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).

  • Publication number: 20220244617
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junya NISHIOKA, Tomohiro AKIYAMA, Yuta TAKEMOTO, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220094459
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20220052505
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Patent number: 11223420
    Abstract: There includes: an optical splitter splitting modulated light into local oscillator light and signal light beams; a phase adjustment unit adjusting phases of signal light beams; an optical amplification unit amplifying signal light beams phase-adjusted; an optical phased array antenna outputting signal light beams amplified to space; a phase control unit synchronizing with a reference signal light beams, output from the optical phased array antenna and multiplexed with the local oscillator light; an acquisition and tracking mechanism adjusting output angles of signal light beams; an angle detection unit detecting arrival angles of received light; and a control unit setting the reference signal to first reference signals having different frequencies, supplementing the received light based on a detection result, setting the reference signal to second reference signals having equal frequencies, and tracking the received light based on the detection result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Haraguchi, Toshiyuki Ando, Mana Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11204414
    Abstract: A laser radar device includes: a wavelength-tunable light source; an optical branch coupler dividing light emitted by the wavelength-tunable light source into local and transmission light; an optical phase modulator applying, to the transmission or local light, frequency shifts for wavelength discrimination of different shift amounts corresponding to respective wavelengths of light emitted by the wavelength-tunable light source; a wavelength separator switching between light paths for output, in response to wavelength of transmission light; an optical antenna emitting into space transmission light output by the wavelength separator, and receiving, as received light, backward-scattered light generated from transmission light in space in which lines of sight corresponding to respective wavelengths of the transmission light are determined; an optical heterodyne receiver receiving local light and received light, and performing heterodyne detection; and a signal processor performing frequency analysis of the optic
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke Haraguchi, Toshiyuki Ando
  • Patent number: 11038590
    Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a controlled oscillator for outputting a calibration signal having an output frequency that corresponds to an input oscillation control signal; an electrical-to-optical conversion circuit for generating an optical transmission signal by superimposing a transmission signal in a radio frequency band and the calibration signal on an optical wave; an optical input and output unit for sending the optical transmission signal to an optical transmission path and receiving a reflection signal that is a part of the optical transmission signal from an optical reception device; an optical-to-electrical converter for converting the reflection signal into a radio frequency signal; a phase locked loop for generating the oscillation control signal so that radio frequency output of the optical-to-electrical converter is phase-locked with a reference signal input from a reference signal source; and a signal generation circuit for generating, as the transmission signal, the radio frequen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junya Nishioka, Eisuke Haraguchi, Akihiro Fujie, Toshiyuki Ando
  • Publication number: 20210141067
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Toshiyuki ANDO, Hitomi ONO
  • Publication number: 20210129342
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Patent number: 10984344
    Abstract: A document classifying device (10) includes: a unit (22) configured to acquire information regarding a to-be-classified document set in which classification codes based on multi-viewpoint classification are assigned to each document in advance; a unit (23) configured to generate a multi-dimensional feature vector for each document in the to-be-classified document set, the multi-dimensional feature vector having, as elements, all or part of the classification codes assigned to the to-be-classified document set; classifying unit (24) configured to classify the to-be-classified document set using the feature vector of each document; and a generating unit (25) that generates document classification information indicating a result of the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Ando, Shinsuke Nagahara
  • Publication number: 20210099230
    Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a controlled oscillator for outputting a calibration signal having an output frequency that corresponds to an input oscillation control signal; an electrical-to-optical conversion circuit for generating an optical transmission signal by superimposing a transmission signal in a radio frequency band and the calibration signal on an optical wave; an optical input and output unit for sending the optical transmission signal to an optical transmission path and receiving a reflection signal that is a part of the optical transmission signal from an optical reception device; an optical-to-electrical converter for converting the reflection signal into a radio frequency signal; a phase locked loop for generating the oscillation control signal so that radio frequency output of the optical-to-electrical converter is phase-locked with a reference signal input from a reference signal source; and a signal generation circuit for generating, as the transmission signal, the radio frequen
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junya NISHIOKA, Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Akihiro FUJIE, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20210075517
