Patents by Inventor Keisuke Maeda

Keisuke Maeda 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: 20220307897
    Abstract: A photodetector including: a case including a light receiving surface provided on an upper surface and having a first region that transmits visible light and a second region that transmits less visible light than the first region; a printed circuit board provided to face the light receiving surface; and a plurality of electronic components provided on a light receiving surface side of the printed circuit board and including a first light receiving element configured to detect visible light. The first light receiving element is disposed at a first position of the printed circuit board exposed to the visible light transmitted through the first region. The number of mounted electronic components disposed at the first position is smaller than the number of mounted electronic components disposed at a second position of the printed circuit board other than the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., NIDEC MOBILITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Go SHIMIZU, Keisuke MAEDA, Takashi MAI, Kotaro ONO, Takayuki SUZUKI, Satoshi CHIKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220311167
    Abstract: A photodetector includes: an upper case including a light receiving portion on an upper surface and a side portion extending downward from the light receiving portion; a printed circuit board facing the light receiving portion; and a lower case including a support portion configured to support the printed circuit board, an opening on one side surface and configured to allow a connector to be inserted therethrough, and a hook on another side surface. The lower case is fitted to the upper case such that at least the printed circuit board and the support portion are surrounded. The upper case has a cut portion configured to prevent interference with the hook when being attached. At least part of the side portion adjacent to the cut portion and on a side of the opening extends up to a lower side of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., NIDEC MOBILITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Go SHIMIZU, Keisuke MAEDA, Takashi MAI, Kotaro ONO, Takayuki SUZUKI, Satoshi CHIKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220274717
    Abstract: Proposed are a mobile object, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of improving the accuracy of determining whether to land a drone aircraft on a landing surface. The mobile object of the present technology includes a control unit. The control unit calculates a temporal change of a landing surface from images in which the landing surface for the mobile object is imaged in time series by an imaging unit of the mobile object in a hovering state, and determines whether to land the mobile object on the landing surface on the basis of the calculated temporal change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Erio AKANUMA, Keisuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220276655
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program for reducing a calculation time in track planning for autonomous traveling. A plurality of track candidates among track candidates sampled in sampling-based track planning is integrated, a track mask in which the plurality of integrated track candidates and each grid of an occupancy grid map are associated with each other is generated, and collision determination of the track candidates is performed on the basis of the generated track mask and the occupancy grid map. The present disclosure can be applied to a mobile body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: RYO TAKAHASHI, KEISUKE MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11282230
    Abstract: An imaging unit acquires object information (e.g., captured image) representing a target object. A distance measurement unit measures the distance to the target object. An object detection unit detects the target object from the captured image. An object position detection unit detects the position of the target object on the basis of, for example, the position, in a captured image, of the target object, the distance to the target object, and parameter information stored in an information storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke Maeda
  • Publication number: 20220083076
    Abstract: An action planning apparatus includes an action planning section that creates, to control action of a robot apparatus, on the basis of an outside world map, a higher action plan including an optimal solution achieving an action target and enabling derivation of a suboptimal solution different from the optimal solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: KEISUKE MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20220003569
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including circuitry configured to generate a map specification based on a behavior objective of a mobility device or a state of the mobility device, and create, based on the generated map specification, an outside map of an environment external to the mobility device that satisfies the generated map specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210308812
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: a mounting table provided with a mounting surface; a focus ring; and a cooling element, in which a holding portion of the mounting table is provided with an annular groove portion surrounding the mounting table, a through-hole that is open on a bottom surface of the groove portion, upper surfaces on both sides of the groove portion in a width direction in the holding portion form a holding surface that comes into contact with the focus ring and holds the focus ring, the holding surface is composed of an inner peripheral surface located further on an inner periphery side than the groove portion and an outer peripheral surface located further on an outer periphery side than the groove portion, and the holding surface satisfies the following conditions (i) and (ii), wherein (i) the holding surface has a shape in which in a cross section in a thickness direction, a straight line connecting a first point corresponding to an innermost periphery of the holding surface and a se
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke MAEDA, Masaki OZAKI, Masayuki SHIOJIRI, Takeshi WATANABE, Shinchi MAETA, Yuuki KINPARA
  • Publication number: 20210284060
    Abstract: A present invention provide a vehicle light system which prevents low-beam headlights from being forgotten to turn on while a vehicle is traveling and is able to turn off the low-beam headlights when it is not necessary, a rotation position of a light switch includes an AUTO position, a SMALL position, and an OFF position, the light switch includes a momentary mechanism which returns a position to the AUTO position when the position is changed to the OFF position or the SMALL position, lights include the low-beam headlights and position lights, the AUTO position allows the low-beam headlights and the position lights to turn on or off depending on a brightness outside the vehicle, and a light control unit turns off the low-beam headlights and turns on the position lights when the rotation position is set to the AUTO position, the brightness outside the vehicle is lower than a predetermined value, a speed is lower than a first predetermined speed, and the rotation position is then changed to the SMALL position
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Manabu SHIMADA, Shigeto IWAMOTO, Keisuke MAEDA, Takashi MAI
  • Publication number: 20210190515
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a moving object that enable provision of a service from a mobile unit to another mobile unit. An information processing device includes: a planning unit that sets a joining route on the basis of information about at least one of a planned route of a user mobile unit that is a mobile unit to use a service or a planned route of a provider mobile unit that is a mobile unit to provide the service, the joining route being a zone for the user mobile unit and the provider mobile unit to receive and provide the service, and makes a movement plan including at least one of a route plan for the user mobile unit or a route plan for the provider mobile unit in accordance with the joining route; and a service provision unit that controls provision of the service so that the user mobile unit and the provider mobile unit receive and provide the service while moving on the joining route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: MASAHIRO TAMORI, ATSUSHI OCHIAI, TOMOYA FUJITA, CHAO WANG, MASAOMI NABETA, KEISUKE MAEDA, TAKAMORI YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210141381
    Abstract: Influence of risks, such as sound and light generated by the host device, on surroundings is reduced. An information processing device (100) according to an embodiment includes a planning unit (105) configured to plan behavior executed by a drive unit (107) based on an influence target existing in a predetermined area and affected by a risk propagating in space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: KEISUKE MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10923381
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: an electrostatic chuck part which incorporates an internal electrode for electrostatic attraction and has a placing surface on which a plate-like sample is placed; a base part which cools the electrostatic chuck part; and an adhesion layer which bonds the electrostatic chuck part and the base part to integrate the parts together, in which a first through-hole is provided in the electrostatic chuck part, a second through-hole that communicates with the first through-hole is provided in the base part, a tubular insulator is fixed in the second through-hole, an annular sealing member is sandwiched between the electrostatic chuck part and a distal end surface of the insulator, wherein the distal end surface is located on the electrostatic chuck part side of the insulator, and a tubular insulating wall member is located at the inner side of the sealing member in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Yukio Miura, Kazunori Ishimura, Keisuke Maeda, Hitoshi Kouno, Yuuki Kinpara, Shinichi Maeta, Tomomi Ito
  • Publication number: 20200409388
    Abstract: [Overview] [Problem to be Solved] To more smoothly execute a cooperative action among a plurality of mobile bodies sharing an action plan. [Solution] A controller including: a plan map creation section that creates an action plan map for making an action plan of a first mobile body from an outside world map with use of an action plan of a second mobile body; and an error detection section that detects an error between the action plan of the second mobile body and an observation result of an action of the second mobile body, and the plan map creation section updating the action plan map with use of the detected error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: KEISUKE MAEDA, SHINICHI TAKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20200348147
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control device and a control method, a program, and a mobile object that can effectively use storage capacity while saving the storage capacity and efficiently plan a movement route by storing or forgetting (deleting) a past detailed map according to importance during autonomous movement. When a global route is set, by storing or forgetting (deleting) a detailed map according to the importance on the global route to plan a local route from a frequently used global route, it is possible to efficiently plan a local route by combining detailed maps stored in the past. The present disclosure can be applied to an autonomous mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventor: KEISUKE MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200331499
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present technology includes an estimation unit, a generation unit, and a frequency control unit. The estimation unit estimates at least one of a location or a posture of a mobile object. The generation unit generates a movement plan for moving the mobile object. The frequency control unit controls frequency of update of the movement plan to be performed by the generation unit, on the basis of load index information serving as an index of a load on the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: RYO WATANABE, MASATAKA TOYOURA, TAKAMORI YAMAGUCHI, RYO TAKAHASHI, KEISUKE MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200273736
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce non-uniformity of etching in a plane of a wafer. An electrostatic chuck device includes: an electrostatic chuck part having a sample mounting surface on which a sample is mounted and having a first electrode for electrostatic attraction; a cooling base part placed on a side opposite to the sample mounting surface with respect to the electrostatic chuck part to cool the electrostatic chuck part; and an adhesive layer that bonds the electrostatic chuck part and the cooling base part together, in which the cooling base part has a function of a second electrode that is an RF electrode, a third electrode for RF electrode or LC adjustment is provided between the electrostatic chuck part and the cooling base part, and the third electrode is bonded to the electrostatic chuck part and the cooling base part and insulated from the cooling base part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru KOSAKAI, Masaki OZAKI, Keisuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200266088
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: an electrostatic chuck part having a sample placing surface on which a sample is placed and having a first electrode for electrostatic attraction; a cooling base part placed on a side opposite to the sample placing surface with respect to the electrostatic chuck part to cool the electrostatic chuck part; and an adhesive layer that bonds the electrostatic chuck part and the cooling base part together, in which the electrostatic chuck part has a recess and protrusion on the adhesive layer side, and a sheet resistance value of the first electrode is higher than 1.0 ?/? and lower than 1.0×1010 ?/?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru KOSAKAI, Masaki OZAKI, Keisuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200258253
    Abstract: An imaging unit acquires object information (e.g., captured image) representing a target object. A distance measurement unit measures the distance to the target object. An object detection unit detects the target object from the captured image. An object position detection unit detects the position of the target object on the basis of, for example, the position, in a captured image, of the target object, the distance to the target object, and parameter information stored in an information storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keisuke MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200215689
    Abstract: There is provided a control device to control the track of a mobile body in accordance with the accuracy of obtained information regarding the external environment, the control device including: a current point calculation unit that calculates a current position of a mobile body; a target point calculation unit that calculates a target position to which the mobile body moves; and a track control unit that controls a track on which the mobile body is caused to move from the current position to the target position on the basis of an external environment recognition accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai YUGUCHI, Keisuke MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10622239
    Abstract: An electrostatic chuck device includes: a placing plate having a placement surface on which a plate-like sample is placed on one side thereof; an electrostatic attraction electrode provided on the other side of the first ceramic plate; and a first organic insulating layer provided between the first ceramic plate and the electrostatic attraction electrode. The electrostatic chuck device further has a supporting plate provided between the first organic insulating layer and the electrostatic attraction electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kosakai, Shinichi Maeta, Keisuke Maeda