Patents by Inventor Akira Kumano

Akira Kumano 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: 20230384780
    Abstract: A construction method of an abnormality diagnosis model for diagnosing an abnormality of a process, the construction method includes: creating a first regression model that sets a regression coefficient regarding an explanatory variable with a small influence on a response variable to zero by using all operational data in normal times collected in advance; dividing the operational data into a plurality of segments determined in advance and determining an explanatory variable candidate for each of the segments within a range of the explanatory variable used in the first regression model; and creating a second regression model that sets a regression coefficient regarding an explanatory variable candidate with a small influence on a response variable to zero by using the operational data included in the segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi MATSUSHITA, Takehide HIRATA, Akira KUMANO
  • Patent number: 8655641
    Abstract: A technical term dictionary stores terms of a first language and each translated term of a second language. A translation memory stores source sentences of the first language and each target sentence of the second language. A translation unit translates a text of the first language into an output text of the second language by the technical term dictionary and the translation memory. A corresponding translation pair extraction unit extracts, from a source sentence matched with a sentence of the text and a target sentence corresponding to the source sentence stored in the translation memory, a corresponding translation pair comprising a word in the source sentence and a translated word corresponding to the word in the target sentence. An unmatch check unit checks whether the translated word does not match with a translated term corresponding to the word in the output text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akira Kumano
  • Patent number: 8514262
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is connected with at least one external apparatus via a network. An input image of a first user related to the information processing apparatus is accepted while displaying a plurality of target images on a display. The plurality of target images includes an image of a second user related to the external apparatus. A gaze of the first user is detected from the input image. A target image looked by the first user is recognized from the plurality of target images, based on the gaze. A first head model as a head model of the first user, and a first texture to be projected onto the first head model, are generated. A first ID to identify a subject of the target image, the first head model and the first texture, are transmitted to the external apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Ueno, Nobuhiro Shimogori, Sogo Tsuboi, Keisuke Nishimura, Akira Kumano
  • Publication number: 20120136647
    Abstract: A technical term dictionary stores terms of a first language and each translated term of a second language. A translation memory stores source sentences of the first language and each target sentence of the second language. A translation unit translates a text of the first language into an output text of the second language by the technical term dictionary and the translation memory. A corresponding translation pair extraction unit extracts, from a source sentence matched with a sentence of the text and a target sentence corresponding to the source sentence stored in the translation memory, a corresponding translation pair comprising a word in the source sentence and a translated word corresponding to the word in the target sentence. An unmatch check unit checks whether the translated word does not match with a translated term corresponding to the word in the output text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Akira Kumano
  • Patent number: 7979265
    Abstract: Machine translation system includes storage unit configured to store interpretation data items each including first expression element representing first expression of first language, word set element including first expression, and second expression element representing second expression of second language, first expression being to be translated into second expression, first expression and second expression belonging to category, acquiring unit configured to acquire predetermined expression of first language, predetermined expression being contained in to-be-translated text having structure, detecting unit configured to detect, from interpretation data items, interpretation data items each including expression element representing predetermined expression, selection unit configured to select, from detected interpretation data items, interpretation data item including word set element corresponding to same attribute or equivalent positional relationship in structure, and translation unit configured to transl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Akira Kumano
  • Publication number: 20100220897
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus is connected with at least one external apparatus via a network. An input image of a first user related to the information processing apparatus is accepted while displaying a plurality of target images on a display. The plurality of target images includes an image of a second user related to the external apparatus. A gaze of the first user is detected from the input image. A target image looked by the first user is recognized from the plurality of target images, based on the gaze. A first head model as a head model of the first user, and a first texture to be projected onto the first head model, are generated. A first ID to identify a subject of the target image, the first head model and the first texture, are transmitted to the external apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koji UENO, Nobuhiro Shimogori, Sogo Tsuboi, Keisuke Nishimura, Akira Kumano
  • Patent number: 7477314
