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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Patent number: 9058587Abstract: It is provided a communication support device, which analyzes communications among a plurality of persons who belong to an organization, comprising a recording module for storing data that indicates the communications among the plurality of persons, a network constructing module for constructing a network structure of the plurality of persons from the data that indicates the communications, a improvement candidate determining module for identifying a first person whose communication is to be improved from the data that indicates the communications, and a connection candidate determining module for identifying a second person and a third person who can help increase triangle structures around the identified first person in the network structure, based on the network structure. The communication support device outputs display data for prompting the second person and the third person to communicate with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Yoshihiro Wakisaka, Norio Ohkubo, Youichi Horii
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Publication number: 20150095334Abstract: A data analysis support systems according to the present invention assumes any of multiple indices to be an objective variable, implements clustering and collectively outputs indices belonging to the identical cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO
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Publication number: 20140379292Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2011Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Koji Ara, Tomoaki Akitomi, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20140108100Abstract: 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: October 8, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Norihiko MORIWAKI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO, Shinichi FUKUMA, Hiroyuki TOMITA, Miki HAYAKAWA, Norio OHKUBO
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Patent number: 8615235Abstract: A mobile telephone terminal (2) is provided with an electrical field strength measurement unit (201) that receives radio signals from wireless base stations (31) and measures the strengths thereof; a registration destination base station selection unit (206) that selects one of the wireless base stations (31) that sent the received radio signals as a position registration destination; a position registration execution unit (203) that sends a position registration request to the selected wireless base station (31); and an execution timer expiry determination unit (210) that performs a position registration update process by causing, when a predetermined amount of time has elapsed following the position registration, the registration destination base station selection unit (206) to select a wireless base station (31), and causing the position registration execution unit (203) to send a position registration request to the selected wireless base station (31).Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Keijirou Kubo, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20130297260Abstract: An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI, Norio OHKUBO, Yoshihiro WAKISAKA
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Patent number: 8509936Abstract: A sensor net system including: a plurality of sensor nodes, where each sensor node is held on a person of a differing worker, and each sensor node includes; a sensor which obtains sensor data of a worker; a radio frequency circuit which notifies a server of the sensor data; and a server which includes: a unit for storing a relation list for correlating the sensor data with a work category of the worker; a unit for confirming location of the worker based on the obtained sensor data; and a unit for confirming a work category in which the worker is engaged based on the confirmed location and the relation list.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Ara, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20130197678Abstract: The present disclosures identify of which group the environmental conditions have problems and waste, and enable effective energy management in locations such as schools and businesses where a plurality of people are in a plurality of spaces such as rooms, floors, and buildings. Terminals each worn by a plurality of users who constitute an organization acquire using sensors—and transit to a server—environmental information such as temperature, humidity, and illumination. The server tabulates the environmental information, calculates the environmental information of each group that the plural users constitute, and presents the environmental information along with the name and responsible party of the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: August 1, 2013Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Tomoaki Akitomi
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Patent number: 8489703Abstract: An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki, Norio Ohkubo, Yoshihiro Wakisaka
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Publication number: 20130053086Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventors: Tomoaki AKITOMI, Koji ARA, Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO
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Publication number: 20120319187Abstract: For providing a cheap semiconductor memory device with improving reliability by level of a cell, in the place of escaping from defects on memory cells electrically, through such as ECC, and further for providing a cell structure enabling scaling-down in the vertical direction with maintaining the reliability, in a semiconductor memory device, upon which high-speeded read-out operation is required, a charge storage region is constructed with particles made from a large number of semiconductor charge storage small regions, each being independent, thereby increasing the reliability by the cell level.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2012Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Taro Osabe, Tomoyuki Ishii, Kazuo Yano, Takashi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8278700Abstract: For providing a cheap semiconductor memory device with improving reliability by level of a cell, in the place of escaping from defects on memory cells electrically, through such as ECC, and further for providing a cell structure enabling scaling-down in the vertical direction with maintaining the reliability, in a semiconductor memory device, upon which high-speeded read-out operation is required, a charge storage region is constructed with particles made from a large number of semiconductor charge storage small regions, each being independent, thereby increasing the reliability by the cell level.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Taro Osabe, Tomoyuki Ishii, Kazuo Yano, Takashi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8234576Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for keeping sensing of mass data of members of an organization with respect to states of their meeting and activities and analyzing and evaluating their interactions according to those sensor data. Interaction data includes first information denoting whether or not a terminal unit has faced a different terminal unit and second information denoting a state of the terminal unit and excluding information denoting positions of the terminal unit and the first information. An interaction data display apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving interaction data from the terminal unit and a display unit for displaying the received interaction data. The display unit displays the first and second information items included in the interaction data received by the receiving unit so as to be related to each other according to times at which those first and second information items are obtained respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki
