Patents Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11880478
    Abstract: A traceability information management server includes: a transaction reception part that receives transaction data from a user client, the transaction data containing information on a completed process in distribution of a product and a concerned party in the completed process; an access right information generation part that generates access right information, the access right information being information on a relation between the completed process, the concerned party in the completed process, and a predetermined access right of the concerned party; an access right determination part that identifies, based on the access right information, information on a process in the distribution to which a sender of the received information provision request from the user client has an access right; and an information transmission part that transmits the identified information on the process to the user client that has sent the information provision request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Nagano, Masayuki Oyamatsu, Shohei Yamagata, Toshiomi Moriki
  • Patent number: 11880284
    Abstract: A storage restore system includes a processor, a memory, and a restore part configured to generate, in a recovery-destination storage area to which to recover a file or a directory stored in a designated storage area and indicated by object data including the file or the directory and parent directory information which is information on a directory to which the file or the directory belongs, a directory indicated by the parent directory information in the object data, and configured to generate the file or the directory indicated by the object data under the directory thus generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Furuhashi
  • Patent number: 11880589
    Abstract: A storage system is coupled to a cloud system that provides cloud volumes belonging to any of a plurality of tiers with different access performances. The cloud system changes a tier to which an externally-provided volume belongs based on a state of volume utilization in which the cloud volumes are utilized. A storage controller of the storage system provides a host computer with a volume created by allocating a page to an external volume that corresponds to the cloud volumes. In addition, the storage controller adjusts a state of volume utilization to control a tier to which the cloud volumes belong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Koike, Hirotaka Nakagawa, Kodai Nozawa
  • Publication number: 20240020276
    Abstract: When a transfer target file is updated during multiple part upload of the transfer target file to an external storage system, a file storage system stops the multiple part upload of the transfer target file, and performs multiple part upload of the updated file to the external storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki SHIMIZU, Hoshun TERAZUMI, Shinji OGASAWARA, Takeshi KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 11876860
    Abstract: In a data sharing system 1, a plurality of dHCI systems 100 share data by communication, and each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 is configured to include a dHCI 110 to provide a virtual environment to execute an application and a storage system 120 to provide a volume to the virtual environment together with a storage device of the dHCI 110. Each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 stores data of the own computer system in the volume of the own computer system and acquires data of another computer system from the other computer system and stores the data in the volume. When data of some other computer system cannot be acquired from the other computer system, each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 acquires the data from a different other computer system and stores the data in the volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: 11875901
    Abstract: A registration apparatus is configured to access a network formed of a set of first nodes and first edges, the first nodes each representing a first feature vector including a plurality of elements, the first edges each coupling two first nodes representing two first feature vectors to each other based on two first feature vectors, a processor in the registration apparatus is configured to execute: obtaining processing of obtaining a second feature vector; and registration processing of registering a second node representing the second feature vector to the network based on a similarity relationship among third feature vectors in a set of third feature vectors included in the set of first feature vectors, and coupling the second node and a third node representing the third feature vector to each other with a second edge, the number of third feature vectors being smaller than the number of first feature vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Miaomei Lei, Takahiro Nakamura, Daisuke Suzuki, Takashi Takemoto
  • Patent number: 11876608
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to a plurality of control functions connected via a communication network and synchronized, where the control functions communicate packets including control data, the function identifier for the function associated with the control data, and time identifier such as a time identifier representing the synchronized time associated with the control data. Example implementations determine control data associated with the function identifier and the time identifier from one or more packets that has the same function identifier and time identifier, received in the certain time period based on the time specified by the time identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD
    Inventors: Tatsuya Maruyama, Shoji Yunoki, Hidenori Omiya, Yusaku Otsuka, Iori Kobayashi, Toshiki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11872028
    Abstract: To perform respiratory monitoring and cardiac-output measurement on general patients, an aspect of a biological measurement apparatus includes: at least two electrodes that are attached to a living body; a power supply that causes an AC current to flow between the two electrodes; at least two coils that are placed so as to sandwich a line linking the two electrodes, and detect a magnetic field related to a change in the AC current accompanying a change in impedance of the living body; and a detection circuit that performs addition or subtraction of signals related to the magnetic field detected with the two coils, and outputs the signals as a change in the impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD
    Inventors: Akihiko Kandori, Ryuzo Kawabata, Kuniomi Ogata, Takako Mizoguchi, Tsukasa Funane
  • Patent number: 11875694
    Abstract: An operation motion is accurately determined in an operational information management system. The system includes a motion verification portion that combines and verifies plurality of pieces of sensor information and recognizes a specific body motion, a signal determination portion that determines whether an operation content of an operator is correctly performed based on the body motion recognized by the motion verification portion, and a report portion that reports a determine result of the signal determination portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoshimoto, Tetsuya Ishimaru, Nobuyuki Sugii, Yoshihiro Wakisaka, Noriyuki Haga
  • Publication number: 20240013111
    Abstract: An automation support device includes a processor and a storage unit. In this automation support device, the storage unit stores a man-hour estimation rule that is a rule for estimating man-hours for automation of a work procedure manual related to a procedure of work. Then, the processor calculates man-hours required for automation of the work procedure manual by using the man-hour estimation rule stored in the storage unit with the work procedure manual and a work execution record which is a record of execution according to the work procedure manual as inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineyoshi MASUDA, Koichi Murayama, Hideki Minato
