Patents by Inventor Hirokazu SASAMOTO

Hirokazu SASAMOTO 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: 20230345879
    Abstract: A raking machine includes a traveling vehicle, a rake coupled to the traveling vehicle to rake grass in an agricultural field and form a swath, a sensor to obtain a state of the grass or the swath in the agricultural field, and a controller to change, when the rake performs raking, setting information regarding the rake based on the state obtained by the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Hirokazu SASAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11567498
    Abstract: An agriculture support device includes a traveling creator to create a scheduled traveling route of an agricultural machine in an agricultural field, a display controller to display on an external terminal a virtual traveling status of the agricultural machine to travel on the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator, and a correction permitting controller to permit correction of the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator when the external terminal requests the correction. The display controller displays, on the external terminal, the virtual traveling status and a result traveling status of the agricultural machine that has traveled on the scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Unesaki, Izuru Shimamoto, Hirokazu Sasamoto, Yoshiharu Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 11559003
    Abstract: A yield calculation system comprises a position sensor configured to detect a position. A baler comprises a bale chamber in which crop material is to be formed into a bale, a volume measurement sensor provided in the bale chamber and configured to measure a volume of the bale in the bale chamber, the volume corresponding to the position detected by the position sensor, and a moisture measurement sensor provided in the bale chamber and configured to measure a moisture amount in the bale, the moisture amount corresponding to the position detected by the position sensor. Circuitry is configured to calculate, based on the volume of the bale and the moisture amount corresponding to the position, a yield corresponding to the position by excluding the moisture amount from an amount of the bale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Ibuki, Hirokazu Sasamoto, Sakura Sasakura, Yasuhiro Nishida
  • Publication number: 20220201921
    Abstract: A farming support system includes a position detector provided in one of a work vehicle and a rake implement attachable to the work vehicle, and a processor configured or programmed to obtain, based on information about the rake implement, a positional relationship between a reference point to be positioned by the position detector and a swath to be formed by the rake implement, in a local coordinate system that is defined for the work vehicle and the rake implement attached thereto. The processor is configured or programmed to generate swath position information indicating a position of the swath in a geographic coordinate system, based on information indicating a position of the reference point in the geographic coordinate system detected by the position detector during forming of the swath, and the positional relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hirokazu SASAMOTO, Yasuhiro NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210137015
    Abstract: A yield calculation system comprises a position sensor configured to detect a position. A baler comprises a bale chamber in which crop material is to be formed into a bale, a volume measurement sensor provided in the bale chamber and configured to measure a volume of the bale in the bale chamber, the volume corresponding to the position detected by the position sensor, and a moisture measurement sensor provided in the bale chamber and configured to measure a moisture amount in the bale, the moisture amount corresponding to the position detected by the position sensor. Circuitry is configured to calculate, based on the volume of the bale and the moisture amount corresponding to the position, a yield corresponding to the position by excluding the moisture amount from an amount of the bale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Takeru IBUKI, Hirokazu SASAMOTO, Sakura SASAKURA, Yasuhiro NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200319649
    Abstract: An agriculture support device includes a traveling creator to create a scheduled traveling route of an agricultural machine in an agricultural field, a display controller to display on an external terminal a virtual traveling status of the agricultural machine to travel on the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator, and a correction permitting controller to permit correction of the scheduled traveling route created by the traveling creator when the external terminal requests the correction. The display controller displays, on the external terminal, the virtual traveling status and a result traveling status of the agricultural machine that has traveled on the scheduled traveling route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Akinori UNESAKI, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Hirokazu SASAMOTO, Yoshiharu YOSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200305338
    Abstract: An agriculture support system includes an agriculture support device including a work creator to create a work plan of an agricultural operation to be performed by an agriculture machine, and a communicator to transmit the work plan from the work creator, and a display provided in the agriculture machine, including a machine information obtainer to obtain machine information of the agriculture machine, a plan obtainer to obtain the work plan transmitted from the communicator, an evaluator to compare the work plan with the machine information obtained by the machine information obtaining and to evaluate the work plan, and a display to display an evaluation result provided by the evaluator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Hirokazu SASAMOTO, Izuru SHIMAMOTO, Akinori UNESAKI, Yoshiharu YOSHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190116175
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus constructs virtual environments, and includes: a first storage provided in a first virtual environment, the first storage storing a first certificate for verification; a second storage provided in a second virtual environment, the second storage capable of storing a second certificate for verification; a certificate manager that acquires the first certificate for verification from the first storage or from another part different from the first storage, and automatically stores the first certificate for verification in the second storage, as the second certificate for verification; a first verification processor that operates in the first virtual environment, and uses the first certificate for verification stored in the first storage to verify the first server certificate; and a second verification processor that operates in the second virtual environment, and uses the second certificate for verification stored in the second storage to verify the second server certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sasamoto, Kenji Fukudome
  • Publication number: 20180285826
    Abstract: A workplace file management system includes: a workplace file information generator that generates workplace file information in which a file satisfying a condition set in advance in files stored in a storage device is registered as a workplace file; and an access log generator that generates workplace file access information as information specifying an individual accessing the workplace file and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Sasamoto
  • Patent number: 9473445
    Abstract: The agent server of the present invention includes (i) a conversation monitoring section for monitoring, based on a conversation log saved in a family message board server, comments made by members belonging to a community, (ii) a status information collecting section for collecting status information of the community which information corresponds to (i) a specific member or a combination of specific members and (ii) a specific keyword or a combination of specific keywords which have been detected based on the conversation log, and (iii) a comment making section for outputting, to the server, a comment message which conforms to an event of the community which event is indicated by status information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Sasamoto, Makoto Sakuta, Takayuki Nagamatsu
  • Publication number: 20140108569
    Abstract: The agent server of the present invention includes (i) a conversation monitoring section for monitoring, based on a conversation log saved in a family message board server, comments made by members belonging to a community, (ii) a status information collecting section for collecting status information of the community which information corresponds to (i) a specific member or a combination of specific members and (ii) a specific keyword or a combination of specific keywords which have been detected based on the conversation log, and (iii) a comment making section for outputting, to the server, a comment message which conforms to an event of the community which event is indicated by status information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu SASAMOTO, Makoto SAKUTA, Takayuki NAGAMATSU