Patents by Inventor Masahisa Shinozaki

Masahisa Shinozaki 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: 20220222286
    Abstract: A knowledge information creation assist apparatus assists creation of knowledge information relating to a question, for example FAQs can be created from past user accumulated support histories. The apparatus includes: an input controller configured to control upload of plural user support histories including questions; a screen controller configured to perform first display control for displaying, on a display apparatus, a question group creation screen including group information of each of question groups created from the user support histories classified according to a predetermined classification model and second display control for displaying a knowledge information creation screen for producing knowledge information in response to input performed by a creator to one of the question groups selected on the question group creation screen; and an output controller configured to produce output data of the knowledge information created for each question group on the knowledge information creation screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikata TOBITA, Masaru SUZUKI, Hideo MIZUSAWA, Masahisa SHINOZAKI, Satoshi SONOH, Kentaro FURIHATA, Guowei ZU
  • Patent number: 11334715
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a divider and an identifier. The divider divides a plurality of sentences included in a processing target sentence set into a plurality of groups based on a supervised topic list representing a list of supervised topic name that is set in advance. The identifier identifies a topic name for each of the groups based on the supervised topic list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunari Miyabe, Kazuyuki Goto, Kenta Cho, Masahisa Shinozaki, Keisuke Sakanushi
  • Patent number: 10984794
    Abstract: An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a storage, a plurality of conversationers, and a selector. The storage stores a regulation rule indicating a generation rule of a speech in a conversation. Each of the plurality of conversationers makes conversation with a user on the basis of the regulation rule. The selector selects some or all of the plurality of conversationers to cause a conversation to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Kaneko, Yasunari Tanaka, Masahisa Shinozaki, Hideo Umeki, Hisako Yoshida, Ai Matsui, Kenryo Kanaya, Keiji Kubota, Kazuho Igoshi, Motokazu Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10496745
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a dictionary updating apparatus includes a candidate extraction unit, a selection control unit, and a word registration unit. The candidate extraction unit extracts, based on a recognition result text obtained by a voice recognition engine performing a voice recognition processing using a word dictionary and a correction result text obtained by correcting at least a part of the recognition result text, candidates of words to be additionally registered in the word dictionary. The selection control unit generates a selection screen on which the extracted candidates are displayed selectably and, at the same time, information indicating the influence on the voice recognition processing at least when the candidates are additionally registered in the word dictionary is displayed, and accepts an operation of selecting the candidates displayed on the selection screen. The word registration unit registers additionally the candidates selected on the selection screen in the word dictionary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta Cho, Kazuyuki Goto, Yasunari Miyabe, Masahisa Shinozaki, Keisuke Sakanushi, Guowei Zu, Kaoru Hirano
  • Publication number: 20190294624
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a divider and an identifier. The divider divides a plurality of sentences included in a processing target sentence set into a plurality of groups based on a supervised topic list representing a list of supervised topic name that is set in advance. The identifier identifies a topic name for each of the groups based on the supervised topic list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunari MIYABE, Kazuyuki GOTO, Kenta CHO, Masahisa SHINOZAKI, Keisuke SAKANUSHI
  • Patent number: 10366154
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a keyword extracting unit, a tag generating unit and a UI control unit. The keyword extracting unit extracts a keyword from time-series texts within a time range set by a user. The tag generating unit generates a tag corresponding to a time period from a first appearing time until a last appearing time of a same keyword appearing plural times within a duration set according to the time range. The UI control unit creates a UI screen including a first display area in which a time axis corresponding to the time range is displayed and a second display area in which the tag is displayed while causing the tag to correspond to the time period on the time axis, and resets, by selecting the tag, a time period of the selected tag in the time range to update the UI screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kenta Cho, Yasunari Miyabe, Kazuyuki Goto, Masahisa Shinozaki, Keisuke Sakanushi
  • Publication number: 20190228760
    Abstract: An information processing system according to an embodiment includes a conversationer, a storage, and a system-user conversationer. The conversationer performs conversation with a user by generating a speech. The storage stores conversation information indicating a conversation rule of the speech. The system-user conversationer converts the speech generated by the conversationer into a mode according to the user by using the conversion information stored in the storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki KANEKO, Yasunari TANAKA, Masahisa SHINOZAKI, Hisako YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180067920
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a dictionary updating apparatus includes a candidate extraction unit, a selection control unit, and a word registration unit. The candidate extraction unit extracts, based on a recognition result text obtained by a voice recognition engine performing a voice recognition processing using a word dictionary and a correction result text obtained by correcting at least a part of the recognition result text, candidates of words to be additionally registered in the word dictionary. The selection control unit generates a selection screen on which the extracted candidates are displayed selectably and, at the same time, information indicating the influence on the voice recognition processing at least when the candidates are additionally registered in the word dictionary is displayed, and accepts an operation of selecting the candidates displayed on the selection screen. The word registration unit registers additionally the candidates selected on the selection screen in the word dictionary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta CHO, Kazuyuki Goto, Yasunari Miyabe, Masahisa Shinozaki, Keisuke Sakanushi, Guowei Zu, Kaoru Hirano
  • Publication number: 20170277679
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an extracting unit, a first calculating unit, and a second calculating unit. From a sentence included in a set of sentences, the extracting unit extracts compound words, each made of a plurality of words, and first words other than the words constituting the compound words. The first calculating unit calculates, based on the occurrence frequencies of the first words and based on the occurrence frequencies of the compound words, first degrees of importance indicating the degrees of importance of the first words and the degrees of importance of the compound words. With respect to first sentences included in the set of sentences, the second calculating unit calculates second degrees of importance, which indicate the degrees of importance of the first sentences, based on the first degrees of importance of the words and the first degrees of importance of the compound words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Yasunari Miyabe, Kazuyuki Goto, Kenta Cho, Masahisa Shinozaki, Keisuke Sakanushi, Guowei Zu, Kaoru Hirano
  • Publication number: 20170277672
    Abstract: An information processing device according to an embodiment includes a keyword extracting unit, a tag generating unit and a UI control unit. The keyword extracting unit extracts a keyword from time-series texts within a time range set by a user. The tag generating unit generates a tag corresponding to a time period from a first appearing time until a last appearing time of a same keyword appearing plural times within a duration set according to the time range. The UI control unit creates a UI screen including a first display area in which a time axis corresponding to the time range is displayed and a second display area in which the tag is displayed while causing the tag to correspond to the time period on the time axis, and resets, by selecting the tag, a time period of the selected tag in the time range to update the UI screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Kenta Cho, Yasunari Miyabe, Kazuyuki Goto, Masahisa Shinozaki, Keisuke Sakanushi
  • Patent number: 9128923
    Abstract: Provided is an orthographical variant detection apparatus which detects orthographical variant candidates with a high precision. The orthographical variant detection apparatus includes a term extraction unit that extracts terms from document data, a similarity computation unit that computes similarity of an arbitrary pair of the extracted terms, an orthographical variant candidate determination unit that determines, based on the similarity, whether or not the terms in the pair of terms are orthographical variant candidates, and a group classification unit that groups the orthographical variant candidates based on a character string commonly included in pair of terms as the orthographical variant candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mikito Kobayashi, Masahisa Shinozaki, Toshiyuki Kano, Yoshimi Saito