Patents by Inventor Satomi Tsuji

Satomi Tsuji 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: 20220000405
    Abstract: An analysis system includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The processing unit quantifies the brain state on the basis of occurrence frequencies of the duration included in a plurality of regions each of which has a predefined range within which the duration falls. The calculated brain index is calculated by the processing unit using coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO, Miki HAYAKAWA, Koji ARA, Tomoaki AKITOMI
  • Patent number: 11172854
    Abstract: An analysis system analyzes a state of a person and includes a terminal configured to be worn on the person's body. The terminal includes an acceleration sensor, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines whether each value contained in the time series data is in a first state in which the value is equal to or greater than the threshold or in a second state in which the value is less than the threshold. The processing unit also determines a duration which is a period of time during which the first state continues. The processing unit quantifies a brain state of the person on the basis of the duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Happiness Planet, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Miki Hayakawa, Koji Ara, Tomoaki Akitomi
  • Patent number: 10546511
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor data analysis system, comprising terminals, a control unit, an analysis unit, and a storage unit, wherein the terminals worn on persons belonging to an organization, the terminals each comprising a sensor to measure a physical quantity, the storage unit holds an activity index of the organization, and holds, for a first condition relating to a behavior of each of the persons, advice corresponding to a statistical relation between an amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index, the control unit generates a behavior index for indicating a behavior of a first person based on the physical quantity, the analysis unit calculates, for the first condition, the statistical relation between the amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index based on the behavior index, and the control unit outputs advice corresponding to the statistical relation satisfying a second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato
  • Publication number: 20200005211
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing system which is suitable for evaluating a state of a group based on measured data of a plurality of persons. The present invention is an information processing system comprising a recording device which collects, and stores, data via a network from a terminal device worn by each of a plurality of persons, and a computer which sets a group of a predetermined number of persons among the plurality of persons based on the collected data, wherein the terminal device outputs measured data of the person to the network, wherein the recording device stores the measured data, and wherein the computer calculates an index of a state of activity of the group based on the measured data of the terminal device worn by each person belonging to the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Miki HAYAKAWA, Yuuichi OGAWA, Yuichiro TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170337842
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor data analysis system, comprising terminals, a control unit, an analysis unit, and a storage unit, wherein the terminals worn on persons belonging to an organization, the terminals each comprising a sensor to measure a physical quantity, the storage unit holds an activity index of the organization, and holds, for a first condition relating to a behavior of each of the persons, advice corresponding to a statistical relation between an amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index, the control unit generates a behavior index for indicating a behavior of a first person based on the physical quantity, the analysis unit calculates, for the first condition, the statistical relation between the amount of the behavior satisfying the first condition and the activity index based on the behavior index, and the control unit outputs advice corresponding to the statistical relation satisfying a second condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO
  • Publication number: 20170319125
    Abstract: An analysis system analyzes a state of a person and includes a terminal configured to be worn on the person's body. The terminal includes an acceleration sensor, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines whether each value contained in the time series data is in a first state in which the value is equal to or greater than the threshold or in a second state in which the value is less than the threshold. The processing unit also determines a duration which is a period of time during which the first state continues. The processing unit quantifies a brain state of the person on the basis of the duration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO, Miki HAYAKAWA, Koji ARA, Tomoaki AKITOMI
  • 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: 9462416
    Abstract: An information processing system including plural terminals, a base station to communicate with the terminals, and a management server coupled via a network to the base station, in which each terminal includes a behavioral information sensor to acquire behavioral information on the person wearing the terminal, and the management server retains the predefined relations among the persons within the organization, receives and retains the behavioral information from each terminal, calculates the behavioral characteristic quantity showing behavioral characteristics of each person relative to other persons based on the behavioral information, sums the calculated behavioral characteristic quantities for each of the defined relations between the person and the other persons, and when information showing changes in the still non-implemented defined relations is acquired, estimates the behavioral characteristic quantity of the person after changing the defined relation according to the acquired information, based on th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Akitomi, Koji Ara, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano
  • Publication number: 20160005052
    Abstract: This invention provides an information processing technique making it easy to determine merchandise placement in a store. This technique calculates probabilities that customers stay by each of plural shelves (AP), using first information (customers' behavior characteristics) relevant to a probability of customers staying over time after entering a store, second information (locations-related information) indicating shelf-to-shelf distances for plural shelves provided in the store, and third information indicating a staying time (DP6) during which customers stay in the store and a move interval (DP7) at which customers move from shelf to shelf, and simulation conditions as follows: a) customers start to move from a store entrance; b) there is a high probability that customers move to a shelf nearer to them than a distant shelf among the shelves; c) customers stay in the store only for a staying time; and d) customers randomly move from shelf to shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Satomi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9111242
    Abstract: An event data processing apparatus calculates a meeting person number difference which is a difference in the number of meeting persons between a first number of meeting persons at a first time and a second number of meeting persons at a second time, determines that a continuous communication is conducted between the first time and the second time if the meeting person number difference is equal to or smaller than a meeting person number threshold value which is a predetermined threshold value, and records persons included in the first number of meeting persons and the second number of meeting persons, the first time, and the second time in association with event identifiers for identifying events in a recording module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Shinichi Fukuma
  • Patent number: 9111244
