Patents by Inventor Toshiyuki Ando
Toshiyuki Ando 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).
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Publication number: 20240308081Abstract: A robot system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a robot arm mechanism to which a hand for gripping a workpiece stored in a container with an opening at a top of the container is attached, a sensor configured to obtain two-dimensional image data including the container and three-dimensional point cloud data including the container, and a control apparatus configured to identify a position, direction, and size of the opening of the container based on the image data and the point cloud data and control the robot arm mechanism so as not to interfere with the container. It is possible to identify the position, orientation, and size of the opening of the container without performing a touch-up operation on the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventor: Toshiyuki ANDO
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Publication number: 20240281824Abstract: According to one embodiment, a troubleshooting support apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires multiple pieces of document data which describe content of a problem relating to multiple articles or services. The processing circuitry extracts, from the multiple pieces of document data, multiple first keywords relating to the multiple articles or services together with attribute information. The processing circuitry records the multiple first keywords in a memory for the respective pieces of attribute information. The processing circuitry determines, based on a rate of occurrence of each of multiple second keywords relating to predetermined attribute information among the first keywords recorded in the memory, a display manner of first data relating to each of the multiple second keywords.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Jumpei ANDO, Wataru WATANABE, Toshiyuki ONO, Shintaro YAMAMOTO, Kenzo ISOGAWA
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Patent number: 12061467Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor generates visualization data for displaying estimation results of manufacturing conditions based on estimation results and relationship data. The relationship data includes first relationship data as a relationship between first manufacturing conditions recorded during an analysis, and second relationship data as a relationship between second manufacturing conditions corresponding. The processor divides the estimation results of the manufacturing conditions into a first group based on the first relationship data, and into a second group based on the second relationship data. The processor generates the visualization data based on a change in manufacturing condition relationship between the first group and the second group.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru Watanabe, Takayuki Itoh, Jumpei Ando, Keisuke Kawauchi, Toshiyuki Ono
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Patent number: 11977158Abstract: A laser radar device performs control to make a focus distance of transmission light equal to a measurement distance by switching a plurality of laser light sources that emit beams of oscillation light having wavelengths different from each other to switch emission directions of the transmission light while maintaining the focus position of optical antennas, and changing the wavelength of the beams of oscillation light according to the measurement distance.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Ando, Jiro Suzuki, Eisuke Haraguchi
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Patent number: 11933903Abstract: An optical transmission unit (3) transmits an optical signal having a light intensity set as a Low level component of a pulse. An optical partial reflector (6) is provided on a path through which transmission light is transmitted from a circulator (5) to the atmosphere, and reflects the optical signal. A detection unit (11) performs coherent detection on reception light using, as local light, a signal in a Low level section in the optical signal reflected by the optical partial reflector (6).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shumpei Kameyama, Eisuke Haraguchi, Yutaka Kajiyama, Nobuki Kotake, Takayuki Yanagisawa, Toshiyuki Ando
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Patent number: 11926064Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Narasaki, Noboru Kawaguchi, Masaki Hirano, Muneharu Kuwata, Masashige Suwa, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono, Akihiro Fujie, Yoshitaka Koda, Toru Sato
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Publication number: 20240033930Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes: a manipulator being controlled by an operator remotely to handle an object; a stereoscopic display device that displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image so as to be stereoscopically viewed; a model image generator that generates a model image being an image of an integrated three-dimensional model viewed from a viewpoint designated by the operator, the integrated three-dimensional model being a three-dimensional model obtained by integrating the manipulator model and a surrounding environment model being generated by performing image processing on the right-eye image and the left-eye image and being a three-dimensional model of the object and a surrounding environment thereof; and a model image display device that displays the model image and is configured to be able to be viewed by the operator switching between the stereoscopic display device and the model image display device through moving the head of the operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shota NARASAKI, Noboru KAWAGUCHI, Masaki HIRANO, Muneharu KUWATA, Masashige SUWA, Toshiyuki ANDO, Hitomi ONO, Akihiro FUJIE, Yoshitaka KODA, Toru SATO
