Patents by Inventor Yuto MORI

Yuto MORI 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: 20240131997
    Abstract: A display switching device (1) includes: a lens array (40); a display part (10), comprising pixel regions (31) disposed to include regions in which light in which respective light emitted from light sources (50) is condensed by respective lenses (41) of the lens array (40) passes through. A transmittance of each pixel region (31) is set corresponding to a predetermined stationary pattern. Display of the display part (10) performed through irradiation of the light of the light sources (50) exhibits directivity, and a first averaged oriented direction (D1) averaging, among the light sources (50), oriented directions as directions of the directivity is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a normal direction of a display surface (11) of the display part (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU
  • Publication number: 20240123823
    Abstract: A display system includes an image display part displaying an image indicating a mode selected in a driving device of a vehicle having a plurality of modes. The image display part displays all images indicating each of the plurality of modes, and displays the image indicating the selected mode to be different in at least one of color, brightness, character format, and size from an image indicating a non-selected mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yutaka OKAYASU, Gouo KURATA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Norikazu KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 11947133
    Abstract: A lens array included in a display switching device according to one or more embodiments may include a portion having a greater average of curvature radii of microlenses at a greater distance from a predetermined lens reference position on a surface of the lens array including the microlenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Yuto Mori, Gouo Kurata, Tsuyoshi Arai, Hayato Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230419664
    Abstract: The cause tracking system according to the present disclosure includes: an event detecting unit that detects a new event occurring in a management target area; a recording unit that records an event detected in the past by the event detecting unit; a calculating unit that calculates a degree of association between the new event and a past event recorded in the recording unit; a recording control unit that causes the recording unit to record the new event as a past event in association with information on a past event in which the degree of association with the new event is equal to or greater than a threshold among past events recorded in the recording unit; and an output unit that reads out, from the recording unit, the designated event among the past events recorded in the recording unit and the other past events related to the designated event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto MORI, Shintaro YOSHIZAWA, Kazuhiro SHINTANI, Masayoshi TSUCHINAGA, Hisataka YUASA, Takayuki KANAI
  • Publication number: 20230418270
    Abstract: An area management system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a mobile history of at least one mobile object that moves in a management target area, a statistical processing unit configured to generate a distribution of existence probability of the at least one mobile object in a management target area by performing statistical processing on information on a mobile history of the at least one mobile object, and an area definition unit configured to define a predetermined area included in the management target area together with an area attribute of the predetermined area, based on the distribution of existence probability of the at least one mobile object in the management target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisataka YUASA, Kazuhiro SHINTANI, Shintaro YOSHIZAWA, Masayoshi TSUCHINAGA, Yuto MORI, Takayuki KANAI
  • Publication number: 20230324247
    Abstract: Disclosed is a characteristic adjustment system of pressure detection output including an input tool that, in operation, performs an input operation by being brought into contact with an input surface and that includes a pressure detector that, in operation, detects a pressure applied to a portion of the input tool in contact with the input surface, a detection device that, in operation, generates pressure detection output by acquiring information regarding the pressure detected by the pressure detector of the input tool, a load measurement device that, in operation, measures a load applied to the input tool, and an adjustment device that, in operation, adjusts the pressure detection output from the detection device such that the pressure detection output has characteristics in a predetermined relation to a load measurement result from the load measurement device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yuto MORI, Mamoru OGATA, Kenichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20230205369
    Abstract: An input device according to one or more embodiments may include a light guide plate configured to direct light entering from a light source so that the light exits from a light emitting surface and forms an image in a space, the image being an object for an input action from a user; a sensor configured to detect an object employed by a user for the input action; an input detection unit configured to detect an input from a user on the basis of a detection result from the sensor for the object; and a notification unit configured to notify a user that the input was detected when the input detection unit has detected an input from a user. The sensor may be placed in a space opposite the light emitting surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yasuhiro TANOUE, Norikazu KITAMURA, Yuto MORI
  • Publication number: 20230133242
    Abstract: A work assignment status monitoring system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about one or more work areas, a monitoring target detection unit configured to detect a monitoring target and define a first monitoring target area where the monitoring target is positioned, a first determination unit configured to determine whether or not the monitoring target has performed a work assignment in the one or more work areas based on a presence or absence of interference with the one or more work areas by the first monitoring target area, an information generation unit configured to generate information about the work assignment in the one or more work areas performed by the monitoring target based on a result of the determination made by the first determination unit, and an output unit configured to output information about the work assignment performed by the monitoring target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shintaro YOSHIZAWA, Takayuki KANAI, Kazuhiro SHINTANI, Hideki KAJIMA, Masayoshi TSUCHINAGA, Yuto MORI, Hisataka YUASA
  • Publication number: 20230109081
    Abstract: A display switching device according to one or more embodiments may include a lens array including an array of a plurality of lenses and a display unit. Light from each of the plurality of light source positions transmits through a different position on the display unit and is focused by a corresponding lens. A transmittance on the display unit through which the light transmits differs depending on a position on the display unit. The transmittance at a position of a plurality of positions on the display unit is a transmittance of one of three or more types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Gouo KURATA, Yuto MORI, Masao MISHINA, Yutaka OKAYASU, Yasuhito UETSUJI, Hayato YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220291425
    Abstract: A lens array included in a display switching device according to one or more embodiments may include a portion having a greater average of curvature radii of microlenses at a greater distance from a predetermined lens reference position on a surface of the lens array including the microlenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Tsuyoshi ARAI, Hayato YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220291424
