Patents by Inventor Yuya Ota

Yuya Ota 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: 20210326600
    Abstract: An information management device includes: a first data storage unit which stores first data relating to at least one of data on equipment and operation behavior data concerning the equipment up to occurrence of an event; an event information generation unit which classifies the event on the basis of the first data and generates event information associated with the first data; a second data storage unit which stores second data in which the data on the equipment encompassing before and after maintenance work in response to the event is associated with maintenance behavior data concerning the equipment; a maintenance information generation unit which associates the event information with the second data and generates maintenance information corresponding to each piece of event information; and a maintenance information storage unit which stores the generated maintenance information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Takatoshi KATAHATA, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Yuki HIROHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210325840
    Abstract: A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph, which contains a plurality of first nodes respectively representing device variables, edges representing the existence of a dependency relation, and a block representing a function, and a second directed graph, which contains a plurality of first nodes, edges, a block, and a plurality of second nodes arranged in the block and respectively representing function parameters. In response to an instruction from a user the display device switches between displaying the generated first directed graph and displaying the generated second directed graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya OTA, Reiko HATTORI, Kosuke TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20210293239
    Abstract: Provided are a compressor and a monitoring system that can specify a cause of an anomaly of a sensed value of a sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yuya OTA, Tomoo SUZUKI, Yoshio ANZAI
  • Patent number: 11106197
    Abstract: A prediction model creation apparatus includes a feature amount acquisition unit that acquires values of types of feature amounts that are calculated from operating state data indicating an operating state of a production facility that produces a product, for both a normal time at which the production facility produces the product normally and a defective time at which a defect occurs in the product that is produced, a feature amount selection unit that selects a feature amount effective in predicting the defect from among the acquired types of feature amounts, based on a predetermined algorithm that specifies a degree of association between the defect and the types of feature amounts, from the values of the types of feature amounts acquired at the normal time and the defective time, and a prediction model construction unit that constructs a prediction model for predicting occurrence of the defect, using the selected feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko Hattori, Kosuke Tsuruta, Kota Miyamoto, Yuya Ota, Hideki Higashikage, Yuki Hirohashi, Noriyuki Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20210255597
    Abstract: A technology for associating and ascertaining dependency relations between device variables corresponding to respective devices with dependency relations of device variables for respective parameters of a function in a control program is provided. A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph including a plurality of first nodes that respectively express device variables and edges that express having dependency relations, and a second directed graph including the plurality of first nodes, the edges, and a block that expresses the function, and switches and displays the generated first directed graph and second directed graph on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya OTA, Reiko HATTORI, Kosuke TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20210224322
    Abstract: The image search system according to the present invention accumulates virtual viewpoint video image data generated based on image data obtained by capturing an object from a plurality of directions by a plurality of cameras and a virtual viewpoint parameter used for generation of the virtual viewpoint video image data in association with each other. Then, the image search system extracts, in a case where a search condition is input via an input unit, virtual viewpoint video image data associated with a virtual viewpoint parameter corresponding to the search condition from the accumulated virtual viewpoint video image data. Further, the image search system presents information of the extracted virtual viewpoint video image data as results of the search. Due to this, convenience relating to a search for a virtual viewpoint video image improves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Yuya Ota
  • Publication number: 20210200194
    Abstract: A display system provided in production equipment having driving means and monitoring means with controllable features includes a control unit, a display unit, and a storage unit. The control unit obtains a feature output over time from at least one among the driving means and the monitoring means, and causes the storage unit to store the feature; constructs, in each prescribed time, a causal relationship model that indicates a causal factor selected from among the driving means and the monitoring means for at least one abnormality that can occur in the production equipment and that also indicates the relationship between causal factors on the basis of the obtained feature; and displays, on the display unit, a plurality of causal relationship models constructed in a plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi MINEMOTO, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE, Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210200177
