Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Horii

Hiroshi Horii 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: 20230021137
    Abstract: A working machine includes: a plurality of hydraulic actuators including a high-load hydraulic actuator and a low-load hydraulic actuator whose hydraulic pressure for actuation thereof is lower than that of the high-load hydraulic actuator; a plurality of direction switching valves each of which switches a direction of a hydraulic fluid for a corresponding one of the hydraulic actuators, the plurality of direction switching valves including a low-load direction switching valve that switches a direction of hydraulic fluid for the low-load hydraulic actuator; and a dummy-load forming unit that forms a dummy load in the low-load direction switching valve to suppress a variation in an actuation speed of the low-load hydraulic actuator between a time when the high-load hydraulic actuator and the low-load hydraulic actuator are operated in combination and a time when the low-load hydraulic actuator is operated singly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi HORII
  • Patent number: 11543895
    Abstract: A method is described in which biometric input is associated with at least one selectable option on a user controller prior to receipt of a user selection for the at least one selectable option; a past input by a user of a previous selectable option on the user controller is identified; and the at least one selectable option is preemptively executed according to the biometric input and the past input of the previous selectable option, prior to receipt of the user selection for the at least one selectable option.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rafael Antonio Ballagas, Hiroshi Horii, Mithra Vankipuram
  • Patent number: 11544614
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate sampling of an operator in a quantum system are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a cache component that caches a probability distribution and a quantum state of one or more Kraus operators in a quantum circuit. The computer executable components can further comprise a simulator component that simulates one or more shots of the quantum circuit based on the probability distribution and the quantum state of the one or more Kraus operators. The one or more shots are indicative of one or more algorithm execution instances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Hitomi Chiba, Christopher James Wood
  • Patent number: 11526217
    Abstract: A stylus includes a housing, a tip portion at an end of the housing, and a control module within the housing, with the housing including a shape-changeable portion, and the control module to generate a first signal in response to the shape-changeable portion of the housing having a first effective cross-sectional area and generate a second signal in response to the shape-changeable portion of the housing having a second, different effective cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Ian N Robinson
  • Patent number: 11501199
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for reducing a measure time of a measure process in a multi-shot simulation performed by a quantum computing simulation system. The method includes calculating probabilities from probability amplitudes before the measure process. The method further includes creating, for each node of the quantum computing simulation system, an index of probability by incrementally summing respective different ones of the probabilities into respective sums. The method also includes generating a random number for each of the multi-shots, the random number for sampling a probability distribution of the probabilities. The method additionally includes selecting the index of probability which is larger than the random number by comparing the random number generated for a given one of the multi-shots to the index of probability created for the given one of the multi-shots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitomi Chiba, Hiroshi Horii
  • Patent number: 11474603
    Abstract: In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a body portion and a plurality of legs movably coupled to the body portion. The body portion is to rest on a backside of a hand of a user. Each one of the plurality of legs include a curved portion to fit between fingers of a user. Respective ends of the plurality of legs are to contact a palm of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mithra Vankipuram, Hiroshi Horii, Rafael Ballagas
  • Patent number: 11475345
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating controlled NOT gate parallelization in quantum computing simulation are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a selector component that can select a first qubit and a second qubit. The first qubit can be a control qubit. The computer executable components can also comprise a parallelization component that can reorder the first qubit with the second qubit and a replication component that can simulate a controlled NOT gate during the reordering by the parallelization component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Hitomi Chiba
  • Publication number: 20220307222
    Abstract: A working machine includes a cooling fan, and a first cooling device and a second cooling device that are disposed in series in a flow passage of cooling air that is generated by the cooling fan. The first cooling device is disposed upstream of the second cooling device in a direction of flow of the cooling air, and has a heat-exchange suppressing portion that is provided at a portion corresponding to a region in a rotation center vicinity of the cooling fan and that suppresses heat exchange between the cooling air and a fluid that flows in the first cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi HORII
  • Patent number: 11455035
    Abstract: In example implementations, a virtual reality (VR) system is provided. The VR system includes a head mounted display (HMD), a hand wearable interface, a wireless communication interface, and a processor. The HMD is to display a computer generated artificial world. The wireless communication interface is to establish a wireless communication path. The processor is communicatively coupled to the HMD, the hand wearable interface, and the wireless communication interface. The processor is to receive an indication that a touch screen device is located from a locator device in the HMD or the hand wearable device, to establish a wireless connection to the touch screen device via the wireless communication interface, and to receive an input via the touch screen device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Mithra Vankipuram, Ian N. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20220298744
    Abstract: A working machine includes a machine body, a dozer, a boom, an arm, a working tool, a boom cylinder, and an arm cylinder. The working machine also includes an arm crowd restricting unit and a crowd restriction releasing unit. The arm crowd restricting unit imposes a restriction on a stroke of the arm cylinder in an arm crowd direction so that a swing track of a distal end portion of the working tool is spaced from the boom cylinder. The crowd restriction releasing unit releases the restriction on the stroke of the arm cylinder to enable the arm to swing to an end of a swing range in the arm crowd direction when the boom is at a swing position at which the working tool in an operating position close to a working-tool dump position is disposed in a vicinity of a blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi HORII
