Patents by Inventor Minoru Ogushi

Minoru Ogushi 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: 20170308853
    Abstract: A sensor-net system for digitizing a relationship between persons in an organization includes plural terminals and a processor for processing data received from those terminals. Each of the terminals includes a sensor for sensing a physical amount and a data sender for sending data denoting the physical amount sensed by the sensor. The processor calculates a value denoting a relationship between a first terminal wearing person and a second terminal wearing person according to the data received from the first and second terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI, Nobuo SATO, Minoru OGUSHI, Yoshihiro WAKISAKA
  • Patent number: 8438249
    Abstract: A sensor-Net system includes sensor nodes which are in intermittent operation so as to save power by repeating activated state and inactivated state at a regular interval. Synchronization of time in the system is executed by aligning to the intermittent operation of the sensor nodes. A management server issues a setTime command for configuring the time to each gateway node at a specified interval. Each router node sets or corrects the time of it based on the time received from the gateway node and thereafter turns ON the time configuration flag for each sensor node in order to expand the setTime command to all of its sibling sensor nodes. The router node, upon reception of a polling, which is a command request, from the sensor node, obtains the time at that time, then uses the time to generate a setTime command to transmit to that sensor node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Urano, Keiro Muro, Toshiyuki Odaka, Minoru Ogushi, Yoshihiro Wakisaka
  • Patent number: 8224616
    Abstract: In a sensor network system comprising a sensor terminal and a management server, the sensor terminal transmits observation data acquired using the sensor, the management server has a latest data storage manager which manages the latest observation data among observation data received from the sensor terminal, a history data storage manager which manages the history of the observation data from any time when data was received from the sensor terminal to the latest observation data, and a missing data manager which manages missing history data, and compensates the missing history data based on a predetermined rule, and when a request for such observation data is received, at least one of the latest observation data managed by the latest data storage manager, and history data wherein the missing data has been compensated and managed by the history data storage manager, is output according to the type of request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Odaka, Keiro Muro, Minoru Ogushi, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8159945
    Abstract: An overload on a communication path in a sensor network system is prevented while transferring information from a sensor node as close to real time as possible. When the transfer rate of events transferred from a boundary node (DR) toward a gateway (GW) exceeds a limit transfer rate (VL), one of nodes on the sensor node (S) side whose transmission rate meets a preset condition is identified as an excess transmission rate node. The excess transmission rate node, or a node that is not the excess transmission rate node and whose transmission rate should be reduced, is chosen as a deceleration node. A node that reduces the transmission rate of events from the deceleration node, or the transfer rate of the events, is chosen as a deceleration processing executing node. The deceleration processing executing node is instructed to execute preset processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiro Muro, Minoru Ogushi, Kei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8132063
    Abstract: To realize a fast and highly reliable phase-change memory system of low power consumption, a semiconductor device includes: a memory device which includes a first memory array having a first area including a plurality of first memory cells and a second area including a plurality of second memory cells; a controller coupled to the memory device to issue a command to the memory device; and a condition table for storing a plurality of trial writing conditions. The controller performs trial writing in the plurality of second memory cells a plurality of times based on the plurality of trial writing conditions stored in the condition table, and determines writing conditions in the plurality of first memory cells based on a result of the trial writing. The memory device performs writing in the plurality of first memory cells based on the writing conditions instructed from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Terao, Satoru Hanzawa, Hitoshi Kume, Minoru Ogushi, Yoshitaka Sasago, Masaharu Kinoshita, Norikatsu Takaura
  • Publication number: 20110283039
    Abstract: To realize a fast and highly reliable phase-change memory system of low power consumption, a semiconductor device includes: a memory device which includes a first memory array having a first area including a plurality of first memory cells and a second area including a plurality of second memory cells; a controller coupled to the memory device to issue a command to the memory device; and a condition table for storing a plurality of trial writing conditions. The controller performs trial writing in the plurality of second memory cells a plurality of times based on the plurality of trial writing conditions stored in the condition table, and determines writing conditions in the plurality of first memory cells based on a result of the trial writing. The memory device performs writing in the plurality of first memory cells based on the writing conditions instructed from the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: MOTOYASU TERAO, Satoru Hanzawa, Hitoshi Kume, Minoru Ogushi, Yoshitaka Sasago, Masaharu Kinoshita, Norikatsu Takaura
  • Publication number: 20110196955
