Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.

Renesas Technology Corp.

Happiness Planet, Ltd.

Logisteed, Ltd.

Koji Ara

Kazuo Yano

Kei Suzuki

Nobuo Sato

Satomi Tsuji

Norihiko Moriwaki

Tomoaki Akitomi

Shunzo Yamashita

Yuji Ogata

Takanori Shimura

Tadayoshi Kosaka

Norio Ohkubo

Toshio Moriya

Youichi Horii

Yoshihiro Wakisaka

Sanato Nagata

Hisaya Ishibashi

Miki Hayakawa

Toshiko Matsumoto

Kei Utsugi

Daichi Ojiro

Akira Yonekawa

Issei Suemitsu

Yoshihito Shimazu

Junichi Hirayama

Tetsuhiro Horita

An indicator related to work performed through a plurality of hierarchical processes is predicted efficiently with high accuracy. The information processing device stores sample data in association with each parameter representing work, the sample data including an indicator generated by execution of lower-level simulation based on a lower-level model set for a lower-level process, and the information processing device predicts an indicator related to predicted work by performing higher-level simulation using the sample data associated with a parameter similar to a parameter representing the predicted work, the higher-level simulation being based on a higher-level model which is set for a higher-level process. If sample data associated with a parameter similar to the parameter representing the predicted work is not stored, the information processing device complements sample data by performing lower-level simulation and performs higher-level simulation using the complemented sample data.

Information processing device and information processing method

An article management support apparatus sets coordinates indicating a position of an observation point and an observation direction from the observation point in a space including article storage spaces, acquires coordinates of an article picking opening of an article storage space within a predetermined range with respect to the position of the observation point and the observation direction, acquires information on the article stored in the article storage space corresponding to the article picking opening for which the coordinates are acquired, transforms the acquired coordinates of the article picking opening into coordinates on an image seen in the observation direction from the position of the observation point, generates an image for displaying the information on the article stored in the article storage space corresponding to the article picking opening for which the coordinates are acquired in association with a position of the transformed coordinates, and displays the generated image.

Article management support apparatus, article management support system, and article management support method

An analysis system analyzes a state of a person and includes a terminal configured to be worn on the person's body. The terminal includes an acceleration sensor, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit determines whether each value contained in the time series data is in a first state in which the value is equal to or greater than the threshold or in a second state in which the value is less than the threshold. The processing unit also determines a duration which is a period of time during which the first state continues. The processing unit quantifies a brain state of the person on the basis of the duration.

System that measures different states of a subject

A logistics prediction system includes an arithmetic device that executes a predetermined process, a storage device connected to the arithmetic device, a shipment information input section to which past shipment information is input, a constraint input section to which a calculation resource and a calculation time period are input as constraints for prediction, an integration prediction database holding shipment trends of products, a prediction method selector that selects a prediction method to be used to predict a shipment volume for each of the products from among multiple prediction methods so that the constraints input to the constraint input section are satisfied, multiple prediction method sections that predict shipment volumes using the prediction methods, an integrator that integrates the results of the prediction by the prediction method sections for each of the products, and a shipment prediction output section that outputs the result of the integration by the integrator.

Logistics prediction system and prediction method

An information processing system includes a sensor node and a server. The sensor node obtains acceleration data and transmits the data to the server. The server obtains and records the number of zero crossings from the acceleration data. The server obtains and records the frequency distribution of the number of zero crossings. The server obtains one or more of the following: the slope of the approximate line of the distribution; the linearity of the distribution; the inflection point; the slope of the approximate line in the zero crossing range below the inflection point; the slope of the approximate line in the zero crossing range above the inflection point; the linearity of the distribution in the zero crossing range below the inflection point; and the linearity of the distribution in the zero crossing range above the inflection point. Then, the server records the obtained value.

Information processing system and method

An information processing system including plural terminals, a base station to communicate with the terminals, and a management server coupled via a network to the base station, in which each terminal includes a behavioral information sensor to acquire behavioral information on the person wearing the terminal, and the management server retains the predefined relations among the persons within the organization, receives and retains the behavioral information from each terminal, calculates the behavioral characteristic quantity showing behavioral characteristics of each person relative to other persons based on the behavioral information, sums the calculated behavioral characteristic quantities for each of the defined relations between the person and the other persons, and when information showing changes in the still non-implemented defined relations is acquired, estimates the behavioral characteristic quantity of the person after changing the defined relation according to the acquired information, based on the acquired information and the behavioral characteristic quantity.

