Patents by Inventor Hiroki Urabe

Hiroki Urabe 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: 12614547
    Abstract: A sound collection apparatus A server (10) causes a terminal device (30) to display a setting user interface, and receives a prohibition time zone setting command. Server sets a prohibition time zone for a target device based on the prohibition time zone setting command. Server (10) causes the target device to utter, when a time for causing the target device to utter is determined not to correspond to the prohibition time zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Torikai, Kentaro Nakai, Hiroki Urabe
  • Patent number: 12573369
    Abstract: A method for controlling an utterance device, a server (10), an utterance device (20), and a program control the utterance device (20). The server (10) receives utterance source information from an information source device (40), and set the utterance device (20) based on the utterance source information. Then, the server (10) provides an utterance sound source that has a sound source characteristic according to the utterance device (20) to the utterance device (20), and causes the utterance device (20) to utter using the utterance sound source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sara Asai, Satoru Matsunaga, Hiroki Urabe, Masahiro Ishii
  • Patent number: 12182476
    Abstract: A voice notification system is a system that causes a talking device to provide a voice notification of information about a notification target that is an information source device about which information is notified by the talking device or an information source service about which information is notified by the talking device. The system includes: a change detector that detects a change regarding notification details or a change regarding a notification method; and a notifier that causes the talking device to provide a voice notification of information about the change regarding the notification details or the change regarding the notification method when the change regarding the notification details or the change regarding the notification method is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Urabe, Kazuhiro Kuroyama, Sara Asai
  • Patent number: 12141043
    Abstract: An utterance test method for an utterance device, an utterance test server, an utterance test system, and a program perform an utterance test on a test device (20). The utterance test system includes at least one utterance device (20) capable of uttering, a terminal device (30), and an utterance test server (10). The utterance test server (10) receives an utterance test start command from the terminal device (30), sets at least one utterance device (20) to be a test device (20) as a target of an utterance test, sets test content of the utterance test, and causes the test device (20) to utter the test content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Urabe, Kentaro Nakai, Satoru Matsunaga, Yoshiki Ohashi
  • Patent number: 12093507
    Abstract: A presentation system includes a server, a presentation device, and an information terminal. The server includes: a first communicator that communicates with the presentation device; a first controller that sends, to the presentation device, a notification that has been associated in advance with a condition satisfied by an operation state obtained from the appliance; and a storage that stores a history of the sent notification. The presentation device presents the notification. The information terminal includes: a display; an acceptor that accepts an operation; a second communicator that communicates with the server; and a second controller that creates a user interface (UI) for accepting the operation, and causes the display to display the UI. The second controller obtains the history from the server via the second communicator. The UI includes the obtained history and accepts turning off the notification included in the history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Torikai, Hiroki Urabe, Hiromu Ikeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240233720
    Abstract: A sound collection apparatus A server (10) causes a terminal device (30) to display a setting user interface, and receives a prohibition time zone setting command. Server sets a prohibition time zone for a target device based on the prohibition time zone setting command. Server (10) causes the target device to utter, when a time for causing the target device to utter is determined not to correspond to the prohibition time zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Masafumi TORIKAI, Kentaro NAKAI, Hiroki URABE
  • Publication number: 20240221720
    Abstract: A method for controlling an utterance device, a server (10), an utterance device (20), and a program control the utterance device (20). The server (10) receives utterance source information from an information source device (40), and set the utterance device (20) based on the utterance source information. Then, the server (10) provides an utterance sound source that has a sound source characteristic according to the utterance device (20) to the utterance device (20), and causes the utterance device (20) to utter using the utterance sound source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Sara ASAI, Satoru MATSUNAGA, Hiroki URABE, Masahiro ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240176002
    Abstract: A person detection system includes an obtainer and a processing unit. The obtainer obtains a signal strength of a radio wave transmitted by each of a plurality of transmitters and received by an antenna. The processing unit performs a detection process of detecting whether a person is present in a vicinity of the antenna, based on the signal strengths obtained by the obtainer. Each of the plurality of transmitters is classified into any one of a plurality of groups according to a position of the transmitter with respect to the antenna. In the detection process, the processing unit detects that a person is present in the vicinity of the antenna when each of the signal strengths obtained by the obtainer regarding, among the plurality of transmitters, two or more transmitters deviates from a normal range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Seiya HIGUCHI, Masahiro ISHII, Hiroki URABE
  • Publication number: 20240135924
    Abstract: A sound collection apparatus A server (10) causes a terminal device (30) to display a setting user interface, and receives a prohibition time zone setting command. Server sets a prohibition time zone for a target device based on the prohibition time zone setting command. Server (10) causes the target device to utter, when a time for causing the target device to utter is determined not to correspond to the prohibition time zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Masafumi TORIKAI, Kentaro NAKAI, Hiroki URABE
  • Publication number: 20240111645
    Abstract: An utterance test method for an utterance device, an utterance test server, an utterance test system, and a program perform an utterance test on a test device (20). The utterance test system includes at least one utterance device (20) capable of uttering, a terminal device (30), and an utterance test server (10). The utterance test server (10) receives an utterance test start command from the terminal device (30), sets at least one utterance device (20) to be a test device (20) as a target of an utterance test, sets test content of the utterance test, and causes the test device (20) to utter the test content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki URABE, Kentaro NAKAI, Satoru MATSUNAGA, Yoshiki OHASHI
  • Patent number: 11914750
    Abstract: An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kozuka, Kohsuke Yamamoto, Tomoki Ogawa, Masaya Yamamoto, Junya Suzuki, Hiroki Urabe
  • Publication number: 20230251757
