Patents by Inventor Shinji Sakano
Shinji Sakano 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).
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Patent number: 9423355Abstract: A plural camera images capturing and processing apparatus includes a plurality of cameras that capture images of a plurality of adjacent imaging regions which overlap each other, a plurality of laser devices that give a marker to each common imaging region in which imaging regions overlap each other, an imaging control unit that controls each camera and each laser device and acquires a markerless image group to which no marker is given and a marker-given image group to which the marker is given, a non-visible light image processing unit that calculates a correction parameter, which is information for aligning the inclinations, sizes, and positions of the imaging regions, on the basis of the marker-given image group, and a visible light image processing unit that composes the markerless image group to generate a composite image, on the basis of the correction parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Sakano, Yuichi Nonaka
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Publication number: 20140240451Abstract: A plural camera images capturing and processing apparatus includes a plurality of cameras that capture images of a plurality of adjacent imaging regions which overlap each other, a plurality of laser devices that give a marker to each common imaging region in which imaging regions overlap each other, an imaging control unit that controls each camera and each laser device and acquires a markerless image group to which no marker is given and a marker-given image group to which the marker is given, a non-visible light image processing unit that calculates a correction parameter, which is information for aligning the inclinations, sizes, and positions of the imaging regions, on the basis of the marker-given image group, and a visible light image processing unit that composes the markerless image group to generate a composite image, on the basis of the correction parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Shinji SAKANO, Yuichi NONAKA
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Publication number: 20130295907Abstract: A wireless communication terminal which receives at least one service through wireless communication with a wireless base station, including: a wireless communication interface which communicates by radio with the wireless base station; a memory that stores at least one piece of application software where the at least one service is provided; and a control module; wherein the control module is configured to: receive service information that is transmitted via the wireless base station as a response to the connection request or cyclically transmitted from the wireless base station, the service information includes application identification information of at least one piece of application software that is available within a wireless service area of the wireless base station; and execute customization processing that starts up or displays of the at least one piece of application software stored in the memory according to customized setting that is set beforehand.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventor: Shinji SAKANO
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Patent number: 8484320Abstract: A service providing server transmits service information to a wireless communication terminal via a wireless base station. The service information includes AP identification information of AP software necessary to execute each of a plurality of wireless services, and a utilization priority level of the AP software. The wireless communication terminal receives the service information and displays the name of AP that has the highest priority level in the service information (S55). If an application menu is selected in this state (S56), the name of the AP that has the next highest priority level is displayed (S55). If executing AP software is selected (S56) while the name of the AP is being displayed, this AP software is started up (S53).Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Shinji Sakano
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Patent number: 8126161Abstract: An acoustic echo canceller system having a filter with high suppression performance of acoustic echo, generated by using microphone array having a plurality of microphone elements, judging a band where only a speaker sound is present, based on phase difference among microphones, and carrying out adaptation of an adaptive filter for only such a band.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2007Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahito Togami, Shinji Sakano, Toshiyuki Matsuda
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Publication number: 20110047288Abstract: A service providing server transmits service information to a wireless communication terminal via a wireless base station. The service information includes AP identification information of AP software necessary to execute each of a plurality of wireless services, and a utilization priority level of the AP software. The wireless communication terminal receives the service information and displays the name of AP that has the highest priority level in the service information (S55). If an application menu is selected in this state (S56), the name of the AP that has the next highest priority level is displayed (S55). If executing AP software is selected (S56) while the name of the AP is being displayed, this AP software is started up (S53).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Inventor: Shinji SAKANO
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Patent number: 7844357Abstract: A target value that serves as a control value with feed forward control is optimized. A TL performs a feed forward and a feedback control of a PM. A storage unit stores a plurality of recipes indicating different processing sequences, and a target value that serves as a control value when performing an etching process. A communication unit causes an IMM to measure a processing state of the wafer and receives measurement information. A computation unit computes a feedback value for the current wafer processed in the current cycle, based on pre-processing and post-processing measurement information for the wafer. An update unit updates the target value using the feedback value. A recipe adjustment unit changes the recipe to change the process performed in the same PM. When the process is performed after changing, the updated target value is used to perform feed forward control of the wafer in the same PM.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventor: Shinji Sakano
