Patents by Inventor Shinji Hotta

Shinji Hotta 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: 20240013916
    Abstract: A medical information providing method including: acquiring first injury-or-disease information that indicates a type of an injury-or-disease; accessing a storage device that stores, for each provider of a plurality of providers each of which provides medical service, identification information of the provider, and injury-or-disease treatment information, the injury-or-disease treatment information including information on a type of an injury-or-disease for which the provider has an experience of treatment or that the provider is able to treat, and information on a type of treatment; extracting, for each provider of the plurality of providers, from the storage device, the injury-or-disease treatment information that includes information on a type of injury-or-disease corresponding to the first injury-or-disease information; and in a case where the information on a type of treatment included in the injury-or-disease treatment information extracted for each provider of the plurality of providers satisfies a cri
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi MIZOUCHI, Satoshi AMEMIYA, Kensuke KURAKI, Akihiro INOMATA, Shinji HOTTA
  • Publication number: 20230419219
    Abstract: A method for generating a workflow includes: generating multiple candidate workflows by making a modification to part of an existing workflow that defines multiple condition branches and following contents at respective destinations of the condition branches; obtaining KPI fluctuation vectors one for each candidate workflow from the existing workflow; generating multiple synthesized policies by synthesizing two or more of the KPI fluctuation vectors; calculating, when one of selected routes of multiple candidate workflows contains the modifications, a KPI predicted value of each synthesized policy by reflecting a weight parameter on the KPI fluctuation vector, the weight parameter being set such that a weight for a modification to an upper point of the selected route is higher than that to a lower point of the selected route among the modifications; and outputting a workflow of one of the synthesized policies the KPI predicted value of which satisfies a target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shinji HOTTA, Akihiro INOMATA, Kensuke KURAKI
  • Publication number: 20230245756
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of performing planning processing, the method including: acquiring information of a menu of a predetermined service and information of a stakeholder related to the service; calculating a change frequency of execution of the menu for a combination of the stakeholder and the menu; specifying a menu to be recommended on the basis of the calculated change frequency; and outputting the specified menu to the stakeholder of the calculated combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yuki Sasamoto, Akihiro Inomata, Shinji Hotta, Satoshi Amemiya, Daichi Katsura
  • Publication number: 20210231848
    Abstract: A light control filter includes a sheet having a sea-island structure including a light-transmitting portion and a light-shielding portion, wherein the light-transmitting portion and the light-shielding portion each extend from a first principal surface to a second principal surface, wherein any one of the light-transmitting portion and the light-shielding portion forms a plurality of island portions configured to penetrate through the sheet from the first principal surface to the second principal surface, and another of the light-transmitting portion and the light-shielding portion forms a sea portion configured to separate the plurality of island portions from one another, and wherein the sea portion has an MD-1 rubber hardness of 25 or more and 80 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: Shinji HOTTA
  • Patent number: 10952670
    Abstract: A meal detection method executed by a processor of a computer, the meal detection method includes acquiring first sensing data from a first sensor configured to detect a motion of an arm of a target person; acquiring second sensing data from a second sensor configured to detect a heart rate of the target person; setting a motion section in which a specific motion by the arm of the target person is executed at least twice or more based on the first sensing data; and determining whether a meal is performed in a section including at least a portion of the motion section, based on the second sensing data corresponding to the motion section and learning information corresponding to a unit motion of the specific motion at a time of the meal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mori, Kazuho Maeda, Shinji Hotta, Akihiro Inomata
  • Patent number: 10916521
    Abstract: Provided is an electric connector, which is to be arranged between a connection terminal of a first device and a connection terminal of a second device, and is configured to electrically connect the connection terminal of the first device and the connection terminal of the second device to each other, the electric connector including: an elastic body having a plurality of through holes each being opened on a first surface and a second surface; and one or more carbon nanotube yarns joined to each of the through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Hotta, Masatoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20200075532
