Patents & TDBs

Patents

  1. M. Sakamoto, T. Saito, M. Nishimura, M. Kobayashi, Speech synthesis using glottal closure instants determined from adaptively-thresholded wavelet transforms, US Pat. 5,671,330, filed Sept. 21, 1994 in Japan, issued Sept. 23, 1997.

  2. M. Numao, S. Shimizu, N. Morimoto, M. Kobayashi, System and method for hiding and extracting message data in multimedia data, US Pat. 6,055,321, filed June 20, 1996 in Japan, issued April 25, 2000.

  3. M. Numao, S. Shimizu, N. Morimoto, M. Kobayashi, Data hiding and extraction methods, US Pat. 6,512,835, filed June 10, 2000, issued Jan. 28, 2003.

  4. K. Takeda, M. Kobayashi, Method and system for document collection final search result by arithmetical operations between search results sorted by multiple ranking metrics, filed Feb. 12, 1999 in Japan, issued as Japanese Pat. 3,347,088, Sept. 6, 2002, US Pat. 6,654,742, Nov. 25, 2003.

  5. M. Kobayashi, L. Malassis, H. Samukawa, Retrieval and ranking of documents from database description, US Pat. 6,678,690, filed Jan. 12, 2000 in Japan, issued Jan. 13, 2004.

  6. M. Kobayashi, L. Malassis, R. Piperakis, Detecting and tracking new events/classes of documents in a database, US Pat. 6,804,688, filed May 2, 2000 in Japan, issued Oct. 12, 2004.

  7. M. Kobayashi, G. Dupret, Computer implemented method and program for estimation of characteristic values of matrixes using statistical sampling, US Pat. 6,922,715 B2, filed May 8, 2000 in Japan, issued July 26, 2005.

  8. M. Kobayashi, M. Aono, H. Samukawa, H. Takeuchi, Retrieving, detecting and identifying major and outlier clusters in a very large database, US Pat. 6,920,450, filed July 5, 2001 in Japan, issued July 19, 2005.

  9. H. Samukawa, M. Kobayashi, M. Aono, H. Takeuchi, An information retrieval system, and information retrieval method, a program for executing information retrieval, and a storage medium wherein a program for executing information retrieval is stored, US Pat. 6,965,898, filed Oct. 23, 2001 in Japan, issued Nov. 15, 2005.

  10. M. Aono, M. Kobayashi, H. Samukawa, H. Takeuchi, An information visualization system, an information visualization method, a program for information visualization, a storage medium wherein a program is stored, & an information retrieval service system, US Pat. 6,965,898, filed Oct. 26, 2001, issued 2003.

  11. M. Houle, M. Kobayashi, M. Aono, Information processing using a hierarchy structure of random samples, US Pat. 7,216,129, filed Feb. 15, 2002, issued May 8, 2007.

  12. M. Kobayashi, M. Aono, Data retrieval method, system and program product, US Pat. 7,219,089, filed April 19, 2002 in Japan, issued May 15, 2007.

  13. M. Kobayashi, R. Piperakis, Ranking of documents in very large database, filed May 25, 2001, issued Nov. 15, 2005.

  14. M. Kobayashi, K. Yang, Stabilizing solutions to output feedback pole placement problem with parameter drift and automated alerting of system parameter changes, US Pat. 7,840,392, filed July 20, 2008, issued Nov 23, 2010.

  15. M. Kobayashi, R. Yung, System, method and computer executable program for information tracking from heterogeneous sources, US Pat. 7,996,407, filed Jan. 23, 2007, issued Aug 9, 2011.

Technical Disclosure Bulletins

  1. M. Kobayashi, K. Takeda, T. Sakairi, H. Nomiyama, Interactive visualization of ranking vs. relevancy, Oct. 1, 1999.

  2. M. Kobayashi, T. Eng and I. Yoshida, A method identifying changes in a massive database that may be described as a dynamic, directed acyclic graph (DAG), June 16, 2004.

  3. M. Kobayashi, A system and method for automatic change point identification in data streams using wavelet transform filters, June 16, 2004.

  4. M. Kobayashi, J. Brickell, System and method for querying massive datasets using data object synopses Aug. 9, 2005.

  5. M. Kobayashi, W. Kim, Method for real-time generation of approximate overview of massive datasets and generating user-specified detailed local views, submitted Oct. 22, 2008.