Patents by Inventor Hitoshi SESHIMO

Hitoshi SESHIMO 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: 12405119
    Abstract: A route guidance apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a route search unit that performs a route search based on a route search instruction from a user including information indicating a departure place and a destination, a difficulty level calculation unit that calculates a difficulty level for each of the multiple routes obtained as a search result, a required time calculation unit that calculates a required time for each of the multiple routes, a spatial cognitive ability value acquisition unit that acquires a spatial cognitive ability value representing spatial cognitive ability of the user, a route selection unit that selects a route recommended to the user from the multiple routes based on the calculated difficulty level, the calculated required time, and the acquired spatial cognitive ability value, and an output unit that outputs the selected route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Matsuda, Shinichiro Eitoku, Mitsuru Mochizuki, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Patent number: 12283098
    Abstract: A barrier data collection device includes a unit estimation unit that estimates, based on sensor data with position information including height at a time when a mobile body including a flying mobile body moving in the air moves, the sensor data being collected in advance about each of geographical ranges, with an estimator, about each of sets of the geographical ranges and heights included in the sensor data in a predetermined time unit, a barrier state obtained by estimating a state of which of barrier types the set is, a shape estimation unit that estimates, about a set satisfying a condition among the sets, a barrier shape based on the sensor data and an estimation result of the barrier state estimated about each of the sets in the time unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Kurauchi, Naoto Abe, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Publication number: 20250126238
    Abstract: An image processing device according to an embodiment generates a stereoscopic image presented to a plurality of users from an original image. The image processing device is a computer including a processor. The processor is configured to: discretely divide an assumed viewpoint position of a tracked user who is a main viewer of the stereoscopic image; acquire an actual viewpoint position of the tracked user; generate left and right parallax inducing patterns from viewpoint images obtained by capturing an object included in the original image from a plurality of viewpoint positions, with a viewpoint image at the actual viewpoint position as a reference; and generate a stereo pair image including an image obtained by adding the parallax inducing patterns to a reference image to be presented and an image obtained by subtracting the parallax inducing patterns from the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motohiro MAKIGUCHI, Taiki FUKIAGE, Takashi SANO, Hitoshi SESHIMO
  • Publication number: 20250097063
    Abstract: An information presentation method for presenting action instruction information to a presentation proxy device that performs a presentation as proxy includes: a step of acquiring a scenario of a presentation and data of a personality characteristic of a human presenter; a step of converting the scenario by using an action characteristic model in accordance with the data of the personality characteristic of the human presenter; and a step of outputting the scenario converted, to the presentation proxy device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro GOTO, Hitoshi SESHIMO
  • Patent number: 12181289
    Abstract: Information relating to each link based on location information of a user can be generated with high accuracy even without measuring the location information at a high frequency. A map matching unit (101) associates location information of a moving user at each time with pedestrian network data (120) formed by a plurality of nodes and links connecting the nodes through a map matching process, and a calculation unit (102) calculates a passage record of a link of interest as link information based on whether or not the link of interest is connected to preceding and succeeding links in a link row acquired by aligning the links with which the location information is associated in order of times of pieces of the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Konagai, Hiroshi Konishi, Chihiro Yamamoto, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Publication number: 20240390535
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation sheet that can be decontaminated regardless of a shape of an object to be decontaminated. An ultraviolet light irradiation sheet (50) includes an optical fiber (20) which emits a part of propagating light from a side surface or an end surface; and a deformable sheet (10) which incorporates the optical fiber (20). The ultraviolet light irradiation sheet uniformly or partially irradiates ultraviolet light from a sheet surface. Therefore, by covering the object to be sterilized with the ultraviolet light irradiation sheet, a material having a complicated shape or an amorphous shape can be irradiated with the ultraviolet light without making a shade. Since the ultraviolet light irradiation sheet does not diffuse bacteria and viruses by wind, the sterilization of the object to be sterilized can be performed without forming a closed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asuka MIYAKE, Hitoshi SESHIMO, Ryuji YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Satoshi NARIKAWA, Takahito KIRIHARA, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Nobutomo HANZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240375093
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photocatalytic sheet configured to perform disinfection independent of the state of external light. A photocatalytic sheet 50 according to the present invention includes a sheet 10 having a photocatalytic layer 17 on one surface, and an optical fiber 20 embedded in the sheet 10 and configured to supply ultraviolet light UV from inside of the sheet 10 to the photocatalytic layer 17. In the photocatalytic sheet, ultraviolet light is supplied from the optical fiber disposed in the sheet to the photocatalytic layer coated on the surface of the sheet (ultraviolet light is supplied from the back of the photocatalytic layer). This configuration allows for disinfection independent of the state of external light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asuka MIYAKE, Hitoshi SESHIMO, Ryuji YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Satoshi NARIKAWA, Takahito KIRIHARA, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Nobutomo HANZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240378937
