Patents by Inventor Yuuki SUGITA

Yuuki SUGITA 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: 20250093842
    Abstract: An information generation device includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an image indicating the state of an industrial machine; a dictionary storage unit that stores a dictionary in which state information indicating the control state of a control device for controlling the industrial machine is associated with drawing information for visually rendering the control state; a display mode storage unit that stores, for each type of state information, the display mode of the drawing information associated with the state information; a state information acquisition unit that acquires state information; a generation unit that generates display information for displaying the drawing information associated with the state information, in the display mode associated with the type of the state information; an association unit that associates the display information with the image acquired by the image acquisition unit; and an output unit that outputs the associated display information and the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuki SUGITA, Nobuaki AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20250095367
    Abstract: This video discrimination device: stores a machine state dictionary linking identification information for data pertaining to the state of a machine, which is a numerical control device and/or a machining tool, and the contents of the data; acquires video of the machine; acquires data to be used in detecting a change in the state of the machine; determines whether the state of the machine has changed, on the basis of the data; and links the contents of the data and video when the state of the machine has changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Yuuki SUGITA, Nobuaki AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240241497
    Abstract: This imaging environment adjusting device comprises: a trigger detection unit which detects at least one type of trigger; a setting table which stores at least one environment setting item for defining an imaging environment for a processing machine; a determination result acquisition unit which acquires a determination result regarding whether to adjust the imaging environment so as to be in a control state specified by the at least one environment setting item; and an imaging environment adjusting unit which adjusts the imaging environment so as to be in the control state specified by the at least one environment setting item when the trigger detection unit detects at least one type of trigger and the determination result acquired by the determination result acquisition unit indicates to adjust the imaging environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yuuki SUGITA, Nobuaki AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240219887
    Abstract: This video analysis device acquires a video of machining by a numerical control device, acquires a machining program for the numerical control device, and detects a characteristic frame from among the frames included in the video of the machining. The video analysis device detects, from among the blocks included in the machining program, a block that commands a machine tool to perform a characteristic operation. The video analysis device associates the characteristic frame with the block that commands the machine tool to perform the characteristic operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuuki SUGITA, Nobuaki AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240201650
    Abstract: This operational status display device comprises: an event setting table for storing event designation information that designates an event occurring in a machining machine, operational data identity information for identifying operational data on the machining machine, and extraction conditions for extracting feature data indicating the occurrence of an event from the operational data in association with each other; a first acquisition unit which acquires the operational data identity information and the extraction conditions, associated with the event designation information from the event setting table, on the basis of the event designation information; a second acquisition unit that acquires feature data from the operational data, on the basis of the operational data identity information and the extraction conditions acquired by the first acquisition unit; and a display unit which displays, on a display screen, the feature data acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Yuuki SUGITA, Nobuaki AIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230066200
    Abstract: A workpiece image analyzing device is provided with: a display unit for displaying an image of a workpiece to be processed by an industrial machine; an analysis object designating unit for accepting designation of an analysis object with respect to the image of the workpiece; a feature extracting unit for extracting, in a real-world coordinate system, structural features of the analysis object designated by the analysis object designating unit; an analysis item setting unit for accepting designation of an analysis item with respect to the image of the workpiece; and a physical quantity calculating unit which extracts, from the structural features of the analysis object, a feature required for calculating a physical quantity pertaining to the analysis item designated by the analysis item setting unit, and calculates the physical quantity using the extracted feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Yuuki SUGITA
  • Patent number: 11403780
    Abstract: To provide a camera calibration device and a camera calibration method which can easily calibrate a relationship between a machine coordinate system of a machine tool and a camera coordinate system of a camera. A camera calibration device calibrates an imaging means of a machine tool, the machine tool includes: a touch probe which acquires one point whose machine coordinates are known; a camera which images the one point and a pattern including a feature used for calibration; and a drive mechanism which moves a table or a spindle in two orthogonal directions and an image obtained by imaging the one point and the pattern and images obtained by imaging the pattern or/and the one point when the table or a machining machine is moved in the two directions are used to calculate an external parameter by calculating a positional posture relationship between the machine coordinate system and the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuuki Sugita
