Patents by Inventor Kouhei KURIBARA

Kouhei KURIBARA 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).

  • Patent number: 10645280
    Abstract: An object is to provide an image-sensing system which can acquire uniform images with a line sensor camera. An image-sensing system includes: a line sensor camera that shoots a workpiece in which a plurality of circumferential surfaces whose radii differ from each other are aligned in a direction of an axis and which is being machined while being rotated about the axis from a direction orthogonal to the axis so as to cover the entire workpiece in the direction of the axis; and a scan rate change unit which changes a scan rate of the line sensor camera to values that respectively correspond to the radii of the circumferential surfaces, and the line sensor camera shoots the workpiece at the scan rates which are changed to the values corresponding to the radii of the circumferential surfaces so as to respectively correspond to the circumferential surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouhei Kuribara, Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: 10540816
    Abstract: Provided is an information display system configured to display auxiliary information in a real space in a superimposed manner, depending on the visibility of a workpiece. The information display system is provided with a mapping unit configured to photograph the workpiece and create model data indicative of the shape of the workpiece, a complementary unit configured to generate a 3D model image of at least a part of the workpiece based on 3D model data of the workpiece and complement an invisible part of the workpiece by the 3D model image, and a display unit configured to display the 3D model image so as to be superimposed on the invisible part of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouhei Kuribara, Kenji Shimizu, Kazuo Satou, Hideaki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20190306418
    Abstract: An object is to provide an image-sensing system which can acquire uniform images with a line sensor camera. An image-sensing system includes: a line sensor camera that shoots a workpiece in which a plurality of circumferential surfaces whose radii differ from each other are aligned in a direction of an axis and which is being machined while being rotated about the axis from a direction orthogonal to the axis so as to cover the entire workpiece in the direction of the axis; and a scan rate change unit which changes a scan rate of the line sensor camera to values that respectively correspond to the radii of the circumferential surfaces, and the line sensor camera shoots the workpiece at the scan rates which are changed to the values corresponding to the radii of the circumferential surfaces so as to respectively correspond to the circumferential surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kouhei KURIBARA, Kazuo SATO
  • Publication number: 20180211442
    Abstract: Provided is an information display system configured to display auxiliary information in a real space in a superimposed manner, depending on the visibility of a workpiece. The information display system is provided with a mapping unit configured to photograph the workpiece and create model data indicative of the shape of the workpiece, a complementary unit configured to generate a 3D model image of at least a part of the workpiece based on 3D model data of the workpiece and complement an invisible part of the workpiece by the 3D model image, and a display unit configured to display the 3D model image so as to be superimposed on the invisible part of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Kouhei KURIBARA, Kenji SHIMIZU, Kazuo SATOU, Hideaki MAEDA