Patents by Inventor Kazuo Yano
Kazuo Yano 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: 20220000405Abstract: An analysis system includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The processing unit quantifies the brain state on the basis of occurrence frequencies of the duration included in a plurality of regions each of which has a predefined range within which the duration falls. The calculated brain index is calculated by the processing unit using coefficients.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO, Miki HAYAKAWA, Koji ARA, Tomoaki AKITOMI
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Patent number: 11200528Abstract: A generation technique and an analysis technique of a large number of explanatory variables to derive effective measures by using various data are provided. Specifically, a factor which lurks in a large amount of data and affects business performance is identified by automatically generating a large number of explanatory variables and performing correlation analysis between the explanatory variables and an objective variable. Three operators representing condition, target, and arithmetic which are variable generation conditions are defined in advance for data inputted into an analysis system and a large number of explanatory variables are automatically generated by these operators.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Shinichi Fukuma, Hiroyuki Tomita, Miki Hayakawa, Norio Ohkubo
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Patent number: 11172854Abstract: An analysis system analyzes a state of a person and includes a terminal configured to be worn on the person's body. The terminal includes an acceleration sensor, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines whether each value contained in the time series data is in a first state in which the value is equal to or greater than the threshold or in a second state in which the value is less than the threshold. The processing unit also determines a duration which is a period of time during which the first state continues. The processing unit quantifies a brain state of the person on the basis of the duration.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Happiness Planet, Ltd.Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Miki Hayakawa, Koji Ara, Tomoaki Akitomi
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Patent number: 10549421Abstract: A control device controls a subject to be controlled that obtains a certain state by an action, and is configured to conduct: an obtaining process to obtain the state and the action of the subject to be controlled from the subject to be controlled; a generating process to generate a reward that causes a next action of the subject to be controlled to optimize a next state of the subject to be controlled, based on the state and the action of the subject to be controlled; a selecting process to select a next action of the subjected to be controlled, based on the state and the action of the subject to be controlled, and the reward; and a control process to give a control command value to the subject to be controlled, the control command value corresponding to the next action of the subject to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kohsei Matsumoto, Tomoaki Akitomi, Kazuo Yano
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Patent number: 10546511Abstract: Provided is a sensor data analysis system, comprising terminals, a control unit, an analysis unit, and a storage unit, wherein the terminals worn on persons belonging to an organization, the terminals each comprising a sensor to measure a physical quantity, the storage unit holds an activity index of the organization, and holds, for a first condition relating to a behavior of each of the persons, advice corresponding to a statistical relation between an amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index, the control unit generates a behavior index for indicating a behavior of a first person based on the physical quantity, the analysis unit calculates, for the first condition, the statistical relation between the amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index based on the behavior index, and the control unit outputs advice corresponding to the statistical relation satisfying a second condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato
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Publication number: 20190392362Abstract: A generation technique and an analysis technique of a large number of explanatory variables to derive effective measures by using various data are provided. Specifically, a factor which lurks in a large amount of data and affects business performance is identified by automatically generating a large number of explanatory variables and performing correlation analysis between the explanatory variables and an objective variable. Three operators representing condition, target, and arithmetic which are variable generation conditions are defined in advance for data inputted into an analysis system and a large number of explanatory variables are automatically generated by these operators.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Norihiko MORIWAKI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO, Shinichi FUKUMA, Hiroyuki TOMITA, Miki HAYAKAWA, Norio OHKUBO
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Patent number: 10445676Abstract: A generation technique and an analysis technique of a large number of explanatory variables to derive effective measures by using various data are provided. Specifically, a factor which lurks in a large amount of data and affects business performance is identified by automatically generating a large number of explanatory variables and performing correlation analysis between the explanatory variables and an objective variable. Three operators representing condition, target, and arithmetic which are variable generation conditions are defined in advance for data inputted into an analysis system and a large number of explanatory variables are automatically generated by these operators.