    Abstract: A technology for associating and ascertaining the location of device variables which are in a control program and correspond to devices, and the dependency relations between the device variables, when division programming is carried out, is provided. A graph display device according to one aspect of the present invention generates a first directed graph, which comprises a plurality of first nodes respectively representing the device variables, and edges representing the existence of a dependency relation, and a second directed graph, which comprises a plurality of regions corresponding respectively to each subprogram, a plurality of first nodes, and edges, wherein the first nodes are arranged in a region of a subprogram that uses the device variable to be expressed from among the plurality of regions. In response to an instruction from a user the display device switches between displaying the generated first directed graph and displaying the generated second directed graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya OTA, Reiko HATTORI, Kosuke TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20210191374
    Abstract: A display system is provided in production equipment that has driving means and monitoring means, having controllable features. The display system includes a control unit, a display unit, a storage unit, and an input unit. The storage unit stores: the features output over time from one or more of the driving means and the monitoring means; and causal relationship model data in which one or more causal factors of one or more abnormalities that can occur in the production equipment are selected from among the driving means and the monitoring means and expressed as a causal relationship model in association with a relationship between the causal factors. The control unit displays, on the display unit, the causal factors of the individual abnormalities, the one or more features corresponding to the causal factors, and changes over time in the features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi MINEMOTO, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE, Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210191380
    Abstract: A display system includes a display device in production equipment. The display device includes a control unit, a display unit, a storage unit, and an input unit. The storage unit stores: schematic illustration data that represent a schematic illustration of the production equipment; and causal relationship model data in which one or more cause elements of one or more abnormalities that can occur in the production equipment are selected from driving means for driving the production equipment and monitoring means for monitoring the production, and the cause elements and the relationships between the cause elements are represented as a causal relationship model. The control unit displays the schematic illustration and the causal relationship model on the display unit such that the causal relationship model is superimposed on the schematic illustration so as to correspond to the schematic illustration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi MINEMOTO, Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA, Shinsuke KAWANOUE, Akira NAKAJIMA
  • Patent number: 11034271
    Abstract: A ventilation mat according to the present invention is a ventilation mat including: a ventilation mat body including a plurality of tubes coupled to one another in a sheet shape; and a ventilation guide connected to a side surface of the ventilation mat body, in which the ventilation mat body includes: a ventilation part with a slit provided on a side of the plurality of tubes coming into contact with the skin cover so as to be extended across the plurality of tubes, the ventilation part being coupled, with a material of the tube, to a side of the plurality of tubes coming into contact with the sheet cushioning material; and an air flow mixing part that is provided closer to a connection part of the ventilation guide than the ventilation part is, and communicates between the plurality of tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: KURABE INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Miyano, Yuya Ota, Remuto Yamaguchi, Norishige Morishita
  • Patent number: 11037364
    Abstract: An image processing system, which generates a virtual viewpoint image on the basis of captured images from a plurality of image capturing apparatuses for capturing an object from a plurality of directions, detects an error in at least one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, and generates the virtual viewpoint image using a captured image from an image capturing apparatus, among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, in which an error has not been detected, as an image of a capturing field of the image capturing apparatus in which the error has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiko Yushiya, Yuya Ota
  • Publication number: 20210165401
    Abstract: An analysis device according to an aspect of the present disclosure: acquires a plurality of pieces of premise information and measurement data which relate to states of a plurality of mechanisms which configure a production line; identifies causal relationships among the plurality of mechanisms by statistically analyzing the plurality of pieces of measurement data under constraint conditions imposed by the premise information; outputs causal relationship information indicating the identified causal relationships; accepts a revision to the causal relationships indicated by the outputted causal relationship information; revises the premise information so as to impose the constraint conditions which comport with the revised causal relationships; and saves the revised premise information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko HATTORI, Yuya OTA
  • Patent number: 11025878
