Patents by Inventor Hideki Tsutsui
Hideki Tsutsui 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).
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Publication number: 20130326408Abstract: One embodiment provides an electronic apparatus including: an output module configured to detect a first text from texts displayed on a display according to an operation by a user, and to output a menu according to an attribute of a neighborhood region of the first text; a supplementing module configured to supplement, if a first action item of action items included in the menu is selected by a user, the neighborhood region of the first text according to the first action item and to generate a supplemented neighborhood region; and a processor configured to perform an action corresponding to the first action item according to the supplemented neighborhood region.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Hideki TSUTSUI
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Publication number: 20130300675Abstract: According to one embodiment, the electronic device displays on the screen the locus of each of a plurality of strokes which are handwritten by a handwriting input operation which is executed on the touch-screen display. The electronic device stores, in the storage medium, first time-series information including a plurality of stroke data corresponding to the plurality of strokes and indicating an order in which the plurality of strokes were handwritten. The electronic device selects the process-target time-series information part from the first time-series information in accordance with the range designation operation which is executed on the touch-screen display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hideki Tsutsui, Rumiko Hashiba, Sachie Yokoyama, Toshihiro Fujibayashi, Takehiko Isaka, Takashi Sudo, Chikashi Sugiura
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Publication number: 20130305146Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system includes a receiver, a storage, a retrieval module and a transmitter. The receiver receives handwritten document data, which includes stroke data corresponding to strokes, from a first electronic device. The storage stores a handwritten document data in addition to a plurality of document data. The retrieval module retrieves, in response to a request by a second electronic device, first handwritten document data corresponding to the request from the plurality of document data in the storage. The transmitter transmit the first handwritten document data to the second electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Rumiko Hashiba, Hideki Tsutsui, Sachie Yokoyama, Toshihiro Fujibayashi, Chikashi Sugiura, Takehiko Isaka, Takashi Sudo
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Publication number: 20130301922Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data processing system includes a touchscreen display, a recorder, and a processor. The recorder is configured to record a plurality of stroke data indicating loci handwritten on the touchscreen display and times respectively. The processor is configured to execute data processing using a first time indicated by first stroke data associated with first data and a second time indicated by second stroke data associated with second data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Sachie Yokoyama, Rumiko Hashiba, Hideki Tsutsui, Chikashi Sugiura, Toshihiro Fujibayashi, Takashi Sudo, Takehiko Isaka
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Publication number: 20130300676Abstract: According to one embodiment, a electronic device includes a touch-screen display, a display process module, a retrieve module, and an emphasis-display module. The display process module displays loci of strokes in a first color on the touch-screen display, based on time-series information. The retrieve module retrieves, from the time-series information, a time-series information part. The emphasis-display module sets a proximity area of loci corresponding to the time-series information part, to display loci corresponding to the time-series information part in a second color, and to display the proximity area loci corresponding to other than the time-series information part, in a third color.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Rumiko Hashiba, Qi Zhang, Hideki Tsutsui
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Publication number: 20130301921Abstract: According to one embodiment, a device includes a search module configured to search handwriting information stored in a storage medium for a first handwriting information part whose degree of a similarity with a specific handwriting information part specified as a search key is greater than or equal to a reference value, the handwriting information includes a plurality of stroke data corresponding to a plurality of strokes, and a display processing module configured to display, on a touchscreen display, one or more thumbnail corresponding to handwriting information includes the first handwriting information part and a first user interface for changing the reference value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Qi ZHANG, Rumiko HASHIBA, Hideki TSUTSUI
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Publication number: 20130166300Abstract: An electronic device includes a voice recognition analyzing module, a manipulation identification module, and a manipulating module. The voice recognition analyzing module is configured to recognize and analyze a voice of a user. The manipulation identification module is configured to, using the analyzed voice, identify an object on a screen and identify a requested manipulation associated with the object. The manipulating module is configured to perform the requested manipulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Sachie Yokoyama, Hideki Tsutsui