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Shinichi Fukuma, Hiroyuki Tomita, Miki Hayakawa, Norio Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20180247240Abstract: Information appropriate for supporting various judgments in organization activities is provided. A judgment support system for supporting a user's judgment, includes: a processor that executes a program; a storage section that can be accessed by the processor; and an output section that outputs data for displaying an execution result of the program. The judgment support system further includes: an extraction section that searches a predetermined sentence expression from data stored in the storage section, and extracts an issue of an organization using text having a predetermined relationship with the searched sentence expression; and a first selection section that selects a second organization confronted with an issue similar to an issue of a first organization to be analyzed, and that selects measures against the issue of the second organization from the data stored in the storage section. The output section outputs data for displaying the selected issue and the selected measures.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kenzo Kurotsuchi, Kohsuke Yanai, Toshihiko Yanase, Misa Sato, Yuta Koreeda, Yoshiki Niwa, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20180043531Abstract: A control device controls a subject to be controlled that obtains a certain state by an action, and is configured to conduct: an obtaining process to obtain the state and the action of the subject to be controlled from the subject to be controlled; a generating process to generate a reward that causes a next action of the subject to be controlled to optimize a next state of the subject to be controlled, based on the state and the action of the subject to be controlled; a selecting process to select a next action of the subjected to be controlled, based on the state and the action of the subject to be controlled, and the reward; and a control process to give a control command value to the subject to be controlled, the control command value corresponding to the next action of the subject to be controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Kohsei MATSUMOTO, Tomoaki AKITOMI, Kazuo YANO
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Publication number: 20170337842Abstract: Provided is a sensor data analysis system, comprising terminals, a control unit, an analysis unit, and a storage unit, wherein the terminals worn on persons belonging to an organization, the terminals each comprising a sensor to measure a physical quantity, the storage unit holds an activity index of the organization, and holds, for a first condition relating to a behavior of each of the persons, advice corresponding to a statistical relation between an amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index, the control unit generates a behavior index for indicating a behavior of a first person based on the physical quantity, the analysis unit calculates, for the first condition, the statistical relation between the amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index based on the behavior index, and the control unit outputs advice corresponding to the statistical relation satisfying a second condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO
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Publication number: 20170319125Abstract: An analysis system analyzes a state of a person and includes a terminal configured to be worn on the person's body. The terminal includes an acceleration sensor, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines whether each value contained in the time series data is in a first state in which the value is equal to or greater than the threshold or in a second state in which the value is less than the threshold. The processing unit also determines a duration which is a period of time during which the first state continues. The processing unit quantifies a brain state of the person on the basis of the duration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO, Miki HAYAKAWA, Koji ARA, Tomoaki AKITOMI
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Publication number: 20170308853Abstract: A sensor-net system for digitizing a relationship between persons in an organization includes plural terminals and a processor for processing data received from those terminals. Each of the terminals includes a sensor for sensing a physical amount and a data sender for sending data denoting the physical amount sensed by the sensor. The processor calculates a value denoting a relationship between a first terminal wearing person and a second terminal wearing person according to the data received from the first and second terminals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI, Nobuo SATO, Minoru OGUSHI, Yoshihiro WAKISAKA
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Patent number: 9486161Abstract: An information processing system includes a sensor node and a server. The sensor node obtains acceleration data and transmits the data to the server. The server obtains and records the number of zero crossings from the acceleration data. The server obtains and records the frequency distribution of the number of zero crossings. The server obtains one or more of the following: the slope of the approximate line of the distribution; the linearity of the distribution; the inflection point; the slope of the approximate line in the zero crossing range below the inflection point; the slope of the approximate line in the zero crossing range above the inflection point; the linearity of the distribution in the zero crossing range below the inflection point; and the linearity of the distribution in the zero crossing range above the inflection point. Then, the server records the obtained value.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Ara, Tomoaki Akitomi, Kazuo Yano
