Patents by Inventor Ryutaro SEKI

Ryutaro SEKI 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: 20240001533
    Abstract: A display system displaying information on a robot arm when the robot arm having a joint is moving, includes a plurality of imaging apparatuses imaging markers provided on the robot arm, a plurality of projection apparatuses projecting the information on the robot arm, and a control apparatus controlling operation of the projection apparatuses to project the information to follow the moving robot arm based on images of the markers captured by the imaging apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuichiro MATSUURA, Ryutaro SEKI, Daiki TOGASHI
  • Patent number: 11820015
    Abstract: An overshoot amount detection method includes a synchronization step of synchronizing a signal of an inertial sensor with a signal of an encoder based on a first synchronizing signal output from the inertial sensor during a signal synchronizing operation and a second synchronizing signal output from the encoder during the signal synchronizing operation, a signal generation step of generating a first signal by twice integration of a first detection signal output from the inertial sensor during a working operation and removal of a low-frequency component contained in the first detection signal and generating a second signal for supplement of the low-frequency component of the first signal from a second detection signal output from the encoder during the working operation, and an overshoot amount detection step of detecting an overshoot amount of an arm based on the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ryutaro Seki, Atsushi Toyofuku, Tomonori Mano
  • Publication number: 20230001578
    Abstract: A method of the present disclosure includes (a) receiving settings of an objective function and a constraint condition, (b) controlling a robot to execute work using a candidate value of a control parameter and measuring a performance index value for the objective function and a constraint evaluation value, (c) searching for a next candidate value of the control parameter by executing optimization processing using a value of the objective function, (d) obtaining the values of the objective function and the constraint evaluation values with respect to the plurality of candidate values by repeating (b) and (c), and (e) displaying a processing result containing a correlation chart showing the values of the objective function and the constraint evaluation values with respect to each of the plurality of candidate values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kimitake MIZOBE, Jun TODA, Shota MOROZUMI, Ryutaro SEKI
  • Publication number: 20230001574
    Abstract: An operation parameter adjusting method according to an aspect includes a detecting step for causing a robot to execute a plurality of adjustment operations using candidate values of operation parameters and acquiring detection values of a detecting section, an operation parameter updating step for executing optimization processing for the operation parameters using the acquired detection values to thereby obtain new candidate values of the operation parameters, a repeating step for repeating the operation parameter updating step and the detecting step, and an operation parameter determining step for determining, based on one or more candidate values of the operation parameters obtained by the repeating step, the operation parameter used in the robot system. The detecting step includes a suspension determining step for performing continuation or suspension of the detecting step based on a result of comparison of the acquired detection values of the part of the adjustment operations and a reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jun TODA, Kimitake MIZOBE, Ryutaro SEKI, Takahisa FUKUSEN
  • Patent number: 11440186
    Abstract: An overshoot amount detection method includes a first step of generating a first signal from a first detection signal output from an inertial sensor that detects inertia in a working unit of an arm to be displaced, a second step of generating a second signal using a second detection signal output from an encoder that detects an amount of displacement of the arm, and a third step of detecting an overshoot amount of the arm based on a third signal obtained by synthesis of the first signal and the second signal. The first step includes twice integration of the first detection signal and removing a low-frequency component contained in the first detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Ryutaro Seki, Kimitake Mizobe
  • Publication number: 20220126440
    Abstract: A method of the present disclosure includes (a) a step of receiving track information for specifying a track of a target operation of a robot, (b) a step of acquiring, according to an instruction to adjust a parameter set for controlling the target operation, about one or more initial parameter sets, values of evaluation indicators of control results obtained when causing the robot to execute the target operation using the respective initial parameter sets, (c) a step of displaying, on a display section, one or more reference displays based on the acquired values of the evaluation indicators, and (d) a step of receiving an input of condition information for deciding a condition of optimization processing for the parameter set, the condition information being condition information about the evaluation indicators, performing the optimization processing for the parameter set according to the condition information, and determining a value of a new parameter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Kimitake MIZOBE, Ryutaro SEKI, Atsushi TOYOFUKU, Jun TODA
  • Publication number: 20220118616
