Patents by Inventor Hiromi Oda

Hiromi Oda 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: 11926942
    Abstract: In an added coordinate data creating unit, when coordinate data of two sequential needle locations in a sewing order stored in a data storage unit is the coordinate data of a final needle location of one collective pattern and the coordinate data of a first needle location of another collective pattern sewn immediately after the one collective pattern, a added coordinate data creating unit is configured to create a new coordinate data by adjusting independent original values added respectively to the coordinate data of the final needle location of the one collective pattern and the coordinate data of the first needle location of the another collective pattern sewn immediately after the one collective pattern so that a connecting portion between the one collective pattern and the another collective pattern sewn immediately after the one collective pattern is connected smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JANOME Corporation
    Inventors: Minami Tsuchiya, Hiromi Oda
  • Publication number: 20240076817
    Abstract: A coordinate data generator comprises a coordinate data storage to store a coordinate data of needle positions; and a post-addition coordinate data generation section to add independent values to a X coordinate value or a Y coordinate value of the coordinate data for each item of the coordinate data stored in the coordinate data storage, so as to generate new coordinate data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Minami TSUCHIYA, Hiromi ODA
  • Patent number: 11846054
    Abstract: A data storage unit configured to store a coordinate data of a needle location and an added coordinate data creating unit configured to create a new coordinate data by adding independent original values respectively to an X-coordinate value or a Y-coordinate value for each of the coordinate data stored in the data storage unit are provided. The added coordinate data creating unit makes the independent original values added respectively to the X-coordinate value or the Y-coordinate value of the coordinate data in one needle location same as the independent original values added respectively to the X-coordinate value or the Y-coordinate value of the coordinate data in the other needle location when a distance between the coordinate data of the one needle location and the coordinate data of the other needle location stored in the data storage unit is within a predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: JANOME Corporation
    Inventors: Minami Tsuchiya, Hiromi Oda
  • Patent number: 11807965
    Abstract: A data storage unit configured to store a sewing order and a coordinate data of a needle location in association with each other; a coordinate data adding unit configured to create the coordinate data of a new needle location on a line connecting three or more continuous needle locations in a sewing order stored in the data storage unit in accordance with a distance from the needle locations located at both ends of the line to the needle location located at an inside of the both ends when the three or more continuous needle locations are on the line; and an added coordinate data creating unit configured to create a new coordinate data by adding independent original values to the X-coordinate value or the Y-coordinate value in each of the coordinate data are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: JANOME Corporation
    Inventors: Minami Tsuchiya, Hiromi Oda
  • Patent number: 11649575
    Abstract: The desired seams are formed while adding a hand-sewn taste to the sewing pattern without changing the tendency of the hand-sewn taste for the same pattern. A coordinate data storage unit for storing coordinate data which indicates a needle location of a pattern to be sewn, an addition value storage unit for storing an addition value which is added to each of the coordinate data, and an adjustment unit for adjusting the coordinate data or the addition value; and an added coordinate data creating unit for creating a new coordinate data where the pattern is deformed by adding the addition value adjusted by the adjustment unit to the coordinate data or by adding the addition value to the coordinate data adjusted by the adjustment unit or by adding the addition value adjusted by adjustment unit to the coordinate data adjusted by the adjustment unit are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kongo, Hiromi Oda
  • Publication number: 20220403573
    Abstract: A data storage unit configured to store a coordinate data of a needle location and an added coordinate data creating unit configured to create a new coordinate data by adding independent original values respectively to an X-coordinate value or a Y-coordinate value for each of the coordinate data stored in the data storage unit are provided. The added coordinate data creating unit makes the independent original values added respectively to the X-coordinate value or the Y-coordinate value of the coordinate data in one needle location same as the independent original values added respectively to the X-coordinate value or the Y-coordinate value of the coordinate data in the other needle location when a distance between the coordinate data of the one needle location and the coordinate data of the other needle location stored in the data storage unit is within a predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Minami TSUCHIYA, Hiromi ODA
  • Publication number: 20220403572