    Abstract: A presentation system includes a server, a presentation device, and an information terminal. The server includes: a first communicator that communicates with the presentation device; a first controller that sends, to the presentation device, a notification that has been associated in advance with a condition satisfied by an operation state obtained from the appliance; and a storage that stores a history of the sent notification. The presentation device presents the notification. The information terminal includes: a display; an acceptor that accepts an operation; a second communicator that communicates with the server; and a second controller that creates a user interface (UI) for accepting the operation, and causes the display to display the UI. The second controller obtains the history from the server via the second communicator. The UI includes the obtained history and accepts turning off the notification included in the history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Masafumi TORIKAI, Hiroki URABE, Hiromu IKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230229386
    Abstract: A voice notification system is a system that causes a talking device to provide a voice notification of information about a notification target that is an information source device about which information is notified by the talking device or an information source service about which information is notified by the talking device. The system includes: a change detector that detects a change regarding notification details or a change regarding a notification method; and a notifier that causes the talking device to provide a voice notification of information about the change regarding the notification details or the change regarding the notification method when the change regarding the notification details or the change regarding the notification method is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki URABE, Kazuhiro KUROYAMA, Sara ASAI
  • Publication number: 20220237321
    Abstract: An information management device includes: an obtainer that obtains first company information and personal information from a first company, the first company information relating to a first product or service of the first company, the personal information relating to a user who has purchased the first product or who has been provided with the service; a company information storage that stores the first company information obtained; a personal information storage that stores the personal information obtained; an integrator that integrates the company information and the personal information based on a purchase record or a use record to generate integrated information, the purchase record indicating that the user has purchased the first product, the use record indicating that the user has used the service; and a manager that manages an output of the integrated information based on restriction information for restricting an output destination of the integrated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Masayuki KOZUKA, Kohsuke YAMAMOTO, Tomoki OGAWA, Masaya YAMAMOTO, Junya SUZUKI, Hiroki URABE
  • Patent number: 11198690
    Abstract: Provided is a novel process for producing a (2S)-2-[(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methyl]-1,3-oxazinane derivative. More specifically, provided is a process for producing a (2S)-2-[(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methyl]-1,3-oxazinane derivative represented by formula (1): the process comprising reacting 3-aminopropan-1-ol with glyoxylic acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Matsubara, Hiroki Urabe, Ryo Suzuki, Aya Futamura, Ryo Kinoshita, Nobutaka Hattori, Hideaki Tabuse, Koreaki Imura, Norikazu Otake
  • Publication number: 20210288833
    Abstract: An information notification system includes apparatuses and first server. The apparatuses include a first device. Each of at least one of the apparatuses includes a sensor unit that senses whether any person is present and generates a presence-absence signal including person presence-absence information. A first device includes a generator that generates a notification signal including notification information that is to be provided to the user. A first server includes an information acquirer that acquires the person presence-absence information, and a presentation controller that determines a presumed position and causes a second device to present the notification information, and the second device being one of one or more apparatuses that are capable of presenting the notification information to the person who is in the presumed position among the apparatuses. A presentation controller changes a form of presentation in accordance with presentation setting information that is information about the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Kohsuke YAMAMOTO, Masahiro OHHO, Seigo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki URABE
  • Publication number: 20210158682
    Abstract: An information notification system includes apparatuses and a first server. The apparatuses include a first device. Each of at least one of the apparatuses includes a sensor unit that discriminates between at least one person and generates a presence-absence signal including presence-absence information about each person. A first device includes a generator that generates a notification signal including notification information that is to be provided to the user and user information for use in identifying the user. A first server includes an information acquirer that acquires the user information, the notification information, and the presence-absence information, and a presentation controller that determines a presumed position of the user presumed based on the user information and the presence-absence information and causes one of apparatuses that are capable of presenting the notification information to the user who is in the presumed position among the apparatuses to present the notification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Kohsuke YAMAMOTO, Masahiro OHHO, Seigo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki URABE
  • Publication number: 20210147400
    Abstract: Provided is a novel process for producing a (2S)-2-[(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methyl]-1,3-oxazinane derivative. More specifically, provided is a process for producing a (2S)-2-[(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)methyl]-1,3-oxazinane derivative represented by formula (1): the process comprising reacting 3-aminopropan-1-ol with glyoxylic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki MATSUBARA, Hiroki URABE, Ryo SUZUKI, Aya FUTAMURA, Ryo KINOSHITA, Nobutaka HATTORI, Hideaki TABUSE, Koreaki IMURA, Norikazu OTAKE
  • Patent number: 10863228
    Abstract: A control device includes: an output unit that outputs a signal for prompting an electronic device to execute a predetermined operation; a function switch unit that includes a plurality of switches each having a contactor formed such that at least a portion of the contactor is elastically displaceable in a predetermined direction; and a label body that has a display part and a protruding part protruding from the display part, the label body being mounted in a state where the protruding part is inserted into a hole in a housing and the display part is positioned on an outside of the housing. The protruding part of the label body determines a combination of open or closed states of the plurality of switches. The predetermined operation is determined according to the combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norikazu Kaneshiro, Yutaka Higurashi, Hiroki Urabe, Tsukasa Takahashi, Makoto Sekitoh
  • Publication number: 20190098247
    Abstract: A control device includes: an output unit that outputs a signal for prompting an electronic device to execute a predetermined operation; a function switch unit that includes a plurality of switches each having a contactor formed such that at least a portion of the contactor is elastically displaceable in a predetermined direction; and a label body that has a display part and a protruding part protruding from the display part, the label body being mounted in a state where the protruding part is inserted into a hole in a housing and the display part is positioned on an outside of the housing. The protruding part of the label body determines a combination of open or closed states of the plurality of switches. The predetermined operation is determined according to the combination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: NORIKAZU KANESHIRO, YUTAKA HIGURASHI, HIROKI URABE, TSUKASA TAKAHASHI, MAKOTO SEKITOH