    Abstract: A display switching device according to one or more embodiments is disclosed. In a display switching device according to one or more embodiments, at least one of the pixel regions receives light from a plurality of light sources included in a predetermined light source group, and the light from each of the plurality of light sources is focused by a different lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yuto MORI, Gouo KURATA, Hayato YOSHIDA, Masao MISHINA
  • Publication number: 20220291521
    Abstract: A light guide according to one or more embodiments may include an incident surface that receives light from a light source, a first reflective surface that reflects incident light, a second reflective surface that reflects light reflected by the first reflection surface to be parallel light, and an emission surface that may allow parallel light reflected by the second reflective surface to be emitted. The first reflective surface reflects light at a reflection angle nonuniform across the first reflective surface. The second reflective surface has a saw-toothed cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Gouo KURATA, Yasuhiro TANOUE, Masafumi DANNO, Yuto MORI
  • Patent number: 11412596
    Abstract: A display switching device (10) is provided, which switches a display image (P) by switching irradiation of lights from positions of a plurality of light sources (7). The display switching device includes: a lens array (6) in which a plurality of lenses are arranged; and a display part (45) including a plurality of pixel regions (45a) arranged to include a region through which a light, which is formed by condensing each of the lights emitted from the positions of the plurality of light sources (7) with each of the lenses of the lens array (6), passes. A transmittance in each of the pixel regions (45a) is set corresponding to a predetermined stationary pattern. A total area of the pixel regions (45a) in the display part (45) is 60% or less of a total area of a sum of the pixel regions (45a) and the pixel surrounding regions (45b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Yuto Mori, Yoshihiko Takagi, Gouo Kurata, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yasuhiro Tanoue
  • Publication number: 20220196893
    Abstract: A display switching device according to one or more embodiments may display images by switching light illumination from multiple light source positions. The device may include a lens array including multiple lenses that allow passage of light from the light source positions, a display layer including pixel regions that allow passage of light collected on the lenses included in the lens array, and a diffusion layer located opposite to the light source positions with the lens array in between to diffuse passing light. The diffusion layer optically adheres to a layer adjacent to a surface of the diffusion layer nearer the light source positions, or the diffusion layer and the layer adjacent the surface of the diffusion layer nearer the light source positions include the same material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuto MORI, Masayuki SHINOHARA, Gouo KURATA, Hayato YOSHIDA, Masao MISHINA
  • Publication number: 20210342030
    Abstract: A light guide plate guides light from a light source to form an image in a space. A sensor detects an object in the space including an imaging position of the image. Based on an output from the sensor, a controller acquires at least one of a trajectory of a plurality of positions where the object is detected, a duration time of detecting the object, or a number of times the object is detected as an input parameter. The controller identifies an input pattern according to a movement of the object based on the input parameter, and outputs a signal corresponding to the identified input pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yasuhiro TANOUE, Norikazu KITAMURA, Hiroyuki MIYAMOTO, Yuto MORI
  • Patent number: 11155208
    Abstract: In order to achieve an image display unit having excellent degree of freedom in designing the position of a display image, an image display unit (1A) is provided with: an imaging unit (10) configured to capture an image of a space to be viewed; an image display device (11) configured to display an image captured by the imaging unit (10) in a display area in real time; and an image forming unit configured to form an image in a space where there is no screen by projecting the image displayed by the image display device (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Yasuhiro Tanoue, Gouo Kurata, Norikazu Kitamura, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yuto Mori
  • Patent number: 11125928
    Abstract: To make a displayed image clear. A display device emits image light reflected by a plurality of prisms (141) provided in a light guide plate (14) from a light exit surface (14c). The prism (141) has a reflective surface (141a) that reflects and emits the image light. The reflective surface (141a) is formed in a curved shape in a thickness direction of the light guide plate (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Omron Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Shinohara, Gouo Kurata, Tsuyoshi Arai, Norikazu Kitamura, Yuto Mori
  • Patent number: 11117261
    Abstract: An operation processor of the motion trajectory generation apparatus specifies the target object by extracting first point cloud data that corresponds to the target object from a depth image in the vicinity of the target object acquired by a depth image sensor, excludes the first point cloud data from second point cloud data, which is point cloud data in the vicinity of the target object, in the depth image, estimates, using the second point cloud data after the first point cloud data has been excluded, third point cloud data, which is point cloud data that corresponds to an obstacle that is present in a spatial area from which the first point cloud data is excluded in the depth image, and supplements the estimated third point cloud data in the spatial area from which the first point cloud data is excluded, and generates the plan of the motion trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto Mori, Shintaro Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20210263612
    Abstract: An input device according to one or more embodiments may include a light guide plate configured to direct light entering from a light source so that the light exits from a light emitting surface and forms an image in a space, the image being an object for an input action from a user; a sensor configured to detect an object employed by a user for the input action; an input detection unit configured to detect an input from a user on the basis of a detection result from the sensor for the object; and a notification unit configured to notify a user that the input was detected when the input detection unit has detected an input from a user. The sensor may be placed in a space opposite the light emitting surface of the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SHINOHARA, Yasuhiro TANOUE, Norikazu KITAMURA, Yuto MORI
  • Publication number: 20210174538
    Abstract: A control apparatus capable of efficiently detecting a target object even when the target object is shielded by other objects is provided. An object recognition unit 114 recognizes a target object 80 present in a 3D environment 4 by using measurement data acquired from a sensor 12. An information generation unit 116 generates 3D environmental information by integrating a plurality of measurement data. A position determination unit 120 determines an optimal position of the sensor 12 for performing the next measurement. A sensor control unit 140 moves the sensor 12 to the determined optimal position. The position determination unit 120 determines, by using the 3D environmental information, a position of the sensor 12 where the sensor 12 can take an image in which a size of an area shielded by at least one first object is larger as the optimal position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kei YOSHIKAWA, Shintaro YOSHIZAWA, Yuto MORI