Patents by Inventor Ken Naono
Ken Naono 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: 11527325Abstract: An analysis apparatus comprises: a generation module configured to generate a second piece of input data having a weight for a first feature item of a patient based on: a first piece of input data relating to the first feature item; a second feature item relating to a transition to a prediction target in a clinical pathway relating to a process for diagnosis or treatment; and a clinical terminology indicating relevance between medical terms; a neural network configured to output, when being supplied with the first piece of input data and the second piece of input data generated, a prediction result for the prediction target in the clinical pathway and importance of the first feature item; an edit module configured to edit the clinical pathway based on the prediction result and the importance output from the neural network; and an output module configured to output an edit result.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Takeuchi, Takuma Shibahara, Ken Naono, Shinji Tarumi, Shuntaro Yui
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Patent number: 11526722Abstract: Facilitation of an explanation about an object to be analyzed is realized with high accuracy and with efficiency. A data analysis apparatus is disclosed which uses a first neural network configured with an input layer, an output layer, and two or more intermediate layers provided between the input layer and the output layer. Each performs a calculation by giving data from a layer of a previous stage and a first learning parameter to a first activation function and outputs a calculation result to a layer of a subsequent stage. The data analysis apparatus includes a conversion section; a reallocation section; and an importance calculation section.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takuma Shibahara, Mayumi Suzuki, Ken Naono
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Publication number: 20190221311Abstract: An analysis apparatus comprises: a generation module configured to generate a second piece of input data having a weight for a first feature item of a patient based on: a first piece of input data relating to the first feature item; a second feature item relating to a transition to a prediction target in a clinical pathway relating to a process for diagnosis or treatment; and a clinical terminology indicating relevance between medical terms; a neural network configured to output, when being supplied with the first piece of input data and the second piece of input data generated, a prediction result for the prediction target in the clinical pathway and importance of the first feature item; an edit module configured to edit the clinical pathway based on the prediction result and the importance output from the neural network; and an output module configured to output an edit result.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Wataru TAKEUCHI, Takuma SHIBAHARA, Ken NAONO, Shinji TARUMI, Shuntaro YUI
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Publication number: 20190122097Abstract: Facilitation of an explanation about an object to be analyzed is realized with high accuracy and with efficiency. A data analysis apparatus is disclosed which uses a first neural network configured with an input layer, an output layer, and two or more intermediate layers provided between the input layer and the output layer. Each performs a calculation by giving data from a layer of a previous stage and a first learning parameter to a first activation function and outputs a calculation result to a layer of a subsequent stage. The data analysis apparatus includes a conversion section; a reallocation section; and an importance calculation section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takuma Shibahara, Mayumi Suzuki, Ken Naono
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Patent number: 9384177Abstract: At the time of copy & paste, an item, a size and a paste content are recorded, and the importance of the paste is determined based on the number of pasted items, and a pasted data size relative to the overall file. Also, an item name and a change content are recorded, and when the manager inputs an important keyword (or unimportant keyword) in visualizing a file history, the importance is increased (or decreased) if the keyword is included in the item name or the change content. A function of displaying the file history in order of importance if the file history is displayed in table format in visualizing the file history, and a function of displaying, or highlighting, only the source file in which the importance is greater than or equal to a threshold set by the manager if the file history is displayed graphically are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Sakurai, Yukihisa Fujita, Ken Naono
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Patent number: 9043621Abstract: A power-saving network management server, which is coupled to a network system including a network device and manages a state of power to the network device, wherein the power-saving network management server is configured to: store network configuration information and task allocation information; determine starting or stopping of the power supply to the port of the network device based on the updated network configuration information and task allocation information; store a determination result of the starting or stopping of the power supply to the port as a port determination result; and control the power supply to the port of the network device based on the port determination result.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hideki Okita, Masahiro Yoshizawa, Machiko Asaie, Ken Naono
