Patents by Inventor YUTA NAMIKI

YUTA NAMIKI 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: 20250069402
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires an image captured at a site where a trouble happens; an information generation unit (12) that detects a person from the image, and also generates information relevant to the detected person, based on the image; and an output unit (13) that outputs the information relevant to the detected person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Noboru YOSHIDA, Tingting DONG, Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Jianquan LIU, Naoki SHINDOU, Karen STEPHEN, Yuta NAMIKI, Youhei SASAKI
  • Patent number: 12236663
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing an image processing system that can accurately and efficiently detect a target object even when the positional relationship between an image capturing device and the target object differs between the time of teaching and the time of detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Namiki
  • Publication number: 20250058474
    Abstract: Provided is a robot control device that can easily switch between an external image processing device and a built-in image processing device. In this robot control device, which uses an image processing device to image a target object by means of a vision sensor mounted on a robot or to image the target object by means of the vision sensor fixed and installed at a prescribed position, the image processing device is embedded in the robot control device or externally connected to the robot control device, and a vision execution command in a vision program in the image processing device and a vision execution command in a robot program in the robot control device are substantially shared by a built-in image processing device built into the robot control device and an external image processing device externally connected to the robot control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta NAMIKI
  • Patent number: 12208529
    Abstract: A robot system including: a robot that grips one of a first and second workpiece that are disposed adjacent to each other; an illumination device that radiates light beam onto surfaces of the first workpiece and the second workpiece on either side of a border between the workpieces along a plane that intersects the border; a camera that captures an image containing a first line image of the light beam formed on the surface of the first workpiece and a second line image of the light beam formed on the surface of the second workpiece; and a robot controller that operates the robot based on a misalignment amount and direction of the second line image with respect to the first line image in the image acquired and that performs a correction of a level difference between the surface of the first workpiece and the surface of the second workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Namiki
  • Patent number: 12186920
    Abstract: A robot system is provided which can suitably perform robot movement correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Namiki
  • Publication number: 20250005770
    Abstract: A movement information generation apparatus (10) is an apparatus that assists rehabilitation carried out by a subject, and includes an image processing unit (120) and an output unit (130). The image processing unit (120) generates first movement information indicating movement of the subject at first timing by processing a first image acquired by capturing the subject at the first timing. The output unit (130) determines a difference between the first movement information and comparison movement information indicating movement being a comparison target, and outputs output information being information relating to the difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki SHINDOU, Jianquan LIU, Yuta NAMIKI, Youhei SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20250008212
    Abstract: A teaching device comprises: an object detection unit that detects an object from a captured image obtained by imaging the object with a visual sensor; an imaging condition setting unit that sets a plurality of imaging conditions relating to the imaging of the object, and causes the object detection unit to image and detect the object with each of the plurality of imaging conditions; and a detection result determination unit that determines the detection results to formally use, on the basis of an indicator representing statistical properties of a plurality of detection results obtained by imaging and detection under the plurality of imaging conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Misaki ITO, Yuta NAMIKI
  • Publication number: 20240408767
    Abstract: A control device includes: a detection result acquisition unit which acquires first information corresponding to a detection result obtained through detecting, by means of a visual sensor, the relative positional relationship between a robot and an object; a coordinate system data output unit which, on the basis of the first information, outputs first coordinate system data as data representing a coordinate system that serve as the basis when operating the robot; and a command generation unit which generates a command for the robot on the basis of the first coordinate system represented by the first coordinate system data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yuutarou TAKAHASHI, Yuta NAMIKI
  • Patent number: 12162152
    Abstract: Provided is a machine-learning device which can efficiently perform machine learning. The machine-learning device comprises: a vision execution unit which captures an image of an object W by means of a visual sensor by executing a vision execution command from a robot program, and detects or determines the object W from the captured image; a result acquisition unit which acquires the detection result or the determination result for the object W by executing a result acquisition command from the robot program; an additional annotation unit which gives a label to the captured image on the basis of the detection result or the determination result for the image of the object W by executing an annotation command from the robot program, and acquires new training data; and a learning unit which performs machine learning by using the new training data by executing a learning command from the robot program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Namiki
  • Publication number: 20240399588
    Abstract: Provided is a system that is capable of accurately measuring the three-dimensional position and posture of an object under measurement with simple teaching and in a short measurement time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou OGURA, Yuta NAMIKI, Kyouhei KOKUBO
