Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Iwase
Hiroyuki Iwase 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: 11250704Abstract: An information provision device transmits, by near field communication, fixed phrase information, of guidance information that guides a user, representative of a fixed phrase and insertion phrase information selected from among a plurality of pieces of insertion phrase information representative of different insertion phrases to be inserted in the fixed phrase, to a terminal device capable of presenting, to the user, presentation information corresponding to the guidance information where the insertion phrase represented by the insertion phrase information is inserted in the fixed phrase represented by the fixed phrase information.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Yuki Seto, Masashi Gompei, Shota Moriguchi, Takahiro Iwata
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Patent number: 10846150Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives identification information for events transmitted sequentially in conjunction with occurrence of events; sequentially identifies estimated time points at which each event is estimated to occur; determines whether progress of the plurality of events has stopped depending on whether it receives identification information for each event at a corresponding estimated time point for each event; in each of a plurality of event groups obtained by temporally dividing events, when an estimated time point is reached for an earliest event among at least one event belonging to each event group, causes a playback device to play related information for the at least one event belonging to each event group, and when progress of events is determined to have stopped, defers update of related information, which the playback device caused to play, and then resumes update of played related information when identification information is received after the determination.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Yuki Seto, Yumiko Ochi, Tetsuro Ishida, Takahiro Iwata, Shota Moriguchi
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Patent number: 10733386Abstract: A terminal device includes: a sound receiving device configured to receive a sound emitted according to an audio signal to generate a received-audio signal, the audio signal including an audio signal that represents a guide voice and including a modulated signal that includes identification information of the guide voice; an information extractor configured to extract the identification information from the received-audio signal generated by the sound receiving device; a transmitter configured to transmit an information request that includes the identification information extracted by the information extractor; an acquisitor configured to acquire, from among multiple pieces of related information that correspond to multiple pieces of identification information, a piece of related information that corresponds to the identification information in the information request; and an output device configured to output the piece of related information acquired by the acquisitor.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Moriguchi, Takahiro Iwata, Yuki Seto, Hiroyuki Iwase
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Patent number: 10621997Abstract: An information providing system (1) has a sound receiver (22) that receives a guidance voice and generates a sound signal (SG); a text identifier (114) that identifies, from among registered texts representing contents of utterances of different guidance voices, a registered text that is similar to an uttered text (L) that represents a content of an utterance of one of the guidance voices (V), the uttered text having been obtained by analyzing the sound signal (SG) by use of speech recognition, and a sound outputter (26) that transmits distribution information (D) that indicates the registered text identified by the text identifier (114) to a terminal device capable of presenting to a user (U) guidance information (G) corresponding to the distribution information (D) from among pieces of guidance information (G) that correspond to the respective guidance voices.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Yuki Seto, Takahiro Iwata, Shota Moriguchi, Tetsuro Ishida, Yumiko Ochi
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Publication number: 20190056980Abstract: A terminal apparatus receives identification information for events transmitted sequentially in conjunction with occurrence of events; sequentially identifies estimated time points at which each event is estimated to occur; determines whether progress of the plurality of events has stopped depending on whether it receives identification information for each event at a corresponding estimated time point for each event; in each of a plurality of event groups obtained by temporally dividing events, when an estimated time point is reached for an earliest event among at least one event belonging to each event group, causes a playback device to play related information for the at least one event belonging to each event group, and when progress of events is determined to have stopped, defers update of related information, which the playback device caused to play, and then resumes update of played related information when identification information is received after the determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Hiroyuki IWASE, Yuki SETO, Yumiko OCHI, Tetsuro ISHIDA, Takahiro IWATA, Shota MORIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180322874Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to: generate a related information that is related to a guide voice specified by a sound-specifying information; generate an identification information that is to be notified to a terminal device upon emission of the guide voice; associate the sound-specifying information with the identification information; and associate the related information with the identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Hiroyuki IWASE, Yuki SETO, Yumiko OCHI, Tetsuro ISHIDA, Takahiro IWATA, Shota MORIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180225283Abstract: An information management system is a system for identifying related information related to a guidance voice, the system including: a text identifier configured to identify from among multiple different registered texts a registered text that is similar to an input text representative of the guidance voice; and an information generator configured to identify the related information corresponding to a text that is partially different from the registered text identified by the text identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Takahiro IWATA, Yuki SETO, Yumiko OCHI, Tetsuro ISHIDA, Shota MORIGUCHI, Hiroyuki IWASE
