Patents by Inventor Satoshi Hasegawa

Satoshi Hasegawa 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).

  • IoT DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM FOR IoT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200029184
    Abstract: An IoT device for properly performing charging even when data from an IoT device is relayed and transmitted to a base station includes a first transmitter that directly transmits acquired data to the base station, a second transmitter that transmits the data to a neighboring device by near-field communication to relay the data by the neighboring device and transmit the data to the base station, and a third transmitter that transmits, to the base station, communication cost bearer information representing that the user of the IoT device bears the communication cost of the data relayed by the neighboring device and transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toru YAMADA, Akira KAMEI, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, GATEWAY APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20200022015
    Abstract: To avoid congestion and an overload at the time of data transmission from an IoT device to a wireless network, at least one gateway apparatus is controlled to execute a gateway function at a first timing at a first position, collect data from a plurality of devices present near the first position, and transmit aggregated data to a base station, and to execute the gateway function at a second timing different from the first timing at a second position different from the first position, collect data from a plurality of devices present near the second position, and transmit aggregated data to the base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROGRAM, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IoT DEVICE, AND BASE STATION
    Publication number: 20200022059
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that suppresses a power consumption problem in a relay terminal includes a first controller that controls an IoT device to perform multihop routing via at least one relay on an upload of data from the IoT device to a base station, and a second controller that controls the base station to use, on a down-link from the base station to the IoT device, a route different from a route that uses at least one relay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA
  • COMMUNICATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND CONTROL METHODS AND CONTROL PROGRAMS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20200015168
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that reduces the power consumption of a remote UE associated with measurement of a strength of a received signal. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer that measures, in the communication terminal, a strength of a signal received from one of the relay stations, and a controller that controls to reselect another of the relay stations if the measured strength of the received signal is smaller than a first threshold, and reduce a count of measuring the strength of the received signal by the measurer if the measured strength of the received signal is larger than the second threshold which is larger than the first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • COMMUNICATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, BASE STATION, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF
    Publication number: 20190379450
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that stably efficiently uses a resource in a cell managed by a base station. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, a plurality of relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer in the communication terminal that measures strengths of received signals from the plurality of relay stations, and a selector in the base station that selects a relay station that connects the base station and the communication terminal, based on a comparison result of at least one capability of capabilities had by each of the plurality of relay stations, when there exist a plurality of relay stations whose strengths of received signals are more than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HIRATA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • COMMUNICATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF
    Publication number: 20190364437
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication processing system that appropriately manages total power consumption in a cell managed by a base station. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, a plurality of relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, first measurers in the plurality of relay stations that measure strengths of first signals received from the base station, a second measurer in the communication terminal that measures strengths of second signals received from the plurality of relay stations, and selects a communication path with a smallest difference between strengths of a first signal a second signal in a plurality of communication paths on which the base station, the plurality of relay stations and the communication terminal are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Toru YAMADA, Kyoji HI RATA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • Work vehicle
    Patent number: 10487711
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes an engine, a post-processing device, and a cooling fan. The engine is mounted on a front portion of a travelling machine body. The post-processing device purifies exhaust gas of the engine. The cooling fan water-cools the engine. The cooling fan is located in front of the engine. The cooling fan, the engine, and the post-processing device are covered with a hood. The hood includes a shield. The shield covers a lower section of the post-processing device and one side of the engine. The shield is a perforated plate including a plurality of holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kurokawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masahito Adachi
