Patents by Inventor Satoshi Iio

Satoshi Iio 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: 11802032
    Abstract: A processing device includes: a calculation unit that is configured to detect a position of an object that is a possible obstacle to a vehicle; a first detection unit that is configured to detect a direction of a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle; a decision unit that is configured to decide an aspect of an alarm on the basis of the position and the direction of the line of sight of the driver; and a control unit that is configured to control a speaker corresponding to the position such that a sound of the aspect is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Logisnext Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naruhisa Kameo, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao, Satoshi Iio, Koji Shiizaki, Shogo Minami
  • Publication number: 20230316570
    Abstract: A target detection device including: a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pre-trained models using a deep learning network model for detecting a target from an image; a camera unit configured to acquire an image; and a target detection processing unit configured to execute parallel processing on the acquired image using the plurality of pre-trained models and detect a target based on detection results of the pre-trained models, wherein each of the pre-trained models differs from the rest of the pre-trained models in a size of a target to be extracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naruhisa KAMEO, Kiichi SUGIMOTO, Kenta NAKAO, Tomohiro MATSUMOTO, Satoshi IIO
  • Patent number: 11769322
    Abstract: A program creation device includes training data including image data, a setting unit configured to set information of a frame specifying a region for each cell for detecting the presence or absence of the object from the image, and a learning unit configured to execute machine learning of the training data and to create a learned program for extracting the object from the image. The setting unit acquires information on a target region of the training data and on aspect ratios of the anchor, calculates a degree of matching between the anchor and the target region for each aspect ratio while changing a size of the anchor, and calculates an adoption rate of the target region whose degree of matching is a proportion no less than a threshold, and determines, based on a result of the calculation, the size of the anchor used in the learned program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Iio, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao
  • Publication number: 20230196773
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image at a predetermined time interval; a first image processing unit configured to extract an object from the acquired image; a second image processing unit configured to extract a plurality of candidate areas of the object on a screen, based on a position of the object acquired in a previous frame of the image; a comparison unit configured to compare the object extracted by the first image processing unit and the candidate areas with an object extracted from an image in the previous frame of the image; and a specification unit configured to specify a candidate area of a current frame that matches the object extracted from the image in the previous frame, from the candidate areas, based on a comparison result of the comparison unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Iio, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao
  • Publication number: 20230142455
    Abstract: A data creation device that is a training data creation device for creating training data which is used for deep learning of an object detection program for detecting whether or not an object is included in an image, includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an anchor that is information on a frame specifying an area for each cell for detecting presence or absence of the object from the image; and a creation unit that associates area information of the object with image data to create the training data that includes a plurality of image data in which the area information is included. The creation unit determines a frame of the area information, based on a position of the anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Nakao, Kiichi Sugimoto, Satoshi Iio
  • Patent number: 11544937
    Abstract: A control device includes a specifying unit that specifies one of a plurality of detection objects on the basis of a state of an industrial vehicle when the plurality of detection objects are detected around the industrial vehicle, and a control unit that causes a notification to be performed for the one detection object specified by the specifying unit in an aspect different from those of other detected detection objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Logisnext Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Minami, Koji Shiizaki, Akira Ando, Hajime Kodaira, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao, Satoshi Iio
  • Publication number: 20220301292
    Abstract: A target object detection device comprising a camera unit that acquires an image at a predetermined time interval; an image processing unit that extracts a target object from the image acquired; a comparison unit that compares the target object extracted from the image with a target object extracted from an image of a frame before the image; a storage unit that stores a weighting condition based on a position on an image between the target object extracted from the image and the target object extracted from the image of a frame before the image; and an identification unit that compares a comparison result of the comparison unit based on the weighting condition and identifies the target object extracted from the image of a frame before the image that matches the target object extracted from the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Kenta NAKAO, Kiichi SUGIMOTO, Satoshi IIO
  • Publication number: 20220260997
    Abstract: A movable body that moves automatically includes a plurality of sensors configured to detect an obstacle in a periphery of the movable body, a selection information acquisition unit configured to acquire selection information indicating a sensor, of the plurality of sensors, to be used for detection of the obstacle, the sensor being set based on a relationship between a reference position of the obstacle and a position of the movable body, and a detection control unit configured to cause the sensor indicated by the selection information to detect the obstacle, and identify a position of the obstacle from a detection result of the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Satoshi IIO, Kiichi SUGIMOTO, Kenta NAKAO, Kenji TAKAO
  • Publication number: 20210303823
    Abstract: A program creation device configured to create an object detection program for detecting whether an object is included in an image includes, training data including a plurality of image data including area information of the object, a setting unit configured to set an anchor that is information of a frame specifying a region for each cell for detecting the presence or absence of the object from the image, and a learning unit configured to execute machine learning of the training data based on the information of the setting unit and to create a learned program for extracting the object from the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi IIO, Kiichi SUGIMOTO, Kenta NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20210261136
    Abstract: A processing device includes: a calculation unit that is configured to detect a position of an object that is a possible obstacle to a vehicle; a first detection unit that is configured to detect a direction of a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle; a decision unit that is configured to decide an aspect of an alarm on the basis of the position and the direction of the line of sight of the driver; and a control unit that is configured to control a speaker corresponding to the position such that a sound of the aspect is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Logisnext Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naruhisa Kameo, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao, Satoshi Iio, Koji Shiizaki, Shogo Minami