    Abstract: The invention concerns with an exposure control mechanism for use in an image pickup apparatus in which a diaphragm aperture formed by a plurality of diaphragm blades moving straightforward in opposite directions is covered by an ND filter, and intends to prevent deterioration of image quality caused by diffraction even in an image pickup device having a small picture size and a short pixel pitch. The image pickup apparatus comprises an exposure control mechanism for adjusting the quantity of light flux entering a shooting lens system. The exposure control mechanism comprises a diaphragm made up of diaphragm blades movable on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis in opposite directions to define a diaphragm aperture, and an ND filter made up of at least two ND filter elements having different transmittances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Nanjo, Yuichi Nakano, Akira Kumano, Masatoshi Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20060116866
    Abstract: Machine translation system includes storage unit configured to store interpretation data items each including first expression element representing first expression of first language, word set element including first expression, and second expression element representing second expression of second language, first expression being to be translated into second expression, first expression and second expression belonging to category, acquiring unit configured to acquire predetermined expression of first language, predetermined expression being contained in to-be-translated text having structure, detecting unit configured to detect, from interpretation data items, interpretation data items each including expression element representing predetermined expression, selection unit configured to select, from detected interpretation data items, interpretation data item including word set element corresponding to same attribute or equivalent positional relationship in structure, and translation unit configured to transl
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Akira Kumano
  • Patent number: 6771315
    Abstract: The invention concerns with an exposure control mechanism for use in an image pickup apparatus in which a diaphragm aperture formed by a plurality of diaphragm blades moving straightforward in opposite directions is covered by an ND filter, and intends to prevent deterioration of image quality caused by diffraction even in an image pickup device having a small picture size and a short pixel pitch. The image pickup apparatus comprises an exposure control mechanism for adjusting the quantity of light flux entering a shooting lens system. The exposure control mechanism comprises a diaphragm made up of diaphragm blades movable on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis in opposite directions to define a diaphragm aperture, and an ND filter made up of at least two ND filter elements having different transmittances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Nanjo, Yuichi Nakano, Akira Kumano, Masatoshi Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20040130653
    Abstract: The invention concerns with an exposure control mechanism for use in an image pickup apparatus in which a diaphragm aperture formed by a plurality of diaphragm blades moving straightforward in opposite directions is covered by an ND filter, and intends to prevent deterioration of image quality caused by diffraction even in an image pickup device having a small picture size and a short pixel pitch. The image pickup apparatus comprises an exposure control mechanism for adjusting the quantity of light flux entering a shooting lens system. The exposure control mechanism comprises a diaphragm made up of diaphragm blades movable on a plane perpendicular to an optical axis in opposite directions to define a diaphragm aperture, and an ND filter made up of at least two ND filter elements having different transmittances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Yusuke Nanjo, Yuichi Nakano, Akira Kumano, Masatoshi Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 6282508
    Abstract: The dictionary management apparatus of the present invention updates each dictionary included in a plurality of language processing system. A request section requests download of dictionary data for a dictionary server according to a user's request or a predetermined condition. The dictionary server stores the dictionary data to be supplied to the language processing system. An update section updates the dictionary of the plurality of language processing system according to the dictionary data downloaded from the dictionary server. A collection section collects a user dictionary data updated in the dictionary of at least one language processing system. An upload section sends the user dictionary data collected by the collection section to the dictionary server as upload data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kimura, Hideki Hirakawa, Akira Kumano
  • Patent number: 6047252
    Abstract: A source text output file provided with link information for a plurality of component units of a second language text corresponding to the component units of a first language text is obtained and a target text output file provided with link information for a plurality of component units of the first language text corresponding to the component units of the second language text is obtained. The obtained source text output file and target text output file are supplied to a display means and both the source text and the target text are displayed in correspondence with each other for example on an existing single Internet browser by use of a specification of an existing hyper text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Kumano, Satoshi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 5978754
    Abstract: In a translation display apparatus, a display section displays a plurality of original sentences of a first language. A user designates an area of the original sentences to be translated on the display through a translation area designation section. An area extraction section extracts the original sentences in the area designated by the translation area designation section. A translation section translates the original sentence extracted by the area extraction section from the first language to a second language. The display section displays the translated sentences translated by the translation section in the area designated by the translation area designation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Akira Kumano
  • Patent number: 5808827
