Patents by Inventor Kosuke Sakata
Kosuke Sakata 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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Patent number: 11892540Abstract: To provide a vehicle-mounted radar system capable of improving object detection performance depending on a situation. The vehicle-mounted radar system includes laser radars 2A to 2D that irradiate the surroundings of a vehicle 1 with a laser beam and receive light reflected by an object around the vehicle 1, and a control device 3 that controls the laser radars 2A to 2D and recognizes an object based on light reception results of the laser radars 2A to 2D. The control device 3 determines whether a laser beam of any of the laser radars 2A to 2D is blocked by the object, and thus an undetected area is created, based on a recognition result of the object. Thus, for example, when the laser beam of the laser radar 2B is blocked by another vehicle 10, and thus an undetected area 11 is created, a detection range of the laser radar 2A adjacent to the laser radar 2B is expanded so that at least a portion of the undetected area 11 is allowed to be detected.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Kuroda, Kosuke Sakata
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Publication number: 20230418659Abstract: An object recognition device (3) includes: a processor (4) that inputs point cloud sensor data sensed by a sensor (externality recognition sensor (1)) to a software pipeline formed of a plurality of stages and executes object recognition processing; and a memory. The processor (4) has a plurality of processing units (5) that executes processing constituting the object recognition processing allocated to each of stages A to C. The memory has a plurality of task queue regions (task queues A to C) that temporarily stores the output data of each of the stages. In a case where the output data of each of the stages is not valid upon input to the subsequent stage, the processor (4) rejects the output data without storing same in the respective task queue regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke SAKATA, Masayoshi KURODA
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Patent number: 11749088Abstract: Service failure information can be quickly and accurately disseminated to appropriate targets. A service failure information dissemination system 1 receives alarm information notifying that a failure has occurred in a service or a device for providing a service and related information that relates to the alarm information, obtains the degree of influence of the failure for each service type based on the alarm information and the related information, determines a dissemination target and a dissemination means of failure information based on the degree of influence, creates failure information according to the dissemination means, and disseminates the failure information to the dissemination target through the dissemination means.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Atsushi Hirabayashi, Atsushi Takada, Kosuke Sakata
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Publication number: 20230221410Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an object sensing device that classifies an observation point group output by a LiDAR into a real image and a mirror image when a road surface around an own vehicle is wet, and can use the mirror image for detecting the real image. An object sensing device that detects an object around a vehicle based on a point cloud data of an observation point observed by a LiDAR mounted on the vehicle includes: a road surface shape estimation unit that estimates a shape of a road surface; a road surface condition estimation unit that estimates a dry/wet situation of the road surface; and an observation point determination unit that determines a low observation point observed at a position lower than the estimated road surface by a predetermined amount or more when the road surface is estimated to be in a wet situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke SAKATA, Masayoshi KURODA
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Publication number: 20230176904Abstract: A control device includes: an identification unit identifying a workflow waiting to execute an aggregation object process in aggregation rule data, an aggregation unit associating an identifier of the identified workflow with an aggregation identifier associated with a process that the identified workflow is waiting to execute and an aggregation condition identified from an attribute of the identified workflow in the aggregated data; and an execution unit outputting an instruction to aggregate and execute a process that the workflow associated with the aggregation identifier in the aggregated data is waiting to execute.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Yuichi SUTO, Aiko OI, Ryosuke SATO, Kosuke SAKATA, Motomu NAKAJIMA, Yoshikazu HAGIWARA, Tsuyoshi FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20230168378Abstract: Provided is an object detection device capable of improving efficiency while ensuring detection accuracy. An object detection device 1 includes a point cloud acquisition unit 201 that acquires point cloud data of an object according to a scanning result of a LiDAR 101, an object detection unit 204 that detects an object based on the point cloud data, and a reliability determination unit 205 that determines a reliability in a detection result of the object detection unit 204. The point cloud acquisition unit 201 controls the scanning range and the irradiation density of the LiDAR 101 on the basis of the reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kimiyoshi MACHII, Masayoshi KURODA, Kosuke SAKATA
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Publication number: 20230034208Abstract: Provided are a processing apparatus and a point cloud elimination method that can suppress point cloud processing load even if the number of points included in point clouds increases due to realization of high resolution of an apparatus that acquires point clouds of an object. The processing apparatus includes a memory (storage apparatus) and a processor. The memory stores data of a point cloud of an object. The processor eliminates data of a second point (subject point) that is included in the point cloud and is next to a first point (previous point) that is included in the point cloud from the data of the point cloud when the difference between the distance to the first point and the distance to the second point is smaller than a threshold (first threshold Th1) (Step 1903: YES) (Step 1908).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Masayoshi KURODA, Kosuke SAKATA
