Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Matoba

Hiroshi Matoba 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: 20240078485
    Abstract: A data management system that enables appropriate management of data in offices is provided. A data management system including one or more server devices provided in each of a plurality of offices, in which: when receiving a request for data of another office from a client terminal, a setting unit sets information indicating acquisition of data of the other office in setting information; and an acquisition unit acquires the data of the other office from the server device in the other office according to the setting information in which a change is detected by a monitoring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Makoto YAMAMOTO, Ryo FURUHASHI, Hiroshi MATOBA
  • Patent number: 11876860
    Abstract: In a data sharing system 1, a plurality of dHCI systems 100 share data by communication, and each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 is configured to include a dHCI 110 to provide a virtual environment to execute an application and a storage system 120 to provide a volume to the virtual environment together with a storage device of the dHCI 110. Each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 stores data of the own computer system in the volume of the own computer system and acquires data of another computer system from the other computer system and stores the data in the volume. When data of some other computer system cannot be acquired from the other computer system, each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 acquires the data from a different other computer system and stores the data in the volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20230403324
    Abstract: In a data sharing system 1, a plurality of dHCI systems 100 share data by communication, and each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 is configured to include a dHCI 110 to provide a virtual environment to execute an application and a storage system 120 to provide a volume to the virtual environment together with a storage device of the dHCI 110. Each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 stores data of the own computer system in the volume of the own computer system and acquires data of another computer system from the other computer system and stores the data in the volume. When data of some other computer system cannot be acquired from the other computer system, each of the plurality of dHCI systems 100 acquires the data from a different other computer system and stores the data in the volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Hiroshi MATOBA
  • Patent number: 7684672
    Abstract: A broadcast storage system is disclosed which is easily controllable by the user for setting programs for timer recording and playing back recorded programs. The broadcast storage system has one or more slave apparatus and a master apparatus. The master apparatus grasps programs set for timer recording by each of the slave apparatus. When a program to be recorded is determined by the user or an automatic timer recording process, the master apparatus selects an apparatus to record the program such that a plurality of timer recording settings are not made at one time in one apparatus, and instructs the selected apparatus to set the program for timer recording. When instructed to set the program for timer recording, a slave apparatus sets the program for timer recording, and records the program at the time when the program is broadcast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matoba, Takuya Nishibayashi, Satoshi Onodera, Akihisa Kenmochi, Hidetaka Hane, Jun-Ichi Yamato
  • Patent number: 7489145
    Abstract: A high-frequency measurement unit includes a signal detector for detecting a high-frequency signal, and a calibration coefficient storage for storing calibration coefficients Cmin and Cmax used to calibrate a value Amin detected at the lowest limit frequency fmin and a value Amax detected at the uppermost limit frequency fmax to a proper measurement value Asmin and to a proper measurement value Asmax, respectively. The high-frequency measurement unit further includes a frequency detection unit for detecting a frequency fm of the high-frequency signal, a calibration coefficient calculation unit for calculating a calibration coefficient Cm for the frequency fm, and a calibration unit for calibrating the value Am detected by the signal detector to a proper measurement value Asm by using the calibration coefficient Cm calculated by the calibration coefficient calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Daihen Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matoba, Ryohei Tanaka, Shuji Omae, Shigeki Amadatsu
  • Patent number: 7489206
    Abstract: A high-frequency power device including: an oscillator; a high-frequency power supplier; a reflection coefficient calculator; a discharge signal output unit; and a frequency controller, wherein the frequency controller: instructs the oscillator to oscillate the oscillation signal at a first oscillation frequency for the period of time while a discharge signal is not in a state showing that the discharge has been commenced or in a state where the discharge is regarded as having been commenced; then instructs the oscillator to change the first oscillation frequency to a second oscillation frequency immediately after the discharge signal changes into the states; and then controls the oscillation frequency so that the absolute value is made small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Daihen Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kotani, Hirotaka Takei, Ryohei Tanaka, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: 7366737
    Abstract: A storage component interconnected via a network includes a recording unit for recording various contents, a first management table, a second management table and a control unit. The first management table manages for each user storage capacity in use by users in each recording unit of the storage components on the network. The second management table manages for each user total storage capacity that each user is allowed to use in all the recording units of the storage components on the network. The control unit restricts the storage capacity in use by the users so that the storage capacity used by the user does not exceed the total storage capacity that the user is allowed to use, on the basis of the first management table and the second management table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matoba, Takao Oomachi, Johji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7320160
    Abstract: A buckle (10) including a plug (30) and a socket (20) is provided with a posture-adjuster that adjusts relative postures of the plug (30) and the socket (20) in a direction that leads a longitudinal axis (A2) of the plug (30) and a longitudinal axis (A1) of the socket (20) to be parallel when the plug (30) is relatively moved in a direction toward inside of the socket (20) from an insertion slot (21) thereof. The posture-adjuster has a guide path (24) that is provided to the socket (20) and has a width that becomes wider as being closer to the front end side thereof as well as a step portion (36) as a guided member that is provided to the plug (30) and guided by the guide path (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2008
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: 7292047
    Abstract: A high-frequency power source supplies high-frequency power to a load whose reflection characteristic for the power varies with time. The power source includes a frequency-variable power generator, a power detector for detecting the power into the load and the power from the load, a reflection coefficient calculator for calculating a reflection coefficient based on the detection of the power into and from the load, a frequency detector causing the power generator to generate high-frequency powers at various frequencies within a predetermined frequency range for obtaining the frequency that gives a minimum value to the calculated reflection coefficient, and a power supply controller for causing the power generator to generate a high-frequency power of the frequency obtained by the frequency detector and for supplying the high-frequency power to the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Daihen Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Tanaka, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20070152678
