Patents by Inventor Satoshi Hara
Satoshi Hara 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: 10769516Abstract: To identify a scenario that will bear a good simulation result from among a plurality of scenarios used in an agent-based simulation with a reduced amount of computation, there is provided an information processing apparatus comprising a counting part configured to count the number of agents in each of a plurality of states at a middle of a simulation that involves a plurality of agents, and a generation part configured to generate characteristic data used for prediction of a result of the simulation based on the number of agents in each of the plurality of states.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Hara, Tetsuro Morimura, Rudy Raymond Harry Putra, Hidemasa Muta
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Patent number: 10763554Abstract: A deteriorated capacity calculator calculates a deteriorated capacity that is a capacity reduced from the capacity of a cell in an initial state. A gas amount calculator calculates an amount of gas contained in a container for the cell, from the deteriorated capacity. A pressure calculator calculates a pressure inside the container for the cell from the amount of the gas, a volume of a void space of the container for the cell and the temperature of the cell. A pressure monitor outputs a control signal for stopping charging or discharging of the battery when the pressure inside the container for at least any one cell is equal to or greater than a threshold pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro Yoshida, Sho Shiraga, Satoshi Hara, Yuruki Okada
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Patent number: 10747637Abstract: Anomalous sensors are detected using an apparatus including a processor and one or more computer readable mediums collectively including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: obtain a plurality of healthy sensor data, wherein each of the healthy sensor data includes a plurality of sensed values of a corresponding sensor among a plurality of sensors in normal operation, generate a healthy data distribution of at least two sensors among the plurality of sensors based on the plurality of healthy sensor data, and generate a function of a status probability distribution of the plurality of sensors with respect to time under the condition of sensor data with respect to time based on the healthy data distribution.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Hara, Takayuki Katsuki
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Publication number: 20200132774Abstract: In a storage battery system charging control device, on the basis of estimated temperature data until the end of life of a storage battery calculated by a power estimation unit, an ambient temperature estimation unit, and a temperature estimation unit, and a deterioration coefficient stored in a data storage unit, a capacity retention calculation unit sequentially calculates capacity retention data with respect to each state of charge until the end of life of the storage battery, using the state of charge as a parameter. A cumulative capacity calculation unit calculates a cumulative capacity corresponding to each state of charge, on the basis of the rated capacity of the storage battery and the capacity retention data. A charging control voltage determination unit determines charging control voltage on the basis of the cumulative capacities calculated by the cumulative capacity calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoshi HARA, Hisatoshi FUKUMOTO, Toshihiro WADA, Takahito IDA, Hiroki ISHIHARA
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Patent number: 10584986Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention specify a group of sensors detecting normal operation and a group of sensors detecting abnormal operation from time-series data on the sensors without using threshold values that are based on the experience of users. One aspect of an embodiment is a detecting device for detecting changes in the output of a plurality of sensors, in which the detecting device includes: a first output acquiring unit for acquiring a first relevance matrix; a second output acquiring unit for acquiring a second relevance matrix; a change calculating unit for calculating a change matrix representing the degree of change between the first relevance matrix and the second relevance matrix; and a specifying unit for specifying a group of sensors showing a degree of change greater than the others in the change matrix. Other aspects of the present invention include a detecting method and a program.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Hara, Tetsuro Morimura, Toshihiro Takahashi
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Publication number: 20200030734Abstract: An air filter medium reduces a decrease in collection efficiency in the case where a main collection layer and a pre-collection layer having a lower collection efficiency than the main collection layer are used. An air filter medium that collects dust in gas includes a main collection layer and a pre-collection layer that has a lower collection efficiency of NaCl particles having a particle size of 0.3 ?m than the main collection layer, is disposed on an upstream side of an air flow with respect to the main collection layer, and has water repellency.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi HARA, Kunihiko INUI, Tatsumi SAKANO
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Patent number: 10397467Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to continuously capture images to sequentially generate image data; a combining unit configured to combine a plurality of sets of the image data generated by the imaging unit to generate composite image data; a display unit configured to display a composite image corresponding to the composite image data generated by the combining unit; an operating unit configured to receive an operation for the image data to be left in the composite image selected from among a plurality of sets of the image data combined into the composite image displayed by the display unit; and a control unit configured to cause the combining unit to combine at least two sets of the image data selected in accordance with the operation of the operating unit to generate a new set of the composite image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiteru Takahashi, Satoshi Hara