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Publication number: 20180082697Abstract: An information providing system (1) has a sound receiver (22) that receives a guidance voice and generates a sound signal (SG); a text identifier (114) that identifies, from among registered texts representing contents of utterances of different guidance voices, a registered text that is similar to an uttered text (L) that represents a content of an utterance of one of the guidance voices (V), the uttered text having been obtained by analyzing the sound signal (SG) by use of speech recognition, and a sound outputter (26) that transmits distribution information (D) that indicates the registered text identified by the text identifier (114) to a terminal device capable of presenting to a user (U) guidance information (G) corresponding to the distribution information (D) from among pieces of guidance information (G) that correspond to the respective guidance voices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Hiroyuki IWASE, Yuki SETO, Takahiro IWATA, Shota MORIGUCHI, Tetsuro ISHIDA, Yumiko OCHI
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Patent number: 9858339Abstract: An information providing system includes a sound emission device for emitting, as sound wave, identification information modulated into a sound signal, an identification information resolution server including a mapping table in which the identification information, valid time information and the address information of a content are stored to be associated, and a mobile terminal device for transmitting the identification information demodulated from a picked-up sound wave to the identification information resolution server thereby obtaining address information and accessing the content using the obtained address information. When received the identification information from the mobile terminal device, the identification information resolution server returns the address information of a corresponding content to the mobile terminal device when the time information is within a valid time.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Akiyama, Hiroyuki Iwase, Takeshi Sakai, Takuro Sone
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Publication number: 20170352269Abstract: An information provision device transmits, by near field communication, fixed phrase information, of guidance information that guides a user, representative of a fixed phrase and insertion phrase information selected from among a plurality of pieces of insertion phrase information representative of different insertion phrases to be inserted in the fixed phrase, to a terminal device capable of presenting, to the user, presentation information corresponding to the guidance information where the insertion phrase represented by the insertion phrase information is inserted in the fixed phrase represented by the fixed phrase information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Hiroyuki IWASE, Yuki SETO, Masashi GOMPEI, Shota MORIGUCHI, Takahiro IWATA
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Patent number: 9721465Abstract: Provided is an information-providing system whereby a variety of information can be provided using a sound to a portable terminal device used by a user.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Shinji Koezuka, Shinya Sakurada, Mitsuru Fukui
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Publication number: 20170206195Abstract: A terminal device includes: a sound receiving device configured to receive a sound emitted according to an audio signal to generate a received-audio signal, the audio signal including an audio signal that represents a guide voice and including a modulated signal that includes identification information of the guide voice; an information extractor configured to extract the identification information from the received-audio signal generated by the sound receiving device; a transmitter configured to transmit an information request that includes the identification information extracted by the information extractor; an acquisitor configured to acquire, from among multiple pieces of related information that correspond to multiple pieces of identification information, a piece of related information that corresponds to the identification information in the information request; and an output device configured to output the piece of related information acquired by the acquisitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2015Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Shota MORIGUCHI, Takahiro IWATA, Yuki SETO, Hiroyuki IWASE
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Patent number: 9029676Abstract: A reproduction apparatus (2) collects sounds on which spread codes are superimposed with a microphone (20) to calculate correlation values between the collected sound signals and the same spread codes as those of an apparatus which performed the superimposition to identify content reproduced by a reproduction apparatus (1) in accordance with the intensity of the peaks of the calculated correlation values. A control portion (22) identifies content which is correlated with the identified content and is necessary for the reproduction apparatus (2). The control portion (22) reads out the identified content data from a content data storage portion (25) to output the musical score data and the audio data to a display portion (23) and a reproduction portion (26), respectively. The display portion (23) displays the input musical score data on a screen, while the reproduction portion (26) reproduces the input audio data to generate sound signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Takuro Sone
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Patent number: 9006551Abstract: Provided are a musical performance-related information output device and a musical performance system capable of superimposing musical performance-related information on an audio signal without damaging the general versatility of the audio signal. The musical performance-related information output device includes a musical performance-related information acquiring section that is adapted to acquire musical performance-related information related to a musical performance of a performer, a superimposing section that is adapted to superimpose the musical performance-related information on an analog audio signal such that a modulated component of the musical performance-related information is included in a band higher than the frequency component of the analog audio signal generated in accordance with the musical performance manipulation of the performer, and an output section that outputs the analog audio signal on which the superimposing section superimposes the musical performance-related information.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Takuro Sone, Mitsuru Fukui