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Publication number: 20130111327Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus displays a page on a screen based on a source written in a markup language. The apparatus searches for a second element in the source based on an analysis result on the source. The second element has an order relationship with a first element. The first element is a part of descriptions in the source. The part of the descriptions corresponds to a first context selected in the page. The apparatus changes a display state of the page in response to an instruction for designating the order relationship, so as to display, on the screen, a second context on the page. The second context corresponds to the second element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: May 2, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hideki Tsutsui, Sachie Yokoyama, Toshihiro Fujibayashi
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Patent number: 8327398Abstract: A data distribution apparatus includes a data file configured to store video data and advertisement data to be provided to a receiving terminal of a Video on Demand service; a video distributing unit configured to distribute video data in accordance with a distribution request from the receiving terminal; a video presentation confirming unit configured to confirm a presentation state of the video data at the receiving terminal; an advertisement distribution determining unit configured to determine distribution of advertisement data to the receiving terminal when it is confirmed that the video data to be distributed by the video distributing unit is being called; and an advertisement distributing unit configured to distribute the advertisement data.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Miwako Doi, Tetsuro Muranaga, Noriaki Koyama, Tetsuya Gotou, Hideki Tsutsui
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Publication number: 20120209883Abstract: According to one embodiment, a content item search apparatus includes an extraction unit, a storage and a presentation unit. The extraction unit extracts one or more elements corresponding to a search word from one or more content items for each of classes, based on extraction rules indicating expressions to extract the elements indicating character strings required to specify relationships between the search word and the classes. The storage stores, as expression information, the extracted elements and the search word. The presentation unit generates one or more explanatory expressions associated with the search word based on generation rules and the expression information, and presents the explanatory expressions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Hideki TSUTSUI, Masaru SUZUKI, Toshihiko MANABE
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Patent number: 8219577Abstract: A recommended information presentation apparatus, including a display unit which displays text data, an extraction unit which extracts keyword candidates from the text data, a storage unit which stores semantic attributes of the keyword candidates, semantic attribute rules which contain scoring criteria for semantic attributes, descriptive phrases describing the keyword candidates and descriptive phrase rules which contain scoring criteria for descriptive phrases. The scores of the keyword candidates are calculated by a selection unit based on the semantic attribute rules and descriptive phrase rules and the highest scoring keyword candidates are selected as keywords. The selected keyword is used to search an information database by a search unit which also receives the search results which are displayed on the display unit by a control unit as recommended information with regards to the text information.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Wataru Nakano, Masaru Suzuki, Hideki Tsutsui
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Patent number: 8065416Abstract: A playlist acquisition unit acquires a playlist including a view segment of contents for a user. The view segment has a start position and an end position in the contents. A copyright information acquisition unit acquires copyright information of the contents from a copyright management apparatus via a network. The copyright management apparatus manages copyright information of each content. A view right information acquisition unit acquires view right information of the user to view the contents. A viewable playlist composition unit composes a viewable playlist by editing the playlist using the copyright information and the view right information. The viewable playlist includes restriction information of the view segment.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshiyuki Kito, Koichiro Akiyama, Hideki Tsutsui, Yoshihiro Ohmori
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Publication number: 20110258295Abstract: An information processing terminal connectable to a WWW (World Wide Web) server via a public network includes a storage unit that stores content data including image information or sound information with identification information of the content data, an acquiring unit that acquires identification information of content data from the WWW server, a retrieving unit that retrieves content data corresponding to the identification information acquired by the acquiring unit from the storage unit, and a presenting unit that presents the content data retrieved by the retrieving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takeshi SAITO, Kotaro ISE, Tooru KAMIBAYASHI, Hideki TSUTSUI, Satoshi ITO