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Patent number: 8402048Abstract: A trail management system acquires and manages operation contents in a PC that is provided with an operation function including a document transcription function. When a user performs a transcription operation, a server acquires operation information and stores it as chronological data. The operation information contains time of the transcription operation, a user name, a value transcribed by the transcription operation, document specification information for specifying a transcription origin document during the transcription operation, location specification information for specifying a transcription origin location in the transcription origin document, document specification information for specifying a transcription destination document during the transcription operation, and location specification information for specifying a transcription destination location in the transcription origin document.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Egi, Takao Sakurai, Ken Naono
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Patent number: 8352093Abstract: An environmental control system according to the present invention is a system for controlling environmental devices by which a work status and a behavior status are monitored and the environmental devices are finely controlled in accordance with the statuses to improve comfort. The environmental control system includes a communication unit, a unit for detecting environments, a unit for detecting a work status, a unit for obtaining power consumption, a unit for determining the control of a device, and a unit for transmitting a control signal, and enables fine control in accordance with a work type.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Minako Toba, Yasuhide Mori, Ken Naono, Masashi Egi, Takao Sakurai
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Publication number: 20120303684Abstract: At the time of copy & paste, an item, a size and a paste content are recorded, and the importance of the paste is determined based on the number of pasted items, and a pasted data size relative to the overall file. Also, an item name and a change content are recorded, and when the manager inputs an important keyword (or unimportant keyword) in visualizing a file history, the importance is increased (or decreased) if the keyword is included in the item name or the change content. A function of displaying the file history in order of importance if the file history is displayed in table format in visualizing the file history, and a function of displaying, or highlighting, only the source file in which the importance is greater than or equal to a threshold set by the manager if the file history is displayed graphically are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takao Sakurai, Yukihisa Fujita, Ken Naono
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Patent number: 8311868Abstract: To readily understand contents of business operations without burdening an operator, this invention provides a business analysis method including: obtaining information on operations of a user with respect to software programs selected by the user among the plurality of software programs operated by a computer; estimating one business content that is executed by the computer in each of time spans based on a combination of exploited identification information of the plurality of software programs.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Naono, Masashi Egi, Takao Sakurai
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Patent number: 8160781Abstract: A vehicular control system which includes a user parameter input module, an external parameter input module, a plurality of objective functions, a policy setting module, and a policy node. The user parameter input module Inputs a user parameter. The external parameter input module inputs an external parameter resulting from an outside environment. The objective functions are set for each control characteristic, respectively, so as to calculate an internal parameter of each control target from the user parameter and the external parameter. The policy setting module sets policies indicating a control index of the user for the objective functions respectively. The policy node weights the objective functions on the basis of the policies, adjusts the internal parameter in accordance with the policy so that the internal parameter is optimized among the objective functions, and issues a command to a control node corresponding to the internal parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Naono, Masaaki Shimizu, Fumio Arakawa, Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Kohei Sakurai, Masatoshi Hoshino, Kentaro Yoshimura
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Patent number: 8027862Abstract: An object of this invention is to analyze history information for each of a plurality of instances, and generate a time series pattern for each of a plurality of business processes. A time series pattern generating system analyzes the history information of an instance generated upon each execution of a class that defines a series of processes and is constituted by components having a defined order, and generates a time series pattern. The history information is generated upon each execution of the components, stored in chronological order, and includes a class identifier, a component identifier, an instance identifier, and component processing time information. Information relating to the processing order of the components that are executed in each instance is created, dependence relationships between the components are estimated, and a time series pattern including a component processing order is generated.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Sakurai, Ken Naono, Masashi Egi
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Publication number: 20110161695Abstract: A power-saving network management server, which is coupled to a network system including a network device and manages a state of power to the network device, wherein the power-saving network management server is configured to: store network configuration information and task allocation information; determine starting or stopping of the power supply to the port of the network device based on the updated network configuration information and task allocation information; store a determination result of the starting or stopping of the power supply to the port as a port determination result; and control the power supply to the port of the network device based on the port determination result.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Hideki Okita, Masahiro Yoshizawa, Machiko Asaie, Ken Naono
