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20090174775 | Monitoring System - A camera for taking a state behind a vehicle is installed in a position laterally shifted from the rear center of the vehicle. An image processing unit generates a rear image from a camera image by shifting merely a rectangular area of the camera image so that a vertical center line thereof can substantially accord with the center line along the lengthwise direction of the vehicle. Furthermore, processing for correcting lens distortion may be performed. As a result, when the vehicle is moved straight backward, an object present on the center line of the vehicle moves vertically in substantially the center of the screen, so that a user can be prevented from having an odd feeling to see the image. | 07-09-2009 |
20120218413 | MONITORING SYSTEM - A camera for taking a state behind a vehicle is installed in a position laterally shifted from the rear center of the vehicle. An image processing unit generates a rear image from a camera image by shifting merely a rectangular area of the camera image so that a vertical center line thereof can substantially accord with the center line along the lengthwise direction of the vehicle. Furthermore, processing for correcting lens distortion may be performed. As a result, when the vehicle is moved straight backward, an object present on the center line of the vehicle moves vertically in substantially the center of the screen, so that a user can be prevented from having an odd feeling to see the image. | 08-30-2012 |
20130231863 | DRIVING-OPERATION ASSIST AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A vehicle-operation assist includes a circumferential-state imager for imaging a circumferential state of a vehicle with a camera and generating a circumferential-state image; a synthetic-image generator for generating a synthetic image by superimposing on the circumferential-state image, an assumed-movement pattern of the vehicle performing a predetermined series of driving operations; and a display for displaying the synthetic image. The circumferential-state imager has at least one camera and a camera parameter table for storing characteristics of the camera and generating the circumferential-state image on the basis of the camera characteristics. | 09-05-2013 |
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20120109480 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - A vehicle control apparatus is provided with a power generator driven by a torque transmitted between an internal combustion engine and a drive wheel. The vehicle control apparatus executes a torque control that smoothly changes a torque at the drive wheel by changing a torque of the power generator during deceleration of the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether a factor restricting the torque of the power generator is in effect during the deceleration of the vehicle, and controls a manner of the torque control to be different between when the restricting factor is in effect and when the restricting factor is not in effect. | 05-03-2012 |
20140214310 | ENGINE RESTART CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - An engine restart control apparatus mounted on a vehicle having an engine and a brake system includes: a negative pressure detector configured to detect booster negative pressure; an engine restart controller configured to restart the engine after a stop of the engine; and a storage memory configured to store the booster negative pressure detected by the negative pressure detector. The engine restart controller restarts the engine when the booster negative pressure is reduced by a first set value or more from a reference booster negative pressure, which is detected at a predetermined timing after the stop of the engine, among booster negative pressures stored in the storage memory. | 07-31-2014 |
20140297165 | IDLING STOP CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - An idle reduction control device mounted on a vehicle equipped with an engine and a brake including: a detector that detects a parameter having a positive correlation to an amount of brake operation; and an engine controller that controls a start and a stop of the engine. The engine controller stops the engine after a stop of the vehicle, when a change of the parameter caused by a release of the brake is equal to or greater than a predetermined value during a deceleration period before the stop of the vehicle. | 10-02-2014 |
20140345564 | IDLING STOP CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - An idle reduction control device mounted on a vehicle equipped with an engine and a brake comprises: a pumping operation detector that detects a pumping operation of the brake; and an engine controller that controls a start and a stop of the engine. The engine controller stops the engine after elapse of a predetermined time since a stop of the vehicle, when a number of the pumping operations during a deceleration period before the stop of the vehicle is less than a predetermined value. | 11-27-2014 |
20150360699 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS - A vehicle control apparatus assists a braking operation by using negative pressure in a negative pressure chamber generated by rotation of an internal combustion engine, automatically stops or restarts the engine if a first or second condition is satisfied, respectively. The apparatus determines whether a braking operation is performed, detects the rotational speed of the engine and the negative pressure in the negative pressure chamber using a negative pressure sensor. When a state has continued over a predetermined time while no braking operation has been detected, and the rotational speed has been over a threshold, the apparatus temporarily determine whether the sensor is abnormal, based on the negative pressure. When the sensor has been temporarily determined abnormal for a predetermined number of times, the abnormality is certainly determined to inhibit automatic stopping of the engine. The predetermined time may be changed depending whether the state has continued. | 12-17-2015 |
