Patents by Inventor Hidemasa Muta
Hidemasa Muta 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).
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Patent number: 8028254Abstract: The manufacturability of a lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device is determined. Target edge pairs are selected from mask layout data of the lithographic mask, for determining a manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask. The mask layout data includes polygons, where each polygon has a number of edges. Each target edge pair is defined by two of the edges of one or more of the polygons. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask, including the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, is determined. Determining the manufacturing penalty is based on the target edge pairs as selected. Determining the manufacturability of the lithographic mask uses continuous derivatives characterizing the manufacturability of the lithographic mask on a continuous scale. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is output. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is dependent on the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2008Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tadanobu Inoue, David O. Melville, Hidemasa Muta, Kehan Tian, Masaharu Sakamoto, Alan E. Rosenbluth
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Publication number: 20110231803Abstract: Optical wave data for a semiconductor device design is divided into regions. First wavefront engineering is performed on the wave data of each region, accounting for just the wave data of each region and not accounting for the wave data of neighboring regions of each region. The optical wave data of each region is normalized based on results of the first wavefront engineering. Second wavefront engineering is performed on the wave data of each region, based at least on the wave data of each region as has been normalized. The second wavefront engineering takes into account the wave data of each region and a guard band around each region that includes the wave data of the neighboring regions of each region. The second wavefront engineering can be sequentially performed by organizing the regions into groups, and sequentially performing the second wavefront engineering on the regions of each group in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Tadanobu Inoue, David O. Melville, Hidemasa Muta, Alan E. Rosenbluth, Kehan Tian, Masaharu Sakamoto, Saeed Bagheri
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Publication number: 20100153901Abstract: The manufacturability of a lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device is determined. Target edge pairs are selected from mask layout data of the lithographic mask to determine a manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask. The mask layout data includes polygons, where each polygon has edges, and where each target edge pair is defined by two of the edges of one or more of the polygons. The number of the target edge pairs is reduced to decrease computational volume in determining the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask, including the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, is determined based on the target edge pairs as reduced in number. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is output. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is dependent on the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Tadanobu Inoue, David O. Melville, Hidemasa Muta, Kehan Tian, Masaharu Sakamoto, Alan E. Rosenbluth
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Publication number: 20100153902Abstract: The manufacturability of a lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device is determined. Target edges are selected from mask layout data of the lithographic mask. The mask layout data includes polygons distributed over cells, where each polygon has edges. The cells include a center cell, two vertical cells above and below the center cell, and two horizontal cells to the left and right of the center cell. Target edge pairs are selected for determining a manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, in a manner that decreases the computational volume in determining the manufacturing penalty. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask, including the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, is determined based on the target edge pairs selected. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is output. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is dependent on the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Tadanobu Inoue, David O. Melville, Hidemasa Muta, Kehan Tian, Masaharu Sakamoto, Alan E. Rosenbluth
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Publication number: 20100153903Abstract: The manufacturability of a lithographic mask employed in fabricating instances of a semiconductor device is determined. Target edge pairs are selected from mask layout data of the lithographic mask, for determining a manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask. The mask layout data includes polygons, where each polygon has a number of edges. Each target edge pair is defined by two of the edges of one or more of the polygons. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask, including the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask, is determined. Determining the manufacturing penalty is based on the target edge pairs as selected. Determining the manufacturability of the lithographic mask uses continuous derivatives characterizing the manufacturability of the lithographic mask on a continuous scale. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is output. The manufacturability of the lithographic mask is dependent on the manufacturing penalty in making the lithographic mask.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2008Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Tadanobu Inoue, David O. Melville, Hidemasa Muta, Kehan Tian, Masaharu Sakamoto, Alan E. Rosenbluth
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Publication number: 20090172557Abstract: A computer program product stored on machine readable media including machine executable instructions for sharing a graphical user interface (GUI) between a physical computer and a computer defined in software, includes instructions for: pasting a replicated image of the GUI from the physical computer into a representation of a display of the computer defined in software. A system and another computer program product are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Hidemasa Muta
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Publication number: 20090049120Abstract: The present invention adds new value to the Web, such as to improve accessibility, while maintaining changes to existing web sites to a minimum. An example system includes a first Web server and at least one other Web server, wherein a Web page can be displayed on a Web browser in a client device connected with the first Web server and the other Web server via a network, wherein the first Web server registers URLs of files providing added value for each of the first Web server and the other Web server that are defined as a set of Web servers to be provided with the same added value, and wherein the first Web server and the other Web server display an existing Web page in the Web browser, and provide the added value to the Web page by manipulating a DOM from another frame or another window.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Takashi Sakairi, Takuya Ohko, Hidemasa Muta
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Publication number: 20080077858Abstract: Provides ability to analyze the readability of an image to be displayed on a screen as a web page, etc., and appropriately modify the image. It includes a rendering section for generating an image by rendering an HTML document; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image generated by the rendering section to simulate and evaluate how the image is viewed under a certain visual characteristic; and a result presentation section for locating an HTML element that needs to be modified in the HTML document to be processed based on the evaluation result of the image processing section 30 and for presenting the HTML element to a web page creator. The result presentation section also retrieves a modification method for the HTML element that needs to be modified from a symptom model storage section. A document modification processing section actually modifies the HTML document.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventors: Chieko Asakawa, Kentaro Fukuda, Junji Maeda, Hidemasa Muta, Hironobu Takagi
