Patents by Inventor Takuma Kogo

Takuma Kogo 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: 20240227188
    Abstract: A motion plan device 10X mainly includes a condition setting means 90X and a motion plan means 100X. The condition setting means 90X sets a first condition in which a robot performing a pick-and-place for one or more transport objects and the one or more transport objects are located inside movable region being a region where no collision with a collision avoidance necessary target occurs, and a second condition in which, while the robot is grasping and carrying the transport object, the movable region around the collision avoidance necessary target of the robot and the movable region around the collision avoidance necessary target of the transport object being carried match with each other. Next, the motion plan means 100X calculates a motion plan of the robot based on the first condition and the second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Publication number: 20240202569
    Abstract: The learning device 800 includes a determination unit 801 determining control to be applied to the target system and difficulty to be set to the target system using observation information regarding the target system and difficulty corresponding to a way of state transition of the target system and how likely it is to be rated highly related to the contents of the control, according to the policy, a learning progress calculation unit 802 calculating learning progress of the policy using a plurality of original evaluations of states before and after transition of the target system and the determined control, according to the determined control and the determined difficulty, a calculation unit 803 calculating revised evaluation using the original evaluation, the determined difficulty, and the calculated learning progress, and a policy updating unit 804 updating the policy using the observation information, the determined control, the determined difficulty, and the revised evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Publication number: 20240131710
    Abstract: A motion plan device 10X mainly includes a condition setting means 90X and a motion plan means 100X. The condition setting means 90X sets a first condition in which a robot performing a pick-and-place for one or more transport objects and the one or more transport objects are located inside movable region being a region where no collision with a collision avoidance necessary target occurs, and a second condition in which, while the robot is grasping and carrying the transport object, the movable region around the collision avoidance necessary target of the robot and the movable region around the collision avoidance necessary target of the transport object being carried match with each other. Next, the motion plan means 100X calculates a motion plan of the robot based on the first condition and the second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Publication number: 20240065601
    Abstract: An arousal level control apparatus calculates a setting value of a control device under a constraint condition using an arousal level optimization model so that a value of an objective function is maximized. The control device affects a physical quantity of a surrounding environment that affects arousal level of a subject. The arousal level optimization model includes the constraint condition and the objective function. The constraint condition includes a physical quantity prediction model, an arousal level prediction model, and a setting value range condition that the setting value is within a predetermined range. The physical quantity prediction model is an explicit function that includes the physical quantity and the setting value as explanatory variables and has a predicted value of the physical quantity as an explained variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Publication number: 20240057915
    Abstract: An arousal level control apparatus calculates a setting value of a control device under a constraint condition using an arousal level optimization model so that a value of an objective function is maximized. The control device affects a physical quantity of a surrounding environment that affects arousal level of a subject. The arousal level optimization model includes the constraint condition and the objective function. The constraint condition includes a physical quantity prediction model, an arousal level prediction model, and a setting value range condition that the setting value is within a predetermined range. The physical quantity prediction model is an explicit function that includes the physical quantity and the setting value as explanatory variables and has a predicted value of the physical quantity as an explained variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Publication number: 20240057916
    Abstract: An arousal level control apparatus calculates a setting value of a control device under a constraint condition using an arousal level optimization model so that a value of an objective function is maximized. The control device affects a physical quantity of a surrounding environment that affects arousal level of a subject. The arousal level optimization model includes the constraint condition and the objective function. The constraint condition includes a physical quantity prediction model, an arousal level prediction model, and a setting value range condition that the setting value is within a predetermined range. The physical quantity prediction model is an explicit function that includes the physical quantity and the setting value as explanatory variables and has a predicted value of the physical quantity as an explained variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Patent number: 11826147
    Abstract: An arousal level control apparatus calculates a setting value of a control device under a constraint condition using an arousal level optimization model so that a value of an objective function is maximized. The control device affects a physical quantity of a surrounding environment that affects arousal level of a subject. The arousal level optimization model includes the constraint condition and the objective function. The constraint condition includes a physical quantity prediction model, an arousal level prediction model, and a setting value range condition that the setting value is within a predetermined range. The physical quantity prediction model is an explicit function that includes the physical quantity and the setting value as explanatory variables and has a predicted value of the physical quantity as an explained variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Patent number: 11527896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control apparatus (100) that includes a remaining capacity change model determination unit (120) that determines a remaining capacity change model that estimates a temporal change of a remaining capacity which is based on charging/discharging in accordance with a first energy service for each of a plurality of energy storage systems that perform charging/discharging in accordance with energy services; and an operation planning unit (130) that computes a charging/discharging plan of each of the plurality of energy storage systems based on the remaining capacity change model of each of the plurality of energy storage systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Patent number: 11499733
    Abstract: An air conditioning system control device 10 includes: a switching unit 11 that, when a parameter relating to the indoor environment in which the air conditioning system operates does not satisfy a first condition while the air conditioning system is operating in a first operation mode that is an operation mode in which setting values computed on the basis of a prediction model are used as the setting values for the air conditioning system, switches the operation mode of the air conditioning system to a second operation mode that is an operation mode in which the computed setting values are not used as the setting values for the air conditioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Publication number: 20220265217