Information processing system, management server and information processing method

Provided is an organization evaluation device, including: a reception unit for receiving data indicating a physical quantity detected by a sensor of a terminal worn by each of a plurality of persons; a personal index calculation module for calculating, from at least one of the data indicating the physical quantity and a business index of each of the plurality of persons, a personal index of each of the plurality of persons; a weight coefficient calculation module for calculating a weight coefficient indicating a degree of involvement of each of the plurality of persons in the first organization from the data indicating the physical quantity; and an organization index calculation module for calculating, by obtaining a weighted average of a plurality of the personal indices using the weight coefficient, an organization index of the first organization.

Organization evaluation apparatus and organization evaluation system

It is provided a communication support device, which analyzes communications among a plurality of persons who belong to an organization, comprising a recording module for storing data that indicates the communications among the plurality of persons, a network constructing module for constructing a network structure of the plurality of persons from the data that indicates the communications, a improvement candidate determining module for identifying a first person whose communication is to be improved from the data that indicates the communications, and a connection candidate determining module for identifying a second person and a third person who can help increase triangle structures around the identified first person in the network structure, based on the network structure. The communication support device outputs display data for prompting the second person and the third person to communicate with each other.

Communication support device, communication support system, and communication support method

A sensor net system including: a plurality of sensor nodes, where each sensor node is held on a person of a differing worker, and each sensor node includes; a sensor which obtains sensor data of a worker; a radio frequency circuit which notifies a server of the sensor data; and a server which includes: a unit for storing a relation list for correlating the sensor data with a work category of the worker; a unit for confirming location of the worker based on the obtained sensor data; and a unit for confirming a work category in which the worker is engaged based on the confirmed location and the relation list.

Work management support method and work management support system which use sensor nodes

A sensor net system including: a sensor node which includes: a sensor which obtains sensor data of a worker; a radio frequency circuit which notifies a server of the sensor data; and a server which includes: a relation list for correlating the sensor data with work status of the worker; a unit for confirming the work status of the worker based on the obtained sensor data by using the relation list; a unit for displaying the confirmed work status on a display unit connected to the server.

This invention achieves lower electric power consumption of a sensor node for carrying out an intermittent operation, in a sensor net system. A time when the sensor node transmits a signal to a base station is estimated. Then, in accordance with the estimation, a table for storing a signal transmitted from the sensor node is installed in a wireless section of the base station. Consequently, a communication time between the sensor node and the base station can be made shorter. Also, a start time of a micro computer is set for RTC inside the sensor node, so the micro computer inside the sensor node can be put in the standby state.

Sensor node, base station, and sensor network system

A system which strengthens cooperation among workers in a business organization through flexible real-time communications and also allows interactive real-time data communications between the head of the organization (manager) and workers, thereby promoting communications within the organization and increasing productivity. The system holds: a commitment list which stores information on workers and work categories in which they are engaged, and a relation list which correlates sensing results with work categories in which they are engaged. A worker and work in which he/she is engaged are identified based on sensing result data and this is reflected in the commitment list data, and another worker related to the work is identified and the identified worker is notified of the work.

A computer readable medium is arranged to record a circuit description having a description of a function of the circuit module and an interface description provided by distinguishing sets of possible signal values each output terminal may take on plural time points at each pattern and adding an identifier to each of said sets for defining said set and representing said function of said hardware description with the set of said identifiers on a temporal order.

Computer readable medium with definition of interface recorded thereon, verification method for feasibility to connect given circuit and method of generating signal pattern

According to the disclosed invention, an index for evaluating an IP objectively and quantitatively is set so that users will refer to the index as the criterion for looking for an IP providing user-desired function. IP vendors prepare a higher-level index of verification range that is separated into infinite degrees than the existing indexes of verification range such as hardware source code coverage and path coverage. According to this index, what extent or degree to which IP functionality has been verified is determined. The thus determined degree of verification is expressed by a validation level that is added to IP information to be provided to users.

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Higashiyamato, Japan

Koji Ara