Patents Assigned to Yahoo Japan Corporation
  • Publication number: 20190385590
    Abstract: A generating device according to the present application includes an obtaining unit and a first generating unit. The obtaining unit obtains training data including an acoustic feature value of a first observation signal, a late reverberation component corresponding to the first observation signal, and a phoneme label associated with the first observation signal. The first generating unit generates an acoustic model to identify a phoneme label corresponding to a second observation signal based on the training data obtained by the obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoi OMACHI, Tran DUNG, Kenichi ISO, Yuya FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20190384761
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a selecting unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of pieces of second triple information hierarchized based on a conceptual system in a plurality of pieces of first triple information indicating a relationship about three types of elements and statistical information indicating the number of pieces of the first triple information associated with each of the plurality of pieces of the second triple information. The selecting unit selects, based on the statistical information acquired by the acquiring unit and based on a predetermined standard related to the statistical information, from among the plurality of pieces of the second triple information, a plurality of pieces of target triple information to be used for a clustering process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi NITTA, Iztok SAVNIK
  • Publication number: 20190354533
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the application concerned includes a generating unit and a providing unit. The generating unit generates a rating function for each node of a second-type graph which is generated from a first-type graph in which predetermined elements are treated as nodes and the relationships among the elements are treated as links, and which indicates a futuristic state of the first-type graph. The providing unit provides the information related to the second-type graph based on the rating function for the each node as generated by the generating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku MIYAZAKI, Hayato KOBAYASHI, Kohei SUGAWARA, Masaki NOGUCHI, Tomoya YAMAZAKI, Kazuki YAMAUCHI
  • Patent number: 10467650
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a model generation unit configured to generate a prediction model for calculating a prediction value related to a probability that a user performs an action on the Internet by operating a user terminal, for each group created by grouping users based on user information; a model selection unit configured to select a prediction model suited to the user from the prediction models; and a prediction value calculation unit configured to calculate the prediction value by using the prediction model selected by the model selection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kota Tsubouchi
  • Patent number: 10467305
    Abstract: An extraction device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a notification unit. The acquisition unit makes a web search engine execute extraction processing based on an arbitrary query received from an information user and acquires, as an extraction result, the number of users corresponding to the arbitrary query from behavior histories of users to be processed. The notification unit notifies the number of users acquired by the acquisition unit to the information user who posts the arbitrary query. More specifically, based on a query related to setting of a condition about behavior or an attribution of the user, the acquisition unit acquires the number of users corresponding to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Onuma, Shumpei Okura, Akihiro Koide, Makoto Kataigi
  • Patent number: 10453096
    Abstract: A movement controller includes a search unit, a determination unit and an instruction unit. The search unit searches for locations of information provision target candidate. The determination unit determines a movement form that causes a visual recognition rate of the moving object, which provides the information, to be higher on the basis of a search result. An instruction unit instructs the moving object to move in accordance with the movement form determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo Kitagishi
  • Patent number: 10445910
    Abstract: A generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application includes an obtaining unit and a generating unit. The obtaining unit obtains intermediate images in an intermediate layer of a neural network that recognizes the quantity of objects contained in an image. The generating unit generates a combination image by combining together the intermediate images obtained by the obtaining unit. For example, the generating unit generates the combination image by combining together the intermediate images to which a weight has been applied on the basis of a change in the recognition of the quantity of objects corresponding to a process applied to each of the intermediate images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tanaka, Naoaki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10417290
    Abstract: A detailed information providing server includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire search log information in which a search query is associated with link destination information of a search result obtained by a search using the search query; and a storage unit configured to determine whether or not a keyword corresponding to the search query is included in a news article available on the Internet, and store detailed information in association with the news article into an associated information DB when determining that the keyword is included, the detailed information being acquired by making access according to the link destination information associated with the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakamura, Shinichiro Yasui, Kazuo Yamashita, Masashi Kusano
  • Patent number: 10402855
    Abstract: An advertisement distribution device according to the present application includes a distribution unit. The distribution unit distributes advertising content while switching an advertisement distribution process in accordance with a predetermined target figure within the range an advertisement listing fee paid to a provider of a Web page on which the advertising content is placed reaches the predetermined target figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Tsukamoto, Manabu Sassano
  • Patent number: 10397083
    Abstract: A terminal device according to the present invention includes an application and a browser. The application includes a providing unit that provides the browser that is instructed by the application to perform a predetermined process with terminal information that is used to identify a terminal device and that is acquired by the application. The browser includes a sending unit that sends terminal information that is provided by the providing unit in the application and cookie information that is associated with a predetermined server device to the predetermined server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Arai, Yuki Taki, Naoki Ikeda, Naoto Yamaguchi, Yoshinori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10366423
