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: 20110295655Abstract: A terminal includes a sensor for detecting a physical quantity and a data transmitting unit for transmitting data representing the physical quantity to a processing device. An input/output device includes an input unit for receiving an input of data representing a productivity relating to the person wearing the terminal and a data transmitting unit for transmitting the data representing the productivity to the processing device. The processing device includes a feature value extracting unit for extracting a feature value from the data representing the physical quantity, a conflict calculating unit for determining items of data bringing about conflict from the data representing the productivity, and a coefficient-of-influence calculating unit for calculating a degree of the correlation between the feature value and the items of the data bringing about conflict.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2009Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Koji Ara, Takeshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 8036775Abstract: The system includes a mobile apparatus that moves after receiving an input of a path. The system has a path-setting unit for setting the path of a mobile apparatus according to the inputted path, a measuring unit for measuring an environment in which the mobile apparatus exists, an extracting unit for extracting an object existence region in the environment according to the values measured by the measuring unit, a judging unit that judges the validity of the path according to (1) the path set by the path setting unit and (2) the object existence region extracted by the extracting unit, a position determining unit that determines a target position to which the mobile apparatus is to move by selecting it from the portions of the path judged as valid, and a movement controller for controlling the mobile apparatus to move to the target position.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kosei Matsumoto, Toshio Moriya, Kazuo Yano
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Patent number: 7991354Abstract: There are provided a method of communication which can reliably transmit information from a base station to a wireless terminal in a system which can reduce power consumption by intermittent operation in which the wireless terminal repeats operating state and suspended state by power on and off and the base station used for the method. The method includes the steps of storing base station information such as a command or data supplied to the wireless terminal in the base station, transferring the wireless terminal from the suspended state to the operating state to transmit information from the sensor to the base station, coupling the base station information stored in the base station to a response signal to transmit it to the wireless terminal in the operating state for transmitting the sensor information, and returning the wireless terminal to the suspended state after completing the transmission of the base station information and sensor information.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Miyazaki, Minoru Oogushi, Kazuo Yano
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Patent number: 7982603Abstract: In order to easily provide data successively generated from a real world sensor network in a time series to a user, a unit for generally and flexibly performing mapping between a source for generating physical electronic information (for example, a tiny sensor node) and sensing data to be provided to the user is provided. Therefore, a manager of the sensor network is composed of a device management table for mapping among a wireless sensor node, a wireless base station, and a data managing server, a real world model table capable of including device information and giving plural attributes, a registration/search processing unit for registering/searching that information, and a data manager for data mapping between the tables.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Norihiko Moriwaki, Toshiyuki Odaka, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20110169070Abstract: 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: March 25, 2011Publication date: July 14, 2011Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Taro Osabe, Tomoyuki Ishii, Kazuo Yano, Takashi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7939879Abstract: 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: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Renesas Electronics CorporationInventors: Taro Osabe, Tomoyuki Ishii, Kazuo Yano, Takashi Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20110099054Abstract: In an organization dynamics analysis service using a sensor, organization dynamics information is understandably provided to a lot of members on a customer side without receiving private information such as an individual name from the customer. Therefore, a sensor data associated with an ID is received from the customer site, and organization analysis is performed on a service provider side, and then, an organization analysis data based on the ID is fed back to the customer site. When the customer browses the organization analysis data, the ID is converted into the private information in a service gateway installed on the customer site in accordance with a conversion table for correspondence of the ID previously specified on the customer side and the private information (individual name), and is shown to the customer as the understandable information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Koji Ara
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Publication number: 20110070909Abstract: There are provided a method of communication which can reliably transmit information from a base station to a wireless terminal in a system which can reduce power consumption by intermittent operation in which the wireless terminal repeats operating state and suspended state by power on and off and the base station used for the method. The method includes the steps of storing base station information such as a command or data supplied to the wireless terminal in the base station, transferring the wireless terminal from the suspended state to the operating state to transmit information from the sensor to the base station, coupling the base station information stored in the base station to a response signal to transmit it to the wireless terminal in the operating state for transmitting the sensor information, and returning the wireless terminal to the suspended state after completing the transmission of the base station information and sensor information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Masayuki Miyazaki, Minoru Oogushi, Kazuo Yano
