Patents Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240248809
    Abstract: A data storage system where the cost required to change a configuration of a system and the burden on an administrator are reduced, the capacity of a backup device is effectively utilized, and the backup processing is optimized. When conditions related to a capacity resource specified in a backup requirement table cannot be satisfied, predicted resource consumption when the data of a backup target in a task is backed up to other destinations is calculated using an existing backup information table, a score representing a low impact on the resource when migrating to the other backup destinations is calculated on the basis of the predicted resource consumption, a backup destination as a migration destination of the backup related to the task is determined on the basis of the score, and a backup schedule table is updated such that the determined backup destination becomes the backup destination related to the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuma KABEYA
  • Publication number: 20240250321
    Abstract: A battery charge/discharge management system includes: a battery package in which a battery is housed; and a charge/discharge control device that controls charge/discharge of the battery package, in which the battery package stores and holds a storage amount of power stored in the battery for each power type, the charge/discharge control device notifies the battery package of the power amount of each power type charged and discharged from the battery package, and the battery package updates the storage amount of the power stored in the battery for each power type stored and held based on the power amount of each power type charged and discharged from the battery package notified from the charge/discharge control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mitsuyama, Koichi Hiraoka, Hirohisa Oguri, Md Abdullah-AI Mamun
  • Publication number: 20240249427
    Abstract: A position measurement system comprises: a plurality of imaging means for capturing images of an own position-detecting measured object having an own position detection unit and another measured object having no own position detection unit; an own position measurement means for obtaining the position of the own position-detecting measured object on the basis of own position information from the own position detection unit; an image analysis means for estimating the positions of the own position-detecting measured object and the other measured object for each of the images; and a position determination means which compares the position of the own position-detecting measured object measured by the own position measurement means with the position of the own position-detecting measured object estimated by the image analysis means for each of the captured images, and which determines one of the positions of the other measured object estimated for the respective captured images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: So SASATANI, Tsuyoshi KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 12045531
    Abstract: A method for generating and displaying context-based information. The method may include automatically identifying, by a processor, a person; identifying, by the processor, a display device closest in proximity to the person; generating, by the processor, context information specific to the person; and displaying the context information on the display device to be viewed by the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Rahul Bharadwaj, Joydeep Acharya
  • Patent number: 12045133
    Abstract: In each node constituting a storage system, there is at least one of a storage area (user area) in which a user data set is stored and a storage area (parity area). For the node having the user area, there is user part difference information including information indicating whether or not to be in presence of difference for each user area of the node. For the node having the parity area, there is parity part difference information including the information indicating whether or not to be in the presence of difference for each parity area of the node. Out of the parity part difference information, the information corresponding to the parity area is the information indicating the presence of difference when there is the information indicating the presence of difference in the storage area of any of the data sets used for generating the parity stored in the parity area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Hideo Saito, Shintaro Ito, Sachie Tajima, Hiroto Ebara, Taisuke Ono
  • Patent number: 12042877
    Abstract: Provided is a welding management system that appropriately manages welding. The welding management system (100) includes a plurality of local magnetic sensors (10a to 10f) provided around a target joining position (K) and a correction magnetic sensor (20) curved to surround the target joining position (K). A data processing unit (30) generates information of a joining state of the target joining position (K) based on a difference between a detection value of each of the plurality of the local magnetic sensors (10a to 10f) and a detection value of the correction magnetic sensor (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Nakagawa, Hisashi Endou, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Toshihiro Yamada, Nobuhiro Kakeno, Hideya Isaka
  • Patent number: 12047451
    Abstract: It is provided an IoT system, comprising: a communication device in which an identification module for controlling a communication requirement is installed, and which is configured to communicate to/from a cloud server; an asset which is connected to the communication device; and a control server which is configured to manage setting of the communication between the communication device and the cloud server, wherein the control server is configured to: manage a relationship between the identification module and the communication device and a relationship between the communication device and the asset; and set the communication between the communication device and the cloud server in order to transfer information from the asset to the cloud server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Konoura, Masafumi Kinoshita, Yu Nakata, Yuta Sekiguchi, Sota Uehara