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, which executes image processing for generating a virtual viewpoint image using a plurality of images captured by a plurality of imaging units that image an imaging space from different viewpoints, identifies a specific object among a plurality of objects inside the imaging space, and carries out image processing for generating the virtual viewpoint image on the plurality of objects inside the imaging space. The image processing apparatus executes the image processing on the identified specific object using images captured by more imaging units than in the image processing executed on other objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuya Ota
  • Patent number: 10997239
    Abstract: The image search system according to the present invention accumulates virtual viewpoint video image data generated based on image data obtained by capturing an object from a plurality of directions by a plurality of cameras and a virtual viewpoint parameter used for generation of the virtual viewpoint video image data in association with each other. Then, the image search system extracts, in a case where a search condition is input via an input unit, virtual viewpoint video image data associated with a virtual viewpoint parameter corresponding to the search condition from the accumulated virtual viewpoint video image data. Further, the image search system presents information of the extracted virtual viewpoint video image data as results of the search. Due to this, convenience relating to a search for a virtual viewpoint video image improves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuya Ota
  • Publication number: 20210122272
    Abstract: A ventilation mat according to the present invention is a ventilation mat including: a ventilation mat body including a plurality of tubes coupled to one another in a sheet shape; and a ventilation guide connected to a side surface of the ventilation mat body, in which the ventilation mat body includes: a ventilation part with a slit provided on a side of the plurality of tubes coming into contact with the skin cover so as to be extended across the plurality of tubes, the ventilation part being coupled, with a material of the tube, to a side of the plurality of tubes coming into contact with the sheet cushioning material; and an air flow mixing part that is provided closer to a connection part of the ventilation guide than the ventilation part is, and communicates between the plurality of tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke MIYANO, Yuya OTA, Remuto YAMAGUCHI, Norishige MORISHITA
  • Patent number: 10983510
    Abstract: When a product is produced at the facility, a product ID of the product to be produced and setting values of a plurality of control parameters are received from a console terminal, and a transformation model corresponding to the combination of the product ID of the product to be produced and setting values of the plurality of the control parameters is read from a transformation model storage part. Then, in accordance with the read transformation model, the reference learning data stored in a reference learning data storage part is data-transformed and individual learning data corresponding to the product to be produced is generated, and with use of the individual learning data, whether measurement data output from sensors in the facility is abnormal is discriminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yuya Ota, Naohiro Kawai, Reiko Hattori
  • Publication number: 20190375320
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle seat having a seat pad and a planar seat cover. The seat cover may include a plurality of the skin materials and at least one seam allowance formed by sewing the adjacent skin materials each other. The seam allowance includes end portions of the adjacent skin materials projecting from a back surface of the seat cover. The seat pad may include a plurality of recessed grooves and an intersecting area of the grooves. The skin material may include a high-rigidity portion disposed at the intersecting area and configured to cover at least one of the corners formed at the intersecting area. The high-rigidity portion may include a planer overlapping portion laid over a back surface of the skin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki OHTSU, Yuya OTA
  • Publication number: 20190278803
    Abstract: The image search system according to the present invention accumulates virtual viewpoint video image data generated based on image data obtained by capturing an object from a plurality of directions by a plurality of cameras and a virtual viewpoint parameter used for generation of the virtual viewpoint video image data in association with each other. Then, the image search system extracts, in a case where a search condition is input via an input unit, virtual viewpoint video image data associated with a virtual viewpoint parameter corresponding to the search condition from the accumulated virtual viewpoint video image data. Further, the image search system presents information of the extracted virtual viewpoint video image data as results of the search. Due to this, convenience relating to a search for a virtual viewpoint video image improves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Yuya Ota
  • Publication number: 20190228565
    Abstract: An image processing system, which generates a virtual viewpoint image on the basis of captured images from a plurality of image capturing apparatuses for capturing an object from a plurality of directions, detects an error in at least one of the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, and generates the virtual viewpoint image using a captured image from an image capturing apparatus, among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, in which an error has not been detected, as an image of a capturing field of the image capturing apparatus in which the error has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Akihiko Yushiya, Yuya Ota