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Patent number: 8942388Abstract: A modulation device includes: a spread code generation unit which generates a spread code having a predetermined cycle; an audio signal input unit to which an audio signal is input; a first modulation unit which phase-modulates the spread code in each cycle on the basis of a data code; and a combining unit which combines the audio signal with a modulation signal which has been generated on the basis of the phase-modulated spread code and distributed in a frequency range higher than a predetermined frequency to output a combined signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2009Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Akiyama, Shinya Koseki, Fukutaro Okuyama, Takuro Sone, Hiroyuki Iwase
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Patent number: 8737638Abstract: An audio signal processing device includes multiple input reception units to which analog audio signals, on which watermark information indicating identification information is superimposed, are input, an extraction unit that is adapted to extract the identification information from each of the analog audio signals input to the multiple input reception units, and a display unit for performing display depending on the identification information extracted by the extraction unit in correspondence with the input reception unit to which the analog audio signal, from which the identification information is extracted, is input, or signal processing unit for performing signal processing depending on the identification information extracted by the extraction unit for the analog audio signal, from which the relevant identification information is extracted, and outputting the processed analog audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Shinya Sakurada, Kei Nakayama, Takashi Suzuki, Mitsuru Fukui, Hiroyuki Iwase, Takuro Sone
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Patent number: 8697975Abstract: Provided are a musical performance-related information output device and a musical performance system capable of superimposing musical performance-related information on an audio signal without damaging the general versatility of the audio signal. The musical performance-related information output device includes a musical performance-related information acquiring section that is adapted to acquire musical performance-related information related to a musical performance of a performer, a superimposing section that is adapted to superimpose the musical performance-related information on an analog audio signal such that a modulated component of the musical performance-related information is included in a band higher than the frequency component of the analog audio signal generated in accordance with the musical performance manipulation of the performer, and an output section that outputs the analog audio signal on which the superimposing section superimposes the musical performance-related information.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Takuro Sone, Mitsuru Fukui
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Patent number: 8688250Abstract: A reproduction apparatus 2 collects sounds on which spread codes are superimposed with a microphone 20 to calculate correlation values between the collected sound signals and the same spread codes as those of an apparatus which performed the superimposition to identify content reproduced by a reproduction apparatus 1 in accordance with the intensity of the peaks of the calculated correlation values. A control portion 22 identifies content which is correlated with the identified content and is necessary for the reproduction apparatus 2. The control portion 22 reads out the identified content data from a content data storage portion 25 to output the musical score data and the audio data to a display portion 23 and a reproduction portion 26, respectively. The display portion 23 displays the input musical score data on a screen, while the reproduction portion 26 reproduces the input audio data to generate sound signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Iwase, Takuro Sone
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Publication number: 20140039654Abstract: An information providing system includes a sound emission device for emitting, as sound wave, identification information modulated into a sound signal, an identification information resolution server including a mapping table in which the identification information, valid time information and the address information of a content are stored to be associated, and a mobile terminal device for transmitting the identification information demodulated from a picked-up sound wave to the identification information resolution server thereby obtaining address information and accessing the content using the obtained address information. When received the identification information from the mobile terminal device, the identification information resolution server returns the address information of a corresponding content to the mobile terminal device when the time information is within a valid time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi Akiyama, Hiroyuki Iwase, Takeshi Sakai, Takuro Sone
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Publication number: 20140013928Abstract: A reproduction apparatus (2) collects sounds on which spread codes are superimposed with a microphone (20) to calculate correlation values between the collected sound signals and the same spread codes as those of an apparatus which performed the superimposition to identify content reproduced by a reproduction apparatus (1) in accordance with the intensity of the peaks of the calculated correlation values. A control portion (22) identifies content which is correlated with the identified content and is necessary for the reproduction apparatus (2). The control portion (22) reads out the identified content data from a content data storage portion (25) to output the musical score data and the audio data to a display portion (23) and a reproduction portion (26), respectively. The display portion (23) displays the input musical score data on a screen, while the reproduction portion (26) reproduces the input audio data to generate sound signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki IWASE, Takuro SONE