Patents by Inventor Shoki YOSHINO

Shoki YOSHINO 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).

  • Autonomous mobile object and autonomous mobile object system
    Patent number: 10228697
    Abstract: The extent of the movement area of an autonomous mobile object is appropriately fed back for the extent of the movement area in the next operation at a low cost. An autonomous mobile object (1) includes an operation result map creation unit (21) that creates, on the basis of a log of the position of a cleaning brush (9), an operation result map in which a cleaned area is indicated, and a next-cleaning-area setting unit (22) that sets a next cleaning area on the basis of the operation result map displayed on an operation panel (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoki Yoshino
  • Autonomous mobile body
    Patent number: 9804598
    Abstract: According to an autonomous mobile body of the present invention, a self-position recognizing section (42a) of a cleaning robot (1) includes a clustering section (42ab) for (i) grouping distance measurement points of each of a plurality of obstacles into clusters, the distance measurement points having been measured by use of a beam emitted from the sensor section (41) and (ii) recognizing the each of the plurality of obstacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoki Yoshino
  • AUTONOMOUS MOBILE OBJECT AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE OBJECT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170235312
    Abstract: The extent of the movement area of an autonomous mobile object is appropriately fed back for the extent of the movement area in the next operation at a low cost. An autonomous mobile object (1) includes an operation result map creation unit (21) that creates, on the basis of a log of the position of a cleaning brush (9), an operation result map in which a cleaned area is indicated, and a next-cleaning-area setting unit (22) that sets a next cleaning area on the basis of the operation result map displayed on an operation panel (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Shoki YOSHINO
  • AUTONOMOUS MOBILE BODY
    Publication number: 20160132056
    Abstract: According to an autonomous mobile body of the present invention, a self-position recognizing section (42a) of a cleaning robot (1) includes a clustering section (42ab) for (i) grouping distance measurement points of each of a plurality of obstacles into clusters, the distance measurement points having been measured by use of a beam emitted from the sensor section (41) and (ii) recognizing the each of the plurality of obstacles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Shoki YOSHINO