    Abstract: An optical signal from a pointing mirror (102) is focused by a focusing optical system (103). The optical signal focused is transmitted via a multi-core fiber (104). The optical signal transmitted is subjected to coherent detection by coherent detectors (108) and decoded by a digital signal processing unit (110). The digital signal processing unit (110) detects an angle shift of the optical signal input to the focusing optical system (103). The pointing mirror (102) updates a compensation angle correspondingly to the angle shift detected by the digital signal processing unit (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke MATSUDA, Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20210013966
    Abstract: There includes: an optical splitter splitting modulated light into local oscillator light and signal light beams; a phase adjustment unit adjusting phases of signal light beams; an optical amplification unit amplifying signal light beams phase-adjusted; an optical phased array antenna outputting signal light beams amplified to space; a phase control unit synchronizing with a reference signal light beams, output from the optical phased array antenna and multiplexed with the local oscillator light; an acquisition and tracking mechanism adjusting output angles of signal light beams; an angle detection unit detecting arrival angles of received light; and a control unit setting the reference signal to first reference signals having different frequencies, supplementing the received light based on a detection result, setting the reference signal to second reference signals having equal frequencies, and tracking the received light based on the detection result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Toshiyuki ANDO, Mana HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200408918
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shumpei KAMEYAMA, Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Yutaka KAJIYAMA, Nobuki KOTAKE, Takayuki YANAGISAWA, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20200400822
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki ANDO, Jiro SUZUKI, Eisuke HARAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200279189
    Abstract: A document classifying device (10) includes: a unit (22) configured to acquire information regarding a to-be-classified document set in which classification codes based on multi-viewpoint classification are assigned to each document in advance; a unit (23) configured to generate a multi-dimensional feature vector for each document in the to-be-classified document set, the multi-dimensional feature vector having, as elements, all or part of the classification codes assigned to the to-be-classified document set; classifying unit (24) configured to classify the to-be-classified document set using the feature vector of each document; and a generating unit (25) that generates document classification information indicating a result of the classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Masakazu YAMAGUCHI, Toshiyuki ANDO, Shinsuke NAGAHARA
  • Publication number: 20200049804
    Abstract: There is the problem with conventional laser radar devices that it is difficult to determine the line of sight from measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Toshiyuki ANDO
  • Publication number: 20200049799
    Abstract: 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 f
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki ANDO, Eisuke HARAGUCHI, Hitomi ONO
  • Patent number: 10527518
    Abstract: A light source system (26) illuminating an optical system to be inspected (3) and making light fluxes of a plurality of wavefront measurement visual fields be emitted from the optical system to be inspected; a single wavefront sensor (28) calculating wavefront aberration on a basis of measurement of the light fluxes of the plurality of wavefront measurement visual fields emitted from the optical system to be inspected (3); and an optical path optical system (31) are included. The optical path optical system selectively makes the light fluxes of the plurality of wavefront measurement visual fields emitted from the optical system to be inspected (3) be incident on the wavefront sensor (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitomi Ono, Jiro Suzuki, Yoshichika Miwa, Toshiyuki Ando
  • Patent number: 10434649
    Abstract: A workpiece pick up system including: a three-dimensional sensor which is placed at an upper side of a container and which obtains a group of three-dimensional points each of which has height position information in the container, a group creating means which creates a plurality of three-dimensional point groups in each of which adjacent points satisfy a predetermined condition, an exclusion group determining means which determines that one or more three-dimensional point groups which satisfy at least one of a predetermined size reference, a predetermined area reference, and a predetermined length reference are excluded groups, and a workpiece detecting means which obtains a group of detection-purpose three-dimensional points for detecting workpieces by excluding points included in the excluded group from the group of three-dimensional points or the plurality of three-dimensional point groups, and which detects the workpieces to be picked up by using the group of detection-purpose three-dimensional points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Ando
  • Patent number: 10434652
    Abstract: A workpiece picking system including: a robot; a hand, attached to a hand tip portion of the robot, for picking workpieces; a three-dimensional sensor, attached to the hand tip portion, for acquiring positional information of a three-dimensional point group in a partial region in a container; a workpiece state calculation unit which calculates a position and posture of a workpiece based on positional information of a three-dimensional point group in an acquired first partial region; a data acquisition position calculation unit which calculates a robot corresponding to a second partial region where positional information is to be acquired next, based on the positional information of the three-dimensional point group in the acquired first partial region; and a control unit which controls the robot and the hand based on the calculated position and posture of the workpiece and based on the calculated robot position corresponding to the second partial region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Ando