Patents by Inventor SHIKI KOU
SHIKI KOU 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: 20230177970Abstract: A cooking-learning support system includes a storage, an information presenter, and a controller. The storage stores a recipe including at least one cooking process, a cooking element that is one of an ingredient for cooking, a cooking method for the ingredient, and a combination of the ingredient and the cooking method, and a cooking-element reference level of the cooking element. The information presenter presents the recipe. The controller calculates a recipe reference level corresponding to the recipe, based on the cooking-element reference level of the cooking element corresponding to the cooking process in the recipe, and causes the information presenter to present the calculated recipe reference level along with the recipe. A cooking-learning support method is implemented in the cooking-learning support system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: YUKI TAOKA, YASUHIRO YUKI, MASAFUMI SADAHIRA, HIROKI YAMADA, SHIKI KOU
-
Patent number: 10589426Abstract: A robot including a spherical housing made up of a main housing portion, a first spherical cap portion, and a second spherical cap portion. The main housing portion is disposed between the first spherical cap portion and the second spherical cap portion. The robot further including a weight that is provided in the main housing portion and configured to rotate around a pivot that is orthogonal to a shaft connecting the spherical cap portions. When outputting a response to an input instruction received from a user, via an input device, based on a predetermined processing is determined to require a predetermined time or more, a robot controls a first drive mechanism during the predetermined processing such that the first drive mechanism rotates a weight around the pivot to reciprocally move the weight in the opposite directions of the pivot.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiki Kou, Ryouta Miyazaki, Masahiro Ishii, Kento Ogawa, Yuji Kunitake, Seiya Higuchi
-
Patent number: 10507582Abstract: In a case where an apparatus that is moved by a user is moved in a vertical direction, when a distance from an object located in the same two-dimensional position as the apparatus and directly underneath the apparatus is greater than a height, which corresponds to the two-dimensional position and which possibly damages the apparatus when the apparatus falls, a display is caused to perform a first display and a speaker is caused to output a first sound. When the distance is equal to or shorter than the height, the display is caused to perform a second display and the speaker is caused to output a second sound.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shiki Kou, Kohei Tahara, Yusaku Ota
-
Publication number: 20190015982Abstract: In a case where an apparatus that is moved by a user is moved in a vertical direction, when a distance from an object located in the same two-dimensional position as the apparatus and directly underneath the apparatus is greater than a height, which corresponds to the two-dimensional position and which possibly damages the apparatus when the apparatus falls, a display is caused to perform a first display and a speaker is caused to output a first sound. When the distance is equal to or shorter than the height, the display is caused to perform a second display and the speaker is caused to output a second sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2018Publication date: January 17, 2019Inventors: SHIKI KOU, KOHEI TAHARA, YUSAKU OTA
-
Publication number: 20180169865Abstract: A robot including a spherical housing made up of a main housing portion, a first spherical cap portion, and a second spherical cap portion. The main housing portion is disposed between the first spherical cap portion and the second spherical cap portion. The robot further including a weight that is provided in the main housing portion and configured to rotate around a pivot that is orthogonal to a shaft connecting the spherical cap portions. When outputting a response to an input instruction received from a user, via an input device, based on a predetermined processing is determined to require a predetermined time or more, a robot controls a first drive mechanism during the predetermined processing such that the first drive mechanism rotates a weight around the pivot to reciprocally move the weight in the opposite directions of the pivot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: SHIKI KOU, RYOUTA MIYAZAKI, MASAHIRO ISHII, KENTO OGAWA, YUJI KUNITAKE, SEIYA HIGUCHI
-
Publication number: 20180154513Abstract: A robot having a spherical casing, a control circuit and a communication circuit configured to connect to an external server is provided. The robot further includes a set of wheels included in the spherical casing, which comes into contact with an inner surface of the spherical casing and configured to rotate the spherical casing when the driving wheels are driven. The control circuit is configured to, when determining that performing a predetermined processing in response to an input instruction received from a user requires a predetermined amount of time or more, causes each of the set of driving wheels to rotate in opposite directions from each other to rotate the spherical casing during the predetermined processing. When the predetermined processing is complete and a response is to be output, the control circuit stops rotation of the spherical casing with the set of wheels facing toward the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: SHIKI KOU, RYOUTA MIYAZAKI, MASAHIRO ISHII, KENTO OGAWA, YUJI KUNITAKE, SEIYA HIGUCHI
-
Publication number: 20180154273Abstract: A robot having a spherical casing, a weight driving mechanism, and a rotating mechanism is provided. The robot further includes a control circuit that controls the weight driving mechanism and the rotating mechanism is also provided. The control circuit is configured to, when responding to an input instruction received from a user, based on a predetermined processing that requires a predetermined amount of time or more to respond to an input instruction by a user input via an input device, cause the weight driving mechanism to be rotated to where a guide path of the weight driving mechanism is positioned to be orthogonal to an advancing direction by a set of driving wheels. The control circuit is further configured to cause the weight to be reciprocally move along the guide path that is positioned orthogonal to the advancing direction, during the predetermined processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: SHIKI KOU, RYOUTA MIYAZAKI, MASAHIRO ISHII, KENTO OGAWA, YUJI KUNITAKE, SEIYA HIGUCHI
-
Publication number: 20170094014Abstract: A control method for a controller connected to a first appliance includes: accepting a first request for causing the first appliance to execute a first service, the first appliance being disposed in a first space; transmitting a first command to execute the first service to the first appliance; acquiring first information indicative of an environment state of the first space; and determining whether or not the environment state satisfies a termination condition of the first service based on a correspondence between the first service and the termination condition and the first information, when it is determined that the environment state does not satisfy the termination condition, a second request for causing the first appliance to execute a second service different from the first service is not accepted, and a second command to execute the second service is not transmitted to the first appliance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: KUNIO NAKATSUKASA, TOMONORI NAKAMURA, HIROO ISHIKAWA, SHIKI KOU
-
Publication number: 20170094035Abstract: A method for a device connected to a first control device and a second control device, including: transmitting a command for causing a first device to execute a predetermined operation, the first device being controlled by the first control device; transmitting a command for causing the first device to transmit first information indicating a state of the first device after the predetermined operation is executed; transmitting a third command for causing a second device to transmit second information indicating a state of the second device; receiving the first information and the second information; comparing the first information and the second information; and storing, in a memory, third information indicating the first device is controlled by the first control device and the second control device when the first device is determined to be the second device based on the first information and the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: TOMONORI NAKAMURA, HIROO ISHIKAWA, KUNIO NAKATSUKASA, SHIKI KOU