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Patent number: 10359770Abstract: Provided is an estimation apparatus including a memory device having program code stored thereon, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory device. The at least one processor is operable to execute program code stored on the memory device to calculate, for each of a plurality of sensor groups that each include two sensors among a plurality of sensors, a degree of outlierness of target data serving as an examination target relative to a reference data distribution of output from the sensor group, and to estimate a sensor among the plurality of sensors to be a source of outlierness, based on a comparison of the degrees of outlierness of the sensor groups that include the at least one sensor to the degrees of outlierness of the sensor groups that lack the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Satoshi Hara
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Patent number: 10355517Abstract: The present invention provides a storage-battery control device 1 capable of enhancing economical efficiency by controlling charge state of a storage battery 12 so that surplus power generated by photovoltaic generation can be entirely charged into the storage battery 12 even in a case where power cannot be sold to a system power supply 50.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoshi Hara, Makiko Kise, Shigeru Aihara, Hiroto Nishiguchi, Takahito Ida, Tomoki Takegami
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Patent number: 10335728Abstract: Provided are a filter medium for an air filter capable of having extended life even when composed of embossable material. The filter medium (1) has a tensile elongation of 10% or greater, and includes a main collection layer (30) having a filing rate of 5% to 15%, a thickness of 0.35 mm to 0.70 mm, and a peak in a fiber diameter distribution at less than 1.0 ?m and a peak at 1.0 ?m or greater. An average fiber diameter of small fiber diameters of less than 1.0 ?m is from 0.1 ?m to less than 0.8 ?m, and an average fiber diameter of large fiber diameters of 1.0 ?m or greater is from 1.2 ?m to less than 3.0 ?m. A volume ratio of the fibers having the small fiber diameter to the fibers having the large fiber diameter is from 30:70 to 80:20.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Chizuru Murakami, Satoshi Hara, Tatsumi Sakano
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Publication number: 20190174053Abstract: A lens barrel attached to an imaging device, including a focus lens unit that is movable in an optical axis direction; an actuator that moves the focus lens unit along the optical axis direction; a drive control section that controls drive of the actuator; and a setting section that is capable of setting a movement range of the focus lens unit to be one of a first range and a second range that differ from each other with respect to at least one of one end and another end, each range defining the range in which the focus lens unit is allowed to move. Even when the movement range of the focus lens unit is set by the setting section to be one of the first range and the second range, the drive control section removes the setting of the movement range when instructions are received from the imaging device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Teppei OKUYAMA, Hidefumi OTA, Toshiaki MAEDA, Satoshi HARA, Akihiko KAWAI
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Publication number: 20190148796Abstract: A deteriorated capacity calculator calculates a deteriorated capacity that is a capacity reduced from the capacity of a cell in an initial state. A gas amount calculator calculates an amount of gas contained in a container for the cell, from the deteriorated capacity. A pressure calculator calculates a pressure inside the container for the cell from the amount of the gas, a volume of a void space of the container for the cell and the temperature of the cell. A pressure monitor outputs a control signal for stopping charging or discharging of the battery when the pressure inside the container for at least any one cell is equal to or greater than a threshold pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiro Yoshida, Sho Shiraga, Satoshi Hara, Yuruki Okada
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Patent number: 10245545Abstract: An embossed air filter filtration medium has at least one porous film and a plurality of air-permeable support materials supporting the at least one porous film. The least one porous film includes a fibril-formable polytetrafluoroethylene, a non-fibril-forming and non-hot-melt-processable component, and a non-fibril-forming and hot-melt-processable component having a melting point below 320° C. Surfaces of both sides of the air filter filtration medium are formed by two air-permeable support materials of the air-permeable support materials. The air filter filtration medium has a plurality of embossed projections. The embossed air filter filtration medium may be part of a filter pack, which may be part of an air filter unit. The embossed air filter filtration medium is manufactured by laminating air-permeable support materials on the at least one porous film and embossing the air filter filtration medium to form the projections.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Hara, Kunihiko Inui, Li Bao, Makoto Kobayashi, Hitoshi Niinuma
