Patents by Inventor Yi-Chu CHANG

Yi-Chu CHANG 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: 20240142344
    Abstract: In example implementations described herein, there are systems and methods enabling manufacturers to become more efficient by providing a digital tool to track, visualize, quantify, and notify production bottlenecks for quick actions. Some implementations include an apparatus including a processor configured to analyze time-stamp data collected associated with a plurality of elements of an industrial process. The processor may be configured to generate, based on the analyzed time-stamp data, a color coded visualization of the industrial process, where generating the color coded visualization includes associating each of the plurality of elements of the industrial process with a corresponding color indicating a state of an element in the plurality of elements of the industrial process. The processor may further be configured to present, via a display, the generated color coded visualization of the industrial process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Wei YUAN, Yi-chu CHANG, Lili ZHENG
  • Publication number: 20240116172
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods, which can include, for receipt of a pallet involving a plurality of objects, controlling a robotic arm to depalletize each of the plurality of objects from the pallet according to a position, orientation, and weight of the each of the plurality of objects retrieved from a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Yi-chu CHANG
  • Patent number: 11755003
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods for operation of a robot configured to work on a first process and a second process, which can involve receiving sensor data indicative of a status of one or more of the first process and the second process; for the status indicative of the first process waiting on the robot, controlling the robot to work on the first process; and for the status indicative of the first process not waiting on the robot, controlling the robot to conduct one or more of work on the second process or return to standby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Chu Chang, Heming Chen
  • Publication number: 20230244204
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure can involve systems and methods for a mobile device connected to a local area network (LAN) facilitating connections between a programmable logic controller (PLC) and one or more apparatuses, the mobile device involving a camera and a microphone, which can involve receiving input from one or more of the camera and the microphone; generating one or more of executable code for the PLC and configuration information for the one or more apparatuses from parsing of the input; and transmitting, over the LAN, the one or more of the executable code for the PLC and the configuration information for the one or more apparatuses to the PLC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yi-chu Chang, Lili Zheng
  • Publication number: 20230103026
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein involve systems and methods for operation of a robot configured to work on a first process and a second process, which can involve receiving sensor data indicative of a status of one or more of the first process and the second process; for the status indicative of the first process waiting on the robot, controlling the robot to work on the first process; and for the status indicative of the first process not waiting on the robot, controlling the robot to conduct one or more of work on the second process or return to standby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Yi-chu Chang, Heming Chen
  • Patent number: 11554482
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to a simulation environment for a real world system involving one or more robots and one or more sensors. Scenarios are loaded into a simulation environment having one or more virtual robots corresponding to the one or more robots, and one or more virtual sensors corresponding to the one or more virtual system to train a control strategy model from reinforcement learning, which is subsequently deployed to the real world environment. In cases of failure of the real world environment, the failures are provided to the simulation environment to generate an updated control strategy model for the real world environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Heming Chen, Yi-Chu Chang
  • Publication number: 20220016763
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to a simulation environment for a real world system involving one or more robots and one or more sensors. Scenarios are loaded into a simulation environment having one or more virtual robots corresponding to the one or more robots, and one or more virtual sensors corresponding to the one or more virtual system to train a control strategy model from reinforcement learning, which is subsequently deployed to the real world environment. In cases of failure of the real world environment, the failures are provided to the simulation environment to generate an updated control strategy model for the real world environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Heming CHEN, Yi-Chu CHANG