Patents by Inventor Ko Kikuchi

Ko Kikuchi 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: 12610105
    Abstract: A compilation system (101) includes: a plurality of viewing terminals (104) with which a plurality of viewers respectively views a video; and a compilation server (105). Each terminal (104) of the viewing terminals, using at least one processor of one or more processors in the terminal (104), enables a viewer using the terminal (104) to view one of one or more contents associated with the video in advance while the video is being played in the terminal (104). The compilation server (105), using at least one processor of one or more processors in the compilation server (105), collects whether either one of one or more contents is being browsed while the video is being played in each terminal (104) of the viewing terminals. The compilation server (105) compiles a trend in the numbers of viewers, among the viewers, who have been browsing respective content of one or more contents at certain playback times of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12477157
    Abstract: A generator (251) generates a viewer video in which an object is synthesized at a predetermined synthesis position in a live video captured by an imager (210). Additionally, the generator (251) generates a streamer video that is a video obtained by synthesizing the object in a mirror image video in which the live video is inverted, and in which the object is synthesized at a mirror image position relative to the synthesis position. A streaming unit (252) sends the viewer video generated by the generator (251) to a streaming server for streaming to the viewer terminal. A display 260) displays the streamer video generated by the generator (251).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12457386
    Abstract: A distribution management system (101) plays, on a screen, a video (A) in which a plurality of topics (a1, a2, . . . ) is sequentially covered, determines a topic (a1) currently being covered on the screen on which the video (A) is being played, identifies a list (L1) of recommendation videos (X1) in which a topic related to the determined topic (a1) is covered, and provides the identified list (L1) via the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12389070
    Abstract: The generator (141) generates a group (for example, a group chat) for viewers of a video introducing a product to interact with each other on social media (for example, a messenger service). The detector (142) detects a viewer who has viewed the video introducing the product and purchased the product. The registrar (145) then registers the viewer detected by the detector (142) to the group generated by the generator (141).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20250211808
    Abstract: A receiver (120) receives, from each of a plurality of terminals being playing a distributed live video, a piece of access information sent in response to an operation on one of a plurality of objects respectively associated with a plurality of products presented in the live video. A collector (142) collects video identification information identifying the live video, product identification information identifying a product associated with the operated object, and time information indicating a playback time of the live video at a point of time at which the operation is performed, the video identification information, the product identification information, and the time information being included in each of the received pieces of access information. An estimator (143) estimates, based on the collected video identification information, product identification information, and time information, a time period during which each of the plurality of products was presented in the live video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20250168450
    Abstract: A compilation system (101) includes: a plurality of viewing terminals (104) with which a plurality of viewers respectively views a video; and a compilation server (105). Each terminal (104) of the viewing terminals, using at least one processor of one or more processors in the terminal (104), enables a viewer using the terminal (104) to view one of one or more contents associated with the video in advance while the video is being played in the terminal (104). The compilation server (105), using at least one processor of one or more processors in the compilation server (105), collects whether either one of one or more contents is being browsed while the video is being played in each terminal (104) of the viewing terminals. The compilation server (105) compiles a trend in the numbers of viewers, among the viewers, who have been browsing respective content of one or more contents at certain playback times of the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 12284418
    Abstract: A collector (101) collects behaviors of a plurality of viewers viewing a live streaming video from a plurality of viewer terminals (300) respectively used by the plurality of viewers. The allocator (103) allocates, to each viewer of the plurality of viewers, another viewer specified as a referent from among the plurality of viewers based on the collected behaviors. The generator (104) generates display control information for each viewer based on a behavior of the viewer and a behavior of the referent allocated to the viewer among the collected behaviors. The transmitter (105) transmits the generated display control information to a viewer terminal (300) used by each viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12231716
    Abstract: A distribution controller (141) distributes a live video provided from a streamer to a viewer terminal having a comment area, the comment area allowing a predetermined number of comments to be displayed. A receiver (120) receives a comment posted from the viewer terminal during distribution of the live video. A sender (110) sends a comment that the receiver (120) received to the viewer terminal to cause the comment to be added to the comment area in a last-in-first-out manner. An identifier (144) identifies a comment to which the streamer reacted in the live video being distributed by, every time the streamer speaks, comparing a speech text, the speech text being acquired by subjecting speech of the streamer to speech recognition, with respective comments currently being displayed in the comment area. A display controller (145) controls display of the identified comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20250056094
    Abstract: The generator (141) generates a group (for example, a group chat) for viewers of a video introducing a product to interact with each other on social media (for example, a messenger service). The detector (142) detects a viewer who has viewed the video introducing the product and purchased the product. The registrar (145) then registers the viewer detected by the detector (142) to the group generated by the generator (141).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 12219217
    Abstract: A distribution controller (141) distributes a live video provided from a streamer to a plurality of terminals each of which has a comment area, the comment area allowing a predetermined number of comments to be displayed. A receiver (120) receives a comment posted from, among the plurality of terminals, a viewer terminal used by a viewer during distribution of the live video. A sender (110) sends a comment that the receiver (120) received to the plurality of terminals to cause the comment to be added to the comment areas in a last-in-first-out manner. An identifier (144) identifies, among respective comments currently being displayed in the comment area, a comment to which the streamer reacted. A setter (541) sets a chapter to divide the live video, based on a relative time in the live video corresponding to a time at which the identified comment is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20240393912
