Patents Assigned to Yahoo Japan Corporation
  • Patent number: 10121154
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display first content and a part of second content that is a moving image in an overlapping manner. The information display apparatus includes a change unit configured to change a displayed area of the second content while reproducing the second content in a case where an area in which the first content is displayed is selected by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10115132
    Abstract: A distribution apparatus includes a memory and a processor programmed to distribute control information and a first content to a terminal apparatus. The control information causes the terminal apparatus to execute displaying the first content superimposed onto a second content in a first display mode, the second content having a higher transparency than the first content; detecting an input operation causing the first content to move relative to the display region; in response to the detected input operation and the first content moving, changing the first display mode to a second display mode by changing a transparency of at least one of the first content and the second content, such that the first content and the second content are visible in the display region; and in response to completion of the input operation and the first content not moving, changing the second display mode to the first display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuaki Suzuki, Daisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10116449
    Abstract: A generation device according to the present application includes a storage unit and a generation unit. The storage unit stores information regarding an authentication module that carries out the authentication based on a result of the verification between registration data registered in advance and predetermined input data. The generation unit controls the generation of authentication result information which is information generated from the verification result acquired from the authentication module while serving as information to be processed through a specific authentication procedure used between the generation unit and an authentication server that carries out the personal authentication of a user using the authentication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito Gomi, Hiroshi Ueno, Shuji Yamaguchi, Takashi Kusumi, Masato Kawasaki, Wataru Ogami, Yusuke Kondo
  • Patent number: 10107629
    Abstract: An information processing system according to the present application comprises a user terminal and a server apparatus, the user terminal including a magnetic field measuring unit that measures magnetic fields, a movement measuring unit that measures manners of movement, and an output unit that outputs the measured magnetic fields and results of the measurement performed by the movement measuring unit while associating each of the measured magnetic fields and a corresponding one of the measurement results with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ninomiya, Shinsuke Sato, Miyuki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20180300389
    Abstract: An estimation device according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and an estimation unit. The acquiring unit acquires user relationship information indicating a similarity relationship between a plurality of users. The estimation unit estimates, based on feeling information on a similar user who is similar to one of the users in the user relationship information acquired by the acquiring unit, a feeling of the one of the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Yahoo Japan Corporation
    Inventor: Akira TAJIMA
  • Patent number: 10104444
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a speed information acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a content acquisition unit. The speed information acquisition unit acquires information on a communication speed between the information processing apparatus and a distribution apparatus distributing a video content. The determination unit determines timing of advance acquisition of the video content from the distribution apparatus based upon the information on the communication speed acquired by the speed information acquisition unit. The content acquisition unit acquires the video content in advance from the distribution apparatus at the timing of advance acquisition determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Kimura, Junki Osanai
  • Patent number: 10082427
    Abstract: A measurement data collecting system includes a data receiving unit that receives first data measured by a first sensor and acquired at a mobile terminal, a measurement environment determining unit that determines environment of the mobile terminal when the first data is acquired based on second data measured by a second sensor and acquired at the mobile terminal. The measurement environment determining unit extracts first data in accordance with the environment from the first data received by the data receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Tsubouchi, Kentaro Nishi
  • Patent number: 10083545
    Abstract: An image processing device according to the present application includes an accepting unit and a specifying unit. The accepting unit accepts image data that includes therein at least two diagrams that can be extracted as circles. The specifying unit specifies, by checking a parameter that is calculated from a pair of two circles included in the image data accepted by the accepting unit against a parameter that is calculated from a pair of two perfect circles that have previously been registered as markers that are used for image processing, the pair of the two circles included in the image data as the markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuki Sakamoto, Shinichi Higashino, Sakiko Nishi
  • Publication number: 20180270172
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes an interaction unit, a detection unit, and a change unit. The interaction unit performs interaction through dialogue with a user of a terminal device using the terminal device. The detection unit detects a transition of an aspect of the interaction. The change unit changes a mode of the interaction performed by the interaction unit when the detection unit detects the transition of the aspect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi TOKUYAMA, Kouhei YOKOTANI
  • Publication number: 20180268816
    Abstract: A generating device includes an accepting unit that accepts a speech of a user. The generating device includes a generating unit that, by inputting the speech of the user to a single model in which a group of parameters are learned simultaneously to output a response directly from a speech, generates a response to the speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunpei SANO, Nobuhiro KAJI, Manabu SASSANO
  • Publication number: 20180268443
