Patents by Inventor Akihiro Tamura

Akihiro Tamura 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).

  • Patent number: 8805853
    Abstract: A text mining system including an analysis target search unit which judges whether a commonality in expressions among text data exists, an analysis viewpoint generation unit which generates an analysis viewpoint to extract an expression from the target data, a positive example set identification unit which identifies a positive example set including an expression matching the generated analysis viewpoint in the target data, a characteristic quantity calculation unit which calculates a characteristic quantity showing a degree of characterizing the positive example set of expressions in the target data, and a characteristic expression ranking unit which extracts expressions having the calculated characteristic quantity equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold as characteristic expressions and ranks the extracted characteristic expressions, and the target search unit extracts the analysis viewpoint among which a difference in ranks provided for the characteristic expressions is equal to or greater than
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando, Akihiro Tamura
  • Publication number: 20140187592
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having excellent regulating action on blood lipid level. The present invention provides a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, etc., wherein A represents a 5-membered nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclyl group; R1 represents COOH or the like; each R2 represents an alkyl or the like; each R3 represents an optionally substituted phenyl, an optionally substituted phenylalkyl, or the like; m represents 0, 1, 2, or 3; n represents 0 or 1; each of R4, R5, R6, and R7 represents H, an alkyl, or the like; and B represents an optionally substituted naphthyl, an optionally substituted aromatic heterocyclyl, or a group represented by the following formula (II) wherein each of B1 and B2 represents an optionally substituted phenyl or an optionally substituted aromatic heterocyclyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Keiko Suzuki, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Akihiro Tamura, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Mitsuhiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8751531
    Abstract: A text mining apparatus, a text mining method, and a program are provided that accurately discriminate inherent portions of each of a plurality of text data pieces including a text data piece generated by computer processing. A text mining apparatus 1 to be used performs text mining using, as targets, a plurality of text data pieces including a text data piece generated by computer processing. Confidence is set for each of the text data pieces. The text mining apparatus 1 includes an inherent portion extraction unit 6 that extracts an inherent portion of each text data piece relative to another of the text data pieces, using the confidence set for each of the text data pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kai Ishikawa, Akihiro Tamura, Shinichi Ando
  • Patent number: 8654387
    Abstract: A print system is capable of processing a print order of image data through a network. The print system includes an information device operable to store image data, and an order reception server connected to the information device through the network. The information device sends print information specifying print content including image data to be printed to the order reception server with which a communication is established prior to a formal placing of a print order. The order reception server, when completing a reception of the print information, recognizes that the print order is completed, provides an order number for identifying the print order, and sends the order number to the information device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takehito Yamaguchi, Akihiro Tamura, Masayuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 8648103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having excellent regulating action on blood lipid level that is represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, wherein, in one embodiment, A represents a 5-membered nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclyl group; R1 represents COOH; each R2 represents an alkyl; each R3 represents an optionally substituted phenyl, an optionally substituted phenylalkyl; m represents 0, 1, 2, or 3; n represents 0 or 1; each of R4, R5, R6, and R7 represents H, an alkyl; and B represents an optionally substituted naphthyl, an optionally substituted aromatic heterocyclyl, or a group represented by the following formula (II) wherein each of B1 and B2 represents an optionally substituted phenyl or an optionally substituted aromatic heterocyclyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
    Inventors: Keiko Suzuki, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Akihiro Tamura, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Mitsuhiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20140025372
    Abstract: The present invention provides a text analyzing device which can extract the great amount of problematic behavior at low cost. A punishment action text extraction means 81 extracts a text which describes a punishment action which is an action which indicates a punishment of a fraud or an illegal act, or an action for demanding the punishment, from an input text set which is a set of a plurality of texts to be inputted. A problematic behavior extraction means 82 extracts description related to a problematic behavior which is a cause of the punishment action taken before the punishment action described in the text extracted by the punishment action text extraction means 81.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Tamura, Kai Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130238321