    Abstract: Provided is an organization evaluation device, including: a reception unit for receiving data indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor of a terminal worn by each of a plurality of persons; a personal index calculation module for calculating, from at least one of the data indicating the physical quantity and a business index of each of the plurality of persons, a personal index of each of the plurality of persons; a weight coefficient calculation module for calculating a weight coefficient indicating a degree of involvement of each of the plurality of persons in the first organization from the data indicating the physical quantity; and an organization index calculation module for calculating, by obtaining a weighted average of a plurality of the personal indices using the weight coefficient, an organization index of the first organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Koji Ara
  • Patent number: 9058587
    Abstract: It is provided a communication support device, which analyzes communications among a plurality of persons who belong to an organization, comprising a recording module for storing data that indicates the communications among the plurality of persons, a network constructing module for constructing a network structure of the plurality of persons from the data that indicates the communications, a improvement candidate determining module for identifying a first person whose communication is to be improved from the data that indicates the communications, and a connection candidate determining module for identifying a second person and a third person who can help increase triangle structures around the identified first person in the network structure, based on the network structure. The communication support device outputs display data for prompting the second person and the third person to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Yoshihiro Wakisaka, Norio Ohkubo, Youichi Horii
  • Publication number: 20150095334
    Abstract: A data analysis support systems according to the present invention assumes any of multiple indices to be an objective variable, implements clustering and collectively outputs indices belonging to the identical cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Nobuo SATO
  • Publication number: 20130297260
    Abstract: An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI, Norio OHKUBO, Yoshihiro WAKISAKA
  • Publication number: 20130197678
    Abstract: The present disclosures identify of which group the environmental conditions have problems and waste, and enable effective energy management in locations such as schools and businesses where a plurality of people are in a plurality of spaces such as rooms, floors, and buildings. Terminals each worn by a plurality of users who constitute an organization acquire using sensors—and transit to a server—environmental information such as temperature, humidity, and illumination. The server tabulates the environmental information, calculates the environmental information of each group that the plural users constitute, and presents the environmental information along with the name and responsible party of the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Inventors: Koji Ara, Kazuo Yano, Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Tomoaki Akitomi
  • Patent number: 8489703
    Abstract: An analysis sever capable of performing analysis among a large amount of sensor data in order to obtain an analysis result that a reader desires and outputting the result instantaneously. The analysis server rearranges the sensor data acquired from a sensor node into time series data. The analysis is performed separately for time trigger analysis (D) and for event trigger analysis (F) depending on analysis contents. In the time trigger analysis (D), analysis processing that is basically needed when visualizing a state of an organization is performed. In the event trigger analysis (F), an analysis result obtained by the time trigger analysis (D) is processed using the reader's desired information and is outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Sato, Satomi Tsuji, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki, Norio Ohkubo, Yoshihiro Wakisaka
  • Publication number: 20130053086
    Abstract: An information processing system including plural terminals, a base station to communicate with the terminals, and a management server coupled via a network to the base station, in which each terminal includes a behavioral information sensor to acquire behavioral information on the person wearing the terminal, and the management server retains the predefined relations among the persons within the organization, receives and retains the behavioral information from each terminal, calculates the behavioral characteristic quantity showing behavioral characteristics of each person relative to other persons based on the behavioral information, sums the calculated behavioral characteristic quantities for each of the defined relations between the person and the other persons, and when information showing changes in the still non-implemented defined relations is acquired, estimates the behavioral characteristic quantity of the person after changing the defined relation according to the acquired information, based on th
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Tomoaki AKITOMI, Koji ARA, Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO
  • Patent number: 8234576
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for keeping sensing of mass data of members of an organization with respect to states of their meeting and activities and analyzing and evaluating their interactions according to those sensor data. Interaction data includes first information denoting whether or not a terminal unit has faced a different terminal unit and second information denoting a state of the terminal unit and excluding information denoting positions of the terminal unit and the first information. An interaction data display apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving interaction data from the terminal unit and a display unit for displaying the received interaction data. The display unit displays the first and second information items included in the interaction data received by the receiving unit so as to be related to each other according to times at which those first and second information items are obtained respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satomi Tsuji, Nobuo Sato, Kazuo Yano, Norihiko Moriwaki
  • Publication number: 20120191413
    Abstract: A desired number of a data transmitted from a sensor terminal of transmitting the data subjected to sensing within a predetermined time period is previously determined. An analysis server calculates an acquiring rate of a data used in a batch processing on the basis of the desired number of the data and a number of an effective data which is actually received from the plural sensor terminals within the previously determined time period. In a case where there is a variation in the acquiring rate of the data per unit time, the analysis server carries out the batch processing by using the data from the sensor terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo SATO, Satomi TSUJI, Kazuo YANO, Miki HAYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20120185806
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for keeping sensing of mass data of members of an organization with respect to states of their meeting and activities and analyzing and evaluating their interactions according to those sensor data. Interaction data includes first information denoting whether or not a terminal unit has faced a different terminal unit and second information denoting a state of the terminal unit and excluding information denoting positions of the terminal unit and the first information. An interaction data display apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving interaction data from the terminal unit and a display unit for displaying the received interaction data. The display unit displays the first and second information items included in the interaction data received by the receiving unit so as to be related to each other according to times at which those first and second information items are obtained respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satomi TSUJI, Nobuo SATO, Kazuo YANO, Norihiko MORIWAKI