Patents by Inventor Akinori Asahara

Akinori Asahara 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: 20210056793
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for reducing erroneous detection by outputting highly reliable results regarding the number of people. A mobile object measurement system of the present disclosure is a system for extracting the number of people on the basis of the measurement results of measurement devices that are arranged in the entire measurement area, and is configured to extract measurement devices that are measuring a predetermined area, extract the number of people present in the predetermined area using a plurality of combinations of measurement devices including some of the extracted devices or a plurality of combinations of measurement devices having different system start times, and perform a voting process for each extracted number of people for each combination so as to determine the most reliable number of people as a correct number of people (see FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Akinori Asahara
  • Patent number: 10922632
    Abstract: A client device accepts event information for which a people flow prediction is to be performed from a user and the client device inputs the accepted event information to a people flow prediction device. The people flow prediction device outputs a result of people flow prediction responsive to the input event information to the client device and the client device displays the result of people flow prediction to the user. The people flow prediction device performs a people flow prediction by temporally and spatially allocating an event attendance which has been input from the client device to pathways, each connecting a transport facility at which a people flow originates and an event site. Consequently, it is possible to predict a flow of people who attend an event or the like, the people flow differing from that in an ordinary situation, without need to input real-time data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Shimode, Akinori Asahara, Masahiro Oba, Takashi Mishima, Tomohide Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10846282
    Abstract: In a behavior characteristic amount analysis system, a necessary storage capacity is saved and reduced upon a statistical process performed on a large amount of measured data from a sensor or the like and the analysis of characteristics of a target to be measured. A behavior characteristic amount analyzing server includes a central processing unit and a storage device. The storage device holds a sensor table group of sensor tables holding sensor data from the sensor, and a pivot table of pivot tables aggregated based on the sensor table group and one or a combination of the moving object, time, and a location. The central processing unit generates the pivot tables based on information of the sensor tables for each of predetermined time periods, causes the generated pivot tables to be stored in the storage device, and deletes the sensor tables used for the generation of the pivot tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI INFORMATION & TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Akinori Asahara
  • Publication number: 20200042511
    Abstract: In a behavior characteristic amount analysis system, a necessary storage capacity is saved and reduced upon a statistical process performed on a large amount of measured data from a sensor or the like and the analysis of characteristics of a target to be measured. A behavior characteristic amount analyzing server includes a central processing unit and a storage device. The storage device holds a sensor table group of sensor tables holding sensor data from the sensor, and a pivot table of pivot tables aggregated based on the sensor table group and one or a combination of the moving object, time, and a location. The central processing unit generates the pivot tables based on information of the sensor tables for each of predetermined time periods, causes the generated pivot tables to be stored in the storage device, and deletes the sensor tables used for the generation of the pivot tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI INFORMATION & TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Akinori ASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20190295007
    Abstract: A client device accepts event information for which a people flow prediction is to be performed from a user and the client device inputs the accepted event information to a people flow prediction device. The people flow prediction device outputs a result of people flow prediction responsive to the input event information to the client device and the client device displays the result of people flow prediction to the user. The people flow prediction device performs a people flow prediction by temporally and spatially allocating an event attendance which has been input from the client device to pathways, each connecting a transport facility at which a people flow originates and an event site. Consequently, it is possible to predict a flow of people who attend an event or the like, the people flow differing from that in an ordinary situation, without need to input real-time data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki SHIMODE, Akinori ASAHARA, Masahiro OBA, Takashi MISHIMA, Tomohide SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10368191
    Abstract: A confined space estimation system, and a confined space estimation method capable of accurately confirming a confined space formed in the event of a disaster, estimates a confined space comprising a storage device which stores information indicating a geographical space, and a processor which divides the geographical space into grids. Based on location information sent from a terminal, the processor periodically aggregates a number of terminals within the grids or a number of terminals that passed through boundaries between the grids, extracts grids or boundaries in which the aggregated number of terminals is a predetermined number and in which there is no change in the aggregated number of terminals, determines whether the extracted grids or boundaries can be linked to form an annular shape, and, if the annular shape can be formed, estimates a geographical space configured from the grids within the formed annular shape as the confined space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuichi Ogawa, Natsuko Sugaya, Akinori Asahara, Hideki Hayashi, Hitoshi Tomita
