Patents by Inventor Jun Arai
Jun Arai 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).
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LIGHTNING DISCHARGE INDUCTION SYSTEM, LIGHTNING DISCHARGE INDUCTION AIRCRAFT, VOLTAGE CONTROL DEVICE
Publication number: 20240373536Abstract: This lightning discharge induction system includes a flying object (1) flying in the air, a discharge electrode (11) provided to the flying object, a ground electrode (3) provided on the ground, an electric wire (2) connecting the discharge electrode (11) and the ground electrode (11), and a voltage control device (4) controlling a voltage generated in the discharge electrode (11). The voltage control device (4) includes a pulse power supply (41) for generating a pulse voltage, and a trigger switch (S1).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2021Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Toshihisa MASUDA, Masato MARUYAMA, Nobue AOKI, Fumihiko ISHIYAMA, Naruto ARAI, Jun KATO -
Publication number: 20240346826Abstract: A medical observation system includes: an imaging unit that acquires an operative field image including an abdominal cavity environment; a display unit that displays the operative field image acquired by the imaging unit; a gaze information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding gaze of a user on the abdominal cavity environment of the operative field image displayed by the display unit; a target candidate recognition unit that recognizes a tracking target candidate from the operative field image acquired by the imaging unit; a reliability acquisition unit that acquires recognition reliability of the tracking target candidate recognized by the target candidate recognition unit; and a target determination unit that determines a tracking target in the abdominal cavity environment from the tracking target candidate on the basis of the information regarding the tracking target candidate, the recognition reliability, and the information regarding the gaze.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yuhei TAKI, Yohei KURODA, Jun ARAI, Kohei AMANO, Takeo INAGAKI, Ryouhei YASUDA
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Patent number: 12055600Abstract: A device includes a resonant voltage measurement unit 10 configured to input a predetermined frequency signal to a circuit including a fixed capacitance formed between a ground and a lower electrode, a variable capacitance formed between an upper electrode that is disposed above the lower electrode and the ground or between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, and a resonance inductor to measure a resonant voltage that is dependent on a current flowing in the resonance inductor when the variable capacitance is changed to cause the circuit to resonate, a pre-correction voltage-to-ground measurement unit 20 configured to measure a pre-correction voltage-to-ground that is a voltage between a measurement electrode, which is disposed at an equal height to the lower electrode and forms a capacitance-to-ground between the measurement electrode and the ground, and a measurement probe connected to a conductor, and a voltage-to-ground correction unit 30 configured to use the fixed capacitance, the variable capaType: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Naruto Arai, Ken Okamoto, Jun Kato
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Publication number: 20240255548Abstract: A wearable measurement system includes a voltage measurement apparatus and a conversion coefficient acquisition apparatus, and measures a ground voltage of electromagnetic noise generated in a cable. The voltage measurement apparatus includes a lower electrode, an upper electrode arranged opposite to the lower electrode, and a voltage measurement circuit connected between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The conversion coefficient acquisition apparatus includes a first lower electrode, a second lower electrode arranged side by side at the same height as the first lower electrode, an upper electrode arranged opposite to the lower electrodes, a voltage measurement circuit connected between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, and an oscillation circuit connected to the lower electrode and the upper electrode and outputting a signal of a predetermined frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Naruto ARAI, Masato MARUYAMA, Jun KATO
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Publication number: 20240164706Abstract: An in-vivo observation system including: an excitation device (150) that vibrates an object in a living body; an event vision sensor (200) that detects, as an event, a change due to the vibration in a luminance value of light emitted from the object; and an estimation unit (528) that estimates a characteristic of the object on a basis of sensing data from the event vision sensor is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: HIROYASU BABA, SHINJI KATSUKI, FUMISADA MAEDA, JUN ARAI, KOHEI AMANO, SHO INAYOSHI
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Patent number: 11850014Abstract: There is provided a control system for controlling a surgical arm device of a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is coupled together by a joint unit in a force control mode. In generalized inverse dynamics, the control system sets a motion purpose and a constraint condition in an operation space describing an inertia of force acting on a multi-link structural body and an acceleration of the multi-link structural body, and for implementing an operation space acceleration indicating the motion purpose, calculates a virtual force acting on the operation space on the basis of a motion equation relating to the operation space including a term of an operation space bias acceleration in consideration to gravity compensation according to inclination information of the surgical arm device, and calculates a torque command value for a joint unit on the basis of a real force converted from the virtual force.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Jun Arai, Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Wataru Kokubo
