Patents by Inventor Kiyotaka Otsuji
Kiyotaka Otsuji 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: 7999965Abstract: An information management apparatus 50 according to the present invention comprises: a database 30d for storing information relevant to a printer 40 therein; output request reception means 20a for receiving an output request transmitted from a portable terminal 14; inquiry signal transmission means 20a for transmitting an inquiry signal on the printer 40 being an output destination to the portable terminal 14; communication means for receiving image data transmitted from the portable terminal 14; recognition means 30b for recognizing the identification information of the printer 40 by analyzing the image data transmitted in response to the inquiry signal; retrieval means 30c for retrieving the information relevant to the printer 40 from the data base 30d on the basis of the acquired recognition information; and printing means 20c for outputting the information to the printer 40 on the basis of the information relevant to the printer 40 retrieved by the retrieval means 30c.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignees: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiki Iso, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura, Hidenori Shimizu, Taro Sugahara, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Kei Yuasa, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7933234Abstract: A guide apparatus 50 according to the present invention is provided with a service information DB 30d storing service information containing a service providing place and attribute information of a target user; a recognizing device 30b for acquiring an ID from image data transmitted from a cell phone 14; a retrieving device 30c for retrieving service information from the service information DB 30d on the basis of the acquired ID and for retrieving such service information that attribute information of the user of cell phone 14 coincides with attribute information of a target user, out of service information provided at service providing places near the service providing place; and a route retrieving device 20c for retrieving a route between the information about the service providing place retrieved and the cell phone 14; and transmits the route information and service information as guide information to the cell phone 14.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2004Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignees: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Toshiki Iso, Kiyotaka Otsuji, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura, Hidenori Shimizu, Taro Sugahara, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20090251733Abstract: An information management apparatus 50 according to the present invention comprises: a database 30d for storing information relevant to a printer 40 therein; output request reception means 20a for receiving an output request transmitted from a portable terminal 14; inquiry signal transmission means 20a for transmitting an inquiry signal on the printer 40 being an output destination to the portable terminal 14; communication means for receiving image data transmitted from the portable terminal 14; recognition means 30b for recognizing the identification information of the printer 40 by analyzing the image data transmitted in response to the inquiry signal; retrieval means 30c for retrieving the information relevant to the printer 40 from the data base 30d on the basis of the acquired recognition information; and printing means 20c for outputting the information to the printer 40 on the basis of the information relevant to the printer 40 retrieved by the retrieval means 30c.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Applicants: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANYInventors: Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiki Iso, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura, Hidenori Shimizu, Taro Sugahara, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Kei Yuasa, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7561295Abstract: An information management apparatus 50 according to the present invention comprises: a database 30d for storing information relevant to a printer 40 therein; output request reception means 20a for receiving an output request transmitted from a portable terminal 14; inquiry signal transmission means 20a for transmitting an inquiry signal on the printer 40 being an output destination to the portable terminal 14; communication means for receiving image data transmitted from the portable terminal 14; recognition means 30b for recognizing the identification information of the printer 40 by analyzing the image data transmitted in response to the inquiry signal; retrieval means 30c for retrieving the information relevant to the printer 40 from the data base 30d on the basis of the acquired recognition information; and printing means 20c for outputting the information to the printer 40 on the basis of the information relevant to the printer 40 retrieved by the retrieval means 30c.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2004Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignees: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiki Iso, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura, Hidenori Shimizu, Taro Sugahara, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Kei Yuasa, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa
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Patent number: 7552049Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enable optimal clustering for many types of noise data and to improve the accuracy of estimation of a speech model sequence of input speech. Noise is added to speech in accordance with noise-to-signal ratio conditions to generate noise-added speech (step S1), the mean value of speech cepstral is subtracted from the generated, noise-added speech (step 2), a Gaussian distribution model of each piece of noise-added speech is created (step S3), the likelihoods of the pieces of noise-added speech are calculated to generate a likelihood matrix (step S4) to obtain a clustering result. An optimum model is selected (step S7) and linear transformation is performed to provide a maximized likelihood (step S8). Because noise-added speech is consistently used both in clustering and model learning, clustering for many types of noise data and an accurate estimation of a speech model sequence can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignees: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Sadaoki FuruiInventors: Zhipeng Zhang, Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiaki Sugimura, Sadaoki Furui
