Patents Assigned to Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
  • Publication number: 20210182356
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit. The first processing circuit is configured to update a third vector based on basic equations. Each of the basic equations is a partial derivative of an objective function with respect to either of the variables in the objective function. The second processing circuit is configured to update the element of the first vector and update the element of the second vector. The element of the first vector smaller than a first value is set to the first value. The element of the first vector greater than a second value is set to the second value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshisato SAKAI, Hayato GOTO, Kosuke TATSUMURA, Kotaro ENDO, Masaru SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210174270
    Abstract: A rideshare vehicle demand forecasting device of an embodiment includes a processor. The processor acquires a reservation forecast number, which corresponds to a number of reservations each of which is capable of being established in future as a reservation for boarding/exiting a rideshare vehicle within a plurality of predetermined areas, at predetermined intervals by using a model including a neural network that is caused to perform machine learning by using, as input data, reservation data indicating a reservation situation at a time of establishment of the reservation for the rideshare vehicle, movement data indicating an area where an end user actually boards/exits the rideshare vehicle on an operation day of the rideshare vehicle, and boarding/exiting factor data containing data that are capable of becoming a factor for an occurrence of boarding/exiting of the end user on the operation day of the rideshare vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yuuji IRIMOTO, Hiroki UEDA, Hiroyuki ITAKURA, Hidemasa ITOU, Shinichi KASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210150467
    Abstract: A logistics support device includes a deriver and an instruction controller. The deriver performs, when a storage configured to store an article is mounted in a moving body and stays in a work place at which work is performed on an article stored in the storage in a delivery business, statistics processing on environmental information on an environmental change inside the storage. The instruction controller outputs an instruction on the basis of a result of the statistics processing performed by the deriver when a storage configured to store an article is mounted in a moving body and a delivery of the article is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki SAKAI, Chizuko SHIMAMURA
  • Patent number: 10997400
    Abstract: A childcare support service offering system includes a terminal and a server. The terminal includes a camera and performs operation control and processing of transmitting terminal usage situation data including image data acquired by being picked up by the camera to the server. The server performs image analysis on the received image data, recognizes the user that watches the terminal, judges a gaze of the recognized user, and judges a degree of interest for the terminal based on the gaze. When the judged degree of interest becomes equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value, the server transmits a changing instruction for causing an operation in the terminal to be changed to another operation to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Motokazu Iwasaki, Genki Fukatsu, Kazuhiro Shimada, Keisaku Nakamura, Satoko Kikuchi, Masaru Watabiki, Yuuka Asaumi, Kanako Miyawaki, Masakazu Kashita, Shinsuke Iuchi
  • Patent number: 10997440
    Abstract: According to one embodiments, a wearing detection apparatus includes a restraint device, an imaging device, a control unit, and an output device. The restraint device is to restrain a passenger seated in a seat, and includes a strap an exposed area of which changes when the strap is being worn and not worn. The imaging device captures an image of the restraint device including the strap. The control unit detects from the image captured by the imaging device, a recognition image corresponding to a recognition member provided in an area that is exposed when the strap is worn. The output device outputs a result of detection of the recognition image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Akifumi Ohno, Tatsuei Hoshino, Tamotsu Masuda, Satoshi Maesugi, Kousuke Imai, Naoto Shinkawa
  • Publication number: 20210124997
    Abstract: A label assigning device of an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors configured to function as a label candidate generation unit, a feature amount pair detection unit, and a label assigning unit. The label candidate generation unit generates a label candidate from association data associated with a content. The feature amount pair detection unit detects a feature amount pair that is a combination of feature amounts having a highest similarity among combinations of a feature amount extracted from a first content and a feature amount extracted from a second content. The label assigning unit assigns, as a label, a common label candidate generated from both first association data associated with the first content and second association data associated with the second content to each feature amount constituting the feature amount pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki KONDOU
  • Publication number: 20210125067
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a definer, a determiner, and a reinforcement learner. The definer is configured to associate a node and an edge with attributes and to define a convolution function associated with a model representing data of a graph structure representing a system structure on the basis of data regarding the graph structure. The evaluator is configured to input a state of the system into the model. The evaluator is configured to obtain, for each time step, a policy function as a probability distribution of a structural change and a state value function for reinforcement learning for a system of one or more structurally changed models which have been changed with assumable structural changes from the model for each time step. The evaluator is configured to evaluate the structural changes in the system on the basis of the policy function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio KAMATANI, Hidemasa ITOU, Katsuyuki HANAI, Mayumi YUASA, Meiteki SO
