Patents by Inventor Masanori OGAWARA

Masanori OGAWARA 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: 11971915
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to enabling acquisition of information of an argument corresponding to a case. The present disclosure is a language processing apparatus which refers to an argument emergence history database 14 which stores argument emergence patterns associated with cases and arguments of verbs for each meaning of a word or usage of a verb, acquires an argument emergence pattern which matches a verb and a case of the verb included in a request from a user from the argument emergence history database 14, and generates a response to the user using an argument included in the argument emergence pattern acquired from the argument emergence history database 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ogura, Masanori Ogawara, Takahiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230290341
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a system having a function of, in a case where there is ambiguity of being incapable of specifying an entity or content referred to by a noun or a noun equivalent expression in utterance exchanged in a communication system via a computer network, searching for accurate meaning or information serving as a clue to understand the meaning using only information regarding an utterance sentence or an utterer as a clue, instead of a response to a question sentence created by a user, and presenting a result to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi OGURA, Masanori OGAWARA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220382790
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to enabling acquisition of information of an argument corresponding to a case. The present disclosure is a language processing apparatus which refers to an argument emergence history database 14 which stores argument emergence patterns associated with cases and arguments of verbs for each meaning of a word or usage of a verb, acquires an argument emergence pattern which matches a verb and a case of the verb included in a request from a user from the argument emergence history database 14, and generates a response to the user using an argument included in the argument emergence pattern acquired from the argument emergence history database 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi OGURA, Masanori OGAWARA, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11436751
    Abstract: An objective of the present disclosure is to enable estimation of an attention target of communication parties even if there are a plurality of objects having the same appearance in a space. An attention target estimation device 10 according to the present disclosure acquires a first-person point-of-view video IMi captured from a perspective of a person and a line-of-sight position gi of a person when the first-person point-of-view video IMi is captured, identifies positions in a 3D space of objects 31, 32, and 33 extracted from the first-person point-of-view video IMi, and determines an object close to the line-of-sight position gi of the person among the objects 31, 32, and 33 included in the first-person point-of-view video IMi as the attention target of the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishihara, Takayuki Nakachi, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masanori Ogawara
  • Publication number: 20210304434
    Abstract: An objective of the present disclosure is to enable estimation of an attention target of communication parties even if there are a plurality of objects having the same appearance in a space. An attention target estimation device 10 according to the present disclosure acquires a first-person point-of-view video IMi captured from a perspective of a person and a line-of-sight position gi of a person when the first-person point-of-view video IMi is captured, identifies positions in a 3D space of objects 31, 32, and 33 extracted from the first-person point-of-view video IMi, and determines an object close to the line-of-sight position gi of the person among the objects 31, 32, and 33 included in the first-person point-of-view video IMi as the attention target of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ISHIHARA, Takayuki NAKACHI, Takahiro YAMAGUCHI, Masanori OGAWARA