Patents by Inventor Satoshi Michihata

Satoshi Michihata 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: 11259013
    Abstract: In a state in which an optical axis of a camera is normal to a surface, a relative angle of a projector with respect to the camera is set such that a marker is formed at the intersection of the optical axis of the camera with the surface. In a state in which the relative angle is unchanged and an installation angle of the camera is changed, the marker formed on the surface is shot by means of the camera, and, based on a distance between the marker and the intersection in the image obtained by the shooting, the installation angle of the camera is calculated. Furthermore, an error of the calculated installation angle with respect to a target value is calculated and displayed. Calculation or adjustment of the installation angle can be made even if the surface on which the marker is formed is relatively narrow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shaoxiang Ma, Masahide Koike, Junji Sukeno, Susumu Iino, Satoshi Michihata
  • Publication number: 20210306621
    Abstract: In a state in which an optical axis of a camera is normal to a surface, a relative angle of a projector with respect to the camera is set such that a marker is formed at the intersection of the optical axis of the camera with the surface. In a state in which the relative angle is unchanged and an installation angle of the camera is changed, the marker formed on the surface is shot by means of the camera, and, based on a distance between the marker and the intersection in the image obtained by the shooting, the installation angle of the camera is calculated. Furthermore, an error of the calculated installation angle with respect to a target value is calculated and displayed. Calculation or adjustment of the installation angle can be made even if the surface on which the marker is formed is relatively narrow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shaoxiang MA, Masahide KOIKE, Junji SUKENO, Susumu IINO, Satoshi MICHIHATA
  • Patent number: 11004211
    Abstract: An imaging object tracking system includes an entrance/exit detection camera to take an image of an entrance/exit detection area where an imaging object enters and exits, an entrance/exit detection upper sensor to detect the imaging object being imaged by the entrance/exit detection camera, at least one upper sensor disposed so as to overlap a part of the detection area for detecting the imaging object with an area where the entrance/exit detection upper sensor detects the imaging object, an initial position estimation unit to estimate an initial position of the imaging object on the basis of positional coordinates of the imaging object in a two-dimensional image taken by the entrance/exit detection camera and three-dimensional coordinate information of the entrance/exit detection area, an upper position detection unit to detect a position of the imaging object seen from an upper side thereof, an initial motion path generation unit to generate an initial motion path, and a tracking unit to generate a followin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Susumu Iino, Junji Sukeno, Masahide Koike, Satoshi Michihata
  • Publication number: 20200234452
    Abstract: An imaging object tracking system includes an entrance/exit detection camera to take an image of an entrance/exit detection area where an imaging object enters and exits, an entrance/exit detection upper sensor to detect the imaging object being imaged by the entrance/exit detection camera, at least one upper sensor disposed so as to overlap a part of the detection area for detecting the imaging object with an area where the entrance/exit detection upper sensor detects the imaging object, an initial position estimation unit to estimate an initial position of the imaging object on the basis of positional coordinates of the imaging object in a two-dimensional image taken by the entrance/exit detection camera and three-dimensional coordinate information of the entrance/exit detection area, an upper position detection unit to detect a position of the imaging object seen from an upper side thereof, an initial motion path generation unit to generate an initial motion path, and a tracking unit to generate a followin
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Susumu IINO, Junji SUKENO, Masahide KOIKE, Satoshi MICHIHATA
  • Patent number: 10113816
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing having an air inlet and an air outlet and having therein an air passage, and a heat exchanger and an air-sending fan which are arranged in the air passage in the casing. The air passage is divided into a plurality of air passage sections by, for example, a partition. The air-conditioning apparatus can reduce pressure loss in an indoor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Akiyoshi, Satoshi Michihata, Shoji Yamada, Tomoya Fukui
  • Patent number: 9982898
    Abstract: An indoor unit includes a casing having a suction port formed in an upper part and a blow-out port formed on a lower side at a front face part, an axial-flow or diagonal-flow fan provided on the downstream side of the suction port in the casing, and a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of the fan and on the upstream side of the blow-out port in the casing, in which air blown out of the fan and refrigerant are heat-exchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji Yamada, Kenichi Sakoda, Masao Akiyoshi, Akira Takamori, Nobuaki Uehara, Tomoya Fukui, Seiji Nakashima, Naoki Iwamoto, Satoshi Michihata, Isao Otsuka, Masayuki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9928880
    Abstract: A system management device (1) includes: a data request transmission unit (5) which successively transmits data request signals (C5) to a management object system (50); a feature data extraction unit (6) which extracts feature data (D3) from data (D50) acquired by a data acquisition unit (3); an error information extraction unit (7) which extracts error information from the data; a feature data storage unit (8) which stores feature data at a time of occurrence of an error as error-occurrence-time feature data (D6) according to the error information; and a system control unit (9) which, each time the data is acquired, compares a status value included in the feature data (D3) in the acquired data with a status value included in the error-occurrence-time feature data (D6) already stored in the feature data storage unit (8) and performs control of the management object system (50) according to a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Michihata, Masao Noguchi, Kiyoyasu Maruyama
