Patents by Inventor Akihiko Yoshida

Akihiko Yoshida 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).

  • Publication number: 20220143254
    Abstract: The aroma providing device includes: an aromatic holding structure that is detachable and has a plurality of holding spaces in which aromatics are respectively held; a blower device that supplies air to pass through the holding spaces; a plurality of air supply paths through which the air is introduced into the respective holding spaces; an opening/closing mechanism that includes a member that is deformed by a physical stimulus or a chemical stimulus and switches whether to allow the air to pass through or not for each of the holding spaces; and a control unit that controls the opening/closing mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: YUKITO INOUE, SHUJI FUJITA, CEDRIC DUVERT, AKIHIKO YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20150063113
    Abstract: The present invention is contrived to implement more granular traffic control and improve a traffic control method. A traffic control method disclosed herein performs the following: with respect to a plurality of terminals that connect to a network and perform communication via a communication link, analyzing signaling during a session performed by each terminal from a time when a terminal initially connects to the network, thereby associating a terminal, an application, and signaling required for the application; generating control information including identifiers for implementing traffic control on a per-signaling basis, based on preconfigured information on an object that should be under traffic control and the analysis results; assigning to a received packet an identifier on a per-signaling basis based on the control information; and referring to the identifiers and the control information and performing a specified traffic control action on signaling included in the packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiko YOSHIDA, Keiji USUBA
  • Publication number: 20150029841
    Abstract: A microburst detection apparatus configured to detect a microburst of a control plane packet and to extract, from the control plane packet which forms the detected microburst, call information for identifying call of a data plane, a packet extraction apparatus configured to extract a data plane packet corresponding to the extracted call information, and a cause analysis apparatus configured to analyze a payload of an application layer of the extracted data plane packet, specify a service/application which causes occurrence of the microburst, count the number of data plane packets in response to the specified service/application, and display the counted number of packets associated with the specified service/application are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Daigo TAKAYANAGI, Keiji USUBA, Yosuke TAKAHASHI, Akihiko YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8892100
    Abstract: A radio communication method in which, when hand-off of the down direction is performed while a radio mobile device subjects one application packet of the up direction to fragmentation to divide the one application packet into a plurality of radio packets and transmits the plurality of radio packets, sequence numbers of radio packets managed by a first radio base station to the plurality of fragmented radio packets of the one application packet even after the hand-off of the down direction is performed and to apply sequence numbers of radio packets managed by a second radio base station to fragmented radio packets of the application packet transmitted subsequently after completion of transmission of the plurality of fragmented radio packets of the one application packet; and making a radio base station accommodation apparatus identify a radio base station and restore data for each radio base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Takahashi, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi, Shiro Mazawa
  • Patent number: 8855146
    Abstract: A method for, in a radio communication system having at least a content server, plurality of base stations, and plurality of radio terminals, enabling two or more base stations among the plurality of base stations to broadcast or multicast data delivered from the content server to the radio terminals, the method includes: providing a Broadcast Multicast Service (BCMCS) Serving Node between the content server and two or more base stations; the BCMCS Serving Node includes a period number and sequence number into data delivered from the content server and transmits data including the period number and sequence number to the two or more base stations; in case that a synchronization is deviated or data is lost during data delivery from the base stations to the radio terminals, the base stations perform re-synchronization on a basis of the period number and sequence number included in data received from the BCMCS Serving Node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd
    Inventors: Yosuke Takahashi, Shiro Mazawa, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi
  • Publication number: 20140122103
    Abstract: To provide a diagnostic report generation support apparatus that can shorten the time required for selecting a form. The diagnostic report generation support apparatus according to the embodiment comprises a first controller, an extraction unit, and a second controller. The first controller stores one or more pieces of the specific information to be referred to when the form is used in relation to the form types used in the past in a first storage in advance. The extraction unit extracts the specific information to be referred to common to respective forms from among the specific information stored in the first storage in advance for each form type and generates a common combination. The second controller stores a common combination of the specific information in a second storage in advance for each form type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akihiko Yoshida, Maki Minakuchi
  • Publication number: 20140029513
