Patents by Inventor Tomonari Takahashi

Tomonari Takahashi 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: 20240087106
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: determine a relationship between plural pieces of product manufacturing information included in two-dimensional drawing data and generate, on a basis of the determined relationship, first information indicating the relationship between the plural pieces of product manufacturing information; determine a relationship between a plural pieces of product manufacturing information included in three-dimensional drawing data and generate, on a basis of the determined relationship, second information indicating the relationship between the plural pieces of product manufacturing information; and detect a difference between the first information and the second information by identifying correspondence between the first information and the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yumi SEKIGUCHI, Atsushi OGIHARA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA
  • Patent number: 11928786
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data editing apparatus includes a processor configured to set, based on three-dimensional shape data of a surface of a three-dimensional shape of an object configured by using a formation surface of at least one of plural flat surfaces or curved surfaces, for each of plural divided three-dimensional regions, a distance from a predetermined location of the region to the formation surface of the three-dimensional shape of the object configured by the formation surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tomonari Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11886781
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data generation apparatus includes: a processor configured to obtain three-dimensional shape data in which a three-dimensional shape is represented by plural three-dimensional elements and an attribute is assigned to each of the plural three-dimensional elements, and divide the three-dimensional shape into plural partial shapes according to the attributes to generate plural pieces of three-dimensional shape data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Yokoyama, Tomonari Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11776207
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data processing apparatus includes a processor configured to divide a three-dimensional space including a three-dimensional shape constituted by one or more forming surfaces, which are flat surfaces or curved surfaces or include both flat surfaces and curved surfaces, into plural three-dimensional regions each having a predetermined size, specify, for each of the three-dimensional regions, one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region, and redivide each of the three-dimensional regions until a size of the three-dimensional region reaches a size necessary for reproduction of a property of a portion of the three-dimensional shape expressed by one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomonari Takahashi, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Ryosuke Higashikata, Naoki Hiji, Taro Yokose
  • Publication number: 20230306760
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: determine a relationship between first product manufacturing information and second product manufacturing information included in three-dimensional model data; and generate, on a basis of the determined relationship, information indicating the relationship between the first product manufacturing information and the second product manufacturing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Atsushi OGIHARA, Yasuyuki TANAKA, Yumi SEKIGUCHI, Shunji SAKAI, Yasushi UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20230305518
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract, as an inspection target item, product manufacturing information needed for inspection from three-dimensional model data including the product manufacturing information needed when a molded product is manufactured; and decide an inspection method to be used for inspection as to the product manufacturing information as the inspection target item according to information related to the extracted product manufacturing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Atsushi OGIHARA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Yasuyuki TANAKA, Yasushi UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20230306581
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract, as an inspection target item, product manufacturing information needed for inspection from three-dimensional model data including the product manufacturing information needed when a molded product is manufactured; and set one or more measurement points at which an inspection target site is to be measured and a number of the one or more measurement points according to information related to the extracted product manufacturing information as the inspection target item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Atsushi OGIHARA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Yasuyuki TANAKA, Yasushi UEMURA
  • Patent number: 11568619
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data editing device including a processor configured to, with regard to an object represented by a first three-dimensional shape configured using multiple forming surfaces of at least one of flat surfaces and curved surfaces, a second three-dimensional shape in which the object is configured using multiple three-dimensional elements, and a third three-dimensional shape that is converted from the second three-dimensional shape such that the object is represented by the multiple forming surfaces, specify edge forming surfaces that correspond to edges of the object extracted from the first three-dimensional shape, with respect to the third three-dimensional shape, and configure the edge forming surfaces in the third three-dimensional shape such that shapes of the edges of the object represented by the first three-dimensional shape are reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tomonari Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20220318447
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to display a relationship object indicating a positional relationship of at least two or more measurement spots in a molded product at a position corresponding to the relationship on a three-dimensional model of the molded product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Yuki YOKOYAMA, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Yasuyuki TANAKA, Atsushi OGIHARA, Naoki HIJI, Yasushi UEMURA
  • Patent number: 11460829
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a processor configured to: autonomously collect, even without an instruction from a user, attribute data concerning attributes of a product defined by a three-dimensional shape, in accordance with a collection rule for collecting the attribute data concerning the product, the attribute data being generated in individual process stages before the product is manufactured; associate the collected attribute data with three-dimensional shape data indicating the three-dimensional shape of the product, as attributes of the three-dimensional shape data, in accordance with a superimposition rule which defines association between the three-dimensional shape data and the attribute data concerning the product; and manage the three-dimensional shape data and the attributes of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasushi Uemura, Ryosuke Higashikata, Atsushi Ogihara, Tomonari Takahashi, Shigeyuki Sakaki
  • Patent number: 11436796
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor receives three-dimensional shape data represented by dividing a space including an object into plural three-dimensional regions, at least one of the plural three-dimensional regions having a size different from another three-dimensional region, extracts from the space a unit shape formed in which a predetermined position in each of the three-dimensional regions included in a three-dimensional region group formed of three-dimensional regions adjacent to each other is defined as a vertex, without missing or repeating any unit shape, and configures a surface of the object as a formation face represented by a flat face, based on each of the extracted unit shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Higashikata, Tomonari Takahashi, Naoki Hiji, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Taro Yokose
