Patents Assigned to Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12051340
    Abstract: The content creation system comprises: an operation measurement device 1 that acquires, as measurement information, a three-dimensional work operation of a model worker R1 that performs the work of the work procedure; an evaluation criterion creation device 2 that creates evaluation criterion information on the work of the work procedure, based on the measurement information of the three-dimensional work operation; and a content creation device 3 that creates and updates the training content, based on the measurement information of the three-dimensional work operation, the evaluation criterion information and the three-dimensional shape information of the work target device. The work management server 2 creates the evaluation criterion information, based on distance information of the three-dimensional work operation with respect to the three-dimensional shape in specific stage of the work procedure, on the condition that a predetermined body motion of the model worker R1 is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujiwara, Shintaro Tsuchiya, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Publication number: 20240231340
    Abstract: A use resource setting device includes a control unit and a storage unit. The storage unit holds resource type information, work time information, and production plan information. A use resource setting method includes the control unit predicting calculation accuracy of required time of work in a use resource plan in which one or more resources are allocated to work in each process of producing the product, based on the resource type information, the work time information, and the production plan information, and, predicting an evaluation index for producing the product when the use resource plan is adopted, based on the use resource plan, the work time information, and the production plan information. The predicting of the evaluation index includes predicting a variation in the evaluation index based on the calculation accuracy of the required time of the work in the use resource plan by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeru DOAN, Norisuke FUJII, Koichi Hattori
  • Patent number: 12021802
    Abstract: A chat bot capable of seamlessly acquiring, in response to user input in a chat session, information necessary for an appropriate chat scenario for assisting the user from an external system and dynamically generating a chat scenario. Accordingly, the chat bot control device includes an external data acquisition unit for acquiring, in a chat session between a user and a chat bot, chat scenario creation data for generating a chat scenario from a predetermined external system based on a first input from the user; a scenario generation unit for generating, based on the chat scenario creation data, a first chat scenario that specifies transitions of a dialogue between the user and the chat bot using predetermined scenario conversion logic that defines a chat scenario generation pattern; and a scenario execution unit for executing the first chat scenario in the chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Iwasaki, Ken Iikura, Michiori Yoshitake, Natsuki Ohta, Hiroto Fukushima, Nobuo Kudo, Yoshimitsu Toyoba, Naoya Tsumura, Tomoharu Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20240134361
    Abstract: A use resource setting device includes a control unit and a storage unit. The storage unit holds resource type information, work time information, and production plan information. A use resource setting method includes the control unit predicting calculation accuracy of required time of work in a use resource plan in which one or more resources are allocated to work in each process of producing the product, based on the resource type information, the work time information, and the production plan information, and, predicting an evaluation index for producing the product when the use resource plan is adopted, based on the use resource plan, the work time information, and the production plan information. The predicting of the evaluation index includes predicting a variation in the evaluation index based on the calculation accuracy of the required time of the work in the use resource plan by the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeru DOAN, Norisuke FUJII, Koichi Hattori
  • Patent number: 11875817
    Abstract: A technique capable of detecting harmful behavior such as power harassment, sexual harassment, or bullying in work environment to support handling is provided. A harmful behavior detecting system includes a computer that executes observation and detection regarding harmful behavior including power harassment, sexual harassment, and bullying among people in work environment. The computer obtains voice data into which voice around a target person is inputted; obtains voice information containing words and emotion information from the voice data; and obtains data such as vital data, date and time, or a location of the target person. The computer uses five elements including words and an emotion of the other person, words, an emotion, and vital data of the target person to calculate an index value regarding the harmful behavior; estimate a state of the harmful behavior based on the index value; and output handling data for handling the harmful behavior in accordance with the estimated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Iwagaki, Atsushi Shimada, Masumi Suehiro, Hidenori Chiba, Kouichi Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20240007422
    Abstract: A chat bot capable of seamlessly acquiring, in response to user input in a chat session, information necessary for an appropriate chat scenario for assisting the user from an external system and dynamically generating a chat scenario. Accordingly, the chat bot control device includes an external data acquisition unit for acquiring, in a chat session between a user and a chat bot, chat scenario creation data for generating a chat scenario from a predetermined external system based on a first input from the user; a scenario generation unit for generating, based on the chat scenario creation data, a first chat scenario that specifies transitions of a dialogue between the user and the chat bot using predetermined scenario conversion logic that defines a chat scenario generation pattern; and a scenario execution unit for executing the first chat scenario in the chat session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya IWASAKI, Ken IIKURA, Michiori YOSHITAKE, Natsuki OHTA, Hiroto FUKUSHIMA, Nobuo KUDO, Yoshimitsu TOYOBA, Naoya TSUMURA, Tomoharu ICHIHARA