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DATA COLLECTION DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20190357006
    Abstract: Disclosed is an information processing apparatus for reducing the waste of power consumption in an IoT system, comprising a position information obtainer that periodically obtains position information of a data collection device, and position information of a relay device that relays communication between the data collection device and a base station, and a controller that controls measurement of a signal strength between the data collection device and the relay device, based on the position information of the data collection device and the position information of the relay device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoji HIRATA, Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Toru YAMADA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Masashi SHIMODA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • FISHER'S EXACT TEST CALCULATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190340215
    Abstract: A Fisher's exact test calculation apparatus includes: a condition storage 1 that has stored therein a condition for determining whether a result of Fisher's exact test corresponding to input is significant or not, the input being frequencies in a summary table; and a calculation unit 2 that obtains the result of Fisher's exact test corresponding to the frequencies in the summary table by inputting the frequencies in the summary table to the condition read from the condition storage 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koji CHIDA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Koki HAMADA, Masao NAGASAKI, Kazuharu MISAWA
  • Communication processing system, group message processing method, communication processing apparatus, and control method and control program of communication processing apparatus
    Patent number: 10455371
    Abstract: A system of this invention is directed to a communication processing system that suppresses an increase in number of control messages even if devices cannot receive a group message. The communication processing system includes a holder that holds identifiers of a plurality of devices included in a device group as a target of a group messaging requested from an application, an unreached-device list acquirer that acquires an unreached-device list created by excluding, identifiers of devices which the group message has reached from the identifiers held in the holder based on responses to delivery of the group message, and a message deliverer that delivers a message based on the group messaging to devices having identifiers included in the unreached-device list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoji Hirata, Toru Yamada, Akira Kamei, Hotaka Sugano, Masahiro Serizawa, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma, Yumiko Okuyama
  • Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 10429780
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member and a pressing member forming a fixing nip therebetween, a heat generator, and a processor. The heat generator is disposed to heat a print medium passing through the fixing nip via the fixing member. The processor is configured to control the heat generator to start heating at a timing when a non-fixed image portion formed on the print medium is expected to reach the fixing nip, based on image data of an image to be fixed, a conveyance speed of the print medium, and an estimated heat capacity of the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Hasegawa
  • Inkjet Recording Apparatus
    Publication number: 20190217627
    Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus, which can enhance the reliability of the phase search result to detect the optimal timing when the ink particles are electrically charged by the electrification electrode and secure the stable printing quality, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Takahiro ARIMA, Tsuneaki TAKAGISHI, Manabu KATO, Shoki YAMAGUCHI, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Mamoru OKANO
  • Communication terminal, communication system, communication method, and communication program
    Patent number: 10349347
    Abstract: The present invention has been made in view of the aforementioned problem and aims to provide a technique for reducing consumption of transmission power of an MTC device. The present invention relates to a communication terminal including measurement means for measuring a measurement target, reception means for receiving a certain condition regarding transmission from an application server, and determination means for determining, when the resulting measurement value satisfies the condition, that the measurement value should not be transmitted to the application server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamada, Akira Kamei, Masahiro Serizawa, Hotaka Sugano, Satoshi Hasegawa, Masashi Shimoma
  • FISHER'S EXACT TEST CALCULATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190163722
    Abstract: A Fisher's exact test calculation apparatus includes a selection unit that selects summary tables for which a result of Fisher's exact test indicative of being significant will be possibly obtained from among a plurality of summary tables based on a parameter obtained in calculation in course of determining the result of Fisher's exact test, and a calculation unit that performs calculations for Fisher's exact test for each of the selected summary tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Satoshi HASEGAWA, Koki HAMADA, Koji CHIDA, Masao NAGASAKI, Kazuharu MISAWA
