Patents by Inventor Kosuke TOMONAGA

Kosuke TOMONAGA 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: 10542149
    Abstract: A customer serving control system includes: a customer information acquiring unit acquiring customer information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit causing the customer information to be presented to a first operator; a serving information generating unit generating, based on operation of the first operator, first serving information indicating a serving content according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving control unit causing the first operator to serve the customer through the customer serving apparatus by instructing the customer serving apparatus to serve the customer based on the first serving information; an operator emotion identifying unit identifying an emotion of the first operator; and a serving determining unit determining, based on an emotion of the first operator, whether to maintain a state where the first operator is serving the customer through the customer serving apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SoftBank Robotics Corp.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Son, Takashi Tsutsui, Kosuke Tomonaga, Kiyoshi Oura
  • Publication number: 20190082055
    Abstract: A customer serving control system includes: a customer information acquiring unit acquiring customer information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit causing the customer information to be presented to a first operator; a serving information generating unit generating, based on operation of the first operator, first serving information indicating a serving content according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving control unit causing the first operator to serve the customer through the customer serving apparatus by instructing the customer serving apparatus to serve the customer based on the first serving information; an operator emotion identifying unit identifying an emotion of the first operator; and a serving determining unit determining, based on an emotion of the first operator, whether to maintain a state where the first operator is serving the customer through the customer serving apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Masayoshi SON, Takashi TSUTSUI, Kosuke TOMONAGA, Kiyoshi OURA
  • Publication number: 20190070727
    Abstract: A memory control system includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires information for deciding an emotion of a target object; a secretion information generating unit that generates secretion information indicating a secretion amount of an endocrine substance to influence decision of the emotion of the target object, based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit; a memory control unit that associates and stores the secretion information and memory information based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, when an intensity of the emotion of the target object decided based on the information acquired by the information acquiring unit exceeds a predetermined value; and an information selecting unit that selects memory information to be retrieved by the target object from the memory information that has been stored in association with the secretion information, based on the secretion information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Masayoshi SON, Takashi TSUTSUI, Kosuke TOMONAGA, Kiyoshi OURA
  • Publication number: 20190065930
    Abstract: An emotion identifying system includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires information for deciding an emotion of a target object; a judging unit that, based on the information, judges whether or not judgement factors associated respectively with a plurality of emotions are each met; an adjusting unit that, if the information matches a predetermined condition about a predetermined type of emotion among the plurality of emotions, expands a range occupied by the predetermined type of emotion in a space in which the plurality of emotions is mapped; an emotion identifying unit that identifies, among the plurality of emotions, an emotion for which the judging unit judges that the associated judgement factor is met; and an output control unit that causes information indicating an emotion identified by the emotion identifying unit and ranges occupied respectively by the plurality of emotions in the space to be output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Masayoshi SON, Takashi TSUTSUI, Kosuke TOMONAGA, Kiyoshi OURA
  • Publication number: 20190057699
    Abstract: A serving data collecting system includes: a customer information acquiring unit that acquires customer information which is information about a customer that can be served by a customer serving apparatus; a presentation control unit that causes the customer information to be presented to an operator; a serving information acquiring unit that acquires serving information indicative of a serving content which is decided by the operator and according to which the customer serving apparatus should serve the customer; a serving decision information acquiring unit that acquires decision information indicative of information that the operator used for deciding the serving content; and a recording control unit that causes the serving information and the decision information to be recorded in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Masayoshi SON, Takashi TSUTSUI, Kosuke TOMONAGA, Kiyoshi OURA
  • Publication number: 20190051413
    Abstract: An emotion determining system includes: an input information generating unit to generate, based on detection signals of one or more sensors that are provided to a target object, input information for determining an emotion of the target object; a secretion information generating unit to generate, based on the detection signals, secretion information indicating secretion amounts of one or more endocrine substances; a parameter adjusting unit to adjust an operation parameter for determining the emotion from the input information based on the secretion amounts of the one or more endocrine substances indicated by the secretion information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Masayoshi SON, Takashi TSUTSUI, Kosuke TOMONAGA, Kiyoshi OURA
  • Publication number: 20180357528
    Abstract: A control system includes: a recording information generating unit processing at least part of information detected continuously by a sensor and generating first recording format information or second recording format information having a larger amount of information than that of the first recording format information; a recording control unit causing information generated by the recording information generating unit to be recorded; an emotion determining unit determining intensity of an emotion at the control system based on at least part of information detected by the sensor; and a switching control unit switching a recording format of information which the recording control unit causes to be recorded from the first recording format to the second recording format in response to increase in intensity of an emotion determined by the emotion determining unit if the recording information generating unit is being caused to generate the first recording format information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Masayoshi SON, Kosuke TOMONAGA
  • Publication number: 20180165570
    Abstract: It is impossible to change tastes and preferences with a robot or artificial intelligence. Provided is an emotion control system comprising an information acquiring section that acquires network content acquired from a public network; a storage section that stores effect information indicating an effect exerted on an emotion of a control target by the network content; an updating section that updates the effect information stored in the storage section, based on sensor information detected by a sensor of the control target; and an emotion control section that controls the emotion of the control target based on the network content acquired by the information acquiring section and the effect information stored in the storage section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Masayoshi SON, Kosuke TOMONAGA
  • Publication number: 20180039880
    Abstract: A processing system that processes parameters of a plurality of artificial neurons and artificial synapses constituting a neural network, the processing system including: a storing unit storing definition information defining a state of a control target for each artificial neuron of the plurality of artificial neurons; a processing unit processing parameter values of each artificial neuron of the plurality of artificial neurons and parameter values of one or more artificial synapses connected to inputs of each artificial neuron using a data access structure accessible data unit by data unit, the data unit being collective for each artificial neuron; and an operation determining unit determining operation of the control target based on: an activation state of at least some artificial neurons of the plurality of artificial neurons specified by parameter values of the at least some artificial neurons; and a state defined by the at least some artificial neurons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi TSUTSUI, Kosuke TOMONAGA, Yuma MIHIRA
  • Patent number: 9717951
    Abstract: Provided is Exercise equipment including a gripping section that is gripped by a user; a weight section that is connected to the gripping section; a first electrode that is arranged on the gripping section; a second electrode that is arranged on the weight section; a measuring section that measures at least one of body fat percentage of the user and an electrocardiogram waveform of the user, using the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SoftBank Corp
    Inventors: Takashi Tsutsui, Shigenori Imanaka, Kosuke Tomonaga
  • Publication number: 20160101320
    Abstract: Provided is Exercise equipment including a gripping section that is gripped by a user; a weight section that is connected to the gripping section; a first electrode that is arranged on the gripping section; a second electrode that is arranged on the weight section; a measuring section that measures at least one of body fat percentage of the user and an electrocardiogram waveform of the user, using the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi TSUTSUI, Shigenori IMANAKA, Kosuke TOMONAGA