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Patent number: 7774082Abstract: First feedforward calculation is executed when a preprocessing surface profile is measured and a processing chamber with its processing parameter value having been obtained through the first feedforward calculation judged to be within an allowable range is determined. Wafer transfer is executed only in conjunction with a processing chamber having a processing parameter value judged to be within the allowable range, and the wafer is carried to the entry point of the processing chamber. Then, second feedforward calculation is executed by reflecting the results of feedback calculation executed based upon the most recent processing having been executed in the particular processing chamber and wafer processing is executed in the processing chamber based upon the processing parameter value calculated in the second feedforward calculation.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2007Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Shigeru Kubota, Shinji Sakano
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Patent number: 7689028Abstract: A method for predicting a processing result includes a process of performing a principal component analysis on a plurality of detected data obtained during a first standard processing, to construct a principal component analysis model; a process of obtaining residuals of the principal component analysis model as first residuals; a process of performing a second standard processing; and a process of obtaining a plurality of detected data from a plurality of detectors during the second standard processing. And, the detected data obtained during the second standard processing are applied to the principal component analysis model, to obtain second residuals. The method further includes a process of weighting the second residuals based on weighting references, and constructing a new multivariate analysis model with use of the weighted second residuals; and a process of predicting a processing result of the second standard processing with use of the multivariate analysis model.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Shinji Sakano, Satoshi Harada
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Patent number: 7567269Abstract: A television phone adapter which permits an ordinary analog telephone to switch between being a telephone with a video function and a telephone without a video function. The television phone adapter includes a telephone adapter unit that detects dial operation of an analog telephone connected to a router with an IP telephone function, a video adapter unit that connects and disconnects a video connection using an IP network, sends a video taken by a camera to a communication partner and outputs a video received from the communication partner to a display 4 through the video connection in the connected state. A translation table stores correspondence between dial operation and a setting content.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Sakano, Kanji Tabeya, Masahito Hirokawa
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Publication number: 20090132078Abstract: A target value that serves as a control value with feed forward control is optimized. A TL performs a feed forward and a feedback control of a PM. A storage unit stores a plurality of recipes indicating different processing sequences, and a target value that serves as a control value when performing an etching process. A communication unit causes an IMM to measure a processing state of the wafer and receives measurement information. A computation unit computes a feedback value for the current wafer processed in the current cycle, based on pre-processing and post-processing measurement information for the wafer. An update unit updates the target value using the feedback value. A recipe adjustment unit changes the recipe to change the process performed in the same PM. When the process is performed after changing, the updated target value is used to perform feed forward control of the wafer in the same PM.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventor: Shinji SAKANO
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Publication number: 20080167744Abstract: A TL performs a feed forward control and a feedback control of a PM. A storage unit stores a target value that serves as a control value when an etching process is performed on a wafer. A communication unit causes an IMM to measure a processing state of the wafer and receives measurement information. A computation unit computes a feedback value for the current wafer that is processed in the current cycle, based on pre-processing and post-processing measurement information. The computation unit computes a change value that is an amount of a change from a feedback value computed in a preceding cycle. A determination unit determines whether to discard the current computed feedback value by comparing the change value to a specified threshold value. An update unit, in a case where it is determined not to be discarded, uses the current computed feedback value in updating the target value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventor: Shinji SAKANO
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Publication number: 20080107281Abstract: An acoustic echo canceller system having a filter with high suppression performance of acoustic echo, generated by using microphone array having a plurality of microphone elements, judging a band where only a speaker sound is present, based on phase difference among microphones, and carrying out adaptation of an adaptive filter for only such a band.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2007Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Masahito Togami, Shinji Sakano, Toshiyuki Matsuda
