Patents Assigned to Yahoo Japan Corporation
  • Publication number: 20190121534
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an information control program that causes a computer to execute: determining whether predetermined operation of touching a display screen of a terminal device is performed and thereafter maintaining operation of maintaining a state, in which the display screen is touched as a result of performing the predetermined operation, is being performed; and controlling including continuing second change operation that is based on first change operation when it is determined, at the determining, that the maintaining operation is being performed, the first change operation being operation started in accordance with the predetermined operation and performed for changing predetermined information related to a content displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiki SUGISAKI
  • Publication number: 20190122117
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning device includes a learning unit that learns an encoder that includes an input layer to which input information is input, a plurality of intermediate layers that extract features of the input information from output of the input layer in a stepwise manner, and an output layer that outputs the features of the input information extracted by the plurality of intermediate layers. The learning unit learns an applier that applies, to output of the encoder, an attention matrix including a plurality of column components that are based on a plurality of attributes extracted by the plurality of intermediate layers. The learning unit learns a decoder that generates output information corresponding to the input information from the output of the encoder to which the attention matrix has been applied by the applier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tasuku MIYAZAKI, Hayato KOBAYASHI, Kohei SUGAWARA, Masaki NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190090083
    Abstract: A boarding intention determination device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires a positional relationship between boarding position information representing a boarding spot for boarding a mobile object and user position information representing a current position of a user. The determination unit determines whether the user has an intention to board the mobile object based on the positional relationship that is acquired by the acquisition unit and behavior information representing behaviors of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo KITAGISHI, Taro WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190074030
    Abstract: A voice extraction device according to the present invention includes a formation unit, an acquisition unit, an emphasis unit, a generation unit, and a selection unit. The formation unit forms directivity through beam-forming processing for each microphone in a microphone array including a plurality of microphones that form a plurality of channels. The acquisition unit acquires an observation signal that is a signal of voice received by each of the channels. The emphasis unit generates an emphasized signal by emphasizing the observation signal in accordance with the directivity formed by the formation unit. The generation unit generates, for each channel, frequency distribution of amplitude of the emphasized signal generated by the emphasis unit. The selection unit selects a channel corresponding to a voice signal used for voice recognition from among the channels based on the frequency distribution corresponding to the respective channels generated by the generation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motoi OMACHI
  • Publication number: 20190074004
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes an extraction unit and a subsequent stage generation unit. The extraction unit extracts a last conversation of a feedback utterance estimated to indicate a predetermined reaction of a second utterance subject relative to an utterance made by a first utterance subject, from a set of a plurality of conversations, based on a score assigned to the feedback utterance. The subsequent stage generation unit generates a subsequent stage classifier for deriving an index indicating a category of an unknown conversation, based on the last conversation extracted by the extraction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chikara HASHIMOTO, Manabu SASSANO
  • Patent number: 10223712
    Abstract: There is provided an information providing apparatus including a reception unit, a provision determining unit, and a request reply unit. The reception unit receives provision availability information indicating whether provision of user information for an advertisement delivery apparatus is permitted from a user terminal accessing any one of a plurality of site providing apparatuses or the like. The provision determining unit determines whether the provision availability information corresponding to the user terminal represents a provision permission in a case where an acquisition request for the user information relating to the user terminal is received from the advertisement delivery apparatus. The request reply unit replies to the advertisement delivery apparatus with the user information of the user terminal in a case where the provision permission is determined to be represented by the provision determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito Gomi, Koji Tsukamoto
  • Publication number: 20190028833
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires time-series position information acquired by a terminal device. The determination unit determines whether relation between one or more pieces of interest position information included in the time-series position information acquired by the acquisition unit and prior or posterior position information in time series satisfies a predetermined criterion, and determines whether to hold the interest position information based on a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota NAMIKI, Kota TSUBOUCHI, Yoshimitsu SAKUI
  • Publication number: 20190019219
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a determination apparatus includes a reception unit that receives a notification, indicating that a user has visited a certain facility, from a terminal apparatus having a notification function that outputs the notification when the user visits the facility. The determination apparatus includes an estimation unit that estimates, on the basis of a statistical relation between a history of number of the notifications and a history of a using state of the facility, number of users who are visiting the certain facility from number of the notifications received in a certain period. The determination apparatus includes a determination unit that determines whether a new user is able to use the certain facility on the basis of a determination result by the estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takamitsu IRIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10181155
