Patents by Inventor Yoshikatsu Shirai

Yoshikatsu Shirai 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).

  • Patent number: 9396273
    Abstract: A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Patent number: 9367630
    Abstract: A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20160110826
    Abstract: A forensic system, method, and computer-readable medium that display a document group that includes a plurality of documents included in the digital information to a user, receive classification information assigned to a target document which is a document for determination of whether the document is related to a lawsuit by a user in the displayed document group, based on the determination of whether the document is related to the lawsuit by the user, update a score of each document corresponding to predetermined classification information based on a comparison result between a feature value of the target document of which the classification information is received and a feature value of each document in the document group, and control a display order of the documents in the document group to be displayed by the display unit based on the updated scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: UBIC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20160098478
    Abstract: It is possible to analyze digitized document information gathered to be provided as evidence in a legal action and to classify the document information to be easily accessible in the legal action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Patent number: 9244920
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150339298
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a review load of a reviewer. A document management system includes a screen display unit that displays a document group having a plurality of pieces of document data extracted from digital information to be determined for relevance to a lawsuit by a user and classification buttons allowing the user to select classification conditions for classifying the document group under predetermined conditions, a selection information reception unit that receives information relating to a classification button selected by the user among the classification button displayed by the screen display unit as selection information, and a classification instruction unit that analyzes the document group based on the selection information, classifies document data in the document group using the analysis result, and instructs the screen display unit to display the document group based on the classification result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Akiteru HANATANI
  • Publication number: 20150339786
    Abstract: A forensic system including: a determination acquiring unit that acquires, as performance information, at least one of result information indicating a result of determination of relevance of plural pieces of document data included in digital information to a lawsuit performed by a user and progress information indicating information relating to a progress speed of the determination of relevance performed by the user; a recording unit that records the performance information acquired by the determination acquiring unit; a prediction information generating unit that generates prediction information relating to at least one of the result information and the progress information; an information comparing unit that compares the performance information with the prediction information; and an icon generating unit that generates an icon for presenting an evaluation of the determination of relevance performed by the user based on a comparison result by the information comparing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20150310004
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce a review load of a reviewer. A document management system acquires digital information recorded in a plurality of computers or a server and analyzes the acquired digital information for relevance to a lawsuit. The document management system includes a thread classification unit that verifies supplementary information of each piece of document data included in the digital information and classifies the document data into threads based on the supplementary information, a similarity analysis unit that extracts elements included in the supplementary information of the classified document data for each thread and analyzes similarity between the threads based on the extracted elements, and an integration unit that integrates the threads based on the similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: UBIC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA, Kazumi HASUKO
  • Patent number: 9171074
    Abstract: It is possible to analyze digitized document information gathered to be provided as evidence in a legal action and to classify the document information to be easily accessible in the legal action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20150286706
    Abstract: Disclosed is a forensic system capable of enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of classification work of whether to submit document information as evidence in a lawsuit by highlighting a portion including a specific keyword in a unit of a sentence. The forensic system includes: a database that registers a keyword for determining by a user whether a plurality of pieces of document information included in the digital information is related to a lawsuit; a retrieving unit that retrieves the keyword registered in the database from the document information; a sentence extracting unit that extracts a sentence including the retrieved keyword from the document information; a score calculating unit that calculates a score indicating a degree of relevance to the lawsuit using a feature value extracted from the sentence extracted by the sentence extracting unit; and a highlighting unit that changes a degree of highlighting of the sentence according to the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20150169745
    Abstract: It is possible to analyze digitized document information gathered to be provided as evidence in a legal action and to classify the document information to be easily accessible in the legal action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hedeki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20150149372
    Abstract: A document classification system is provided. The document classification system analyzes digital document information which is collected to be submitted as evidence in a lawsuit and classifies the digital document information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20150088876
    Abstract: A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: UBIC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Kazumi Hasuko
  • Publication number: 20140337367
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. A specific individual is selected from at least one individual included in user information. Only digital document information which was accessed by the specific individual is extracted based on access history information regarding the selected specific individual. Additional information indicating whether or not document files in the extracted digital document information are each related with the litigation is set, and a document file related with the litigation is outputted based on the additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20140330812
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro MORIMOTO, Yoshikatsu SHIRAI, Hideki TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 8799317
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. A specific individual is selected from at least one individual included in user information. Only digital document information which was accessed by the specific individual is extracted based on access history information regarding the selected specific individual. Additional information indicating whether or not document files in the extracted digital document information are each related with the litigation is set, and a document file related with the litigation is outputted based on the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda
  • Patent number: 8793277
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda
  • Patent number: 8682927
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept can extract digital document information related with a specific individual to achieve a work load reduction associated with evidentiary material preparation for litigation. Recorded digital information can be displayed and user-specifying information can be set for each of a plurality of document files. The user-specifying information shows which user contained in user information one or more document files is related with. A recording unit can record the set user-specifying information. At least one user is selected, and a document file where user-specifying information which corresponds to the selected user was set is searched. Additional information showing whether or not the searched document file is related with the litigation is set via a display unit. A document file which is related with litigation is outputted based on the additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda
  • Patent number: 8549037
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept reduce the burden of creating litigant sources of evidence or other evidentiary materials in connection with litigation in a court of law. Designation of at least one document file included in digital document information is accepted and designation of a language into which the designated document file is translated is accepted. The document file, the designation of which is accepted, is translated into the language the designation of which is accepted. A common document file representing the same content as that of the designated document file is extracted from digital document information recorded in a recording unit. Translation-related information representing that the extracted common document file is translated by invoking a translated content of the translated document file is generated, and, based on the translation-related information, a litigant-related document file is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: UBIC, Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Masatoshi Ohno
  • Publication number: 20120290578
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concept reduce the burden of creating litigant sources of evidence or other evidentiary materials in connection with litigation in a court of law. Designation of at least one document file included in digital document information is accepted and designation of a language into which the designated document file is translated is accepted. The document file, the designation of which is accepted, is translated into the language the designation of which is accepted. A common document file representing the same content as that of the designated document file is extracted from digital document information recorded in a recording unit. Translation-related information representing that the extracted common document file is translated by invoking a translated content of the translated document file is generated, and, based on the translation-related information, a litigant-related document file is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: UBIC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro Morimoto, Yoshikatsu Shirai, Hideki Takeda, Masatoshi Ohno