  • Patent number: 9778971
    Abstract: A slave device is equipped with: a parameter setting portion for setting different values according to the content of commands sent from a master device, as parameter values for detecting anomalies; and an anomaly detecting portion for detecting anomalies by comparing the time corresponding to a parameter value that has been set by the parameter setting portion and the measured time of a process carried out in response to a command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Michihata, Kiyoyasu Maruyama, Satoko Miki, Tomonori Fukuta, Kazuhiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9671820
    Abstract: A slave device (20), which is a communication device, receives and analyzes commands, and returns the results to a master device (10). During the command analysis period, an IIC control unit (205) and a CPU (210), which form a control unit, control an SCL control unit (201) so as to stop an SCL signal. When the value of a timer (206) is equal to or less than a threshold value, transmit data are saved in a transmission FIFO (203), control for stopping the SCL signal is canceled, and in synchronization with the SCL signal, an SDA control unit (202) transmits the data saved in the transmission FIFO (203) to the master device (10). When the value of the timer (206) exceeds the threshold value, control for stopping the SCL signal is canceled, the clock control unit is placed in a state to receive the clock signal, and the SDA control unit (202) is placed in a state to receive a slave address indicating a communication device that operates in the slave mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoyasu Maruyama, Kenji Esumi, Satoshi Michihata
  • Publication number: 20160357690
    Abstract: A storage section (101) configured to store data, a DMA section (106) configured to read video data from the storage section (101) by specifying an address and write them into the storage section (101), an address conversion rule storage section (104) configured to store an address conversion rule for converting the address specified by the DMA section (106), and an address conversion section (105) configured to convert the address specified by the DMA section (106) in accordance with the address conversion rule; the address conversion rule is a rule for converting addresses of a series of areas to addresses of the video data stored in a plurality of areas in the storage section (101); the address conversion section (105) includes an address conversion done-or-not determination section; and the address conversion done-or-not determination section determines, by comparing the address with a third area assigned to address conversion, whether the address conversion is done or not done.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide KOIKE, Kiyoyasu MARUYAMA, Satoshi MICHIHATA, Keiji UEMURA, Yudai NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9471435
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a nonvolatile memory having a program area storing a program for booting a system, and backup areas each storing a backup program identical in content to the program; a process executing unit that executes the program to perform a boot process of the system; an error detection unit that performs error detection on the program in parallel with the boot process; and a reboot unit that, when the error detection unit detects an error in the program, performs a recovery process to replace the program with one of the backup programs, and reboots the system using the replaced program. In the recovery process, the reboot unit refers to history information indicating a history of replacement of the program with the backup programs, selects the backup program used for the replacement from among the backup programs, and replaces the program with the selected backup program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Michihata, Kiyoyasu Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20160247543
    Abstract: A system management device (1) includes: a data request transmission unit (5) which successively transmits data request signals (C5) to a management object system (50); a feature data extraction unit (6) which extracts feature data (D3) from data (D50) acquired by a data acquisition unit (3); an error information extraction unit (7) which extracts error information from the data; a feature data storage unit (8) which stores feature data at a time of occurrence of an error as error-occurrence-time feature data (D6) according to the error information; and a system control unit (9) which, each time the data is acquired, compares a status value included in the feature data (D3) in the acquired data with a status value included in the error-occurrence-time feature data (D6) already stored in the feature data storage unit (8) and performs control of the management object system (50) according to a result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Michihata, Masao Noguchi, Kiyoyasu Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20150348382
    Abstract: Illicit movement is detected on the basis of authentication result information (D3), door open/close information (D4), and changes in the quantity of encoded data (D2) of a video image of the vicinity of a door (9). An illicit movement is found to have occurred when the length of an interval during which the data quantity (D5) for each period is continuously greater than a threshold, or an integral (D80) of the data quantity (D5) exceeds a threshold, while the door is in an unlocked state. It is thereby possible to detect illicit entry into a controlled area with high precision, without decoding the encoded video data from the monitoring camera, and without carrying out complex image processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi MICHIHATA, Kiyoyasu MARUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9055275
