Patents by Inventor Masaki Yamauchi
Masaki Yamauchi 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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Publication number: 20180329898Abstract: A machine translation method is provided, in which a plurality of different forward-translated sentences is generated resulting from translation of a received translation-source sentence in a first language into a second language. A plurality of backward-translated sentences is generated resulting from backward translation of the plurality of different forward-translated sentences into the first language. As translation-source sentence, voice information or text information is received. The voice information is received via a microphone that receives a voice input performed by a user. The text information is received via a text input device that receives a text input performed by a user. An output form of the forward-translated sentence corresponding to the selected backward-translated sentence is changed in accordance with which of the voice information and the text information is received as the translation-source sentence.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Nanami FUJIWARA, Masaki YAMAUCHI
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Patent number: 10061769Abstract: A machine translation method is provided, in which a plurality of different first forward-translated sentences is generated resulting from translation of a received translation-source sentence into the second language. It is determined into which of an interrogative form, an affirmative form, a negative form, and an imperative form each of the plurality of different first forward-translated sentences is classified. A plurality of different second forward-translated sentences is determined from the plurality of different first forward-translated sentences, based on the classified form. A plurality of backward-translated sentences is generated resulting from backward translation of the plurality of different second forward-translated sentences into the first language. Upon receiving an operation of the user for selecting one of the plurality of backward-translated sentences, a forward-translated sentence corresponding to the selected backward-translated sentence is output to the information output device.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Nanami Fujiwara, Masaki Yamauchi
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Patent number: 10055404Abstract: Provided is a method of managing a server having stored thereon a phrase table containing phrase pairs each being a pair of a phrase in a first language and a phrase in a second language different from the first language. In the method, a processor receives combinations of the phrase pairs used to generate respective candidate target texts which are generated by translation of a source text in the first language into a target text in the second language as candidates for the target text in the second language, and records combination information (for example, a data structure and paths) in the server, the combination information identifying, in the phrase pairs contained in the phrase table, the combinations of the phrase pairs used to generate the respective candidate target texts.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Yamauchi, Nanami Fujiwara
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Patent number: 10044047Abstract: A method for producing an electrode-membrane-frame assembly according to the present invention includes arranging a previously molded first molded body on a circumferential region of first catalyst layer close to first gas diffusion layer, arranging a previously molded second molded body on a circumferential region of second catalyst layer close to second gas diffusion layer, and forming a third molded body by injection molding so as to integrally connect the first molded body and the second molded body and not to be directly in contact with an inner side region of second main surface of a polymer electrolyte membrane positioned on an inner side of an outer edge part of the second molded body when viewed from a thickness direction of the polymer electrolyte membrane, whereby a frame having the first, second, and the third molded body is formed. Thus, the polymer electrolyte membrane can be prevented from deteriorating.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Yamauchi, Yoichiro Tsuji, Atusi Murata, Takashi Morimoto, Toshihiro Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20180101522Abstract: A machine translation method is provided, in which a plurality of different first forward-translated sentences is generated resulting from translation of a received translation-source sentence into the second language. It is determined into which of an interrogative form, an affirmative form, a negative form, and an imperative form each of the plurality of different first forward-translated sentences is classified. A plurality of different second forward-translated sentences is determined from the plurality of different first forward-translated sentences, based on the classified form. A plurality of backward-translated sentences is generated resulting from backward translation of the plurality of different second forward-translated sentences into the first language. Upon receiving an operation of the user for selecting one of the plurality of backward-translated sentences, a forward-translated sentence corresponding to the selected backward-translated sentence is output to the information output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Nanami FUJIWARA, Masaki YAMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20180089180Abstract: A method for providing a translation, including: acquiring a first sentence in a first language via a user terminal; determining whether the first sentence is in a database including sentences in the first language and corresponding translations in a second language; if the first sentence is not in the database, generating second sentences by replacing one or more words in the first sentence, based on a predetermined rule; calculating respective degrees of coincidence for syntax between the second sentences and sentences in the first language included in the database; extracting third sentences in the first language which are included in the database and for which the calculated degree of coincidence is at least a threshold value; and displaying fourth