  • Patent number: 11817003
    Abstract: A content presentation system includes: a trainee terminal that presents training content to the trainee; a worker terminal used by a worker; a tool recognition device that acquires a work video of the worker and recognizes the tool being used by the worker; a determination device that determines success or failure of the work at a specific stage based on the information about the work tool recognized by the tool recognition device; and a content creation device that creates and updates the training content based on the determination result of the determination device. When the determination result is determined to be the failure of the work by the determination device, the content creation device identifies a portion of the training content corresponding to the specific stage in the work procedure and updates the portion of the training content so as to suppress a factor of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsuchiya, Takayuki Fujiwara, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Patent number: 11799804
    Abstract: A chat bot capable of seamlessly acquiring, in response to user input in a chat session, information necessary for an appropriate chat scenario for assisting the user from an external system and dynamically generating a chat scenario. Accordingly, the chat bot control device includes an external data acquisition unit for acquiring, in a chat session between a user and a chat bot, chat scenario creation data for generating a chat scenario from a predetermined external system based on a first input from the user; a scenario generation unit for generating, based on the chat scenario creation data, a first chat scenario that specifies transitions of a dialogue between the user and the chat bot using predetermined scenario conversion logic that defines a chat scenario generation pattern; and a scenario execution unit for executing the first chat scenario in the chat session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Iwasaki, Ken Iikura, Michiori Yoshitake, Natsuki Ohta, Hiroto Fukushima, Nobuo Kudo, Yoshimitsu Toyoba, Naoya Tsumura, Tomoharu Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20220351641
    Abstract: A content presentation system includes: a trainee terminal that presents training content to the trainee; a worker terminal used by a worker; a tool recognition device that acquires a work video of the worker and recognizes the tool being used by the worker; a determination device that determines success or failure of the work at a specific stage based on the information about the work tool recognized by the tool recognition device; and a content creation device that creates and updates the training content based on the determination result of the determination device. When the determination result is determined to be the failure of the work by the determination device, the content creation device identifies a portion of the training content corresponding to the specific stage in the work procedure and updates the portion of the training content so as to suppress a factor of the failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsuchiya, Takayuki Fujiwara, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Patent number: 11367365
    Abstract: A content presentation system includes: a training content distribution function 431 that presents the training content to the trainee; a work content delivery function 331 that presents a work procedure based on augmented reality; a user operation detection unit 120 that detects a three-dimensional operation of the site worker; a work record analysis function 338 that determines success or failure of the work based on the evaluation reference information; and a content creation/updating function 342 that updates the training content based on the determination result. When a predetermined body motion of the worker is detected, the work record analysis function determines whether the work has failed based on the measurement information of the model worker up to the body motion. When the work is determined to have failed, the content creation/updating function updates the training content so as to suppress the factor of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsuchiya, Takayuki Fujiwara, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Patent number: 11361417
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aircraft-utilizing deterioration diagnostic system and provides a technique capable of improving diagnostic efficiency and accuracy when comparing the previous and current aerially-photographed images to diagnose a deteriorated state of a target. The diagnostic system includes: a drone 1 (aircraft) configured to be navigated along a route around a target 5 and having a camera 4 configured to photograph the target 5; and a computer (PC 2 and server 3) configured to control navigation of the aircraft and photographing by the camera 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu Zhao, Jun-ichiro Watanabe, Masato Nakamura, Ryouichi Ueda, Kentarou Oonishi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Publication number: 20220051579
    Abstract: The content creation system comprises: an operation measurement device 1 that acquires, as measurement information, a three-dimensional work operation of a model worker R1 that performs the work of the work procedure; an evaluation criterion creation device 2 that creates evaluation criterion information on the work of the work procedure, based on the measurement information of the three-dimensional work operation; and a content creation device 3 that creates and updates the training content, based on the measurement information of the three-dimensional work operation, the evaluation criterion information and the three-dimensional shape information of the work target device. The work management server 2 creates the evaluation criterion information, based on distance information of the three-dimensional work operation with respect to the three-dimensional shape in specific stage of the work procedure, on the condition that a predetermined body motion of the model worker R1 is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujiwara, Shintaro Tsuchlya, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Publication number: 20210358327