  • Publication number: 20240391108
    Abstract: A control device for controlling an industrial machine, the control device comprising: an image operating unit that displays an image captured by a visual sensor on a display screen, and accepts a user operation with respect to the image; and a motion control unit that controls a motion of the industrial machine so as to move a visual field of the visual sensor displayed as an image on the display screen, in accordance with the accepted user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventor: Yuta NAMIKI
  • Publication number: 20240391107
    Abstract: This control device comprises a correction amount calculation unit for calculating a correction amount for an operation of a mobile robot with respect to a work space according to information from a visual sensor mounted on the robot, and a control unit for modifying the imaging position and/or imaging orientation of the visual sensor on the basis of the correction amount and applying a correction to the operation of the robot on the basis of the information from the visual sensor after the modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Yuutarou TAKAHASHI, Yuta NAMIKI
  • Publication number: 20240383134
    Abstract: A teaching device is used in an industrial machine system in which information is acquired using a sensor and a task is performed with respect to a workpiece. The teaching device includes: an execution history screen display unit for displaying an execution history screen that presents one or more pieces of execution history pertaining to an execution result of a program performing sensor-based processing, and for accepting an operation to select a single piece of execution history; and a modification screen display unit for restoring the selected single piece of execution history to a program and displaying a modification screen for modifying a configuration parameter of the program in which the execution history is restored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Wanfeng Fu, Yuta Namiki
  • Publication number: 20240308061
    Abstract: Provided is a teaching device that is used to create a program for measuring, with a visual sensor, markers installed in a work space, the teaching device comprising a user interface creation unit that creates a user interface for inputting setting information pertaining to the measurement of a marker, wherein the user interface creation unit makes it possible to use first setting information input for a first marker in settings for a second marker in the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Yuta NAMIKI, Yuutarou TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12090664
    Abstract: An interference avoidance device is provided with: a three-dimensional sensor that is attached to a tip portion of a robot arm and acquires a distance image of an area around a robot; a position data creating portion that converts coordinates of a nearby object in the distance image to coordinates on a robot coordinate system and creates the position data of the nearby object based on the coordinates of the nearby object on the robot coordinate system; a storage portion that stores the position data; and a control portion that controls the robot based on the robot coordinate system; and the control portion controls the robot to avoid interference of the robot with the nearby object, based on the position data stored in the storage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumikazu Warashina, Yuta Namiki, Kyouhei Kokubo
  • Publication number: 20240257308
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing device and a robot control device capable of determining an appropriate exposure time range and the number of imaging times for imaging a subject. An image processing device which processes a captured image of a subject comprises: a first exposure time determining unit which determines a minimum value of an exposure time for imaging the subject; a second exposure time determining unit which determines a maximum value of the exposure time for imaging the subject; an imaging condition determining unit which determines the exposure time for imaging the subject and the number of imaging times for imaging the subject; and a composite image generation unit that synthesizes a plurality of captured images of the subject using the determined exposure time and the number of imaging times to generate a composite image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta NAMIKI
  • Publication number: 20240221352
    Abstract: An image processing device according to one aspect of the present disclosure for which detection parameters can easily be set comprises: a model storage unit that stores a model pattern; a characteristic point extraction unit that extracts characteristic points from a photographed image; an original matching degree calculation unit that calculates the degree of matching between the model pattern and arrangement of the characteristic points; an object detection unit that detects an object in the photographed image by comparing the degree of matching with a detection threshold value; a parameter setting unit that sets detection parameters including at least the detection threshold value; a detection information storage unit that stores, for characteristic points of the object detected by the target object detection unit, detection information including at least the positions of the characteristic points; and a simple matching degree calculation unit that calculates, if the detection parameters are changed, the
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou OGURA, Yuta NAMIKI
  • Publication number: 20240177461
    Abstract: Provided is a teaching device comprising a determination unit that determines whether or not a storage condition relating to the result of processing a designated object by a visual sensor is satisfied, and a history storage unit that stores history information indicating the result of processing into a storage device if the storage condition is determined to be satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Misaki ITO, Yuta NAMIKI
  • Patent number: D1048098
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATON
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeuchi, Ryo Kawai, Noboru Yoshida, Jianquan Liu, Yuta Namiki, Naoki Shindou, Youhei Sasaki
  • Patent number: D1052609
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATON
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takeuchi, Ryo Kawai, Noboru Yoshida, Jianquan Liu, Yuta Namiki, Naoki Shindou, Youhei Sasaki