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Patent number: 7873380Abstract: There are provided a method of communication which can reliably transmit information from a base station to a wireless terminal in a system which can reduce power consumption by intermittent operation in which the wireless terminal repeats operating state and suspended state by power on and off and the base station used for the method. The method includes the steps of storing base station information such as a command or data supplied to the wireless terminal in the base station, transferring the wireless terminal from the suspended state to the operating state to transmit information from the sensor to the base station, coupling the base station information stored in the base station to a response signal to transmit it to the wireless terminal in the operating state for transmitting the sensor information, and returning the wireless terminal to the suspended state after completing the transmission of the base station information and sensor information.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2004Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Miyazaki, Minoru Oogushi, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20100274639Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Koji Ara
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Publication number: 20100198639Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Koji ARA, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20100161630Abstract: In order to easily provide data successively generated from a real world sensor network in a time series to a user, a unit for generally and flexibly performing mapping between a source for generating physical electronic information (for example, a tiny sensor node) and sensing data to be provided to the user is provided. Therefore, a manager of the sensor network is composed of a device management table for mapping among a wireless sensor node, a wireless base station, and a data managing server, a real world model table capable of including device information and giving plural attributes, a registration/search processing unit for registering/searching that information, and a data manager for data mapping between the tables.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2006Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Norihiko Moriwaki, Toshiyuki Odaka, Kazuo Yano
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Patent number: 7706906Abstract: A sensor net system including: a sensor node which 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 relation list for correlating the sensor data with work status of the worker; a unit for confirming the work status of the worker based on the obtained sensor data by using the relation list; a unit for displaying the confirmed work status on a display unit connected to the server.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Ara, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano
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Publication number: 20100099413Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Keijirou KUBO, Kazuo YANO
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Publication number: 20090228318Abstract: In a real environment, it is grasped in what condition the worker has conducted the activity, and in what condition the worker has created a file, and the quality of the entire activity from the activity start to the activity end is provided as an index. An action index indicative of an action state of the worker who operates a computer is calculated, and the action index is associated with a specific activity of the worker as activity quality information representative of the quality of activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2009Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Norihiko Moriwaki
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Publication number: 20090198475Abstract: 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: January 22, 2009Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki, Norio Ohkubo, Yoshihiro Wakisaka
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Publication number: 20090006158Abstract: 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: May 29, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato
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Publication number: 20080297373Abstract: 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: May 22, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventors: Miki Hayakawa, Norihiko Moriwaki, Kazuo Yano, Satomi Tsuji, Norio Ohkubo
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Publication number: 20080263080Abstract: A group visualization system generates a tree structure having a hierachical structure by arranging data built up by a sensor network using small nameplates and further generates an organization topographical diagram expressing group dynamics from the tree structure. True roles of persons and true groups that have not appeared so far in existing organization diagrams can be readily obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Shinichi FUKUMA, Rieko Otsuka, Kazuo Yano, Takeshi Hoshino
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Patent number: RE41868Abstract: A memory cell with a small surface area is fabricated by forming source lines and data lines above and below and by running the channels to face up and down. The local data lines for each vertically stacked memory cell are connected to a global data line by way of separate selection by a molecular oxide semiconductor, and use of a large surface area is avoided by making joint use of peripheral circuits such as global data lines and sensing amplifiers by performing read and write operations in a timed multiplex manner. Moreover, data lines in multi-layers and memory cells (floating electrode cell) which are non-destructive with respect to readout are utilized to allow placement of memory cells at all intersecting points of word lines and data lines while having a folded data line structure. An improved noise tolerance is attained by establishing a standard threshold voltage for identical dummy cells even in any of the read verify, write verify and erase verify operations.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Sano, Tomoyuki Ishii, Kazuo Yano, Toshiyuki Mine