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20080307114 | NETWORK ASSIGNMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS - A network assignment apparatus receives a request of a client via the first network. The network assignment apparatus selects the second network to be assigned to the client, and assigns the second network to the client, in correspondence with one of a plurality of servers from which the client obtains contents. | 12-11-2008 |
20090083570 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS THAT TRANSMITS DATA ACCORDING TO A PROTOCOL, AND METHOD FOR MEASURING TIME IN THE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - A transmission apparatus that transmits data according to a protocol has a timer, a memory, a processor, and a transmission unit. The processor stores, in the memory, type data indicating a single type of time from a plurality of types of time that are to be measured according to the protocol. The transmission unit transmits data according to the protocol and starts the measurement of time of the type indicated by the type data stored in the memory using the timer after the data has been transmitted. | 03-26-2009 |
20090232162 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - A delay in packet output due to packet fragmentation processing is reduced. If input data is output upon being subjected to fragmentation processing, fragmented data, from among a plurality of fragmented data items fragmented based upon a set value in an MTU register, which belongs to a first fragmented packet containing information that is based upon all fragmented packets is stored in a fragment buffer. After all fragmented packets from a second fragmented packet onward to which other fragmented data items belong are output, the first fragmented packet is output. | 09-17-2009 |
20090287843 | PACKET RECEIVING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME - A packet receiving apparatus determines whether or not data to be stored in a buffer overlaps previously stored data based on information contained in a header portion of a received packet. If it is determined that the data overlaps, a checksum for the overlapping data is subtracted. If it is determined that the data does not overlap, a checksum for the data to be stored in the buffer is added. | 11-19-2009 |
20100228716 | PROTOCOL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate an address to be provided to a database, a plurality of search units, and a processing unit configured to perform a network protocol processing based on a search result, wherein the search units, including an input unit configured to input a search key, a comparison unit configured to compare data output from the database and the search key input, a setting unit configured to set a search start address and a search end address, and a monitoring unit configured to monitor matching of the generated address and the search end address. | 09-09-2010 |
20110158119 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus extracts segment data including information defining the position of a fragment packet before fragmentation and the identification information of the fragment packet from the header information of the fragment packet. If the fragment packet is the last fragment packet, the apparatus extracts packet length information before packet fragmentation from the header information of the last fragment packet. A memory stores a segment database holding segment data and information associating identification information with packet length information. The communication apparatus executes integration processing of the segment data based on information stored in the segment database and determines whether the reception of all the fragment packets constituting the packet before fragmentation is complete. | 06-30-2011 |
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20100039195 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay including an electromagnet, an armature driven by the electromagnet, a movable spring member carrying a movable contact, a fixed member carrying a fixed contact, an actuator arranged between the armature and the movable spring member. The actuator pivots about a pivot axis by an operation of the electromagnet to make the movable contact brought into contact with or separated from the fixed contact. The actuator includes a generally L-shaped body, the pivot axis being defined at a first end of a first arm of the L-shaped body. The armature is attached to the actuator at a second end of a second arm of the L-shaped body opposite to the first end. The movable spring member is engaged with the actuator at a point defined in the second arm of the L-shaped body. | 02-18-2010 |
20130033344 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnet that generates a magnetic field when electric current is supplied thereto, an actuator that is actuated in response to the generated magnetic field, a contact that opens and closes in response to the actuation of the actuator, the contact including a first contact and a second contact that contacts with the first contact when the contact closes, and a housing including a first housing that includes walls defining a recess that accommodates the electromagnet, the actuator and the contact therein, and a second housing that is fixed to the first housing and covers the recess of the first housing. The electromagnetic relay also includes a permanent magnet provided on an outer surface of the housing at a position corresponding to a position of the contact. | 02-07-2013 |
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20110115586 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay, includes a fixing contact; a movable contact configured to be moved to or from the fixing contact in an approaching and separating direction; a movable part; a driving part configured to drive the movable part; a pressing part configured to press the movable contact based on the driving of the movable part; and a magnetic body provided at an external periphery side of at least one of the fixing contact, the movable contact, and an air space in the approaching and separating direction of the fixing contact and the movable contact. | 05-19-2011 |
