Patents by Inventor Kota TSUBOUCHI

Kota TSUBOUCHI 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: 20190028833
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires time-series position information acquired by a terminal device. The determination unit determines whether relation between one or more pieces of interest position information included in the time-series position information acquired by the acquisition unit and prior or posterior position information in time series satisfies a predetermined criterion, and determines whether to hold the interest position information based on a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota NAMIKI, Kota TSUBOUCHI, Yoshimitsu SAKUI
  • Patent number: 10082427
    Abstract: A measurement data collecting system includes a data receiving unit that receives first data measured by a first sensor and acquired at a mobile terminal, a measurement environment determining unit that determines environment of the mobile terminal when the first data is acquired based on second data measured by a second sensor and acquired at the mobile terminal. The measurement environment determining unit extracts first data in accordance with the environment from the first data received by the data receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Tsubouchi, Kentaro Nishi
  • Publication number: 20180270213
    Abstract: An authentication apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit, a first specifying unit, a second specifying unit, and an authentication unit. The acquiring unit acquires context information on a target user who becomes a target for authentication. The first specifying unit specifies a belonging cluster based on information related to a plurality of cluster groups and the context information on the target user, in each of the plurality of the cluster groups. The second specifying unit specifies, for each belonging cluster based on a classification model used to specify a predetermined candidate user in the belonging cluster specified by the first specifying unit, a candidate user, in a partial candidate user group that belongs to the belonging cluster, who satisfies a predetermined condition. The authentication unit authenticates the target user based on information related to the candidate user specified by the second specifying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Shuuji YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9984400
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method, and program that control an electronic data exchange. The apparatus, method, and program involve receiving user information on an information provider or a provider terminal from the provider terminal used by the information provider. The user information received is stored in a memory. In the case of accepting an acquisition request for the user information from a user terminal used by an information user, the system controls whether to provide the user information corresponding to the acquisition request to the user terminal and transmits a reward to the information provider which is a transmission source of the provided user information based on factor information which affects a value of the user information stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruhiko Teraoka, Hidehito Gomi, Kota Tsubouchi
  • Patent number: 9971402
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquiring unit that acquires motion information indicating a current motion of a user, a determining unit that compares the motion information acquired by the acquiring unit with standard information indicating a motion of the user in a predetermined state to determine the presence or absence of a state change of the user, and a calculating unit that, when the determining unit determines that a state change is present, calculates an area that the user visually recognizes based on sight line information concerning a sight line of the user contained in the motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Tsubouchi, Kentaro Nishi
  • Publication number: 20170270433
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, when a user performs one of specific behaviors respectively having a plurality of types, information on a behavior of the user performed on a terminal device and information on context associated with the user. The generation unit executes machine learning by using, as feature amounts, information on each of the specific behaviors and the information on the context, to generate a learning model of the behavior of the user performed on the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Masaya TAJI
  • Publication number: 20170078397
    Abstract: A measurement data collecting system includes a data receiving unit that receives first data measured by a first sensor and acquired at a mobile terminal, a measurement environment determining unit that determines environment of the mobile terminal when the first data is acquired based on second data measured by a second sensor and acquired at the mobile terminal. The measurement environment determining unit extracts first data in accordance with the environment from the first data received by the data receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Kentaro NISHI
  • Publication number: 20170076578
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an acquiring unit that acquires motion information indicating a current motion of a user, a determining unit that compares the motion information acquired by the acquiring unit with standard information indicating a motion of the user in a predetermined state to determine the presence or absence of a state change of the user, and a calculating unit that, when the determining unit determines that a state change is present, calculates an area that the user visually recognizes based on sight line information concerning a sight line of the user contained in the motion information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Kentaro NISHI
  • Patent number: 9495884
    Abstract: An assignment sharing device includes an assignment-related information storage unit configured to store assignment-related information including assignment information, challenger identification information, assignment approval information, and assignment achievement status information; an assignment information receiving unit configured to receive the assignment information and so forth; an assignment-related information accumulating unit configured to accumulate the assignment information and so forth as a single piece of assignment-related information; an assignment information transmitting unit configured to transmit corresponding assignment information to a challenger; an assignment approval receiving unit configured to receive assignment identification information identifying an assignment approved by the challenger; an assignment approving unit configured to set assignment approval information; and an assignment result information receiving unit configured to receive assignment result information, whi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito Gomi, Teruhiko Teraoka, Kota Tsubouchi, Nobuyuki Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20160275806
    Abstract: A predicting apparatus according to the present application includes a correct answer generating unit and a second model generating unit. The correct answer generating unit generates correct answer information representing a response of each of one or more first targets to a given affair, based on a first model that is to be used for predicting the response to the affair, and on first information related to the first targets. The second model generating unit generates a second model that is to be used for predicting a response of each of one or more second targets corresponding to second information to the affair, the second information being information including information on one or more targets in addition to information on the first targets, based on the correct answer information generated by the correct answer generating unit, and on a part of the second information related to the first targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Teruhiko TERAOKA
  • Publication number: 20160180232
    Abstract: A prediction device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a prediction unit. The acquisition unit acquires sensor information related to a first user, the sensor information having been detected with a sensor. The prediction unit predicts an interest of the first user, based on an action pattern obtained from a history of the sensor information of the first user obtained by the acquisition unit, and interest information of user classification into which a second user is classified according to an action pattern obtained from a history of sensor information related to the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Shinnosuke WANAKA, Tomoki SAITO