  • Patent number: 11436799
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire voxel data and polygon mesh data, the voxel data representing a three-dimensional body by using multiple voxels, each of the multiple voxels retaining an attribute, the polygon mesh data representing the three-dimensional body by using multiple polygons, and output the polygon mesh data after assigning attributes retained by the multiple voxels to the multiple polygons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tanaka, Yuki Yokoyama, Ryosuke Higashikata, Tomonari Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11308690
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire volume data representing three-dimensional space using multiple voxels, data containing geometric layer and at least one attribute layer, geometric layer formed by geometric voxels included in multiple voxels, each geometric voxels assigned=a three-dimensional shape of a target object, at least one attribute layer formed by attribute voxels included in multiple voxels, each attribute voxels assigned attribute value of target object or attribute value around the target object, at least one attribute layer formed by voxels having multiple resolution levels, attribute, voxel position, and resolution level, and if voxel corresponding to the specified voxel position in an attribute layer corresponding to the attribute in the volume data and to a resolution level coinciding with the resolution level is absent, determine an attribute value of voxel corresponding to the specified voxel position and resolution level in attribute layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tanaka, Yuki Yokoyama, Tomonari Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11302019
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire three-dimensional-shape data that is data for a three-dimensional body and that represents a shape of a three-dimensional object, set in advance a feature requirement that indicates one or more features concerning a cross section of the three-dimensional body, detect one or more features that satisfy the feature requirement in the three-dimensional-shape data, and output information regarding the one or more features detected in the three-dimensional-shape data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yuki Yokoyama, Ryosuke Higashikata, Tomonari Takahashi, Torahiko Kanda
  • Publication number: 20220068021
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data processing apparatus includes a processor configured to divide a three-dimensional space including a three-dimensional shape constituted by one or more forming surfaces, which are flat surfaces or curved surfaces or include both flat surfaces and curved surfaces, into plural three-dimensional regions each having a predetermined size, specify, for each of the three-dimensional regions, one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region, and redivide each of the three-dimensional regions until a size of the three-dimensional region reaches a size necessary for reproduction of a property of a portion of the three-dimensional shape expressed by one or more of the forming surfaces that interfere(s) with the three-dimensional region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Yasuyuki TANAKA, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Naoki HIJI, Taro YOKOSE
  • Patent number: 11176729
    Abstract: A three-dimensional object data generation apparatus includes a setting unit that sets a basic voxel group defined using at least one voxel in accordance with a shape of a surface of a three-dimensional object on a basis of three-dimensional object data indicating the surface of the three-dimensional object using at least either plural flat surfaces or a curved surface and a generation unit that generates three-dimensional object data in which voxels are set inside the surface on a basis of the basic voxel group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tomonari Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20210304493
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire volume data representing three-dimensional space using multiple voxels, data containing geometric layer and at least one attribute layer, geometric layer formed by geometric voxels included in multiple voxels, each geometric voxels assigned=a three-dimensional shape of a target object, at least one attribute layer formed by attribute voxels included in multiple voxels, each attribute voxels assigned attribute value of target object or attribute value around the target object, at least one attribute layer formed by voxels having multiple resolution levels, attribute, voxel position, and resolution level, and if voxel corresponding to the specified voxel position in an attribute layer corresponding to the attribute in the volume data and to a resolution level coinciding with the resolution level is absent, determine an attribute value of voxel corresponding to the specified voxel position and resolution level in attribute layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki TANAKA, Yuki YOKOYAMA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210295597
    Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor receives three-dimensional shape data represented by dividing a space including an object into plural three-dimensional regions, at least one of the plural three-dimensional regions having a size different from another three-dimensional region, extracts from the space a unit shape formed in which a predetermined position in each of the three-dimensional regions included in a three-dimensional region group formed of three-dimensional regions adjacent to each other is defined as a vertex, without missing or repeating any unit shape, and configures a surface of the object as a formation face represented by a flat face, based on each of the extracted unit shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventors: Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Naoki HIJI, Yasuyuki TANAKA, Taro YOKOSE
  • Publication number: 20210240158
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a processor configured to: autonomously collect, even without an instruction from a user, attribute data concerning attributes of a product defined by a three-dimensional shape, in accordance with a collection rule for collecting the attribute data concerning the product, the attribute data being generated in individual process stages before the product is manufactured; associate the collected attribute data with three-dimensional shape data indicating the three-dimensional shape of the product, as attributes of the three-dimensional shape data, in accordance with a superimposition rule which defines association between the three-dimensional shape data and the attribute data concerning the product; and manage the three-dimensional shape data and the attributes of the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi UEMURA, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Atsushi OGIHARA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Shigeyuki SAKAKI
  • Publication number: 20210241472
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire three-dimensional-shape data that is data for a three-dimensional body and that represents a shape of a three-dimensional object, set in advance a feature requirement that indicates one or more features concerning a cross section of the three-dimensional body, detect one or more features that satisfy the feature requirement in the three-dimensional-shape data, and output information regarding the one or more features detected in the three-dimensional-shape data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki YOKOYAMA, Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA, Tomonari TAKAHASHI, Torahiko KANDA