    Abstract: A determination method according to the present application comprises predicting, based on information related to a predetermined ad spot that is displayed on a terminal device, amount-of-money information that is related to a billing amount billed to a first type advertisement distribution server, which has a predetermined relationship with content that includes the ad spot, when a first advertisement distributed by the first type advertisement distribution server is displayed on the ad spot, requesting, distribution of an advertisement from a second type advertisement distribution server, and determining, when the second advertisement has been acquired from the second type advertisement distribution server, to display the second advertisement on the ad spot and determines, when the second advertisement has not been acquired from the second type advertisement distribution server, to request the first advertisement as the advertisement to be displayed on the ad spot from the first type advertisement distribut
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki TAKI, Shunsaku ASANO
  • Publication number: 20180268307
    Abstract: An analysis device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determiner. The acquisition unit acquires an evaluation value for evaluating an action taken by a user who has viewed an electronic page containing summary information of content. The determiner determines an improvement parameter preferable as a summary parameter to be used when the content is converted into the summary information, based on a summary parameter used in the conversion and the evaluation value acquired by the acquisition unit, by optimization of an unknown function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato KOBAYASHI, Nobuyuki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20180267992
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first information about the content of a content item, a second acquisition unit that acquires second information about a location of a user who has accessed the content item, and a deriving unit that derives third information based on the first information acquired by the first acquisition unit and the second information acquired by the second acquisition unit, the third information associating a factor included in the content of the content item with a specific area in which the user is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shumpei OKURA
  • Publication number: 20180268437
    Abstract: A calculation apparatus includes an accepting unit that accepts, from a set-up person, a budget amount that is a maximum amount of compensation for distribution of information. The calculation apparatus includes a calculating unit that calculates, in accordance with the budget amount, the number of users who become the distribution destination of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihito NISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180270213
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, a second specifying unit, and an authentication unit. The acquiring unit acquires context information on a target user who becomes a target for authentication. The first specifying unit specifies a belonging cluster based on information related to a plurality of cluster groups and the context information on the target user, in each of the plurality of the cluster groups. The second specifying unit specifies, for each belonging cluster based on a classification model used to specify a predetermined candidate user in the belonging cluster specified by the first specifying unit, a candidate user, in a partial candidate user group that belongs to the belonging cluster, who satisfies a predetermined condition. The authentication unit authenticates the target user based on information related to the candidate user specified by the second specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Shuuji YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10078847
    Abstract: A distribution device includes a distribution unit which distributes a control program for controlling content to be displayed on a user terminal, to the user terminal. The control program is a display program to be executed in the user terminal, and controls the user terminal to execute a sound playback procedure for playing back a sound when content is included in an area specified by the display program for displaying the content, a viewable area acquisition procedure for acquiring the area specified by the display program in the content as a viewable area, a display area determination procedure for determining whether a display area where a video is displayed corresponding to the content is positioned in the viewable area, and a video playback procedure for stopping playback of the sound and starting playback of the video, when determined that the display area is positioned in the viewable area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ai Matsubara, Eiji Sumitomo, Kazutaka Kimura, Kanta Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10077989
    Abstract: A navigation device navigating a moving body based on position information includes a coordinated operation unit that initiates and ends a coordinated operation among a plurality of navigation devices; a guiding unit that performs navigation in at least one of the navigation devices performing the coordinated operation, while providing a screen display based on a designated position; and a second operating unit that performs a second operation in a navigation device other than a currently navigating navigation device performing the coordinated operation, the second operation including receiving an operation for a function that is not displayed on the screen of the currently navigating navigation device, and reflecting a position acquired as a result of the operation, to the other navigation devices performing the coordinated operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Wada, Katsufumi Asai, Ikuo Akutagawa
  • Patent number: 10062088
    Abstract: An advertisement distribution device includes: an arrangement position acquisition unit configured to acquire an arrangement position on a display screen of a terminal to display advertisement information; an attention degree index extracting unit configured to extract an attention degree index of the arrangement position based on acquisition of a specific position on the display screen and an attention degree index of the specific position; an arrangement position ranking unit configured to rank a plurality of arrangement positions based on a plurality of attention degree indices extracted by the attention degree index extracting unit; a distribution information ranking unit configured to rank a plurality of pieces of advertisement information based on a predetermined ranking process; and a distribution unit configured to distribute the plurality of pieces of advertisement information based on the ranks of the plurality of pieces of advertisement information and the ranks of the plurality of arrangement posi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroki Shimora
  • Patent number: 10063646
    Abstract: A distribution destination terminal selecting unit selects, from among a plurality of user terminals of a target user, a user terminal having a high probability of achieving a certain level of results by a behavior of the target user toward content when the content is distributed, as a distribution destination terminal of the content, based on a behavioral history in a behavioral history storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsutomu Sanada
  • Patent number: D832281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noburo Kagatsume, Miyuki Oshima