Patents by Inventor Noboru Sebe

Noboru Sebe 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: 8805023
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an object motion estimating device and the like, which solve a problem of assuming translational movement (that is, a spatial gradient is 0) of an optical flow and are suitable to estimation of an optical flow by an image analysis of captured images. The object motion estimating device performs the image analysis of the captured images of the object to estimate motion of the object. The object motion estimating device includes an image analyzing unit 15. The image analyzing unit 15 assumes time invariance of the optical flow while not assuming the translational movement, and the image analyzing unit 15 estimates the optical flow with intensity at each point of the captured images as measurement variable while simultaneously estimating a spatial gradient of the optical flow. The assumption about the translational movement of the optical flow is an assumption about the optical flow that is actually unknown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Kyushu Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Noboru Sebe, Eitaku Nobuyama, Shuichi Enokida
  • Publication number: 20110299739
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an object motion estimating device and the like, which solve a problem of assuming translational movement (that is, a spatial gradient is 0) of an optical flow and are suitable to estimation of an optical flow by an image analysis of captured images. The object motion estimating device performs the image analysis of the captured images of the object to estimate motion of the object. The object motion estimating device includes an image analyzing unit 15. The image analyzing unit 15 assumes time invariance of the optical flow while not assuming the translational movement, and the image analyzing unit 15 estimates the optical flow with intensity at each point of the captured images as measurement variable while simultaneously estimating a spatial gradient of the optical flow. The assumption about the translational movement of the optical flow is an assumption about the optical flow that is actually unknown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Noboru Sebe, Eitaku Nobuyama, Shuichi Enokida
  • Patent number: 6838854
    Abstract: An electric motor such as a driving source of an electric vehicle is controlled by the microcomputer 7. The microcomputer 7 calculates a target torque Req_trq according to a throttle opening degree ?, and outputting induction values (a current instruction value I and a angle instruction value ?) obtained referring to a map MP based on the target torque Req_trq (a motor rotational number Nm and a battery voltage Vb), the microcomputer 7 performs a torque control of an SR motor 3. The motor rotational number Nm detected from the SR motor 3 is passed through a band pass filter 51. Passing by the band pass filter 51, a signal data of the extracted 0.1-50 Hz is executed a PD calculation process 52, the calculated corrected amount PD_out is subtracted from the target torque Req_trq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Hideki Kuzuya, Hiroaki Kato, Noboru Sebe
  • Patent number: 6717381
    Abstract: A control device of an electric motor which can compatible high robust stability performance and a tracking performance and a designing method thereof. A feedback correction is obtained based on a detected motor rotation speed and a feedforward correction amount is obtained based on a calculated target torque by a controller of a microcomputer. The microcomputer commands torque control to an SR motor based on the feedback correction amount and the feedforward correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Hideki Kuzuya, Hiroaki Kato, Noboru Sebe
  • Patent number: 6653808
    Abstract: A controller K calculates a command torque by correcting the required torque w1 with a correction based on a motor rotation speed Nm, and controls an electric motor based on the command torque T. The command torque w1 is regarded as one content of an outside input W to the controller K. A difference between the rotation speed of the electric motor outputted by the actual model describing an actual response of the electric motor and another rotation speed of the electric motor outputted by a reference model describing ideal performance and vibration reduction is regarded as one content Z1 of controlled output Z from the controller K. Moreover, a characteristic variation depending on vehicle types and so on, a torque ripple, and a sensor noise are described by weight functions wm1, wm2 and wn. Then a pertubative output w2 and a sensor noise w3 are regarded as the remaining contents of the input W. An output of the weight function wm2 is regarded as the controlled output Z.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Hiroaki Kato, Hideki Kuzuya, Noboru Sebe, Kenji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20030052633
    Abstract: A control device of an electric motor which can compatible high robust stability performance and a tracking performance and a designing method thereof. A feedback correction is obtained based on a detected motor rotation speed and a feedforward correction amount is obtained based on a calculated target torque by a controller of a microcomputer. The microcomputer commands torque control to an SR motor based on the feedback correction amount and the feedforward correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Hideki Kuzuya, Hiroaki Kato, Noboru Sebe
  • Publication number: 20020149332
    Abstract: A controller K calculates a command torque by correcting the required torque w1 with a correction based on a motor rotation speed Nm, and controls an electric motor based on the command torque T. The command torque w1 is regarded as one content of an outside input W to the controller K. A difference between the rotation speed of the electric motor outputted by the actual model describing an actual response of the electric motor and another rotation speed of the electric motor outputted by a reference model describing ideal performance and vibration reduction is regarded as one content Z1 of controlled output Z from the controller K. Moreover, a characteristic variation depending on vehicle types and so on, a torque ripple, and a sensor noise are described by weight functions wm1, wm2 and wn. Then a pertubative output w2 and a sensor noise w3 are regarded as the remaining contents of the input W. An output of the weight function wm2 is regarded as the controlled output Z.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Hiroaki Kato, Hideki Kuzuya, Noboru Sebe, Kenji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20020060545
    Abstract: An electric motor such as a driving source of an electric vehicle is controlled by the microcomputer 7. The microcomputer 7 calculates a target torque Req_trq according to a throttle opening degree &agr;, and outputting induction values (a current instruction value I and a angle instruction value &thgr;) obtained referring to a map MP based on the target torque Req_trq (a motor rotational number Nm and a battery voltage Vb), the microcomputer 7 performs a torque control of an SR motor 3. The motor rotational number Nm detected from the SR motor 3 is passed through a band pass filter 51. Passing by the band pass filter 51, a signal data of the extracted 0.1-50 Hz is executed a PD calculation process 52, the calculated corrected amount PD_out is subtracted from the target torque Req_trq.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Inagaki, Hideki Kuzuya, Hiroaki Kato, Noboru Sebe