    Abstract: Provided is an electric connector, which is to be arranged between a connection terminal of a first device and a connection terminal of a second device, and is configured to electrically connect the connection terminal of the first device and the connection terminal of the second device to each other, the electric connector including: an elastic body having a plurality of through holes each being opened on a first surface and a second surface; and one or more carbon nanotube yarns joined to each of the through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Shinji HOTTA, Masatoshi TSUCHIYA
  • Publication number: 20180368764
    Abstract: A meal detection method executed by a processor of a computer, the meal detection method includes acquiring first sensing data from a first sensor configured to detect a motion of an arm of a target person; acquiring second sensing data from a second sensor configured to detect a heart rate of the target person; setting a motion section in which a specific motion by the arm of the target person is executed at least twice or more based on the first sensing data; and determining whether a meal is performed in a section including at least a portion of the motion section, based on the second sensing data corresponding to the motion section and learning information corresponding to a unit motion of the specific motion at a time of the meal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mori, Kazuho Maeda, Shinji Hotta, Akihiro Inomata
  • Patent number: 9839377
    Abstract: A subject person specifying apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program causing the processor to perform acquiring characteristic quantities of variations of heart rate related to a meal of a subject person from heart rate data of the subject person as a target of an individual specifying process, calculating a distribution range of history values of the characteristic quantities associated with a plurality of candidates, and extracting the candidate corresponding to the subject person from within the plurality of candidates, based on a relation between the characteristic quantities acquired from the subject person and the distribution range of the history values of the characteristic quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji Hotta, Akihiro Inomata
  • Publication number: 20170347884
    Abstract: A non-transitory recording medium storing a correlation determination program for causing a computer to execute a process including calculating a time interval between an occurrence time of one of first type events and an occurrence time of each of second type events based on information including the occurrence times of the first type events and the second type events, for each of the first type events; comparing, for each of ranges of values relating to the time interval, a first rate of the number of time intervals within the range among a set of time intervals to a size of the range and a second rate of the number of time intervals outside the range among the set to a size of a range obtained by excluding the range from the predetermined time; and determining presence or absence of a correlation between the first type and second type events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji HOTTA, Akihiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20170273634
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a meal estimation program that causes a computer to execute a process including: acquiring time-series data of heart rate; calculating a feature quantity relating to a second peak appearing after a first peak in which a peak of the heart rate appears first after start of a meal, for each partial data included in the time-series data of the heart rate; determining presence of a meal in the partial data using the feature quantity relating to the second peak calculated for each of the partial data; and estimating a meal time from the partial data determined to include a meal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinji HOTTA, Akihiro INOMATA
  • Publication number: 20160256078
    Abstract: A specifying method includes specifying a first period for which it is determined that a specific movement or a specific posture is being performed by applying a first threshold to time series data obtained from a sensor for detecting a movement of a person, specifying a second period for which it is determined that the specific movement or the specific posture is being performed by applying a second threshold to the time series data, the second threshold being eased compared to the first threshold, specifying a transitional period based on a difference between the second period and the first period, the transitional period corresponding to one of a period of a transition to the specific movement or the specific posture, and another period of another transition from the specific movement or the specific posture to another movement or another posture and outputting a result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuki Sasamoto, Akihiro Inomata, Shinji Hotta, Kazuho Maeda
  • Publication number: 20160147335
    Abstract: A sensor sheet-producing sheet of the present invention includes a base layer; and a metal deposition layer having a thickness of 0.01 to 1.0 ?m which is formed on one surface of the base layer. A method for manufacturing a sensor sheet-producing sheet of the present invention includes a deposition step in which a metal deposition layer having a thickness of 0.01 to 1.0 ?m is deposited on one surface of a base layer. In the method for manufacturing a sensor sheet-producing sheet of the present invention, it is preferable that the deposition be vacuum deposition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Koji Nishizawa, Hiroto Komatsu, Shinji Hotta