20130307649 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay, includes a fixing contact; a movable contact configured to be moved to or from the fixing contact in an approaching and separating direction; a movable part; a driving part configured to drive the movable part; a pressing part configured to press the movable contact based on the driving of the movable part; and a magnetic body provided at an external periphery side of at least one of the fixing contact, the movable contact, and an air space in the approaching and separating direction of the fixing contact and the movable contact. | 11-21-2013 |
20140292343 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay, includes: a housing; a contact member housed in the housing; a wiring that is housed in the housing, and is connected to the contact member; a measurement unit that is housed in the housing and inserted in the middle of the wiring, and measures a current which flows through the wiring; and a first terminal that is pulled out from the housing and is connected to the measurement unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20150279600 | ELECTROMAGNETIC RELAY - An electromagnetic relay includes a first fixed spring including a first fixed contact, a second fixed spring including a second fixed contact, a movable spring including a spring, a first movable contact is connected a first end of the spring, and a second movable contact is connected to a second end of the spring, and a conductive member, one end connected to the first movable contact and another end connected to the second movable contact. | 10-01-2015 |
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20090264172 | GAME SYSTEM - A game system includes a plurality of pedometers. The plurality of step count data respectively counted by the plurality of pedometers are acquired in the game apparatus. In the game apparatus, by utilizing the plurality of step count data, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game. Alternatively, in a server, a predetermined arithmetic operation is executed by utilizing the plurality of step count data, and the result of the arithmetic operation is reflected on the game in the game apparatus. For example, game processing depending on the number of players walking in the same time slot is executed, or game processing according to the totalized value of the accumulated total step count values of the plurality of pedometers is executed. | 10-22-2009 |
20090323888 | STEP COUNT MEASURING SYSTEM - A step count measuring system includes a pedometer and a step count managing apparatus which are able to communicate, with each other. In the pedometer, a step count value sequentially detected for each unit of time is stored, and a time counted in the pedometer is stored as first time data by being brought into associated with each of the step count values. When a battery is replaced in the pedometer, a reset is executed to start initialization processing, and the time stored as first time data is stored as second time data which can be discriminated from the first time data. A recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the first time data before the initialization processing is set on the basis of the time counted by the step count managing apparatus, and a recording time of each of the step count values being associated with the second time data after the initialization processing is set on the basis of the second time data. | 12-31-2009 |
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20130179380 | PREDICTION METHOD, PREDICTION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A method for predicting an output variable from explanatory values provided as sets of combinations of discrete variables and continuous variables includes receiving input data that contains the explanatory variables to predict the output variable; searching for each element in the combinations for elements in a plurality of sets with matching discrete variables using training data which the output variable has been observed; applying a function giving the degree of similarity between two sets weighed by a scale variable to each element in the input data, and to one or more elements found in the elements of the input data to calculate function values, and calculating the sum of the function values for all of the elements in the input data; and applying the calculated sum for each element to a prediction equation for predicting the output variable to calculate a prediction value of the output variable for each element. | 07-11-2013 |
20130318023 | UPDATING POLICY PARAMETERS UNDER MARKOV DECISION PROCESS SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments relate to updating a parameter defining a policy under a Markov decision process system environment. An aspect includes updating the policy parameter stored in a storage section of a controller according to an update equation. The update equation includes a term for decreasing a weighted sum of expected hitting times over a first state (s) and a second state (s′) of a statistic on the number of steps required to make a first state transition from the first state (s) to the second state (s′). | 11-28-2013 |
20130325764 | UPDATING POLICY PARAMETERS UNDER MARKOV DECISION PROCESS SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments relate to updating a parameter defining a policy under a Markov decision process system environment. An aspect includes updating the policy parameter stored in a storage section of a controller according to an update equation. The update equation includes a term for decreasing a weighted sum of expected hitting times over a first state (s) and a second state (s′) of a statistic on the number of steps required to make a first state transition from the first state (s) to the second state (s′). | 12-05-2013 |
20130338965 | Anomaly Detection Method, Program, and System - A method providing an analytical technique introducing label information into an anomaly detection model. Effective utilization of label information is based on introducing the degree of similarity between samples. Assuming, for example, there is a degree of similarity between normally labeled samples and no similarity between normally labeled and abnormally labeled samples. Also each sensor value is generated by the linear sum of a latent variable and a coefficient vector specific to each sensor. However, the magnitude of observation noise is formulated to vary according to the label information for the sensor values, and set so that normal label unlabeled anomalously labeled. A graph Laplacian is created based on the degree of similarity between samples, and determines the optimal linear transformation matrix according to a gradient method. A optimal linear transformation matrix is used to calculate an anomaly score for each sensor in the test samples. | 12-19-2013 |
