Patents by Inventor ASUKA UNNO

ASUKA UNNO 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: 20230186362
    Abstract: In an approach for generating the most optimal support execution method, a processor receives a shopping support request from a user requesting at least one product be purchased and delivered to the user while the user travels along a scheduled travel route via a public or private transportation method. A processor identifies a plurality of delivery places and a plurality of delivery times. A processor determines at least one shopper candidate who can purchase and deliver the at least one product. A processor presents, to the at least one shopper candidate, a list comprised of optimal support execution methods. Responsive to receiving an acceptance of the shopping support request, a processor sends a support task to at least one shopper. A processor enables the at least one shopper to execute the shopping support request. A processor dynamically updates one or more details of the support task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Asuka Unno, Akira Saito, Kenichi Takasaki, Yohkichi Sasatani, Hirotaka Matsumoto, TOORU TABARA, Taku Sasaki, Sanehiro Furuichi
  • Patent number: 11663393
    Abstract: A method includes storing, in response to marking by a user of an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and creating, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shioya, Asuka Unno, Lianzi Wen
  • Patent number: 11315428
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may manage, by a first computing system, a plurality of mobile objects moving within a geographic space. Managing the plurality of mobile objects may assisting with movement of the plurality of mobile objects. The embodiment may determine whether a first mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects is a real mobile object based on a first sensor information received from the first mobile object. The embodiment may use information received from the first mobile object in managing the plurality of mobile objects moving within the geographic space based on determining that the first mobile object is the real mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Sanehiro Furuichi, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11062063
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for generation of vehicle travel data. Past-travel data including previously taken trips, along with metadata including, but not limited to, vehicle type, vehicle model, navigation device model, are obtained and classified. A travel route for simulation data is selected. Data from various previous trips are combined to create a simulation data set for the travel route. This data is based on actual vehicle data. This can enable a new level of accuracy for data analysis and simulations based on this data as compared with purely simulated data. Actual vehicle data accounts for driver behavior, road obstacles, signage, vegetation, vehicle characteristics, and other factors that may not be able to be captured with purely simulated traffic data. Using the data generated by disclosed embodiments enables these factors to be considered in traffic analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichiro Watanabe, Mari A. Fukuda, Yasutaka Nishimura, Asuka Unno, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11024161
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may include determining the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage the one mobile object based on the expected event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno
  • Patent number: 10678538
    Abstract: A device generates an operating procedure manual for software including a captured image of a screen displayed by the software. An image acquiring hardware unit acquires a plurality of captured images of a plurality of screens displayed by software in response to a plurality of operations with respect to the software. A dividing hardware unit divides the plurality of captured images into a plurality of captured image groups, to each of which at least one captured image acquired in response to at least one operation constituting a meaningful chunk belongs. A generating hardware unit generates an operating procedure manual including, for each captured image group, a captured image belonging to that captured image group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Asuka Unno
  • Publication number: 20200152055
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may include determining the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage the one mobile object based on the expected event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno
  • Patent number: 10593133
    Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to locating a moving vehicle. In some embodiments, a method includes determining driving information associated with a vehicle that is moving, where the driving information includes pattern information associated with past movement of the vehicle. The method further includes periodically receiving reported vehicle probe information from the vehicle, where the reported vehicle probe information includes a current location of the vehicle. The method further includes acquiring context information on surroundings of the vehicle if no reported vehicle probe information is received from the vehicle for a predetermined amount of time. The method further includes generating estimation vehicle probe information associated with the vehicle based on the context information, where the estimation vehicle probe information includes one or more candidate locations of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Asuka Unno, Satoshi Hosokawa, Shoichiro Watanabe, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200066156
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may manage, by a first computing system, a plurality of mobile objects moving within a geographic space. Managing the plurality of mobile objects may assisting with movement of the plurality of mobile objects. The embodiment may determine whether a first mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects is a real mobile object based on a first sensor information received from the first mobile object. The embodiment may use information received from the first mobile object in managing the plurality of mobile objects moving within the geographic space based on determining that the first mobile object is the real mobile object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Sanehiro Furuichi, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10546488
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may include determining the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage the one mobile object based on the expected event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno
  • Patent number: 10535266
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may determine the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage, by a predictive environment agent (PEA), the expected event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10504368
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may manage, by a first computing system, a plurality of mobile objects moving within a geographic space. Managing the plurality of mobile objects may assisting with movement of the plurality of mobile objects. The embodiment may determine whether a first mobile object among the plurality of mobile objects is a real mobile object based on a first sensor information received from the first mobile object. The embodiment may use information received from the first mobile object in managing the plurality of mobile objects moving within the geographic space based on determining that the first mobile object is the real mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Sanehiro Furuichi, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190360826