  • Publication number: 20160058328
    Abstract: A subject person specifying apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program causing the processor to perform acquiring characteristic quantities of variations of heart rate related to a meal of a subject person from heart rate data of the subject person as a target of an individual specifying process, calculating a distribution range of history values of the characteristic quantities associated with a plurality of candidates, and extracting the candidate corresponding to the subject person from within the plurality of candidates, based on a relation between the characteristic quantities acquired from the subject person and the distribution range of the history values of the characteristic quantities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Shinji Hotta, Akihiro Inomata
  • Patent number: 8010830
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a failover method for improving overall reliability of a system including a large number of servers. Priorities set based on operating statuses of respective servers and shared devices capable of communicating with the respective servers in a failover system are stored in a storage portion while the priorities are associated with the respective servers, so that a failure processing portion of a management server retrieves a server based on the priorities and designates the retrieved server as a spare server when a failure occurs in one of the servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Hotta, Satoshi Yoshimura, Toshiki Kunimi, Kouji Masuda
  • Publication number: 20110164910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a thin keypad that includes an elastic sheet that is made of resin or elastomer, and a group of keys including a plurality of keys that are formed from one key sheet through laser-cutting, and that are fixed on the elastic sheet as a laser-cut configuration, wherein the plurality of keys is made of light curing resin with a thickness of 1.0 mm or less, and the narrowest spacing between the keys adjacent each other is equal to or less than 500 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: SHIN-ETSU POLYMER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ando, Masahide Takahashi, Shinji Hotta
  • Patent number: 7884295
    Abstract: A silicone rubber composition having such selective adhesiveness that shows high adhesion to an organic material than to a molding die is bonded to a sheet of the organic material and is vulcanized and cured in the mold. Thus, an elastomer keypad of double-layer structure is produced in which an organic material layer, which can be easily subjected to coating, bonding with an adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive, or the like, has been united and bonded as a surface layer to the rubber. Keytops are bonded to the elastomer keypad to produce a covering member for push-button switches. A polyurethane elastomer sheet is preferably used as the organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Aoki, Mitsutoshi Hiraya, Shinji Hotta
  • Publication number: 20100229171
    Abstract: A management computer to allocate a physical resource in a virtual system includes a section to create a physical source management table including physical resource managing data, a section to create an allocation policy table to manage allocation policies for physical resources, a section to create a configuration information management table to manage Logical PARtition (LPAR) configuration information, and a physical resource allocation judge section to select, based on these tables, an appropriate physical resource be allocated to an LPAR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi YOSHIMURA, Shinji HOTTA, Yongguang JIN, Toshiki KUNIMI
  • Patent number: 7723627
    Abstract: An EL sheet and a member for lighting a push-button switch capable of emitting light stably and sufficiently for a long period of time without trouble such as non-light emission phenomena and generation of black dot, even if the EL element is subjected to, for example, a drawing process to form into a three dimensional shape, includes a counter electrode layer 15, dielectric layer 14, light-emitting layer 13, and transparent electrode layer 11. An adhesive layer 12 made of adhesive having excellent adhesiveness to the electroconductive polymer is disposed between the transparent electrode layer 11 made of an electroconductive polymer and the light-emitting layer 13. As for the adhesives having excellent adhesiveness, polyester, acrylic, cyanoacrylate, polyolefin, ethylene-vinyl acetate or ethylene ethyl acrylate type adhesive is used. The dielectric layer is made of fluoro type, polyester type or acrylic type resin binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Polmyer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Hotta, Shunichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090271655
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a failover method for improving overall reliability of a system including a large number of servers. Priorities set based on operating statuses of respective servers and shared devices capable of communicating with the respective servers in a failover system are stored in a storage portion while the priorities are associated with the respective servers, so that a failure processing portion of a management server retrieves a server based on the priorities and designates the retrieved server as a spare server when a failure occurs in one of the servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji HOTTA, Satoshi YOSHIMURA, Toshiki KUNIMI, Kouji MASUDA