    Abstract: In a sensor network system comprising a sensor terminal and a management server, the sensor terminal transmits observation data acquired using the sensor, the management server has a latest data storage manager which manages the latest observation data among observation data received from the sensor terminal, a history data storage manager which manages the history of the observation data from any time when data was received from the sensor terminal to the latest observation data, and a missing data manager which manages missing history data, and compensates the missing history data based on a predetermined rule, and when a request for such observation data is received, at least one of the latest observation data managed by the latest data storage manager, and history data wherein the missing data has been compensated and managed by the history data storage manager, is output according to the type of request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Odaka, Keiro Muro, Minoru Ogushi, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7996735
    Abstract: To realize a fast and highly reliable phase-change memory system of low power consumption, a semiconductor device includes: a memory device which includes a first memory array having a first area including a plurality of first memory cells and a second area including a plurality of second memory cells; a controller coupled to the memory device to issue a command to the memory device; and a condition table for storing a plurality of trial writing conditions. The controller performs trial writing in the plurality of second memory cells a plurality of times based on the plurality of trial writing conditions stored in the condition table, and determines writing conditions in the plurality of first memory cells based on a result of the trial writing. The memory device performs writing in the plurality of first memory cells based on the writing conditions instructed from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Terao, Satoru Hanzawa, Hitoshi Kume, Minoru Ogushi, Yoshitaka Sasago, Masaharu Kinoshita, Norikatsu Takaura
  • Patent number: 7953571
    Abstract: In a sensor network system comprising a sensor terminal and a management server, the sensor terminal transmits observation data acquired using the sensor, the management server has a latest data storage manager which manages the latest observation data among observation data received from the sensor terminal, a history data storage manager which manages the history of the observation data from any time when data was received from the sensor terminal to the latest observation data, and a missing data manager which manages missing history data, and compensates the missing history data based on a predetermined rule, and when a request for such observation data is received, at least one of the latest observation data managed by the latest data storage manager, and history data wherein the missing data has been compensated and managed by the history data storage manager, is output according to the type of request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Odaka, Keiro Muro, Minoru Ogushi, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7831283
    Abstract: A plural-data transmission Start message is transmitted prior to transmission of plural data to an intermittent operation type wireless communications terminal, and when transmission of plural data is completed, a plural-data transmission End message is transmitted. The terminal which received the plural-data transmission Start message can change over the sleep period of the aforesaid intermittent operation to a shorter sleep period. Thereby, an improvement in the response performance in the case of plural-data delivery can be simultaneously obtained while maintaining the low power performance of a sensor node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Ogushi, Keiro Muro, Toshiyuki Odaka, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7761561
    Abstract: A sensor node may be used for another purpose for a moment and may also be replaced. By configuring, for a sensor node, a logic node which is provided with the physical node use information indicating whether or not the sensor node is in use and the logical node use information indicating whether or not the sensor node is provided as a logic node, a sensor node to be replaced may be specified based on the replacement request of the sensor node, a sensor node is selected which is configured as logic node providing the physical node use information indicating that the sensor node is not used and the logic node use information indicating that the sensor node is provided as the logic node, thus selected sensor node is identified as the replacing sensor node to achieve the replacement from the replaced sensor node to the replacing sensor node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Inventors: Keiro Muro, Toshiyuki Odaka, Minoru Ogushi, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7688778
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a utilization of a global ID having a long bit length, which is useful for linking with an external system, is compatible with a reduction of a communication amount of a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal transmits the global ID only when the wireless terminal is initially registered, and after a local ID having a short bit length is allocated by a server to the wireless terminal, this wireless terminal uses one the local ID. While the server manages a corresponding relationship between the global ID and the local ID, the server uses the global ID in order to identify the wireless terminal in a communication made outside the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Minoru Ogushi
  • Publication number: 20100058127
    Abstract: To realize a fast and highly reliable phase-change memory system of low power consumption, a semiconductor device includes: a memory device which includes a first memory array having a first area including a plurality of first memory cells and a second area including a plurality of second memory cells; a controller coupled to the memory device to issue a command to the memory device; and a condition table for storing a plurality of trial writing conditions. The controller performs trial writing in the plurality of second memory cells a plurality of times based on the plurality of trial writing conditions stored in the condition table, and determines writing conditions in the plurality of first memory cells based on a result of the trial writing. The memory device performs writing in the plurality of first memory cells based on the writing conditions instructed from the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Motoyasu TERAO, Satoru HANZAWA, Hitoshi KUME, Minoru OGUSHI, Yoshitaka SASAGO, Masaharu KINOSHITA, Norikatsu TAKAURA
