Patents by Inventor Kengo ABE

Kengo ABE 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).

  • Patent number: 11918372
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains utterance data indicating a voice of an evaluatee uttering a sentence as instructed; a calculation unit that calculates, from the utterance data obtained by the obtainment unit, a feature based on the utterance data; an evaluation unit that compares the feature calculated by the calculation unit to reference data indicating a relationship between voice data indicating a voice of a person and a cognitive function of the person to evaluate the cognitive function of the evaluatee; and an output unit that outputs the sentence to be uttered by the evaluatee and outputs a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Sumi, Ryosuke Nagumo, Kengo Abe, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Hirobumi Nakajima, Kohji Sasabe, Makoto Kariyasu, Takako Yoshimura, Minoru Toyama
  • Patent number: 11883183
    Abstract: Cognitive function evaluation device includes: storing unit storing reference data on the relationship between the periodicity of a body movement of a person walking and the cognitive function level of the person; acquiring unit that acquires body movement data on the detected body movement from body movement sensor that detects the body movement of subject walking; and calculating unit that calculates the periodicity of the body movement while walking from the acquired body movement data and checks the calculated periodicity against reference data stored in storing unit so as to identify the cognitive function level corresponding to the calculated periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Okada, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Kengo Abe
  • Patent number: 11826161
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an instruction unit that instructs quick pronunciation of pseudoword in which a predetermined syllable is repeated; an obtainment unit that obtains voice data indicating a voice of an evaluatee who has received an instruction; a calculation unit that calculates a feature from the voice data obtained by the obtainment unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates a cognitive function of the evaluatee from the feature calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit that outputs a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Sumi, Ryosuke Nagumo, Kengo Abe, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Hirobumi Nakajima, Kohji Sasabe, Makoto Kariyasu, Takako Yoshimura, Minoru Toyama
  • Patent number: 11779259
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit configured to obtain, as gait data, at least one of first data and second data, the first data indicating a sway amount of a body of a subject during walking in a first walking section from start of walking of the subject to a predetermined number of steps, and the second data indicating a sway amount of the body of the subject during walking in a second walking section in a double task state in which the subject is walking while doing a given assignment, the second walking section being after the first walking section; a calculation unit configured to calculate a feature value based on the gait data; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a cognitive function of the subject, based on the feature value; and an output unit configured to output a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsumura, Kengo Abe, Hirobumi Nakajima, Ayumi Kamitani
  • Patent number: 11766209
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit configured to obtain speech data indicating speech uttered by a subject; a calculation unit configured to extract a plurality of vowels from the speech data obtained by the obtainment unit, and calculate, for each of the plurality of vowels, a feature value based on a frequency and an amplitude of at least one formant obtained from a spectrum of the vowel; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a cognitive function of the subject from the feature value calculated by the calculation unit; and an output unit configured to output an evaluation result of the evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadayuki Sumi, Kengo Abe, Ryosuke Nagumo, Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takaaki Ukeda
  • Patent number: 11690561
    Abstract: An estimation system includes: a first sensor that detects a first amount of activity that is an amount of activity of a subject in a room; a second sensor that detects a second amount of activity that is an amount of activity of the subject on a bed in the room; and an estimation device that estimates at least one of a position and an action of the subject in association with a position in the room based on the first amount of activity detected by the first sensor and the second amount of activity detected by the second sensor, and outputs an estimation result obtained from the estimation. The first sensor and the second sensor are sensors other than two-dimensional image sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Abe, Takashi Nishiyama, Hirobumi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20220361805
    Abstract: A cognitive level evaluation system includes a detector and a cognitive level evaluator. The detector is configured to detect a behavior of a subject in a toilet space. The cognitive level evaluator is configured to evaluate a cognitive level of the subject based on a detection result of the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kengo ABE, Yoshihiro MATSUMURA, Hirobumi NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220346708
    Abstract: A dementia determination system includes: an obtainer that obtains a consecutive press ratio which is a ratio of a total number of consecutive presses of a button of an operating device to a total number of presses of the button of the operating device, the consecutive presses being presses of the button made at time intervals each shorter than or equal to a reference time interval, the operating device being used by a user to operate an electric device; a determiner that determines a dementia level of the user based on the consecutive press ratio obtained by the obtainer; and an outputter that outputs dementia information indicating the dementia level determined by the determiner, wherein the determiner determines that the dementia level is higher as the consecutive press ratio is higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hirobumi NAKAJIMA, Kengo ABE, Yosuke AKASHI
  • Publication number: 20220284427
    Abstract: An evaluation system includes an information acquiring unit, an evaluating unit, and a determining unit. The information acquiring unit is configured to acquire pay information relating to a consideration which a target person should pay for reception of service. The evaluating unit is configured to evaluate a cognitive function of the target person. The determining unit is configured to determine, by using acquiring of the pay information as a trigger, whether or not an evaluation for the cognitive function of the target person by the evaluating unit is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yosuke AKASHI, Kengo ABE
  • Patent number: 11399765
    Abstract: A dementia information output system according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of body motion of a user; a determining unit configured to determine a likelihood that the user is developing a mild dementia or the like on the basis of a variability degree that is a degree by which an amount of body motion varies over a plurality of days in each of a plurality of time periods; and an outputting unit configured to output dementia information indicating the likelihood determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Kengo Abe
  • Patent number: 11272873
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes an acquisition unit that acquires body motion data representing a body motion of a person to be evaluated during walking; a calculation unit that calculates a displacement of a body of the person to be evaluated during walking based on the acquired body motion data; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a cognitive function of the person to be evaluated based on a frequency peak representing a cycle of walking of person-to-be-evaluated obtained by performing a frequency analysis on the calculated displacement, and to output the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Okada, Takashi Nishiyama, Kengo Abe
