Patents by Inventor Takuya Okamoto

Takuya Okamoto 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: 20150242134
    Abstract: An example of the invention is a computer system managing actual storage areas provided by physical storage apparatuses as a single storage pool and allocating an actual storage area to a virtual volume from the storage pool when writing data to the virtual volume from the host computers. A management computer identifies, based on access path management information, access paths for access from the host computers to the virtual volume and usage status of the access paths for access to the virtual volume, and determines, based on the usage status of the access paths, target capacity ratios of actual storage areas allocated to the virtual volume from the physical storage apparatuses providing actual storage areas to the storage pool. The physical storage apparatuses allocate actual storage areas to the virtual volume based on an actual storage area capacity already allocated to the virtual volume and the target capacity ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke Takada, Takuya Okamoto, Takato Kusama
  • Patent number: 9116632
    Abstract: The storage management system supports planning of volume migration between different storage apparatuses. The storage management system determines source volume groups to which the source volumes belong, determines sizes of volumes to be allocated from the storage device groups to the destination pools, determines sizes of volumes to be migrated from the source volume groups to the destination pools, creates image data indicating information on the determined sizes of volumes to be allocated and the sizes of volumes to be migrated, and outputs the image data to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Hara, Takuya Okamoto, Takato Kusama
  • Patent number: 9115895
    Abstract: A flue gas desulfurization according to the present invention includes a desulfurization absorber that removes SOx and dust contained in flue gas, spray pipes that are provided in the desulfurization absorber, an absorbent feeding means that feeds an absorbing-agent-slurry containing absorbent, in which limestone is used as an absorbing agent, into the desulfurization absorber, nozzles that are provided in the spray pipe to spray the absorbent into the desulfurization absorber, an alkaline-agent feeding means that feeds an alkaline-agent containing solution into the desulfurization absorber, and an waste-water discharge pipe for discharging filtrate obtained by solid-liquid separating the absorbent discharged from the desulfurization absorber as waste water. A feed amount of the alkaline-agent containing solution into the desulfurization absorber is adjusted based on a discharge amount of the waste water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Okamoto, Tatsuto Nagayasu, Satoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9112641
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a transmission device that enables transmission and reception of connected transmission channels in a 13-segment format and a transmission method of the transmission device, and to a reception device. The transmission device transmits connected transmission information indicating that connected transmission of a plurality of transmission channels is being performed, the connected transmission information including a field that specifies the modulation method type of each of three or more layers of layered transmission that can be performed on at least one of the transmission channels in the three or more layers. The reception device receives the connected transmission information transmitted by the transmission device. The present invention can be applied to transmission devices that transmit terrestrial digital broadcast signals, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tamotsu Ikeda, Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150224444
    Abstract: The present invention is a removal system for mercury in the flue gas configured to remove Hg contained in a flue gas flowing from a boiler, and includes: a heat exchanger configured to execute heat exchange for a flue gas flowing from a boiler; a precipitator configured to remove soot dust in the flue gas; a wet SOx removal unit configured to remove mercury oxide Hg2 + in the flue gas by alkali absorbent and desulfurize sulfur oxide in the flue gas; and an HBr compound supply unit configured to supply HBr, namely, a Br compound into a flue gas duct configured to discharge a flue gas from a boiler outlet. Further, enrichment of bromine contained in the alkali absorbent inside the wet SOx removal unit is set to predetermined enrichment or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shoko Nagae, Seiji Kagawa, Tatsuto Nagayasu, Nobuyuki Ukai, Takuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9083825
    Abstract: A communication system for one or more communication apparatuses communicable with an external apparatus includes a storing unit to store data received by a communication apparatus from the external apparatus used as a transmission sender of the received data, and transmission/reception information including information of the external apparatus as transmission sender information and identification information of the communication apparatus used for receiving the received data; an identification unit to identify received data, selected by a user, from the received data stored in the storing unit; a transmission data obtaining unit to obtain transmission data to be transmitted to the external apparatus; and a transmission control unit to transmit the transmission data to the external apparatus from the communication apparatus that has received the selected received data among the one or more communication apparatuses based on the transmission/reception information stored in the storing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9070223