  • Patent number: 11209792
    Abstract: To generate link information containing association between machining information and/or machine information in a machining program, and an optical feature in a workpiece image. A link information generation device 1 comprises: a machining information acquisition unit 111 that acquires machining information in a machining program for a machine tool that executes machining on a workpiece W; a machine information acquisition unit 112 that acquires machine information about the machining state of the machine tool; a workpiece image acquisition unit 13 that acquires image information about the workpiece W; an optical feature setting unit 14 that sets an image area having an optical feature in the image information about the workpiece W; and a link information generation unit 15 that generates link information containing association between the image area having the optical feature, and the machining information and/or the machine information about a workpiece area associated with the image area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Sugita, Hang Cui
  • Patent number: 11004190
    Abstract: A workpiece image generation device is provided with a machining information acquisition unit, an area division unit configured to virtually divide a surface area of the workpiece into partial areas based on the surface shape information, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images of the workpiece captured with different angles of irradiation on the workpiece as viewed from the imaging device, an area image selection unit configured to extract partial images individually from the plurality of images of the workpiece, based on the partial areas of the surface area of the workpiece, and select partial images corresponding to the individual partial areas from the plurality of extracted partial images, an image synthesis unit configured to generate a composite image of the workpiece obtained by synthesizing the partial images, and a composite image output unit configured to output the composite image of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuki Sugita, Hang Cui
  • Publication number: 20200151907
    Abstract: To provide a camera calibration device and a camera calibration method which can easily calibrate a relationship between a machine coordinate system of a machine tool and a camera coordinate system of a camera. A camera calibration device calibrates an imaging means of a machine tool, the machine tool includes: a touch probe which acquires one point whose machine coordinates are known; a camera which images the one point and a pattern including a feature used for calibration; and a drive mechanism which moves a table or a spindle in two orthogonal directions and an image obtained by imaging the one point and the pattern and images obtained by imaging the pattern or/and the one point when the table or a machining machine is moved in the two directions are used to calculate an external parameter by calculating a positional posture relationship between the machine coordinate system and the pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Yuuki SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20200033109
    Abstract: To reduce the work load required to measure a workpiece. A workpiece measurement device according to the present invention includes a display unit configured to display an image of a workpiece, a measurement object acquisition unit configured to accept designation of a measurement object in the image of the workpiece, and to detect a measurement object structure corresponding to the designated measurement object, a measurement item setting unit configured to accept designation of a measurement item in the image of the workpiece, and a measurement program generation unit configured to generate a measurement program including a set measurement point and a set approach point corresponding to the measurement item designated by the measurement item setting unit with respect to the measurement object structure, and a set measurement path including the measurement point and the approach point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Yuuki SUGITA
  • Publication number: 20190236770
    Abstract: A workpiece image generation device is provided with a machining information acquisition unit, an area division unit configured to virtually divide a surface area of the workpiece into partial areas based on the surface shape information, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images of the workpiece captured with different angles of irradiation on the workpiece as viewed from the imaging device, an area image selection unit configured to extract partial images individually from the plurality of images of the workpiece, based on the partial areas of the surface area of the workpiece, and select partial images corresponding to the individual partial areas from the plurality of extracted partial images, an image synthesis unit configured to generate a composite image of the workpiece obtained by synthesizing the partial images, and a composite image output unit configured to output the composite image of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Yuuki SUGITA, Hang CUI
  • Publication number: 20190196439
    Abstract: To generate link information containing association between machining information and/or machine information in a machining program, and an optical feature in a workpiece image. A link information generation device 1 comprises: a machining information acquisition unit 111 that acquires machining information in a machining program for a machine tool that executes machining on a workpiece W; a machine information acquisition unit 112 that acquires machine information about the machining state of the machine tool; a workpiece image acquisition unit 13 that acquires image information about the workpiece W; an optical feature setting unit 14 that sets an image area having an optical feature in the image information about the workpiece W; and a link information generation unit 15 that generates link information containing association between the image area having the optical feature, and the machining information and/or the machine information about a workpiece area associated with the image area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yuuki SUGITA, Hang CUI