Patents by Inventor Yusuke Shomura

Yusuke Shomura 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: 20230387685
    Abstract: An energy management controller (1) includes a virtual grid generating unit (110) that for each of grids, generates a virtual grid that collectively manages information including information on an energy resource and a wire, in order to carry out efficient power management, and a deal management unit (150) that based on the generated virtual grid, manages a power deal with a consumer-side supplied with power from the energy resource. The energy management controller (1) further includes an RE coloring unit (132) that classifies power by coloring to allow power deals based on RE coloring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Nao SAITO, Norihiko MORIWAKI, Hideki HAYASHI, Masato UTSUMI, Kazuya MONDEN, Yusuke SHOMURA, Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yoshikazu ISHII, Mingyu JO
  • Patent number: 11695273
    Abstract: A power trading management apparatus receives power supply application data including the amount of supplied power and a supply period from a supply-side computer, and receives power demand application data including the amount of requested power and a request period from a demand-side computer, determines whether or not a first trading condition in which the supply period is a period earlier than the request period is satisfied, decides the amount of transmitted power for a power demand apparatus based on an amount of power of the amount of supplied power or the amount of requested power when the first trading condition is satisfied, and stores the amount of supplied power in a power storage and discharge apparatus from a power supply apparatus in the supply period and discharges the amount of transmitted power decided by the decision processing to the power demand apparatus from the power storage and discharge apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Yusuke Shomura
  • Publication number: 20220166216
    Abstract: A power management system, which manages a transaction of power generated based on renewable energy, includes: a power supply system capable of supplying power generated based on the renewable energy to a power demand system; and a power demand-supply management apparatus that manages demand and supply of the power. The power demand-supply management apparatus requests the power supply system to supply the power to the power demand system in a power generation time zone of the power, and issues, to the power demand system, a certificate that an amount of supplied power has been consumed in accordance with generation of the power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yusuke SHOMURA, Nao SAITO
  • Publication number: 20210234368
    Abstract: A power trading management apparatus receives power supply application data including the amount of supplied power and a supply period from a supply-side computer, and receives power demand application data including the amount of requested power and a request period from a demand-side computer, determines whether or not a first trading condition in which the supply period is a period earlier than the request period is satisfied, decides the amount of transmitted power for a power demand apparatus based on an amount of power of the amount of supplied power or the amount of requested power when the first trading condition is satisfied, and stores the amount of supplied power in a power storage and discharge apparatus from a power supply apparatus in the supply period and discharges the amount of transmitted power decided by the decision processing to the power demand apparatus from the power storage and discharge apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yusuke SHOMURA
  • Publication number: 20210110404
    Abstract: There is provided an information coordination platform system that coordinates a plurality of organizations that each manages customer information including a plurality of pieces of item information regarding a customer with each other. An information coordination bridge manages association information for associating the organizations for the customer to be coordinated with at least one item information between at least two organizations and the item information, and records data update information indicating the organizations, the customer, and the item information when the item information of the customer is updated in any organization. An information coordination server notifies the organization associated with the organization in which the item information is updated in the association information of a fact that the item information of the customer is updated based on the data update information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Yusuke Shomura, Makoto Fuchiwaki, Jun Yoshihara, Masafumi Kinosita, Kenji Otsu
  • Publication number: 20200402517
    Abstract: Example implementations are directed to maximizing the accuracy of command recognition in a noisy environment, such as a factor shop floor, by providing appropriate parameters and configurations to a speech recognition algorithm and a denoising algorithm based on an operator condition, such as the identified user and the location. Through the example implementations described herein, machine processes can be controlled through properly configured speech recognition and denoising algorithms despite having a surrounding noisy environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke SHOMURA, Yasutaka SERIZAWA, Sudhanshu GAUR
  • Patent number: 10852276
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed to a specialized Internet of Things (IoT) device deploying both acoustic and radio wave signals. In example implementations described herein, camera data and acoustic sensor data is integrated to generate an acoustic sensor heatmap for the holistic sensing systems in an IoT area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Serizawa, Sudhanshu Gaur, Yusuke Shomura
  • Patent number: 10783902
    Abstract: Systems and methods involving integrating camera and acoustic sensor data, and automatically capturing the acoustic sensor heatmap for the holistic sensing systems in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. In particular, example implementations described herein capture the local sound noise environment or localized noise profiles (e.g., noise fingerprint) adaptively to the change of noise profiles and automatically apply captured noise profiles to the streaming noise reduction in signal processing for industrial IoT areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Serizawa, Yusuke Shomura, Sudhanshu Gaur
  • Patent number: 10666557
    Abstract: This invention aim to improves the flexibility of data flows management from sensor to cloud, datalake or other system, which can manage the overall data flows within the system and control them dynamically. As a result, it can reduce transmission cost and storage cost properly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Shomura, Joydeep Acharya, Sudhanshu Gaur
  • Publication number: 20200124572
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed to a specialized Internet of Things (IoT) device deploying both acoustic and radio wave signals. In example implementations described herein, camera data and acoustic sensor data is integrated to generate an acoustic sensor heatmap for the holistic sensing systems in an IoT area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yasutaka SERIZAWA, Sudhanshu GAUR, Yusuke SHOMURA
  • Publication number: 20200044961
