Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Kikuchi

Hiroaki Kikuchi 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).

  • Patent number: 10585928
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system matches a set of documents, from a corpus of documents, to a query received from a client. The information handling system determines an amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents by dynamically dividing the corpus of documents into multiple sub-corpuses and performing complement facet counting on at least one of the sub-corpuses. In turn, the information handling system sends a set of results to the client that includes the determined amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi T. Fukuda, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masaki Komedani, Shimpei Yotsukura
  • Patent number: 10585929
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system matches a set of documents, from a corpus of documents, to a query received from a client. The information handling system determines an amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents by dynamically dividing the corpus of documents into multiple sub-corpuses and performing complement facet counting on at least one of the sub-corpuses. In turn, the information handling system sends a set of results to the client that includes the determined amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi T. Fukuda, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masaki Komedani, Shimpei Yotsukura
  • Publication number: 20200034379
    Abstract: A method for recommending a plurality of alternate search keywords is provided. The method may include executing a first search query using a plurality of user-entered search text. The method may also include identifying a highest contribution keyword to a plurality of search results of the executed first search query. The method may further include identifying a highest correlation alternate keyword to the identified highest contribution keyword. The method may also include creating an alternate keyword group by replacing the identified highest contribution keyword with the identified highest correlation alternate keyword. The method may further include executing a second search query using the created alternate keyword group. The method may also include displaying the plurality of search results associated with the executed first search query with a plurality of statistics associated with the executed second search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kikuchi, Fumihiko Terui
  • Publication number: 20190392077
    Abstract: Facet-based query refinement based on multiple query interpretations is provider through a process that includes receiving a query for querying documents, of a whole document set, that deviate by one or more facet values. The process generates different query interpretations from query text of the query. The process executes the different query interpretations to obtain resulting document sets. For each different query interpretation, the executing executes the query interpretation to obtain a resulting document set corresponding to that query interpretation, and identifies facet values represented in the resulting document set. The process builds and presents to a user a query refinement interface, presenting the different query interpretations and properties of the resulting document sets, as well as, for each of the one or more facet values, and relative to each other, facet value representation of the facet value in each of the resulting document sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kikuchi, Yutaka Moriya
  • Publication number: 20190385275
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to providing an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of easily obtaining a combined image and a developed image in a case where a construction formed of a plurality of planes is divisionally imaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 10474704
    Abstract: A method for recommending a plurality of alternate search keywords is provided. The method may include executing a first search query using a plurality of user-entered search text. The method may also include identifying a highest contribution keyword to a plurality of search results of the executed first search query. The method may further include identifying a highest correlation alternate keyword to the identified highest contribution keyword. The method may also include creating an alternate keyword group by replacing the identified highest contribution keyword with the identified highest correlation alternate keyword. The method may further include executing a second search query using the created alternate keyword group. The method may also include displaying the plurality of search results associated with the executed first search query with a plurality of statistics associated with the executed second search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kikuchi, Fumihiko Terui
  • Patent number: 10351680
    Abstract: A formed body having a layer of a resin composition constituted by a thermoplastic resin and a barrier resin, wherein the layer of the resin composition forms, in a matrix of the thermoplastic resin, a layer structure in which the barrier resin is dispersed in the form of a lamellar dispersion phase stretching in one direction; and the ratio (a)/(b) of an aspect ratio (a) of the dispersion phase of the barrier resin near the surfaces of the layer and an aspect ratio (b) of the dispersion phase of the barrier resin in the central portion in the direction of thickness of the layer, is not more than 2.0. The formed body has the layer of the resin composition constituted by the thermoplastic resin and the barrier resin, and has a dispersion structure capable of exhibiting excellent barrier property despite of the single layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD., TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuhei Yonekawa, Daisuke Tsuchimoto, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Takayuki Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20190188304
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for clustering facets on a two-dimensional facet cube for text mining. The method and system performs text mining based on facets to analyze unstructured data in one or more documents by generating a two-dimensional facet cube that is a correlation matrix for one or more facets associated with a set of one or more of the documents; grouping one or more of the facets in the correlation matrix into at least one cluster; calculating a center for the cluster; and identifying facets that are located near the calculated center of the cluster as being representative of the cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi Fukuda, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Shimpei Yotsukura
  • Patent number: 10309446
    Abstract: A connecting shaft including a first shaft made of metal, a second shaft made of resin, and a collar made of metal including a first fitting portion fitting on an outer peripheral surface of the first shaft and a second fitting portion fitting on an outer peripheral surface of the second shaft. A gap between the outer peripheral surface of the second shaft and an inner peripheral surface of the second fitting portion is filled with an adhesive agent, and the adhesive agent is applied to an outer peripheral surface of the collar to cover an end face of the second fitting portion in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Katayama, Yasuhiko Saijo, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Hong Bie
  • Publication number: 20190141229
    Abstract: To enable HDR video signals of a plurality of signal interfaces to be satisfactorily handled. [Solution] A processing unit processes a linear high dynamic range video signal and obtains a high dynamic range video signal that has undergone a grayscale compression process. The processing unit is able to perform grayscale compression processes of a plurality of signal interfaces. For example, when a grayscale compression process of another signal interface other than a reference signal interface is performed, the processing unit further performs a process of adding characteristics of system gamma of the reference signal interface and a process of cancelling out characteristics of system gamma of the other signal interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji KAMIYA, Hiroaki KIKUCHI, Jun ONUKI, Tomoyuki ENDO, Masaki HIROSE
  • Patent number: 10282418