  • Patent number: 12045507
    Abstract: Each storage controller comprises a first storage unit, an interface unit, and a processing unit which sends, to the interface unit, a parameter which instructs n-fold write of writing data in each of n-number of (n is a natural number of 2 or more) other storage controllers. When the interface unit receives the parameter, the interface unit executes each processing of acquiring the data from the first storage unit and storing the data in the second storage unit, generating n-number of requests of writing the data in each of n-number of the other storage controllers, storing each of the generated requests in n-number of the queues corresponding to each of n-number of the other storage controllers, and processing each request stored in each queue and transferring the data stored in the second storage unit to each of n-number of the other storage controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaro Kobayashi, Katsuya Tanaka, Hideaki Fukuda, Yoshikazu Murayama
  • Publication number: 20240241794
    Abstract: A data management system for backing up data in a first environment to a second environment includes: backup management information in which source data, backup data, a backup method, and data backed up using the backup method are associated; and a secondary usage data copy unit serving as a secondary usage processing unit that receives a usage request for the backup data stored in the second environment, wherein the secondary usage processing unit refers to the backup management information, specifies the backup data required for processing the usage request, specifies the backup method for the backup data, restores the backup data on the basis of the specified backup method, and enables processing of the usage request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Soichi WATANABE, Miho Kobayashi, Mitsuo Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 12038899
    Abstract: A method for performing data management that includes generating, using a processor of an agent server, terms for structured data files using structured data profiling and terms for unstructured data files using unstructured data profiling, wherein the structured data files and the unstructured data files are stored in a storage; and managing a term list, wherein the term list stores terms generated by the processor, wherein the processor utilizes terms generated through structured data profiling in deriving terms generated through unstructured data profiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12038888
    Abstract: A storage control apparatus generates an evaluated compression dictionary from a compression dictionary. The compression dictionary includes, for each of different values included in original data of compressed data, a value and a compression code. The evaluated compression dictionary includes, for each value in the compression dictionary, a value and a compression code. The compressed data includes a compression code for each value in the original data. The storage control apparatus performs, in generation or update of the evaluated compression dictionary, condition evaluation of the value. A compression code of a value determined to correspond to the search condition in the condition evaluation is a condition satisfied code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Mogi
  • Patent number: 12036609
    Abstract: A search apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor receives a molding result of a reference sample manufactured by the additive manufacturing apparatus. The processor calculates predicted values from a predictive model. The processor determines whether the evaluation target values are achieved by the measured values. The reference sample has at least three smooth surfaces and a surface having aggregated punched holes formed by straight lines and curved lines that are involved in three types of regions to be set as the conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kawanaka, Hyakka Nakada, Noboru Saitou, Shinji Matsushita
  • Patent number: 12038821
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein involve a storage system and one or more devices associated with the storage system, the one or more devices external to the storage system, which can include managing a configuration rule difference mapping information that maps configuration detection filter information and required rule manipulation responsive to the configuration detection filter information, the required rule manipulation indicative of a modification to alert properties of the storage system; for detection of a configuration change to the one or more devices based on the configuration detection filter information, identifying one or more rule manipulations from the required rule manipulation information from the configuration rule difference mapping information, and generating a rule manipulation draft to modify the alert properties of the storage system based on the required rule manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Osaki
  • Patent number: 12038889
    Abstract: In the present invention, there is provided a data integration method executed by a data integration system that corrects inconsistency in type or quality between first data and second data stored in a data lake. The method includes a feature value calculation step of calculating feature values of the first data and the second data, an inconsistency detection step of detecting the inconsistency between the first data and the second data based on the feature values, and a data adjustment step of correcting the inconsistency by using an integrated view according to a request to acquire the first data and the second data from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Mika Takata
  • Patent number: 12036679