  • Publication number: 20160086094
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a model generation unit configured to generate a prediction model for calculating a prediction value related to a probability that a user performs an action on the Internet by operating a user terminal, for each group created by grouping users based on user information; a model selection unit configured to select a prediction model suited to the user from the prediction models; and a prediction value calculation unit configured to calculate the prediction value by using the prediction model selected by the model selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Kota TSUBOUCHI
  • Patent number: 9245302
    Abstract: An accompaniment determination apparatus includes a past sensor information memory configured to store past sensor information, the past sensor information acquired by sensors respectively worn by two or more users, a sensor information receiver configured to receive sensor information from the sensor worn by each of two or more users, an accompanying user determiner configured to determine at a determination time point whether two or more users are accompanying each other, using the past sensor information and the received sensor information, and an output unit configured to output information indicating a result of the determining. The accompaniment determination apparatus thus determines on a real-time basis whether the two or more users are accompanying each other using the sensor information without collecting position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kota Tsubouchi
  • Publication number: 20150220613
    Abstract: Provided are an accompanying detecting unit that detects, on the basis of sensor data acquired by a sensor carried by each of two or more object persons, an accompanying state in which the object persons act together, an active state acquiring unit that acquires, for each object person, multiple pieces of active state data each of which indicates an active state of each of the object persons and that are acquired in accordance with the accompanying state of the object persons detected by the accompanying detecting unit, and an estimating unit that estimates, on the basis of the distances calculated from the multiple active state data on the object persons, the relationship between the object persons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventor: Kota TSUBOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150149322
    Abstract: Provided is an information transaction apparatus including a receiving unit, a storage unit, and a transaction unit. The receiving unit receives user information on an information provider or a provider terminal from the provider terminal used by the information provider. The storage unit stores the user information received by the receiving unit in a user information memory unit. In the case of accepting an acquisition request for the user information from a user terminal used by an information user, the transaction unit controls a transaction process of providing the user information corresponding to the acquisition request to the user terminal and paying a reward to the information provider which is a transmission source of the provided user information based on factor information which affects a value of the user information stored in the user information memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Teruhiko TERAOKA, Hidehito GOMI, Kota TSUBOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140379297
    Abstract: An accompaniment determination apparatus includes a sensor information receiver configured to receive from sensors worn by two or more users sensor information that associates observation information acquired by the sensors with time point information indicating a time point at which the observation information is acquired, a similarity information calculation unit configured to calculate similarity information related to similarity in a set of observation information, corresponding to the time point information at a determination time point to determine whether the two or more users are accompanying, an accompaniment determination unit configured to determine that the two or more users wearing the sensors having acquired the observation information used to calculate the similarity information are accompanying each other if the similarity information is similar enough to satisfy a predetermined condition, and an output unit configured to output information indicating a determination result determined by the a
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kota TSUBOUCHI, Masamichi SHIMOSAKA, Ryoma KAWAJIRI
  • Publication number: 20140375450
    Abstract: An accompaniment determination apparatus includes a past sensor information memory configured to store past sensor information, the past sensor information acquired by sensors respectively worn by two or more users, a sensor information receiver configured to receive sensor information from the sensor worn by each of two or more users, an accompanying user determiner configured to determine at a determination time point whether two or more users are accompanying each other, using the past sensor information and the received sensor information, and an output unit configured to output information indicating a result of the determining. The accompaniment determination apparatus thus determines on a real-time basis whether the two or more users are accompanying each other using the sensor information without collecting position information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventor: Kota TSUBOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140280135
    Abstract: A time-series data analyzing apparatus includes an observation data storing unit, a feature amount data obtaining unit, a state rule obtaining unit, an action rule obtaining unit, and an output unit. The observation data storing unit stores one or more types of observation data in time series which are observation data of an object for observation. The feature amount data obtaining unit obtains two or more types of feature amount data from one type of the observation data. The state rule obtaining unit obtains a state rule which is a rule related to a state of the object, by using the feature amount data. The action rule obtaining unit obtains an action rule which is a rule related to an action of the object, by using the feature amount data. The output unit outputs the state rule and the action rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kota TSUBOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140280273
    Abstract: An animal abnormality detecting device includes an animal abnormality information storage unit, a retrieval observation data receiving unit, an animal abnormality information specifying unit, and an abnormality information transmitting unit. In the animal abnormality information storage unit, animal abnormality information including animal observation data including one or more pieces of time-series observation data on an animal and animal individual information is stored. The retrieval observation data receiving unit receives retrieval animal observation data including one or more pieces of time-series observation data on an animal and retrieval animal individual information. The animal abnormality information specifying unit specifies the animal abnormality information including the animal observation data and the animal individual information corresponding to the retrieval animal observation data and the retrieval animal individual information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kota TSUBOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140234823
    Abstract: An assignment sharing device includes an assignment-related information storage unit configured to store assignment-related information including assignment information, challenger identification information, assignment approval information, and assignment achievement status information; an assignment information receiving unit configured to receive the assignment information and so forth; an assignment-related information accumulating unit configured to accumulate the assignment information and so forth as a single piece of assignment-related information; an assignment information transmitting unit configured to transmit corresponding assignment information to a challenger; an assignment approval receiving unit configured to receive assignment identification information identifying an assignment approved by the challenger; an assignment approving unit configured to set assignment approval information; and an assignment result information receiving unit configured to receive assignment result information, whi
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JANPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehito GOMI, Teruhiko TERAOKA, Kota TSUBOUCHI, Nobuyuki SHIMIZU