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).

  • Patent number: 9058587
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Yoshihiro Wakisaka, Norio Ohkubo, Youichi Horii
  • Publication number: 20150095334
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO
  • Publication number: 20140379292
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Koji Ara, Tomoaki Akitomi, Kazuo Yano
  • Publication number: 20140108100
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Norihiko MORIWAKI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO, Shinichi FUKUMA, Hiroyuki TOMITA, Miki HAYAKAWA, Norio OHKUBO
  • Patent number: 8615235
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Keijirou Kubo, Kazuo Yano
  • Publication number: 20130297260
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI, Norio OHKUBO, Yoshihiro WAKISAKA
  • Patent number: 8509936
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Ara, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano
  • Publication number: 20130197678
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Tomoaki Akitomi
  • Patent number: 8489703
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki, Norio Ohkubo, Yoshihiro Wakisaka
  • Publication number: 20130053086
    Abstract: 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 th
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Tomoaki AKITOMI, Koji ARA, Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO
  • Publication number: 20120319187
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taro Osabe, Tomoyuki Ishii, Kazuo Yano, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8278700
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Osabe, Tomoyuki Ishii, Kazuo Yano, Takashi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8234576
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20120191413
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Miki HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120185806
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Nobuo SATO, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20120158464
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato
  • Publication number: 20120139750
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miki HAYAKAWA, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Satomi Tsuji, Norio Ohkubo
  • Publication number: 20120092379
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Koji Ara, Tomoaki Akitomi, Rieko Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20120086579
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Yoshihiro Wakisaka, Norio Ohkubo, Youichi Horii
  • Patent number: 8138945
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Miki Hayakawa, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Satomi Tsuji, Norio Ohkubo