Patents by Inventor Koji Amano

Koji Amano 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: 11942170
    Abstract: An object is to provide a pulse signal output circuit capable of operating stably and a shift register including the pulse signal output circuit. A pulse signal output circuit according to one embodiment of the disclosed invention includes first to tenth transistors. The ratio W/L of the channel width W to the channel length L of the first transistor and W/L of the third transistor are each larger than W/L of the sixth transistor. W/L of the fifth transistor is larger than W/L of the sixth transistor. W/L of the fifth transistor is equal to W/L of the seventh transistor. W/L of the third transistor is larger than W/L of the fourth transistor. With such a structure, a pulse signal output circuit capable of operating stably and a shift register including the pulse signal output circuit can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiko Amano, Kouhei Toyotaka, Hiroyuki Miyake, Aya Miyazaki, Hideaki Shishido, Koji Kusunoki
  • Publication number: 20240086846
    Abstract: An operation management system manages operations carried out by people in charge of operation regarding a common operation target, including: an operation information database storing operation information related to implementation of the operations; a start notification unit that notifies each person of the start of each operation when the start notification unit detects occurrence of a predetermined trigger event in the operation target; an operation flow construction unit that constructs an operation flow indicating the operation to be carried out by each person in relation to the trigger event, on the basis of the operation information database; an information providing unit that provides, to each person, the operation information with content suitable for the person in charge of operation on the basis of the operation flow; and a progress notification unit that notifies each person of progress of the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Koji AMANO, Kazuma SAWADA, Hiroshi YAMADA, Yudai ZAMA
  • Publication number: 20240071756
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a group III nitride semiconductor substrate, that includes: growing a first AlN buffer layer on an Si substrate at a first growth temperature; growing a second AlN buffer layer on the first AlN buffer layer at a second growth temperature higher than the first growth temperature; and growing a group III nitride semiconductor layer on the second AlN buffer layer, wherein an Al raw material and an N raw material are alternately repeatedly fed in the growing the first AlN buffer layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: SUMCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji MATSUMOTO, Toshiaki ONO, Hiroshi AMANO, Yoshio HONDA
  • Publication number: 20230324862
    Abstract: A storage apparatus stores existing data including data relating to management of an instrument and data on actual records of the instrument, information on path structure of the existing data, mission information relating to a task in the facility operation, and information on the path structure of the mission information. An arithmetic operation apparatus extracts information on data meanings of terms contained in the existing data based on the existing data and the path structure of the existing data, and generates information of the degree of association between the plurality of terms. The arithmetic operation apparatus generates mission management information based on mission information, the path structure of the mission information, and the information on the degree of association between the terms, the mission management information including information on a meaning of each of a plurality of tasks relating to facility operation and chronological information on the plurality of tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji AMANO, Hiroki YAMAMOTO, Kazuma SAWADA, Kyohei NAKA, Hiroshi YAMADA, Yudai ZAMA, Yusuke IMURA
  • Publication number: 20230060475
    Abstract: According to the invention, operation data is analyzed at a higher level. Provided is an operation data analysis device including an arithmetic device and a storage device. The storage device stores management target data including operation data which is data related to an operation. The arithmetic device analyzes how the operation data is used in the operation by using the operation data included in the management target data and operation data used in a structure related to management of the management target data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Koji AMANO, Tsunehiko BABA, Toru SHIMOTORI
  • Patent number: 10949423
    Abstract: Control facilities and incidental facilities in fields are flexibly managed. Since identification information enabling to identify uniquely information regarding control facilities of which design timing and architectures are mutually different or facilities incidental to the control facilities is encoded, pieces of identification information are coupled and uniqueness is guaranteed. Further, a parent-child relation between identifiers is constructed and the identifiers are structured as a tree structure based on the structure of the control facilities. A control facility operation management device manages combination of the structured identifiers and information of management target or combination of the structured identification information and identification information of a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Amano, Katsuhito Shimizu, Wataru Sasaki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Ichioka
  • Publication number: 20190297207
