Patents by Inventor Akinori TAGUCHI

Akinori TAGUCHI 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).

  • Patent number: 11216064
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including obtaining gaze data that indicates a position of a gaze of a user at each of a plurality of times, determining a first movement regarding the gaze of the user based on the gaze data, displaying, on a screen of a display device, gaze information indicating a position of the gaze at each of a plurality of times from a time at which a second movement occurs when the first movement includes the second movement, and displaying, on the screen, gaze information indicating a position of the gaze at each of a plurality of times during a specified time period when the first movement does not include the second movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshihide Fujita, Akinori Taguchi, Koichiro Niinuma
  • Patent number: 11023474
    Abstract: An apparatus receives, via an input device, query input data including a word or a phrase, and acquires search result set data using the query input data. The apparatus acquires, for a value indicating a strength of a relationship between each impression word included in an impression word group and each word included in the query input data, and extracts the first feature word group according to the value indicating the strength of the relationship with each word, from the impression word group. The apparatus displays the search result set data using the first feature word group as an item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Takahashi, Junya Saito, Akinori Taguchi, Takuya Kamimura, Kentaro Murase, Seiji Okura, Shinji Kikuchi, Akira Nakagawa, Toshiyuki Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 10627897
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a processor of a head mounted display to execute a process, the process includes obtaining a result of measurement performed by an acceleration sensor included in the head mounted display; and determining whether a user with the head mounted display is chewing a food or the user is speaking based on the result of the measurement performed by the acceleration sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Motonobu Mihara, Akinori Taguchi, Koichiro Niinuma
  • Patent number: 10395101
    Abstract: An interest degree determination device detects a gaze position of a first user included in a plurality of users on the basis of image information. When a second user other than the first user is present in the vicinity of the first user, the interest degree determination device determines whether the gaze position of the first user has been affected by the second user. The interest degree determination device stores a determination result of a determination unit and the gaze position of the first user in a storage unit so as to be associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Motonobu Mihara, Akinori Taguchi, Masayoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20190171282
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a processor of a head mounted display to execute a process, the process includes obtaining a result of measurement performed by an acceleration sensor included in the head mounted display; and determining whether a user with the head mounted display is chewing a food or the user is speaking based on the result of the measurement performed by the acceleration sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Motonobu Mihara, Akinori Taguchi, Koichiro Niinuma
  • Publication number: 20190114328
    Abstract: An apparatus receives, via an input device, query input data including a word or a phrase, and acquires search result set data using the query input data. The apparatus acquires, for a value indicating a strength of a relationship between each impression word included in an impression word group and each word included in the query input data, and extracts the first feature word group according to the value indicating the strength of the relationship with each word, from the impression word group. The apparatus displays the search result set data using the first feature word group as an item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: JUN TAKAHASHI, JUNYA SAITO, Akinori Taguchi, Takuya Kamimura, Kentaro Murase, Seiji Okura, Shinji Kikuchi, Akira NAKAGAWA, Toshiyuki Fukuoka
  • Publication number: 20190094962
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including obtaining gaze data that indicates a position of a gaze of a user at each of a plurality of times, determining a first movement regarding the gaze of the user based on the gaze data, displaying, on a screen of a display device, gaze information indicating a position of the gaze at each of a plurality of times from a time at which a second movement occurs when the first movement includes the second movement, and displaying, on the screen, gaze information indicating a position of the gaze at each of a plurality of times during a specified time period when the first movement does not include the second movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshihide Fujita, Akinori Taguchi, Koichiro NIINUMA
  • Publication number: 20180253708
    Abstract: A processor detects a direction of a line of sight from an image picked up by a camera, refers to position information of an item stored in a memory, and identifies one or a plurality of items that correspond to the detected direction of the line of sight. The display displays the one or the plurality of items identified by the processor, in such a manner that such an item or items can be selected as an item candidate for a checkout target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jaikrishna MOHANAKRISHNAN, Akinori TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180120934
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a calibration program that causes the computer to execute a process, the process including, detecting an operation of a user for a display screen of an information processing device, determining whether the detected operation corresponds to a predetermined operation stored in a memory, the predetermined operation being an operation that designates a display position with a predetermined condition, detecting a display position in the display screen designated by the detected operation, and detecting a gaze position of the user by using a sensor in a case where the detected operation corresponds to the predetermined operation pattern stored in the memory, associating the detected gaze position detected at a specified timing with the detected display position detected at the specified timing, and calibrating a gaze position to be detected by the sensor, based on the associated display position and the associated gaze position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akinori Taguchi
  • Patent number: 9952690
    Abstract: A tablet device 100 according to an embodiment specifies a target area on a touch panel in which an operation is performed and determines the content of the touch operation performed in the target area. For example, the tablet device specifies the target area on the basis of the eye gaze position detected by a eye gaze detecting unit. Then, the tablet device creates a menu image that includes an option associated with the content of the touch operation, displays the created menu image in the default area, and receives the touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akinori Taguchi, Satoshi Nakashima, Masayoshi Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20180074327
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including capturing an image by using a first camera included in an information processing terminal, detecting a gaze direction of a user included in the image when presented information is displayed on a screen of the information processing terminal, capturing an image by using a second camera included in the information processing terminal when the presented information is displayed on the screen, and performing an output control of warning corresponding to the presented information based on the detected gaze direction and the image captured by using the second camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshihide Fujita, Akinori Taguchi, Motonobu Mihara
