Patents by Inventor Jun Tabuchi

Jun Tabuchi 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: 20240054726
    Abstract: A free curved surface and an analytic curved surface can be generated as intended by a user with a simple operation. A reverse engineering support apparatus includes: a shape attribute setting unit that sets a shape attribute to a polygon included in mesh data; a region specifying unit that specifies a region included in the mesh data based on a shape attribute; a data conversion unit that converts a polygon included in the specified region into surface data based on the shape attribute and converts a polygon not included in the region into surface data of a free curved surface; and an output unit that outputs pieces of the surface data created by the data conversion unit as CAD data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Jun TABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240054252
    Abstract: CAD data, which can be directly used for a design drawing, can be easily created from geometric element following mesh data. Provided is a reverse engineering support apparatus that converts mesh data obtained by measuring a three-dimensional shape of a workpiece into CAD data and outputs the CAD data. The reverse engineering support apparatus includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires mesh data; an extraction unit that extracts geometric element data from the mesh data; a rounding unit that executes rounding on a characteristic value of the geometric element data extracted by the extraction unit; a conversion unit that converts the geometric element data subjected to the rounding into CAD data; and an output unit that outputs the CAD data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Kazusa AOKI, Masaki FUJIWARA, Jun TABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240054251
    Abstract: A reverse engineering support apparatus, includes: a data acquisition unit that acquires the mesh data; a reception unit that receives an input of a designated point on the mesh data; an extraction unit that extracts a plane candidate based on the designated point from the mesh data; a plane determination unit that creates a plane constituting a polyhedron based on the plane candidate; and a polyhedron creation unit that creates the polyhedron including the plane created by the plane determination unit. The reception unit can further receive designation of a constraint condition indicating a position and an attitude with respect to another surface or a position and an attitude in a predetermined coordinate system for each surface of the polyhedron, and the plane determination unit creates the plane constituting the polyhedron based on the plane candidate and the constraint condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Kazusa AOKI, Jun TABUCHI
  • Patent number: 10539775
    Abstract: When acquiring a navigation image, to make it possible to set conditions the same as conditions under which a navigation image is acquired last time and create a natural navigation image. A navigation-image acquiring section controls a placement-table control section on the basis of designation of addition of a region to a navigation image and, when present imaging conditions are different from the last imaging conditions, changes the imaging conditions to the last imaging conditions, acquires a region to be added with an imaging element, and causes a display section to display an image of the acquired region to be added and an existing navigation image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Kerence Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanaka, Jun Tabuchi, Takuya Karube, Norio Shibata
  • Patent number: 10508902
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement device which is capable of increasing the operability at the time of repeatedly performing dimension measurement for a plurality of measurement target objects having substantially the same shape is provided. There are included a template storage unit for storing, as a template, model three-dimensional shape data and an operation procedure of dimension measurement performed on the model three-dimensional shape image, and a positional relationship specification unit for specifying a relative positional relationship between the model three-dimensional shape data and measurement three-dimensional shape data. The geometric element extraction unit specifies a geometric element of a measurement three-dimensional shape based on the relative positional relationship and the template, and the dimension value calculation unit performs dimension measurement on the measurement three-dimensional shape based on the relative positional relationship and the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Tabuchi, Takashi Nakatsukasa
  • Publication number: 20190113734
    Abstract: When acquiring a navigation image, to make it possible to set conditions the same as conditions under which a navigation image is acquired last time and create a natural navigation image. A navigation-image acquiring section controls a placement-table control section on the basis of designation of addition of a region to a navigation image and, when present imaging conditions are different from the last imaging conditions, changes the imaging conditions to the last imaging conditions, acquires a region to be added with an imaging element, and causes a display section to display an image of the acquired region to be added and an existing navigation image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tanaka, Jun Tabuchi, Takuya Karube, Norio Shibata
  • Patent number: 10262431
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement device which is capable of superimposing and displaying, on a three-dimensional shape, distributions of deviations from a plurality of geometric elements is provided. There are included a deviation calculation unit for determining first deviations from the first geometric element with respect to the first point cloud, and determining second deviations from the second geometric element with respect to the second point cloud. The three-dimensional shape display unit superimposes and displays, on the three-dimensional shape, a distribution of the first deviations from the first geometric element and a distribution of the second deviations from the second geometric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Tabuchi, Masaki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20180058843
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement device which is capable of increasing the operability at the time of repeatedly performing dimension measurement for a plurality of measurement target objects having substantially the same shape is provided. There are included a template storage unit for storing, as a template, model three-dimensional shape data and an operation procedure of dimension measurement performed on the model three-dimensional shape image, and a positional relationship specification unit for specifying a relative positional relationship between the model three-dimensional shape data and measurement three-dimensional shape data. The geometric element extraction unit specifies a geometric element of a measurement three-dimensional shape based on the relative positional relationship and the template, and the dimension value calculation unit performs dimension measurement on the measurement three-dimensional shape based on the relative positional relationship and the template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Tabuchi, Takashi Nakatsukasa
  • Publication number: 20170372489
    Abstract: A three-dimensional measurement device which is capable of superimposing and displaying, on a three-dimensional shape, distributions of deviations from a plurality of geometric elements is provided. There are included a deviation calculation unit for determining first deviations from the first geometric element with respect to the first point cloud, and determining second deviations from the second geometric element with respect to the second point cloud. The three-dimensional shape display unit superimposes and displays, on the three-dimensional shape, a distribution of the first deviations from the first geometric element and a distribution of the second deviations from the second geometric element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Tabuchi, Masaki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8885176
    Abstract: The invention provides a shape measuring device, a shape measuring method, and a shape measuring program capable of accurately and easily positioning a measuring object at a focus of a light receiving unit when measuring the shape of the measuring object. An image of a measuring object captured by a light receiving unit is displayed on a display section, and an arbitrary position on the image of the measuring object is specified by a user. A relative distance between the light receiving unit and a stage is changed so that the specified position coincides with a focus of the light receiving unit. The light emitted from a light projecting unit is reflected by the measuring object and received by the light receiving unit. Stereoscopic shape data of the measuring object is generated by a triangular distance measuring method based on a light receiving signal output by the light receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Tabuchi
  • Publication number: 20140146325
    Abstract: The invention provides a shape measuring device, a shape measuring method, and a shape measuring program capable of accurately and easily positioning a measuring object at a focus of a light receiving unit when measuring the shape of the measuring object. An image of a measuring object captured by a light receiving unit is displayed on a display section, and an arbitrary position on the image of the measuring object is specified by a user. A relative distance between the light receiving unit and a stage is changed so that the specified position coincides with a focus of the light receiving unit. The light emitted from a light projecting unit is reflected by the measuring object and received by the light receiving unit. Stereoscopic shape data of the measuring object is generated by a triangular distance measuring method based on a light receiving signal output by the light receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Keyence Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Tabuchi