  • Patent number: 10984794
    Abstract: An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a storage, a plurality of conversationers, and a selector. The storage stores a regulation rule indicating a generation rule of a speech in a conversation. Each of the plurality of conversationers makes conversation with a user on the basis of the regulation rule. The selector selects some or all of the plurality of conversationers to cause a conversation to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Kaneko, Yasunari Tanaka, Masahisa Shinozaki, Hideo Umeki, Hisako Yoshida, Ai Matsui, Kenryo Kanaya, Keiji Kubota, Kazuho Igoshi, Motokazu Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10978076
    Abstract: A speaker retrieval device includes a first converting unit, a receiving unit, and a searching unit. The first converting unit converts, using an inverse transform model of a first conversion model for converting score vectors representing the features of voice quality into acoustic models, pre-registered acoustic models into score vectors; and registers the score vectors in a corresponding manner to a speaker identifier in score management information. The receiving unit receives input of a score vector. The searching unit searches the score management information for the speaker identifiers whose score vectors are similar to the received score vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kouichirou Mori, Masaru Suzuki, Yamato Ohtani, Masahiro Morita
  • Patent number: 10945199
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted gateway apparatus according to an embodiment includes a communication device including an external communication interface for connection to the network outside the mobile body with each of a plurality of different external communication schemes and an internal communication interface for connection to each of the plurality of data sources within the mobile body; and a control device configured to transmit data collected from each of the data sources through the internal communication interface to the network outside the mobile body. The control device includes a communication channel selection section configured to select a communication channel from the plurality of external communication schemes for each of the data sources, and a monitoring control section configured to monitor data output from each of the data sources and to transmit the data to the network outside the mobile body over a selected one of the communication channels associated with the data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Omiya, Kazuhiro Gotou, Masashi Uemoto, Daichi Soshi, Kazunori Hashimoto, Hirokazu Ikeyama, Yousuke Ujihara, Satoru Iwahashi, Akifumi Ohno, Kei Sakamoto, Ken Ishii, Shion Itou
  • Publication number: 20210064978
    Abstract: An information processing device of embodiments includes a data acquirer and a network processor. The data acquirer is configured to acquire graph structure data that includes a plurality of real nodes and one or more real edges connecting two of the plurality of real nodes. The network processor is configured to execute processing of propagating a feature amount of a k?1th layer of each of a plurality of assumed nodes that include the plurality of real nodes and the one or more real edges at least to a feature amount of a kth layer of another assumed node in a connection relationship with each of the assumed nodes in a neural network on the basis of the graph structure data acquired by the data acquirer. k is a natural number equal to or more than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hidemasa ITOU, Yukio KAMATANI, Katsuyuki HANAI
  • Patent number: 10930264
    Abstract: A voice quality preference learning device according to an embodiment includes a storage, a user interface system, and a learning processor. The storage stores a plurality of acoustic models. The user interface system receives an operation input indicating a voice quality preference of a user for voice quality. The learning processor learns a preference model corresponding to the voice quality preference of the user based at least in part on the operation input, the operation input associated with a voice quality space, wherein the voice quality space is obtained by dimensionally reducing the plurality of acoustic models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Kouichirou Mori
  • Patent number: 10909419
    Abstract: An abnormality detection device of an embodiment includes an encoder, a first identifier, a decoder, and a second identifier. The encoder is configured to compress input data using a compression parameter to generate a compressed data. The first identifier is configured to determine whether a distribution of the compressed data input by the encoder is a distribution of the compressed data or a prior distribution prepared in advance, and inputs a first identification result to the encoder. The decoder is configured to decode the compressed data using a compressing parameter to generate reconstructed data. The second identifier is configured to determine whether the reconstructed data input by the decoder is the reconstruction data or the input data and outputs a second identification result to the encoder and the decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hidemasa Itou, Takashi Morimoto, Shintarou Takahashi, Toshiyuki Katou
  • Patent number: 10911695
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detector, a generator, and a compositor. The detector detects a first image region including a specific part of a subject from a first image obtained by photographing the subject. A generator generates a plurality of mask images for specifying a region to be composited with a second image including the first image region. The compositor composites the first image with the second image using the mask images. The mask images each include a region having higher luminance than luminance of the other regions out of regions of the first image, in a region in contact with another mask image or a region overlapping another mask image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shun Okuno, Hiroki Ueda, Hiroyuki Itakura
