Patents by Inventor Machiko SHINOZUKA

Machiko SHINOZUKA 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: 11983495
    Abstract: An evaluation device includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate feature quantities of respective words, the feature quantities corresponding to text data in which a target of any goal of the SDGs is described and text data in which an outline of one or more first services for which a contribution to the goal that is clear is described, a generation unit configured to generate a sentence feature matrix based on the feature quantities of the respective words, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, when text data in which an outline of a second service is described is input, feature quantities of respective words, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a degree of a contribution of the second service to the goal based on the feature quantities of the respective words relevant to the second service and the sentence feature matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Furutani, Machiko Shinozuka, Xiaoxi Zhang, Hiroki Oka, Katsuya Hayashi, Yuriko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230025792
    Abstract: An environmental impact assessment device includes: an input unit configured to accept an input of a utilization purpose of an ICT service from a user, the ICT service being a target of assessment of a reduction effect for an environmental load; a first identification unit configured to refer to a storage unit in which, for each existing case about the assessment, an assessment result about the reduction effect for the environmental load for each activity item and a utilization purpose of the ICT service in the existing case are stored in association with each other, and to identify an existing case associated with the input utilization purpose; a second identification unit configured to identify an activity item for which the reduction effect is highest, for each existing case identified by the first identification unit; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a value of a parameter for an assessment expression for the environmental load, the assessment expression being previously set for each of the activ
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Machiko SHINOZUKA, Takashi FURUTANI, Yuriko TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230004902
    Abstract: A value element determination device according to an embodiment includes: an input unit for inputting a function of an evaluation target service and a standpoint of a user using the evaluation target service; a first calculation unit that uses a relevance matrix having relevance between the function of the evaluation target service and each of state-changes of the user using the evaluation target service as elements to calculate the relevance between the function input via the input unit and each of the state-changes; an acquisition unit that acquires, from a database storing sets of the state-change of the user using the evaluation target service and advantage or disadvantage of the user using the evaluation target service, a set including a state-change having the relevance calculated by the first calculation unit exceeding a threshold value; a second calculation unit that calculates similarity in terms of meanings of the advantage or disadvantage included in the set acquired by the acquisition unit, the st
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Machiko SHINOZUKA, Takashi FURUTANI, Akira TAKEUCHI, Xiaoxi ZHANG, Yuriko TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220318699
    Abstract: Provided is an assessment device that includes: an input unit that receives, as an input, a use field of an ICT solution as an assessment target and a damage item as a target of the ICT solution; a risk extraction unit that extracts one or more risk candidates corresponding to the use field and the damage item from a database in which use fields, damage items, and risks are associated; a calculation unit that calculates cooccurrence probability between each of the one or more risk candidates and an operation target of the ICT solution; and an output unit that outputs the risk candidates based on the cooccurrence probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Machiko Shinozuka, Hiroki Oka, Takashi Furutani, Xiaoxi Zhang, Katsuya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20220269860
    Abstract: An evaluation device includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate feature quantities of respective words, the feature quantities being regarding text data in which a target of any of goals of the SDGs is described and text data in which an outline of one or more first services a contribution of which to the goal is clear is described, the respective words being included in the text data, a generation unit configured to generate a sentence feature matrix based on the feature quantities of the respective words, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, when text data in which an outline of a second service is described is input, feature quantities of respective words, the feature quantities being regarding the text data, the respective words being included in the text data, and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a degree of a contribution of the second service to the goal based on the feature quantities of the respective words relevant to the second service and the sentence feature
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Takashi Furutani, Machiko Shinozuka, Xiaoxi Zhang, Hiroki Oka, Katsuya Hayashi, Yuriko Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20210319464
    Abstract: An assessment support device capable of efficiently acquiring the elements of the value of an ICT service is provided. The assessment support device includes: a question generation unit that generates a plurality of questions including a plurality of stages of values with respect to advantages felt about an assessment target service as choices on the basis of information related to states of a user when the user uses the service and when the user does not use the service; an answer acquisition unit that acquires answers of a plurality of persons with respect to the plurality of questions generated by the question generation unit; and a statistics calculation unit that executes factor analysis with respect to the answers of the plurality of persons to extract a prescribed number of factors and calculates a value based on a distribution of values indicated by the answers to some questions having relatively higher factor loads for each of the extracted factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Machiko SHINOZUKA, Takeshi ORIGUCHI, Hidetoshi TAKADA, Takashi FURUTANI