Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Honda

Mitsuhiro Honda 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: 10575445
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes a measured temperature acquiring unit configured to acquire, from a non-contact temperature sensor, a measured temperature on the surface of a rack housing an information and communication technology device; and an output section configured to output an alarm related to the temperature of the rack on the basis of the measured temperature acquired by the measured temperature acquiring unit. The output section does not output the alarm for a predetermined time period when the amount of change in measured temperature exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Inori Matsuyama, Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20180063999
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus includes a measured temperature acquiring unit configured to acquire, from a non-contact temperature sensor, a measured temperature on the surface of a rack housing an information and communication technology device; and an output section configured to output an alarm related to the temperature of the rack on the basis of the measured temperature acquired by the measured temperature acquiring unit. The output section does not output the alarm for a predetermined time period when the amount of change in measured temperature exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Inori MATSUYAMA, Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Patent number: 9727791
    Abstract: A system for distinguishing a first group of persons from a second group of persons among plural persons who are present inside an area, and the system includes processing circuitry that: detects first positions of the plural persons who are present inside the area based on a heat image; detects second positions of the second group of persons who are present inside the area based on identification signals transmitted from portable wireless terminals of the second group of persons; and determines, as the first group of persons, those who are present at positions different from the second positions based on the first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Patent number: 9599361
    Abstract: A heat quantity displaying device displays the state of supply of a heat quantity from air-conditioning equipment to a subject space that is subject to air-conditioning control. The heat quantity displaying device includes a heat quantity display that displays substantially simultaneously on a screen at least a range of heat quantities that can be supplied by the air-conditioning equipment to the subject space, and a heat quantity currently are required by the subject space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Patent number: 9509536
    Abstract: In a communication apparatus which performs wireless communication over a plurality of lines, a reduction in transmission efficiency is prevented from occurring. A communication apparatus is provided with: a plurality of reception units which receive signals of the same content from an opposed station over a plurality of lines using wireless communication; a quality determination unit which determines qualities of the plurality of lines based on the received signals of the same content; a modulation scheme determination unit which determines a modulation scheme to be used for the wireless communication based on the quality of only a line over which communication is possible when it becomes impossible to perform communication over a line among the plurality of lines; and a transmission unit which transmits information indicating the determined modulation scheme to the opposed station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Patent number: 9404807
    Abstract: A detected temperature acquiring portion acquires detected temperatures from individual thermopile array sensors, a temperature change comparing portion compares changes in detected temperatures over time, for each respective location, between test locations selected from a overlapping region and individual comparing locations for two thermopile array sensors wherein planned detecting ranges partially overlap each other, to identify a best match location, a factor estimating portion, for each test location, generates an equation indicating a relationship between the best match location and positional shift factors, and establishes these equations as a system and solves the system of equations through a least-squares method to estimate the positional shift factors, and a detecting range identifying portion corrects location coordinates of the planned detecting ranges based on these positional shift factors to identify actual detecting ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoki Hosoi, Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Patent number: 9383736
    Abstract: An air-conditioning controlling device includes an indicator calculating portion that calculates one or more indicators for evaluating, for each individual Pareto solution, similarity of the detail of air-conditioning control based on the operating volumes and/or the state distributions for the Pareto solution, a similarity calculating portion that calculates, for each Pareto solution, similarity of the Pareto solution to a reference Pareto solution, based on the indicators for the Pareto solution and the indicators for the reference Pareto solution, which is selected as a reference from the Pareto solutions, and an air-conditioning instructing portion that sends, to the air-conditioning system, the operating volumes of the Pareto solution with the least similarity to the reference Pareto solution from among the Pareto solutions belonging to the new air-conditioning controlling mode when there is a change, to a new air-conditioning controlling mode, of the air-conditioning controlling mode that is applied to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Honda, Yukako Saisu
  • Publication number: 20160109148