  • Patent number: 11423025
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is presented for reducing data loading overhead of middleware to facilitate direct data loading to a database management system (DBMS). The method includes, while data loading, sending external-writes to a memory-based DBMS if corresponding internal-writes are for vertices, exporting all the external-writes to a disk-based DBMS as an export file, and sending an external-read for vertices to an in-memory DBMS if the middleware requests data. The method further includes, at the end of data loading, generating files for raw data of the disk-based DBMS from the export file and sending the generated raw files to the disk-based DBMS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Mikio Takeuchi, Rina Inoue
  • Patent number: 11422670
    Abstract: A method includes providing a split input device that includes a left portion for use by a user's left hand, and a right portion for use by the user's right hand. The method includes capturing images of the split input device while the split input device is being used by the user in a split configuration in which the left portion is physically separated from the right portion, and generating a three-dimensional (3D) visualization of the split input device based on the captured images, wherein the split input device appears in the 3D visualization as a single input device in a combined configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Mithra Vankipuram
  • Patent number: 11408148
    Abstract: A working machine includes an operation device to conduct operations of the working machine, a control device to control the working machine between an operation allowable state and an operation restriction state, the operation allowable state allowing the working machine to be operated, the operation restriction state restricting the operations conducted by the operation device in comparison with the operation allowable state. The working machine includes a display device having a display portion and an input operation portion. The control device performs control under the operation restriction state when a predetermined input operation is conducted through the input operation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Patent number: 11403278
    Abstract: Verified snapshots are generated by obtaining, from one of a plurality of first nodes, a difference between a common data at a first time point and the common data at a second time point that is different from the first time point, generating a first snapshot of the common data at the first time point based on the difference, obtaining a hash of the common data at the first time point from one of the plurality of first nodes, and verifying the first snapshot at the first time point with the hash of the common data at the first time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Kohichi Kamijoh, Kiyokuni Kawachiya, Shohei Ohsawa, Hironori Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20220235534
    Abstract: A swivel working machine includes a machine body swivelable around a swivel axis, a working device attached to the machine body swingably around a swing axis, an operation member to be handled and operated by an operator, and a controller to control swivel movement, which is a swiveling movement of the machine body, and swing movement, which is a swinging movement of the working device. The controller includes an operation pattern shifting unit configured or programmed to perform shifting between a swivel operation state where operation of the operation member in a specific direction causes the swivel movement and a swing operation state where the operation of the operation member in the specific direction causes the swing movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi HORII
  • Publication number: 20220234612
    Abstract: In one example, a location indicator device can include a location identifier to identify an area that is proximate to the location indicator device, and a transmitter to: send the identified area to an autonomous robotic device, and send instructions to the autonomous robotic device to alter a direction from a different area to the identified area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jonathan Munir Salfity, Amalendu Iyer, Hiroshi Horii, Mithra Vankipuram, Ji Won Jun
  • Patent number: 11352766
    Abstract: A working machine includes a traveling device to change a traveling speed in accordance with a flow rate of an operation fluid, a traveling operation device to change the flow rate of the operation fluid to be supplied to the traveling device, and a switching operation portion to change, at multiple steps, a supply amount of the operation fluid to be supplied to the traveling device, the supply amount corresponding to an operation extent of the traveling operation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Publication number: 20220164388
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are presented for reducing memory consumption in depth first search (DFS)-based cycle detection processes to detect an n-length cycle on a Pregel model. The method includes generating a graph including a plurality of vertices and edges connecting the plurality of vertices, commencing a cycle from a first vertex of the plurality of vertices, setting an ID of the first vertex to a path and the first vertex as a target vertex, and iterating the following n?1 times: send the path to out-edges starting from the first vertex and transferring the path, via out-edges, n?1 times by subsequent received vertices, find one vertex before returning to the target vertex, add an ID of a found vertex to the path, and set the found vertex as the target vertex such that n=n?1, where is a number of iterations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroshi Horii
  • Publication number: 20220155881
    Abstract: An input device for providing input to a computing device includes a hand-held controller movable across and above a work surface. The input device includes a mouse sensor positioned on or in the hand-held controller to sense two-dimensional (2D) translation data representing translational movement of the hand-held controller across the work surface, and a six degree of freedom (6DOF) sensor positioned on or in the hand-held controller to sense 6DOF data representing position and orientation of the hand-held controller above the work surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L,P.
    Inventors: Michael Sutherland, Rafael Ballagas, Hiroshi Horii, Ian N. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11331588
    Abstract: An example virtual reality headset stand includes a base, a stem, and a docking station. The stem, which extends from the base, is angled toward the base. The docking station, which is attached to the stem, is angled away from the stem. The docking station is contoured to hold a virtual reality headset. The docking station includes a lip connected to the stem, a body portion connected to the lip, and a clip connected to the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Horii, Kevin Smathers, Ian N. Robinson, Alex Thayer