20140136453 | STATISTICAL ESTIMATION OF ORIGIN AND DESTINATION POINTS OF TRIP USING PLURALITY OF TYPES OF DATA SOURCES - A method of predicting the origin and destination points of an unknown trip using a computer includes receiving an input of second marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a second region; generating a second feature vector at each spot included in the second region on the basis of the second marker information; and predicting the probability that the respective spots included in the second region are the origin and destination points on the basis of a prediction model, which is acquired based on first marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a first region and information on the known origin and destination points included in the first region, and the second feature vector. | 05-15-2014 |
20140336985 | DETECTING OCCURRENCE OF ABNORMALITY - A method, apparatus and computer program for detecting occurrence of an anomaly. The method can exclude arbitrariness and objectively judge whether a variation of a physical quantity to be detected is abnormal or not even when an external environment is fluctuating. The method includes acquiring multiple primary measurement values from a measurement target. Further, calculating and a reference value for each of the multiple primary measurement values by optimal learning. The method further includes calculating a relationship matrix which indicates mutual relationships between the multiple secondary measurement values. Further the method includes calculating an anomaly score for each of the secondary measurement value which indicates the degree of the measurement target being abnormal. The anomaly score is calculated by comparing the secondary measurement value with a predictive value which is calculated based on the relationship matrix and other secondary measurement values. | 11-13-2014 |
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20090313198 | Methods and systems for performing root cause analysis - A root cause analysis engine uses event durations and gradual deletion of events to improve analysis accuracy and reduce the number of required calculations. Matching ratios of relevant rules are recalculated every time notification of an event is received. The calculation results are held in a rule memory in the analysis engine. Each event has a valid duration, and when the duration has expired, that event is deleted from the rule memory. Events held in the rule memory can be deleted without affecting other events held in the rule memory. The analysis engine can then re-calculate the matching ratio of each rule by only performing the re-calculation with respect to affected rules related to the deleted event. The calculation cost can be reduced because analysis engine processes events incrementally or decrementally. Analysis engine can determine the most possible conclusion even if one or more condition elements were not true. | 12-17-2009 |
20120117573 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS - A root cause analysis engine uses event survival times and gradual deletion of events to improve analysis accuracy and reduce the number of required calculations. Certainty factors of relevant rules are recalculated every time notification of an event is received. The calculation results are held in a rule memory in the analysis engine. Each event has a survival time, and when the time has expired, that event is deleted from the rule memory. Events held in the rule memory can be deleted without affecting other events held in the rule memory. The analysis engine can then re-calculate the certainty factor of each rule by only performing the re-calculation with respect to affected rules that are related with the deleted event. The calculation cost can be reduced because analysis engine processes events incrementally or decrementally. | 05-10-2012 |
20140025621 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS - A root cause analysis engine uses event survival times and gradual deletion of events to improve analysis accuracy and reduce the number of required calculations. Certainty factors of relevant rules are recalculated every time notification of an event is received. The calculation results are held in a rule memory in the analysis engine. Each event has a survival time, and when the time has expired, that event is deleted from the rule memory. Events held in the rule memory can be deleted without affecting other events held in the rule memory. The analysis engine can then re-calculate the certainty factor of each rule by only performing the re-calculation with respect to affected rules that are related with the deleted event. The calculation cost can be reduced because analysis engine processes events incrementally or decrementally. Analysis engine can determine the most possible conclusion even if one or more condition elements were not true, because analysis engine can calculate the certainty factor of rule even if one or more events were not notified to analysis engine. | 01-23-2014 |
20150188752 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS - A root cause analysis engine uses event survival times and gradual deletion of events to improve analysis accuracy and reduce the number of required calculations. Certainty factors of relevant rules are recalculated every time notification of an event is received. The calculation results are held in a rule memory in the analysis engine. Each event has a survival time, and when the time has expired, that event is deleted from the rule memory. Events held in the rule memory can be deleted without affecting other events held in the rule memory. The analysis engine can then re-calculate the certainty factor of each rule by only performing the re-calculation with respect to affected rules that are related with the deleted event. The calculation cost can be reduced because analysis engine processes events incrementally or decrementally. Analysis engine can determine the most possible conclusion even if one or more condition elements were not true, because analysis engine can calculate the certainty factor of rule even if one or more events were not notified to analysis engine. | 07-02-2015 |
