Patents by Inventor Isamu Watanabe

Isamu Watanabe 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: 20150242784
    Abstract: An order quantity determining method includes: receiving restriction information used for calculating a profit based on an order quantity of a product; specifying a combination of order quantities of a k-th period to a (k+H)-th period for which the profit is the highest by using the restriction information, by a processor; and outputting the order quantity of the k-th period based on the specified combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshinobu MATSUI, Yuhei Umeda, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Hirokazu Anai, Isamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20150012317
    Abstract: An information analysis supporting apparatus includes a computer processor and a storage part. The storage part stores first data correlating data item names of analysis object data and standardized data item names and second data correlating the standardized data item names and information related to analysis processes. The storage part stores instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the information analysis supporting apparatus to search, in response to inputting of the analysis object data, the first data using the data item names of the input analysis object data and extract the standardized data item names, search the second data using the extracted standardized data item names and extract the information related to the analysis processes, and cause a presentation part to present the extracted information related to the analysis processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Isamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110165274
    Abstract: A xanthine oxidase inhibitor and a uric acid-producing inhibitor, each containing an extract from at least one member selected from the group consisting of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Sorghum nervosum, Cuminum cyminum, Rosa centifolia, Pimenta officinalis, Origanum majorana, Psidium guajava, Pimpinella anisum, Olea europaea, Illicium verum, Canavalia gladiata, Hyssopus officinalis, Ribes nigrum, Vaccinium myrtillus, Artemisia princeps and Haematoxylon campechianum L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: KAO CORORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamoto, Isamu Watanabe, Atsushi Suzuki, Kohjiro Hashizume
  • Patent number: 7933911
    Abstract: A medium storing a document retrieval program, a document retrieval apparatus and a document retrieval method that can retrieve a classification code of an appropriate grain size are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Isamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7715631
    Abstract: An apparatus for extracting feature information from each of a plurality of electronic documents that constitutes a group of documents, for each of a plurality of viewpoints includes an extracting unit that extracts feature information from each of the electronic documents for each of the viewpoints, a calculating unit that calculates a score for each of the viewpoints with respect to the feature information that is extracted from more than one viewpoint, and a determining unit that determines the viewpoint for the feature information that is extracted from more than one viewpoint, based on the score calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kazunari Tanaka, Isamu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Hatta, Nobuyuki Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20090299997
    Abstract: This method includes: extracting plural feature expressions from plural documents, and categorizing the extracted feature expressions into plural sets; presenting a user with one of the plural sets in a manner that the feature expressions included in the set can be recognized; accepting, from the user, a grouping instruction including designation of the feature expression to be unified among the feature expressions included in a specific set, and counting, as a first value, the number of documents including the feature expression to be unified, which is included in the grouping instruction; counting, as a second value, the number of documents including the feature expression included in a set that is other than the specific set and identified by a grouping mode and/or state; judging based on the first and second values whether a predetermined condition is satisfied; upon detecting that the predetermined condition is satisfied, notifying the user of the completion of designation of the feature expression to be
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kazunari TANAKA, Isamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080162476
    Abstract: A medium storing a document retrieval program, a document retrieval apparatus and a document retrieval method that can retrieve a classification code of an appropriate grain size are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Isamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070179984
    Abstract: This invention is to generate an information element map where the associations between information elements of different types can be easily understood. For this purpose, the method includes: extracting a plurality of information elements from an information group; calculating a degree of each association between the extracted information elements; identifying an attribute of a relational line connecting the information elements to each other according to the degree of each association between the extracted information elements; identifying a category of each extracted information element; and updating at least one of the degree of the association between the extracted information elements and the attribute of the relational line according to the identified categories of the extracted information elements. This enables to figure out whether the information elements at both ends of the relational line are of the same type or of different types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Isamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7107238
    Abstract: In a method for providing information on commodities to a user by using a computer, commodity-comparison information indicating at least one result of at least one comparison between the commodities is acquired and stored. Next, a commodity-comparison map which visually indicates at least one relationship between the commodities is produced by using the commodity-comparison information stored above, in such a manner that at least one coordinate axis of the commodity-comparison map corresponds to at least one evaluation criterion used in evaluation of the commodities, respectively. Then, relative-evaluation information which indicates at least one relative evaluation of the commodities is produced by using the commodity-comparison map. Finally, the relative-evaluation information is provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hatakama, Kazuo Misue, Isamu Watanabe, Hiromi Kato, Junichi Wako
  • Publication number: 20060039607
    Abstract: An apparatus for extracting feature information from each of a plurality of electronic documents that constitutes a group of documents, for each of a plurality of viewpoints includes an extracting unit that extracts feature information from each of the electronic documents for each of the viewpoints, a calculating unit that calculates a score for each of the viewpoints with respect to the feature information that is extracted from more than one viewpoint, and a determining unit that determines the viewpoint for the feature information that is extracted from more than one viewpoint, based on the score calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Kazunari Tanaka, Isamu Watanabe, Hiroyuki Hatta, Nobuyuki Hiratsuka
  • Publication number: 20050081146