  • Publication number: 20240009667
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid feeding method for removing bubbles from a solution introduced into a fluidic device, wherein: the fluidic device includes a flow path of a volume v, a first chamber having a volume V1 and connected to a first side of the flow path, and a second chamber having a volume V2 and connected to a second side, being different from the first side, of the flow path; V1, V2, and v satisfy Formula (1) and Formula (2), ? is a solubility of gas in the solution at a temperature of the second chamber, ? is a solubility of gas in the solution at a temperature of the flow path, P0 is a pressure of a surrounding environment of the fluidic device, ?P is a bubble internal pressure rise value, where ?P=4?/d, ? is a surface tension of the solution, and d is a diameter of the flow path; and the liquid feeding method includes: disposing the solution at a first position opposite to the flow path with respect to the second chamber; pressurizing and feeding the solution so that the solution is transferred through t
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Saaya Shimizu, Ryo Imai, Yoshimitsu Yanagawa
  • Publication number: 20240013481
    Abstract: To support creation of an editable information expression of a predetermined language in a virtual reality space, an information expression creation support device is provided. The device supports creation of an editable information expression source code of the predetermined language in the virtual reality space by tracking a movement trajectory of an action of a creator and selecting an information expression from candidates of the information expression, which are prepared in advance, based on an acquired movement trajectory of an action of the creator, and the selected information expression is arranged at a predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hori, Masumi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 11865730
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a camera position/attitude calibration device with which the relative position/attitude of a camera and a robot can be calibrated without interrupting a task which is set in the robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kume, Ryosuke Miki, So Sasatani, Masaya Itoh
  • Patent number: 11867628
    Abstract: A sample measurement device includes: a sample container that stores a sample solution; a light source that irradiates the sample container with irradiation light from a first direction; an imaging part that captures an image of the sample solution based on light scattered by the sample solution from a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a calculator that calculates an absorbance or a concentration of the sample solution based on the image. The calculator calculates a degree of attenuation of a light amount of the image at a constant optical path length along the first direction based on the image, and calculates the absorbance or concentration of the sample solution according to the degree of attenuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Sakuichiro Adachi, Takahiro Ando
  • Patent number: 11868967
    Abstract: A schedule creation assisting device 100 includes: a storage unit that stores information on a total working time length in a specified period of each of workers who work in cooperation in a specified operation, a number of the workers necessary at each timing during the period, and a constraint condition regarding allocation of the workers to the operation; and a computation unit 104 that computes an Ising model in which, regarding an objective function including, as terms, the total working time length in the period, the number of necessary workers, and a constraint condition function that is minimized when the constraint condition is satisfied, whether each of the workers is to attend at work is set as a spin, and a sensitivity between variables of the constraint condition function is set as an intensity of interaction between the spins, and that outputs a schedule in which whether each of the workers is to attend at work at the each timing during the specified period is specified based on the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Terasaki, Jun Ogawa, Keisuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11869492
    Abstract: An anomaly detection apparatus includes a device identification database that stores device identification information for identifying a specific device for each type of a device, a hierarchical conditional vector generation unit that generates a hierarchical conditional vector based on the device identification information, an extraction unit that extracts a target device feature amount vector indicating a feature amount of an acoustic signal acquired from a target device by analyzing the acoustic signal, a hierarchical condition adversarial neural network that outputs background noise level information indicating a background noise level of a surrounding environment of the target device and true/false determination information indicating true/false of the target device feature amount vector by analyzing the hierarchical conditional vector and the target device feature amount vector, and an anomaly determination unit that determines whether an anomaly exists in the target device feature amount vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Harsh Pramodbhai Purohit, Takashi Endo, Yohei Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11868630
    Abstract: A storage system includes a first node mounting two controllers. The two controllers of the first node are subjected to setting of redundancy such that the two controllers belong to differing redundancy groups, respectively. When a configuration change is requested due to addition of a second node mounting one controller to the storage system, the second node sets the controller of the second node belongs to a redundancy group to which either of the two controllers of the first node belongs, and the first node changes the setting of redundancy such that setting information on the redundancy group of either of the two controllers of the first node does not change; and deactivates a controller of the first node for which the setting information on the redundancy group changes as a result of a change in the setting of redundancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Tsukioka, Yutaka Oshima
  • Patent number: 11868367
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method mitigate a processing delay of a system in a switched backup environment when the system is switched from a main environment to the backup environment in a hybrid cloud. A remote copy processing apparatus in the hybrid cloud has: a data access frequency management unit and a data access locality management unit that acquire and manage an access frequency and access locality regarding the access frequency from a host(s) in a public cloud to each pieces of data stored in a storage apparatus; a copy data judgment unit that judges object data of remote copy processing on the basis of a priority, the access frequency, and the access locality of the system; and a data copy execution unit that issues an instruction to the storage apparatus to start executing the remote copy processing on the object data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichi Azuma
  • Patent number: D1011364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mariko Miyaki, Kazuhiro Ikegaya, Shotaro Tamayama, Yukiko Morimoto, Chiaki Hirai, Junichi Miyakoshi
  • Patent number: D1011375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mariko Miyaki, Kazuhiro Ikegaya, Shotaro Tamayama, Yukiko Morimoto, Chiaki Hirai, Koji Fukuda