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Patent number: 7340450Abstract: Data and/or services associated with a given object are easily searched by using a search system having a global unique object identifier, a metadata store, an input for entering the global unique identifier, a metadata reader for reading a set of metadata including the input global unique identifier from the metadata store, and a metadata search engine for searching for specific metadata by searching for a specific description sentence included in each metadata of the read set of metadata.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2004Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Taro Sugahara, Hidenori Shimizu, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa, Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiki Iso, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura
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Tomographic image reading method, automatic alignment method, apparatus and computer readable medium
Patent number: 6904163Abstract: A tomographic image reading method for extracting a comparison image corresponding to a diagnostic image, the diagnostic image being one of first tomographic images, the comparison image being one of second tomographic images, the method including the steps of: inputting the first images and the second images; generating a first projection image from the first images and a second projection image from the second images; measuring shift amount between the first projection image and the second projection image by using a template; correcting the slice position according to the shift amount; and displaying the diagnostic image and the comparison image to a monitor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2000Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kaori Fujimura, Kiyotaka Otsuji, Yuichi Fujino, Sakuichi Ohtsuka, Koji Ogawa, Hitomi Sato, Harumi Kawashima -
Publication number: 20050026630Abstract: A guide apparatus 50 according to the present invention is provided with a service information DB 30d storing service information containing a service providing place and attribute information of a target user; a recognizing device 30b for acquiring an ID from image data transmitted from a cell phone 14; a retrieving device 30c for retrieving service information from the service information DB 30d on the basis of the acquired ID and for retrieving such service information that attribute information of the user of cell phone 14 coincides with attribute information of a target user, out of service information provided at service providing places near the service providing place; and a route retrieving device 20c for retrieving a route between the information about the service providing place retrieved and the cell phone 14; and transmits the route information and service information as guide information to the cell phone 14.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Applicants: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANYInventors: Toshiki Iso, Kiyotaka Otsuji, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura, Hidenori Shimizu, Taro Sugahara, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20040244039Abstract: Data and/or services associated with a given object are easily searched by using a search system having a global unique object identifier, a metadata store, an input for entering the global unique identifier, a metadata reader for reading a set of metadata including the input global unique identifier from the metadata store, and a metadata search engine for searching for specific metadata by searching for a specific description sentence included in each metadata of the read set of metadata.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Taro Sugahara, Hidenori Shimizu, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa, Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiki Iso, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura
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Publication number: 20040212827Abstract: An information management apparatus 50 according to the present invention comprises: a database 30d for storing information relevant to a printer 40 therein; output request reception means 20a for receiving an output request transmitted from a portable terminal 14; inquiry signal transmission means 20a for transmitting an inquiry signal on the printer 40 being an output destination to the portable terminal 14; communication means for receiving image data transmitted from the portable terminal 14; recognition means 30b for recognizing the identification information of the printer 40 by analyzing the image data transmitted in response to the inquiry signal; retrieval means 30c for retrieving the information relevant to the printer 40 from the data base 30d on the basis of the acquired recognition information; and printing means 20c for outputting the information to the printer 40 on the basis of the information relevant to the printer 40 retrieved by the retrieval means 30c.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Applicants: NTT DoCoMo, Inc., HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANYInventors: Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiki Iso, Hiroki Suzuki, Shoji Kurakake, Toshiaki Sugimura, Hidenori Shimizu, Taro Sugahara, Fumitoshi Ukai, Hironori Bouno, Kei Yuasa, Marc McEachern, Shinya Nakagawa
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Publication number: 20040204937Abstract: An object of the present invention is to enable optimal clustering for many types of noise data and to improve the accuracy of estimation of a speech model sequence of input speech. Noise is added to speech in accordance with noise-to-signal ratio conditions to generate noise-added speech (step S1), the mean value of speech cepstral is subtracted from the generated, noise-added speech (step S2), a Gaussian distribution model of each piece of noise-added speech is created (step S3), the likelihoods of the pieces of noise-added speech are calculated to generate a likelihood matrix (step S4) to obtain a clustering result. An optimum model is selected (step S7) and linear transformation is performed to provide a maximized likelihood (step S8). Because noise-added speech is consistently used both in clustering and model learning, clustering for many types of noise data and an accurate estimation of a speech model sequence can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Applicant: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Zhipeng Zhang, Kiyotaka Otsuji, Toshiaki Sugimura, Sadaoki Furui