Patents by Inventor Kazuo Sasaki
Kazuo Sasaki 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).
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Publication number: 20150016267Abstract: A modular arrangement decision device includes a storing unit and selecting units. Network information of a network connected to nodes and an identifier for identifying a module to be arranged in a node are stored in the storing unit. The first selecting unit selects a predetermined number of pieces of information with a higher degree of evaluation from among first information indicating a node in which the module is to be arranged among the multiple nodes, and second information obtained by changing the first information. The second selecting unit selects a predetermined number of pieces of information with a smaller number of unmatched conditions, from the information selected by the first selecting unit and third information obtained by changing the information selected by the first selecting unit. The third selecting unit selects information in which an evaluation value and a number of unmatched conditions satisfy a predetermined criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Shigeki FUKUTA, Itaru NAKAGAWA, KAZUO SASAKI
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Publication number: 20140380440Abstract: An authentication information management program of an authentication information management apparatus allowing the authentication information management apparatus to execute: changing the first authentication information in correspondence information which is information including the first authentication information and second authentication information in association with each other and stored in a storage section of the authentication information management apparatus; transmitting the authentication apparatus of the changed first authentication information; determining, in response to a request from the apparatus to be authenticated, whether the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information; and returning, in the case where it is determined that the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information, theType: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Itaru Nakagawa, Kazuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 8898281Abstract: An information distribution system includes a visit determination unit (42), a distribution range evaluation unit (43), and a distribution range change unit (44). The visit determination unit (42) determines whether a user of a mobile terminal (2) to which evaluation information has been distributed has visited a facility in the evaluation information, and upon determining affirmatively, calculates a visit distance indicating the distance between the location of the mobile terminal indicated by distribution time terminal location information and the location of the facility in the evaluation information. The distribution range evaluation unit (43) determines whether the distribution range is effective based on the visit distance.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masayuki Fukui, Tatsuro Matsumoto, Ai Yano, Kazuo Sasaki, Eiichi Takahashi, Masahiro Hara, Yutaka Iwayama
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Patent number: 8886420Abstract: A control method for an automatic transmission includes a step of canceling the shift performed by a shift operation for performing shifting in the same direction as that of the shifting performed by automatic shift control, when the shift operation is performed before the input revolution speed correlation value of the automatic transmission becomes a predetermined value, after the automatic shift control has been started in a manual shift mode, a step of switching a shift stage display at a timing at which the shift operation that is to be canceled has been performed, and a step of switching the shift stage display at a timing at which the input revolution speed correlation value becomes the predetermined value when a shift operation is not performed within a period of time from when the automatic shift control is started till when the input revolution speed correlation value becomes the predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Tetsutaka Shibata, Kosuke Takegawa, Nobuyuki Sakata, Kazuo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140307877Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a forward deciding unit that makes a decision as to a user's forward according to the user's orientation information, a sound generating unit that creates sound data assigned to each of virtual sound sources placed in a plurality of directions preset in advance, a compressing unit that performs compression on the created sound data by the sound generating unit in different ways between the created sound data corresponding to the user's forward obtained by the forward deciding unit and the created sound data corresponding to a direction other than the user's forward, and a communication unit that transmits the compressed sound data by the compressing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Motoshi SUMIOKA, Kazuo SASAKI, Masahide NODA, Takeshi OHTANI
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Patent number: 8863254Abstract: An authentication information management program of an authentication information management apparatus allowing the authentication information management apparatus to execute: changing the first authentication information in correspondence information which is information including the first authentication information and second authentication information in association with each other and stored in a storage section of the authentication information management apparatus; transmitting the authentication apparatus of the changed first authentication information; determining, in response to a request from the apparatus to be authenticated, whether the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information; and returning, in the case where it is determined that the second authentication information in the authentication request coincides with the second authentication information in the correspondence information, theType: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Itaru Nakagawa, Kazuo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140149008Abstract: A control method for an automatic transmission includes a step of canceling the shift performed by a shift operation for performing shifting in the same direction as that of the shifting performed by automatic shift control, when the shift operation is performed before the input revolution speed correlation value of the automatic transmission becomes a predetermined value, after the automatic shift control has been started in a manual shift mode, a step of switching a shift stage display at a timing at which the shift operation that is to be canceled has been performed, and a step of switching the shift stage display at a timing at which the input revolution speed correlation value becomes the predetermined value when a shift operation is not performed within a period of time from when the automatic shift control is started till when the input revolution speed correlation value becomes the predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsutaka SHIBATA, Kosuke TAKEGAWA, Nobuyuki SAKATA, Kazuo SASAKI