  • Publication number: 20190042612
    Abstract: The multidimensional data management system for speedily registering and searching multidimensional data includes: a central processing unit and a storage device that stores the multidimensional data including the respective values of plural dimensions, and multidimensional management data associating the ranges of the respective values of plural dimensions with character strings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Akinori Asahara
  • Publication number: 20180213353
    Abstract: A confined space estimation system, and a confined space estimation method capable of accurately confirming a confined space formed in the event of a disaster, estimates a confined space comprising a storage device which stores information indicating a geographical space, and a processor which divides the geographical space into grids. Based on location information sent from a terminal, the processor periodically aggregates a number of terminals within the grids or a number of terminals that passed through boundaries between the grids, extracts grids or boundaries in which the aggregated number of terminals is a predetermined number and in which there is no change in the aggregated number of terminals, determines whether the extracted grids or boundaries can be linked to form an annular shape, and, if the annular shape can be formed, estimates a geographical space configured from the grids within the formed annular shape as the confined space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Yuuichi OGAWA, Natsuko SUGAYA, Akinori ASAHARA, Hideki HAYASHI, Hitoshi TOMITA
  • Patent number: 9098591
    Abstract: It is provided a spatio-temporal data management system for managing time series data associated with a spatio-temporal region, comprising: a processor for executing a program; a memory for storing the program; and a storage device for storing the time series data. The processor segments the spatio-temporal region in time and space to generate a plurality of spatio-temporal segments, assigns, in consideration of temporal and spatial proximity of the plurality of spatio-temporal segments, identifiers for uniquely identifying the plurality of spatio-temporal segments, each of the identifiers being expressed with a one-dimensional integer value; and determines an arrangement of the time series data so that pieces of data of spatio-temporal segments that are close in the assigned identifiers are arranged close on the storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Akinori Asahara, Kiyohiro Obara, Akiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20130339371
    Abstract: It is provided a spatio-temporal data management system for managing time series data associated with a spatio-temporal region, comprising: a processor for executing a program; a memory for storing the program; and a storage device for storing the time series data. The processor segments the spatio-temporal region in time and space to generate a plurality of spatio-temporal segments, assigns, in consideration of temporal and spatial proximity of the plurality of spatio-temporal segments, identifiers for uniquely identifying the plurality of spatio-temporal segments, each of the identifiers being expressed with a one-dimensional integer value; and determines an arrangement of the time series data so that pieces of data of spatio-temporal segments that are close in the assigned identifiers are arranged close on the storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki HAYASHI, Akinori ASAHARA, Kiyohiro OBARA, Akiko SATO
  • Patent number: 8548737
    Abstract: A navigation apparatus comprises a map display control unit that displays a map on a display monitor, a voice information outputting unit that outputs voice information related to traveling of a vehicle, and a highlighting unit that highlights a part of the map that corresponds to the voice information in synchronization with output of the voice information by the voice information outputting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Xanavi Informatics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Kobayashi, Noriyuki Abe, Katsuya Asada, Shigeru Shimada, Kishiko Maruyama, Akinori Asahara
  • Patent number: 8538759
    Abstract: It is provided a speech recognition system installed in a terminal coupled to a server via a network. The terminal holds map data including a landmark. The speech recognition system manages recognition data including a word corresponding to a name of the landmark, and sends update area information and updated time to the server. The server generates, when recognition data of the area of the update area information sent from the terminal has been changed after updated time, difference data between latest recognition data and recognition data of the update area information at a time of the updated time, and sends the generated difference data and map data of the update area information to the terminal. The terminal updates the map data based on the map data sent from the server. The speech recognition system updates the recognition data managed by the terminal based on the difference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Homma, Hiroaki Kokubo, Akinori Asahara, Hisashi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8463809
    Abstract: In executing query distributed processing in a computer system having a plurality of computers, a query and a sliding window are inherited between different computers. If a tuple having a new principal key value is detected when a query is to be executed, a relevant individual query and a relevant sliding window are inherited between computers, and further a sliding window of a relevant common query is inherited between computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Ito, Shinji Fujiwara, Itaru Nishizawa, Akinori Asahara
