Patents by Inventor Kazuo MAKIJIMA

Kazuo MAKIJIMA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240020088
    Abstract: A voice control system includes a setting processing unit that sets up a conversation group including a plurality of users in a virtual space, and a restriction processing unit that restricts an output of voice which is outside the conversation group to be set by the setting processing unit to a user in the conversation group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KUMATA, KAZUO MAKIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230153763
    Abstract: A meeting support system includes a first acquisition processor which acquires location information of a first user, a second acquisition processor which acquires meeting schedule information of the first user, a first determination processor which determines whether a first meeting to be held in a first meeting room corresponding to the location information is registered in the meeting schedule information or not, a second determination processor which determines whether the first user is registered in the meeting schedule information as a participant of the first meeting or not, and a notification processor which notifies participants of a second meeting currently being held in the first meeting room of predetermined information, when the first meeting is registered in the meeting schedule information and the first user is registered in the meeting schedule information as a participant of the first meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventor: KAZUO MAKIJIMA
  • Patent number: 11568866
    Abstract: An audio processing system includes: an audio receiver that receives audio; a speaker specifier that specifies a speaker on the basis of the received audio; an audio determinator that determines, on the basis of the received audio, whether or not a specified word for starting the reception of a predetermined command is included in the audio; a command specifier that specifies, when the specified word is included in the audio, a command on the basis of a command keyword which is included in the audio and follows the specified word; a target user specifier that specifies, on the basis of the content of the command, a target user with respect to which the command is to be executed; and a command executor that executes the command with respect to the target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Makijima, Satoshi Terada
  • Publication number: 20220075592
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes: a display processing processor that displays an operation screen for an operation target application serving as a target to be operated by the user; a support information presenter that presents operation support information for the operation target application such that the operation support information is associated with the operation screen; a voice receiver that receives the voice of the user; a command identifier that identifies, based on the voice received by the voice receiver, a first command for the operation target application; and a command executor that executes, on the operation target application, the first command identified by the command identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: DAISUKE YAMASHITA, KAZUO MAKIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200388279
    Abstract: An audio processing system includes: an audio receiver that receives audio; a speaker specifier that specifies a speaker on the basis of the received audio; an audio determinator that determines, on the basis of the received audio, whether or not a specified word for starting the reception of a predetermined command is included in the audio; a command specifier that specifies, when the specified word is included in the audio, a command on the basis of a command keyword which is included in the audio and follows the specified word; a target user specifier that specifies, on the basis of the content of the command, a target user with respect to which the command is to be executed; and a command executor that executes the command with respect to the target user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: KAZUO MAKIJIMA, SATOSHI TERADA
  • Publication number: 20150134742
    Abstract: A server included in a meeting support system plays back a content correlated with a meeting, and synchronously distributes a playback result to a plurality of terminal devices. The server stores a time the meeting is held, the content played back in the meeting, and a user who participates in the meeting in a memory as a meeting history in each meeting. The server transfers information about the meeting that an assigned user participates in and the content played back in the meeting in order to present the information in the terminal device in accordance with user assignment received from the terminal device. The information is registered in the meeting history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Ryuji IKEDA, Kazuo MAKIJIMA, Yasuaki TACHIIRI