper side and toward a rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Masayuki Imaida, Hitoshi Konosu, Yoshinori Fujikake, Eiichi Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20190150792
    Abstract: A gait evaluation apparatus that evaluates a training gait of a paralyzed patient suffering from paralysis in a leg includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of motion amounts of a paralyzed body portion according to a gait motion and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate that the gait motion is an abnormal gait in a case where at least one of the motion amounts acquired by the acquisition unit meets any one of a plurality of abnormal gait criteria set in advance. The abnormal gait criteria include at least two or more first criteria, which are criteria relevant to motion amounts of different parts of the paralyzed body portion, or at least two or more second criteria, which are criteria relevant to motion amounts of the same part of the paralyzed body portion in different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Masayuki Imaida, Takeru Fukagawa, Eiichi Saitoh, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Hiroki Tanikawa
  • Publication number: 20180280756
    Abstract: A walking training apparatus including a treadmill having an infinite orbital rotation type walking surface, the walking training apparatus including: a holding part that a walking trainee holds, in which the holding part is capable of supporting a load applied to the walking surface by the walking trainee and is movable in a direction including a component parallel to the walking surface, is provided. By providing a pseudo stick with the aforementioned structure, the trainee is able to perform training of the upper part of the body that uses the stick in parallel to training of the leg part that uses the treadmill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Tomio Ikeda, Eiichi Saitoh, Satoshi Hirano, Shigeo Tanabe, Hiroki Tanikawa, Akihito Uno
  • Patent number: 10022287
    Abstract: A walking training system includes a walking assistance apparatus that is mounted on a leg portion of a user, and assists the user's walking, first pulling means for pulling at least one of the walking assistance apparatus and the leg portion of the user to a front side; and second pulling means for pulling at least one of the walking assistance apparatus and the leg portion of the user to a rear side. A pulling point of the walking assistance apparatus and/or the leg portion of the user, which is pulled by the first and second pulling means is provided to be movable around the leg portion of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Masayuki Imaida, Hitoshi Konosu, Yoshinori Fujikake, Issei Nakashima, Eiichi Saitoh