Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Kubotani
Hiroyuki Kubotani 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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Patent number: 10852930Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
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Patent number: 10796601Abstract: First information including related information relating to a cooking action to be carried out by a cook is acquired, a presentation device is made to present the related information, it is determined whether or not an action of the cook that is specified based on second information is the cooking action, an index indicating a degree of attention of the cook recommended for the cooking action is acquired, and the information amount of the related information presented is altered in accordance with the degree of attention indicated by the acquired index.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Mitsuhiro Aso, Yasuhiro Yuki
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Patent number: 10482315Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a first image; an obtaining unit that obtains a recognition result of recognizing a foodstuff serving as a cooking target on the basis of a photographed image obtained from a camera; a determination unit that determines whether a recognized foodstuff indicated by the recognition result is present in a superposable area where the first image can be superposed on the foodstuff; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to: (i) superpose the first image on the foodstuff when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is present in the superposable area; and (ii) superpose the first image on a second image when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is not present in the superposable area.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Hiroyuki Kubotani
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Patent number: 10438508Abstract: A method for distributing information used by an information distribution system includes receiving, from a cooking appliance, first identification information for identifying a first food, first end time information indicating a first end time, at which a first cooking operation performed by the cooking appliance on the first food ends, and first log information indicating an operation output and an operation time of the first cooking operation, obtaining, on the basis of the received first identification information and first log information, first questionnaire information indicating a questionnaire relating to the first food from a memory, and distributing the first questionnaire information or second questionnaire information, which is generated using the first questionnaire information, to the display device if first additional cooking information indicating that the cooking appliance has performed an additional cooking operation on the first food has not been received from the cooking appliance in a fiType: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: PANASONC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
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Publication number: 20190220180Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Yuki SHINOMOTO, Hiroyuki KUBOTANI, Yasuhiro YUKI
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Patent number: 10303136Abstract: A control method for controlling a terminal device includes using a memory that manages cooking appliance logs each including at least a cooking time of a food and first information indicating an age-related deterioration level of one of the cooking appliances to acquire, from among candidates of a recommended cooking time calculated based on the first information and the cooking time and stored in a server apparatus, third information indicating a recommended cooking time corresponding to second information indicating an age-related deterioration level of the first cooking appliance, displaying, on a display, a user interface that allows a user to select one of the candidates including at least the recommended cooking time for the first cooking appliance using the third information, and outputting a setting command for setting the selected cooking time to the first cooking appliance upon detecting selection of one of the cooking times through the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
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Patent number: 10303947Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first-information acquirer, a second-information acquirer, a judger, and a presentation controller. The first-information acquirer acquires first information indicating a type of an ingredient provided for preparation and an amount of the ingredient. The second-information acquirer acquires second information indicating an amount that is needed for an ingredient of the type in a recipe. The judger judges a magnitude relationship between the amount indicated by the first information and the amount indicated by the second information. The presentation controller causes a presenter to present third information indicating, in accordance with the judged magnitude relationship, the amount indicated by the second information versus the amount indicated by the first information.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kubotani, Mitsuhiro Aso
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Patent number: 10282079Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Yasuhiro Yuki
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Patent number: 10210444Abstract: A cooking assistance method includes: receiving, from a first food, first food information indicating the first food; receiving appliance identification information for identifying the cooking apparatus for cooking the first food; obtaining first setting details regarding cooking to be performed by the cooking apparatus, based on the received first food information and the received appliance identification information, the first setting details being associated with the first food and the cooking apparatus; and transmitting first setting information indicating the obtained first setting details to the cooking apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Rinako Kamei, Yasuhiro Yuki, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Kazuki Funase
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Publication number: 20180285626Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a first image; an obtaining unit that obtains a recognition result of recognizing a foodstuff serving as a cooking target on the basis of a photographed image obtained from a camera; a determination unit that determines whether a recognized foodstuff indicated by the recognition result is present in a superposable area where the first image can be superposed on the foodstuff; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to: (i) superpose the first image on the foodstuff when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is present in the superposable area; and (ii) superpose the first image on a second image when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is not present in the superposable area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: MITSUHIRO ASO, HIROYUKI KUBOTANI
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Publication number: 20180275110Abstract: An information presentation apparatus includes an ingredient information acquirer that acquires a type and a first placement orientation of an ingredient placed on a counter, a recipe information acquirer that acquires a preparation method defined by a recipe, and a second placement orientation of the acquired type of the ingredient when the ingredient is prepared in accordance with the preparation method, a comparator that compares the second placement orientation with the first placement orientation, a generator that generates preparation guidance information indicating the preparation method and generates rotation guidance information that prompts a preparator to rotate the ingredient from the first placement orientation to the second placement orientation in accordance with comparison results provided by the comparator, and a presenter that presents the rotation guidance information and the preparation guidance information, generated by the generator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: ZARINA RAFII, HIROYUKI KUBOTANI