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Publication number: 20120191413Abstract: A desired number of a data transmitted from a sensor terminal of transmitting the data subjected to sensing within a predetermined time period is previously determined. An analysis server calculates an acquiring rate of a data used in a batch processing on the basis of the desired number of the data and a number of an effective data which is actually received from the plural sensor terminals within the previously determined time period. In a case where there is a variation in the acquiring rate of the data per unit time, the analysis server carries out the batch processing by using the data from the sensor terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2012Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Miki HAYAKAWA
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Publication number: 20120185806Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for keeping sensing of mass data of members of an organization with respect to states of their meeting and activities and analyzing and evaluating their interactions according to those sensor data. Interaction data includes first information denoting whether or not a terminal unit has faced a different terminal unit and second information denoting a state of the terminal unit and excluding information denoting positions of the terminal unit and the first information. An interaction data display apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving interaction data from the terminal unit and a display unit for displaying the received interaction data. The display unit displays the first and second information items included in the interaction data received by the receiving unit so as to be related to each other according to times at which those first and second information items are obtained respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Nobuo SATO, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI
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Publication number: 20120158464Abstract: To provide a visualization method for analyzing the condition of an organization, the condition of a sub-organization, and the condition of an individual, with the face-to-face contact communication between members belonging to an organization being used as a cross section. A sensor-net system comprises a plurality of terminals and a processing unit that processes data sent from the plurality of terminals, wherein the each terminal comprises: a sensor for detecting a physical quantity; and a data sender unit that sends data indicative of the physical quantity detected by the sensor, and wherein based on the data sent from a first terminal, the processing unit plots this data on a coordinate plane consisting of two axes, in which an intensity of a relation, which a first person equipped with the first terminal has with other person, is assigned to one axis and a diversity of the relation is assigned to the other axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato
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Publication number: 20120139750Abstract: There is disclosed a sensor node capable of transmitting and receiving a large amount of data or data desired to be reliable without missing data, while preventing battery exhaustion and unnecessary compression of the transmission bandwidth. A name-tag type sensor node includes a detector for detecting connection of an external power supply. When the detector detects that the external power is supplied, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives a large amount of data, such as bulk transmission data, at an increased frequency by means of a data selector, a communication timing controller, and a wireless communication controller. Alternatively, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives the data desired to be reliable, such as rewriting data of firmware.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Miki HAYAKAWA, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Satomi Tsuji, Norio Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20120092379Abstract: It is provided a sensing data display apparatus which displays a sensing data with regard to a human, the sensing data display apparatus comprising: a receiving module for receiving a data indicating a physical amount detected by a sensor terminal mounted by the human; a sensing data storing module for storing the data indicating the physical amount; an information creating module for creating a piece of information related to the sensor terminal from the data stored to the sensing data storing module; a display module for displaying the piece of information; and a viewer detecting module for detecting a viewer who locates at a vicinity of the sensing display apparatus. The display module displays the piece of information related to a piece of information of the viewer detected by the viewer detecting module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Koji Ara, Tomoaki Akitomi, Rieko Otsuka
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Publication number: 20120086579Abstract: It is provided a communication support device, which analyzes communications among a plurality of persons who belong to an organization, comprising a recording module for storing data that indicates the communications among the plurality of persons, a network constructing module for constructing a network structure of the plurality of persons from the data that indicates the communications, a improvement candidate determining module for identifying a first person whose communication is to be improved from the data that indicates the communications, and a connection candidate determining module for identifying a second person and a third person who can help increase triangle structures around the identified first person in the network structure, based on the network structure. The communication support device outputs display data for prompting the second person and the third person to communicate with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Yoshihiro Wakisaka, Norio Ohkubo, Youichi Horii
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Patent number: 8138945Abstract: There is disclosed a sensor node capable of transmitting and receiving a large amount of data or data desired to be reliable without missing data, while preventing battery exhaustion and unnecessary compression of the transmission bandwidth. A name-tag type sensor node includes a detector for detecting connection of an external power supply. When the detector detects that the external power is supplied, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives a large amount of data, such as bulk transmission data, at an increased frequency by means of a data selector, a communication timing controller, and a wireless communication controller. Alternatively, the name-tag type sensor node transmits and receives the data desired to be reliable, such as rewriting data of firmware.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Miki Hayakawa, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Satomi Tsuji, Norio Ohkubo