    Abstract: An evaluation device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and an evaluation unit. The acquisition unit acquires information related to an enterprise among information which is based on user behavior on a communication network. The evaluation unit evaluates credit of the enterprise based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit. For example, the acquisition unit acquires, as the information which is based on user behavior on the communication network, information transmitted from a user in utilization of a service which is provided by various websites and which is related to the enterprise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Takata
  • Patent number: 10175907
    Abstract: A storage device according to the present application includes a receiving unit and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a write request for writing a file with a specified directory name. The control unit writes the file in association with a directory of the specified directory name into a memory device, within a range up to an upper limit set for the number of files to be written in the memory device in association with each directory, in response to the write request received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuharu Goto
  • Patent number: 10176490
    Abstract: An advertisement distribution control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a view count determination unit and a distribution/non-distribution decision unit. The view count determination unit determines the number of views of content information being distributed. The distribution/non-distribution decision unit decides whether or not to distribute advertisement information to terminal apparatuses viewing the content information based on the number of views determined by the view count determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Kimura, Kanta Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10176590
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to the present application includes a reception unit and a specification unit. The reception unit receives image data produced through image capturing by a predetermined image capturing apparatus and including an elliptical figure. The specification unit performs projection transform of the image data so that the elliptical figure included in the image data received by the reception unit appears to be an exact circle, and specifies, based on characteristic information on the exact circle obtained through the projection transform, the exact circle to be a marker used in predetermined processing on the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuuki Sakamoto, Shinichi Higashino
  • Publication number: 20190005399
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of input information of different classifications. The learning device includes a learning unit that learns a model as a model when the pieces of input information are inputted, outputs a plurality of pieces of output information corresponding to the respective pieces of input information. The model includes a plurality of encoding parts that generate pieces of characteristic information indicating characteristics of the pieces of input information from the pieces of input information. The model includes a synthesizing part that generates synthesized information obtained by synthesizing the pieces of characteristic information generated by the encoding parts. The model includes a plurality of decoding parts that generate pieces of output information of different classifications from the synthesized information generated by the synthesizing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki NOGUCHI, Ryo NAKAI, Hayato KOBAYASHI, Yukihiro TAGAMI, Kazuma MURAO
  • Publication number: 20180364047
    Abstract: An estimation device includes a detecting unit that detects acceleration; an acquiring unit that acquires a feature value that is based on the acceleration; and an estimation unit that estimates a speed based on a limit value of the feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Munehiro AZAMI
  • Patent number: 10154114
    Abstract: A delivery apparatus according to the present application includes a receiving unit and a delivering unit. The receiving unit receives a delivery request for content from a terminal device. The delivering unit delivers the content corresponding to the delivery request, and user information that is related to a user who is using the terminal device and that is to be added to the content to the terminal device. For example, the delivering unit delivers the user information corresponding to an attribute that is selected from attributes related to the user, based on a correlation with the content, to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masatoshi Wakizaki
  • Patent number: 10129236
    Abstract: A determination apparatus according to an embodiment includes a receiving unit, an acquisition unit, and a determination unit. The receiving unit receives a request for authentication of identity of a user who uses a terminal device. The acquisition unit acquires context information that is information indicating a context of the terminal device. The determination unit performs determination related to authentication requested by the terminal device, on the basis of the context information acquired by the acquisition unit. For example, the determination unit determines whether an authentication procedure for an authentication request received by the receiving unit is needed on the basis of a change between context information that is acquired upon reception of an authentication request by the receiving unit and context information that has been acquired upon reception of a past authentication request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito Gomi, Teruhiko Teraoka
  • Patent number: D834046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Keiko Matsumura
  • Patent number: D837809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noburo Kagatsume, Miyuki Oshima
  • Patent number: D837810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bo-Tzu Chen
  • Patent number: D837811
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bo-Tzu Chen