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Publication number: 20180218219Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a first-information acquirer, a second-information acquirer, a judger, and a presentation controller. The first-information acquirer acquires first information indicating a type of an ingredient provided for preparation and an amount of the ingredient. The second-information acquirer acquires second information indicating an amount that is needed for an ingredient of the type in a recipe. The judger judges a magnitude relationship between the amount indicated by the first information and the amount indicated by the second information. The presentation controller causes a presenter to present third information indicating, in accordance with the judged magnitude relationship, the amount indicated by the second information versus the amount indicated by the first information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: HIROYUKI KUBOTANI, MITSUHIRO ASO
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Publication number: 20180158363Abstract: First information including related information relating to a cooking action to be carried out by a cook is acquired, a presentation device is made to present the related information, it is determined whether or not an action of the cook that is specified based on second information is the cooking action, an index indicating a degree of attention of the cook recommended for the cooking action is acquired, and the information amount of the related information presented is altered in accordance with the degree of attention indicated by the acquired index.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: YUKI SHINOMOTO, HIROYUKI KUBOTANI, MITSUHIRO ASO, YASUHIRO YUKI
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Publication number: 20170132948Abstract: A method for distributing information used by an information distribution system includes receiving, from a cooking appliance, first identification information for identifying a first food, first end time information indicating a first end time, at which a first cooking operation performed by the cooking appliance on the first food ends, and first log information indicating an operation output and an operation time of the first cooking operation, obtaining, on the basis of the received first identification information and first log information, first questionnaire information indicating a questionnaire relating to the first food from a memory, and distributing the first questionnaire information or second questionnaire information, which is generated using the first questionnaire information, to the display device if first additional cooking information indicating that the cooking appliance has performed an additional cooking operation on the first food has not been received from the cooking appliance in a fiType: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Inventors: YUKI SHINOMOTO, HIROYUKI KUBOTANI, YASUHIRO YUKI
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Publication number: 20170006669Abstract: A cooking assistance method includes: receiving, from a first food, first food information indicating the first food; receiving appliance identification information for identifying the cooking apparatus for cooking the first food; obtaining first setting details regarding cooking to be performed by the cooking apparatus, based on the received first food information and the received appliance identification information, the first setting details being associated with the first food and the cooking apparatus; and transmitting first setting information indicating the obtained first setting details to the cooking apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: RINAKO KAMEI, YASUHIRO YUKI, HIROYUKI KUBOTANI, KAZUKI FUNASE
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Patent number: 9465979Abstract: A measurement-target-selecting device that is capable of estimating a face shape with high precision and at low computational time. In this device, a face texture assessment value calculating part (103) calculates a face texture assessment value representing a degree of match between an input face image and the texture of a face shape candidate, a facial-expression-change-likelihood-calculating part (104) calculates a first likelihood between a face shape constituting a reference and a face shape candidate, a correlation assessment part (105); calculates a first correlation assessment value representing the strength of a correlation between the face texture assessment value and the first likelihood, and a selection part (107) selects from among the plurality of face shape candidates as a measurement target a face shape candidate having a first correlation assessment value that is lower than a first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Sotaro Tsukizawa, Hiroyuki Kubotani, ZhiHeng Niu, Sugiri Pranata
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Publication number: 20160147208Abstract: A control method for controlling a terminal device includes using a memory that manages cooking appliance logs each including at least a cooking time of a food and first information indicating an age-related deterioration level of one of the cooking appliances to acquire, from among candidates of a recommended cooking time calculated based on the first information and the cooking time and stored in a server apparatus, third information indicating a recommended cooking time corresponding to second information indicating an age-related deterioration level of the first cooking appliance, displaying, on a display, a user interface that allows a user to select one of the candidates including at least the recommended cooking time for the first cooking appliance using the third information, and outputting a setting command for setting the selected cooking time to the first cooking appliance upon detecting selection of one of the cooking times through the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: YUKI SHINOMOTO, HIROYUKI KUBOTANI, YASUHIRO YUKI
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Publication number: 20160139790Abstract: Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: YUKI SHINOMOTO, HIROYUKI KUBOTANI, YASUHIRO YUKI
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Patent number: 9105172Abstract: A drowsiness-estimating device capable of improving the precision of drowsiness estimation by eliminating the effect of individual differences. In the device, a recurrence required time-calculating part (103) calculates the recurrence required time, which is the time needed, after a detection time when an action is detected, for a drowsiness estimation parameter value acquired after the detection time to return to the value of the drowsiness estimation parameter acquired before the detection time. A drowsiness-estimating part (104) estimates the level of drowsiness of the drowsiness-estimation subject on the basis of the calculated recurrence required time. To be specific, the drowsiness-estimating part (104) maintains a drowsiness level-estimating table in which each of multiple time ranges is correlated with a possible drowsiness level, and specifies a possible drowsiness level that corresponds to the time range, among the multiple time ranges, with which the recurrence required time is associated.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Kubotani, Hiroki Kitajima
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Patent number: 9082002Abstract: A detection device capable of reliably detecting an object to be detected. An intersection region pattern setting unit (106) sets a configuration pattern of a first intersection region pattern group in sequence for each unit image pair. Each intersection region pattern is defined by set image information which denotes locations and sizes of regions (where n is a natural number greater than 1) within respective unit images (e.g., unit image plane coordinates), as well as whether each region is set within either or both of a first unit image and a second unit image. A detection unit (108) detects the object to be detected, based on a total feature value relating to each configuration pattern of the first intersection region pattern group, computed by a feature value computation unit (107), and a strong identification apparatus configured from a plurality of weak identification apparatuses and stored in an identification apparatus storage unit (112).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Sotaro Tsukizawa, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Zhiheng Niu, Sugiri Pranata