Patents by Inventor Ikuo Orihara

Ikuo Orihara 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).

  • Dialogue control system, method and computer readable storage medium, and multidimensional ontology processing system, method and computer readable storage medium
    Patent number: 8694453
    Abstract: A dialogue control system that uses an ontology that systematically expresses domain knowledge representing concepts and relationships between concepts to determine questions for a user and implements the questions, and implements a dialogue in accordance with received user answers. One or more dimension-classified ontologies and a basic ontology are stored, a concept from a user response is specified as a condition, and one or a plural number of the dimension-classified ontologies that meet the specified condition are fetched. The content of the fetched dimension-classified ontology/ies is overwritten on the basic ontology, in order according to dimension priorities from the dimension-classified ontology with the lowest dimension priority, and a multidimensional ontology is generated. The dialogue control system uses this multidimensional ontology to control the dialogue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mihoko Kitamura, Toshiki Murata, Tatsuya Sukehiro, Sayori Shimohata, Ikuo Orihara, Atsushi Ikeno, Shigehiro Kato, Miho Tanaka
  • DIALOGUE CONTROL SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL ONTOLOGY PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20110282913
    Abstract: A dialogue control system that uses an ontology that systematically expresses domain knowledge representing concepts and relationships between concepts to determine questions for a user and implements the questions, and implements a dialogue in accordance with received user answers. One or more dimension-classified ontologies and a basic ontology are stored, a concept from a user response is specified as a condition, and one or a plural number of the dimension-classified ontologies that meet the specified condition are fetched. The content of the fetched dimension-classified ontology/ies is overwritten on the basic ontology, in order according to dimension priorities from the dimension-classified ontology with the lowest dimension priority, and a multidimensional ontology is generated. The dialogue control system uses this multidimensional ontology to control the dialogue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mihoko Kitamura, Toshiki Murata, Tatsuya Sukehiro, Sayori Shimohata, Ikuo Orihara, Atsushi Ikeno, Shigehiro Kato, Miho Tanaka