    Abstract: A temperature distribution display device is provided to make it possible to identify a person and framework easily and to make a temperature distribution comparison correctly among plural heat images. Based on space data regarding the size of an air-conditioned space and operation capability data regarding the operation capability of an air conditioner, a target temperature range calculation unit calculates a temperature range from a maximum heating start framework temperature, at which the air conditioner starts a heating operation at the maximum power autonomously, to a maximum cooling start framework temperature, at which the air conditioner starts a cooling operation at the maximum power autonomously, as a target temperature range, within the range of possible framework temperatures of the framework constituting interior planes of the air-conditioned space. A display color assignment unit assigns display colors respectively to individual temperatures included in the target temperature range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20160110614
    Abstract: A system for distinguishing a first group of persons from a second group of persons among plural persons who are present inside an area, and the system includes processing circuitry that: detects first positions of the plural persons who are present inside the area based on a heat image; detects second positions of the second group of persons who are present inside the area based on identification signals transmitted from portable wireless terminals of the second group of persons; and determines, as the first group of persons, those who are present at positions different from the second positions based on the first and second positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20160061478
    Abstract: [Problem] Accurately to detect the presence or absence of a person even when a background temperature rises near the surface temperature of a person. [Solving Means] Equipped with a background-temperature calculation unit that calculates a background temperature that relates to a background temperature that is a background temperature of a person from thermal images, an air-conditioning control unit compares a judgment temperature Tj for judging whether it is necessary to start forced cooling in the room RM and a background temperature Tb obtained by the background-temperature calculation unit, and starts forced cooling to lower the background temperature Tb at the point when the background temperature Tb is above the judgment temperature Tj (Tb>Tj).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20150041550
    Abstract: An air-conditioning controlling device sends to an air-conditioning system, which controls air-conditioning equipment that is provided in an air-conditioned space, a control setting value, to control the air-conditioned space to an arbitrary air-conditioning environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20150001307
    Abstract: A heat quantity displaying device displays the state of supply of a heat quantity from air-conditioning equipment to a subject space that is subject to air-conditioning control. The heat quantity displaying device includes a heat quantity display that displays substantially simultaneously on a screen at least a range of heat quantities that can be supplied by the air-conditioning equipment to the subject space, and a heat quantity currently are required by the subject space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Azbil Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Patent number: 8817861
    Abstract: A complex condition determination unit is provided, having an error-pulse switching determination unit which outputs, as error-pulse determination information, information indicating whether an accumulated value of the number of error pulses is equal to or greater than a predetermined error-pulse threshold value; a CNR (carrier to noise ratio) modulation scheme determination unit which outputs, as CNR determination information, a modulation scheme determined in accordance with CNR information indicating the CNR of the received signal; an RSL (receive signal level) modulation scheme determination unit which outputs, as RSL determination information, a modulation scheme determined in accordance with RSL information indicating the RSL of the received signal; and a complex modulation scheme determination unit which determines the modulation scheme for the transmission source, in accordance with the error-pulse determination information, the CNR determination information, the RSL determination information, and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Patent number: 8688242
    Abstract: An operation controlling system is provided with an operation controlling device that is installed removably in a facility equipment, and an operating terminal for sending an instruction signal to the operation controlling device. The operation controlling device not only has communicating means for receiving the instruction signal sent from the operating terminal, but also operation controlling means for turning ON/OFF, in accordance with the instruction signal, the facility equipment that is connected locally, and/or output controlling means for controlling, in accordance with the instruction signal, an output value of the facility equipment that is connected locally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagao, Hiroshi Murata, Mitsuhiro Honda, Masato Tanaka, Mayumi Miura
  • Publication number: 20140039689
    Abstract: An air-conditioning controlling device includes an indicator calculating portion that calculates one or more indicators for evaluating, for each individual Pareto solution, similarity of the detail of air-conditioning control based on the operating volumes and/or the state distributions for the Pareto solution, a similarity calculating portion that calculates, for each Pareto solution, similarity of the Pareto solution to a reference Pareto solution, based on the indicators for the Pareto solution and the indicators for the reference Pareto solution, which is selected as a reference from the Pareto solutions, and an air-conditioning instructing portion that sends, to the air-conditioning system, the operating volumes of the Pareto solution with the least similarity to the reference Pareto solution from among the Pareto solutions belonging to the new air-conditioning controlling mode when there is a change, to a new air-conditioning controlling mode, of the air-conditioning controlling mode that is applied to