  • Patent number: 8224570
    Abstract: This on-vehicle map display apparatus comprises a map scale setting unit that sets a map scale, a summary map generation unit that generates a summary map by abbreviating road shapes if a map scale that is less than a predetermined scale is set by the map scale setting unit, a summary map display control unit that displays the summary map generated by the summary map generation unit upon a display monitor, a congestion information acquisition unit that acquires congestion information, and a congestion information display control unit that displays the congestion information acquired by the congestion information acquisition unit as superimposed upon the summary map displayed upon the display monitor by the summary map display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xanavi Informatics Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Sumizawa, Akihiro Kaneko, Shigeru Shimada, Kishiko Maruyama, Akinori Asahara
  • Patent number: 8156076
    Abstract: Disclosed herewith is a terminal for receiving data distributed from a host computer. The terminal includes a database for storing data distributed from the host computer and a schedule manager for managing the schedule of the terminal. Upon receiving an update request for the data stored in the database, the terminal extracts a time band in which the usage frequency of the terminal is kept low as an updatable time through the schedule manager and sends an update request to the host computer in response to the received request. The terminal calculates a processing time required to update object data, as well as a value denoting the usefulness of the object data according to the update information received from the host computer and including the object data, then decides a processing order for the object data according to the processing time and the usefulness value calculated respectively for the object data, thereby updating the data stored in the database according to the decided processing order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Hayashi, Daisuke Ito, Akinori Asahara, Shigeru Shimada
  • Patent number: 8131675
    Abstract: There is disclosed a map data delivering system for providing consistent road network information from supplement map information and map update information. The map data delivering system includes a navigation terminal and a map distribution server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Obara, Akinori Asahara, Kishiko Maruyama, Hideki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8005612
    Abstract: A map distribution system includes a map distribution server that distributes map data to a navigation device. The server includes a first table having entries that each include update data in correspondence with an ID for the update data and an ID for each other update data upon which the update data depends, a second table having entries that each include an area ID of an area of the map data in correspondence with a version of the area and the ID for each update data that is applied in the version of the area, and an update manager that refers to the second table to select the ID for each update data required for updating an area selected based on input from the navigation device and the required ID for each other update data upon which any update data required for updating the area selected depends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Asahara, Kenji Naka, Michio Morioka, Hirokazu Inayoshi
  • Publication number: 20110029554
    Abstract: In executing query distributed processing in a computer system having a plurality of computers, a query and a sliding window are inherited between different computers. If a tuple having a new principal key value is detected when a query is to be executed, a relevant individual query and a relevant sliding window are inherited between computers, and further a sliding window of a relevant common query is inherited between computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke ITO, Shinji FUJIWARA, Itaru NISHIZAWA, Akinori ASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20100185446
    Abstract: It is provided a speech recognition system installed in a terminal coupled to a server via a network. The terminal holds map data including a landmark. The speech recognition system manages recognition data including a word corresponding to a name of the landmark, and sends update area information and updated time to the server. The server generates, when recognition data of the area of the update area information sent from the terminal has been changed after updated time, difference data between latest recognition data and recognition data of the update area information at a time of the updated time, and sends the generated difference data and map data of the update area information to the terminal. The terminal updates the map data based on the map data sent from the server. The speech recognition system updates the recognition data managed by the terminal based on the difference data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Takeshi HOMMA, Hiroaki Kokubo, Akinori Asahara, Hisashi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7561962
    Abstract: This abridged map generating apparatus includes a route searching unit that searches for a plurality of routes from a departure point to a destination which has been set, an abridged map generation unit that generates an abridged map in which road shapes of the routes which are searched out by the route searching unit are simplified, based upon road map data which specifies shapes of roads by shapes of links set for each predetermined road section, and a link compactification unit that compactifies links of the routes based upon relative positional relationships of the routes before the abridged map generation unit generates the abridged map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Xanavi Informatics Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Sumizawa, Manabu Morita, Atsushi Hiroike, Kishiko Maruyama, Akinori Asahara