Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Ikeda

Hiroshi Ikeda 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: 20220191406
    Abstract: One image to serve as a main image is selected among a plurality of images and a continuous period length for which a selected image is continued as the main image is set in accordance with an image classification to which the selected image corresponds among a plurality of image classifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi IKEDA, Nobuho IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220172746
    Abstract: Cut-out processing for cutting out a portion of a region of a captured image, display control processing of a first screen including a captured image display region for displaying the captured image and a cut-out image display region for displaying a cut-out image cut out in the cut-out processing, display control processing for making display transition from the first screen to a second screen in which a cut-out region obtained from the captured image is set, processing for receiving a first user operation of designating, in the second screen, at least one set of coordinates and a second user operation of designating a subject, and processing for setting a cut-out region on the basis of the first user operation or the second user operation are performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: HIROSHI IKEDA, NOBUHO IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220139035
    Abstract: A generation method includes acquiring three-dimensional point group data on a surface of a subject from a measurement result of a sensor that obtains three-dimensional position information, determining a posture of a cylindrical model expressing each part of a human body with a plurality of cylinders based on the three-dimensional point group data, repeatedly executing processing of changing at least one of parameters for a length of the cylinder, a thickness of the cylinder, and an angle between an axis of the cylinder and an axis of an adjacent cylinder, of the plurality of cylinders and calculating a value of an evaluation function used to evaluate a matching degree between the cylindrical model and the three-dimensional point group data until the value satisfies a condition, generating a cylindrical model when the value satisfies the predetermined condition, and storing the cylindrical model in association with information used to identify the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Issei Inoue, Hiroshi Ikeda, Sho KUJIRAI
  • Publication number: 20220063112
    Abstract: A robot hand includes grip portions for gripping an article, grip drive mechanisms for moving the grip portions, and a control device for controlling the drive of the grip drive mechanisms. Then, the control device controls the drive of the grip drive mechanisms to start gripping operation with a first force for a force of gripping an article by the grip portions, and then switches the force of gripping an article by the grip portions to a second force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaomi NISHIGAITO, Hiroshige KASHIWABARA, Tadashi OSAKA, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11181895
    Abstract: A work assistance device that assists works for resolving a plurality of problems for simultaneously occurring in a system having a plurality of devices for producing products, the work assistance device including a processor configured to acquire, at occurrence of the plurality of problems, actual historical information on a processing time desired to previously produce the product in each of the devices; perform maximum a posteriori probability estimation of a processing time desired to produce the product in each of the devices, based on prior distribution stored in a storage unit and the acquired actual historical information on the processing time; and determine a work priority order of each of the devices based on the estimated processing times, and output the work priority order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20210352221
    Abstract: An image processing device (20) includes: an evaluation unit (240) configured to evaluate whether a first region of a captured image satisfies a quality condition; and a composition frame setting unit (248) configured to set a different composition frame in the captured image in accordance with an evaluation result of the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: NOBUHO IKEDA, HIROSHI IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11161640
    Abstract: An unpacking system that unpacks a box having flaps, including: an unsealing unit that cuts a proximity region where flaps facing each other in a closed state of flaps of the box come close together; a lid-opening unit that opens, at a predetermined angle exceeding 90 degrees, a predetermined flap of the flaps having been cut by the unsealing unit; and a flap cutting unit that cuts, along a side surface of the box, a base end side of the predetermined flap opened at the predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaomi Nishigaito, Satoru Serizawa, Tsunamichi Tsukidate, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11151409
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that are designed to enable easy generation of a path for successively displaying characteristic images. The information processing device includes a setting unit that sets a path for connecting characteristic portions in at least one image by referring to metadata including at least information about feature points detected from the image. The setting unit sets the path by determining a regression curve, using the feature points. In a case where the feature points include a feature point at a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined threshold value from the regression curve, the setting unit redetermines the regression curve after removing a feature point detected from an image including a feature point having a low score among the feature points. The present technology can be applied to information processing devices that process still images and moving images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hiroshi Ikeda, Shuichi Asajima, Yuki Ono
  • Patent number: 11128811
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus including circuitry that connects a reference image and a target image with at least one of a plurality of complement images based on a reference viewpoint of a subject and a target viewpoint of the subject in response to an identification of the target viewpoint. Each of the plurality of complement images corresponds to a complementary viewpoint of the subject between the reference viewpoint and the target viewpoint. At least one of the plurality of complement images is an interpolation image, which is an image corresponding to a virtual viewpoint along the virtual path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Yuki Ono, Shuichi Asajima
  • Publication number: 20210287879
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus includes a chamber; a first electrode facing an inside of the chamber; a radio-frequency power supply configured to supply a radio-frequency power to the first electrode; a feeding rod configured to feed the radio-frequency power to a center of a surface of the first electrode opposite to a surface facing the inside of the chamber; a conductive plate provided in parallel to the surface of the first electrode opposite to the surface facing the inside of the chamber, the plate being grounded; and a dielectric plate connecting the first electrode and the conductive plate, and having a shape that is rotationally symmetric with respect to a center of the first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Koji YAMAGISHI, Hiroshi IKEDA, Hiroyuki KONDO