    Abstract: In an added coordinate data creating unit, when coordinate data of two sequential needle locations in a sewing order stored in a data storage unit is the coordinate data of a final needle location of one collective pattern and the coordinate data of a first needle location of another collective pattern sewn immediately after the one collective pattern, a added coordinate data creating unit is configured to create a new coordinate data by adjusting independent original values added respectively to the coordinate data of the final needle location of the one collective pattern and the coordinate data of the first needle location of the another collective pattern sewn immediately after the one collective pattern so that a connecting portion between the one collective pattern and the another collective pattern sewn immediately after the one collective pattern is connected smoothly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Minami TSUCHIYA, Hiromi ODA
  • Publication number: 20220403574
    Abstract: A data storage unit configured to store a sewing order and a coordinate data of a needle location in association with each other; a coordinate data adding unit configured to create the coordinate data of a new needle location on a line connecting three or more continuous needle locations in a sewing order stored in the data storage unit in accordance with a distance from the needle locations located at both ends of the line to the needle location located at an inside of the both ends when the three or more continuous needle locations are on the line; and an added coordinate data creating unit configured to create a new coordinate data by adding independent original values to the X-coordinate value or the Y-coordinate value in each of the coordinate data are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Minami TSUCHIYA, Hiromi ODA
  • Publication number: 20210285139
    Abstract: The desired seams are formed while adding a hand-sewn taste to the sewing pattern without changing the tendency of the hand-sewn taste for the same pattern. A coordinate data storage unit for storing coordinate data which indicates a needle location of a pattern to be sewn, an addition value storage unit for storing an addition value which is added to each of the coordinate data, and an adjustment unit for adjusting the coordinate data or the addition value; and an added coordinate data creating unit for creating a new coordinate data where the pattern is deformed by adding the addition value adjusted by the adjustment unit to the coordinate data or by adding the addition value to the coordinate data adjusted by the adjustment unit or by adding the addition value adjusted by adjustment unit to the coordinate data adjusted by the adjustment unit are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Takeshi KONGO, Hiromi ODA
  • Patent number: 11118291
    Abstract: An operation state ascertaining unit of a sewing machine ascertains an operation state of a sewing machine main body. A content information selection unit selects particular content information that corresponds to the operation state ascertained by the operation state ascertaining unit from among multiple content information stored in an operation-associated content information storage unit that stores multiple content information corresponding to the operation state. An instruction information appending unit appends additional information with respect to instruction content for the main body to the content information selected by the content information selection unit. A coding unit codes the selected content information to which the additional information has been appended by the instruction information appending unit. A display unit displays the content information coded by the coding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kongo, Hiromi Oda
  • Publication number: 20190203393
    Abstract: An operation state ascertaining unit of a sewing machine ascertains an operation state of a sewing machine main body. A content information selection unit selects particular content information that corresponds to the operation state ascertained by the operation state ascertaining unit from among multiple content information stored in an operation-associated content information storage unit that stores multiple content information corresponding to the operation state. An instruction information appending unit appends additional information with respect to instruction content for the main body to the content information selected by the content information selection unit. A coding unit codes the selected content information to which the additional information has been appended by the instruction information appending unit. A display unit displays the content information coded by the coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi KONGO, Hiromi ODA
  • Patent number: 9828709
    Abstract: A sewing machine includes a display which displays a pattern and a marking. A marking-data disposing position specifier specifies the disposing position of another pattern relative to the pattern. A marked pattern replicator displays, on the display, plural marked patterns that are the patterns on which the corresponding markings are disposed. The positions where the plural marked patterns are displayed are set based on the markings of the plural marked patterns. After the display positions of the plural marked patterns are set, the marking of the marked pattern is deleted. Accordingly, pattern data of a new pattern is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Oda, Hayato Takada
  • Publication number: 20160160414