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Patent number: 9462416Abstract: An information processing system including plural terminals, a base station to communicate with the terminals, and a management server coupled via a network to the base station, in which each terminal includes a behavioral information sensor to acquire behavioral information on the person wearing the terminal, and the management server retains the predefined relations among the persons within the organization, receives and retains the behavioral information from each terminal, calculates the behavioral characteristic quantity showing behavioral characteristics of each person relative to other persons based on the behavioral information, sums the calculated behavioral characteristic quantities for each of the defined relations between the person and the other persons, and when information showing changes in the still non-implemented defined relations is acquired, estimates the behavioral characteristic quantity of the person after changing the defined relation according to the acquired information, based on thType: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Akitomi, Koji Ara, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20160253609Abstract: For providing an information processing system which enables easier automatic extraction of a more suitable object for which a measure is to be taken, the information processing system for extracting the object for which the measure is taken is configured to include: a reception. unit (GSO5) which receives first data (GSC11) related to business of an enterprise and second data (GSC12) that is related to the business of the enterprise and has granularity equal to or finer than the granularity of the first data; an index generation unit (GSO2) which generates, from the first data, a plurality of descriptive indices matching the granularity of the second data; and an extraction unit (GSO1) which extracts from the descriptive indices, the object for which the measure is to be taken.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Kazuo YANO, Tomoaki AKITOMI, Fumiya KUDO
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Publication number: 20160173122Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention presented herein relates to a system that reconfigures usage of a storage device. The system includes an apparatus, a sensor device, and a processor. The processor combines tables based on first user-defined information that indicates a relationship of data between the tables. The processor also reduces columns of a combined table, based on both second user-defined information that indicates a specific key column, and third user-defined information that indicates a combination of columns such that a given row of the combined table is specified by only the key column.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Tomoaki AKITOMI, Kazuo YANO, Fumiya KUDO
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Publication number: 20160148109Abstract: A system for motion analytics includes acceleration sensors and selectively infrared sensors or microphones. The system also includes a processor and display device. The processor identifies test scores obtained by subjects. The processor also computes degrees of similarities in the real-time physical movements between the at least two groups of subjects using the acceleration sensors, and an amount of time during which some subjects among the at least two groups of subject are engaged in communication using the infrared sensors and/or the microphones. Further, the processor analyzes a correlation between the test scores and the degrees of similarities, and between the test scores and the amount of communication time. The processor then predicts an improvement in the test scores based on patterns in the analysis of the correlation. The predicted improvement of the test scores is then displayed on the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Jun-Ichiro WATANABE, Kazuo YANO
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Publication number: 20160005052Abstract: This invention provides an information processing technique making it easy to determine merchandise placement in a store. This technique calculates probabilities that customers stay by each of plural shelves (AP), using first information (customers' behavior characteristics) relevant to a probability of customers staying over time after entering a store, second information (locations-related information) indicating shelf-to-shelf distances for plural shelves provided in the store, and third information indicating a staying time (DP6) during which customers stay in the store and a move interval (DP7) at which customers move from shelf to shelf, and simulation conditions as follows: a) customers start to move from a store entrance; b) there is a high probability that customers move to a shelf nearer to them than a distant shelf among the shelves; c) customers stay in the store only for a staying time; and d) customers randomly move from shelf to shelf.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Satomi Tsuji
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Patent number: 9111242Abstract: An event data processing apparatus calculates a meeting person number difference which is a difference in the number of meeting persons between a first number of meeting persons at a first time and a second number of meeting persons at a second time, determines that a continuous communication is conducted between the first time and the second time if the meeting person number difference is equal to or smaller than a meeting person number threshold value which is a predetermined threshold value, and records persons included in the first number of meeting persons and the second number of meeting persons, the first time, and the second time in association with event identifiers for identifying events in a recording module.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Shinichi Fukuma
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Patent number: 9111244Abstract: Provided is an organization evaluation device, including: a reception unit for receiving data indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor of a terminal worn by each of a plurality of persons; a personal index calculation module for calculating, from at least one of the data indicating the physical quantity and a business index of each of the plurality of persons, a personal index of each of the plurality of persons; a weight coefficient calculation module for calculating a weight coefficient indicating a degree of involvement of each of the plurality of persons in the first organization from the data indicating the physical quantity; and an organization index calculation module for calculating, by obtaining a weighted average of a plurality of the personal indices using the weight coefficient, an organization index of the first organization.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2010Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Koji Ara