Patents by Inventor Makoto Kobayashi

Makoto Kobayashi 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: 20200410385
    Abstract: A learning unit of a learning system generates a learning model, the learning model being configured to input rehabilitation data about rehabilitation and predict feedback control to be performed, the rehabilitation being performed by a trainee using a rehabilitation support system. The rehabilitation support system performs the feedback control based on motivation information of the trainee. The rehabilitation data includes at least training data including the motivation information of the trainee and feedback information indicating the feedback control. The learning unit generates the learning model by using, as teacher data, the rehabilitation data that is obtained when the motivation information is one that causes such a change that the motivation of the trainee is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa OTSUKI, Issei NAKASHIMA, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Makoto KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200411196
    Abstract: A learning apparatus, a walking training apparatus, a method, a system, a program, and a trained model for performing walking training at appropriate setting parameters are provided. A learning apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire rehabilitation data from a walking training apparatus including an actuator configured to assist a walking motion of a trainee and a control unit configured to control the actuator in accordance with a setting parameter; and a data generation unit configured to generate an index indicating a degree of recovery of the trainee and the setting parameter as learning data; and a learning unit configured to generate a learning model that receives the index and outputs a recommended value of the setting parameter by performing machine learning using the learning data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Otsuki, Hiroaki Daba, Issei Nakashima, Makoto Kobayashi, Masayuki Imaida
  • Publication number: 20200406088
    Abstract: Appropriate housing equipment according to the physical ability of a trainee who has performed rehabilitation in order to restore or maintain the physical ability is easily presented. A housing equipment presentation apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store definition information defining housing equipment information according to a physical ability, an acquisition unit configured to externally acquire physical ability information of a trainee who has performed training in order to restore or maintain his/her physical ability, a conversion unit configured to convert the acquired physical ability information into the housing equipment information based on the definition information, and an output unit configured to output presentation information including the converted housing equipment information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa OTSUKI, Issei NAKASHIMA, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Takuma NAKAMURA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Masayuki IMAIDA
  • Publication number: 20200412935
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes: an imaging controller that obtains captured image data by controlling an imager imaging a subject through an optical element having variable transmittance of light; a flicker detector that detects a flicker occurring in the captured image data based on the captured image data; and a transmittance controller that controls, based on the flicker, the transmittance of the optical element to a state where a quantity of light incident on the imager is changed in a cycle shorter than a cycle of the flicker, and the imaging controller controls an exposure time of the imager to a natural multiple of a changing cycle of the quantity of light incident on the imager in a condition where the transmittance of the optical element is controlled to the state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto KOBAYASHI, Ryo HASEGAWA, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Tomonori MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20200410341
    Abstract: A learning unit of a learning system generates the following learning model. That is, this learning model is a model that inputs, for each predetermined period, rehabilitation data about rehabilitation performed by a trainee using a rehabilitation support system, and predicts a change in a setting parameter. The setting parameter is a setting parameter in the rehabilitation support system that is used when the trainee performs the rehabilitation. The rehabilitation data includes at least index data, trainee data, and training data, the index data indicating at least one of a symptom, a physical ability, and a degree of recovery of the trainee, the trainee data indicating a feature of the trainee, the training data including the setting parameter. Further, the learning unit generates a learning model by using, as teacher data, data obtained in a period until the index data reaches a predetermined target level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa OTSUKI, Issei NAKASHIMA, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Masayuki IMAIDA
  • Publication number: 20200412931
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes: a controller that causes an imager to perform first imaging and further perform second imaging a plurality of times; and a dark image signal acquirer, the controller causes the imager to perform the second imaging in each of a plurality of exposure states where a quantity of light incident on the imager is greater than 0 and is different for each of the exposure states, by controlling the optical element, and the controller obtains, by controlling the movable lens at a time of the second imaging, a state where a first imaging condition value determined by a control state of the movable lens at the time of the second imaging is different from a second imaging condition value determined by a control state of the movable lens at a time of the first imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo HASEGAWA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Tomonori MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20200405189