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Publication number: 20110153379Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a skill level of a staff member is discriminated from an actual job log of the staff member, productivity including the skill level, a salary, and combination efficiency with another staff member is calculated, and a staff arrangement plan maximizing a productive efficiency is outputted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Minako Toba, Yasuhide Mori, Ken Naono, Masashi Egi, Takao Sakurai
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Patent number: 7958217Abstract: Provided is a job management system includes: a terminal for executing a job, and for collecting operation information corresponding to respective operations executed by an operator; and a management server for managing the operation information collected by the terminal, the management server being connected to the terminal via a network, in which: the terminal transmits, to the management server, operation log data including the operation information capable of identifying the respective operations executed by the operator; and the management server stores, in advance, information indicating categories for the operation information and combinations thereof which are used for interpreting the operation information transmitted from the terminal as the corresponding operation executed by the operator with respect to the terminal, and selects categories for the operation information and a combination thereof which minimize a data size of the operation log data to be transmitted by the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masashi Egi, Ken Naono, Takao Sakurai
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Publication number: 20110093126Abstract: An environmental control system according to the present invention is a system for controlling environmental devices by which a work status and a behavior status are monitored and the environmental devices are finely controlled in accordance with the statuses to improve comfort. The environmental control system includes a communication unit, a unit for detecting environments, a unit for detecting a work status, a unit for obtaining power consumption, a unit for determining the control of a device, and a unit for transmitting a control signal, and enables fine control in accordance with a work type.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Minako TOBA, Yasuhide MORI, Ken NAONO, Masashi EGI, Takao SAKURAI
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Publication number: 20110029559Abstract: Even when the operation of web page referencing or search is discontinuous and implicit, relativity between web pages is extracted. A web relativity extraction unit is executed as a program by the processing unit of a recommendation server. The web relativity extraction unit extracts relativity between web pages about a search term related to the web pages. Further, it considers a user's information search model based on the process of accessing between web pages and quantitatively evaluates a relativity degree indicating the intensity of relativity and thereby extracts relativity between the web pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Katsuro KIKUCHI, Keisuke Matsubara, Katsushi Yako, Ken Naono
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Publication number: 20110016110Abstract: A trail management system acquires and manages operation contents in a PC that is provided with an operation function including a document transcription function. When a user performs a transcription operation, a server acquires operation information and stores it as chronological data. The operation information contains time of the transcription operation, a user name, a value transcribed by the transcription operation, document specification information for specifying a transcription origin document during the transcription operation, location specification information for specifying a transcription origin location in the transcription origin document, document specification information for specifying a transcription destination document during the transcription operation, and location specification information for specifying a transcription destination location in the transcription origin document.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Masashi EGI, Takao Sakurai, Ken Naono
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Publication number: 20100268816Abstract: A performance monitoring system, comprising: a server; a storage system; and a management server, the management server the management server is configured to: obtain the gathered time-sequential data from the server; judge whether at least one bottleneck has occurred in the logical resource of a specified one of the plurality of virtual machines at each time of the obtained time-sequential data, judge whether at least one bottleneck causing large influence on the specified one of the plurality of virtual machines has occurred; and notify that at least one large bottleneck has occurred in the specified one of the plurality of virtual machines.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki TARUI, Tsuyoshi TANAKA, Kazuhiko MIZUNO, Ken NAONO
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Patent number: 7739083Abstract: When a parameter for a numerical computation library is required, an optimum parameter reflecting a user policy is provided. A program calculates, based on a preset objective function, an optimum tuning parameter for executing a numerical computation library. The program reads the numerical computation library; reads the objective function; sets a user policy regarding speed performance and computational accuracy of the numerical computation library as plural policy parameters; reads, from preset execution histories of numerical computation libraries, execution histories of the numerical computation library; calculates, in a domain where the policy parameters are met and based on the execution histories having been read in, a tuning parameter for the numerical computation library by using the objective function; and outputs a calculation result of the objective function.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Ken Naono, Masashi Egi