  • Patent number: 9913578
    Abstract: An eye gaze detecting device includes: a memory configured to store position information regarding a specific position where a specific object is located; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: identify an eye gaze position regarding the subject in an image for each of a plurality of images including the image, and calculate a correction value based on the position information and a plurality of eye gaze positions including the eye gaze position, the correction value causing the plurality of eye gaze positions to match the specific position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akinori Taguchi, Satoshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9910846
    Abstract: A conversion device includes an input unit configured to input position information of a user's line of sight on a screen; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, a character string included in a predetermined range from a position indicated by the position information, among character strings displayed on the screen; and a display control unit configured to display a list of character strings corresponding to readings including an input character as conversion candidates of the input character, among stored character strings, the list being displayed in response to the input character being input by the user. The display control unit increases a priority in a display order in the list for a character string that matches any of the acquired character strings, such that the priority is higher than that of a case where the character string does not match any of the character strings acquired by the acquiring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akinori Taguchi, Jaikrishna Mohanakrishnan, Satoshi Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9842255
    Abstract: A calculation device includes a processor configured to identify a person in a plurality of images captured in time series respectively, obtain gaze information indicating a direction of a line of sight of the person, identify at least one of a time period in which the person directs the line of sight to a certain object and a number of times that the person directs the line of sight to the certain object, based on the gaze information and a position at which the certain object is placed, estimate a relationship of two or more persons who are identified in one image from among the plurality of images, based on a distance between the two or more persons, and calculate an index value indicating probability that the certain object is utilized, based on the relationship, and at least one of the time period and the number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Akinori Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20170330343
    Abstract: A sight line identification apparatus includes a sight line sensor configured to output a signal in accordance with a sight line, a memory configured to store positional information between a plurality of objects, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to produce a sight line pattern including a position of the sight line or a direction of the sight line based on the output signal from the sight line sensor estimate each objects pointed to by the sight line and an order of the objects pointed to by the sight line, based on information including the positional information and the sight line pattern, and when there are a plurality of combinations of the estimated objects and the estimated order of the objects, select one of the plurality of combinations based on the positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yoshihide Fujita, Akinori Taguchi, Motonobu Mihara
  • Patent number: 9804671
    Abstract: An input device comprising: a processor that executes a process comprising: first detecting an eye-gaze position on a screen; comparing a current specified position and the eye-gaze position; and setting a cursor position to the specified position until a distance between the specified position and the eye-gaze position reaches a threshold or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Akinori Taguchi, Masayoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9740930
    Abstract: A read determining device includes: a similar portion identifying unit configured to identify a similar portion in a document which is similar to a portion in the document or a similar portion in a document which is similar to a portion in another document which is already read; and a determination unit that lowers a threshold value with which a document is determined to be read with respect to the document which includes more similar portions than those in another document which includes less similar portions and thereby determines whether or not the document is read, so that the determination accuracy is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jaikrishna Mohanakrishnan, Akinori Taguchi
  • Publication number: 20170091944
    Abstract: A memory stores a first image of an object in an image-capturing target region and a second image, the first image being captured by a first imaging device, and the second image being captured by a second imaging device by use of a reflected electromagnetic wave from the image-capturing target region, using an electromagnetic source that radiates an electromagnetic wave onto the image-capturing target region. When a position of a strongly reflective region in the second image corresponds to a prescribed position in the second image, a processor estimates a position of the object on the basis of the first image and complementary information that complements an image of the strongly reflective region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Akinori Taguchi, Satoshi Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20170011260
    Abstract: An interest degree determination device detects a gaze position of a first user included in a plurality of users on the basis of image information. When a second user other than the first user is present in the vicinity of the first user, the interest degree determination device determines whether the gaze position of the first user has been affected by the second user. The interest degree determination device stores a determination result of a determination unit and the gaze position of the first user in a storage unit so as to be associated with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Motonobu Mihara, Akinori Taguchi, Masayoshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9508004
    Abstract: An eye-gaze-detection apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a face image of a user from an imaging apparatus, the face image being captured by the imaging apparatus; a feature-quantity extraction unit that extracts a feature quantity of the face image; an eye-gaze-calculation-determination unit that determines whether or not an eye-gaze calculation process is performed by referring to a rule database, based on the feature quantity extracted by the feature quantity extraction unit, the rule database storing a rule set associating a condition including the feature quantity of the face image with information indicating whether or not the eye gaze calculation process is performed; and an eye-gaze-calculation unit that performs the eye-gaze-calculation process for the user, based on the feature quantity of the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit, when the eye-gaze-calculation-determination unit determines that the eye-gaze-calculation process is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Jaikrishna Mohanakrishnan, Akinori Taguchi