Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Yamamoto

Tomoyuki Yamamoto 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: 20170269582
    Abstract: A test system comprises a plurality of test devices which are connected to a plurality of machines and which perform a basic test, and a test management device which is connected to the plurality of test devices via a network. The test management device includes an additional test setting part which sets an additional test for determining a cause of an abnormality when determining that the machine has the abnormality. The test management device includes an adjustment part which sets the test device that performs the additional test. The adjustment part determines that the basic test planned to be performed by the test device that performs the additional test is performed by the other test device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Hiromitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9764474
    Abstract: A robot system comprises an intrusion detector which detects that a person has entered into a monitoring area established around a robot, an installation table which supports the robot, a light emitting device which brightens a surface of the installation table, and a control device which receives a signal outputted by the intrusion detector and controls the light emitting device. The control device causes the light emitting device to emit light when it is detected that the person has entered into the monitoring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Takeaki Aramaki, Hiromitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9762933
    Abstract: While maintaining a high degree of freedom in choosing partition sizes and transformation sizes adapted for local characteristics of videos, the amount of metadata is decreased. A video encoding apparatus (10) divides an input video into blocks of a prescribed size and encodes the video block by block. The video encoding apparatus is provided with: a prediction parameter determining portion (102) that decides the block partition structure; a predictive image producing portion (103) that generates predictive images, partition by partition, as prescribed by the partition structure; a transform coefficient producing portion (107) which applies one of the frequency transformations included in a prescribed transformation preset to prediction residuals, i.e. the differences between predictive images and the input video; a transform restriction deriving portion (104) which generates the list of transform candidate, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Ikai
  • Publication number: 20170251221
    Abstract: While maintaining a high degree of freedom in choosing partition sizes and transformation sizes adapted for local characteristics of videos, the amount of metadata is decreased. A video encoding apparatus (10) divides an input video into blocks of a prescribed size and encodes the video block by block. The video encoding apparatus is provided with: a prediction parameter determining portion (102) that decides the block partition structure; a predictive image producing portion (103) that generates predictive images, partition by partition, as prescribed by the partition structure; a transform coefficient producing portion (107) which applies one of the frequency transformations included in a prescribed transformation preset to prediction residuals, i.e. the differences between predictive images and the input video; a transform restriction deriving portion (104) which generates the list of transform candidate, i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro IKAI
  • Publication number: 20170251216
    Abstract: Included is an inter-layer merge candidate derivation unit 1464B that derives motion information decoded in an area on a reference layer corresponding to an area which is located at a lower right part of a target PU and for which decoding has not been performed, in the target PU of a target layer, as a merge candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro IKAI, Yukinobu YASUGI
  • Publication number: 20170243339
    Abstract: A fault diagnostic device comprises an arithmetic processing device configured to judge a fault on the basis of an image captured by the camera. The arithmetic processing device includes an imaging command part configured to transmit a command for capturing the image of a diagnosis portion and a judgement part configured to judge whether or not the diagnosis portion has the fault. A storage part stores a reference image when the diagnosis portion is in a normal state. The imaging command part transmits an imaging command so as to capture the image of the diagnosis portion after changing a position and a posture of the robot. The judgement part compares the image of the diagnosis portion captured by the camera with the reference image and judges the fault in the diagnosis portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Hiromitsu TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 9724828
    Abstract: A robot system comprises an intrusion detector which detects that a person has entered into a monitoring area established around a robot, an installation table which supports the robot, a light emitting device which brightens a surface of the installation table, and a control device which receives a signal outputted by the intrusion detector and controls the light emitting device. The control device causes the light emitting device to emit light when it is detected that the person has entered into the monitoring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Takeaki Aramaki, Hiromitsu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170195680
    Abstract: Even in a case in which a color format is a format other than 4:2:0, an image coding device and an image decoding device capable of accurately locating a reference pixel position in inter-layer image prediction are realized. A hierarchical moving image decoding device (1) includes a parameter set decoding section (12) that decodes a scaled reference layer offset syntax that is coded in a chroma pixel unit and a predicted image generation section (1442) that derives a scale based on a scaled reference layer offset which is a product of the scaled reference layer offset syntax and a luminance chroma size ratio of a target layer picture and generates a predicted image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro IKAI, Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Publication number: 20170185076
    Abstract: A cell control apparatus controls a plurality of manufacturing cells each including a manufacturing machine. The cell control apparatus comprises an operation extraction part configured to extract a transferable operation which can be performed by a manufacturing cell having operation time to spare among operations of a manufacturing cell having delay in operation. The cell control apparatus commands the manufacturing cell having delay in operation to stop at least a part of operations in the transferable operation and commands the manufacturing cell having the operation time to spare to perform the at least the part of the operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Hiromitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9686559