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Patent number: 11835844Abstract: An optical frequency control device includes: a detection circuit to receive first light including a first frequency, receive second light including a second frequency, modulate the first light with a local oscillation signal, and detect a differential beat signal between the frequency of sideband light included in the modulated first light and the second frequency; a light source control circuit to change the second frequency by frequency-dividing the differential beat signal with a first frequency division number, by frequency-dividing a reference signal with a second frequency division number, and by outputting a phase error signal indicating a phase difference between the frequency-divided differential beat signal and the frequency-divided reference signal; and a signal processing unit to set each of the first frequency division number and the second frequency division number according to the set value of a frequency difference between the first frequency and the second frequency.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Junya Nishioka, Tomohiro Akiyama, Yuta Takemoto, Toshiyuki Ando
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Patent number: 11817902Abstract: An orientation direction control device includes: an orientation direction control information acquisition unit to acquire orientation direction control information for controlling an orientation direction in which a first optical communication terminal as a first transmission/reception device transmits and receives light; and a capture and tracking control unit as an orientation direction control unit to control an orientation direction in which a second optical communication terminal as a second transmission/reception device transmits and receives the light or a radio wave on the basis of the orientation direction control information acquired by the orientation direction control information acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuta Takemoto, Toshiyuki Ando
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Publication number: 20230304891Abstract: The wavefront measuring apparatus includes: a first lens array to split a radially propagating light beam after being emitted from an optical system to be tested and once forming an image, and then to condense each of the split light beams; a detection unit, disposed at a position where condensing spots of the plurality of split light beams radially propagating from the first lens array are formed, to detect the condensing spots; and a control unit to calculate, when the first lens array is at a position of conjugation with the optical system to be tested, in other words, the position where the images of the optical system to be tested are transferred, a transmitted wavefront of the optical system to be tested from barycenter positions of the condensing spots.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akihiro FUJIE, Yoshichika MIWA, Takao ENDO, Toshiyuki ANDO
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Publication number: 20230302634Abstract: A robot system including an articulated robot equipped with a tool attached to a distal-end wrist axis, a sensor that detects a position and an orientation of the workpiece, and a controller configured to control the robot based on an operation program. The operation program includes two or more teaching points, each of which defines a position and an orientation of the tool, and an operation instruction. The controller is configured to correct the position and the orientation of the tool at a first teaching point based on the detected position and the orientation, determine whether an angle of the distal-end wrist axis at the first teaching point after correction exceeds an operating limit, and when it is determined that the operating limit is exceeded, change the angle, at the first teaching point, to an angle to be within the operating range by increasing or decreasing the angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki ANDO
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Publication number: 20230299860Abstract: A reception device includes: a first A/D converter to convert the input analog information signal into a first digital information signal by A/D conversion to output it,; an analog amplifier to amplify the input analog information signal to output it; a second A/D converter to convert the analog information amplification signal output from the analog amplifier into a second digital information signal by A/D conversion to output it; a frequency characteristic corrector to output a second digital information correction signal obtained by correcting the second digital information signal output from the second A/D converter based on a frequency-dependent input/output characteristic of the analog amplifier; and an information signal selector and outputter to select and output, as a digital information signal, either the first digital information signal output from the first A/D converter or the second digital information correction signal output from the frequency characteristic corrector.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi ONOHARA, Junya NISHIOKA, Naoki SUZUKI, Toshiyuki ANDO, Mikio TAKABAYASHI
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Patent number: 11735885Abstract: A laser device includes element circuits, a front optical system, and a reflective optical system. The front optical system forms a plurality of light beams by collimating a plurality of phase modulated light signals input from the element circuits, and generate a plurality of partially reflected light signals by partially reflecting the plurality of phase modulated light signals. The reflective optical system multiplexes the input local oscillation light with the plurality of partially reflected light signals by reflecting the local oscillation light in a direction of the front optical system. The element circuits can convert each of a plurality of interference light signals generated by multiplexing of the plurality of partially reflected light signals and the local oscillation light into a plurality of electric signals, and can detect a phase error between the plurality of electric signals and a reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Eisuke Haraguchi, Toshiyuki Ando