  • Patent number: 11219404
    Abstract: Cognitive decline detection system includes obtainment unit and determination unit. Obtainment unit obtains the amount of movement during a sleep period and the amount of movement during a non-sleep period of a user for each day, the non-sleep period being the period other than the sleep period. Determination unit determines that the cognitive function of the user is lower during a determination period than during a comparison period set before the determination period when the frequency of days when a movement amount ratio falls below a predetermined ratio among days constituting the determination period is higher than that among days constituting the comparison period, the movement amount ratio representing the ratio of the amount of movement during the non-sleep period to the amount of movement during the sleep period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Kengo Abe
  • Patent number: 11172870
    Abstract: A dementia symptom detection system includes an information processor which determines the level of dementia of a user based on (i) a reference value which is for an index corresponding to behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and which is determined based on the history of the activity amount stored in storage and the history of device operation information stored in the storage, and (ii) a personal value of the user which is for the index and which is determined based on the detected activity amount of the user and the obtained device operation information of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Matsumura, Takashi Nishiyama, Mikio Iwakawa, Kengo Abe
  • Publication number: 20210186410
    Abstract: Cognitive decline detection system includes obtainment unit and determination unit. Obtainment unit obtains the amount of movement during a sleep period and the amount of movement during a non-sleep period of a user for each day, the non-sleep period being the period other than the sleep period. Determination unit determines that the cognitive function of the user is lower during a determination period than during a comparison period set before the determination period when the frequency of days when a movement amount ratio falls below a predetermined ratio among days constituting the determination period is higher than that among days constituting the comparison period, the movement amount ratio representing the ratio of the amount of movement during the non- sleep period to the amount of movement during the sleep period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi NISHIYAMA, Yoshihiro MATSUMURA, Kengo ABE
  • Publication number: 20210177340
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains utterance data indicating a voice of an evaluatee uttering a sentence as instructed; a calculation unit that calculates, from the utterance data obtained by the obtainment unit, a feature based on the utterance data; an evaluation unit that compares the feature calculated by the calculation unit to reference data indicating a relationship between voice data indicating a voice of a person and a cognitive function of the person to evaluate the cognitive function of the evaluatee; and an output unit that outputs the sentence to be uttered by the evaluatee and outputs a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Sadayuki SUMI, Ryosuke NAGUMO, Kengo ABE, Yoshihiro MATSUMURA, Takashi NISHIYAMA, Hirobumi NAKAJIMA, Kohji SASABE, Makoto KARIYASU, Takako YOSHIMURA, Minoru TOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10952663
    Abstract: A dementia determination device in a dementia information output system includes an obtainer which obtains, on a per unit period basis, the result of measuring body motion of a user in a sleep time period; and an outputter which outputs dementia information indicating the likelihood that the user is developing a mild cognitive disorder based on the occurrence frequency of a unit period in which the magnitude of a difference between reference data on body motion of a healthy subject in a sleep time period and the result of measuring obtained by the obtainer exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumura, Kengo Abe
  • Publication number: 20210045673
    Abstract: An estimation system includes: a first sensor that detects a first amount of activity that is an amount of activity of a subject in a room; a second sensor that detects a second amount of activity that is an amount of activity of the subject on a bed in the room; and an estimation device that estimates at least one of a position and an action of the subject in association with a position in the room based on the first amount of activity detected by the first sensor and the second amount of activity detected by the second sensor, and outputs an estimation result obtained from the estimation. The first sensor and the second sensor are sensors other than two-dimensional image sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo ABE, Takashi NISHIYAMA, Hirobumi NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210000411
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes an acquirer that acquires speech data that indicates speech uttered by an evaluatee in response to a task given to the evaluatee; an evaluator that evaluates a cognitive function of the evaluatee by performing a first evaluation based on a proportion of speaking time of the evaluatee in a predetermined period in the speech data acquired by the acquirer and a second evaluation based on a fundamental frequency in the speech data acquired by the acquirer; and an outputter that outputs an evaluation result obtained from the evaluation performed by the evaluator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Ryosuke NAGUMO, Sadayuki SUMI, Mitsuharu HOSOKAWA, Kengo ABE, Yoshihiro MATSUMURA, Takashi NISHIYAMA, Makoto KARIYASU, Takako YOSHIMURA, Minoru TOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200405216
    Abstract: A cognitive function evaluation device includes: an obtainment unit configured to obtain, as gait data, at least one of first data and second data, the first data indicating a sway amount of a body of a subject during walking in a first walking section from start of walking of the subject to a predetermined number of steps, and the second data indicating a sway amount of the body of the subject during walking in a second walking section in a double task state in which the subject is walking while doing a given assignment, the second walking section being after the first walking section; a calculation unit configured to calculate a feature value based on the gait data; an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a cognitive function of the subject, based on the feature value; and an output unit configured to output a result of evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MATSUMURA, Kengo ABE, Hirobumi NAKAJIMA, Ayumi KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20200330023
    Abstract: A dementia determination system (100) includes: an acquisition unit (111) configured to acquire a long press ratio which is a ratio of a number of long presses in which a button of an operating device (140) is pressed for a time longer than a reference time, to a number of presses of the button of the operating device (140) used by a user to operate an electric device (130); a determination unit (112) configured to determine a dementia level of the user based on the long press ratio acquired by the acquisition unit (111); and an output unit (113) configured to output dementia information indicating the dementia level determined by the determination unit (112), wherein the determination unit (112) is configured to determine that the dementia level is more severe as the long press ratio is lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hirobumi NAKAJIMA, Yoshihiro MATSUMURA, Takashi NISHIYAMA, Kengo ABE, Sadayuki SUMI, Kohji SASABE, Atsushi TAKAHASHI, Kyohei KOIZUMI