    Abstract: A providing device according to an embodiment includes a registration unit that registers a learning device, in which nodes that output results of calculations on input data are connected and which extracts a feature corresponding to a predetermined type from the input data, an accepting unit that accepts designation of a type of a feature, a providing unit that selects a learning device that extracts a feature corresponding to the type of the feature accepted by the accepting unit among the learning device registered by the registration unit, and provides a new learning device generated based on the selected learning device, and a calculation unit that calculates a price to be paid to a seller provided the learning device selected by the providing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken-ichi Iso
  • Patent number: 10366407
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes a detecting unit and a predicting unit. The detecting unit detects a move operation to move contents displayed on a display screen of the information processing device. The specifying unit specifies a focused region on which a user is focused for the display screen of the information processing device based on a result of the detection by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Abe
  • Publication number: 20190228336
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an training apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a first model including an input layer to which input information is input; a plurality of intermediate layers that executes a calculation based on a feature of the input information that has been input; and an output layer that outputs output information that corresponds to output of the intermediate layer. The training apparatus includes a training unit that trains the first model such that, when predetermined input information is input to the first model, the first model outputs predetermined output information that corresponds to the predetermined input information and intermediate information output from a predetermined intermediate layer among the intermediate layers becomes close to feature information that corresponds to a feature of correspondence information that corresponds to the predetermined input information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Heishiro KANAGAWA, Hayato KOBAYASHI, Nobuyuki SHIMIZU, Yukihiro TAGAMI
  • Patent number: 10358144
    Abstract: A notification-needed information presenting apparatus that includes a plurality of display devices configured to display information to an occupant of a vehicle, at least one sensor included in each of the plurality of display devices that is configured to detect at least one of a position of the occupant and a behavior of the occupant, and a processor operatively coupled with the plurality of display devices and each of the at least one sensor that is programmed to determine behavior of the occupant toward the plurality of display devices, and control the plurality of display devices to present an advertisement to the occupant in accordance with at least one of: the determined behavior of the occupant, and a condition related to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo Kitagishi
  • Patent number: 10362552
    Abstract: A terminal device that includes a first execution unit that executes a first application having a navigation function for a user in a vehicle, and a second execution unit that executes a second application having a transmission function and a reception function of a message, and the second execution unit automatically replies to the message in cooperation with the first application in a case where the second execution unit receives the message to the second application while the vehicle is being driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho Anan, Yasuaki Hyodo, Takamitsu Iriyama, Shinsuke Sato
  • Patent number: 10353582
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus according to the present application includes a receiving unit, a first display control unit, and a second display control unit. The receiving unit receives an operation to designate a first area. When the receiving unit has received the operation to designate the first area, the first display control unit displays first input candidates. When an operation to designate a second area has been received, the second display control unit displays second input candidates corresponding to a first input candidate determined to be selected among the first input candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuki Sakamoto, Yuta Suzuki, Sakiko Nishi
  • Patent number: 10354693
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a playback mode of sound included in content. The information processing apparatus includes a playback unit configured to play back the sound included in the content in the playback mode determined by the determination unit, at playback of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ai Matsubara, Kenichi Kuromusha, Yoshihito Nishikawa, Yoshio Ikai, Kazutaka Kimura, Kanta Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10346742
    Abstract: A calculation device includes an adding unit configured to add at least one new node to a network, which has multiple nodes that output results of calculations on input data are connected and which learned a feature of data belonging to a first subclass contained in a predetermined class. The calculation device includes an accepting unit configured to accept, as input data, training data belonging to a second subclass contained in the predetermined class. The calculation device includes a calculation unit configured to calculate coupling coefficients between the new node added by the adding unit and other nodes to learn a feature of the training data belonging to the second subclass based on an output result obtained when the training data accepted by the accepting unit is input to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ken-ichi Iso
  • Publication number: 20190208368
    Abstract: According to an embodiment a determination device through a clustering analysis of position history data includes an estimation unit that, by conducting a clustering analysis on history data of pieces of geographical position information on Earth of a plurality of movable bodies that is obtained by a positioning device, based on a horizontal position constituted of a latitude and a longitude and a lapse of time, acquires pieces of area information indicating a characteristic of geographical area in which there is a tendency for the movable bodies to be positioned, the history data being accumulated sequentially in a storage device with pieces of movable body identification information and pieces of timestamp information, and a determination unit that determines whether the movable body is present in a specified point in time and the geographical area, based on the pieces of area information acquired for one of the movable bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoya BESSHO
  • Patent number: D859425
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuri Sugiura