    Abstract: A tape loading mechanism can reduce a load imposed upon a tape by removing conventional inclined guides and reduce the number of assemblies necessary for forming a tape transport system. The tape transport system of the tape loading mechanism is composed of four guide members of a tension regulator guide (9) for supporting a tape unreeled from a supply reel (1), a guide post (12) having a shuttle for guiding the tape into the entrance side of a rotary drum (14), a guide post (13) having a shuttle for guiding the tape into the exit side of the rotary drum (14), and an exit guide (21) for guiding the tape into a take-up reel (3). The tension regulator guide (9) and the exit guide (21) are formed as inclined guides having flanges in order to twist the tape supported by the respective guides so that a tape transport direction and a tape height direction can be varied. Thus, the inclined guide member with the shuttle can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Kumano, Tsukasa Sasabe
  • Patent number: 5765179
    Abstract: A language processing application system capable of operating a plurality of language processing functions on different computer systems while improving a performance level of each language processing function. In the system, mutually different language processing functions are provided by a plurality of language processing servers, and status data obtained in a course of a language processing by each language processing server is managed at a status data management unit, where the status data indicates at least a part of features of input data processed by each language processing server. Each language processing server acquires the status data obtained in a course of a language processing by another language processing server from the status data management unit and adjusts its language processing according to the status data acquired from the status data management unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuo Sumita, Akira Kumano, Hiroshi Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 5579224
    Abstract: A dictionary creation supporting system capable of improving the efficiency of the dictionary creation process for the dictionary such as the user dictionary. In the system, a first language document and a corresponding second language document are entered, and each first language character string to be registered in the dictionary is extracted from the first language document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideki Hirakawa, Akira Kumano
  • Patent number: 5351189
    Abstract: A machine translation system includes a translation processor, a display, and a display controller. The display has original and translated sentence display sections. The display controller has a display managing section and a display format controller. The translation processor translates a given original sentence by accessing a dictionary. The translated and original sentences are displayed in the translated and original sentence display sections, i.e., right and left display sections of the display. The original and translated sentences are managed by the display magaging section in predetermined units of translation processing. The display format controller controls the original and translated sentences such that start lines of a given group thereof are horizontally aligned with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Miwako Doi, Shin-ya Amano, Seiji Miike, Hiroyasu Nogami, Akira Kumano, Kimihito Takeda, Hisahiro Adachi, Isamu Iwai, Toshio Okamoto, Noriko Yamanaka, Tsutomu Kawada
  • Patent number: 5333807
    Abstract: A tape tension mechanism for a recording and reproducing apparatus having a supply reel table and a take-up reel table, in which a tension arm is provided at the supply reel side and rotatably mounted thereon, a brake mechanism for the supply reel table is coupled to the tension arm, and the tension arm is biased by a tension spring so that the brake mechanism performs a braking operation, the tape tension mechanism further includes a movable operation member to which a fixed end of the tension spring for biasing the tension arm is connected, wherein the fixed end of the tension spring is moved close to and apart from a pivot of the tension arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masanori Maehara, Yoshio Kusui, Akira Kumano, Shuji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 5091876
    Abstract: A machine translation system has a display section, an original storage section for storing an original sentence, a dictionary storing linguistical information necessary for translation processing, a translation processing section for translating the original sentence for each predetermined processing unit to obtain a translated sentence, a translation storage section for storing the translated sentence, an edit processing section for executing edit processing for the original and translated sentences, and an input section for inputting instruction information. In addition, the system has a display control section for realizing a first display mode for displaying the original and translated sentences respectively on original and translation display sections of a display screen of the display section, a second display mode for mainly displaying the original sentences on the display screen, and a third display mode for mainly displaying the translated sentences on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Kumano, Hiroyasu Nogami, Seiji Miike, Hisahiro Adachi, Shin-ya Amano
  • Patent number: 5084817
    Abstract: A language expression data base is adapted to store expression data of an input sentence of a first language to be translated into a second language and the expression data stored in the language expression data base is renewed under the control of an expression data input unit. An input basic form sentence structure data extracted from the input sentence of the first language is translated into a basic form sentence structure data of the second language at the sentence structure transfer unit. A basic form sentence of the second language is obtained on the basis of the basic form sentence structure data of which an expression is then modified according to the expression data stored in the language expression data base, and a modified sentence of the second language is displayed on a display through an output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Kumano, Shin-ya Amano, Hisahiro Adachi, Hiroyasu Nogami, Seiji Miike, Tsutomu Kawada, Kimihito Takeda, Isamu Iwai, Miwako Doi, Toshio Okamoto, Noriko Yamanaka