Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Matsuzawa

Hirofumi Matsuzawa 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: 11120367
    Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for evaluation and modification of training data for classifiers. A computer system applies an each piece of training data of an each class to multiple classifiers. The computer system performs evaluation and validation of the training data for the each class and defines at least one representative class for the each piece of the training data of the each class if classification precision of the each piece of the training data is greater than a predetermined threshold. The computer system modifies the training data, based on results of the evaluation and the validation of the training data for the each class. The computer system performs evaluation and validation of the training data for representative classes. The computer system modifies the training data, based on results of the evaluation and the validation of the training data for the representative classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Kobayashi, Hirofumi Matsuzawa
  • Publication number: 20200034751
    Abstract: A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for evaluation and modification of training data for classifiers. A computer system applies an each piece of training data of an each class to multiple classifiers. The computer system performs evaluation and validation of the training data for the each class and defines at least one representative class for the each piece of the training data of the each class if classification precision of the each piece of the training data is greater than a predetermined threshold. The computer system modifies the training data, based on results of the evaluation and the validation of the training data for the each class. The computer system performs evaluation and validation of the training data for representative classes. The computer system modifies the training data, based on results of the evaluation and the validation of the training data for the representative classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Takehiko Kobayashi, Hirofumi Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 9703689
    Abstract: Detection of defects in an online system includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, a plurality of search conditions regarding a search screen of the online system, generating, by the one or more processor, a plurality of test models having factors based on the plurality of search conditions and levels having one or more of the search conditions, generating, by the one or more processor, a plurality of test cases based on the generated plurality of test models having the factors based on the plurality of search conditions and the levels having one or more of the search conditions, and executing, by the one or more processor, the plurality of test cases on the online system to detect defects in the online system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tomio Amano, Natsumi Kurashima, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Rei Suginaka, Masaru Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170123962
    Abstract: Detection of defects in an online system includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, a plurality of search conditions regarding a search screen of the online system, generating, by the one or more processor, a plurality of test models having factors based on the plurality of search conditions and levels having one or more of the search conditions, generating, by the one or more processor, a plurality of test cases based on the generated plurality of test models having the factors based on the plurality of search conditions and the levels having one or more of the search conditions, and executing, by the one or more processor, the plurality of test cases on the online system to detect defects in the online system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Tomio AMANO, Natsumi KURASHIMA, Hirofumi MATSUZAWA, Rei SUGINAKA, Masaru YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8417648
    Abstract: Different virtual labels, for example, like +1 and ?1, are assigned to two data sets. A change analysis problem for the two data sets is reduced to a supervised learning problem by using the virtual labels. Specifically, a classifier such as logical regression, decision tree and SVM is prepared and is trained by use of a data set obtained by merging the two data sets assigned the virtual labels. A feature selection function of the resultant classifier is used to rank and output both every attribute contributing to classification and its contribution rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shohei Hido, Ysuyoshi Ide, Hisashi Kashima, Harunobu Kubo, Hirofumi Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 8271440
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided with base table storage sections that store base tables and delta tables for the base tables, a summary table storage section that stores a summary table for storing results of queries to a plurality of base tables and delta information about the summary table, delta data processing sections that insert delta data of the base tables into the delta tables, and a delta computation processing section that generates delta information about the summary table. The delta computation processing section is provided with a generation section that generates delta information about a specified base table on the basis of an update that has been performed for the base table, in a situation where a subsequent update of the specified base table is permitted; and a control section that performs control so that, when a different base table is specified, delta information is generated in a different transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masahiro Ohkawa
  • Patent number: 8165913