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Patent number: 11717970Abstract: A controller for controlling an operation of a machine or a robot for handling an object by includes: a sensor signal acquisition unit that acquires a signal from a sensor that outputs three-dimensional point cloud data and a corresponding camera image of an imaging subject; a region acquisition unit that acquires a region having a height lower than a predetermined value; a non-object region setting unit that sets, as a non-object region, a region of the camera image corresponding to the acquired region; a complementary color setting unit that sets a color of the non-object region to a color complementary to a color of the object; an object position recognition unit that recognizes a position of the object relative to the imaging subject from the camera image; and an operation control unit that controls the operation of the machine or the robot using at least the recognized position.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki Ando
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Patent number: 11709229Abstract: A laser radar device includes: a modulator (8) for causing a transmission seed light beam to branch, and giving different offset frequencies to a plurality of the transmission seed light beams having branched, and then modulating the plurality of transmission seed light beams into pulsed light beams and outputting the pulsed light beams, or for modulating the transmission seed light beam into a pulsed light beam, causing the pulsed light beam to branch, and giving the different offset frequencies to a plurality of the pulsed light beams having branched, and then outputting the plurality of pulsed light beams; a band pass filter (14) in which a frequency band including frequencies of signal components included in a plurality of beat signals detected by an optical heterodyne receiver (13) is set as a pass band and a frequency band not including the frequencies of the signal components is set as a cutoff band; and an ADC (15) for sampling the beat signals passing through the band pass filter (14) at a sampling fType: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Ando, Eisuke Haraguchi, Hitomi Ono
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Patent number: 11683115Abstract: An optical control type phased array antenna includes: a plurality of antenna elements; a multi-wavelength light source; an optical demultiplexing circuit for separating a plurality of optical signals and local oscillation light from output light of the multi-wavelength light source; optical modulators for generating a plurality of modulated optical signals by modulating the plurality of optical signals with the output signals of the plurality of antenna elements; an optical coupler for multiplexing the plurality of modulated optical signals and the local oscillation light to generate multiplexed light and dividing the multiplexed light into reception optical signals of a plurality of channels; and an optical dispersion compensation circuit for compensating for a phase difference between the plurality of modulated optical signals by performing dispersion compensation on the reception optical signals, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Eisuke Haraguchi, Toshiyuki Ando
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Publication number: 20230109541Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a workpiece unloading device that can stabilize cycle time even when work for reversing a workpiece is involved. A workpiece unloading system comprises a workpiece unloading device for unloading a workpiece, and a control device for setting workpiece unloading order.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki ANDO
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Patent number: 11550042Abstract: A laser radar system according to the present invention includes: a light source to output light having a first frequency in a first period and light having a second frequency in a second period; an optical splitter to split the lights, outputted from the light source, into signal light and local oscillator light; an optical modulator to modulate the signal light into pulsed light; an optical antenna to output the pulsed light into space and to receive, as reception light, the scattered light from a target; an optical heterodyne receiver to perform heterodyne detection on the reception light by using the local oscillator light; and a measurement unit to measure the distance to the target or the movement characteristics of the target by using the reception signal detected by the optical heterodyne receiver, wherein the optical heterodyne receiver performs the heterodyne detection on the first frequency of the reception light by using the second frequency of the local oscillator light.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Eisuke Haraguchi, Toshiyuki Ando, Hitomi Ono
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Publication number: 20230005250Abstract: A learning dataset generation device includes: a memory that stores three-dimensional CAD data of a workpiece and a container; and one or more processors including hardware, wherein the one or more processors are configured to use the three-dimensional CAD data of the workpiece and the container, stored in the memory, to generate, in a three-dimensional virtual space, a plurality of imaging objects in which a plurality of the workpieces are bulk-loaded in different forms inside the container, acquire a plurality of virtual distance images by measuring each of the generated imaging objects by means of a virtual three-dimensional measurement machine disposed in the three-dimensional virtual space, accept at least one teaching position for each of the acquired virtual distance images, and generate a learning dataset by associating the accepted teaching position with each of the virtual distance images.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Toshiyuki ANDO
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Publication number: 20220303008Abstract: An orientation direction control device includes: an orientation direction control information acquisition unit to acquire orientation direction control information for controlling an orientation direction in which a first optical communication terminal as a first transmission/reception device transmits and receives light; and a capture and tracking control unit as an orientation direction control unit to control an orientation direction in which a second optical communication terminal as a second transmission/reception device transmits and receives the light or a radio wave on the basis of the orientation direction control information acquired by the orientation direction control information acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuta TAKEMOTO, Toshiyuki ANDO