Patents by Inventor Mikiko Matsuo
Mikiko Matsuo 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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Patent number: 11830342Abstract: A control method for a notification system including a notification device located in a facility, the control method including: detecting a visitor to the facility based on detection information from a first sensor; obtaining a current relationship between a first user and a second user present in the facility; and when a visitor to the first user is detected in the facility, notifying the second user of a visit by the visitor by using the notification device based on the current relationship.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yoshiyuki Miyabe, Mikiko Matsuo
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Publication number: 20220395219Abstract: A skin state determination method includes: acquiring a first measurement result including data obtained by a spectral camera measuring the skin of a user at a first time point, second time points before the first time point being different from each other; estimating, on the basis of the first measurement result, a first estimation result including at least one of a skin moisture content or hidden blemish conditions of the user at the first time point; and determining a skin state of the user on the basis of the first estimation result and second estimation results based on second measurement results, each of the second measurement results including data obtained by the spectral camera measuring the skin of the user at each of the second time points.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: MIZUHO SAKAKIBARA, NAOMI TOMIYAMA, ATSUSHI SASO, JUNICHI FUJIHIRA, MIKIKO MATSUO, YUICHI AOKI, MOTOJI OHMORI
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Patent number: 11443002Abstract: An information presenting method according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring instruction information indicative of a preferred taste of a user with respect to a food product; calculating a first feature quantity indicative of a feature of a taste indicated by the instruction information; calculating, from a food product data base which stores a temporal change in a content of each of one or more components for each of one or more food products, progress information indicative of a temporal change in a second feature quantity indicative of a feature of the taste of each of the food products, extracting a food product for which a distance between the first feature quantity and the progress information is equal to or less than a reference value; and presenting the extracted food product.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Rinako Kamei, Atsushi Saso, Mizuho Sakakibara, Motoji Ohmori, Mikiko Matsuo
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Publication number: 20220198908Abstract: A control method for a notification system including a notification device located in a facility, the control method including: detecting a visitor to the facility based on detection information from a first sensor; obtaining a current relationship between a first user and a second user present in the facility; and when a visitor to the first user is detected in the facility, notifying the second user of a visit by the visitor by using the notification device based on the current relationship.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Yoshiyuki MIYABE, Mikiko MATSUO
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Publication number: 20210103625Abstract: An information presenting method according to the present disclosure includes: acquiring instruction information indicative of a preferred taste of a user with respect to a food product; calculating a first feature quantity indicative of a feature of a taste indicated by the instruction information; calculating, from a food product data base which stores a temporal change in a content of each of one or more components for each of one or more food products, progress information indicative of a temporal change in a second feature quantity indicative of a feature of the taste of each of the food products, extracting a food product for which a distance between the first feature quantity and the progress information is equal to or less than a reference value; and presenting the extracted food product.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Rinako KAMEI, Atsushi SASO, Mizuho SAKAKIBARA, Motoji OHMORI, Mikiko MATSUO
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Patent number: 10959657Abstract: A stress management system comprises: a first sensor that detects biological data of a user; a second sensor that detects life log data indicating an action history of the user; a generator that generates stress data using the biological data, the stress data indicating a time series variation of a stress level of the user; an estimator that, when the stress level of the user included in the stress data exceeds a first threshold, estimates whether or not stress of the user is interpersonal stress caused by contact with another person, using the life log data; and a notifier that notifies the user of a result of the estimation by the estimator and notifies a notification target person different from the user of notification content based on the result of the estimation by the estimator.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuumi Kaneko, Atsushi Saso, Naomi Tomiyama, Takamichi Matsusako, Mikiko Matsuo, Yuichi Aoki, Motoji Ohmori
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Patent number: 10952658Abstract: An information processing method includes, by a computer: acquiring biological information on a first person; acquiring an image obtained by imaging the first person in synchronization with acquisition timing of the biological information; identifying person identification information for identifying the first person based on the image; storing, in a storage unit, the identified person identification information, the acquired biological information, and the acquired image in association with one another; acquiring the person identification information on the first person selected by a second person different from the first person, and state information indicating a state of the first person selected by the second person; and extracting, from the storage unit, the image associated with the acquired person identification information and the biological information corresponding to the acquired state information.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Masaru Yamaoka, Mikiko Matsuo