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Publication number: 20230218365Abstract: Provided is a medical arm device that avoids interference with a surgeon. A medical arm device includes a first arm part including a tip part that supports a medical instrument such as an endoscope, and a second arm part that supports the first arm part, and includes at least two horizontal rotation axes and an inter-axis distance changing unit that changes a distance between the two horizontal rotation axes. The tip part includes a structure in which joint members corresponding to rotation axes of three degrees of freedom that determine an attitude of the medical instrument are directly connected, and a rotation axis around a longitudinal axis of the medical instrument, a yaw axis in a case where the rotation axis around the longitudinal axis is a roll axis, and a pitch axis are disposed in order from a most tip part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Jun ARAI, Kei TOMATSU, Kazuo HONGO
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Publication number: 20230210630Abstract: A medical arm device to support a medical instrument has a tip part with a structure in which three rotation axes are disposed in order of a rotation axis around a longitudinal axis of the medical instrument, a yaw axis that rotates the medical instrument left and right with respect to a tip of a link, and a pitch axis that rotates the medical instrument up and down with respect to the tip of the link, and a first wire for rotation transmission of the yaw axis, a second wire for rotation transmission of the roll axis, a first rerouting pulley that reroutes the first wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, a second rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the pitch axis and the yaw axis, and a third rerouting pulley that reroutes the second wire between the yaw axis and the roll axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Kazuo HONGO, Jun ARAI
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Publication number: 20230211494Abstract: To prevent scattering of scattered objects such as of water, sand, mud, or snow accompanied by movement. Scattering prevention constraint information is acquired based on road surface information. Movement is controlled based on the scattering prevention constraint information. For example, vibration information is detected by a vibration sensor or the like, and road surface information (information such as a road surface depth and a road surface type) is acquired based on the vibration information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: ATSUSHI SUZUKI, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, WILLIAM CONUS, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, KAZUO HONGO
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Publication number: 20230202051Abstract: The present technology relates to a transport device, a transport method, a program, and an information processing device that can prevent damage to the content of luggage during transportation. The transport device includes a luggage characteristic estimation unit that estimates luggage characteristics including at least one of fragility of a content of luggage and packaging quality of the luggage based on at least one of change in center of gravity due to movement of the luggage, vibration characteristics of the luggage, and characteristics of the sound generated from the luggage due to the movement of the luggage. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a robot that transports luggage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: WILLIAM ALEXANDRE CONUS, KAZUO HONGO, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, ATSUSHI SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11612306Abstract: [Problem] To prevent sight of an observation target from being lost from a visual field of a monitor. [Solution] A surgical arm system includes: an articulated arm in which a plurality of joints is rotatably connected by a plurality of links and which is capable of supporting an oblique-viewing endoscope at a tip; and a control system which controls the articulated arm to change a position and a posture of the oblique-viewing endoscope. The control system controls at least one of a rotation speed and a movement speed of the oblique-viewing endoscope in a visual field imaged through the oblique-viewing endoscope based on a position of the observation target in the visual field.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Kuroda, Jun Arai, Masaru Usui, Takeshi Maeda
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Patent number: 11602404Abstract: A medical support system that includes a support arm including one or more active joints having an actuator, and one or more passive coupling mechanisms including a passive joint and a telescopic extension arm, the passive joint having no actuator; and processing circuitry configured to obtain information indicating a change due to movement of the one or more passive coupling mechanisms, and control the actuator of each of the one or more active joints based on the obtained information indicating the change, and the telescopic extension arm is positioned between (1) an active joint of the one or more active joints on a first side of the telescopic extension arm, and (2) the passive joint on a second side of the telescopic extension arm, the first side being closer to an proximal end of the support arm than a distal end of the support arm.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Arai, Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Wataru Kokubo, Yasuhiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 11553838Abstract: There is provided an endoscope including a main body including a coupler to which a cable is attached, a tubular section having a tubular form, a reflector having a reflection surface that reflects light introduced from the coupler to inside of the main body and introduces the light to inside of the tubular section, a first optical system that transmits the light introduced by the reflector to the inside of the tubular section to a front-end portion of the tubular section and irradiates a subject with the light from the front-end portion, and a second optical system that transmits reflected light of the subject from the front-end portion of the tubular section to the main body side. The coupler is provided to be rotatable in the main body around a central axis of the tubular section with respect to another portion. The cable is coupled to a light source.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Masaru Usui, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Daisuke Nagao