sentences in the second language which are corresponding translations for the third sentences in the database, on the user terminal as corresponding translation references for the first sentence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: MASAHIRO IMADE, MASAKI YAMAUCHI, NANAMI FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20180089169Abstract: In a method of creating similar sentences from an entered original, one or more second phrases having the same meaning as a first phrase, which is part of the original, are extracted from a first database; an N-gram value is calculated according to a context dependence value, in a second database, corresponding to the one or more second phrases; one or more contiguous third phrases that include a number of second phrases equivalent to the N-gram value are extracted from one or more sentences obtained by replacing, in the original, the first phrase with the one or more second phrases; the appearance frequency of the one or more third phrases in a third database is calculated; and if the calculated appearance frequency is determined to be larger than or equal to a threshold, the one or more sentences are used as similar sentences of the original and are externally output.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: MASAKI YAMAUCHI, NANAMI FUJIWARA, MASAHIRO IMADE
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Publication number: 20180082681Abstract: A third sentence obtained by replacing a first phrase of a first sentence with a second phrase is input, and it is judged whether a third phrase is included in a first database including at least a phrase used in written text. If the third phrase is not included, a first evaluation value in the first database is calculated for a seventh phrase obtained by replacing the second phrase of the third phrase with a sixth phrase. It is judged whether the third phrase is included in a second database including at least a phrase used in spoken text and whether a second evaluation value calculated from the first evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition. If the third phrase is included, and the second evaluation value satisfies the predetermined condition, the third sentence and the second sentence as a pair are added to a bilingual corpus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: NANAMI FUJIWARA, MASAKI YAMAUCHI, MASAHIRO IMADE
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Patent number: 9916304Abstract: A translation corpus creation method of the present disclosure includes generating plural paraphrasing candidate sentences for a first original sentence in a first language by paraphrasing one or plural fragments among plural fragments included in the first original sentence into other expressions in the first language by a paraphrasing candidate sentence generation unit, identifying one or plural paraphrasing candidate sentences in the same meaning as the meaning of the first original sentence from the plural paraphrasing candidate sentences as one or plural paraphrasing sentences by a paraphrasing sentence identification unit, and generating a new set of sentences by setting the one or plural identified paraphrasing sentences and a second original sentence translated from the first original sentence as a set of sentences to create a translation corpus with the generated and new set of sentences by a translation corpus creation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Nanami Fujiwara, Masaki Yamauchi
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Patent number: 9859573Abstract: Disclosed is a membrane electrode assembly provided with a polymer electrolyte membrane; a catalyst layer (A) which is laminated onto one surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane; a gas diffusion layer (A) which is laminated onto the catalyst layer (A); a catalyst layer (B); and a gas diffusion layer (B). The outer circumferential section of the catalyst layer (A) is the membrane electrode assembly with an integrated frame which comprises a membrane electrode assembly that protrudes from the gas diffusion layer (A) and a frame adhered to the outer circumferential section of the catalyst layer (A), whereby said frame surrounds the edge of the membrane electrode assembly. The surface that is adhered to the frame in the outer circumferential section of the catalyst layer (A) comprises a plurality of cracks.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Morimoto, Yoichiro Tsuji, Masaki Yamauchi, Atushi Murata, Mitsuo Yoshimura
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Patent number: 9836457Abstract: Different forward-translated sentences are generated by translating a received translation-source sentence in a first language into a second language. Backward-translated sentences are generated by backward-translating the different forward-translated sentences into the first language. When an operation for selecting one of the backward-translated sentences is received during output of the backward-translated sentences on an information output device, the forward-translated sentence corresponding to the selected backward-translated sentence is output onto the information output device.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Nanami Fujiwara, Masaki Yamauchi
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Patent number: 9798456Abstract: An information input device including: an indicator detection unit; a pointer position setting unit which sets a position of a pointer to be displayed on a display screen; a storage unit which obtains and stores time-sequenced positional information which indicates the set position; a first passage detection unit which detects that the pointer has passed through a first specific region which is a predetermined region on the display screen, using the time-sequenced positional information; and a direction obtainment unit which obtains a direction in which the pointer has passed through the first specific region if it is detected that the pointer has passed through the first specific region; and a first image modifying unit which modifies a displayed image, depending on the obtained direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2013Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroyasu Imoto, Tomonari Takahashi, Masaki Yamauchi, Yoshihiro Kojima