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Patent number: 10846966Abstract: A system includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric data of a person in a first region and a presuming unit that presumes that the person is a person to be tracked based on the biometric data. The system also includes a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region and a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region. The system further includes a monitoring unit that tracks the target person in the second region by checking the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the target person.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Saso, Takamichi Matsusako, Naomi Tomiyama, Akira Asai, Mikiko Matsuo, Yuichi Aoki, Motoji Ohmori, Eiichiro Okuda
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Patent number: 10734103Abstract: There is provided a stress management system that manages psychological stress of a user. The system includes: a first sensor that detects biological data of a user; a second sensor that detects life log data indicating an activity history of the user; a generator that generates stress data using the biological data, the stress data indicating a time series variation in a stress level of the user; an estimator that, when the stress level included in the stress data exceeds a threshold value, estimates whether or not stress experienced by the user is interpersonal stress that is caused by contact with other people, using the life log data; and a notifier that notifies the user of a result of the estimation by the estimator.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuumi Kaneko, Atsushi Saso, Naomi Tomiyama, Takamichi Matsusako, Mikiko Matsuo, Yuichi Aoki, Motoji Ohmori
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Publication number: 20200058179Abstract: A system includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric data of a person in a first region and a presuming unit that presumes that the person is a person to be tracked based on the biometric data. The system also includes a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region and a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region. The system further includes a monitoring unit that tracks the target person in the second region by checking the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the target person.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi SASO, Takamichi MATSUSAKO, Naomi TOMIYAMA, Akira ASAI, Mikiko MATSUO, Yuichi AOKI, Motoji OHMORI, Eiichiro OKUDA
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Patent number: 10490002Abstract: A system includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric data of a person in a first region and a presuming unit calculating, from the biometric data, a stress index and presuming that the person is a person to be tracked based on the calculated stress index. The system also includes a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region and a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region. The system further includes a monitoring unit that tracks the target person in the second region by checking the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the target person.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Saso, Takamichi Matsusako, Naomi Tomiyama, Akira Asai, Mikiko Matsuo, Yuichi Aoki, Motoji Ohmori, Eiichiro Okuda
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Publication number: 20190325676Abstract: A system includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric data of a person in a first region and a presuming unit calculating, from the biometric data, a stress index and presuming that the person is a person to be tracked based on the calculated stress index. The system also includes a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region and a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region. The system further includes a monitoring unit that tracks the target person in the second region by checking the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the target person.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi SASO, Takamichi MATSUSAKO, Naomi TOMIYAMA, Akira ASAI, Mikiko MATSUO, Yuichi AOKI, Motoji OHMORI, Eiichiro OKUDA
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Publication number: 20190298241Abstract: An information processing method includes, by a computer: acquiring biological information on a first person; acquiring an image obtained by imaging the first person in synchronization with acquisition timing of the biological information; identifying person identification information for identifying the first person based on the image; storing, in a storage unit, the identified person identification information, the acquired biological information, and the acquired image in association with one another; acquiring the person identification information on the first person selected by a second person different from the first person, and state information indicating a state of the first person selected by the second person; and extracting, from the storage unit, the image associated with the acquired person identification information and the biological information corresponding to the acquired state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Masaru YAMAOKA, Mikiko MATSUO
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Patent number: 10422479Abstract: A control method comprises: receiving from a first vehicle, first information including a first required amount of the energy source; receiving from a second vehicle, second information including a second required amount of the energy source; and determining, when a total sum of required amounts of the energy source received from two or more vehicles including the first vehicle and the second vehicle is larger than a remaining amount in a storage reservoir, i) a first reserved supply amount of the energy source for the first vehicle, wherein the first reserved supply amount is smaller than the first required amount, and ii) a second reserved supply amount of the energy source for the second vehicle. The second reserved supply amount is determined within a range where a total sum of the first reserved supply amount and the second reserved supply amount does not exceed the remaining amount.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideshi Aoki, Akira Asai, Mikiya Nakata, Mikiko Matsuo, Norihiro Miyamura, Ryunosuke Inui