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Patent number: 8717167Abstract: The event message is transmitted from an operative event detection device to the application, the transmission history is held by a device different from the operative event detection device, an event identifier of an event message and a time stamp in the generation history held by a standby event detection device is compared with an event identifier of an event message and a time stamp in the transmission history when the standby event detection device detects an abnormal condition of the operative event detection device, thereby transmitting an event message that has not been transmitted by the operative event detection device through the standby event detection device, and allowing the standby event detection device to transfer from the standby event detection device to an operative system.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2010Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takeshi Ohtani, Kazuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 8694460Abstract: A movement determination apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of position information of an object at desired periods, a classifying unit that classifies the plurality of position information acquired by the acquiring unit into a plurality of measurement segments, an estimating unit that estimates existence regions of the object in the plurality of measurement segments, on a basis of the classified plurality of position information, and a determining unit that determines movement of the object position by comparing the existence regions.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Itaru Nakagawa, Kazuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 8675619Abstract: A communication terminal performs wireless ad hoc communication with another terminal via a first wireless interface dedicated to reception and a second wireless interface for both transmission and reception. The terminal executes defining a communication area to be divided into cells of first polygonal shapes and each of the cells to be divided into a plurality of sub-cells of second polygonal shapes different from the first polygonal shapes; allocating, so as to prevent adjacent cells from belonging to a set of two identical wireless channels, a first wireless channel and a second wireless channel as the set of wireless channels to the cells; and setting the first wireless channel and the second wireless channel so that the same transmission channel is set for sub-cells brought into contact between the adjacent cells while different transmission channels are set for adjacent sub-cells in an own cell where an own terminal is present.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Nami Nagata, Kazuo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20140050053Abstract: A computer-readable recording medium storing an estimation program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes: executing sound image localization processing for each of pieces of sound data output by a plurality of sound sources; and specifying, on the basis of a change in orientation of a listener caused in accordance with the sound image localization processing, at least one of the plurality of sound sources related to the listener.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Motoshi Sumioka, Kazuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 8645392Abstract: A privacy protection device includes an attribute update frequency management unit configured to calculate and record therein an update frequency of each attribute included in a life log of a user in response to storing of the life log; a static attribute extraction unit configured to calculate a threshold value of a change frequency on the basis of a static attribute, an attribute the update frequency of which is less than or equal to the calculated threshold value of the change frequency, the update frequency being recorded by the attribute update frequency management unit; and a notification request reception unit configured to extract the number of users satisfying the notification condition of the notification request, accept the registration of the notification request from the service provider when the extracted number of users exceeds the limit number of persons.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kazuo Sasaki, Shigeki Fukuta
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Patent number: 8597463Abstract: An inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber for accommodating a target substrate to be processed and performing plasma processing thereon, a mounting table provided in the processing chamber for mounting thereon the target substrate, a processing gas supply system for supplying a processing gas into the processing chamber and a gas exhaust system for exhausting the inside of the processing chamber. Further, in the inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus, a high frequency antenna is provided to form an inductive electric field in the processing chamber and a first high frequency power supply is provided to supply a high frequency power to the high frequency antenna. A metal window made of a nonmagnetic and conductive material is formed between the high frequency antenna and the processing chamber while being insulated from a main body which forms the processing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Kazuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 8571575Abstract: A computer executes processing of acquiring, by using a positioning unit to output error region information indicating an ellipse-shaped error region represented by a position acquired from positioning performed by receiving a signal from a plurality of transmitters and a measurement error of the position, a plurality of pieces of the error region information by performing the positioning a plurality of times, processing of extending the error region indicated by each piece of the acquired error region information in a major axis direction, and processing of estimating a position of a positioning target based on an intersect region at which the extended error regions intersect with one another.