Patents by Inventor Hikaru Sugata
Hikaru Sugata 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).
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Patent number: 11943574Abstract: Each of wearable terminals includes a terminal time correction unit configured to correct terminal time of a terminal clock unit based on time data externally acquired, a terminal data generation unit configured to generate terminal data at a predetermined data generation time interval counted based on an output signal of an oscillation circuit, and a data transmission/reception unit configured to transmit the terminal data to an analysis apparatus. The analysis apparatus includes a terminal data correction unit configured to correct, for each of the wearable terminals, terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data received from each of the wearable terminals. The terminal data correction unit corrects the terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data in such a way that intervals between the terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data become even on the time axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Patent number: 11769518Abstract: A sound analysis system includes: first and second sound pressure acquisition means for respectively acquiring a sound pressure of a voice of a user and disposed in an equipment worn by the user at positions that differ in a distance from a mouth of the user under the state in which the user is wearing the equipment; distance estimation means for estimating a distance between either the first or the second sound pressure acquisition means and the mouth of the user based on the acquired sound pressures; and sound pressure correction means for calculating a difference between a reference value of the distance between the first or the second sound pressure acquisition means and the mouth of the user and the estimated distance, and correcting at least one of the sound pressures acquired by the first and the second sound pressure acquisition means based on the calculated difference.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Eiji Mitsuda, Hikaru Sugata
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Patent number: 11716556Abstract: An information management system which reduces the possibility of degradation of information management efficiency, an information management method, and an information management program are provided. In an information management system which includes a plurality of terminal devices to configured to generate detection data, a plurality of repeaters configured to acquire the detection data from at least one of the plurality of terminal devices, and a server configured to give and receive data to and from at least one of the plurality of repeaters, the plurality of repeaters respectively receive the detection data in advance from at least one of the plurality of terminal devices, the plurality of repeaters respectively hold terminal device lists, and the terminal device lists indicate at least one of the plurality of terminal devices from which the detection data is received and latest receipt time which is time at which the detection data is received.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Takashino, Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20230006948Abstract: A response system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire the question sentence of a user, a response sentence selection unit configured to select a response sentence, stored in a storage unit in advance, according to the acquired question sentence, a response sentence conversion unit configured to convert the selected response sentence according to the question sentence, and an output unit configured to output the converted response sentence. The response sentence conversion unit is configured to convert a word included in the selected response sentence to a word included in the question sentence based on the degree of similarity between the word included in the response sentence and the word included in the question sentence.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke NAKANISHI, Hikaru SUGATA
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Patent number: 11466759Abstract: In a cycloid transmission a second input side eccentric cam and a first output side eccentric cam are integrally fixed to a rotary shaft to be eccentric in the same phase, a first input side eccentric cam is fixed to the rotary shaft so that the first input side eccentric cam is eccentric in a phase different from that of the second input side eccentric cam and that of the first output side eccentric cam, a second output side eccentric cam is rotatably attached to the rotary shaft, a second input side cycloid gear and a first output side cycloid gear are integrally formed to be rotated in synchronism with each other in the same phase, and a first input side cycloid gear is connected to the second output side cycloid gear by a connection member to be rotated in synchronism with each other in the same phase.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Patent number: 11469875Abstract: A communication system includes: a plurality of sensor terminals each including a clock indicating an individual time and configured to detect sensing information related to a user and information detection time at which the sensing information has been detected; a management terminal configured to retain a reference time and adapted to communicate with the plurality of sensor terminals; and a relationship analysis unit configured to analyze a relationship among the users of the plurality of sensor terminals, in which the management terminal acquires the sensing information and the information detection time from each of the plurality of sensor terminals and corrects the information detection time acquired from each of the plurality of sensor terminals based on a lag between the individual time acquired from the corresponding sensor terminal and the reference time, and the relationship analysis unit analyzes the relationship using the sensing information and the corrected information detection time.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hikaru Sugata, Eiji Mitsuda