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to implement a document analysis device for performing a statistical analysis of documents with respect to a facet. An acceptance module accepts a natural language sentence. An extraction module extracts a first facet from the natural language sentence. A statistical analysis module performs a first statistical analysis of a set of documents with respect to the first facet and determines a value of the first facet based on a result of the first statistical analysis responsive to information being extracted from the natural language sentence, the information requesting for a second statistical analysis. The statistical analysis module performs the second statistical analysis of the set of documents using the value of the first facet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Ishikawa, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masaki Komedani, Yutaka Moriya
  • Publication number: 20190065505
    Abstract: A set of keywords is extracted from a query. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is performed on the query to extract a set of contextual words for a keyword from the query. For the query, a first score of a first vector is computed, where the first vector represents a first contextual word. For a first result in a result set, a first result score of a first result vector is computed, where the first vector represents a first result contextual word in a set of result contextual words corresponding to the keyword in the first result. Using the first score and the first result score, a first similarity value is computed for the first result. The first result is re-ranked relative to a second result according to the first similarity value for the first result and a second similarity value for the second result in the result set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fukuda, Hiroaki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20190065584
    Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) is performed on a corpus using a processor and a memory to extract a set of facets corresponding to a dimension in a set of dimensions. Using a score threshold, a subset of the set of facets is selected where each facet in the set of facets has a corresponding score relative to the corpus. A subsequent query is formed by increasing a complexity of a previous query using a facet in the subset of facets. The subsequent query is executed on at least a portion of the corpus. The documents in a new result set are ranked, the new result set being in response to executing the subsequent query. An output is produced from the new result set, which includes a ranking of that subset of documents whose ranks have changed by more than a threshold rank distance from the corresponding ranks in the corpus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Fukuda, Hiroaki Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20190050401
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an index generating method and index generating apparatus capable of accurately and stably generating an index for measuring a width of a subject, and a measuring method capable of accurately and stably measuring a width of a subject. An index generating method according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an image input step of inputting an image obtained by imaging a linear subject; a density distribution acquiring step of acquiring, from the input image, a plurality of density distributions along a direction orthogonal to a width direction of the linear subject, which are density distributions in the width direction of the linear subject; a function calculating step of calculating a probability distribution function corresponding to the acquired plurality of density distributions; and an index generating step of generating an index indicating a width of the subject based on the calculated probability distribution function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki KIKUCHI, Masashi KURANOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20180300868
    Abstract: The present invention provides a structure member specification device and a structure member specification method capable of easily and accurately acquiring member identification information indicating a member included in an image of a structure captured by an imaging device when the structure is inspected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180300397
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system matches a set of documents, from a corpus of documents, to a query received from a client. The information handling system determines an amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents by dynamically dividing the corpus of documents into multiple sub-corpuses and performing complement facet counting on at least one of the sub-corpuses. In turn, the information handling system sends a set of results to the client that includes the determined amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi T. Fukuda, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masaki Komedani, Shimpei Yotsukura
  • Publication number: 20180300396
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which an information handling system matches a set of documents, from a corpus of documents, to a query received from a client. The information handling system determines an amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents by dynamically dividing the corpus of documents into multiple sub-corpuses and performing complement facet counting on at least one of the sub-corpuses. In turn, the information handling system sends a set of results to the client that includes the determined amount of facets corresponding to the matching set of documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi T. Fukuda, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masaki Komedani, Shimpei Yotsukura
  • Publication number: 20180285341
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to implement a document analysis device for performing a statistical analysis of documents with respect to a facet. An acceptance module accepts a natural language sentence. An extraction module extracts a first facet from the natural language sentence. A statistical analysis module performs a first statistical analysis of a set of documents with respect to the first facet and determines a value of the first facet based on a result of the first statistical analysis responsive to information being extracted from the natural language sentence, the information requesting for a second statistical analysis. The statistical analysis module performs the second statistical analysis of the set of documents using the value of the first facet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Shunsuke Ishikawa, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masaki Komedani, Yutaka Moriya
  • Patent number: 9996527
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to implement a document analysis device for performing a statistical analysis of documents with respect to a facet. An acceptance module accepts a natural language sentence. An extraction module extracts a first facet from the natural language sentence. A statistical analysis module performs a first statistical analysis of a set of documents with respect to the first facet and determines a value of the first facet based on a result of the first statistical analysis responsive to information being extracted from the natural language sentence, the information requesting for a second statistical analysis. The statistical analysis module performs the second statistical analysis of the set of documents using the value of the first facet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Ishikawa, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Masaki Komedani, Yutaka Moriya
  • Publication number: 20180112788
    Abstract: A first on-off valve 2 and a second on-off valve 3 each are a two-port valve. A first passage block 5 is provided with a first on-off valve-corresponding inflow passage 11 and a first on-off valve-corresponding outflow passage 12. A second passage block 6 is provided with a second on-off valve-corresponding inflow passage 14 and a second on-off valve-corresponding outflow passage 15. The second on-off valve-corresponding outflow passage 15 is in communication with an upstream side portion of the first on-off valve-corresponding outflow passage 12 via a communicating passage 13 formed in the first passage block 5. An orifice 20 is provided between the second on-off valve-corresponding outflow passage 15 and the communicating passage 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Keisuke Ishibashi, Tsuyoshi Tanikawa, Michio Yamaji, Takashi Funakoshi, Hidenori Kiso, Tsuneyuki Okabe, Hiroaki Kikuchi, Kuniyasu Sakashita