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Patent number: 11540701Abstract: There is provided a medical holding apparatus including: a first actuator configured to cause a medical optical tool that guides light from a body cavity of a subject to a camera head during a surgical operation, to rotate about an optical axis of the medical optical tool and a rotation mechanism configured to support the camera head that acquires an image of the body cavity of the subject via the medical optical tool, the camera head being rotatable about the optical axis of the medical optical tool independently from the medical optical tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Masaru Usui, Tetsuharu Fukushima
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Publication number: 20220400938Abstract: A medical observation system includes: a plurality of types of sensor units that measure information regarding an internal environment; an acquisition unit (131) that acquires individual sensor values of the plurality of types of sensor units; a comparison unit (132) that compares the individual sensor values of the plurality of types of sensor units acquired by the acquisition unit (131); and a determination unit (134) that determines a sensor unit to be used for observing the internal environment among the plurality of types of sensor units based on a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit (132).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Jun ARAI
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Publication number: 20220287787Abstract: There is provided a control system for controlling a surgical arm device of a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is coupled together by a joint unit in a force control mode. In generalized inverse dynamics, the control system sets a motion purpose and a constraint condition in an operation space describing an inertia of force acting on a multi-link structural body and an acceleration of the multi-link structural body, and for implementing an operation space acceleration indicating the motion purpose, calculates a virtual force acting on the operation space on the basis of a motion equation relating to the operation space including a term of an operation space bias acceleration in consideration to gravity compensation according to inclination information of the surgical arm device, and calculates a torque command value for a joint unit on the basis of a real force converted from the virtual force.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Jun ARAI, Takara KASAI, Yohei KURODA, Wataru KOKUBO
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Patent number: 11419696Abstract: There is provided a control device that decides at least one medical image as a medical image to display or save from among medical images taken by a plurality of imaging devices, on a basis of imaging device status information that includes information about a position or an attitude for at least one of the plurality of imaging devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Jun Arai
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Patent number: 11395709Abstract: There is provided a control system for controlling a surgical arm device of a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is coupled together by a joint unit in a force control mode. In generalized inverse dynamics, the control system sets a motion purpose and a constraint condition in an operation space describing an inertia of force acting on a multi-link structural body and an acceleration of the multi-link structural body, and for implementing an operation space acceleration indicating the motion purpose, calculates a virtual force acting on the operation space on the basis of a motion equation relating to the operation space including a term of an operation space bias acceleration in consideration to gravity compensation according to inclination information of the surgical arm device, and calculates a torque command value for a joint unit on the basis of a real force converted from the virtual force.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Jun Arai, Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Wataru Kokubo
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Patent number: 11382715Abstract: To provide a jig holding apparatus and medical observation apparatus, which enable linear motion of a jig without increasing the size of a holding mechanism configured to hold the jig. A jig holding apparatus (1) includes: a holding mechanism (100) including a holding section (173) configured to detachably hold a predetermined jig (10) from a periphery of the jig (10), and a linear motion driving section (130) provided around the jig (10) held by the holding section (173) and configured to cause the jig (10) to linearly move.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Wataru Kokubo
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Publication number: 20220192777Abstract: A method and system for processing medical images including acquiring a first medical image using a medical imaging device, analyzing a state of the first medical image using image information of the first medical image which includes depth information, and automatically determining and displaying, without user intervention, a second medical image, which corresponds to the first medical image and has a smaller angle of view than the first medical image, based on the analyzing including analyzing of the depth information. Further, there is a method of training a neural network. The training includes collecting a set of training information which includes image quality information, camera position information, and surgical tool information, training the neural network based on the set of training information, the neural network used for changing a view based on current camera position information and current surgical tool information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Yohei KURODA, Masaru USUI, Jun ARAI