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote disinfection system configured to disinfect banknotes in a general-purpose banknote handling device without making a significant change in the structure of the general-purpose device. The banknote disinfection system 300 includes a conveyance mechanism configured to convey a banknote 50 using a plurality of rollers 12 and an optical fiber 20 configured to emit ultraviolet light to a surface of the banknote 50 conveyed by the conveyance mechanism. An optical fiber is thin, has many length options, and is flexible. With these features of the optical fiber, the optical fiber can be routed inside of, for example, an automatic teller machine to irradiate the banknotes moving inside the device with ultraviolet light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asuka MIYAKE, Hitoshi SESHIMO, Ryuji YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Satoshi NARIKAWA, Takahito KIRIHARA, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Nobutomo HANZAWA
  • Patent number: 12118438
    Abstract: A training data generation device (10) according to the present invention includes a training data correction unit (11) configured to correct training data that is time-series data that indicates states of an object and in which a label corresponding to a state of the object is assigned to each section that corresponds to the state indicated by the label, wherein the training data correction unit (11) corrects a break time that divides a first section from a second section adjacent to the first section, based on time-series data in the first section and time-series data in the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Kurauchi, Naoto Abe, Hiroshi Konishi, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Publication number: 20240335578
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an ultraviolet light irradiation system that is easy to operate and can avoid degradation of a material due to ultraviolet light. An ultraviolet light irradiation system according to the present invention includes: one ultraviolet light source unit 11 that generates ultraviolet light; an irradiation unit 13 that irradiates a desired portion (irradiation portion ste) with the ultraviolet light in a limited manner; an optical fiber 14 that propagates the ultraviolet light from the ultraviolet light source unit 11 to the irradiation unit 13; a sensing unit 16 that monitors a state of the irradiation portion ste and outputs the state as monitoring information; and an irradiation control unit 15 that controls output of the ultraviolet light from the ultraviolet light source unit 11 on the basis of the monitoring information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Satoshi NARIKAWA, Takahito KIRIHARA, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUI, Nobutomo HANZAWA, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Hitoshi SESHIMO, Ryuji YAMAMOTO, Asuka MIYAKE
  • Patent number: 12073518
    Abstract: A delivery control device generates a recognition index on a notification space basis, the recognition index used to recognize the notification space, displays the recognition index in the notification space, and stores the recognition index in management information. The delivery control device instead stores an image characteristic extracted from a content to be displayed in the notification space as the recognition index in the management information. In this state, the delivery control device selects a notification space viewable on the augmented reality display terminal based on information on the position of the augmented reality display terminal held by a user and information on the position of the notification space and transmits the recognition index corresponding to the selected notification space and a notification content to the augmented reality display terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Konagai, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Publication number: 20240281999
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an interface configured to acquire a training moving image obtained by photographing a first person performing an action, and a processor configured to generate training skeleton data indicating positions of joints in the first person in time series from the training moving image and to correct the training skeleton data such that a distance between joints in the training skeleton data matches a distance between joints in a second person different from the first person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Shunsuke TAKAMIYA, Tomoyuki KANEKIYO, Hitoshi SESHIMO
  • Publication number: 20240277886
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an air conditioner unit that allows for greater flexibility in designing the shape of the unit and is capable of reducing the cost of lamp replacement. An air conditioner unit according to the present invention includes an optical fiber group 17 formed by bundling a plurality of optical fibers 16 emitting a part of propagating light from side faces thereof; an air duct 10 that incorporates the optical fiber group 17 in a space 13 through which air passes; and a light source 30 that supplies ultraviolet light to each of the optical fibers 16. Since the intensity of the light is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the light source, if the same sterilization effect is to be obtained, the irradiation intensity of the ultraviolet light can be reduced when the irradiation distance is shorter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Asuka MIYAKE, Hitoshi SESHIMO, Ryuji YAMAMOTO, Tomohiro TANIGUCHI, Ayako IWAKI, Satoshi NARIKAWA, Takahito KIRIHARA, Kazuhide NAKAJIMA, Takashi MATSUI, Yuto SAGAE, Chisato FUKAI, Nobutomo HANZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240242731