    Abstract: A display (101) displays a foreground window in which a video is played on a screen and so as to hide a portion of a background window in which content including a user-operable interactive element is provided. A detector (102) detects hiding of the interactive element by the foreground window. When the hiding is detected, a changer (103) changes at least either a position or a size of the foreground window so that a portion or an entirety of a hidden portion of the interactive element is no longer hidden.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240357207
    Abstract: A distribution controller (141) distributes a live video provided from a streamer to a plurality of terminals each of which has a comment area, the comment area allowing a predetermined number of comments to be displayed. A receiver (120) receives a comment posted from, among the plurality of terminals, a viewer terminal used by a viewer during distribution of the live video. A sender (110) sends a comment that the receiver (120) received to the plurality of terminals to cause the comment to be added to the comment areas in a last-in-first-out manner. An identifier (144) identifies, among respective comments currently being displayed in the comment area, a comment to which the streamer reacted. A setter (541) sets a chapter to divide the live video, based on a relative time in the live video corresponding to a time at which the identified comment is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240357209
    Abstract: A distribution management system (101) plays, on a screen, a video (A) in which a plurality of topics (a1, a2, . . . ) is sequentially covered, determines a topic (a1) currently being covered on the screen on which the video (A) is being played, identifies a list (L1) of recommendation videos (X1) in which a topic related to the determined topic (a1) is covered, and provides the identified list (L1) via the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 12120362
    Abstract: A streamer terminal (102) makes (122), upon receiving text, the text appear in a screen, determines (123) whether a streamer pays attention to the text, until the text exits from the screen, and executes (124) a predetermined attention process on text-of-attention that the streamer is determined to pay attention to. Each terminal (103) of viewer terminals classified into any one of groups transmits (132) text accepted from a viewer using each terminal to the streamer terminal (102) and another viewing terminals (103) belonging to an identical group, receives (133) text transmitted from another viewer terminal belonging to the identical group, and makes (134) the text appear in a screen. The streamer terminal (102) transmits (124) the text-of-attention to viewer terminals (103) classified in another group, and each terminal of the viewer terminals (103), upon receiving the text-of-attention, makes the text-of-attention appear in the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12120378
    Abstract: In an information processing device to streaming-distribute a video, based on a distance image in which a streamer is captured, an acquirer (101) acquires a depth distribution in the distance image. A determiner (102) determines a threshold value, based on the acquired depth distribution. An specifier (103) specifies, in the distance image, a distant region where depth is greater than the threshold value and a near region where depth is less than the threshold value. A provider (104) provides, in conjunction with the video, to a viewer terminal (300) to which the video is to be streaming-distributed, control information to set the distant region as a background, set the near region as a foreground, superimpose provided information over the background, and superimpose the foreground over the background over which the provided information is superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Ko Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20240244276
    Abstract: A streamer terminal (102) makes (122), upon receiving text, the text appear in a screen, determines (123) whether a streamer pays attention to the text, until the text exits from the screen, and executes (124) a predetermined attention process on text-of-attention that the streamer is determined to pay attention to. Each terminal (103) of viewer terminals classified into any one of groups transmits (132) text accepted from a viewer using each terminal to the streamer terminal (102) and another viewing terminals (103) belonging to an identical group, receives (133) text transmitted from another viewer terminal belonging to the identical group, and makes (134) the text appear in a screen. The streamer terminal (102) transmits (124) the text-of-attention to viewer terminals (103) classified in another group, and each terminal of the viewer terminals (103), upon receiving the text-of-attention, makes the text-of-attention appear in the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240244288
    Abstract: In an information processing device to streaming-distribute a video, based on a distance image in which a streamer is captured, an acquirer (101) acquires a depth distribution in the distance image. A determiner (102) determines a threshold value, based on the acquired depth distribution. An specifier (103) specifies, in the distance image, a distant region where depth is greater than the threshold value and a near region where depth is less than the threshold value. A provider (104) provides, in conjunction with the video, to a viewer terminal (300) to which the video is to be streaming-distributed, control information to set the distant region as a background, set the near region as a foreground, superimpose provided information over the background, and superimpose the foreground over the background over which the provided information is superimposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240223842
    Abstract: A distribution controller (141) distributes a live video provided from a streamer to a viewer terminal having a comment area, the comment area allowing a predetermined number of comments to be displayed. A receiver (120) receives a comment posted from the viewer terminal during distribution of the live video. A sender (110) sends a comment that the receiver (120) received to the viewer terminal to cause the comment to be added to the comment area in a last-in-first-out manner. An identifier (144) identifies a comment to which the streamer reacted in the live video being distributed by, every time the streamer speaks, comparing a speech text, the speech text being acquired by subjecting speech of the streamer to speech recognition, with respective comments currently being displayed in the comment area. A display controller (145) controls display of the identified comment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240223850
    Abstract: A collector (101) collects behaviors of a plurality of viewers viewing a live streaming video from a plurality of viewer terminals (300) respectively used by the plurality of viewers. The allocator (103) allocates, to each viewer of the plurality of viewers, another viewer specified as a referent from among the plurality of viewers based on the collected behaviors. The generator (104) generates display control information for each viewer based on a behavior of the viewer and a behavior of the referent allocated to the viewer among the collected behaviors. The transmitter (105) transmits the generated display control information to a viewer terminal (300) used by each viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240187655
    Abstract: A generator (251) generates a viewer video in which an object is synthesized at a predetermined synthesis position in a live video captured by an imager (210). Additionally, the generator (251) generates a streamer video that is a video obtained by synthesizing the object in a mirror image video in which the live video is inverted, and in which the object is synthesized at a mirror image position relative to the synthesis position. A streaming unit (252) sends the viewer video generated by the generator (251) to a streaming server for streaming to the viewer terminal. A display 260) displays the streamer video generated by the generator (251).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC.
    Inventor: Ko KIKUCHI