Patents by Inventor Aiko Sawado

Aiko Sawado 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: 20240094980
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus supports dialogue using dialogue apparatuses used by a plurality of users located remotely from each other. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to estimate, during execution of a remote dialogue, a parameter of each interlocutor with respect to a topic of the remote dialogue based on a video of each interlocutor, display an alert, on a first dialogue apparatus of a first user, indicating each interlocutor whose estimated parameter is less than a threshold, and when the first user gazes at and speaks to an interlocutor displayed with the alert among a plurality of interlocutors as second users displayed on a screen of the first dialogue apparatus, transmit first audio data with a high volume to a second dialogue apparatus of the interlocutor and transmit second audio data with a low volume to second dialogue apparatus of interlocutors other than the interlocutor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Aiko SAWADO, Daisuke KIKUCHI, Wataru KAKU
  • Publication number: 20240037807
    Abstract: The image transmission system executes the following five steps. The first step is acquiring a first image by capturing a first person present in a first area by a first camera. The second step is generating a first person silhouette image representing a silhouette of the first person shown in the first image. The third step is projecting or displaying the first person silhouette image on a second object installed in a second area that is different from the first area. The fourth step is determining whether or not the first person performs a first trigger action based on the first image. Fifth step is when the first person performs the first trigger action, projecting or displaying a first person detailed image on the second object, wherein the first person detailed image is closer to a real image of the first person than the first person silhouette image is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke KIKUCHI, Wataru KAKU, Aiko SAWADO, Mina FUNAZUKURI, Masayuki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230316612
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to flip text included in an illustration drawn by a first user on a virtual screen in virtual space to be legible as seen from a virtual camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke KIKUCHI, Wataru KAKU, Aiko SAWADO, Mina FUNAZUKURI
  • Publication number: 20230230322
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates a stereoscopic image represented by a collection of polygons. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire a plurality of distance images from a plurality of distance image sensors that capture an object, generate a plurality of 3D polygon models based on the plurality of distance images, divide a virtual space surrounding the object to generate a plurality of divided spaces, compare a number of vertices of polygons in the plurality of 3D polygon models in each divided space, select vertices of the 3D polygon model with a highest number of vertices in each divided space as vertices in the divided space, and integrate the selected vertices to generate the stereoscopic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Wataru Kaku, Daisuke Kikuchi, Mina Funazukuri, Aiko Sawado