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Patent number: 10230887Abstract: A lens barrel attached to an imaging device, including a focus lens unit that is movable in an optical axis direction; an actuator that moves the focus lens unit along the optical axis direction; a drive control section that controls drive of the actuator; and a setting section that is capable of setting a movement range of the focus lens unit to be one of a first range and a second range that differ from each other with respect to at least one of one end and another end, each range defining the range in which the focus lens unit is allowed to move. Even when the movement range of the focus lens unit is set by the setting section to be one of the first range and the second range, the drive control section removes the setting of the movement range when instructions are received from the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Teppei Okuyama, Hidefumi Ota, Toshiaki Maeda, Satoshi Hara, Akihiko Kawai
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Publication number: 20180329402Abstract: Provided is an estimation apparatus including a memory device having program code stored thereon, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory device. The at least one processor is operable to execute program code stored on the memory device to calculate, for each of a plurality of sensor groups that each include two sensors among a plurality of sensors, a degree of outlierness of target data serving as an examination target relative to a reference data distribution of output from the sensor group, and to estimate a sensor among the plurality of sensors to be a source of outlierness, based on a comparison of the degrees of outlierness of the sensor groups that include the at least one sensor to the degrees of outlierness of the sensor groups that lack the at least one sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventor: Satoshi Hara
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Patent number: 10082787Abstract: Provided is an estimation apparatus including a target data acquiring section operable to acquire target data serving as an examination target, the target data output by a plurality of sensors, a calculating section operable to calculate, for each of a plurality of sensor groups that each include two sensors among the plurality of sensors, a degree of outlierness of the target data relative to a reference data distribution of output from the sensor group, and an estimating section operable to estimate a sensor among the plurality of sensors to be a source of outlierness, based on a calculation result of the calculating section.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Satoshi Hara
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Publication number: 20180260722Abstract: Probability density ratios may be estimated by a method including obtaining a first sample set including a plurality of first samples and a second sample set including a plurality of second samples, wherein each of the first samples and the second samples is represented as a vector including a plurality of parameters, constructing at least one decision tree estimating a ratio of probability density p(x)/q(x) based on the first sample set and the second sample set, wherein p(x) is a probability density of the first samples corresponding to an input vector x and q(x) is a probability density of the second samples corresponding to the input vector x.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Satoshi Hara, Tetsuro Morimura
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Publication number: 20180260721Abstract: Probability density ratios may be estimated by a method including obtaining a first sample set including a plurality of first samples and a second sample set including a plurality of second samples, wherein each of the first samples and the second samples is represented as a vector including a plurality of parameters, constructing at least one decision tree estimating a ratio of probability density p(x)/q(x) based on the first sample set and the second sample set, wherein p(x) is a probability density of the first samples corresponding to an input vector x and q(x) is a probability density of the second samples corresponding to the input vector x.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Satoshi Hara, Tetsuro Morimura
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Publication number: 20180255232Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit configured to continuously capture images to sequentially generate image data; a combining unit configured to combine a plurality of sets of the image data generated by the imaging unit to generate composite image data; a display unit configured to display a composite image corresponding to the composite image data generated by the combining unit; an operating unit configured to receive an operation for the image data to be left in the composite image selected from among a plurality of sets of the image data combined into the composite image displayed by the display unit; and a control unit configured to cause the combining unit to combine at least two sets of the image data selected in accordance with the operation of the operating unit to generate a new set of the composite image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiteru TAKAHASHI, Satoshi HARA
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Publication number: 20180236392Abstract: Provided are a filter medium for an air filter capable of having extended life even when composed of embossable material. The filter medium (1) has a tensile elongation of 10% or greater, and includes a main collection layer (30) having a filing rate of 5% to 15%, a thickness of 0.35 mm to 0.70 mm, and a peak in a fiber diameter distribution at less than 1.0 ?m and a peak at 1.0 ?m or greater. An average fiber diameter of small fiber diameters of less than 1.0 ?m is from 0.1 ?m to less than 0.8 ?m, and an average fiber diameter of large fiber diameters of 1.0 ?m or greater is from 1.2 ?m to less than 3.0 ?m. A volume ratio of the fibers having the small fiber diameter to the fibers having the large fiber diameter is from 30:70 to 80:20.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Chizuru MURAKAMI, Satoshi HARA, Tatsumi SAKANO