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Publication number: 20220256256Abstract: An information management system which reduces the possibility of degradation of information management efficiency, an information management method, and an information management program are provided. In an information management system which includes a plurality of terminal devices to configured to generate detection data, a plurality of repeaters configured to acquire the detection data from at least one of the plurality of terminal devices, and a server configured to give and receive data to and from at least one of the plurality of repeaters, the plurality of repeaters respectively receive the detection data in advance from at least one of the plurality of terminal devices, the plurality of repeaters respectively hold terminal device lists, and the terminal device lists indicate at least one of the plurality of terminal devices from which the detection data is received and latest receipt time which is time at which the detection data is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Hiroaki Takashino, Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220206742Abstract: The present disclosure provides an agent display method and the like that reduces the trouble of a user confirming an answer (or answers) while increasing the possibility of presenting an answer (or answers) of high value to the user without omission. An agent display method for simultaneously displaying a plurality of agents each configured to respond to a speech text of a user, the agent display method including: an answer selection step of selecting the answer text of each of the plurality of agents to the speech text of the user; and an agent display step of displaying a screen including the plurality of agents, in which the agent display step includes displaying the agent that the user should check first among the plurality of agents in a more emphasized form than those of the agents other than the agent that the user should check first.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Ryosuke Nakanishi, Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220206671Abstract: The present disclosure provides an agent display method and the like that enable a user to easily determine an answer of an agent that should be referenced (checked) first among a plurality of agents. An agent display method for simultaneously displaying a plurality of agents each configured to respond to a speech text of a user, the agent display method including: an answer selection step of selecting the answer text of each of the plurality of agents to the speech text of the user; and an agent display step of displaying a screen including the plurality of agents, in which the agent display step includes changing, in accordance with an index indicating certainty of the answer text of at least one of the agents, a display form of the at least one of the agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Ryosuke Nakanishi, Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220196123Abstract: In a cycloid transmission a second input side eccentric cam and a first output side eccentric cam are integrally fixed to a rotary shaft to be eccentric in the same phase, a first input side eccentric cam is fixed to the rotary shaft so that the first input side eccentric cam is eccentric in a phase different from that of the second input side eccentric cam and that of the first output side eccentric cam, a second output side eccentric cam is rotatably attached to the rotary shaft, a second input side cycloid gear and a first output side cycloid gear are integrally formed to be rotated in synchronism with each other in the same phase, and a first input side cycloid gear is connected to the second output side cycloid gear by a connection member to be rotated in synchronism with each other in the same phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220191780Abstract: An example of an object of the present disclosure is to provide an information processing system, a communication system, a selection method, and a program for decreasing performance degradation in wireless communication. An embodiment of the present disclosure is an information processing system including an acquisition unit configured to acquire first radio wave strength information and second radio wave strength information, the first radio wave strength information being information related to radio wave strength of a sensor in wireless communication between a first hub and the sensor, and the second radio wave strength information being information related to radio wave strength of the sensor in wireless communication between the second hub and the sensor and selection unit configured to select a hub to be connected to the sensor based on the first radio wave strength information and the second radio wave strength information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru SUGATA
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Publication number: 20220182916Abstract: A server determines, for each of a plurality of repeaters, a terminal apparatus to be connected, and a connection order in which a plurality of repeaters connect to the terminal apparatuses to be connected, based on a latest upload time of each detection data generated by the plurality of terminal apparatuses, and identification information of a plurality of terminal apparatuses, so that detection data is preferentially acquired from a terminal apparatus that generated detection data of which the upload time is early in the information processing system. When each of the plurality of repeaters receives, from the server, the identification information of the terminal apparatus to be connected and the connection order information thereof, the plurality of repeaters connects to the terminal apparatuses to be connected according to the order indicated by the connection order information, and acquire detection data therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru SUGATA
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Publication number: 20220157299Abstract: A speech detection unit detects a speech in communication based on output values of microphones of a plurality of wearable terminals, and identifies a wearable terminal corresponding to the detected speech. A speech period detection unit detects for each speech a start timing of the speech and an end timing thereof. An evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, for each speech detected by the speech detection unit, an evaluation value for the speech based on an output value of an acceleration sensor of a wearable terminal other than the wearable terminal corresponding to the speech in an evaluation period from a first timing, which is at or later than the start timing of the speech and earlier than the end timing of the speech, to a second timing, which is later than the end timing of the speech.