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Patent number: 11502970Abstract: [Problem] A lead time for providing a network service can be shortened. [Solution] A network service management apparatus 100 that uses resources included in a network functions virtualization infrastructure 140 to provide a network service includes an orchestrator 110 that defines resources that satisfy a resource requirement of a virtual network function constituting the network service and are allocated to the virtual network function, and reserves the resources, and a virtualized infrastructure manager 130 that secures the reserved resources, activates the virtual network function on the secured resources, and generates the network service. When the securing of the reserved resources fails, the orchestrator 110 re-reserves resources to replace the reserved resources, and the virtualized infrastructure manager 130 secures the re-reserved resources, and activates the virtual network functions on the secured resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kosuke Sakata, Yuji Soejima
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Patent number: 11388038Abstract: An operation apparatus for outputting a request to a management apparatus which manages a Network Service (NS) constructed on a NetWork (NW) including a core NW serving as a virtualization area and an access NW serving as a non-virtualization area including: a storage unit configured to store new configuration information obtained by updating NW configuration information indicating an NW configuration including devices disposed on the NW due to a fault of the NS, a catalog which is a template of the NS, a record describing a lifecycle of the NS, and an order for requesting the management apparatus to control the NS; an optimal configuration determination unit configured to determine an optimal configuration of the NS based on the new configuration information, the catalog, the record, and the order; and an order generation unit configured to generate a change order for changing an NS configuration of the NS to the optimal configuration determined by the optimal configuration determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Motomu Nakajima, Yuji Soejima, Aiko Oi, Kosuke Sakata, Yuichi Suto, Shingo Horiuchi, Masataka Sato, Kimihiko Fukami
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Publication number: 20220126836Abstract: Provided is a travel road recognition device that can accurately recognize a travel road end of a travel road on which an own vehicle travels. A travel road recognition device of the present invention is a travel road recognition device that recognizes the travel road end of the travel road on which an own vehicle 301 travels, and includes: a laser radar 101 that emits a laser bean from the own vehicle 301 toward the travel road; a road surface determination unit 203 that obtains a cross slope of the travel road based on coordinate values of a point cloud obtained by the laser radar 101; and a road end determination unit 204 that obtains a change point at which a slope angle changes in the cross slope of the travel road obtained by the road surface determination unit 203, and obtains coordinate values of at least one travel road end of both sides in a cross direction of the travel road based on the coordinate values of the change point.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kimiyoshi MACHII, Takehito OGATA, Noriyasu HASEJIMA, Masayoshi KURODA, Kosuke SAKATA
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Publication number: 20220130227Abstract: To appropriately exclude alarms not requiring maintenance operator confirmation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Kosuke Sakata, Motomu Nakajima, Kyoko YAMAGOE
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Publication number: 20220122443Abstract: Service failure information can be quickly and accurately disseminated to appropriate targets. A service failure information dissemination system 1 receives alarm information notifying that a failure has occurred in a service or a device for providing a service and related information that relates to the alarm information, obtains the degree of influence of the failure for each service type based on the alarm information and the related information, determines a dissemination target and a dissemination means of failure information based on the degree of influence, creates failure information according to the dissemination means, and disseminates the failure information to the dissemination target through the dissemination means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Atsushi Hirabayashi, Atsushi TAKADA, Kosuke Sakata
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Publication number: 20210389469Abstract: Regardless of the irradiation method of the distance measuring sensor, degradation of recognition performance due to a change in the installation position of the distance measuring sensor is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke SAKATA, Masayoshi KURODA
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Publication number: 20210364638Abstract: Noise in measurement results of a laser distance measurement sensor is smoothed, and erroneous recognition of a position and a size of an object based on the measurement result is suppressed. An object recognition device according to the present invention recognizes the object by grouping the measurement results of the laser distance measurement sensor, calculates reliability of the recognition result thereof, and changes a time for continuously retaining the measurement result according to the reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2019Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke SAKATA, Masayoshi KURODA