    Abstract: A drowsiness estimation information correction device includes: a drowsiness estimation information acquisition unit that acquires drowsiness estimation information that is based on an eyelid movement of a subject; and a drowsiness estimation information correction unit that calculates corrected drowsiness estimation information obtained by correcting the drowsiness estimation information with humidity information indicating humidity in a surrounding environment of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma KOGO, Masanori TSUJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220167894
    Abstract: A physiological state control apparatus includes mixing ratio computation means for computing, on the basis of characteristic data regarding a subject, mixing ratios for multiple sub-models that take, as an input, a physical quantity in a space in which the subject is located and that output a predicted value of a physiological index; model generation means for generating a physiological state prediction model for the subject on the basis of the mixing ratios and the sub-models; and device control means for controlling a control target device that influences the physical quantity using the physiological state prediction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Patent number: 11328099
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal model creation device capable of creating a highly accurate thermal model. A constraint-condition setting means 72 sets constraint conditions of parameters in the thermal model. A parameter determination means 73 determines all unknown values of parameters in the thermal model under the constraint conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuma Kogo
  • Publication number: 20220137567
    Abstract: A arousal level control apparatus calculates, under a limitation related to a physical quantity that affects an arousal level of a subject, a setting value for controlling the arousal level of the subject by using a physical quantity prediction model for calculating the physical quantity based on a setting value of the physical quantity and an arousal level prediction model for calculating a prediction value of the arousal level based on the calculated physical quantity calculated, and sets the calculated setting value to a control target device that affects the physical quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma KOGO, Atsushi NISHINO, Satoshi HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220095976
    Abstract: An arousal level control apparatus calculates a setting value of a control device under a constraint condition using an arousal level optimization model so that a value of an objective function is maximized. The control device affects a physical quantity of a surrounding environment that affects arousal level of a subject. The arousal level optimization model includes the constraint condition and the objective function. The constraint condition includes a physical quantity prediction model, an arousal level prediction model, and a setting value range condition that the setting value is within a predetermined range. The physical quantity prediction model is an explicit function that includes the physical quantity and the setting value as explanatory variables and has a predicted value of the physical quantity as an explained variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Publication number: 20210140660
    Abstract: For one or more parameters of a plurality of parameters to be used for calculation of a comfort index, the comfort-index parameter range determination unit 15 determines the range of possible values of each of the one or more parameters. The comfort index model generation unit 16 approximates the comfort index on the basis of a value within the range determined for each of the one or more parameters, to generate a mathematical model of the comfort index. The setting value calculation unit 17 calculates, with the comfort index, setting values of one or more setting items for one or more air conditioners on the basis of the mathematical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Publication number: 20210075226
    Abstract: The present invention provides a control apparatus (100) that includes a remaining capacity change model determination unit (120) that determines a remaining capacity change model that estimates a temporal change of a remaining capacity which is based on charging/discharging in accordance with a first energy service for each of a plurality of energy storage systems that perform charging/discharging in accordance with energy services; and an operation planning unit (130) that computes a charging/discharging plan of each of the plurality of energy storage systems based on the remaining capacity change model of each of the plurality of energy storage systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Publication number: 20200158363
    Abstract: An air conditioning system control device 10 includes: a switching unit 11 that, when a parameter relating to the indoor environment in which the air conditioning system operates does not satisfy a first condition while the air conditioning system is operating in a first operation mode that is an operation mode in which setting values computed on the basis of a prediction model are used as the setting values for the air conditioning system, switches the operation mode of the air conditioning system to a second operation mode that is an operation mode in which the computed setting values are not used as the setting values for the air conditioning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Patent number: 10511175
    Abstract: An information processing device receives plan necessary information relating to a first power generation device and a second power generation device having a power generation output that is more susceptible to an external environment than a power generation output of the first power generation device; and generates power generator operation plans, for the first power generation device and the second power generation device, that include a power generation curtailment plan to curtail a power generation output in the second power generation device, based on the plan necessary information and an operating cost in a power system including the first power generation device and the second power generation device; transmits a power generator operation plan for the first power generation device; and transmits a power generator operation plan including a power generation curtailment plan for the second power generation device to a device controlling or managing the second power generation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Kogo, Ryo Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20190318047
    Abstract: A building thermal model generation apparatus 10 is provided with an estimation unit 11 that estimates, by using data for estimation, a building thermal model parameter which satisfies a prescribed condition of a building thermal model indicative of the temperature of a building, the building thermal model including an internal thermal load model indicative of a time change of heat generated inside the building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO
  • Publication number: 20190034560
    Abstract: There is provided a thermal model creation device capable of creating a highly accurate thermal model. A constraint-condition setting means 72 sets constraint conditions of parameters in the thermal model. A parameter determination means 73 determines all unknown values of parameters in the thermal model under the constraint conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Takuma KOGO