  • Patent number: 10901724
    Abstract: A software update system updating software executed on a predetermined system for controlling a mobile body and including a vehicle-mounted gateway (GW) apparatus within the mobile body and connected to the predetermined system, and a software (SW) update apparatus connected to the vehicle-mounted gateway apparatus through a network. The SW update apparatus delivers software to the vehicle-mounted GW apparatus, receives reception OK or reception NG of the software from the vehicle-mounted GW apparatus, and records the reception OK or the reception NG in the delivery-side log information. The vehicle-mounted GW apparatus records reception OK or reception NG of the software in the mobile body-side log information associated with the delivery-side log information, and transmits the reception result to the SW update apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuutarou Ishiguro, Shion Itou
  • Publication number: 20210019431
    Abstract: A remote access control system includes a remote access control apparatus and a communication relay apparatus. The remote access control apparatus is configured to establish a predetermined communication session with the communication relay apparatus through predetermined connection target information obtaining processing performed by active connection to the remote access control apparatus from the communication relay apparatus, to transmit a secure communication connection start command to the communication relay apparatus, to receive a secure communication connection request from the communication relay apparatus to perform processing for establishing a first secure communication session, and to receive a secure communication connection request from the user apparatus based on the result of the establishment of the first secure communication session to perform processing for establishing a second secure communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiharu OYA, Tatsuyuki MATSUSHITA, Tatsuro IKEDA, Fangming ZHAO
  • Patent number: 10896074
    Abstract: An interactive processing device according to an embodiment acquires one/more items' information for predetermined operation through interaction with a user, and includes one/more itemized-processing-units and an interaction-control-unit. The itemized-processing-units corresponds to the items. The interaction-control-unit controls the interaction collaboratively with the itemized-processing-units. The interaction-control-unit transmits user-input information to each itemized-processing-unit. Each itemized-processing-unit extracts a candidate for to-be-acquired information and transmits the candidate to the interaction-control-unit with likelihood information of being the to-be-acquired information. The interaction-control-unit determines a candidate having first-threshold-satisfying likelihood as information of an item corresponding to the candidate-transmitted itemized-processing-unit. When undetermined information item exists, the interaction-control-unit outputs inquiry for the item information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikashi Sugiura, Junya Sasaki, Tetsuya Gotou, Kenta Cho, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Masaru Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210011463
    Abstract: A visualization system creates a first time axis associated with a start time of a first process and a second time axis associated with an end time of the first process or a start time of a second process subsequent to the first process such that a perpendicular line to the first time axis extends from a time point on the first time axis and intersects the second time axis at a time point thereon, the time point on the second time axis being after the lapse of a time period since the time point on the first time axis, the time period being determined from a planned value of a processing period of the first process or a planned value of the start time of the second process. The visualization system disposes the time axes associated with respective processes and a line segment, and displays them on a display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuen Shyuan KOH, Yeonsoo YANG
  • Publication number: 20210002088
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a consolidated transportation method arranges a plurality of baggage in a same transportation area and performs transportation. A consolidation determination item is defined. A first baggage corresponding to an easily transferred baggage item in the consolidation determination item is arranged in a first transportation area and transported. A second baggage corresponding to a highly sensitive baggage item in the consolidation determination item is arranged in a second transportation area and transported. A first transporter includes the first transportation area. A second transporter includes the second transportation area. The first transportation area and the second transportation area are physically separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Megumi KOBAYASHI, Yasuto HATAFUKU, Hideo ANDO, Hideki KUBO, Motokazu IWASAKI, Yoko IKEDA, Shinsuke IUCHI, Tatsuki SHIRAISHI, Kiyoshi TAKEMOTO, Kaori KITAMI, Keishi HIGASHI, Michiyo SATO, Masaru WATABIKI
  • Patent number: 10884685
    Abstract: A job execution control device according to an embodiment controls the execution of jobs defined according to job definitions; and includes a display control unit that controls the display of a UI screen for receiving user operations, and a job executing unit that executes jobs according to user operations performed using the UI screen and records a job execution history. The display control unit displays a job definition list in the UI screen and, when any one job definition is selected from the job definition list, displays, as input candidates, one or more already-executed jobs usable as the input for the job to be executed according to the selected job definition. When an already-executed job is selected from the input candidates, the job executing unit performs job execution according to the job definition selected from the job definition list, with the output of selected already-executed job serving as the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation :
    Inventors: Kenta Cho, Megumi Aikawa, Kouji Yasuda