    Abstract: Included is an inter-layer merge candidate derivation unit 1464B that derives motion information decoded in an area on a reference layer corresponding to an area which is located at a lower right part of a target PU and for which decoding has not been performed, in the target PU of a target layer, as a merge candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Ikai, Yukinobu Yasugi
  • Publication number: 20170163704
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an information processing device which can enhance using efficiency of commercial pictures. In a service server 3, meta-data added with a CM mark necessary to extract commercial pictures (CM) which are broadcasted while contained in a content are generated, and registered in a meta-data data base 302. The meta-data are transmitted to a reception terminal 2, and registered in a meta-data data base 204. When receiving a broadcast content, the reception terminal 2 extracts a content added with CM mark as CM, and registered into a CM data base 202 on the basis of meta-data registered in the meta-data data base 204. The present invention is applicable to a server for distributing commercial pictures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Kensuke Ohnuma, Yasushi Tsuruta
  • Publication number: 20170153625
    Abstract: A cell control apparatus comprises an operation information acquisition unit which acquires operation information of manufacturing machine, a failure prediction unit which predicts a failure time of the manufacturing machine based on the operation information of the manufacturing machine, and a replacement time acquisition unit which acquires a replacement time of the component from a component management apparatus. When the failure time is earlier than the replacement time, the cell control apparatus performs a control for reducing an operation load of the manufacturing machine on which a failure of the component is predicted so that the failure time is later than the replacement time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Hiromitsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9667984
    Abstract: A reference picture information decoding unit (13) omits decoding of a reference list sorting presence or absence flag and/or a reference list sorting order based on the number of current picture referable pictures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Ikai, Yukinobu Yasugi, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20170150164
    Abstract: In a case that a pixel shape in a luma domain is not similar to a pixel shape in a chroma domain in an input image, a prediction image that is generated in the reuse of a luma prediction mode is made more accurate. A moving image decoding apparatus 1 includes a gradient deriving unit 1453B that references a chroma gradient definition DEFANG1C, and derives a chroma prediction direction from a prediction mode based on a luma prediction direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Yukinobu YASUGI, Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro IKAI, Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Patent number: 9621936
    Abstract: Log information includes items of information that identify one or more of program titles and performers that are selected by a user as being preferred. Identifiers are displayed, where each of the identifiers identifies an item of information included in the log information. An input to select one of the identifiers is received, and broadcast information for the program title or performer corresponding to the selected identifier is acquired. The broadcast information includes one or more broadcast times of contents that have the program title or that include the performer. The broadcast information is displayed to include the one or more broadcast times and an input is received to select a broadcast time of a content. Detailed information for the content and the broadcast time are displayed when the input to select the broadcast time of the content is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Junya Ohde, Kazuhito Sumiyoshi, Hideki Asazu, Tomoyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170099488
    Abstract: A coefficient presence/absence flag decoding unit, included in a quantized residual information decoding unit which reduces a processing amount related to coding and decoding of a transform coefficient, splits a target frequency domain or a target pixel domain into sub-blocks, and derives different context indexes with respect to each transform coefficient in a pixel domain, obtained through a transform skip or a transform/quantization bypass, and each transform coefficient which is obtained for each frequency component through frequency transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Takeshi TSUKUBA, Tomohiro IKAI, Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9615092
    Abstract: In a case that a pixel shape in a luma domain is not similar to a pixel shape in a chroma domain in an input image, a prediction image that is generated in the reuse of a luma prediction mode is made more accurate. A moving image decoding apparatus 1 includes a gradient deriving unit 1453B that references a chroma gradient definition DEFANG1C, and derives a chroma prediction direction from a prediction mode based on a luma prediction direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Tomohiro Ikai, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Publication number: 20170041635
    Abstract: The amount of processing is reduced with high coding efficiency maintained. There is provided an arithmetic decoding device including syntax decoding means for decoding each of at least a first syntax element and a second syntax element indicating a transform coefficient using arithmetic decoding with a context or arithmetic decoding without a context. The syntax decoding means performs decoding that at least includes not decoding the first syntax element and decoding the second syntax element using the arithmetic decoding without a context, and decoding the first syntax element using the arithmetic decoding with a context and decoding the second syntax element using the arithmetic decoding without a context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohiro IKAI, Yukinobu YASUGI, Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Takeshi TSUKUBA
  • Patent number: 9561588
    Abstract: A robot system including robot control devices, a network, and a mode changing device which switches between an automatic operation mode and teaching mode. In the state where the mode changing device selects the automatic operation mode, drive power is supplied to all of the robots regardless of the state of the enable device. In the state where the mode changing device selects the teaching mode, when the enable device does not permit operation of at least two robots, the drive power of all of the robots is cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170034532
    Abstract: A hierarchy video decoding device (1) includes a parameter set decoding unit (12) that decodes reference region information, and a predicted image generation portion (1442) that derives a scale or a corresponding reference position, and generates a predicted image, based on a target layer reference region position and a reference layer reference region position which are derived from the reference region information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Tomoyuki YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro IKAI, Takeshi TSUKUBA