    Abstract: A method for searching for a ride offer that includes receiving a plurality of ride offers that specify a route that a vehicle passes along. The method further receives location information of an origin and a destination for a passenger, and a preference of the passenger for at least one of a get-on point and a get-off point. The method further determines an origin candidate point that satisfies the preference for the get-on point, and determines an origin route being one of the routes specified in the plurality of ride offers and passes through the origin candidate point. The method further determines a destination candidate point that satisfies the preference for the get-off point, determines a destination route that passes through the destination candidate point, and determines an optimum route to suggest to the passenger, wherein the optimum route includes both the origin route and the destination route in common.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Asuka Unno, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10452520
    Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a system, and/or a computer program product. An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for associating one or more test cases with one or more source code parts for a test target, or vice versa. The method comprises the followings: obtaining one or more historical data in which one or more modification histories made in one or more source codes are associated with one or more test operation histories made in the test target after the one or more modifications; for each of the historical data, determining whether the test operation history has one or more parts which are identical or similar with those in one or more test cases; and if the determination is positive, associating the one or more test cases with one or more source code parts in the one or more modification histories which have been associated with the test operation history, or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sakura B. Hisagi, Asuka Unno, Terue Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190311077
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for generation of vehicle travel data. Past-travel data including previously taken trips, along with metadata including, but not limited to, vehicle type, vehicle model, navigation device model, are obtained and classified. A travel route for simulation data is selected. Data from various previous trips are combined to create a simulation data set for the travel route. This data is based on actual vehicle data. This can enable a new level of accuracy for data analysis and simulations based on this data as compared with purely simulated data. Actual vehicle data accounts for driver behavior, road obstacles, signage, vegetation, vehicle characteristics, and other factors that may not be able to be captured with purely simulated traffic data. Using the data generated by disclosed embodiments enables these factors to be considered in traffic analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Shoichiro Watanabe, Mari A. Fukuda, Yasutaka Nishimura, Asuka Unno, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10339810
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may identify, by an event agent (EA), an event occurring in a geographic space in which a plurality of mobile objects move. The embodiment may determine the event is an expected event based on predicting time-series changes of the event handled by the EA. The embodiment may manage, by a predictive environment agent (PEA), the expected event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Akiyama, Mari Abe Fukuda, Hiroya Ogihara, Taku Sasaki, Asuka Unno, Gaku Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190188245
    Abstract: A method includes storing, in response to marking by a user of an area of a displayed document, information on the marked area; displaying an icon representing the marked area; conducting the storing operation and the displaying operation for a different area; and creating, in response to an operation by the user for arranging two or more icons to be in contact with each other, a joined icon by joining the icons together; and combining marked areas represented by the two or more respective icons, according to a state of contact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shioya, Asuka Unno, Lianzi Wen
  • Patent number: 10327102
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mobile computing device proximity notification. The method includes one or more processors acquiring location information for a plurality of mobile computing devices. The method further includes one or more processors creating a first group of mobile computing devices based on location proximity in the acquired location information of the plurality of mobile computing devices, wherein the created first group includes a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device. The method further includes one or more processors determining whether the first mobile computing device is within a predetermined distance to the second mobile computing device, and the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device are outside of an area associated with the first group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoka Mochizuki, Tomohiro Shioya, Asuka Unno, Lianzi Wen
  • Publication number: 20190180523
    Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to locating a moving vehicle. In some embodiments, a method includes determining driving information associated with a vehicle that is moving, where the driving information includes pattern information associated with past movement of the vehicle. The method further includes periodically receiving reported vehicle probe information from the vehicle, where the reported vehicle probe information includes a current location of the vehicle. The method further includes acquiring context information on surroundings of the vehicle if no reported vehicle probe information is received from the vehicle for a predetermined amount of time. The method further includes generating estimation vehicle probe information associated with the vehicle based on the context information, where the estimation vehicle probe information includes one or more candidate locations of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Asuka UNNO, Satoshi HOSOKAWA, Shoichiro WATANABE, Yasutaka NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10289410
    Abstract: A device generates an operating procedure manual for software including a captured image of a screen displayed by the software. An image acquiring hardware unit acquires a plurality of captured images of a plurality of screens displayed by software in response to a plurality of operations with respect to the software. A dividing hardware unit divides the plurality of captured images into a plurality of captured image groups, to each of which at least one captured image acquired in response to at least one operation constituting a meaningful chunk belongs. A generating hardware unit generates an operating procedure manual including, for each captured image group, a captured image belonging to that captured image group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Asuka Unno