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Shigeki Fukuta, Kazuo Sasaki, Itaru Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20130260678Abstract: A first mobile terminal requests a device to transmit data, on the basis of a processing request transmitted from a management server. The device transmits the requested data to the first mobile terminal. The first mobile terminal generates processed data by using the data received from the device. The first mobile terminal assigns an identifier to the processed data. The first mobile terminal transmits the processed data in association with the identifier to the management server. The first mobile terminal transmits an association relationship between the identifier and the data used for generating the processed data to the device. The device stores the identifier in association with the transmitted data. A second mobile terminal transmits to the device an identifier transmitted from the management server as an identifier associated with data to be deleted. The device identifies data associated with the identifier received from the second mobile terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kentaro IKEMOTO, Kazuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 8539077Abstract: A load distribution apparatus includes: a control unit that refers to a load information storage unit that stores load values of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, selects an information processing apparatus with the load value smaller than a predetermined threshold from the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and determines the information processing apparatus with the load value smaller than a predetermined threshold as an allocation destination of processing requests until the load value of the information processing apparatus reaches the predetermined threshold; and a transmitting unit that transmits the processing requests to the allocation destination determined by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takeshi Sano, Kazuo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20130232255Abstract: An event collection method collects an event from a sensor network, the method includes: retrieving on a per process basis for a module, based on a module definition information and an occurred event information, an occurrence node identifier categorized by an attribute value corresponding to an attribute name, with input event type associated with an occurred event type; determining, when there is a single retrieved occurrence node identifier with respect to the process of the module, a node identified by the occurrence node identifier as an installation destination of the module that is identified by the module identifier; referencing, when there is a plurality of retrieved occurrence node identifiers with respect to the process of the module, a connection relation information of nodes and determining an upper node common to the plurality of occurrence node identifiers as an installation destination of the module identified by the module identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masayuki Fukui, Kazuo Sasaki, Shigeki Fukuta, Itaru Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8525804Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided with a signature window data generating unit that, by combining template window data stored in a template data storage unit with confirmation note item data and confirmation note content data acquired by a confirmation note data acquiring unit, generates signature window data indicating a signature window on which the confirmation note item data and the confirmation note content data are displayed in at least a portion of an input area, and a signature window display unit that causes a display apparatus to display the signature window indicated by the signature window data generated by the signature window data generating unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Yutaka Iwayama, Tatsuro Matsumoto, Kazuo Sasaki, Manabu Machida, Masanori Yasunaga, Hirokazu Miyashita
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Patent number: 8463793Abstract: A method executed by a management server controlling a plurality of index servers for searching a database storing an object identifier and an attribute value, each of the plurality of index servers handling a part of the database, storing index information including the attribute value within a range predefined for the each of the plurality of index servers and the associated object identifier stored in the database, the method has deleting one of index information stored in one of the index servers in reference to the range of each of the index servers when an updated attribute value coming to be out of the range of the one of the index servers, obtaining a frequency of the deleting and the storing the one of the index information, and enabling the index server to obtain an attribute value from the database when the obtained frequency being more than a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Shigeki Fukuta, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kazuo Sasaki
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Patent number: 8402052Abstract: The search method includes: receiving a search request including plural search conditions; separating the plural search conditions into search conditions for individual databases; storing, for each database, the search condition and the database identifier in a condition record; searching a search result management table by the database identifier and the search condition; determining anterior search databases; searching each of the anterior search databases by the search condition to acquire a first search result; determining common entity identifiers included in common in the first search results; and searching each of posterior search databases by the common entity identifiers and the search condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Takeshi Sano, Kazuo Sasaki, Takeshi Ohtani