  • Publication number: 20210259174
    Abstract: A deep water drawing step of drawing deep water that exists in a deep region of the sea to a surface region of the sea with an upwelling pipe (1); and a phytoplankton culturing step of culturing the phytoplankton in the upwelling pipe (1) are included to produce, as a basic producer of a food chain, a living marine resource, such as fishes and shellfishes, with phytoplankton produced in the phytoplankton culturing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi NAKANISHI, Satoshi YOSHITAKE, Hiroshi IKEDA, Hisashi KOAIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210174520
    Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus including: a processing unit configured to decide, on a basis of object information indicating a state of an object, a plurality of imaging devices that image the objects such that each of all the objects included in a predetermined area imaged by the plurality of imaging devices falls within an angle of view at which the at least two or more imaging devices perform imaging, and control each of the plurality of imaging devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: HIROSHI IKEDA, SEIJIRO INABA, NOBUHO IKEDA, HIDEYUKI SATO
  • Patent number: 11025808
    Abstract: There is provided a control apparatus including: a processing unit configured to decide, on a basis of object information indicating a state of an object, a plurality of imaging devices that image the objects such that each of all the objects included in a predetermined area imaged by the plurality of imaging devices falls within an angle of view at which the at least two or more imaging devices perform imaging, and control each of the plurality of imaging devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporartion
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Seijiro Inaba, Nobuho Ikeda, Hideyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10984248
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to analyze content of a plurality of input images, extract one or more unit images from the plurality of input images based on the analysis and set a position of each of the one or more unit images adopted in a summary image based on an input music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimauchi, Hiroshi Ikeda, Nobuho Ikeda, Atsushi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20210110849
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to improve convenience in reproduction of a captured image. [Solution] There is provided an information processor including a reproduction processing section that reproduces a captured image associated with tag information regarding a subject and identification information indicating relation of a plurality of pieces of the tag information on a basis of a set reproduction condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corportation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAO, Nobuho IKEDA, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210086936
    Abstract: An unpacking system that unpacks a box having flaps, including: an unsealing unit that cuts a proximity region where flaps facing each other in a closed state of flaps of the box come close together; a lid-opening unit that opens, at a predetermined angle exceeding 90 degrees, a predetermined flap of the flaps having been cut by the unsealing unit; and a flap cutting unit that cuts, along a side surface of the box, a base end side of the predetermined flap opened at the predetermined angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Takaomi NISHIGAITO, Satoru SERIZAWA, Tsunamichi TSUKIDATE, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10945367
    Abstract: A combine including a grain tank that retains grain conveyed from a threshing device; a discharge auger; a temporary retention unit within the grain tank that temporarily retains part of the grain and has a discharge port; a quality measurement unit that detects quality of the grain retained in the temporary retention unit; a shutter transitionable between a position where the discharge port is open and a position where the discharge port is closed; a control unit that opens the shutter when the measurement by the quality measurement unit is completed and closes the shutter when all of the grain in the temporary retention unit is discharged; a volume measurement unit that detects the retention volume of the grain retained in the grain tank; and a determination unit that determines whether the retention volume exceeds a predetermined value, and if so, the control unit stops the opening/closing control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Inoue, Kazuhiro Takahara, Hiroshi Ikeda, Kazunori Matsufuji, Katsuhide Kato
  • Patent number: 10935937
    Abstract: An apparatus for assisting a setup work in a system having lines for producing types of products, each of the lines requesting the setup work for producing the product after switching of the type of product, includes a processor to calculate an earliest time when the setup work for each product in each line becomes executable based on the production-plan information, and when a difference between the earliest time when the setup work for a first product in a first line becomes executable and the earliest time when the setup work for a second product in a second line other than the first line becomes executable is equal or greater than a predetermined threshold value, determines that the setup work for the first product is executed before the setup work for the second product, and determines an execution order of the setup work for each product using a problem solver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20210047228
    Abstract: A mold release lubricant application equipment 4 comprises application portions 30A,30B for applying a mold release lubricant to glass bottle forming molds 10, 18, and an application control portion 31 for operating the application portions 30A,30B. Molds 10,18 are arranged independently along a predetermined arrangement direction A1. A plurality of sections 5 comprising molds 10, 18 are formed along the arrangement direction A1. The application portions 30A, 30B comprise lubricant application parts 38A, 38B for applying the mold release lubricant, a transport mechanisms 33A, 33B for moving the lubricant application parts 38A,38B among the plurality of the sections along the arrangement direction A1, and sensors 42A, 42B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Nihon Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusuke KAWAHARA, Shota ISHIGURO, Takahiro NISHIMURA, Ryu WADA, Kunikazu OONISHI, Hiroshi IKEDA, Hiroshi NAKAJIMA, Masahiro SETO
  • Patent number: 10921791
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor to formulate component-allocation indicating each type of the products, any of the mounters, surface-mounting components, and the number of surface-mounting components to be mounted on a printing-board from the mounter, and optimize the component-allocation using a plan-problem solver; use results of the process by the processor to execute a process of grouping the types of products to be produced without switching surface-mounting component supply carriages set for the plurality of mounters; formulate the order of the production groups of the products after the grouping, solve the integer-plan problem using an integer-plan-problem solver, and execute, for each of the variations, a process of optimizing the production-order so that a time period for producing all the products is minimized; and determine a production-plan that is among results, obtained by the processor, of the process of optimizing the production order and causes a shortest-production time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Masakazu Ishizuka