  • SECURE COMPUTATION SYSTEM, SECURE COMPUTATION DEVICE, SECURE COMPUTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20190156705
    Abstract: Fisher's exact test is efficiently computed through secure computation. It is assumed that a, b, c and d are frequencies of a 2×2 contingency table, [a], [b], [c] and [d] are secure texts of the respective frequencies a, b, c and d, and N is an upper bound satisfying a+b+c+d?N. A reference frequency computation part 12 computes a secure text ([a0], [b0], [c0], [d0]) of a combination of reference frequencies (a0, b0, c0, d0) which are integers satisfying a0+b0=a+b, c0+d0=c+d, a0+c0=a+c, and b0+d0=b+d. A number-of-patterns determination part 13 determines integers h0 and h1 satisfying h0?h1. A pattern computation part 14 computes [ai]=[a0]+i, [bi]=[b0]?i, [ci]=[c0]?i and [di]=[d0]+i for i=h0, . . . , h1, and obtains a set S={([ai], [bi], [ci], [di])}i of secure texts of combinations of frequencies (ai, bi, ci, di).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicants: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koki HAMADA, Koji CHIDA, Satoshi HASEGAWA, Masao NAGASAKI, Kazuharu MISAWA
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING THICKNESS OF ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE
    Publication number: 20190101386
    Abstract: An electrolyte membrane thickness measurement apparatus includes a detecting medium supplying portion configured to emit a detecting medium, a detecting portion configured to detect a metal catalyst, and an analyzing unit. A thickness direction profile of a detection signal is generated by the detecting portion, and first and second inflection points are determined in the thickness direction profile based on the intensity of the detection signal by the analyzing unit. The distance between the first and second inflection points is evaluated as the thickness of the electrolyte membrane by the analyzing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Shigeto Akahori, Shohei Yoshida, Satoshi Hasegawa, Tomoko Tamai, Mai Yokoi
  • System and method for rendering interactive aerial volumetric graphics and generating spatial audio using femtosecond lasers
    Patent number: 10228653
    Abstract: A plasma generator including: a femtosecond light source that generates a laser pulse beam; a processor that computes a computer generated hologram; a spatial light modulator that modifies the laser pulse beam in accordance with the computer generated hologram; a three dimensional scanner optically coupled to the spatial light modulator to direct the modified laser pulse beam to one or more focal points in air; and a lens that focuses the modified laser pulse beam. The modified laser pulse beam induces a light emission effect at a one or more focal points that can be visible, audible, and palpable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Pixie Dust Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Ochiai, Takayuki Hoshi, Jun Rekimoto, Kota Kumagai, Satoshi Hasegawa, Yoshio Hayasaki
  • Pet toilet sheet cover member and pet toilet using same
    Patent number: 10219487
    Abstract: The cover member mounted on a toilet sheet spread over a floor surface and absorbing excreta from a pet, is provided to have a configuration that first members each having a bottom surface for contact with a floor surface are disposed in a first end region of the bottom section, ribs each having a bottom surface, at least a portion of the bottom surface being for contact with a top surface of the toilet sheet, are provided in a middle region, and second members each having a bottom surface for contact with a top surface of the toilet sheet are provided in a second end region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Hasegawa, Takayuki Matsuo
  • CORE NODE, RADIO TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20190069159
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of reducing the number of messages or an amount of data to be transmitted to the core node. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a congestion state detector (11) configured to detect a congestion state of an own apparatus; a communication unit (13) configured to receive a NAS request message that has specified an APN from a radio terminal (20); and a controller (12) configured to determine that processing regarding the NAS request message will not be executed while the congestion state of the own apparatus is being detected. The communication unit (13) transmits a reject message including a plurality of APNs that can be specified by the radio terminal (20) to the radio terminal (20) when it is determined in the controller (12) that the processing regarding the NAS request message will not be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru YAMADA, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Akira KAMEI, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Satoshi HASEGAWA
  • CORE NODE, RADIO TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20190069196
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a core node capable of reducing the number of NAS request messages to be transmitted to the core node when a congestion state of the core node is continuing. A core node (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a congestion state detector (11) configured to detect a congestion state of the core node; a communication unit (13) configured to receive a NAS request message transmitted from a radio terminal (20); a message storing unit (14) configured to store the NAS request message; and a controller (12) configured to suspend processing regarding the NAS request message while the congestion state of the core node is being detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru YAMADA, Akira KAMEI, Yumiko OKUYAMA, Masahiro SERIZAWA, Kyoji HIRATA, Masashi SHIMOMA, Satoshi HASEGAWA