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Patent number: 9793555Abstract: In order to provide a membrane electrode assembly that can further improve power generation performances of a fuel cell, the present invention allows a rib portion (22) that separates mutually adjacent gas flow passages (21) from each other to have a porosity lower than the porosity of a lower area (23) of the rib portion. Thus, it is possible to suppress the deformation of the rib portion and excessive permeation of a reaction gas, and consequently to further improve the power generation performances.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaki Yamauchi, Yoichiro Tsuji, Naotsugu Koashi, Hideo Kasahara, Takashi Nakagawa, Yoko Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20170220562Abstract: Provided is a method of managing a server having stored thereon a phrase table containing phrase pairs each being a pair of a phrase in a first language and a phrase in a second language different from the first language. In the method, a processor receives combinations of the phrase pairs used to generate respective candidate target texts which are generated by translation of a source text in the first language into a target text in the second language as candidates for the target text in the second language, and records combination information (for example, a data structure and paths) in the server, the combination information identifying, in the phrase pairs contained in the phrase table, the combinations of the phrase pairs used to generate the respective candidate target texts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2016Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: MASAKI YAMAUCHI, NANAMI FUJIWARA
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Publication number: 20170220561Abstract: A translation corpus creation method of the present disclosure includes generating plural paraphrasing candidate sentences for a first original sentence in a first language by paraphrasing one or plural fragments among plural fragments included in the first original sentence into other expressions in the first language by a paraphrasing candidate sentence generation unit, identifying one or plural paraphrasing candidate sentences in the same meaning as the meaning of the first original sentence from the plural paraphrasing candidate sentences as one or plural paraphrasing sentences by a paraphrasing sentence identification unit, and generating a new set of sentences by setting the one or plural identified paraphrasing sentences and a second original sentence translated from the first original sentence as a set of sentences to create a translation corpus with the generated and new set of sentences by a translation corpus creation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: NANAMI FUJIWARA, MASAKI YAMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20170220559Abstract: A paraphrase generation method according to the present disclosure generates one or more paraphrases of an original text by paraphrasing, within an acceptable limit for accepting paraphrasing, one or more of a plurality of fragments included in the original text into another expression in the language of the original text, the plurality of fragments being obtained by dividing the original text in accordance with a predetermined rule.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2016Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: NANAMI FUJIWARA, MASAKI YAMAUCHI
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Publication number: 20160350290Abstract: Different forward-translated sentences are generated by translating a received translation-source sentence in a first language into a second language. Backward-translated sentences are generated by backward-translating the different forward-translated sentences into the first language. When an operation for selecting one of the backward-translated sentences is received during output of the backward-translated sentences on an information output device, the forward-translated sentence corresponding to the selected backward-translated sentence is output onto the information output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: NANAMI FUJIWARA, MASAKI YAMAUCHI
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Patent number: 9402101Abstract: A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Kotaro Sakata, Masaki Yamauchi
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Patent number: 9335878Abstract: An information input apparatus includes: a touch pad; a touch information detecting unit which detects touch information that is information resulting from an operator contacting the touch sensor with a finger; a touch operation start position detecting unit which detects, using the touch information, a touch operation start position that is a start position of a touch operation performed by the operator; a touch operation recognition condition storage unit which stores a plurality of touch operation recognition conditions each for recognizing one of types of touch operation, in association with each of touch operation start positions; and a touch recognizing unit, which recognizes the touch operation, using the touch operation recognition conditions stored in association with the touch operation start position detected by the touch operation start position detecting unit, to determine a type of the touch operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yoichi Ikeda, Masaki Yamauchi, Yoshihiro Kojima, Tomonari Takahashi, Kumi Harada
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Patent number: 9323343Abstract: An information processing method is performed by an information processing apparatus, for executing predetermined processing in relation to an object displayed on a screen. The information processing method includes: obtaining position information indicating positions detected for two or more parts of an operating body; calculating a control amount on a basis of the positions of the two or more parts, the positions being indicated in the position information; and controlling including displaying, on the screen, a control symbol including a first symbol which represents the control amount calculated in the calculating and a second symbol which represents a threshold to be a criterion for determining whether or not the control amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and executing the predetermined processing in a case where the control amount is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hiroyasu Imoto, Masaki Yamauchi