    Abstract: A learning system, a walking training system, a method, a program, and a trained model for performing walking training at appropriate setting parameters are provided. A learning system according to an embodiment includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire rehabilitation data from a walking training system including an actuator configured to assist a walking motion of a trainee and a control unit configured to control the actuator in accordance with a setting parameter; a data generation unit configured to generate the rehabilitation data including detection data and the setting parameter as learning data; and a learning unit configured to perform machine learning using the learning data, thereby generating a learning model that receives the detection data and outputs a recommended value of the setting parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Otsuki, Issei Nakashima, Takuya Iwata, Hiroaki Daba, Makoto Kobayashi, Masayuki Imaida
  • Publication number: 20200410339
    Abstract: A learning unit of a learning system generates the following learning model. That is, this learning model is a model that inputs rehabilitation data for each predetermined period and predicts a change in index data, the rehabilitation data being data about rehabilitation performed by a trainee using a rehabilitation support system, the index data indicating at least one of a symptom, a physical ability, and a degree of recovery of the trainee. This rehabilitation data includes at least the index data and training data of the trainee, the training data being acquired during the rehabilitation in the rehabilitation support system. Further, the learning unit generates the learning model by using, as teacher data, data obtained in a period until the index data reaches a predetermined target level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa OTSUKI, Issei NAKASHIMA, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Masayuki IMAIDA
  • Publication number: 20200410887
    Abstract: A rehabilitation support system in which, when a trainee performs rehabilitation using a rehabilitation support apparatus, a training assistant who assists the trainee can give rehabilitation support while taking a motivation of the trainee into consideration is provided. A rehabilitation support system including a rehabilitation support apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an output unit, and a feedback unit. The acquisition unit acquires motivation information indicating a motivation for rehabilitation performed by a trainee using the rehabilitation support apparatus, the motivation information including at least line-of-sight information of the trainee. The output unit outputs a degree indicating the motivation of the trainee based on the motivation information acquired by the acquisition unit. The feedback unit feeds back the degree output from the output unit to the rehabilitation support apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuhisa OTSUKI, Issei NAKASHIMA, Manabu YAMAMOTO, Makoto KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200412967
    Abstract: In an imaging element in which a plurality of phase difference detection pixels and a plurality of normal pixels for imaging are two-dimensionally arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, the phase difference detection pixel includes a first phase difference pixel ZA and a second phase difference pixel ZB including opening portions for pupil separation at different positions in the horizontal direction. The first phase difference pixel ZA and the second phase difference pixel ZB are adjacently arranged to have the opening portions facing each other. RGB color filters are arranged in the plurality of normal pixels in the Bayer arrangement. The imaging element includes a normal pixel row in which only the normal pixel is arranged in the horizontal direction and a phase difference pixel row in which the first phase difference pixel ZA, the second phase difference pixel ZB, and one normal pixel are periodically arranged in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Kawai, Seiji Tanaka, Koichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200411194
    Abstract: A learning device includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire rehabilitation data from a rehabilitation support device having an actuator configured to assist a rehabilitation movement of a trainee and a sensor configured to detect data on the rehabilitation movement assisted by the actuator, a data generation unit configured to generate, as data for learning, the rehabilitation data that includes detected data corresponding to a detection result by the sensor, and a learning unit configured to generate, by performing machine learning using the data for learning, a learning model that outputs an index indicating a movement ability of the trainee, upon receiving an input of the detected data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Otsuki, Issei Nakashima, Hiroaki Daba, Makoto Kobayashi, Masayuki Imaida
  • Publication number: 20200404139
    Abstract: An imaging control device includes: a transmittance control unit that controls transmittance of each of a plurality of regions in an optical element for controlling a quantity of light incident on an imaging element to a different value; an imaging control unit that causes the imaging element to perform imaging for light measurement in a state where the transmittance of each of the plurality of regions is controlled to the different value; a light measurement processing unit that measures brightness of a subject based on a captured image signal obtained from the imaging element by the imaging for light measurement; an image processing unit that generates image data for display from the captured image signal obtained by the imaging for light measurement; and an output unit that outputs the image data for display to a display unit displaying an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori MASUDA, Hitoshi SAKURABU, Ryo HASEGAWA, Makoto KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200388187
    Abstract: The rehabilitation training system includes: an evaluation unit configured to evaluate rehabilitation training performed by a trainee; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of evaluation comments regarding the evaluation; a reception unit configured to receive, from an authorized training assistant, designation of an evaluation comment that is restricted from being presented to a specific trainee among the plurality of evaluation comments; a selection unit configured to select an evaluation comment to be presented to the specific trainee from the plurality of evaluation comments based on the evaluation for the rehabilitation training of the specific trainee that is performed by the evaluation unit and the designation; and a presentation unit configured to present the evaluation comment selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Issei NAKASHIMA, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Eiichi SAITOH, Akihiro SAITO, Satoshi HIRANO, Shigeo TANABE, Takuma II