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Publication number: 20080091290Abstract: First feedforward calculation is executed when a preprocessing surface profile is measured and a processing chamber with its processing parameter value having been obtained through the first feedforward calculation judged to be within an allowable range is determined. Wafer transfer is executed only in conjunction with a processing chamber having a processing parameter value judged to be within the allowable range, and the wafer is carried to the entry point of the processing chamber. Then, second feedforward calculation is executed by reflecting the results of feedback calculation executed based upon the most recent processing having been executed in the particular processing chamber and wafer processing is executed in the processing chamber based upon the processing parameter value calculated in the second feedforward calculation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Shigeru KUBOTA, Shinji Sakano
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Patent number: 7341644Abstract: There is not known a conventional method for predicting the consumed degree of consumable supplies and the thickness of deposited films without opening a processing chamber. A method for predicting the consumed degree of a consumable supply and the thickness of a deposited film according to the present invention is used for a plasma processing system 10 for carrying out a predetermined processing for a wafer W with plasma which is produced from a process gas by applying a high-frequency power, and comprises the steps of: measuring the voltages and currents of a fundamental wave and its integer-times waves of a high-frequency power supply 20, which vary in accordance with the thickness of a focus ring 21 and the thickness of a deposited film, with elapsed time; and using these measured data to carry out a multiple regression analysis to predict the thickness of the focus ring 21 and the thickness of the deposited film.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2001Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Shinji Sakano, Tsuyoshi Sendoda
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Patent number: 7302176Abstract: A medium-scale IP telecommunications network is configured in a low-cost optical network with good reliability and expandability. A physical configuration example has a center node 2-1 and eight local nodes 2-11 through 2-18 connected in one OADM ring 2-21/2-22. The logical configuration is a star configuration with the central node 2-1 at its origin with all traffic passing through the center node 2-1. The local nodes 2-11 through 2-18 are connected to the central node 2-1 by wavelength-unit optical channels or optical paths ?1 through ?8. Channels are added as required. Initially, for example, the center node 2-1 and the local node 2-5 are connected by ?5, but ?13 can added when the need arises. Since the logical star network is limited to approximately two add/drop optical channels at local nodes, costs are reduced by using inexpensive filters (e.g., dielectric interference film filters or fiber Bragg reflectors) that are capable of extracting only the specific wavelength of the optical channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2004Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, LtdInventors: Shinji Sakano, Yasushi Sawada, Hideaki Tsushima, Yoshiaki Ikoma
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Publication number: 20070172239Abstract: It is configured to have a first optical line terminal for transmitting a video signal of a first wavelength; a second optical line terminal for transmitting a downstream data signal of a second wavelength and receiving an upstream data signal of a third wavelength; and a wavelength division multiplexer for wavelength division multiplexing the video signal and the upstream data signal and the descend data signal, where an attenuator is provided between the second optical line terminal and the wavelength division multiplexer, the attenuator having a characteristic that an attenuation amount given to the second wavelength is larger than an attenuation amount given to the third wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2006Publication date: July 26, 2007Inventors: Tomotaka Yamazaki, Ryuji Ishii, Shinji Sakano, Nobuaki Tajimi
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Publication number: 20070065089Abstract: A Triple-Player PON system is configured to have an optical line terminal (OLT) and an element management system (EMS), which are placed in a central office, an optical network terminal (ONT) placed in a subscriber's house, an optical splitter, a trunk line optical fiber, and a termination optical fiber. A variable optical attenuator is provided before a video optical receiver of the ONT, thereby to control the optical attenuation of the variable optical attenuator by a controller so that an input into the video optical receiver becomes an appropriate power.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Tadashi Matsuoka, Shinji Sakano
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Patent number: 7054786Abstract: In an operation monitoring method according to the present invention, operation data of a plasma processing system (1) are detected for every wafer (W) by means of a plurality of detectors, and a principal component analysis using the operation data is carried out by means of a controller (10). An operation state of the plasma processing system (1) is evaluated by using the results of the principal component analysis.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2001Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Shinji Sakano, Tsuyoshi Sendoda
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Patent number: 7020401Abstract: A wavelength converter and a wavelength division-multiplexing optical communication apparatus automatically generate clock signals of a specified frequency that match send/receive digital signals and regenerates timing for the send/receive digital signals. The wavelength converter includes: optical/electrical signal converters (2A, 2B) that convert input optical signals into electric digital signals; clock generator circuits (4A, 4B) that automatically identify the transmission mode for digital signals and generate phase-synchronized clocks of a specified frequency that match the signal transmission mode; timing regeneration circuits (6A, 6B) that regenerate clock timing for the digital signals based upon the phase-synchronized clocks from the clock generator circuits; and electric/optical converters (3A, 3B) that convert the digital signals from the timing regeneration circuits into optical signals of a specified wavelength.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Sakano, Ryuji Ishii, Yoshinori Yamada