    Abstract: A display control device and method configured to recommend, at proper times, that a user use a normal screen rather than a simple screen and increase effective utilization of the normal screen. A normal screen and a simple screen may be displayed for accepting a setting operation. A recommendation may be displayed that a user use the normal screen at proper times, including but not limited to, if every function set by the user on the normal screen is settable on the normal screen, if a setting period exceeds a certain value, if a ratio of functions settable on the normal screen to set functions that is calculated from the operation history regarding the plurality of setting operations is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, if a predetermined number of functions on the normal screen match functions in the operation history information, or by using operation history, acquired information about the set function, a set value, or a setting period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji AMANO
  • Patent number: 10367958
    Abstract: A display control device and method configured to recommend, at proper times, that a user use a simple screen rather than a normal screen and increase effective utilization of the simple screen. A normal screen and a simple screen may be displayed for accepting a setting operation. A recommendation may be displayed that a user use the simple screen at proper times, including but not limited to, if every function set by the user on the normal screen is settable on the simple screen, if a setting period exceeds a certain value, if a ratio of functions settable on the simple screen to set functions that is calculated from the operation history regarding the plurality of setting operations is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, if a predetermined number of functions on the normal screen match functions in the operation history information, or by using operation history, acquired information about the set function, a set value, or a setting period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Amano
  • Publication number: 20190179814
    Abstract: Control facilities and incidental facilities in fields are flexibly managed. Since identification information enabling to identify uniquely information regarding control facilities of which design timing and architectures are mutually different or facilities incidental to the control facilities is encoded, pieces of identification information are coupled and uniqueness is guaranteed. Further, a parent-child relation between identifiers is constructed and the identifiers are structured as a tree structure based on the structure of the control facilities. A control facility operation management device manages combination of the structured identifiers and information of management target or combination of the structured identification information and identification information of a database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Koji AMANO, Katsuhito SHIMIZU, Wataru SASAKI, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Yoshiyuki ICHIOKA
  • Patent number: 10037234
    Abstract: An electronic-manual browsing apparatus includes an electronic-manual-display processing section that displays, on an electronic-manual display screen on a display section, an electronic manual including a sample program concerning a control apparatus, a program-creation-screen-display processing section that displays, on the display section, a program creation screen for creating a program used in the control apparatus, and a program copy section that copies the sample program in the electronic manual selected according to an instruction from a user and temporarily stores the sample program. The program-creation-screen-display processing section pastes the stored sample program in the program creation screen in a format editable on the program creation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Amano, Satoshi Udo, Hikaru Sakata
  • Publication number: 20160364278
    Abstract: An electronic-manual browsing apparatus includes an electronic-manual-display processing section that displays, on an electronic-manual display screen on a display section, an electronic manual including a sample program concerning a control apparatus, a program-creation-screen-display processing section that displays, on the display section, a program creation screen for creating a program used in the control apparatus, and a program copy section that copies the sample program in the electronic manual selected according to an instruction from a user and temporarily stores the sample program. The program-creation-screen-display processing section pastes the stored sample program in the program creation screen in a format editable on the program creation screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji AMANO, Satoshi UDO, Hikaru SAKATA
  • Patent number: 9483569
    Abstract: An electronic-manual browsing apparatus includes an electronic-manual-display processing section that displays, on an electronic-manual display screen on a display section, an electronic manual including a sample program concerning a control apparatus, a program-creation-screen-display processing section that displays, on the display section, a program creation screen for creating a program used in the control apparatus, and a program copy section that copies the sample program in the electronic manual selected according to an instruction from a user and temporarily stores the sample program. The program-creation-screen-display processing section pastes the stored sample program in the program creation screen in a format editable on the program creation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Amano, Satoshi Udo, Hikaru Sakata
  • Publication number: 20160117178
    Abstract: A display control device includes a first memory, an operation-display unit, and a display controller. The first memory stores data of a normal screen and data of a simple screen. The normal screen is a screen that displays functions related to a service process provided to a user, whereas the simple screen is a screen that displays a smaller number of functions than the normal screen. The operation-display unit displays one of the normal screen and the simple screen to the user and accepts a setting operation performed by the user on a function among the displayed functions. The display controller controls the operation-display unit so that an indication recommending the user to use the simple screen is displayed in a case where every function set by the user on the normal screen is settable on the simple screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji AMANO
  • Publication number: 20150331568
    Abstract: To easily and clearly display contents desired by a user from among an electronic manual group, an electronic-manual displaying device, when receiving an input designating a product from the user (step S11), automatically specifies an electronic manual folder, an explanation target of which is the product (step S12 to step S14); and, when a plurality of the specified electronic manual folders are present, it displays, on a manual display screen, manuals on the basis of the manual structure data stored in the specified electronic manual folders (step S16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji AMANO, Satoshi UDO, Hikaru SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20150261872
    Abstract: An electronic-manual browsing apparatus includes an electronic-manual-display processing section that displays, on an electronic-manual display screen on a display section, an electronic manual including a sample program concerning a control apparatus, a program-creation-screen-display processing section that displays, on the display section, a program creation screen for creating a program used in the control apparatus, and a program copy section that copies the sample program in the electronic manual selected according to an instruction from a user and temporarily stores the sample program. The program-creation-screen-display processing section pastes the stored sample program in the program creation screen in a format editable on the program creation screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji AMANO, Satoshi UDO, Hikaru SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20140019914
    Abstract: A display control device includes a first memory, an operation-display unit, and a display controller. The first memory stores data of a normal screen and data of a simple screen. The normal screen is a screen that displays functions related to a service process provided to a user, whereas the simple screen is a screen that displays a smaller number of functions than the normal screen. The operation-display unit displays one of the normal screen and the simple screen to the user and accepts a setting operation performed by the user on a function among the displayed functions. The display controller controls the operation-display unit so that an indication recommending the user to use the simple screen is displayed in a case where every function set by the user on the normal screen is settable on the simple screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji AMANO
  • Publication number: 20120243016
    Abstract: A controller includes: a history storage unit that stores a history of setup information when executing a function of an image forming apparatus; an acquisition unit that when a first function is selected on a menu screen having a first display region where a screen for selection of a function of the image forming apparatus is displayed, acquires the history of setup information when executing the first function from the history storage unit; a display control unit that lists the history of the setup information, which is acquired from the history storage unit, in a region other than the first display region on the menu screen; and an execution unit that executes the first function using setup information selected by a user from the history of the setup information listed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji AMANO
  • Patent number: 7508379
    Abstract: A screen controlling apparatus includes an LCD and a graphic controller for controlling display of buttons for switching languages. The graphic controller displays, at a position corresponding to each of buttons, characters in each of languages, which is switched with each of buttons. Also, the graphic controller displays, at each of positions corresponding to each of buttons, characters in both each of languages, which is selected by switching with each of buttons, and a language currently selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Amano, Toshihiro Iga, Noriko Seto
  • Publication number: 20080307302
    Abstract: A display device for displaying a plurality of options. When the number of the options to be displayed is to be changed according to aspects of display, the display device is controlled so that at least one of the options can be displayed in a display position which differs in accordance with the aspect of display. The display device may be controlled so as to change sizes or shapes of the options. Thus, the options can be displayed giving consideration to balance between a display screen and the options to be displayed, thereby accomplishing display which is pleasing in appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Amano
  • Patent number: 7458036
    Abstract: A display device for displaying a plurality of options. When the number of the options to be displayed is to be changed according to aspects of display, the display device is controlled so that at least one of the options can be displayed in a display position which differs in accordance with the aspect of display. The display device may be controlled so as to change sizes or shapes of the options. Thus, the options can be displayed giving consideration to balance between a display screen and the options to be displayed, thereby accomplishing display which is pleasing in appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Amano