Patents by Inventor Satoshi TAKATSU

Satoshi TAKATSU 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: 20240144148
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for facilitating evaluation of a relationship between persons in work. An information processing device according to one embodiment includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an achievement value for each work representing an achievement of each work obtained when a plurality of workers is combined and allocated to the work; a calculation unit that calculates an evaluation value for each work by comparing the achievement value for each work with a reference value; a determination unit that determines quality of a relationship between the plurality of workers based on the evaluation value for each work; and a setting unit that sets, based on a result of the determination, a relationship value numerically representing the quality of the relationship between the plurality of workers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Masanobu SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240095943
    Abstract: A device determination system includes an assistance device configured to assist a work for a workpiece stacked in a stacking area and having portability so as to be freely arranged, an image capturing device capable of capturing an image of the stacking area, and a control device configured to determine an arrangement position and an arrangement orientation of the assistance device in the stacking area based on the captured image captured by the image capturing device, in which the assistance device includes an indicator by which a position and an orientation of the assistance device reflected in the captured image can be identified, and the control device detects the indicator included in the captured image so as to determine the arrangement position and the arrangement orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Teruyuki KUBOTA, Kai SHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20240069520
    Abstract: A workpiece display assistance device according to one aspect includes: a first model generation unit that obtains shape data of a workpiece to be set, and generates an original model based on the shape data; a second model generation unit that generates a plurality of matching models by rotating and/or inverting the original model; an extraction unit that matches each matching model to the original model and extracts aligned portions of the respective matching models with the original model as matching sections; a model creation unit that creates a matching aggregate model by aggregating the matching sections in a state conforming to the original model and synthesizing the matching sections aggregated; a determination unit that compares the original model and the matching aggregate model and makes a determination of a feature point on the workpiece; and a display unit that displays the feature point in a highlightable manner, along with an image of the workpiece, on a display screen based on the determinatio
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Yuuki KASAI, Teruyuki KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240046170
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an information processing device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire first and second restriction conditions that are restriction conditions related to a plurality of tasks or a plurality of workers; an allocation execution unit configured to allocate the plurality of workers to the plurality of tasks based on a time index having a plurality of weights based on the first restriction condition and generate an allocation result; a determination unit configured to determine whether the allocation result satisfies a determination condition based on the second restriction condition; a correction unit configured to correct a weight related to a task which is a factor by which the allocation result is determined not to satisfy the determination condition among the plurality of weights when the allocation result does not satisfy the determination condition; and an output unit configured to output the allocation result when the allocation result satisfie
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Masanobu SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230390919
    Abstract: A height error of a workpiece holding portion is detected based on a height from a mounting pedestal side floor surface, on which a mounting pedestal is mounted, to a connection point between the workpiece holding portion and an arm unit at a point in time at which contact with a detection target is detected by a surface detection sensor, a height from the mounting pedestal side floor surface to a surface of the detection target, and a theoretical value of a height of the workpiece holding portion, and an actual loading height of a workpiece mounted on the mounting pedestal is detected in consideration of the height error of the workpiece holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Naofumi MIURA, Shuhei TERASAKI, Teruyuki KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20230334397
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a work assignment support device is configured to: classify past assignment table data indicating assignment of work to workers into data at normal time and data at time of saturation by comparison between a workable amount determined from a number of the workers and an actual amount of work; set a threshold to each of a plurality of items on the basis of information on the plurality of items relating to an attribute of a worker, an attribute of work, or an attribute of a combination of a worker and work related to the data at normal time; and determine whether or not information on each of the plurality of items related to the data at time of saturation satisfies the threshold, and determine priority order of the plurality of items on the basis of a result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230252378
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to one embodiment includes an assignment cost value list acquisition unit that acquires a first assignment cost value list including an assignment cost value of an individual worker of a plurality of workers for an individual task of a plurality of tasks, a constraint information acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a constraint for an assignment of the individual task, and a constraint reflection unit that generates a second assignment cost value list in accordance with a change of one or more of the assignment cost values including the first assignment cost value list in accordance with the constraint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi YOSHIDA, Masanobu SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230184417
    Abstract: In a bending system and a method for using the same, the bending system includes a bending robot provided between a press brake and a predetermined setting area that is arranged in front of the press brake to assist in bending a workpiece. The bending robot includes a robot hand for holding the workpiece on a pallet that is set in the predetermined setting area. An image pickup unit, which picks up an image of the workpiece on the pallet from an oblique upper direction, is provided above and anterior to the predetermined setting area (SA). A first illumination unit, which illuminates an image pickup area of the image pickup unit, is erected on a left front side of the predetermined setting area. A second illumination stand, which illuminates the image pickup area of the image pickup unit, is erected on a right front side of the predetermined setting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Norihisa KOIZUMI, Yuto NISHIHATA, Satoshi TAKATSU
  • Publication number: 20230135334
    Abstract: An information processing device calculates multiple types of assignment cost values for realizing realistic task assignment. The information processing device includes a first assignment cost value calculation unit, a classification unit, and a second assignment cost value calculation unit. The first assignment cost value calculation unit calculates a first assignment cost value by using a first coefficient based on a first restriction in accordance with work skills of workers, on the basis of past task assignment results indicating tasks done by workers on each day. The classification unit classifies the workers based on the past task assignment results. The second assignment cost value calculation unit calculates a second assignment cost value by using a second coefficient based on a second restriction in accordance with classifications of the workers determined by the classification unit, on the basis of the past task assignment results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKATSU, Tomoko SHIBATA, Hiroshi Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20220414843
    Abstract: A camera is located at a position deviated from directly above a center of a placement location of a workpiece. When a photographed image is generated by photographing, with the camera, the placement location at which the workpiece is placed, an image processing device specifies, by using a preliminarily determined conversion parameter, to which pixels in the photographed image two-dimensional coordinates within a photographed three-dimensional space correspond, aligns the specified pixels corresponding to the respective coordinates in a two-dimensional manner, and generates a corrected photographed image in which a trapezoidal distortion in the photographed image is corrected. A robot control device detects a position of the workpiece at the placement location based on the corrected photographed image, and controls a workpiece retention robot so as to retain the workpiece and transport the workpiece to a processing machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Satoshi TAKATSU
  • Publication number: 20220335642
    Abstract: A pattern matching unit carries out a pattern matching between a photographed image obtained by photographing a workpiece with a monocular camera and a first plurality of models having a plurality of sizes and a plurality of angles, and selects a model having a size and an angle with the highest degree of matching. A primary detection unit detects a position and an angle of an uppermost workpiece based on the selected model. An actual load height calculation unit calculates an actual load height of the uppermost workpiece based on a hand height. A secondary detection unit re-detects the position and the angle of the uppermost workpiece based on a model having a size and an angle with the highest degree of matching selected by carrying out a pattern matching between the photographed image and a second plurality of models selected or newly created based on the actual load height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Teruyuki KUBOTA, Takeshi WASHIO, Satoshi TAKATSU, Naohumi MIURA, Shuuhei TERASAKI