    Abstract: An information processing method according to an embodiment of this invention includes: an acquisition process of acquiring first data from a user terminal; a calculation process of calculating a degree of similarity between a first portion of first document content related to the first data and a second portion of second document content related to a speech voice; a generation process of generating third data in which data of the first portion is associated with second data including at least one of data of the second portion and data of a third portion subsequent to the second portion in the second document content, on the basis of a fact that the degree of similarity is higher than a first threshold; and an output process of outputting the third data to the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maiko IMOTO, Hitoshi SESHIMO
  • Publication number: 20240241632
    Abstract: An information presentation method includes: a step of acquiring a scenario of a presentation; a step of acquiring an operation content for the scenario; a step of determining an execution scenario on the basis of the scenario and the operation content; a step of outputting an instruction for an action according to the execution scenario to a proxy device; and a step of outputting a display instruction for causing a scenario operation device to display a current execution content of the execution scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro GOTO, Hitoshi SESHIMO
  • Publication number: 20240233277
    Abstract: A delivery control device generates a recognition index on a notification space basis, the recognition index used to recognize the notification space, displays the recognition index in the notification space, and stores the recognition index in management information. The delivery control device instead stores an image characteristic extracted from a content to be displayed in the notification space as the recognition index in the management information. In this state, the delivery control device selects a notification space viewable on the augmented reality display terminal based on information on the position of the augmented reality display terminal held by a user and information on the position of the notification space and transmits the recognition index corresponding to the selected notification space and a notification content to the augmented reality display terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke KONAGAI, Hitoshi SESHIMO
  • Patent number: 12013908
    Abstract: To appropriately update evaluation on an evaluation target based on posts related to an evaluation target from a user. When a reliability of an evaluation information drops equal to or below a threshold related to the reliability of the evaluation information, the evaluation information representing an evaluation on an evaluation target, the reliability representing an index provided to evaluation information when the evaluation information is generated, an evaluation unit 26 of an evaluation device 14 generates evaluation information on the evaluation target again based on post information different from post information used for generating the evaluation information on the evaluation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Abe, Hiroshi Konishi, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Patent number: 11995115
    Abstract: An information extracting device includes an acquiring unit that acquires, with regard to each information source, a data group made up of data including a content relating to an object, a location where the content was recorded, and a date and time at which the content was recorded, a generating unit that generates a word vector of which the date and time, the location, content using a weight based on the date and time, and a type of the content, are each components, for each of the data of the data group, a distance calculating unit that calculates a distance among the word vectors, a classifying unit that classifies each of data of the data group on the basis of the distance among the word vectors, and an extracting unit that calculates a reliability with regard to the classification, and extracts data from the data group on the basis of the reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Abe, Hitoshi Seshimo, Hiroshi Konishi
  • Patent number: 11983246
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data analysis system capable of performing analysis appropriately using a CNN model while reducing communication traffic. A data analysis system 90 includes: an instrument 10 that performs a conversion process of outputting compression data obtained as a result of processing observation data received via an input layer of a learned neural network 18A using portions ranging from the input layer to a predetermined intermediate layer; and a device 20 that performs an analysis process of inputting the compression data to a subsequent intermediate layer in a learned neural network 18B, inputting data obtained by decoding the compression data, which is an output of the subsequent intermediate layer, to an output layer configured using a CNN model, and obtaining an analysis result of the observation data as an output of the output layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Kurauchi, Naoto Abe, Hiroshi Konishi, Hitoshi Seshimo
  • Patent number: 11976933
    Abstract: A link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combination of link candidates from among link candidates having an angle with respect to a movement direction of a pedestrian equal to or smaller than a threshold value among link candidates for n walking route networks. The link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combinations of link candidates that do not intersect with each other among the acquired combinations of link candidates. The link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combinations of link candidates that do not connect to each other among the acquired combinations of link candidates. The link combination extraction unit (24) acquires all the combinations of link candidates that are not on the same straight line among the acquired combinations of link candidates. A candidate determination unit (26) acquires a combination of link candidates closest to position information of a pedestrian when there are a plurality of acquired link candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Abe, Keihiro Ochiai, Hitoshi Seshimo