    Abstract: A system for tracing a cause of a phenomenon occurring in products produced in a production process chain is provided. The system is provided with a storage unit for storing a virtual attribute in association with corresponding second products, a receiving unit for receiving information for specifying third products in which a phenomenon occurs, a correlation calculation unit for calculating a correlation coefficient between the third products specified by the information for specifying the third products and the group of the second products having a common virtual attribute, for every kind of second products used in the third products, and a cause identification unit for identifying the second products belonging to the kind of the second products for which a maximum correlation coefficient is calculated as the cause of the phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiko Kitayama, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masayuki Numao
  • Patent number: 7769706
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find out parts to be a highly possible cause of failure without searching all of part data of all of products. Dispersed parts data on a parts tree are sequentially accessed from a set of known failed products, and part attribute values each having a higher support in the faulty product are extracted. In this process, a subset of parts used in the faulty product is also obtained simultaneously. The part attribute values having higher supports and the subset of parts used in the faulty product are represented as a tree in which a parts type serves as a node. Next, an information gain of a rule that having the two part attribute values is a cause of failure is calculated on two part attribute values having higher supports on the tree of the parts type. This calculation is locally performed on a common parent part of two parts and parts having a certain information gain is outputted as a cause of failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiko Kitayama, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masayuki Numao, Madoka Yuriyama
  • Publication number: 20090271354
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find out parts to be a highly possible cause of failure without searching all of part data of all of products. Dispersed parts data on a parts tree are sequentially accessed from a set of known failed products, and part attribute values each having a higher support in the faulty product are extracted. In this process, a subset of parts used in the faulty product is also obtained simultaneously. The part attribute values having higher supports and the subset of parts used in the faulty product are represented as a tree in which a parts type serves as a node. Next, an information gain of a rule that having the two part attribute values is a cause of failure is calculated on two part attribute values having higher supports on the tree of the parts type. This calculation is locally performed on a common parent part of two parts and parts having a certain information gain is outputted as a cause of failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fumihiko Kitayama, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masayuki Numao, Madoka Yuriyama
  • Publication number: 20090222389
    Abstract: Different virtual labels, for example, like +1 and ?1, are assigned to two data sets. A change analysis problem for the two data sets is reduced to a supervised learning problem by using the virtual labels. Specifically, a classifier such as logical regression, decision tree and SVM is prepared and is trained by use of a data set obtained by merging the two data sets assigned the virtual labels. A feature selection function of the resultant classifier is used to rank and output both every attribute contributing to classification and its contribution rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: SHOHEI HIDO, TSUYOSHI IDE, HISASHI KASHIMA, HARUNOBU KUBO, HIROFUMI MATSUZAWA
  • Patent number: 7567948
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find out parts to be a highly possible cause of failure without searching all of part data of all of products. Dispersed parts data on a parts tree are sequentially accessed from a set of known failed products, and part attribute values each having a higher support in the faulty product are extracted. In this process, a subset of parts used in the faulty product is also obtained simultaneously. The part attribute values having higher supports and the subset of parts used in the faulty product are represented as a tree in which a parts type serves as a node. Next, an information gain of a rule that having the two part attribute values is a cause of failure is calculated on two part attribute values having higher supports on the tree of the parts type. This calculation is locally performed on a common parent part of two parts and parts having a certain information gain is outputted as a cause of failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Fumihiko Kitayama, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masayuki Numao, Madoka Yuriyama
  • Patent number: 7483829
    Abstract: A candidate synonym acquisition device acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to an input word for each writer from data for each writer, and acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to the input word from a collective data. A generated candidate synonym set is inputted to a candidate synonym determination device to evaluate the candidate synonyms of the collective data. In the evaluation, the status of “absolute” is given to a word matching a word ranked first in the candidate synonyms for each writer and the status of “negative” is given to words matching words ranked second and lower therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Murakami, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Tetsuya Nasukawa
  • Publication number: 20080147586
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to find out parts to be a highly possible cause of failure without searching all of part data of all of products. Dispersed parts data on a parts tree are sequentially accessed from a set of known failed products, and part attribute values each having a higher support in the faulty product are extracted. In this process, a subset of parts used in the faulty product is also obtained simultaneously. The part attribute values having higher supports and the subset of parts used in the faulty product are represented as a tree in which a parts type serves as a node. Next, an information gain of a rule that having the two part attribute values is a cause of failure is calculated on two part attribute values having higher supports on the tree of the parts type. This calculation is locally performed on a common parent part of two parts and parts having a certain information gain is outputted as a cause of failure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Fumihiko Kitayama, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masayuki Numao, Madoka Yuriyama