    Abstract: A dialog text analysis device generates data for text processing from a dialog text. A negative judging means 81 decides whether or not an event of a first utterance in a dialog text which is a text including content of a plurality of utterances is negated by a second utterance which exists subsequent to the first utterance. When the event of the first utterance is negated by the second utterance, the data for text processing generation means 82 generates data for text processing which is data in which the negated event of the first utterance is eliminated from the dialog text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Tamura, Kai Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8452782
    Abstract: Provided is a text mining device that performs an analysis properly with respect to a difference between plural related document data. Equipped are an element extracting section 140 that extracts language elements from related two or more document data respectively; a differential processing section 150 that extracts a difference between the document data by comparing the elements between the document data which were extracted by the element extracting means 140; and a statistical processing section 170 that performs statistical processing on the difference extracted by the differential processing section 150.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kai Ishikawa, Akihiro Tamura, Shinichi Ando
  • Patent number: 8408824
    Abstract: A camera apparatus and a camera system of the present invention are configured so that a lens unit is attachable/detachable. The lens unit contains at least a lens and an iris, and contains a memory storing setting information required for operating the lens and the iris. When a camera microcomputer checks detection information stored in a memory in a sub-microcomputer at a time of start-up of the camera apparatus, and first detection information is stored in the memory, the setting information is acquired from the lens unit. When second detection information is stored in the memory, the setting information is acquired from another memory in the camera apparatus. Due to this configuration, the time for shifting the switch-on to a photographable state is shortened, and the ease of convenience can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 8405848
    Abstract: A print system includes a digital camera serving as an information device for storing image data, order reception servers adapted for accepting a print order from a digital camera and connected to the digital camera over a network, and a registration center server for managing the information in an order reception server which can accept a print order from the digital camera. When the digital camera sets up communication with the order reception server, the digital camera inquires the URL of the order reception server of the registration center server over the network. The registration center server sends the URL of the order reception server which can accept a print order from the digital camera to the digital camera. The digital camera sets up communication with the order reception server of the URL acquired from the registration center server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takehito Yamaguchi, Akihiro Tamura, Masayuki Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 8380741
    Abstract: A text mining apparatus, a text mining method, and a program are provided that enable the influence that computer processing errors have on mining results to be reduced during text mining performed on a plurality of text data pieces including a text data piece generated by computer processing. A text mining apparatus 1 to be used includes an inherent portion extraction unit 6 that, for each of a plurality of text data pieces including a text data piece generated by computer processing, extracts an inherent portion of the text data piece relative to another of the text data pieces, an inherent confidence setting unit 7 that, for each inherent portion of each of the text data pieces, sets inherent confidence indicating confidence of the inherent portion, using the confidence that has been set for each of the text data pieces, and a mining processing unit 8 that performs text mining on each inherent portion of each of the text data pieces, using the inherent confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kai Ishikawa, Akihiro Tamura, Shinichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20120310950
    Abstract: In case plural pieces of data are analyzed, parts of these pieces of data including a difference which should be compared and analyzed with priority are analyzed exhaustively, with suppressing a cost of analyzing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando, Akihiro Tamura
  • Publication number: 20120284016
    Abstract: Disclosed are a text mining method, device, and program capable of performing text mining with a specific topic as an object with high precision. An element identification unit calculates a feature degree, which is an index for indicating a degree that within a text set of interest, which is a set of text that is to be analyzed, an element of the text appears. An output unit identifies distinctive elements within the text set of interest on the basis of the calculated feature degree and outputs the identified elements. The element identification unit corrects the feature degree on the basis of a topic relatedness degree, which is a value indicating a degree related to a topic of analysis, which is a topic for which each text portion of the text being analyzed has been partitioned into predetermined units that are to be analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Tamura, Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando
  • Publication number: 20120254071
