Patents by Inventor Keisuke Maehara

Keisuke Maehara 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).

  • Object grasping control method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8788095
    Abstract: An object grasping control method, in which an object grasping control apparatus grasps a plurality of graspable members using a grasping unit, includes recognizing at least one of a shape, position, and attitude of each of the plurality of graspable members, setting, based on at least of one of the shape, position, and attitude of each of the plurality of graspable members, an attitude range as a graspable attitude range in which each of the plurality of graspable members and the grasping unit do not interfere with each other for each of the plurality of graspable members, and setting, as a grasping target to be grasped by the grasping unit, a graspable member, among the plurality of graspable members, the set graspable attitude range of which is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Maehara, Hiroshi Miyagawa
  • OBJECT GRASPING CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20110074171
    Abstract: An object grasping control method, in which an object grasping control apparatus grasps a plurality of graspable members using a grasping unit, includes recognizing at least one of a shape, position, and attitude of each of the plurality of graspable members, setting, based on at least of one of the shape, position, and attitude of each of the plurality of graspable members, an attitude range as a graspable attitude range in which each of the plurality of graspable members and the grasping unit do not interfere with each other for each of the plurality of graspable members, and setting, as a grasping target to be grasped by the grasping unit, a graspable member, among the plurality of graspable members, the set graspable attitude range of which is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Maehara, Hiroshi Miyagawa