  • Publication number: 20080086449
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided with base table storage sections that store base tables and delta tables for the base tables, a summary table storage section that stores a summary table for storing results of queries to a plurality of base tables and delta information about the summary table, delta data processing sections that insert delta data of the base tables into the delta tables, and a delta computation processing section that generates delta information about the summary table. The delta computation processing section is provided with a generation section that generates delta information about a specified base table on the basis of an update that has been performed for the base table, in a situation where a subsequent update of the specified base table is permitted; and a control section that performs control so that, when a different base table is specified, delta information is generated in a different transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masahiro Ohkawa
  • Publication number: 20080059259
    Abstract: A system for tracing a cause of a phenomenon occurring in products produced in a production process chain is provided. The system is provided with a storage unit for storing a virtual attribute in association with corresponding second products, a receiving unit for receiving information for specifying third products in which a phenomenon occurs, a correlation calculation unit for calculating a correlation coefficient between the third products specified by the information for specifying the third products and the group of the second products having a common virtual attribute, for every kind of second products used in the third products, and a cause identification unit for identifying the second products belonging to the kind of the second products for which a maximum correlation coefficient is calculated as the cause of the phenomenon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Fumihiko Kitayama, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masayuki Numao
  • Publication number: 20070185904
    Abstract: Provides graphics display apparatus, systems and methods for effectively presenting information obtained by data mining, and to improve the visibility of the display of individual data elements and attributes of data included in a particular category while allowing an overview of whole large-scale hierarchical data to be provided. An example embodiment includes an aggregation unit for performing aggregation of attributes of nodes in the hierarchical data according to given aggregation criteria; a filtering unit for filtering the result of aggregation performed by the aggregation unit according to given filtering criteria to select nodes to be displayed from the hierarchical data; and a visualization unit for generating a graphics image that includes the nodes to be displayed selected by the filtering unit and reflects the hierarchical structure of the hierarchical data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Tohru Nagano, Takayuki Itoh, Yumi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20040181759
    Abstract: A candidate synonym acquisition device acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to an input word for each writer from data for each writer, and acquires a set of candidate synonyms similar to the input word from a collective data. A generated candidate synonym set is inputted to a candidate synonym determination device to evaluate the candidate synonyms of the collective data. In the evaluation, the status of “absolute” is given to a word matching a word ranked first in the candidate synonyms for each writer and the status of “negative” is given to words matching words ranked second and lower therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Akiko Murakami, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Tetsuya Nasukawa
  • Patent number: 6618725
    Abstract: A text-mining system and method automatically extracts useful information from a large set of tree-structured data by generating successive sets of candidate tree-structured association patterns for comparison with the tree-structured data. The number of times is counted that each of the candidate association patterns matches with a tree in the set of tree-structured data in order to determine which of the candidate association patterns frequently matches with a tree in the data set. Each successive set of candidate association patterns is generated from the frequent association patterns determined from the previous set of candidate association patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Fukuda, Hirofumi Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 6400363
    Abstract: The two-dimensional coordinates of a vertex are extracted in each of a top view and front view and, if their X-coordinates are equal to each other, the combination of their Y-coordinate values is determined to be the two-dimensional coordinates of a candidate vertex in a side view. Then, candidate line segments for the side view are extracted from the line segments connecting two candidate vertices, excepting not only those line segments for which no corresponding line segment exists in the top and front views, but a so those line segments for which corresponding horizontal or vertical line segments exist in the top and front views, and which a e not horizontal or vertical in the side view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Masuda, Hirofumi Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: D565179
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2008
    Assignees: PENTAX Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kubo, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Yoshie Tominaga, Keita Abe