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).

  • Publication number: 20240373536
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Toshihisa MASUDA, Masato MARUYAMA, Nobue AOKI, Fumihiko ISHIYAMA, Naruto ARAI, Jun KATO
  • Publication number: 20240346826
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuhei TAKI, Yohei KURODA, Jun ARAI, Kohei AMANO, Takeo INAGAKI, Ryouhei YASUDA
  • Patent number: 12055600
    Abstract: 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 capa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Naruto Arai, Ken Okamoto, Jun Kato
  • Publication number: 20240255548
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Naruto ARAI, Masato MARUYAMA, Jun KATO
  • Publication number: 20240164706
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: HIROYASU BABA, SHINJI KATSUKI, FUMISADA MAEDA, JUN ARAI, KOHEI AMANO, SHO INAYOSHI
  • Patent number: 11850014
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Jun Arai, Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Wataru Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20230218365
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Jun ARAI, Kei TOMATSU, Kazuo HONGO
  • Publication number: 20230210630
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo HONGO, Jun ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230211494
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: ATSUSHI SUZUKI, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, WILLIAM CONUS, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, KAZUO HONGO
  • Publication number: 20230202051
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: WILLIAM ALEXANDRE CONUS, KAZUO HONGO, YOSHIKAZU FURUYAMA, YASUNORI KAWANAMI, JUN ARAI, ATSUSHI SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11612306
    Abstract: [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: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Kuroda, Jun Arai, Masaru Usui, Takeshi Maeda
  • Patent number: 11602404
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Arai, Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Wataru Kokubo, Yasuhiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11553838
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Masaru Usui, Tetsuharu Fukushima, Daisuke Nagao
  • Patent number: 11540701
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Masaru Usui, Tetsuharu Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20220400938
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Jun ARAI
  • Publication number: 20220287787
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Jun ARAI, Takara KASAI, Yohei KURODA, Wataru KOKUBO
  • Patent number: 11419696
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Jun Arai
  • Patent number: 11395709
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsuda, Jun Arai, Takara Kasai, Yohei Kuroda, Wataru Kokubo
  • Patent number: 11382715
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Arai, Yohei Kuroda, Yasuhisa Kamikawa, Wataru Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20220192777
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yohei KURODA, Masaru USUI, Jun ARAI