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes: an LTE wireless processing unit having an LTE communication function; a wireless LAN processing unit having a wireless LAN communication function; and a terminal control unit that determines whether to use the LTE wireless processing unit or the wireless LAN processing unit and controls a function as a wireless terminal. The mobile terminal includes a base station functional unit having a communication protocol processing function of an LTE base station. Based on control of the terminal control unit, a signal generated at the base station functional unit, the signal being based on the communication protocol of the LTE base station, is stored in a wireless LAN frame, and the signal is sent to a device in the LTE core network via a wireless LAN base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: YOSUKE TAKAHASHI, Akihiko YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8594059
    Abstract: An information transmitting method including; determining, on a basis of a packet error rate from a master station to slave stations, a number of times of multicast transmission in accordance with an expected value of a number of slave stations that transmit a retransmission request, an expected value of a number of retransmitted packets responding to the retransmission request, or a probability that the slave stations receive all packets forming information; notifying determined number of times of multicast transmission to the slave stations; and transmitting, to plural slave stations in multicast, same information formed of plural packets the determined times of multicast transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daigo Takayanagi, Shiro Mazawa, Yosuke Takahashi, Akihiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8463302
    Abstract: In order to narrow down base stations within the tracking-area-based paging area to ones within a smaller area where the mobile unit may exist in a mobile communication system performing the paging on the tracking-area basis, the mobile communication system has a location registration information database memorizing tracking area information, a last location registration information and a N-th (N is an integer of one or more) location registration information from the last for each mobile unit, calculates statistical data on a movement distance for each mobile unit based on the location registration information memorized in the location registration information database, and performs the paging via base stations included both within an area whose radius is equal to the calculated statistical data on the movement distance and within the tracking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyasu Kubo, Yosuke Takahashi, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi
  • Publication number: 20120287841
    Abstract: A method for, in a radio communication system having at least a content server, plurality of base stations, and plurality of radio terminals, enabling two or more base stations among the plurality of base stations to broadcast or multicast data delivered from the content server to the radio terminals, the method includes: providing a Broadcast Multicast Service (BCMCS) Serving Node between the content server and two or more base stations; the BCMCS Serving Node includes a period number and sequence number into data delivered from the content server and transmits data including the period number and sequence number to the two or more base stations; in case that a synchronization is deviated or data is lost during data delivery from the base stations to the radio terminals, the base stations perform re-synchronization on a basis of the period number and sequence number included in data received from the BCMCS Serving Node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Yosuke TAKAHASHI, Shiro Mazawa, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 8307455
    Abstract: A decryption key for decrypting data from an access node is distributed to an access terminal intending to receive the data. An authentication unit receives a message for terminal authentication including a terminal identifier from the terminal and authenticates the terminal. The authentication unit refers to a content registration table having stored in advance the content type of a content which the terminal can receive, in association with the terminal identifier, according to the received terminal identifier to obtain a corresponding content type. The authentication unit refers to a decryption data base having stored in advance a decryption key and its valid period in association with a content type, according to the obtained content type to obtain a corresponding decryption key and valid period. The authentication unit sends an authentication result and the decryption key and valid period to the terminal or to a packet control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Takahashi, Shiro Mazawa, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi
  • Publication number: 20120253838
    Abstract: An examination reservation management system includes an information acquiring means for acquiring examination reservation information including priority information indicating priority of an examination; a reservation status presenting means for distinguishing and displaying a time frame in which examination can be reserved and a reserved time frame based on the examination reservation information; a reservation input means for making a new examination reservation; a priority information determining means for determining whether or not the new examination reservation can be reserved using the priority information; and a reservation designing means for confirming the examination reservation from the determination result by the priority information determining means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroshizu Morishima, Akihiko Yoshida, Takafumi Yoshida, Maki Minakuchi
  • Patent number: 8264986
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a base station control device has following two steps on the basis of latitude/longitude information obtained from a GPS, that is, a first step of recognizing, from the positional information obtained from the GPS, the fact that base stations in new and old systems are installed at the same location, and a second step of linking a neighbor list of the old system to a neighbor list of the new system with use of the result of the first step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rumiko Nagano, Mikio Kuwahara, Akihiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8238927