  • Patent number: 7512688
    Abstract: Disclosed is a network system that can distribute connection requests from PPPoE client terminals to specific PPPoE servers under the initiative of the PPPoE servers. In the system that realizes connection between at least one client terminal and plural servers at least by a connection start signal from the client terminal, a connection provision signal from the servers, corresponding to the connection start signal, and a connection request signal from the client terminal, corresponding to the connection provision signal; the servers have an identification information setting means, upon receiving a connection start signal from the client terminal, for setting server identification information for identifying a specific server to receive a connection request signal corresponding to the connection start signal in the connection provision signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Ogushi, Norihisa Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20090018899
    Abstract: There is provided a facile sound communication tool that can quickly communicate with a necessary partner when needed. The real-time contexts of users are detected from sensors that are worn by the users, and diverse sensors that are located around the respective users to obtain data. The data is transmitted to a server. A context analyzer of a processor in the server determines the busyness of the respective users on the basis of the data, and a collaboration controller controls a communication between the respective users on the basis of the busyness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Minoru Ogushi, Keiro Muro, Norihiko Moriwaki, Toshiyuki Odaka
  • Publication number: 20080307075
    Abstract: A sensor-Net system includes sensor nodes which are in intermittent operation so as to save power by repeating activated state and inactivated state at a regular interval. Synchronization of time in the system is executed by aligning to the intermittent operation of the sensor nodes. A management server issues a setTime command for configuring the time to each gateway node at a specified interval. Each router node sets or corrects the time of it based on the time received from the gateway node and thereafter turns ON the time configuration flag for each sensor node in order to expand the setTime command to all of its sibling sensor nodes. The router node, upon reception of a polling, which is a command request, from the sensor node, obtains the time at that time, then uses the time to generate a setTime command to transmit to that sensor node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Takehiro Urano, Keiro Muro, Toshiyuki Odaka, Minoru Ogushi, Yoshihiro Wakisaka
  • Publication number: 20080183525
    Abstract: A sensor-net system for digitizing a relationship between persons in an organization includes plural terminals and a processor for processing data received from those terminals. Each of the terminals includes a sensor for sensing a physical amount and a data sender for sending data denoting the physical amount sensed by the sensor. The processor calculates a value denoting a relationship between a first terminal wearing person and a second terminal wearing person according to the data received from the first and second terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki, Nobuo Sato, Minoru Ogushi, Yoshihiro Wakisaka
  • Publication number: 20080071892
    Abstract: A sensor node may be used for another purpose for a moment and may also be replaced. By configuring, for a sensor node, a logic node which is provided with the physical node use information indicating whether or not the sensor node is in use and the logical node use information indicating whether or not the sensor node is provided as a logic node, a sensor node to be replaced may be specified based on the replacement request of the sensor node, a sensor node is selected which is configured as logic node providing the physical node use information indicating that the sensor node is not used and the logic node use information indicating that the sensor node is provided as the logic node, thus selected sensor node is identified as the replacing sensor node to achieve the replacement from the replaced sensor node to the replacing sensor node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Keiro Muro, Toshiyuki Odaka, Minoru Ogushi, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki, Kazuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080070614
    Abstract: A plural-data transmission Start message is transmitted prior to transmission of plural data to an intermittent operation type wireless communications terminal, and when transmission of plural data is completed, a plural-data transmission End message is transmitted. The terminal which received the plural-data transmission Start message can change over the sleep period of the aforesaid intermittent operation to a shorter sleep period. Thereby, an improvement in the response performance in the case of plural-data delivery can be simultaneously obtained while maintaining the low power performance of a sensor node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Minoru Ogushi, Keiro Muro, Toshiyuki Odaka, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080071899
    Abstract: In a sensor network system comprising a sensor terminal and a management server, the sensor terminal transmits observation data acquired using the sensor, the management server has a latest data storage manager which manages the latest observation data among observation data received from the sensor terminal, a history data storage manager which manages the history of the observation data from any time when data was received from the sensor terminal to the latest observation data, and a missing data manager which manages missing history data, and compensates the missing history data based on a predetermined rule, and when a request for such observation data is received, at least one of the latest observation data managed by the latest data storage manager, and history data wherein the missing data has been compensated and managed by the history data storage manager, is output according to the type of request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Odaka, Keiro Muro, Minoru Ogushi, Kei Suzuki, Shoji Suzuki