    Abstract: A method according to an aspect includes (a) receiving track information for specifying a track of a target operation of a robot, (b) determining a first indicator and a second indicator, when one of the first indicator and the second indicator is superior, another being inferior, (c) receiving condition information for deciding conditions for optimization processing, (d) determining, based on the condition information, a search range and a parameter set used for the optimization processing, (e) acquiring values of the first indicator and the second indicator when the robot is caused to execute the target operation based on the determined parameter set, (f) determining a new parameter set based on the acquired values of the first indicator and the second indicator, and (g) repeating the steps (e) and (f) to acquire a parameter set more excellent in the first indicator than the parameter set determined in the step (d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Kimitake MIZOBE, Ryutaro SEKI, Atsushi TOYOFUKU, Jun TODA
  • Publication number: 20220101213
    Abstract: (a) Determine first, second indexes. (b) Acquire values of the first, second indexes after a robot works using a parameter set. (c) Determine a new parameter set using a multi-objective optimization technique with a function containing the first, second indexes as an objective function. (d) Acquire values of the first, second indexes using the new parameter set. (e) Acquire parameter sets and values of the first, second indexes thereof by repeating (c), (d). (f) Perform display based on the values of the first, second indexes with respect to two or more of the parameter sets. The value of the first index of the first parameter set is better than the value of the first index of the second parameter set. The value of the second index of the second parameter set is better than the value of the second index of the first parameter set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Kimitake MIZOBE, Ryutaro SEKI, Atsushi TOYOFUKU, Jun TODA
  • Publication number: 20220063090
    Abstract: An adjustment method includes (a) causing a robot to execute an adjustment operation using candidate values of operation parameters and acquiring a measurement result of a sensor, (b) updating the candidate values of the operation parameters by executing optimization processing for the operation parameters using the measurement result, and (c) determining adjustment values of the operation parameters by repeating (a) and (b) until the optimization processing converges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Ryutaro SEKI
  • Publication number: 20220016769
    Abstract: An overshoot amount detection method includes a synchronization step of synchronizing a signal of an inertial sensor with a signal of an encoder based on a first synchronizing signal output from the inertial sensor during a signal synchronizing operation and a second synchronizing signal output from the encoder during the signal synchronizing operation, a signal generation step of generating a first signal by twice integration of a first detection signal output from the inertial sensor during a working operation and removal of a low-frequency component contained in the first detection signal and generating a second signal for supplement of the low-frequency component of the first signal from a second detection signal output from the encoder during the working operation, and an overshoot amount detection step of detecting an overshoot amount of an arm based on the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Ryutaro SEKI, Atsushi TOYOFUKU, Tomonori MANO
  • Publication number: 20200406458
    Abstract: An overshoot amount detection method includes a first step of generating a first signal from a first detection signal output from an inertial sensor that detects inertia in a working unit of an arm to be displaced, a second step of generating a second signal using a second detection signal output from an encoder that detects an amount of displacement of the arm, and a third step of detecting an overshoot amount of the arm based on a third signal obtained by synthesis of the first signal and the second signal. The first step includes twice integration of the first detection signal and removing a low-frequency component contained in the first detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Ryutaro SEKI, Kimitake MIZOBE
  • Publication number: 20180177493
    Abstract: An ultrasonic measurement apparatus includes a calculation processing section that performs weight selection of selecting one of a predetermined weight and an adaptive weight, as a signal combination weight for the reception beam forming process, for each processing target point of a target region, and generates an ultrasonic image by performing the reception beam forming process, and the calculation processing section performs edge detection with respect to the target region on the basis of the received signal, extraction of extracting an edge portion satisfying a predetermined condition with respect to a beam direction in the reception beam forming process related to the processing target point among edge portions detected through the edge detection, and weight selection of selecting the predetermined weight as the signal combination weight in a case where the processing target point is the extracted edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Masaki HAYASHI, Ryutaro SEKI
  • Publication number: 20170143309
    Abstract: An ultrasonic probe includes ultrasonic transducer arrays of N types (where N?2) for which drive frequencies are different from each other, and a common signal line that is used for both transmission and reception and to which the ultrasonic transducer arrays are connected in common.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryutaro SEKI, Hiromitsu MIZUKAMI