    Abstract: Since the OFDM communication method does not select whether plural sectors use a same terminal as a transmission destination, or always use it as a transmission destination, giving a preference to system throughput deteriorates channel quality of a terminal in a sector boundary, while increasing channel quality in sector boundaries greatly deteriorates system throughput. In a base station, when a sector transmits to a terminal in the front of a beam, only the sector performs the transmission, and when transmission is made to a terminal in a sector boundary off the direction of the beam, a different sector transmits to the same terminal using a same hopping pattern. Thereby, tradeoff between the channel quality of the terminal in a sector boundary and deterioration in system throughput can be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Saito, Rintaro Katayama, Akihiko Yoshida, Shiro Mazawa
  • Patent number: 8228892
    Abstract: An aggregation device performs a synchronous processing so that a synchronous delivery may be made from a plurality of base stations through a broadcasting channel. A BSN (104) gives, when it sends broadcasting data for the synchronous delivery to an AN (102) and an AN (103), a period number and a sequence number are added to the broadcasting data so that the data to be sent from the AN (102) and the AN (103 can be synchronously delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Takahashi, Shiro Mazawa, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 8185159
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of base stations and a call processing control unit is disclosed. The wireless terminal, upon reception of the notification information from any of the base stations, judges whether the area included in the notification information is contained in the location registration area list stored in a storage unit, and in the case where the particular area is not so contained, sends a location registration request to the call processing control unit. On the other hand, the call processing control unit creates a new location registration area list based on the area included in the notification information and the neighboring areas, and sends the location registration area list to the wireless terminal thereby to execute the paging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Itamiya, Shigeyasu Kubo, Akihiko Yoshida, Yosuke Takahashi, Nobuo Ito
  • Patent number: 8175598
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of base stations and a call processing control unit is disclosed. The wireless terminal, upon reception of the notification information from any of the base stations, judges whether the area included in the notification information is contained in the location registration area list stored in a storage unit, and in the case where the particular area is not so contained, sends a location registration request to the call processing control unit. On the other hand, the call processing control unit creates a new location registration area list based on the area included in the notification information and the neighboring areas, and sends the location registration area list to the wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyasu Kubo, Yosuke Takahashi, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi
  • Publication number: 20120069821
    Abstract: A radio communication method in which, when hand-off of the down direction is performed while a radio mobile device subjects one application packet of the up direction to fragmentation to divide the one application packet into a plurality of radio packets and transmits the plurality of radio packets, sequence numbers of radio packets managed by a first radio base station to the plurality of fragmented radio packets of the one application packet even after the hand-off of the down direction is performed and to apply sequence numbers of radio packets managed by a second radio base station to fragmented radio packets of the application packet transmitted subsequently after completion of transmission of the plurality of fragmented radio packets of the one application packet; and making a radio base station accommodation apparatus identify a radio base station and restore data for each radio base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Yosuke Takahashi, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi, Shiro Mazawa
  • Patent number: 8131299
    Abstract: A call processing control apparatus automatically detects that a lot of handover and location registration simultaneously occur, and notifies a monitor control server. The monitor control server receiving the notification from the call processing control apparatus transmits a TAI change request to a base station so that a tracking area identity (TAI) of a movement destination cell where congestion occurs and a tracking area identity of a movement origin cell have the same value. The base station receiving the TAI change request message from the monitor control server changes its own TAI value. After that, all mobile devices perform only handover when they move between the cells where the TAI values are changed, and does not perform location registration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyasu Kubo, Yosuke Takahashi, Akihiko Yoshida, Daigo Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 8121084
    Abstract: A transmission area is specified flexibly in accordance with the contents of a flow. An area identification number (SHOG) is specified for each interlaced stream of wireless base stations. The same flow is sent at the same timing (or substantially at the same timing) in the interlaced stream specified for the same SHOG. A wireless terminal determines a neighbor sector or a neighbor wireless base station sending the same flow, in accordance with information given from the wireless base stations, and receives and combines the flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiko Yoshida, Shiro Mazawa, Yosuke Takahashi, Daigo Takayanagi