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro HONDA, Yukako SAISU
  • Publication number: 20140039688
    Abstract: An air-conditioning control solution displaying device includes an indicator calculating portion that calculates one or more indicators to evaluate similarity of the detail of air-conditioning control based on operating volumes and/or state distributions for a Pareto solution, a similarity calculating portion that calculates similarity of the Pareto solution to a reference Pareto solution, based on the indicators for the Pareto solution and the indicators for the reference Pareto solution, which is selected as a reference from Pareto solutions, a Pareto solution displaying portion that displays a plot of symbols for the individual Pareto solutions, based on evaluation values for the individual Pareto solutions, calculated by objective functions, at coordinate locations corresponding to the evaluation values on a display screen, and displays the symbols for the individual Pareto solutions differentiated in accordance with a similarity to the reference Pareto solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Azbil Corporation
    Inventors: Yukako SAISU, Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20140010263
    Abstract: A temperature distribution detecting device has a detected temperature acquiring portion that acquires detected temperatures from each individual thermopile array sensor, a temperature difference calculating portion that calculates a temperature difference between detected temperatures, for each combination, between the two thermopile array sensors that structure the combination, a relative error estimating portion that establishes, for each combination, equations indicating the relationships between the relative error between a reference thermopile array sensor selected as a reference from among the thermopile array sensors and each of the thermopile array sensors and temperature differences calculated for each individual combination, and establishes these equations in a system and solving through the least-squares method to estimate the relative errors, and a detected temperature correcting portion that corrects, based on the individual relative errors, the detected temperatures by the individual thermopile
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Inventors: Tomoki HOSOI, Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20130343423
    Abstract: A detected temperature acquiring portion acquires detected temperatures from individual thermopile array sensors, a temperature change comparing portion compares changes in detected temperatures over time, for each respective location, between test locations selected from a overlapping region and individual comparing locations for two thermopile array sensors wherein planned detecting ranges partially overlap each other, to identify a best match location, a factor estimating portion, for each test location, generates an equation indicating a relationship between the best match location and positional shift factors, and establishes these equations as a system and solves the system of equations through a least-squares method to estimate the positional shift factors, and a detecting range identifying portion corrects location coordinates of the planned detecting ranges based on these positional shift factors to identify actual detecting ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Tomoki HOSOI, Mitsuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20130215763
    Abstract: In a communication apparatus which performs wireless communication over a plurality of lines, a reduction in transmission efficiency is prevented from occurring. A communication apparatus is provided with: a plurality of reception units which receive signals of the same content from an opposed station over a plurality of lines using wireless communication; a quality determination unit which determines qualities of the plurality of lines based on the received signals of the same content; a modulation scheme determination unit which determines a modulation scheme to be used for the wireless communication based on the quality of only a line over which communication is possible when it becomes impossible to perform communication over a line among the plurality of lines; and a transmission unit which transmits information indicating the determined modulation scheme to the opposed station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Honda
  • Publication number: 20120257665
    Abstract: Disclosed is a complex condition determination unit which, to solve the problem of making it possible to change a modulation scheme adapted to rapid changes in line status, is provided with; an error-pulse switching determination means which outputs, as error-pulse determination information indicating whether an accumulated value of the number of error pulses accumulated over a predetermined period is equal to or greater than a predetermined error-pulse threshold value, the error pulses indicating whether an error exists in a received signal; a CNR (carrier-wave power to signal power ratio) modulation scheme determination means which outputs, as CNR determination information, a modulation scheme determined in accordance with a predetermined CNR threshold value and CNR information indicating the CNR of the received signal; an RSL (receive signal level) modulation scheme determination means which outputs, as RSL determination information, a modulation scheme determined in accordance with a predetermined RSL thr
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Honda