    Abstract: A high-frequency measurement unit includes a signal detector for detecting a high-frequency signal, and a calibration coefficient storage for storing calibration coefficients Cmin and Cmax used to calibrate a value Amin detected at the lowest limit frequency fmin and a value Amax detected at the uppermost limit frequency fmax to a proper measurement value Asmin and to a proper measurement value Asmax, respectively. The high-frequency measurement unit further includes a frequency detection unit for detecting a frequency fm of the high-frequency signal, a calibration coefficient calculation unit for calculating a calibration coefficient Cm for the frequency fm, and a calibration unit for calibrating the value Am detected by the signal detector to a proper measurement value Asm by using the calibration coefficient Cm calculated by the calibration coefficient calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: DAIHEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matoba, Ryohei Tanaka, Shuji Omae, Shigeki Amadatsu
  • Patent number: 7219363
    Abstract: A broadcast program related information processor is provided wherein a user can easily create a message containing a program tag corresponding to a program during watching. When externally receiving a program tag capture request, the program display controller 2 captures the program-related information of a program in displaying from the recorded-video management data 3, creates a program tag based on the program information, and then returns the created program tag to the request source. When the program tag further contains scene information, the program display controller 2 captures the scene information regarding a scene in replay at the time of capturing program related information and then utilizes the scene information at the program tag creation time. The message creator 1 transmits the program tag capture request to the program display controller 2 and then, when the program tag is returned, inserts it into the message 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamato, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20060220573
    Abstract: A high-frequency power device including: an oscillator; a high-frequency power supplier; a reflection coefficient calculator; a discharge signal output unit; and a frequency controller, wherein the frequency controller: instructs the oscillator to oscillate the oscillation signal at a first oscillation frequency for the period of time while a discharge signal is not in a state showing that the discharge has been commenced or in a state where the discharge is regarded as having been commenced; then instructs the oscillator to change the first oscillation frequency to a second oscillation frequency immediately after the discharge signal changes into the states; and then controls the oscillation frequency so that the absolute value is made small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: DAIHEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kotani, Hirotaka Takei, Ryohei Tanaka, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20060220656
    Abstract: A high-frequency power source supplies high-frequency power to a load whose reflection characteristic for the power varies with time. The power source includes a frequency-variable power generator, a power detector for detecting the power into the load and the power from the load, a reflection coefficient calculator for calculating a reflection coefficient based on the detection of the power into and from the load, a frequency detector causing the power generator to generate high-frequency powers at various frequencies within a predetermined frequency range for obtaining the frequency that gives a minimum value to the calculated reflection coefficient, and a power supply controller for causing the power generator to generate a high-frequency power of the frequency obtained by the frequency detector and for supplying the high-frequency power to the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: DAIHEN Corporation
    Inventors: Ryohei Tanaka, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: 7111368
    Abstract: A buckle body formed of a resin has a housing having an insertion port on one end, an opening portion on both sides and an engaged portion in an inner part, an insertion member is provided with a pair of flexible insertion leg portions including an engaging portion on one end, an operating rod extended like a cantilever from a tip is continuously provided on the outside of the insertion leg portion and a mechanism capable of suppressing inward and outward deformations of the leg portion within a constant rage is provided, and the operating rod is provided with an operating portion protruded outward from the opening portion disposed on the buckle body at time of an insertion into the buckle body, and the insertion leg portion is deformed by pressing to disengage the engaging portion from the engaged portion, thereby removing the insertion member from the buckle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20060090310
    Abstract: A buckle (10) including a plug (30) and a socket (20) is provided with a posture-adjuster that adjusts relative postures of the plug (30) and the socket (20) in a direction that leads a longitudinal axis (A2) of the plug (30) and a longitudinal axis (A1) of the socket (20) to be parallel when the plug (30) is relatively moved in a direction toward inside of the socket (20) from an insertion slot (21) thereof. The posture-adjuster has a guide path (24) that is provided to the socket (20) and has a width that becomes wider as being closer to the front end side thereof as well as a step portion (36) as a guided member that is provided to the plug (30) and guided by the guide path (24).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2005
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: 6934966
    Abstract: A system is provided that can easily capture the same broadcast stream from an arbitrary application. An interface between application and a reception route selection mechanism describes in a unified mode a broadcast resource capture specification method and a communication resource capture specification method. The interface employs a description scheme in which an application does not recognize whether or not a broadcast stream is captured through broadcast or communication. In the reception route selection, the reception route selection mechanism checks for a broadcast time contained in the identifier of a broadcast stream to be input so that a zone where a broadcast time is earlier than the current time by using a communication resource receiver while a zone where the broadcast time is later than the current time is selected by using a broadcast resource receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Ochiai, Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20050078226
    Abstract: A device main body capable of screen display by television output, and a remote control device which has a specific button that enables setting of a plurality of kinds of code outputs to remotely operate the device main body are provided, in which the remote control device, when any one kind of the plurality of kinds of code outputs is selected, temporarily sets the specific button by the selected kind of code output, as well as transmitting, to the device main body, the kind of the temporarily set code output and causing the kind to be displayed on the screen, and when input to the effect that main setting is to be conducted is made, transmits, to the device, a kind of a code output temporarily set at the specific button at present to cause the kind to be again displayed on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matoba
  • Publication number: 20050071885
    Abstract: A recorder which reproduces contents and a remote controller which remotely operates the recorder are provided. The remote controller, which has a data base which stores context information indicating up to which position in the contents its reproduction has been made, when the recorder reproduces the contents by remote operation, transmits information for rewriting the context information in the data base based on the position in the contents obtained at the time when the reproduction ends to the remote controller by mail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matoba
  • Patent number: D505094
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matoba, Yasutaka Nishida
  • Patent number: D524693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoichiro Uehara, Hiroshi Matoba