Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Hasegawa

Hirokazu Hasegawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20250099865
    Abstract: A robot acts autonomously and includes a first table, a second table, and a controller. The first table stores a growth parameter indicating a growth of the robot and data indicating behavior information specifying an action of the robot corresponding to the growth parameter in association with each other. The second table stores data indicating the behavior information and data indicating an action file defining the action of the robot in association with each other. The controller acquires the growth parameter and causes, based on data stored in the first table and data stored in the second table, the robot to perform an action corresponding to the acquired growth parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Miyuki URANO, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250105653
    Abstract: The power receiving system includes a power receiver, a battery and one or more processors. The power receiver receives power from a power supply device. The battery is accommodated in the robot and is to be charged with power received by the power receiver. In a case where a determination is made that an amount of charge of the battery is determined to be less than a predetermined amount of charge, the one or more processors control the robot and sets an energy saving mode of the robot, and in a case where a determination is made that the amount of charge of the battery is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount of charge, the one or more processors release setting of the energy saving mode and controls to receive power that is equal to or greater than a reference power consumption corresponding to the energy saving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Patent number: 12257705
    Abstract: The robot includes a storage unit and a control unit. The control unit acquires outside stimulus feature amounts that are feature amounts of an outside stimulus acting from outside, stores the acquired outside stimulus feature amounts in the storage unit as a history, compares outside stimulus feature amounts acquired at a certain timing with outside stimulus feature amounts stored in the storage unit to calculate a first similarity degree, and controls operations based on the calculated first similarity degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hasegawa, Miyuki Urano, Yoshihiro Kawamura, Chihiro Toyama
  • Patent number: 12214484
    Abstract: A device control apparatus includes at least one processor executing a program stored in at least one memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hasegawa, Miyuki Urano
  • Publication number: 20250037215
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the user's terminal, identification information on the user, information on an amount of energy specified by the user, and identification information on the code read by the user's terminal from the display object; a control unit configured to control, based on information in which the identification information on the code is recorded in association with identification information on the supply device, the supply device in accordance with the identification information on the code based on information on an amount of energy specified by the user; and a payment unit configured to make a payment of an amount of money, which corresponds to the amount of energy supplied from the supply device to the user, from a balance of an account of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Platforms, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Hasegawa, Hirokazu Shigematsu, Yuta Yamawaki, Koichi Watanabe, Masaaki Hatagawa, Takuya Funatsu
  • Publication number: 20250015615
    Abstract: A power supply system includes: an indicator lamp; and at least one processor. The at least one processor executes retry processing of stopping and then restarting non-contact power supply in a case where an error occurs during the non-contact power supply performed on a robot. The at least one processor maintains a display manner of the indicator lamp during execution of the retry processing as a first manner same as a manner when the error does not occur, in a case where a state of the non-contact power supply is notified by a display manner of the indicator lamp and the occurring error corresponds to an error of a first classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Kazuto YAMAMOTO, Masanobu SATOU, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20250010485
    Abstract: A robot includes a coupler coupling a first part to a second part; a driver driving the coupler; a sound outputter that outputs a sound; and at least one processor. The at least one processor, upon detection of a predetermined trigger, controls at least one of the driver or the sound outputter so that the robot executes a first action set so that action content changes in accordance with pseudo-growth of the robot, and a second action set so that a change of the action content according to the pseudo-growth does not occur and also set so that the action content varies due to a difference in an individuality of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Miyuki URANO, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240246242
    Abstract: A robot includes at least one processor configured to update, in accordance with a type of an acquired external stimulus, an emotion parameter expressed by a position on a positioning map having at least two coordinate axes and expressing a pseudo-emotion, and execute action control corresponding to the updated emotion parameter, and a memory configured to store a first table and a second table. In a case of updating the emotion parameter, the at least one processor acquires, from the first table, the evaluation value corresponding to the type of acquired external stimulus and acquires, from the second table, the correction value corresponding to a current position of the emotion parameter on the positioning map, and move, based on the acquired evaluation value and the acquired correction value, a position of the emotion parameter on the positioning map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA
  • Publication number: 20240248486
    Abstract: A robot includes a torso, a head coupled to the torso so as to be rotatable with respect to the torso, and at least one processor. The at least one processor determines whether the torso is inclined from a horizontal direction and, in a case where a determination is made that the torso is inclined from the horizontal direction, controls an actuator to rotate the head with respect to the torso such that the head faces the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouki MAYUZUMI, Erina ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20240231373