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Patent number: 8036261Abstract: A feature-vector generation apparatus includes an input unit configured to input content data including at least one of video data and audio data, a generation unit configured to generate a feature vector, based on information indicating a time at which a characterizing state of the content data appears, the characterizing state being characterized by a change of the at least one of the video data and the audio data, and a storage unit configured to store the content data and the feature vector.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hideki Tsutsui, Masaru Suzuki, Toshihiko Manabe
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Patent number: 8001562Abstract: An apparatus includes unit acquiring comment information items related to video content, each of the comment information items including a comment, and a start time and an end time of the comment, unit dividing the comment into words by morpheme analysis for each of the comment information items, unit acquiring an estimated value of each of the words, the estimated value indicating a degree of importance used when the scenes are extracted, unit adding the acquired estimated value of each of the words for each of the words during a period of time ranging from the start time to the end time of the comment that contains a corresponding word to acquire estimated value distributions of the words, and unit extracting a start time and an end time of one scene and to be extracted from the video content, based on a shape of the estimated value distributions.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomohiro Yamasaki, Hideki Tsutsui, Sogo Tsuboi, Chikao Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 7856460Abstract: A program structuring device includes a play-list collecting unit that collects a play list for a content in which a time series is defined; a first storage unit that stores cutoff points that appear in the play list and are breakpoints of a program structure of the content, in correspondence with a frequency of appearance of each of the cutoff points; a calculating unit that calculates a level of relevance between scene segments defined by the cutoff points from the frequency of appearance of each of the cutoff points; an extracting unit that extracts multi-level chapter divisions based on the level of relevance; and a second storage unit that stores the extracted multi-level chapter divisions structured into a tree form.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomohiro Yamasaki, Hideki Tsutsui, Koji Urata
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Patent number: 7818173Abstract: An information retrieval system, includes speech recognition means for making speech recognition for a spoken question to generate first text information, generation means for modifying the first text information to generate second text information as a interrogative to make a search for an answer to the question, and search means for searching the answer from a document database by using the second text information.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshihiko Manabe, Hideki Tsutsui, Koji Urata, Mika Fukui, Hiroko Hayama
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Publication number: 20100082673Abstract: A web browsing purpose classification apparatus, including a display unit which displays a webpage and a document retrieval unit which retrieves document data from the displayed webpage. A keyword extraction knowledge unit stores knowledge necessary for keyword extraction. This knowledge is used by a keyword extraction unit to extract keywords from the document data. A webpage format determination knowledge unit stores knowledge necessary for the determination of webpage formats which is used by a webpage format determination unit to determine webpage formats. A web browsing history storage unit stores the keywords and webpage formats as web browsing history. A browsing purpose classification knowledge unit stores knowledge necessary for the classification of browsing purposes which is used by a browsing purpose classification unit to classify browsing purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru Nakano, Masaru Suzuki, Hideki Tsutsui
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Publication number: 20100076991Abstract: A recommended information presentation apparatus, including a display unit which displays text data, an extraction unit which extracts keyword candidates from the text data, a storage unit which stores semantic attributes of the keyword candidates, semantic attribute rules which contain scoring criteria for semantic attributes, descriptive phrases describing the keyword candidates and descriptive phrase rules which contain scoring criteria for descriptive phrases. The scores of the keyword candidates are calculated by a selection unit based on the semantic attribute rules and descriptive phrase rules and the highest scoring keyword candidates are selected as keywords. The selected keyword is used to search an information database by a search unit which also receives the search results which are displayed on the display unit by a control unit as recommended information with regards to the text information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru Nakano, Masaru Suzuki, Hideki Tsutsui
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Publication number: 20080240671Abstract: When a scene group including plural scenes, for example a group of scenes bookmarked during viewing of video contents is inputted, a combination of a scene and metadata in a group of metadata that represents characteristics of the scene, corresponding to the respective scenes in the scene group, which combination has a largest distance between the metadata, is selected as explanatory descriptions that are explanations for distinguishing among the scenes, and the selected explanatory descriptions for each scene included in the scene group is added to each scene.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Tomohiro YAMASAKI, Hideki Tsutsui, Koji Urata