Patents by Inventor Ai NAKANE

Ai NAKANE 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).

  • Publication number: 20240127508
    Abstract: A graphic display control device comprising: a data acquisition unit that acquires an utterance content of a speaker as text data; a search information extraction unit that extracts search information to be used for searching, from the text data acquired by the data acquisition unit; a graphic selection unit that selects, from a database, a graphic corresponding to the search information extracted by the search information extraction unit; and an output function unit that performs processing for presenting the graphic selected by the graphic selection unit, on a graphic recording result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko ISHII, Momoko NAKATANI, Ai NAKANE, Chihiro TAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11921852
    Abstract: An instruction output device facilitates coping with risks on security by including a first acquisition unit for acquiring, in response to input of risk information indicating contents of a risk related to security of an information processing terminal, one or more instructions corresponding to the risk information; a second acquisition unit for acquiring, for each of the instructions acquired by the first acquisition unit, a message indicating contents of the instruction corresponding to a security-related skill level of a user of the information processing terminal; and an output unit for outputting the message acquired by the second acquisition unit to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ai Nakane, Asuka Ono, Toshihide Saito, Asuka Miyake
  • Publication number: 20240013778
    Abstract: A layout method to be executed by a computer includes generating multiple pieces of second text data using a change in a topic in first text data generated by speech recognition for a speech of a dialogue as a separator, acquiring multiple trajectories drawn in accordance with the dialogue, dividing the trajectories into multiple groups on the basis of drawn positions of the respective trajectories, associating, for each of the groups, the second text data related to drawn content indicated by a group with the group and integrating groups associated with common second text data into one group, and outputting, in response to a layout change instruction by a user, each group subjected to the associating, in a layout in accordance with the layout change instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Chihiro TAKAYAMA, Momoko NAKATANI, Ai NAKANE, Yoko ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230410392
    Abstract: A computer executes a character information acquisition procedure of acquiring, for each utterance in a dialogue, character information indicating content of the utterance and information indicating timing at which the utterance is made, a picture area information acquisition procedure of acquiring information indicating an area of a picture drawn during the dialogue and information indicating timing at which the picture is drawn, and an association procedure of specifying the character information to be associated with the area, based on the timing at which the picture is drawn and the timing at which the utterance is made, thereby reducing a burden of assigning character information to drawing content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ai NAKANE, Momoko NAKATANI, Chihiro TAKAYAMA, Yoko ISHII
  • Patent number: 11806213
    Abstract: A speech transmission compensation apparatus that assists discrimination of speech heard by a user, includes: one or more computers each including a memory and a processor configured to: accept input of a speech signal, detect a specific type of sound in the speech signal, analyze an acoustic characteristic of the specific type of sound in the speech signal and output the acoustic characteristic; accept input of the acoustic characteristic being output by the memory and the processor, generate a vibration signal of a duration corresponding to the acoustic characteristic and output the vibration signal; and accept input of the vibration signal being output by the memory and the processor and provide the user with vibration for the duration on the basis of the vibration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asuka Ono, Momoko Nakatani, Ai Nakane, Yoko Ishii
  • Publication number: 20230205992
    Abstract: Provided are a sentence proofreading assistance apparatus, a sentence proofreading assistance method, and a sentence proofreading assistance program for assisting in sentence proofreading when creating a picture book. The sentence proofreading assistance apparatus includes a requirement input unit that receives information on a development level of a target person and information on a purpose of creating a picture book, an acquisition unit that acquires a check content and a rule corresponding to both pieces of information received by the requirement input unit, a sentence analysis unit that analyzes, when receiving a sentence of a picture book to be proofread, the sentence of the picture book, and a proofreading information output unit that checks an analysis result by the sentence analysis unit in accordance with the check content and outputs proofreading information based on the rule for proofreading the sentence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Ai NAKANE, Momoko NAKATANI, Harumi SAITO, Yumiko MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20230157894
    Abstract: A speech transmission compensation apparatus that assists discrimination of speech heard by a user, includes: one or more computers each including a memory and a processor configured to: accept input of a speech signal, detect a specific type of sound in the speech signal, analyze an acoustic characteristic of the specific type of sound in the speech signal and output the acoustic characteristic; accept input of the acoustic characteristic being output by the memory and the processor, generate a vibration signal of a duration corresponding to the acoustic characteristic and output the vibration signal; and accept input of the vibration signal being output by the memory and the processor and provide the user with vibration for the duration on the basis of the vibration signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asuka ONO, Momoko NAKATANI, Ai NAKANE, Yoko ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230153730
    Abstract: A type estimation device includes an input unit that inputs a response by a user to a predetermined question for estimating a parenting goal type of the user, and a goal type estimation unit that estimates the parenting goal type of the user on the basis of the response. The predetermined question is a question about what kind of person the user wants a child to become in the future or what kind of person the user does not want a child to become in the future.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ai NAKANE, Tessei KOBAYASHI, Naomi WATANABE, Momoko NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20230124354
    Abstract: An assistance apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a concreteness calculation unit for calculating, by using a plurality of predetermined words included in an input sentence and an answer expression describing an answer to at least one 5W1H sentence in the input sentence, concreteness indicating a degree to which the input sentence is concretely written; and a notification sentence creation unit for creating a notification sentence for encouraging a user to write a concrete sentence in a case in which the concreteness is lower than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru AKAHORI, Ai NAKANE, Momoko NAKATANI
  • Publication number: 20230032564
    Abstract: A relation visualizing apparatus to an embodiment includes a memory; and a processor configured to: receive, as an input, dialog content data representing a content on which two or more persons have had a dialog with respect to predetermined two or more topic items and generate a graph, composed of nodes and edges, by using the topic items as the nodes and utterer IDs identifying persons having given utterance to two topic items different from each other as the edges, the edges connecting nodes corresponding to the two topic items; and display the generated graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko ISHII, Momoko NAKATANI, Ai NAKANE, Yumiko MATSUURA
  • Publication number: 20220262270
    Abstract: Provided is a picture book having a high vocabulary building effect according to each individual infant's interest and state of vocabulary building. A picture book including a double-page spread that includes: a picture that represents one object that a target person is interested in, for a given category; and pictures that represent objects that respectively correspond to a plurality of words that the target person cannot speak, for the category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tessei KOBAYASHI, Ai NAKANE
  • Publication number: 20220261479
    Abstract: An instruction output device facilitates coping with risks on security by including a first acquisition unit for acquiring, in response to input of risk information indicating contents of a risk related to security of an information processing terminal, one or more instructions corresponding to the risk information; a second acquisition unit for acquiring, for each of the instructions acquired by the first acquisition unit, a message indicating contents of the instruction corresponding to a security-related skill level of a user of the information processing terminal; and an output unit for outputting the message acquired by the second acquisition unit to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ai NAKANE, Asuka ONO, Toshihide SAITO, Asuka MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20220199104
    Abstract: An utterance imaging device reduces a cognitive load on utterance details by including an extraction unit configured to extract some character strings from character strings recognized as sounds from an utterance, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image based on the some character strings, and an output unit configured to output the image to a position corresponding to a speaker related to the utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Yoko ISHII, Momoko NAKATANI, Ai NAKANE, Asuka ONO, Yumiko MATSUURA