    Abstract: This invention aim to improves the flexibility of data flows management from sensor to cloud, datalake or other system, which can manage the overall data flows within the system and control them dynamically. As a result, it can reduce transmission cost and storage cost properly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Yusuke SHOMURA, Joydeep ACHARYA, Sudhanshu GAUR
  • Publication number: 20170041817
    Abstract: To estimate communication quality of the wireless section in real-time, it is provided a communication management apparatus that manages traffic of a communication system, comprising a storage unit which stores a program, and a processor which executes the program stored in the storage unit, wherein the communication system includes a wireless base station that communicates with a wireless terminal, and a gateway apparatus connected to the wireless base station, and wherein the communication management apparatus is configured to: obtain a degree of congestion of the wireless base station; obtain a wireless quality of the wireless terminal, between the wireless base station and the wireless terminal; and calculate an estimated communication quality value of the wireless terminal between the gateway apparatus and the wireless terminal, according to the degree of congestion of the wireless base station and the obtained wireless quality of the wireless terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke SHOMURA, Rintaro KATAYAMA, Ryoichi TANAKA, Tomohiro MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20160212034
    Abstract: To estimate the communication quality of the wireless section in real-time, it is provided a communication management apparatus that manages traffic of a wireless communication system that includes a wireless base station communicating with a terminal, and a gateway apparatus coupled to the wireless base station, the communication management apparatus comprising a processor that executes a program and a storage unit accessed by the processor. The communication management apparatus calculates an estimated value of wireless section throughput between the wireless base station and the terminal using communication quality information obtained from data sent and received by the gateway apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Shomura, Katsuyuki Tsunami, Yusuke Obi
  • Publication number: 20160142276
    Abstract: It is provided a communication system comprising: a first monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a control signal related to a connection request between a network and a terminal, and generate a reception log; a second monitoring apparatus configured to monitor a packet inputted/outputted to/from a gateway apparatus configured to transfer user data, sort the packet for each session, identify a type of an application which generates the session, and generate a session log including the type of an application; and a traffic management server configured to acquire the reception log generated by the first monitoring apparatus and the session log generated by the second monitoring apparatus, correlate the reception log with the session log by using an occurrence time of the reception log, an occurrence time of the session log, and an identifier of the terminal, and identify an application related to a session which generated the control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke SHOMURA, Rintaro KATAYAMA, Seiya KUDOH
  • Patent number: 9319910
    Abstract: A communication system includes a mobile terminal, a base station, a first gateway device, a second gateway device, a flow measurement server, a quality management server, and an operational terminal. A predetermined flow is extracted by a quality management server, and the extracted flow is summarized for each communication path. A distribution of the communication quality of the flow for each communication path is displayed on a display unit of the operational terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Shomura, Koji Wakayama, Ryouichi Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Kajita, Seiya Kudo
  • Publication number: 20160036710
    Abstract: In a traffic management server, base station control corresponding to application information is instructed and it is instructed to control traffic, with respect to a specific application of a specific user, on a core network-side in cooperation with information related to a radio area calculated in a base station management server, whereby quality of experience (QoE) in a mobile terminal of a subscriber is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Seishi HANAOKA, Yusuke SHOMURA, Rintaro KATAYAMA, Yasuhito MAEJIMA
  • Publication number: 20150334042
    Abstract: Provided is a technique of finely performing congestion determination and congestion control on a cellular communication system employing a C-RAN architecture. An instruction is given to a control device to acquire location information of a terminal in a cell of a C-RAN using a first message between network nodes, acquire a congestion indicator of the cell of the C-RAN using a second message between the network nodes, determine the occurrence of congestion of the cell based on the congestion indicator, identify a terminal staying in a cell in which congestion is occurring based on the location information of the terminal, and limit a maximum usable bandwidth of the specified terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Rintaro KATAYAMA, Yusuke SHOMURA, Keisuke TAKEUCHI, Hiroto NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20150249585
    Abstract: It is provided a detection apparatus including: a first storage module configured to store logs about traffic between communication apparatus and, when a consumed storage capacity reaches a given level or higher, delete the stored logs starting from an oldest log; a calculation module configured to refer to specific logs about specific traffic that is related to a subject of communication quality monitoring from the logs stored in the first storage module, thereby calculating a group of time-series statistical values about communication quality of the monitoring subject; a detection module configured to compare the group of time-series statistical values with a threshold, thereby detecting communication quality deterioration of the monitoring subject; and a saving module configured to obtain, when communication quality deterioration of the monitoring subject is detected, the specific logs from the first storage module and store the specific logs in a second storage module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke SHOMURA, Seishi HANAOKA
  • Publication number: 20140094171
    Abstract: A paging signal is transmitted to plural base stations which are prioritized with the use of communication results between a wireless communication terminal and the base stations to provide means for suppressing a control signal traffic, and a bandwidth used for a control signal can be effectively used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryouichi TANAKA, Koji WAKAYAMA, Tsuyoshi KAJITA, Yusuke SHOMURA
  • Publication number: 20140064136
    Abstract: A communication system includes a mobile terminal, a base station, a first gateway device, a second gateway device, a flow measurement server, a quality management server, and an operational terminal. A predetermined flow is extracted by a quality management server, and the extracted flow is summarized for each communication path. A distribution of the communication quality of the flow for each communication path is displayed on a display unit of the operational terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke SHOMURA, Koji WAKAYAMA, Ryouichi TANAKA, Tsuyoshi KAJITA, Seiya KUDO