  • Patent number: 10953869
    Abstract: An automated driving control device includes a registration unit configured to generate automated driving information used for driving a vehicle automatically based on a first image obtained by capturing an environment around the vehicle in a mode of driver driving; and a control unit configured to automatically drive the vehicle based on the automated driving information and a second image obtained by capturing the environment around the vehicle in a mode of automated driving. The registration unit includes an extraction unit configured to extract candidate feature points existing in the environment around the vehicle based on the first image; and a generation unit configured to select the candidate feature points that are determined to be structures fixed around a target position of the vehicle based on the first images captured while the vehicle moves, as feature points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Iio, Tetsuya Tomonaka, Yusuke Kinouchi, Yasuo Fujishima, Kevin Walters
  • Publication number: 20200327341
    Abstract: A control device includes a specifying unit that specifies one of a plurality of detection objects on the basis of a state of an industrial vehicle when the plurality of detection objects are detected around the industrial vehicle, and a control unit that causes a notification to be performed for the one detection object specified by the specifying unit in an aspect different from those of other detected detection objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Logisnext Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Minami, Koji Shizaki, Akira Ando, Hajime Kodaira, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao, Satoshi Iio
  • Patent number: 10679507
    Abstract: A parking support system includes a parking path planning unit that plans a trajectory of each unit path when moving a vehicle to a target parking position by repeating a movement of the unit path including one forward movement and one backward movement in succession and calculates a vehicle control signal that causes the vehicle to move along the trajectory such that a steering angle of the vehicle is substantially 0 degrees at an arrival position of each of the forward movement and the backward movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo Fujishima, Yusuke Kinouchi, Satoshi Iio, Tetsuya Tomonaka, Kevin Walters
  • Publication number: 20190039605
    Abstract: An automated driving control device includes a registration unit configured to generate automated driving information used for driving a vehicle automatically based on a first image obtained by capturing an environment around the vehicle in a mode of driver driving; and a control unit configured to automatically drive the vehicle based on the automated driving information and a second image obtained by capturing the environment around the vehicle in a mode of automated driving. The registration unit includes an extraction unit configured to extract candidate feature points existing in the environment around the vehicle based on the first image; and a generation unit configured to select the candidate feature points that are determined to be structures fixed around a target position of the vehicle based on the first images captured while the vehicle moves, as feature points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi IIO, Tetsuya TOMONAKA, Yusuke KINOUCHI, Yasuo FUJISHIMA, Kevin WALTERS
  • Publication number: 20190027042
    Abstract: A parking support system includes a parking path planning unit that plans a trajectory of each unit path when moving a vehicle to a target parking position by repeating a movement of the unit path including one forward movement and one backward movement in succession and calculates a vehicle control signal that causes the vehicle to move along the trajectory such that a steering angle of the vehicle is substantially 0 degrees at an arrival position of each of the forward movement and the backward movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuo FUJISHIMA, Yusuke KINOUCHI, Satoshi IIO, Tetsuya TOMONAKA, Kevin WALTERS
  • Patent number: 7179022
    Abstract: A cutting tool coated with diamond in which diamond is coated as a film on a substrate having a step 15 to 500 ?m in height in the vicinity of a cutting edge on the rake surface and/or the flank surface. Only the diamond film in the vicinity of the cutting edge can be polished first, without polishing the film of the diamond formed centrally of the rake surface and/or the flank surface. This enables the maximum effect (sharpening of the cutting edge and prevention of welding formation at cutting edge) to be realized with the necessary minimum polishing (with a decreased polishing removal), without setting special conditions and which is suited as a finishing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Okamura, Satoshi Iio
  • Patent number: 7059811
    Abstract: A cutting tool coated with diamond in which diamond is coated as a film on a substrate having a step 15 to 500 ?m in height in the vicinity of a cutting edge on the rake surface and/or the flank surface. Only the diamond film in the vicinity of the cutting edge can be polished first, without polishing the film of the diamond formed centrally of the rake surface and/or the flank surface. This enables the maximum effect (sharpening of the cutting edge and prevention of welding formation at cutting edge) to be realized with the necessary minimum polishing (with a decreased polishing removal), without setting special conditions and which is suited as a finishing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Okamura, Satoshi Iio
  • Patent number: 6766574
    Abstract: A temperature sensor including a thermosensitive element and a ceramic body having a hollow section which surrounds the thermosensitive element airtightly. The thermosensitive element is formed on a heat-sensing surface side of the ceramic body having the hollow section. The hollow section is formed at a position which is shifted to the heat-sensing surface side with respect to the center of the temperature sensor. The ceramic body includes a heat-sensing surface side ceramic layer (1) having the thermosensitive element (4) disposed thereon, a spacer ceramic layer (3) having an aperture, and a substrate ceramic layer (2) serving as a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Mizoguchi, Takeshi Mitsuoka, Satoshi Iio
  • Publication number: 20040115434
    Abstract: A cutting tool coated with diamond in which diamond is coated as a film on a substrate having a step 15 to 500 &mgr;m in height in the vicinity of a cutting edge on the rake surface and/or the flank surface. Only the diamond film in the vicinity of the cutting edge can be polished first, without polishing the film of the diamond formed centrally of the rake surface and/or the flank surface. This enables the maximum effect (sharpening of the cutting edge and prevention of welding formation at cutting edge) to be realized with the necessary minimum polishing (with a decreased polishing removal), without setting special conditions and which is suited as a finishing tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Okamura, Satoshi Iio
  • Patent number: 6705806
    Abstract: A cutting tool coated with diamond in which diamond is coated as a film on a substrate having a step 15 to 500 &mgr;m in height in the vicinity of a cutting edge on the rake surface and/or the flank surface. Only the diamond film in the vicinity of the cutting edge can be polished first, without polishing the film of the diamond formed centrally of the rake surface and/or the flank surface. This enables the maximum effect (sharpening of the cutting edge and prevention of welding formation at cutting edge) to be realized with the necessary minimum polishing (with a decreased polishing removal), without setting special conditions and which is suited as a finishing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Okamura, Satoshi Iio