Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Aoki

Mitsuhiro Aoki 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: 11893694
    Abstract: A control apparatus for work machines includes a position designation reception unit configured to identify designation of a position with respect to a state image displayed on a display panel and a screen control unit configured to perform screen control according to an image displayed at the position that has been identified, among partial images constituting parts of the state image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Hamada, Yoshiyuki Onishi, Mitsuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20230143733
    Abstract: In a construction method using an excavator that is controlled by manual operation, and an excavator that includes an automatic working-equipment control unit automatically controlling second working equipment on the basis of at least one of a current terrain and a designed terrain of a construction range in a construction site, and a tooth-edge position of the second working equipment, a progress rate that indicates a volume of soil having been excavated by the excavator to a target volume of soil to be excavated by the excavator in the construction range is calculated, and when the progress rate is equal to or larger than a threshold, the excavator stops construction of the construction range, and the excavator takes over the construction of the construction range, from the excavator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Onishi, Mitsuhiro Aoki, Masahiro Kurihara, Kenjiro Shimada, Toyohito Uchizono
  • Publication number: 20220172434
    Abstract: A control apparatus for work machines includes a position designation reception unit configured to identify designation of a position with respect to a state image displayed on a display panel and a screen control unit configured to perform screen control according to an image displayed at the position that has been identified, among partial images constituting parts of the state image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Shintaro HAMADA, Yoshiyuki ONISHI, Mitsuhiro AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220112681
    Abstract: A reproduction device includes an acquisition unit, a reception unit, and a reproduction unit. The acquisition unit acquires log information including angle information of a movable part of a work machine. The log information is associated with time. The reception unit receives a reproduction instruction usable to reproduce a movement of the work machine. The reproduction unit reproduces the movement of the work machine by sequentially applying the angle information to a work machine model upon receiving the reproduction instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Shintaro HAMADA, Yoshiyuki ONISHI, Mitsuhiro AOKI
  • Patent number: 11250623
    Abstract: A topographic information transmission device which is provided in a construction site includes an image data reception unit that receives a plurality of pieces of image data in which a landform of the construction site is captured, a three-dimensional data creation unit that creates three-dimensional data of the construction site on the basis of the plurality of pieces of image data, an amount-reduction processing unit that performs an amount reduction process of reducing a total data amount of the created three-dimensional data, and a topographic information transmission unit that transmits amount-reduced three-dimensional data having undergone the amount reduction process to an information providing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikashi Shike, Yoshiyuki Onishi, Mitsuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210312721
    Abstract: A reproduction device includes an acquisition unit, a reception unit, a reproduction unit, and an estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires log information of a work machine, which is associated with time. The reception unit receives a reproduction instruction for an operation of the work machine. The reproduction unit reproduces the operation of the work machine, by sequentially applying angle information of the work machine that is included in the log information, to a work machine model in a case of receiving the reproduction instruction. The estimation unit estimates a work content of the work machine at each time, based on the log information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Shintaro HAMADA, Yoshiyuki ONISHI, Mitsuhiro AOKI
  • Patent number: 11100705
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires design data which is three-dimensional data indicating a terrain. A gradient identification unit identifies a gradient of each of the plurality of polygons configuring the design data. An attribute setting unit sets an attribute for each of the plurality of polygons based on the gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Komatsu LTD
    Inventors: Masahiro Kurihara, Mitsuhiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 11100663
    Abstract: A selection unit selects a target image pair which is a processing target from among a plurality of image pairs captured by imaging devices provided in work machines. A stereo measurement unit generates three-dimensional data representing a landform on the basis of the selected target image pair, by using a camera parameter related to the imaging device of the work machine having imaged the selected target image pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Komatsu LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nemoto, Mitsuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20210142557
    Abstract: A topographic information transmission device which is provided in a construction site includes an image data reception unit that receives a plurality of pieces of image data in which a landform of the construction site is captured, a three-dimensional data creation unit that creates three-dimensional data of the construction site on the basis of the plurality of pieces of image data, an amount-reduction processing unit that performs an amount reduction process of reducing a total data amount of the created three-dimensional data, and a topographic information transmission unit that transmits amount-reduced three-dimensional data having undergone the amount reduction process to an information providing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Chikashi Shike, Yoshiyuki Onishi, Mitsuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20200388043
    Abstract: A selection unit selects a target image pair which is a processing target from among a plurality of image pairs captured by imaging devices provided in work machines. A stereo measurement unit generates three-dimensional data representing a landform on the basis of the selected target image pair, by using a camera parameter related to the imaging device of the work machine having imaged the selected target image pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Yuuichi Nemoto, Mitsuhiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20190304174
    Abstract: An acquisition unit acquires design data which is three-dimensional data indicating a terrain. A gradient identification unit identifies a gradient of each of the plurality of polygons configuring the design data. An attribute setting unit sets an attribute for each of the plurality of polygons based on the gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiro Kurihara, Mitsuhiro Aoki