    Abstract: Each of image information playback units (11, 21) detects that image display has started, on the basis of a change in digital video data (VDa, VDb), and generates a frame number (FNa, FNb) (103, 203). One of the image information playback units (11) combines frame signals that output frame synchronization signals (FSa) (104). The other image information playback unit (21) separates the frame synchronization signals (FSa) and generates a frame number (SFNa) (205). The generated frame number (SFNa) and the frame number (FNb) generated in the second image information playback unit (21) are compared, and on the basis of the comparison results the frequency of the decoding reference clock signal is controlled (206). When images are displayed by a plurality of display units (15, 25) connected to the image information playback units (11, 21), the images can be synchronized with a simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoyasu Maruyama, Satoshi Michihata
  • Patent number: 8973390
    Abstract: An indoor unit includes a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of a fan and formed with a plurality of lower end portions in a vertical cross section from the front side to the back side of a casing, a plurality of drain pans provided below the lower end portions of the heat exchanger and configured to collect drain water occurring on the heat exchanger, and a drain channel provided between the drain pans and configured to be a flow channel of the drain, and a connecting port to which a drain hose configured to drain the drain water collected by the drain pans to the outside of the casing, and one of the drain pans is arranged to a level equal to or higher than the level of the other drain pan, and the drain channel is provided on the drain pan arranged on the back side of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Shirota, Tomoya Fukui, Shoji Yamada, Kenichi Sakoda, Kunihiko Kaga, Takeshi Mori, Satoshi Michihata, Akira Takamori, Shinichi Suzuki, Yoshinori Tanikawa, Takashi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20140365823
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a nonvolatile memory having a program area storing a program for booting a system, and backup areas each storing a backup program identical in content to the program; a process executing unit that executes the program to perform a boot process of the system; an error detection unit that performs error detection on the program in parallel with the boot process; and a reboot unit that, when the error detection unit detects an error in the program, performs a recovery process to replace the program with one of the backup programs, and reboots the system using the replaced program. In the recovery process, the reboot unit refers to history information indicating a history of replacement of the program with the backup programs, selects the backup program used for the replacement from among the backup programs, and replaces the program with the selected backup program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Michihata, Kiyoyasu Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20140258576
    Abstract: A slave device (20), which is a communication device, receives and analyzes commands, and returns the results to a master device (10). During the command analysis period, an IIC control unit (205) and a CPU (210), which form a control unit, control an SCL control unit (201) so as to stop an SCL signal. When the value of a timer (206) is equal to or less than a threshold value, transmit data are saved in a transmission FIFO (203), control for stopping the SCL signal is canceled, and in synchronization with the SCL signal, an SDA control unit (202) transmits the data saved in the transmission FIFO (203) to the master device (10). When the value of the timer (206) exceeds the threshold value, control for stopping the SCL signal is canceled, the clock control unit is placed in a state to receive the clock signal, and the SDA control unit (202) is placed in a state to receive a slave address indicating a communication device that operates in the slave mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoyasu Maruyama, Kenji Esumi, Satoshi Michihata
  • Publication number: 20140149805
    Abstract: A slave device is equipped with: a parameter setting portion for setting different values according to the content of commands sent from a master device, as parameter values for detecting anomalies; and an anomaly detecting portion for detecting anomalies by comparing the time corresponding to a parameter value that has been set by the parameter setting portion and the measured time of a process carried out in response to a command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Michihata, Kiyoyasu Maruyama, Satoko Miki, Tomonori Fukuta, Kazuhiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140029910
    Abstract: Each of image information playback units (11, 21) detects that image display has started, on the basis of a change in digital video data (VDa, VDb), and generates a frame number (FNa, FNb) (103, 203). One of the image information playback units (11) combines frame signals that output frame synchronization signals (FSa) (104). The other image information playback unit (21) separates the frame synchronization signals (FSa) and generates a frame number (SFNa) (205). The generated frame number (SFNa) and the frame number (FNb) generated in the second image information playback unit (21) are compared, and on the basis of the comparison results the frequency of the decoding reference clock signal is controlled (206). When images are displayed by a plurality of display units (15, 25) connected to the image information playback units (11, 21), the images can be synchronized with a simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoyasu Maruyama, Satoshi Michihata
  • Publication number: 20130168064
    Abstract: An air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing having an air inlet and an air outlet and having therein an air passage, and a heat exchanger and an air-sending fan which are arranged in the air passage in the casing. The air passage is divided into a plurality of air passage sections by, for example, a partition. The air-conditioning apparatus can reduce pressure loss in an indoor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Akiyoshi, Satoshi Michihata, Shoji Yamada, Tomoya Fukui