    Abstract: Disclosed are a text mining system, text mining method, and recording medium for suppressing increase in cost of analysis for an analyst even if, when analyzing a plurality of data to be analyzed, the data are to be integrally analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando, Akihiro Tamura
  • Publication number: 20120148229
    Abstract: A camera apparatus and a camera system of the present invention are configured so that a lens unit is attachable/detachable. The lens unit contains at least a lens and an iris, and contains a memory storing setting information required for operating the lens and the iris. When a camera microcomputer checks detection information stored in a memory in a sub-microcomputer at a time of start-up of the camera apparatus, and first detection information is stored in the memory, the setting information is acquired from the lens unit. When second detection information is stored in the memory, the setting information is acquired from another memory in the camera apparatus. Due to this configuration, the time for shifting the switch-on to a photographable state is shortened, and the ease of convenience can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20120108639
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound having excellent regulating action on blood lipid level that is represented by the following general formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, wherein, in one embodiment, A represents a 5-membered nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclyl group; R1 represents COOH; each R2 represents an alkyl; each R3 represents an optionally substituted phenyl, an optionally substituted phenylalkyl; m represents 0, 1, 2, or 3; n represents 0 or 1; each of R4, R5, R6, and R7 represents H, an alkyl; and B represents an optionally substituted naphthyl, an optionally substituted aromatic heterocyclyl, or a group represented by the following formula (II) wherein each of B1 and B2 represents an optionally substituted phenyl or an optionally substituted aromatic heterocyclyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: DAIICHI SANKYO COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Keiko Suzuki, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Akihiro Tamura, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Mitsuhiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8162550
    Abstract: A camera apparatus and a camera system of the present invention are configured so that a lens unit is attachable/detachable. The lens unit contains at least a lens and an iris, and contains a memory storing setting information required for operating the lens and the iris. When a camera microcomputer checks detection information stored in a memory in a sub-microcomputer at a time of start-up of the camera apparatus, and first detection information is stored in the memory, the setting information is acquired from the lens unit. When second detection information is stored in the memory, the setting information is acquired from another memory in the camera apparatus. Due to this configuration, the time for shifting the switch-on to a photographable state is shortened, and the ease of convenience can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiro Tamura
  • Publication number: 20120096029
    Abstract: An information analysis device (30) comprises a relevant portion identification unit (31) that compares analyzed target text with topic-related text that is written about the same event as the analyzed target text and includes information related to a specific topic, and that specifies a portion of the analyzed target text related to the topic-related text; a potential topic word extraction unit (32) that extracts a word of the specific portion; and a statistical model generation unit (33) that generates a statistical model that estimates a degree of appearance of a word on a specific topic of the analyzed target text. The statistical model generation unit (33) generates a statistical model such that degrees of appearance in a specific topic of the topic-related text word and of the extracted word are higher than those of other words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Tamura, Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando
  • Patent number: 8071680
    Abstract: A method for producing an elastomeric sealing article including preparing a thermoplastic elastomeric resin composition having (a) 100 parts by weight of a hydrogenated block copolymer including at least two polymeric blocks (A) of styrene, and at least one polymeric block (B) of isoprene; (b) 70 to 130 parts by weight of an ethylene-octene copolymer including ethylene in an amount of more than 50% by weight; and (c) 30 to 60 parts by weight of polypropylene. The thermoplastic elastomeric resin composition does not contain a non-aromatic softening agent, and none of components (a), (b), and (c) is cross-linked. The method also includes molding the thermoplastic elastomeric resin composition into an elastomeric sealing article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Riken Technos Corporation
    Inventors: Michihisa Tasaka, Akihiro Tamura
  • Publication number: 20110282653
    Abstract: A text processing apparatus is provided with a segment determination unit 36 and a descriptive content determination unit 33. The segment determination unit 36 determines, with respect to a homogeneous segment that is similar to segments constituting a first text which is set as an analysis target (analysis target text) and that is included in another first text, whether the content thereof is included in a second text. The descriptive content determination unit 33 determines whether each segment constituting the analysis target text should be described in a corresponding second text, based on the determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Akihiro Tamura, Kai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando