Patents by Inventor Masayuki Sakata

Masayuki Sakata 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).

  • Publication number: 20250037476
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus (10) including: a specification means (11) for specifying, from a period within a video captured by an image capturing apparatus installed in a vehicle, a period in which information being recognized from a video matches with a rule according to a specific scene; an acquisition means (12) for acquiring a data set being a combination of information being recognized from a video in the period specified by the specification means and a correct label indicating whether the video in the period is a video of the specific scene; and a generation means (13) for executing learning, based on the data set acquired by the acquisition means, and generating a trained model for estimating whether a video in a specific period is a video of the specific scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKATA, Asako FUJII
  • Patent number: 12190658
    Abstract: A fault diagnosis device 80 includes an input unit 81 and a generation unit 82. The input unit 81 receives input of fault data obtained from a vehicle when a fault of the vehicle occurs and observation data observed in time series by each device of the vehicle until immediately before the fault occurs. The generation unit 82 generates a feature master that associates a content of the fault indicated by the fault data with features extracted from the corresponding observation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakata
  • Patent number: 12169707
    Abstract: A computer system is coupled to infrastructure systems each configured to implement an environment for providing resources to each of instances forming an application. The computer system is configured to: receive a deployment plan generation request for the application which includes a serverless instance for which, as an activation method, any one of a warm start and a cold start is selectable; generate, based on a resource amount required for the each of instances, an allocation pattern which is a combination of an environment of a deployment destination of the each of instances; generate an activation pattern which is a combination of the activation method for the each of instances; plan an activation timing of the serverless instance for the activation pattern; generate a plurality of deployment plans by combining the allocation pattern, the activation pattern, and the activation timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Vantara, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohsuke Ishii, Masayuki Sakata
  • Patent number: 12147406
    Abstract: A database management apparatus receives the specification of an origin column, calculates a confidentiality level of a column in a different database from the database related to the origin column based on a confidentiality level of the origin column and a degree of similarity between contents of data in the origin column and contents of data in the column in the different database. A confidentiality level of the different database is calculated based on the calculated confidentiality level and a value indicating identifiability of the data in the column in the different database, and a confidentiality level of a column selected in the different database is calculated based on the confidentiality level of the different database and a value indicating identifiability of data in the selected column. The selected column is set as the new origin column, and the calculated confidentiality level is set as its confidentiality level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneyuki Imaki, Masayuki Sakata
  • Patent number: 12136300
    Abstract: The on-vehicle security device 10 includes log collection means 11 for collecting communication logs, log analysis means 12 for analyzing the collected communication logs, and control means 13 for having alerting means issue an alert when it is determined that an error occurrence frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold value, based on an analysis result of the communication logs by the log analysis means 12, and blocks a communication path where an error has occurred when a state where the error occurrence frequency exceeds the predetermined threshold value continues after having the alerting means issue the alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakata
  • Patent number: 12051288
    Abstract: An input unit 81 receives input of a normal pattern file including information indicating a normal condition of a vehicle, and a fault pattern file including information indicating a sign that a vehicle fault is about to occur. A collection unit 82 collects observation data observed by each device in the target vehicle. A comparison unit 83 compares the content of the normal pattern file with the content of the observation data. when the difference between the content of the normal pattern file and the content of the observation data is greater than a predetermined first threshold value, the comparison unit 83 further compares the content of the fault pattern file and the observation data, and when the difference between the content of the fault pattern file and the observation data is within a predetermined second threshold value, determines that there is the sign of the fault in the target vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakata
  • Publication number: 20240175112
    Abstract: A steel wire for machine structural parts, including respective predetermined contents of C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al, Cr, N, and iron, wherein when a total content of Cr and Mn (% by mass) in cementite in the metallurgical microstructure is expressed as {Cr+Mn}, a total content of Cr and Mn (% by mass) in steel is expressed as [Cr+Mn], and a C content (% by mass) of the steel is expressed as [C], a concentration ratio {Cr+Mn}/[Cr+Mn] is (0.5[C] +0.040) or more, and an average circular-equivalent diameter of all the cementite is (1.668-2.13[C]) ?m or more and (1.863-2.13[C]) ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Yosuke MATSUMOTO, Kenshi IKEDA, Takuya KOCHI, Masayuki SAKATA, Tatsunori UCHIDA, Koji YAMASHITA, Yuta INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240167116
    Abstract: A steel wire for machine structural parts, may include Fe, inevitable impurities, and, by mass: 0.05 to 0.60% C; 0.005 to 0.50% Si; 0.30 to 1.20% Mn; more than 0 to 0.050% P; more than 0 to 0.050% S; 0.001 to 0.10% Al; more than 0 to 1.5% Cr; and more than 0 to 0.02% N. An area of cementite present at ferrite grain boundaries in an area of all cementite of the steel wire may be 32% or more. When a C content (% by mass) of a steel is expressed as [C], an average circular-equivalent diameter of all the cementite is (1.668-2.13 [C]) ?m or more and (1.863-2.13 [C]) ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Yosuke MATSUMOTO, Kenshi IKEDA, Takuya KOCHI, Masayuki SAKATA, Tatsunori UCHIDA, Koji YAMASHITA, Yuta INOUE
  • Publication number: 20240162953
    Abstract: A message relay apparatus includes: a first antenna that has a directivity in a first direction; a second antenna that has a directivity in a second direction different from the first direction; a reception part that can receive a message from a first mobile body, the message being directed to a second mobile body and including distribution request area information; an antenna selection part that selects a selection antenna from the first antenna and the second antenna on a basis of setting information, the setting information defining a relationship between a distribution request area indicated in the distribution request area information and an antenna to be selected as the selection antenna; and a transmission part that transmits the message received by the reception part using the selection antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Masayuki SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20240150861
    Abstract: A cold-workable mechanical structural steel may include: C: 0.30 to 0.45 mass %; Si: 0.10 to 0.40 mass %; Mn: 0.50 to 1.00 mass %; P: 0.050 mass % or less; S: 0.050 mass % or less; Cr: 0.80 to 1.30 mass %; Al: 0.01 to 0.10 mass %; and a balance of iron and inevitable impurity, the steel having an area percentage of pro-eutectoid ferrite of 10% or larger and 70% or smaller; containing at least one selected from the group consisting of bainite, martensite, and pearlite; and having a dislocation density of 3.5×1014 m?2 or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koji YAMASHITA, Yuta INOUE, Masayuki SAKATA, Takuya KOCHI, Yosuke MATSUMOTO, Tatsunori UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240069887
    Abstract: A computer system is coupled to infrastructure systems each configured to implement an environment for providing resources to each of instances forming an application. The computer system is configured to: receive a deployment plan generation request for the application which includes a serverless instance for which, as an activation method, any one of a warm start and a cold start is selectable; generate, based on a resource amount required for the each of instances, an allocation pattern which is a combination of an environment of a deployment destination of the each of instances; generate an activation pattern which is a combination of the activation method for the each of instances; plan an activation timing of the serverless instance for the activation pattern; generate a plurality of deployment plans by combining the allocation pattern, the activation pattern, and the activation timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohsuke ISHII, Masayuki SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20240020286
    Abstract: A database management apparatus receives the specification of an origin column, calculates a confidentiality level of a column in a different database from the database related to the origin column based on a confidentiality level of the origin column and a degree of similarity between contents of data in the origin column and contents of data in the column in the different database. A confidentiality level of the different database is calculated based on the calculated confidentiality level and a value indicating identifiability of the data in the column in the different database, and a confidentiality level of a column selected in the different database is calculated based on the confidentiality level of the different database and a value indicating identifiability of data in the selected column. The selected column is set as the new origin column, and the calculated confidentiality level is set as its confidentiality level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tsuneyuki IMAKI, Masayuki SAKATA
  • Patent number: 11869284
    Abstract: A fault diagnostic device 80 includes an input unit 81 and a generation unit 82. The input unit 81 receives input of observation data of a vehicle operating at a predetermined speed. The generation unit 82 extracts time series features of the observation data as features indicating a normal condition, and generates a feature master indicating the normal condition of the vehicle based on the extracted features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayuki Sakata
  • Publication number: 20240007443
    Abstract: A data sharing system and method eases the sharing of original data, including data to be modified before publication, by modifying the original data to generate publication data before publication and publishing the publication data. A profile including information of a data acquisition area from which the original data is acquired and a list of types of data included in the original data is generated. For each of the plurality of areas based on the profile, pre-publication modify processing information storing, in association with each other, the name of a pre-publication modify type of data to be modified before publication and the name of a modify processing for modifying the data of the pre-publication modify type is generated. Further, a public data disclosure unit is configured to generate public data obtained by modifying the original data by the modify processing based on the pre-publication modify processing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKATA, Yohsuke ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230347927
    Abstract: A traffic control apparatus includes state specifying means for specifying a state of a vehicle based on peripheral information about the vehicle received from the vehicle that can be autonomously driven, state comparison means for comparing a first specified vehicle state, which is a state of the vehicle specified by the state specifying means, with a second specified vehicle state, which is the state of the vehicle received from the vehicle and specified by the vehicle based on the peripheral information, to see whether there is a difference between the first specified vehicle state and the second specified vehicle state, and notification means for outputting a message indicating the difference when there is the difference between the first specified vehicle state and the second specified vehicle state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki SAKATA, Takashi YAMANE, Takanori IWAI, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Kosei KOBAYASHI, Koichi NIHEI
  • Publication number: 20230325248
    Abstract: A data inconsistency correction method to be applied is selected in consideration of a specification of a transaction, execution status of the transaction, and the like. A computer system includes a computer that executes a service, is connected to a computer that divides a transaction across a plurality of services into a plurality of local transactions and executes the plurality of local transactions, and holds service management information for managing a specification of the local transaction in the service and program management information for storing a program for correcting data inconsistency and data associated with an application condition. The computer system selects the program to be applied based on the service management information, the program management information, and execution states of the plurality of local transactions when a failure of the transaction is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jumpei OKOSHI, Masayuki SAKATA, Shotaro NODA
  • Publication number: 20230315783
    Abstract: A classification apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an input unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user, an extraction unit configured to extract moving image data by using a predetermined rule, a display control unit configured to display an icon corresponding to the extracted moving image data on a screen of a display unit, a movement detection unit configured to detect a movement of the icon on the screen caused by the operation performed by the user, and a specifying unit configured to specify a classification of the moving image data corresponding to the icon based on a position of the icon on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Asako FUJII, Iain MELVIN, Yuki CHIBA, Masayuki SAKATA, Erik KRUUS, Chris WHITE
  • Publication number: 20230262575
    Abstract: The moving body receives data from a remote monitoring apparatus and transmits data to the remote monitoring apparatus, via the wireless communication network. A candidate route acquisition unit acquires a candidate route of the moving body to a destination. A communication quality evaluation unit evaluates communication quality of the wireless communication network at each location included in the candidate route for each direction of communication by using communication quality information for each direction of communication. A candidate route evaluation unit evaluates communication stability of the candidate route by using communication quality evaluated for each direction of communication. A route determination unit determines a movement route of the moving body among the candidate routes by using an evaluation result of the communication stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Takanori Iwai, Yusuke Shinohara, Koichi Nihei, Masayuki Sakata, Takashi Yamane
  • Publication number: 20230245559
    Abstract: A server receives video data from a moving body. A traveling speed control apparatus controls a traveling speed of the moving body. A quality monitoring unit monitors video quality of the video data received by the server. A speed upper limit calculation unit calculates, by using the video quality and a monitoring required condition of the video data, a maximum value of a traveling speed satisfying the monitoring required condition as an upper limit value of a traveling speed of the moving body. A speed control unit controls a traveling speed of the moving body to be equal to or lower than the calculated upper limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Kosei KOBAYASHI, Takanori IWAI, Yusuke SHINOHARA, Koichi NIHEI, Masayuki SAKATA, Takashi YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20230169359
    Abstract: A system managing a model for predicting processing performance of software configuring an application in a deployment destination includes: a model management table that stores a first common model that is a prediction model able to be commonly used for prediction of processing performance of software of a same type; a data management table that stores first configuration information representing a configuration of a deployment destination of software used for learning when the first common model is generated; a configuration comparison unit that extracts a difference between second configuration information representing a configuration of a deployment destination of target software comprising a prediction target, and the first configuration information; and a model generation unit that generates a prediction model through learning using configuration information acquired by adding the difference to the first configuration information and sets the prediction model as a second common model that is a new commo
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiko MIZUNO, Masayuki SAKATA, Yohsuke ISHII