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Patent number: 10388093Abstract: A system includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric data of a person in a first region and a presuming unit calculating, from the biometric data, a stress index and presuming that the person is a person to be tracked based on the calculated stress index. The system also includes a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region and a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region. The system further includes a monitoring unit that checks the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the target person to track the target person in the second region and determine whether the suspicious person enters the second region. The system also includes a warning unit that emits a warning when the monitoring unit determines that the target person enters the second region.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Saso, Takamichi Matsusako, Naomi Tomiyama, Akira Asai, Mikiko Matsuo, Yuichi Aoki, Motoji Ohmori, Eiichiro Okuda
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Publication number: 20190206162Abstract: A system includes a biometric sensor that detects biometric data of a person in a first region and a presuming unit calculating, from the biometric data, a stress index and presuming that the person is a person to be tracked based on the calculated stress index. The system also includes a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region and a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region. The system further includes a monitoring unit that checks the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the target person to track the target person in the second region and determine whether the suspicious person enters the second region. The system also includes a warning unit that emits a warning when the monitoring unit determines that the target person enters the second region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi SASO, Takamichi MATSUSAKO, Naomi TOMIYAMA, Akira ASAI, Mikiko MATSUO, Yuichi AOKI, Motoji OHMORI, Eiichiro OKUDA
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Patent number: 10269198Abstract: A suspicious person report system includes: a biometric sensor detecting biometric data of a person in a first region; a presuming unit calculating, from the biometric data, a stress index and presuming that the person is a suspicious person when the calculated stress index is higher than a reference value; a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region; a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region, the second region being a route after the first region before a third region; a monitoring unit checking the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the suspicious person to thereby track the suspicious person in the second region and determine whether the suspicious person enters the third region; and a warning unit emitting a warning when the monitoring unit determines that the suspicious person enters the third region.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Saso, Takamichi Matsusako, Naomi Tomiyama, Akira Asai, Mikiko Matsuo, Yuichi Aoki, Motoji Ohmori, Eiichiro Okuda
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Publication number: 20180078188Abstract: A stress management system comprises: a first sensor that detects biological data of a user; a second sensor that detects life log data indicating an action history of the user; a generator that generates stress data using the biological data, the stress data indicating a time series variation of a stress level of the user; an estimator that, when the stress level of the user included in the stress data exceeds a first threshold, estimates whether or not stress of the user is interpersonal stress caused by contact with another person, using the life log data; and a notifier that notifies the user of a result of the estimation by the estimator and notifies a notification target person different from the user of notification content based on the result of the estimation by the estimator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: YUUMI KANEKO, ATSUSHI SASO, NAOMI TOMIYAMA, TAKAMICHI MATSUSAKO, MIKIKO MATSUO, YUICHI AOKI, MOTOJI OHMORI
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Publication number: 20180061159Abstract: A suspicious person report system includes: a biometric sensor detecting biometric data of a person in a first region; a presuming unit calculating, from the biometric data, a stress index and presuming that the person is a suspicious person when the calculated stress index is higher than a reference value; a first camera acquiring first image data of the person in the first region; a second camera acquiring second image data of the person in a second region, the second region being a route after the first region before a third region; a monitoring unit checking the second image data with the first image data corresponding to the suspicious person to thereby track the suspicious person in the second region and determine whether the suspicious person enters the third region; and a warning unit emitting a warning when the monitoring unit determines that the suspicious person enters the third region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: ATSUSHI SASO, TAKAMICHI MATSUSAKO, NAOMI TOMIYAMA, AKIRA ASAI, MIKIKO MATSUO, YUICHI AOKI, MOTOJI OHMORI, EIICHIRO OKUDA
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Publication number: 20180060536Abstract: There is provided a stress management system that manages psychological stress of a user. The system includes: a first sensor that detects biological data of a user; a second sensor that detects life log data indicating an activity history of the user; a generator that generates stress data using the biological data, the stress data indicating a time series variation in a stress level of the user; an estimator that, when the stress level included in the stress data exceeds a threshold value, estimates whether or not stress experienced by the user is interpersonal stress that is caused by contact with other people, using the life log data; and a notifier that notifies the user of a result of the estimation by the estimator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: YUUMI KANEKO, ATSUSHI SASO, NAOMI TOMIYAMA, TAKAMICHI MATSUSAKO, MIKIKO MATSUO, YUICHI AOKI, MOTOJI OHMORI