    Abstract: A relation chart-creating program which are capable of clarifying degrees of relevance between documents which do not explicitly-shown citation relationship or reference relationship, and then displaying the documents in chronological order. When a plurality of documents are inputted, contents of each of the documents are analyzed, and feature elements including time information are extracted therefrom. A degree of relevancy is calculated between each document pair extracted from the documents, based on the extracted feature elements. Objects indicative of the documents are arranged along a time axis, based on the time information. Association lines are generated for connecting between the objects of each document pair, depending on the calculated degree of relevancy. The relation chart composed of the objects and the association lines is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kazunari Tanaka, Isamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20040230570
    Abstract: This invention enables a searcher to analyze search results, intuitively. Data items of plural documents extracted by the search are presented as the following processing keys and selectable display items to a user in a first display form, and in response to the user's selection of the display item, data items of the documents corresponding to the selected display item are further presented to the user as the further following processing keys and selectable display items in a second display form designated by the user. Therefore, the analysis object and display manner are changed with an intuitive interface to progress the analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hatta, Nobuyuki Hiratsuka, Isamu Watanabe, Kazunari Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20040186831
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to appropriately guide a user to obtain a more adequate search result. This invention comprises the steps of: specifying a search word (and/or phrase) included in a search condition designated by the user; obtaining evaluation data that is at least either of a score based on an appearance frequency and the number of documents to be searched that include the search word or its synonym, for each of the search word and its synonym; presenting the user with search word and its synonym and the corresponding evaluation data in a manner in which one or plurality of search words and its synonyms are selectable; and presenting the user with data concerning a document to be searched that includes the search word or its synonym selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hiratsuka, Hiroyuki Hatta, Isamu Watanabe, Kazunari Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20020184108
    Abstract: In a method for providing information on commodities to a user by using a computer, commodity-comparison information indicating at least one result of at least one comparison between the commodities is acquired and stored. Next, a commodity-comparison map which visually indicates at least one relationship between the commodities is produced by using the commodity-comparison information stored above, in such a manner that at least one coordinate axis of the commodity-comparison map corresponds to at least one evaluation criterion used in evaluation of the commodities, respectively. Then, relative-evaluation information which indicates at least one relative evaluation of the commodities is produced by using the commodity-comparison map. Finally, the relative-evaluation information is provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hatakama, Kazuo Misue, Isamu Watanabe, Hiromi Kato, Junichi Wako
  • Patent number: 6350346
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer has a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof, and a top ring for holding a workpiece and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth under a first pressing force to polish the workpiece. The top ring has a recess defined therein for accommodating the workpiece therein. A presser ring is vertically movably disposed around the top ring, and pressed against the abrasive cloth under a variable second pressing force. The first and second pressing forces are variable independently of each other, and the second pressing force is determined based on the first pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Nakashiba, Norio Kimura, Isamu Watanabe, Yoko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5916412
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer has a turntable with an abrasive cloth mounted on an upper surface thereof, and a top ring for holding a workpiece and pressing the workpiece against the abrasive cloth under a first pressing force to polish the workpiece. The top ring has a recess defined therein for accommodating the workpiece therein. A presser ring is vertically movably disposed around the top ring, and pressed against the abrasive cloth under a variable second pressing force. The first and second pressing forces are variable independently of each other, and the second pressing force is determined based on the first pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Nakashiba, Norio Kimura, Isamu Watanabe, Yoko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 5762539
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer has a turntable with a polishing surface, and a top ring for holding a workpiece and pressing the workpiece against the polishing surface under a first pressing. The polishing apparatus has a pressurized fluid source for supplying pressurized fluid, and a plurality of openings provided in the holding surface of the top ring for ejecting the pressurized fluid supplied from the pressurized fluid source. A plurality of areas each having the openings are defined on the holding surface so that the pressurized fluid is selectively ejectable from the openings in the respective areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Nakashiba, Norio Kimura, Isamu Watanabe, Kaori Yoshida
  • Patent number: RE38826
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer has a turntable with a polishing surface, and a top ring for holding a workpiece and pressing the workpiece against the polishing surface under a first pressing. The polishing apparatus has a pressurized fluid source for supplying pressurized fluid, and a plurality of openings provided in the holding surface of the top ring for ejecting the pressurized fluid supplied from the pressurized fluid source. A plurality of areas each having the openings are defined on the holding surface so that the pressurized fluid is selectively ejectable from the openings in the respective areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: EBARA Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Nakashiba, Norio Kimura, Isamu Watanabe, Kaori Yoshida
  • Patent number: RE38854
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer has a turntable with a polishing surface, and a top ring for holding a workpiece and pressing the workpiece against the polishing surface under a first pressing. The polishing apparatus has a pressurized fluid source for supplying pressurized fluid, and a plurality of openings provided in the holding surface of the top ring for ejecting the pressurized fluid supplied from the pressurized fluid source. A plurality of areas each having the openings are defined on the holding surface so that the pressurized fluid is selectively ejectable from the openings in the respective areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Nakashiba, Norio Kimura, Isamu Watanabe, Kaori Yoshida
  • Patent number: RE39471
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus for polishing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer has a turntable with a polishing surface, and a top ring for holding a workpiece and pressing the workpiece against the polishing surface under a first pressing. The polishing apparatus has a pressurized fluid source for supplying pressurized fluid, and a plurality of openings provided in the holding surface of the top ring for ejecting the pressurized fluid supplied from the pressurized fluid source. A plurality of areas each having the openings are defined on the holding surface so that the pressurized fluid is selectively ejectable from the openings in the respective areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Masamichi Nakashiba, Norio Kimura, Isamu Watanabe, Kaori Yoshida