    Abstract: A content presentation system includes: a training content distribution function 431 that presents the training content to the trainee; a work content delivery function 331 that presents a work procedure based on augmented reality; a user operation detection unit 120 that detects a three-dimensional operation of the site worker; a work record analysis function 338 that determines success or failure of the work based on the evaluation reference information; and a content creation/updating function 342 that updates the training content based on the determination result. When a predetermined body motion of the worker is detected, the work record analysis function determines whether the work has failed based on the measurement information of the model worker up to the body motion. When the work is determined to have failed, the content creation/updating function updates the training content so as to suppress the factor of the failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Tsuchiya, Takayuki Fujiwara, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Publication number: 20210335148
    Abstract: The training management server 3 and the site management server 6 of the content presentation system 1 that presents a training content, when predetermined information that can be an accident occurrence factor in the on-site work of the work target device from a predetermined three-dimensional body motion of the trainee R1 or the model worker R2, adjust the evaluation criterion information on the work operation in the specific stage or other stage of the work procedure of the on-site work related to the information. At that time, the training content is updated so as to increase a probability of occurrence of a simulated accident with respect to the work operation in the specific stage or other stage during the simulated work, and impress the trainee R1 with the occurrence of the accident at occurrence of the simulated accident.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Fujiwara, Shintaro Tsuchiya, Kentarou Oonishi, Katsuro Kikuchi, Yoshihito Narita
  • Patent number: 11100234
    Abstract: As a technology for preventing the leaking of confidential information more properly, provided is a work recording apparatus including: a recording control unit configured to record a work situation; a position detection unit configured to detect a position; and a usable function restriction unit configured to specify an applicable predetermined state through use of the position detected by the position detection unit and restrict a part or all of functions of the recording control unit based on the specified applicable predetermined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentarou Oonishi, Daisuke Katsumata, Tooru Sugimoto, Naoto Murayama, Nobuhiro Ihori, Naoto Miyao, Shinya Iguchi, Kenta Takahashi, Takayuki Fujiwara, Hiroaki Takatsuki
  • Patent number: 10755222
    Abstract: Provided is a technology for supporting work carried out under a unique work environment. A work management apparatus includes: an image reception unit configured to receive an image from another apparatus; an instruction target specification unit configured to specify a device instructed by a predetermined instruction method in the received image; and a display instruction unit configured to instruct the another apparatus to display the device specified by the instruction target specification unit in a different display mode from a display mode of another device contained in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kentarou Oonishi, Daisuke Katsumata, Tooru Sugimoto, Naoto Murayama, Nobuhiro Ihori, Naoto Miyao, Takayuki Fujiwara, Shinya Iguchi, Hiroaki Takatsuki
  • Patent number: 10310466
    Abstract: An increase in communication traffic at the time of transmission of commands of controlling power consumption of individual buildings can be suppressed so as to be low.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hashimoto, Yuji Ogata, Fumio Enmei, Minoru Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10073425
    Abstract: Even when there are a lot of buildings as a management target, a power consumption of each building can be appropriately managed. A broad area management system 10 is provided with a broad area management apparatus 20 in which a control command reception unit 22 receiving a selection of a control command of a power consumption from an operation terminal of an administrator and a transmission unit 24 transmitting received one control command to a plurality of building management apparatuses 30 are included, and the building management apparatus 30 in which an event program execution unit 34 storing an event program in association with the control command, a reception unit 32 extracting the event program corresponding to the control command from the event program execution unit 34 in a case where the control command is received from the broad area management apparatus 20, an event program extraction unit 33 controlling the power consumption of each facility 15 by executing the extracted event program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hashimoto, Yuji Ogata, Fumio Enmei, Minoru Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9916614
    Abstract: To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display racks 11 to 14 based upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data base 260 by using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data base 250 by using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding units 30 to 33 at a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Otani, Kiyoshi Kanai, Noriho Tanaka, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto
  • Patent number: 9831827
    Abstract: A photovoltaic inspection system is provided, the photovoltaic inspection system detecting a failure by eliminating ON/OFF operation of a switch or others at the time of inspection or checkup as much as possible, reducing an influence of a temperature distribution as a whole with a small effort, and detecting a local deterioration in a photovoltaic module or string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Kono, Yoshihito Narita, Kentarou Oonishi, Minoru Kaneko, Daisuke Katsumata