    Abstract: An action control device includes a sound acquirer, an actuator, and a controller. In response to the controller determining, during an action of the actuator, that a sound acquired by the sound acquirer is a human voice, the controller controls so as to stop the actuator, capture sound after the determination for a predetermined period, and in response to the predetermined period having elapsed, restart the action of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240190000
    Abstract: A controller of an action control device that controls an action of a controlled device, wherein the controller controls the action of the controlled device using set control data that is set in advance in correspondence with a pseudo-emotion and random control data that is randomly generated in accordance with the pseudo-emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouki MAYUZUMI, Erina ICHIKAWA, Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO
  • Publication number: 20240173636
    Abstract: An action control device that controls the actions of a robot acquires an external stimulus; and in a case of executing an action corresponding to the external stimulus, controls so as to execute, based on an intimacy between a subject applying the external stimulus and the robot, different action content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Kayoko ONODA, Kouki MAYUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240100708
    Abstract: A robot imitating a living thing and driven by a battery that is rechargeable, includes: an operator to perform an operation simulating a living thing; and a controller. The controller performs processing of causing the robot to perform a breathing operation that is an operation simulating breathing of a living thing at a predetermined cycle and processing of differentiating a control content of the operator between a charging breathing operation that is the breathing operation during charging of the battery and a non-charging breathing operation that is the breathing operation during non-charging of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100709
    Abstract: A robot that imitates a living thing and is driven by a battery that is rechargeable, includes an operator for causing the robot to perform an operation imitating a living thing, and a controller. In a case where the battery changes from a powered state in which a power supply operation for charging is in progress to a non-powered state that is a state in which the power supply operation is stopped, the controller controls the operator with a control content that is determined in accordance with the remaining level of the battery at timing corresponding to the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100707
    Abstract: A robot imitating a living thing, includes a body, a head connected to a front end of the body, a movable portion for moving the head relative to the body, and a controller. In a state in which the body is placed on a mounting surface, the controller executes a first control that controls the movable portion to change a distance between the front end of the body and the mounting surface alternately between a first distance and a second distance by moving the head so that a state of the head pressing the mounting surface changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Miyuki URANO, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240100699
    Abstract: A controller of a robot executes processing of determining whether an apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact and, when determination is made that the apparatus is likely to be subjected to an impact in a case where a movable part is in a first state in which the movable part is able to cause the apparatus to execute a physical operation, transferring the movable part from the first state to a second state for suppressing an impact exerted on the movable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Wataru NIMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA, Tomio HIGO
  • Publication number: 20240100706
    Abstract: An apparatus control device includes an emotion setter that sets, in accordance with an external stimulus acting on the apparatus, an emotion parameter expressing a pseudo-emotion; and an emotion changer that changes the set emotion parameter when the pseudo-emotion is close to a predetermined state and, also, the external stimulus is not detected in a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Wataru NIMURA, Erina ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240091954
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a controller that performs control for acquiring a signal expressing an external stimulus acting on the apparatus; setting, based on the signal, a pseudo-emotion; and adjusting, based on the set pseudo-emotion, a content of control for the sound outputter or the driver of the apparatus, the content of the control being stored in advance in a storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hirokazu HASEGAWA, Chihiro TOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11886970
    Abstract: An apparatus control device includes: at least one processor; and at least one first memory that stores a program executed by the processor, in which the processor acquires input data based on at least one of acceleration and angular velocity generated by application of an external force to an apparatus, classifies a plurality of the acquired input data into a plurality of clusters by an unsupervised clustering method, acquires relationship data representing relationship between the acquired input data and the plurality of classified clusters, and controls movement of the apparatus based on the acquired relationship data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Kawamura, Hiroki Atsumi, Miyuki Urano, Toshiaki Kanamura
  • Patent number: 11871152
    Abstract: A virtual space management unit 60 generates a virtual space information and manages the virtual space information. An icon position acquisition unit 61 acquires icon position information of each of the users U. A transmission-side voice acquisition unit 62 acquires a transmission-side voice information. A distance calculation unit 63 calculates a distance between each of the icons based on a position within the virtual space of the icons corresponding to each of the users U. A correction factor determination unit 64 determines a correction factor of an output information based on the distance between the icons calculated by the distance calculation unit 63. A reception-side voice transmission control unit 65 transmits the acquired transmission-side voice information and the determined correction factor to each of the second user terminals 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OVICE, INC.
    Inventors: Sae Hyung Jung, Hirokazu Hasegawa