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Patent number: 7272785Abstract: Provides ability to analyze the readability of an image to be displayed on a screen as a web page, etc., and appropriately modify the image. It includes a rendering section for generating an image by rendering an HTML document; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image generated by the rendering section to simulate and evaluate how the image is viewed under a certain visual characteristic; and a result presentation section for locating an HTML element that needs to be modified in the HTML document to be processed based on the evaluation result of the image processing section 30 and for presenting the HTML element to a web page creator. The result presentation section also retrieves a modification method for the HTML element that needs to be modified from a symptom model storage section. A document modification processing section actually modifies the HTML document.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2004Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kentaro Fukuda, Junji Maeda, Hidemasa Muta, Hironobu Takagi
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Patent number: 7103551Abstract: A described computer network includes a first computer system and a second computer system. The first computer system transmits screen image information and corresponding speech information to the second computer system. The screen image information includes information corresponding to a screen image intended for display within the first computer system. The speech information conveys a verbal description of the screen image. When the screen image includes one or more objects (e.g., menus, dialog boxes, icons, and the like) having corresponding semantic information, the speech information includes the corresponding semantic information. The second computer system responds to the speech information by producing an output (e.g., human speech via an audio output device, a tactile output via a Braille output device, and the like). The semantic information conveyed by the output allows a visually-impaired user of the second computer system to know intended purposes of the objects.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2002Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles J. King, Hidemasa Muta, Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger, Andrea Snow-Weaver
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Publication number: 20060155780Abstract: The present invention adds new value to the Web, such as to improve accessibility, while maintaining changes to existing web sites to a minimum. An example system includes a first Web server and at least one other Web server, wherein a Web page can be displayed on a Web browser in a client device connected with the first Web server and the other Web server via a network, wherein the first Web server registers URLs of files providing added value for each of the first Web server and the other Web server that are defined as a set of Web servers to be provided with the same added value, and wherein the first Web server and the other Web server display an existing Web page in the Web browser, and provide the added value to the Web page by manipulating a DOM from another frame or another window.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: July 13, 2006Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Takashi Sakairi, Takuya Ohko, Hidemasa Muta
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Publication number: 20050041040Abstract: Provides ability to analyze the readability of an image to be displayed on a screen as a web page, etc., and appropriately modify the image. It includes a rendering section for generating an image by rendering an HTML document; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image generated by the rendering section to simulate and evaluate how the image is viewed under a certain visual characteristic; and a result presentation section for locating an HTML element that needs to be modified in the HTML document to be processed based on the evaluation result of the image processing section 30 and for presenting the HTML element to a web page creator. The result presentation section also retrieves a modification method for the HTML element that needs to be modified from a symptom model storage section. A document modification processing section actually modifies the HTML document.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kentaro Fukuda, Junji Maeda, Hidemasa Muta, Hironobu Takagi
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Publication number: 20030208356Abstract: A described computer network includes a first computer system and a second computer system. The first computer system transmits screen image information and corresponding speech information to the second computer system. The screen image information includes information corresponding to a screen image intended for display within the first computer system. The speech information conveys a verbal description of the screen image. When the screen image includes one or more objects (e.g., menus, dialog boxes, icons, and the like) having corresponding semantic information, the speech information includes the corresponding semantic information. The second computer system responds to the speech information by producing an output (e.g., human speech via an audio output device, a tactile output via a Braille output device, and the like). The semantic information conveyed by the output allows a visually-impaired user of the second computer system to know intended purposes of the objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2002Publication date: November 6, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles J. King, Hidemasa Muta, Richard Scott Schwerdtfeger, Andrea Snow-Weaver
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Patent number: 6448958Abstract: To make window systems which are widely used in personal computers and applications for personal computers operable in a portable information terminal which does not have a sufficient processing capability, input information such as a key input from operator generated in a portable information terminal 210 is sent to a remote supporting server 240 where it executes or simulates an arbitrary window system which is free from restriction of functions to generate a rendering image. The supporting server then converts the rendering image to an image suitable to the portable information terminal and sends it back to the portable information terminal 210 as a rendering instruction. The portable information terminal 210 receives the rendering instruction of this optimized image for display.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1998Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Hidemasa Muta
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Patent number: 6377271Abstract: The image data transferring apparatus of this invention determines that the change in the image is very small when a change in the image is not detected during a given time period, for example, and generates transmission data which causes image data displaying a full color image of, for example, 24 bits per pixel to be displayed in the receiving side in a relatively small number of frames in a unit time for transmission. Conversely, the image data transferring apparatus transmits reduced color data which is reduced from 24 bits per pixel to 4 bits per pixel in a relatively large number of frames in a unit time to the receiving side when it is determined that many changes are included in the image.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1999Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hidemasa Muta, Tatsuya Sobue, Aya Mori
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Patent number: 6286003Abstract: Control of a GUI screen at a server in a remote location is obtained without requiring the prior installment of special remote controlling software in a remote controlling machine. Remote controlling software is described in an HTML (HyperText Markup Language) file that is held by the server, and a remote controlling machine downloads it using a web browser. The downloaded remote controlling software is automatically activated and sends a request for the activation of remotely controlled software that is present in a remotely controlled server. The remote controlling machine then activates an event monitor, an event sender, a drawing command receiver and a drawing command analyzer, which are functions of the remote controlling software.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1998Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Hidemasa Muta