  • Patent number: 10863110
    Abstract: A digital camera that includes an imaging sensor having a stop 2 arranged in front of an imaging surface includes an imaging control unit that starts exposure of pixels on the entire imaging surface at the same time and then, ends the exposure of the pixels at the same time in a state where light from a subject is incident on the imaging surface, by controlling an imaging sensor drive circuit which drives the imaging sensor, and a processor that sequentially changes an F number of the stop 2 to a plurality of values during a period from the start of the exposure until the end of the exposure. The processor controls a time in which the F number is maintained at each of the plurality of values to be a time that is based on a function indicating light transmittance characteristics of an APD filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Hasegawa, Masaru Kobayashi, Makoto Kobayashi, Hitoshi Sakurabu, Tomonori Masuda
  • Patent number: 10843475
    Abstract: An ink refill container 63 includes a container main body 64 including an ink storage chamber 76, an ink outlet-forming portion 66 provided on an end portion of the container main body forming an ink outlet 65 that allows the ink to flow out from the ink storage chamber, and a valve 74 provided in the ink outlet-forming portion configured to openably seal the ink outlet, in which the ink outlet-forming portion includes a positioning portion 73 on an outer side of the ink outlet-forming portion. in which the positioning portion 73 is closer to the container main body than the valve 74 is to the container main body in a central axis direction of the ink outlet, and in which the positioning portion partially abuts against an ink tank 41-45 when the valve is opened for refilling the ink to the ink tank, to thereby position the valve relative to the ink tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro Mizutani, Ryoichi Tanaka, Manabu Akahane, Makoto Kobayashi, Naomi Kimura, Hideki Okumura, Shoma Kudo, Tetsuya Takamoto, Hiroaki Sakai
  • Patent number: 10822205
    Abstract: In an overhead transport vehicle, an elevator includes shock absorbers attached to belts, and a base including a holder. The shock absorbers each include a support below the base. The base is vertically movable with respect to each of the supports with vibration isolators. The shock absorbers are connected by a link that operates to ensure similarity of respective distances between the base and the support connected to each other in each of the shock absorbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20200339162
    Abstract: An overhead transport vehicle includes a container accommodation portion sandwiched by cover portions in a front-and-rear direction in a traveling direction and configured to hold a cassette in a state in which a lid faces in a width direction intersecting the traveling direction and a vertical direction; and a lid-fall prevention member on the cover portion to prevent the lid that has come off from the cassette held in the container accommodation portion from falling. The lid-fall prevention member includes a lower support portion extending along the width direction below the cassette and partially protruding from the lid in a planar view seen from the vertical direction, and a front support portion standing upright in the vertical direction from the lower support portion so as to face at least a portion of the lid. The lower support portion and the front support portion are integrally defined by a unitary structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventor: Makoto KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10819900
    Abstract: In an imaging element in which a plurality of phase difference detection pixels and a plurality of normal pixels for imaging are two-dimensionally arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, the phase difference detection pixel includes a first phase difference pixel ZA and a second phase difference pixel ZB including opening portions for pupil separation at different positions in the horizontal direction. The first phase difference pixel ZA and the second phase difference pixel ZB are adjacently arranged to have the opening portions facing each other. RGB color filters are arranged in the plurality of normal pixels in the Bayer arrangement. The imaging element includes a normal pixel row in which only the normal pixel is arranged in the horizontal direction and a phase difference pixel row in which the first phase difference pixel ZA, the second phase difference pixel ZB, and one normal pixel are periodically arranged in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Kawai, Seiji Tanaka, Koichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200331503
    Abstract: A moving mechanism moves a swing suppression unit in a traveling direction between an advanced position contacting a FOUP and a retracted position away from the FOUP by a drive of a drive unit. A buffer mechanism that allows the swing suppression unit that has been moved to the advanced position by the drive of the drive unit to move to the traveling direction after stopping the drive of the drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventor: Makoto KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10798308
    Abstract: An processor that performs consecutive imaging control for consecutively imaging a subject by an imaging sensor and emitting auxiliary light in an imaging period in which each of the plurality of times of the imaging is performed, the imaging periods do not overlap, an end timing of a light emission period of the auxiliary light started in the imaging period is later than an end timing of the imaging period, the imaging control device further controls a light emission intensity of the auxiliary light in the light emission period started in the second imaging period or imaging sensitivity in the second imaging period based on the light emission intensity of the auxiliary light emitted in an overlapping period overlapping with the second imaging period in the light emission period started in the first imaging period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Tomonori Masuda, Hitoshi Sakurabu, Ryo Hasegawa, Makoto Kobayashi