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20100325493 | ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR IT APPARATUSES FROM WHICH EVENT INFORMATION IS NOT OBTAINED - In the system management server, an information processing apparatus that is an event-information acquisition target is registered as a monitored apparatus in configuration information; event information that complies with a rule stored in advance is identified from among a plurality of pieces of event information stored in the system management server; a server apparatus for a network service related to the event information is identified; and a message is displayed which indicates that the cause of the event that occurred in a client information processing apparatus which has generated event information is an event related to the network service, which occurred in the server apparatus. | 12-23-2010 |
20110209010 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF FAILURE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS - A management system comprises at the least a first analysis rule information and a second analysis rule information, acquires a first analysis result and a second analysis result based on a detected status of an information processing apparatus, and aggregates and displays a first analysis result and a second analysis result based on (A) a cause denoted by an analysis result, (B) a status condition of analysis rule information that forms the basis for the analysis result, or (C) a detected status. | 08-25-2011 |
20110231715 | METHOD AND COMPUTER FOR DESIGNING FAULT CAUSE ANALYSIS RULES IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACQUIRABLE MACHINE INFORMATION - A management system, which manages an information processing system by identifying a cause location based on previously defined analysis rule information, displays a status that is a condition of the analysis rule information but is not receivable, based on acquirable status information of the apparatuses making up the information processing system or information about statuses received in the past. | 09-22-2011 |
20110265006 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a management system for managing a plurality of management target information processing apparatuses including a plurality of network apparatuses and a computer. This management system determines the reachability of a route network apparatus as a network apparatus on a communication between the system and the computer, and calculates a certainty factor concerning the certainty on whether a prescribed network apparatus contained in a route network apparatus based on the reachability is the cause of unreachability from the management system to the computer. The management system subsequently displays information showing that communication from the management system to the computer is unreachable, and the certainty factor as the certainty that the prescribed route network apparatus is the cause of unreachability. | 10-27-2011 |
20110302305 | ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR IT APPARATUSES FROM WHICH EVENT INFORMATION IS NOT OBTAINED - In the system management server, an information processing apparatus that is an event-information acquisition target is registered as a monitored apparatus in configuration information; event information that complies with a rule stored in advance is identified from among a plurality of pieces of event information stored in the system management server; a server apparatus for a network service related to the event information is identified; and a message is displayed which indicates that the cause of the event that occurred in a client information processing apparatus which has generated event information is an event related to the network service, which occurred in the server apparatus. | 12-08-2011 |
20110314330 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus and a management method that enable parsing processing to be executed efficiently by means of a working memory of a fixed size are proposed. One or more predefined rules are divided into one or more rule segments that comprise a condition and a conclusion that each form part of the rule, and the rule segments obtained through the division are stored in the secondary storage, and when an event notification from the information processing device is received, one or more related rule segments are selected and, by linking the selected one or more rule segments in the memory as required, a rule parsing network is constructed that indicates relationships between rules in the memory, an inference is derived on the basis of the constructed rule parsing network, and rule segments that are not readily used in inference derivation are deleted from the memory. | 12-22-2011 |
20120023115 | COMPUTER FOR IDENTIFYING CAUSE OF OCCURRENCE OF EVENT IN COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING A PLURALITY OF NODE APPARATUSES - To reduce the burden of processing for completing event cause information, which is carried out when a management target node apparatus is added, removed or changed. | 01-26-2012 |
20130290784 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus and a management method that enable parsing processing to be executed efficiently by means of a working memory of a fixed size are proposed. One or more predefined rules are divided into one or more rule segments that comprise a condition and a conclusion that each form part of the rule, and the rule segments obtained through the division are stored in the secondary storage, and when an event notification from the information processing device is received, one or more related rule segments are selected and, by linking the selected one or more rule segments in the memory as required, a rule parsing network is constructed that indicates relationships between rules in the memory, an inference is derived on the basis of the constructed rule parsing network, and rule segments that are not readily used in inference derivation are deleted from the memory. | 10-31-2013 |