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Publication number: 20210367863Abstract: [Problem] To improve performance of NS management. [Solution] A management apparatus M for managing an NS constructed on an NW including a virtualization area and a non-virtualization area includes a request reception unit 11 configured to acquire an NS generation order including an input parameter required for designating a server-side apparatus and an NW-side apparatus, from an external apparatus, and a catalog DB 17 that stores a catalog serving as a template of the NS. The catalog includes an NSD being a portion in which a configuration of the NS is described and having a plurality of types of information sets defining a group of constituent elements of the NS in a selectable manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Motomu Nakajima, Yuichi Suto, Yuji Soejima, Aiko OI, Kosuke Sakata
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Publication number: 20210349208Abstract: To provide a vehicle-mounted radar system capable of improving object detection performance depending on a situation. The vehicle-mounted radar system includes laser radars 2A to 2D that irradiate the surroundings of a vehicle 1 with a laser beam and receive light reflected by an object around the vehicle 1, and a control device 3 that controls the laser radars 2A to 2D and recognizes an object based on light reception results of the laser radars 2A to 2D. The control device 3 determines whether a laser beam of any of the laser radars 2A to 2D is blocked by the object, and thus an undetected area is created, based on a recognition result of the object. Thus, for example, when the laser beam of the laser radar 2B is blocked by another vehicle 10, and thus an undetected area 11 is created, a detection range of the laser radar 2A adjacent to the laser radar 2B is expanded so that at least a portion of the undetected area 11 is allowed to be detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Masayoshi KURODA, Kosuke SAKATA
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Publication number: 20210344611Abstract: [Problem] A lead time for providing a network service can be shortened. [Solution] A network service management apparatus 100 that uses resources included in a network functions virtualization infrastructure 140 to provide a network service includes an orchestrator 110 that defines resources that satisfy a resource requirement of a virtual network function constituting the network service and are allocated to the virtual network function, and reserves the resources, and a virtualized infrastructure manager 130 that secures the reserved resources, activates the virtual network function on the secured resources, and generates the network service. When the securing of the reserved resources fails, the orchestrator 110 re-reserves resources to replace the reserved resources, and the virtualized infrastructure manager 130 secures the re-reserved resources, and activates the virtual network functions on the secured resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Kosuke Sakata, Yuji Soejima
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Publication number: 20210051056Abstract: An operation apparatus for outputting a request to a management apparatus which manages a Network Service (NS) constructed on a NetWork (NW) including a core NW serving as a virtualization area and an access NW serving as a non-virtualization area including: a storage unit configured to store new configuration information obtained by updating NW configuration information indicating an NW configuration including devices disposed on the NW due to a fault of the NS, a catalog which is a template of the NS, a record describing a lifecycle of the NS, and an order for requesting the management apparatus to control the NS; an optimal configuration determination unit configured to determine an optimal configuration of the NS based on the new configuration information, the catalog, the record, and the order; and an order generation unit configured to generate a change order for changing an NS configuration of the NS to the optimal configuration determined by the optimal configuration determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Motomu Nakajima, Yuji Soejima, Aiko OI, Kosuke Sakata, Yuichi Suto, Shingo Horiuchi, Masataka Sato, Kimihiko Fukami
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Patent number: 9508581Abstract: An object is to transmit an operation of a first parallel link to a second parallel link through a plurality of rotatably supported arms, to prevent the second parallel link from meandering or rolling so that a wafer can be transported smoothly. Arms (61 to 63) of a transmission arm unit (6) are provided for transmitting an operation of a first parallel link (4) to a second parallel link (5). An operation of the first parallel link (4) is transmitted to the second parallel link (5) so that an angle between an arm (53) and an arm (52) in the second parallel link(5) always coincides with an angle between an arm (41) and an arm (42) in the first parallel arm unit (4).Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: TAZMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiro Yamazoe, Shinichi Imai, Kosuke Sakata, Yoshiki Nishijima, Hiroaki Tsukimoto, Kohsaku Saino
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Publication number: 20140348622Abstract: An object is to make it possible to adequately reduce the wafer transport time and to contribute to size-reduction of the semiconductor processing system. Two wafer supports (3, 4) on which wafers (100) are placed are arranged to be apart from each other by a distance (D) in a vertical direction . To transport two wafers (100) to respective loading stages (200A, 200B), first a wafer (100) placed on the lower wafer support (3) is subjected to correction of its position in its main plane, and the wafer supports (3, 4) are descended. After the wafer (100) placed on the wafer support (3) is loaded onto pins (211-213), another wafer (100) placed on the upper wafer support (4) is subjected to correction of its position in its main plane, and the wafer supports (3, 4) are descended.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: TAZMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuhiro Yamazoe, Shinichi Imai, Kosuke Sakata, Yoshiki Nishijima, Hiroaki Tsukimoto