    Abstract: An indicator related to work performed through a plurality of hierarchical processes is predicted efficiently with high accuracy. The information processing device stores sample data in association with each parameter representing work, the sample data including an indicator generated by execution of lower-level simulation based on a lower-level model set for a lower-level process, and the information processing device predicts an indicator related to predicted work by performing higher-level simulation using the sample data associated with a parameter similar to a parameter representing the predicted work, the higher-level simulation being based on a higher-level model which is set for a higher-level process. If sample data associated with a parameter similar to the parameter representing the predicted work is not stored, the information processing device complements sample data by performing lower-level simulation and performs higher-level simulation using the complemented sample data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Utsugi, Sanato Nagata, Koji Ara, Hisaya Ishibashi, Toshio Moriya
  • Publication number: 20240236808
    Abstract: A management apparatus specifies a first communication path requirement template corresponding to a first communication path requirement of a first application module and a second communication path requirement template corresponding to a second communication path requirement of a second application module, determines the available communication module included in the first communication path requirement template to be a first communication module and determines the available communication module included in the second communication path requirement template to be a second communication module, determines an arrangement destination of the first communication module to be a first arrangement destination, and determines an arrangement destination of the second communication module to be a second arrangement destination, and sets a communication path by arranging the first application module and the first communication module in the first arrangement destination and arranging the second application module and th
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nodoka MIMURA, Masayuki TAKASE, Takeshi SHIBATA, Kunihiko TOUMURA, Dai AKASHI
  • Publication number: 20240235950
    Abstract: An infrastructure design system includes an infrastructure design apparatus configured to generate infrastructure design information including information regarding a server infrastructure in which an application of a solution service is installed and a wireless communication infrastructure that connects the server infrastructure with a place where the solution service is used. The infrastructure design apparatus manages provision cost information regarding each of the wireless communication infrastructure and the server infrastructure, calculates estimated latency at a time of providing the solution service, on the basis of a communication delay between a solution service usage environment and the server infrastructure and a processing delay of the application, selects a combination of the wireless communication infrastructure and the server infrastructure on the basis of the estimated latency and a provision cost, and outputs the combination as infrastructure design information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke MASHIMO, Masayuki TAKASE
  • Publication number: 20240231706
    Abstract: A first node performs copy (virtual copy) of address mapping between a virtual volume and a pool to a first virtual volume to create a third virtual volume in the first node. A second node performs mapping from a first pool volume in the second node to the third virtual volume in the first node, links an address of the first pool volume, which is mapped to the third virtual volume, to an address of a second virtual volume in the second node on a one-to-one basis, and performs log-structured write of the data in the second virtual volume to a second pool volume in the second node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaki MATSUSHITA, Kazuki MATSUGAMI, Akira DEGUCHI, Norio SHIMOZONO, Shinichi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240231381
    Abstract: A system for presenting information to a human to avoid dangers such as collisions, without hindering the respective movement of the human and an autonomous machine. The human-machine cooperative control system manages each movable region so that the human and the autonomous machine do not collide. The system comprises a moving body position measurement unit comprising at least sensor for measuring the position of moving bodies, including a human and a machine; a moving body motion prediction unit for predicting future motion of a subject moving body on the basis of a moving body position; an exclusive management unit for planning a movable region for each moving body on the basis of a planned route for the unmanned machine and a moving body predicted motion obtained from the moving body motion prediction unit; and an information presentation unit for presenting information about the movable region for the human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventor: Hiroyuki YAMADA
  • Patent number: 12035212
    Abstract: A wireless communication device including a network device, a wireless base station, and a server device includes: a plurality of surfaces that is a plurality of logical network sections; and a control device connected to the network device. The network device has: a plurality of first NW-IFs connected to the server device; and a second NW-IF connected to at least one of a network and wireless base station and connected to any one of the plurality of first NW-IFs. The server device has: a plurality of applications; a plurality of network settings; and a plurality of SV-IFs connected to the plurality of first NW-IFs. Each of the plurality of surfaces includes an application, network setting, SV-IF, and first NW-IF. The control device selects a surface conforming to conditions, and causes the network device to execute surface switching for connecting the second NW-IF to the first NW-IF in the selected surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shibata, Nodoka Mimura