    Abstract: A sewing machine includes a display which displays a pattern and a marking. A marking-data disposing position specifier specifies the disposing position of another pattern relative to the pattern. A marked pattern replicator displays, on the display, plural marked patterns that are the patterns on which the corresponding markings are disposed. The positions where the plural marked patterns are displayed are set based on the markings of the plural marked patterns. After the display positions of the plural marked patterns are set, the marking of the marked pattern is deleted. Accordingly, pattern data of a new pattern is created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Hiromi ODA, Hayato TAKADA
  • Patent number: 8065306
    Abstract: Terms (e.g., words) used in an expert domain that correspond to terms in a naïve domain are detected when there are no vocabulary pairs or document pairs available for the expert and naive domains. Documents known to be descriptions of identical topics and written in the expert and naive domains are collected by searching the Internet. The frequencies of terms that occur in these documents are counted. The counts are used to calculate correspondences between the vocabularies of the expert and naive language expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
    Inventor: Hiromi Oda
  • Publication number: 20100211674
    Abstract: A community generation support system and a community generation support method. A community generation support device (3) monitors public information stored in a web server (24). The community generation support device (3) detects a potential community on the basis of monitoring of information. The community generation support device (3) requests the web server (24) to generate a community space concerning the detected potential community. The web server (24) generates the community space. The community generation support device (3) transmits information on invitation for asking whether each potential community member wants to participate in the community to the user terminal (20) of the potential community member through the web server (24). The user terminal (20) transmits information on registration of participation to the community generation support device (3) through the web server (24). The user terminal (20) performs processing for making a user participate in the community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Taro Sugahara, Hiromi Oda, Hidenori Shimizu, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Koji Miyauchi, Qingjie Du
  • Publication number: 20100076745
    Abstract: Conventional publications concerning collections of community specific expressions include collections of technical terms including nouns and compound nouns in technical fields. However, application to new expressions other than nouns is difficult. Even in the field of collection of unknown words and new words, the objective is limited substantially to nouns, and no techniques of collecting new expressions systematically have been proposed. The invention solves the above problem by (a) means for extracting n-gram collocations specific in a predetermined community from a set of documents used in the community, (b) means for selecting a radical which might be a core of specific expressions, (c) means for expanding the selected radical toward the front and back, and (d) means for screening the expanded radicals according to the grammar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventor: Hiromi Oda
  • Publication number: 20100057442
    Abstract: The position of a word in the lexical space is determined stably and highly accurately by arbitrarily setting a predetermined initial condition, determining the occurrence frequency and cooccurrence relationship of the word under a given condition, and minimizing the difference between the values of the occurrence frequency and cooccurrence and the initial layout values arbitrarily set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventor: Hiromi Oda
  • Publication number: 20090292697
    Abstract: Terms (e.g., words) used in an expert domain that correspond to terms in a naïve domain are detected when there are no vocabulary pairs or document pairs available for the expert and naive domains. Documents known to be descriptions of identical topics and written in the expert and naive domains are collected by searching the Internet. The frequencies of terms that occur in these documents are counted. The counts are used to calculate correspondences between the vocabularies of the expert and naive language expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventor: Hiromi Oda
  • Patent number: 7565361
    Abstract: Terms (e.g., words) used in an expert domain that correspond to terms in a naive domain are detected when there are no vocabulary pairs or document pairs available for the expert and naive domains. Documents known to be descriptions of identical topics and written in the expert and naive domains are collected by searching the Internet. The frequencies of terms that occur in these documents are counted. The counts are used to calculate correspondences between the vocabularies of the expert and naive language expressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Hiromi Oda
  • Publication number: 20060112040
    Abstract: A document classifying device, including (a) a vector creating element for creating a document feature vector from an input document to be classified, based upon frequencies with which predetermined collocations occur in the input document; and (b) a classifying element for classifying the input document into one of a number of categories using the document feature vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Hiromi Oda