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220157296Abstract: An information processing system which enables more appropriate analysis on a state of communication participated by a plurality of participants is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an utterance judgement unit and an analysis section determination section. The utterance judgement unit judges an utterance section which is a time-series section of an utterance of each of a plurality of participants in the communication. The analysis section determination unit uses a reference analysis section to set boundaries of a plurality of actual analysis sections so that time points of boundaries of the plurality of actual analysis sections become times corresponding to the non-utterance times.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Patent number: 11330449Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of sensor terminals each having an individual time and a management terminal having a reference time. The management terminal associates the individual time with the reference time at which the individual time was received and stores the associated times as a time pair. The management terminal determines a communication delay time using the configuration information of the hardware of the sensor terminal, the version of the software of the sensor terminal, the configuration information of the hardware of the management terminal, the version of the software of the management terminal, and a communication delay-causing combination table. The management terminal corrects the correspondence relationship between the individual time and the reference time in accordance with the communication delay time and corrects information detection time received from each of the plurality of the sensor terminals based on the corrected correspondence relationship.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220141556Abstract: Each of wearable terminals includes a terminal time correction unit configured to correct terminal time of a terminal clock unit based on time data externally acquired, a terminal data generation unit configured to generate terminal data at a predetermined data generation time interval counted based on an output signal of an oscillation circuit, and a data transmission/reception unit configured to transmit the terminal data to an analysis apparatus. The analysis apparatus includes a terminal data correction unit configured to correct, for each of the wearable terminals, terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data received from each of the wearable terminals. The terminal data correction unit corrects the terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data in such a way that intervals between the terminal time data of the plurality of pieces of terminal data become even on the time axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220136588Abstract: A gear mechanism includes a gear including external teeth, the external teeth including a plurality of tooth parts defined by a cycloid curve, a plurality of contacting members disposed on an outer side and in a circumferential direction of the external teeth, the external teeth being brought into pressure contact with the plurality of contacting members, and a mechanism configured to eccentrically move the gear. A plurality of through holes penetrating the gear in a thickness direction of the gear are formed in the gear in the circumferential direction of the gear, the cycloid curve extends outward from an ideal cycloid curve without the external teeth interfering with the plurality of contacting members, the plurality of contacting members being in contact with the ideal cycloid curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20220068292Abstract: A sound analysis system includes: first and second sound pressure acquisition means for respectively acquiring a sound pressure of a voice of a user and disposed in an equipment worn by the user at positions that differ in a distance from a mouth of the user under the state in which the user is wearing the equipment; distance estimation means for estimating a distance between either the first or the second sound pressure acquisition means and the mouth of the user based on the acquired sound pressures; and sound pressure correction means for calculating a difference between a reference value of the distance between the first or the second sound pressure acquisition means and the mouth of the user and the estimated distance, and correcting at least one of the sound pressures acquired by the first and the second sound pressure acquisition means based on the calculated difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Eiji Mitsuda, Hikaru Sugata
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Patent number: 11141343Abstract: A walking training apparatus includes a walking assistance apparatus attached to a leg of a user, a first pulling mechanism to pull the leg upward and forward, a controller configured to control the first pulling mechanism so that a vertically-upward component of a pulling force applied by the first pulling mechanism reduces a weight of the walking assistance apparatus, and a joint angle detector disposed in the walking assistance apparatus or an image pickup device to take an image of the leg of the user. The controller is configured to make the first pulling mechanism generate an additional pulling force in addition to the pulling force at a start of forward swinging of the leg or during a swinging period of the leg in a walking motion of the user, by using information detected by at least one of the joint angle detector and the image pickup device.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru Sugata
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Publication number: 20210258803Abstract: A communication system includes a plurality of sensor terminals each having an individual time and a management terminal having a reference time. The management terminal associates the individual time with the reference time at which the individual time was received and stores the associated times as a time pair. The management terminal determines a communication delay time using the configuration information of the hardware of the sensor terminal, the version of the software of the sensor terminal, the configuration information of the hardware of the management terminal, the version of the software of the management terminal, and a communication delay-causing combination table. The management terminal corrects the correspondence relationship between the individual time and the reference time in accordance with the communication delay time and corrects information detection time received from each of the plurality of the sensor terminals based on the corrected correspondence relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hikaru SUGATA