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a map filtering processing unit which applies filtering to a parallax map based on a parallax value with respect to each pixel of an image; a blurred image generation unit which generates a blurred image of the image from the image; and an image composition unit which generates a composite image which is obtained by compositing the image and the blurred image based on the parallax map after the filtering by the map filtering processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoya Shimura, Seiichi Tanaka, Shinichi Arita, Takuya Okamoto, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Publication number: 20150160885
    Abstract: The storage management system supports planning of volume migration between different storage apparatuses. The storage management system determines source volume groups to which the source volumes belong, determines sizes of volumes to be allocated from the storage device groups to the destination pools, determines sizes of volumes to be migrated from the source volume groups to the destination pools, creates image data indicating information on the determined sizes of volumes to be allocated and the sizes of volumes to be migrated, and outputs the image data to a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Hara, Takuya Okamoto, Takato Kusama
  • Patent number: 8999047
    Abstract: A system for removing Hg contained in flue gas from a boiler, the system includes: a heat exchanger for performing heat exchange of the flue gas from the boiler; a precipitator for removing soot and dust in the flue gas; a wet desulfurization device for removing mercury oxide Hg2+ in the flue gas using an alkali absorbent; and; a removal assistant supply unit for supplying a removal assistant for removing impurities into a limestone and gypsum slurry that circulates through the wet desulfurization device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ukai, Seiji Kagawa, Tatsuto Nagayasu, Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150077813
    Abstract: A communication system for one or more communication apparatuses communicable with an external apparatus includes a storing unit to store data received by a communication apparatus from the external apparatus used as a transmission sender of the received data, and transmission/reception information including information of the external apparatus as transmission sender information and identification information of the communication apparatus used for receiving the received data; an identification unit to identify received data, selected by a user, from the received data stored in the storing unit; a transmission data obtaining unit to obtain transmission data to be transmitted to the external apparatus; and a transmission control unit to transmit the transmission data to the external apparatus from the communication apparatus that has received the selected received data among the one or more communication apparatuses based on the transmission/reception information stored in the storing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Takuya OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8961665
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas treatment system including a CO2 recovery unit with further enhanced energy efficiency. The exhaust gas treatment system (1) includes: a CO2 recovery unit (10) including a CO2 absorption column (11), an absorbing solution regeneration column (16), a condensate supply pipeline (15) for supplying condensate, which contains CO2 absorbing solution discharged from the CO2 absorption column (11) to a bottom portion of the absorbing solution regeneration column (16), and a CO2 separation section (22) for performing heat exchange, via a heat exchanger (23), between the CO2 discharged from the absorbing solution regeneration column (16) and the condensate; and an exhaust gas heat exchanger (5) provided on a gas upstream side of the CO2 recovery unit (10) for performing heat exchange between exhaust gas before flowing into the CO2 recovery unit (10) and the condensate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tsujiuchi, Shintaro Honjo, Takahito Yonekawa, Satoru Sugita, Motofumi Ito, Takashi Kamijo, Tatsuto Nagayasu, Takuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8953492
    Abstract: A route determination device includes a memory to store a piece of route information of the route which is already calculated; and a processor to execute a process including: receiving a calculation request which requests route calculation; determining the route which conforms to the calculation request by performing the route calculation when the route information stored in the memory does not include the route which conforms to the calculation request; obtaining the route which conforms to the calculation request from the route information when the route information stored in the memory includes the route which conforms to the calculation request; storing the route information of the route determined by route determining processing in the memory; and sharing, with another route determination device which determines the route going through another node device among the plurality of node devices, the route information of the route determined by the route determining processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20150027671
