Patents by Inventor Juri YAEDA

Juri YAEDA 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: 12002460
    Abstract: A device and a method that determine an utterance type of a user utterance and generate a system response according to a determination result are achieved. A user utterance type determination unit that determines an utterance type of a user utterance, and a system response generation unit that generates a system response according to a type determination result determined by the user utterance type determination unit are included. The user utterance type determination unit determines whether the user utterance is of type A that requests all reutterances of a system utterance immediately before the user utterance, or type B that requests a reutterance of a part of the system utterance immediately before the user utterance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiaki Miyazaki, Juri Yaeda, Saki Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20220172716
    Abstract: A response generation device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires input information serving as a trigger for generating a response to a user; and a response generation unit that generates the response to the user by using related information related to the input information in a case where it is determined that the response to the user is not able to be generated on the basis of only the input information. For example, the acquisition unit acquires voice information uttered by the user as the input information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: SAKI YOKOYAMA, JURI YAEDA, CHIAKI MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220028368
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of responding to an utterance of a user with a correct pronunciation. An information processing device of one aspect of the present technology generates a response text indicating contents of a response to an utterance of a user on the basis of an utterance text indicating contents of the utterance of the user, and outputs the response text to which pronunciation information indicating a reading of a character string included in the response text is added. The present technology can be applied to a device having a voice assistant function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: JURI YAEDA, SAKI YOKOYAMA, CHIAKI MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220020369
    Abstract: A device and a method that determine an utterance type of a user utterance and generate a system response according to a determination result are achieved. A user utterance type determination unit that determines an utterance type of a user utterance, and a system response generation unit that generates a system response according to a type determination result determined by the user utterance type determination unit are included. The user utterance type determination unit determines whether the user utterance is of type A that requests all reutterances of a system utterance immediately before the user utterance, or type B that requests a reutterance of a part of the system utterance immediately before the user utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: CHIAKI MIYAZAKI, JURI YAEDA, SAKI YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210280181
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus capable of acquiring user preference information in a more natural conversation according to an utterance content of a user, an information processing method, and a program. An information processing apparatus includes an evaluation extraction unit that extracts an evaluation by a user for content on the basis of an utterance content of the user related to the content, and a generation unit that generates inquiry sound data for further acquiring preference information of the user for the content on the basis of the extracted evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: MARI SAITO, MITSUHIRO MIYAZAKI, REIKO KIRIHARA, JURI YAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210056491
    Abstract: [Object] To provide highly convenient information processing apparatus and information processing method and a program therefor. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit and a notification information generating unit. The analysis unit is configured to analyze, on the basis of information about a plurality of performers capable of performing a habitual action in habitual information including descriptions of habitual actions of a plurality of users, whether at least one performer of the plurality of performers exists in a range in which the at least one performer is capable of performing the habitual action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: MARI SAITO, JURI YAEDA, MITSUHIRO MIYAZAKI, REIKO KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20200151796
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to present recommendatory information for a plurality of users when a decider exists, and to raise a decision rate. [Solution] An information processing device including a control unit that performs control to present recommendatory information of a recommendation item whose decider exists in a surrounding area among recommendation items of information to be recommended to a group to which one or more identified users who exist in the surrounding area belong.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Reiko KIRIHARA, Mitsuhiro MIYAZAKI, Mari SAITO, Juri YAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190325401
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that are capable of issuing a notice for prompting schedule registration at a timing suitable for the user. The information processing apparatus includes an event recommendation control unit configured to predict, on the basis of a behavior history of the user, occurrence of an event in future, the event recommendation control unit being configured to determine a notice timing for prompting schedule registration of the predicted event, in consideration of a preparation period of time of the user for the predicted event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MIYAZAKI, Juri YAEDA, Mari SAITO, Reiko KIRIHARA