    Abstract: A steel covering layer according to the present invention includes a surface layer formed of a low surface energy material and formed on the surface of a heat transfer tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Seiji Kagawa, Tsuyoshi Miyachi, Takuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8941492
    Abstract: An information receiving apparatus that includes a receiver that receives an alert signal including a predetermined number of bits, and a controller that detects that the alert signal includes alert information by processing a subset of the predetermined number of bits of the alert signal, and outputs an indication corresponding to the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tamotsu Ikeda, Ryuichiro Shimura, Takuya Okamoto, Satoshi Okada
  • Publication number: 20150024140
    Abstract: A resin coating layer according to the present invention is formed by curing a thermo-setting resin composition on an inner wall of a heat transfer tube. Forming the resin coating layer allows the heat transfer tube to be easily repaired without involving a cutting process of the heat transfer tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sakurai, Tsuyoshi Miyachi, Seiji Kagawa, Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20140295908
    Abstract: The present technique relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, a reception method, and a program capable of reducing interference to an adjacent channel in a case where connected-transmission is performed. A transmission device according to an aspect of the present technique includes a signal generating unit configured to generate a plurality of signals having a predetermined frequency bandwidth, a power adjusting unit configured to adjust power of signals so that the power of a signal transmitted using a frequency band close to an end of a channel is less than the power of the signal transmitted using a frequency band close to a center of the channel, and a transmission unit configured to use the channel to transmit, in a connected manner, the signals of which powers have been adjusted. The present technique can be applied to a transmission device for performing connected-transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tamotsu Ikeda, Takuya Okamoto, TAkashi Yokokawa, Hidetoshi Kawauchi
  • Patent number: 8743379
    Abstract: There is provided a device for monitoring a thickness reduction of an inner surface in a heat transfer tube or an inner surface in an evaporation tube, the device including: a movement unit which moves along a fin tube; a laser measurement unit which is provided in the movement unit and measures the thickness reduction of the inner surface by a laser; a cable which includes a light guiding path for introducing a laser into the laser measurement unit and a light deriving path for transmitting reflected light; and a thickness reduction determining unit which compares the laser measurement data with past data or standard data and determines the current thickness reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Seiji Kagawa, Susumu Okino, Takuya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8681904
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a receiver including a determination block adapted to determine, as a gain used to adjust the power of a received signal received with a fixed bandwidth, a gain different from that used when other band is not contained in a band of the received signal if the band of the received signal contains a desired signal band and the other band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20140079615
    Abstract: A flue gas treatment system and a flue gas treatment method capable of drastically reducing operating cost and an amount of waste water and capable of controlling an amount of a NOx reducing agent and a mercury oxidation agent to be supplied are provided. The flue gas treatment system sprays an aqueous solution containing ammonium halide into a flue, reduces NOx and oxidizes mercury in a deNOx section, and removes SOx and the mercury in a desulfurization section. The flue gas treatment system adds at least one of ammonium sulfate and ammonium carbonate to waste water which is discharged from the desulfurization section and from which CaSO4 is separated to generate the ammonium halide. The waste water containing the ammonium halide is sprayed as the aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Honjo, Motofumi Ito, Satoru Sugita, Norikazu Inaba, Jun Hashimoto, Susumu Okino, Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20140072483
    Abstract: A desulfurization apparatus includes: a desulfurization section (3) that brings exhaust gas containing sulfur oxide into gas-liquid contact with absorbing liquid to thereby remove the sulfur oxide; a folded-plate type demister (4) that is installed above the desulfurization section (3), and removes mist generated in the desulfurization section (3); a packing section (5) that is installed above the folded-plate type demister (4), has a same cross-sectional area as the desulfurization section (3) and the folded-plate type demister (4), and removes mist that is not removed by the folded-plate type demister (4); and a washing section (6) that injects water to the packing section (5). As a result of this, mist contained in the exhaust gas is easily and reliably reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Hashimoto, Satoru Sugita, Norikazu Inaba, Shintaro Honjo, Tatsuto Nagayasu, Takuya Okamoto