Patents by Inventor Mitsuhiro Aso
Mitsuhiro Aso 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: 20230169118Abstract: An information presenting method includes an obtaining step, a meal recommendation determining step, a presenting step, and a rating accepting step. In the obtaining step, user information pertaining to a user is obtained. In the meal recommendation determining step, based on the user information obtained in the obtaining step, a meal recommendation corresponding to a priority status determined to have a high priority level for the user is determined from among a plurality of statuses related to the user. In the presenting step, the meal recommendation determined in the meal recommendation determining step is presented to the user. In the rating accepting step, a rating by the user of the meal recommendation presented in the presenting step is accepted. The rating indicates whether the user cooked a food in the meal recommendation or whether the user ate the food.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Michiko SASAGAWA, Naohisa TANABE, Nobue NARITA
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Publication number: 20230008912Abstract: A server as an example of a menu recommendation system includes an evaluator, a processing unit, and an actual usage record acquirer. The evaluator recommends menus for a target period. The processing unit presents the menus recommended by the evaluator to a user. The actual usage record acquirer acquires, from the user, an actual usage record of the menus recommended by the evaluator at an arbitrary timing in the target period. When a difference occurs between first information regarding content of the menus recommended by the evaluator and second information regarding the actual usage record during a period from a start of the target period to the timing, the evaluator performs reward processing of rewarding the user according to the difference or re-recommendation processing of re-recommending menus for a remaining period by changing the content of the recommended menus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Nobue NARITA, Yoshitsugu URIU
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Publication number: 20220405335Abstract: An information presentation method is an information presentation method of presenting a user with a meal proposal selected from a plurality of meal proposals, and the information presentation method includes: obtaining user information associated with the user; determining condition information associated with the user based on the user information obtained and determining a plurality of intermediate words based on the condition information; presenting the user with the plurality of intermediate words; determining, of the plurality of meal proposals, a meal proposal corresponding to one or more intermediate words selected by the user; and presenting the user with the meal proposal determined. Each of the plurality of intermediate words is a word that corresponds to an attribute pertaining to one or more meal proposals among the plurality of meal proposals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Michiko SASAGAWA, Mitsuhiro ASO, Naohisa TANABE, Nobue NARITA
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Patent number: 11328223Abstract: An information processing method includes the processes of: obtaining food and drink data and presenting the food and drink data via a presentation device; generating options for the food and drink data, and presenting the options via the presentation device; generating selection reasons according to an option selected from among the options, and presenting the selection reasons via the presentation device; and controlling training of a machine learning model, in which the food and drink data is used, according to a result of an input in response to the selection reasons.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Mitsuhiro Aso
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Patent number: 11268702Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process that is executed using a cooking appliance and is obtained from a server device, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
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Patent number: 11017521Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Masahiro Ishii, Mitsuhiro Aso, Takayuki Hayami, Tomoko Kajimoto
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Publication number: 20210027198Abstract: An information processing method includes the processes of: obtaining food and drink data and presenting the food and drink data via a presentation device; generating options for the food and drink data, and presenting the options via the presentation device; generating selection reasons according to an option selected from among the options, and presenting the selection reasons via the presentation device; and controlling training of a machine learning model, in which the food and drink data is used, according to a result of an input in response to the selection reasons.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventor: Mitsuhiro ASO
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Publication number: 20200400316Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process that is executed using a cooking appliance and is obtained from a server device, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Masao NONAKA
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Publication number: 20200366030Abstract: An interlock system 50, provided with: a set of interlock terminals 51a, 51b disposed on a first connector 20; an interlock terminal connection part 52; a DC power supply 53; an interlock wiring 54 routed so that a set of interlock terminals of a plurality of first connectors are serially connected with respect to the DC power supply, in a state in which electricity can be conducted between the set of interlock terminals; a current cutoff detection unit 57 for detecting an interruption to the flow of electricity from the DC power supply to the interlock wiring; and a current cutoff control unit 58 for cutting off the flow of electricity between a power supply 10 and connector terminals 22a, 22b when an interruption to the flow of electricity from the DC power supply to the interlock wiring is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2018Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Keihin GO, Mitsuhiro ASO
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Patent number: 10801733Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process being executed using a cooking appliance, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
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Patent number: 10796601Abstract: First information including related information relating to a cooking action to be carried out by a cook is acquired, a presentation device is made to present the related information, it is determined whether or not an action of the cook that is specified based on second information is the cooking action, an index indicating a degree of attention of the cook recommended for the cooking action is acquired, and the information amount of the related information presented is altered in accordance with the degree of attention indicated by the acquired index.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Shinomoto, Hiroyuki Kubotani, Mitsuhiro Aso, Yasuhiro Yuki
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Patent number: 10762556Abstract: Order information indicating a purchase order is received from an ordering device. Whether a display terminal corresponding to the ordering device from which the order information has been sent exists or not is determined using information which indicates correspondences between ordering devices and display terminals. Message information indicating acceptance of the purchase order indicated in the order information is transmitted to the corresponding display terminal. It is determined whether status information indicating that the message information was displayed on the display of the corresponding display terminal has been received from the corresponding display terminal or not. A cancellation period during which a process for canceling the purchase order indicated in the order information is accepted is started upon reception of the status information.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Rinako Kamei, Hiroko Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20200226516Abstract: A method and system render a processor able to determine a sectioning position for sectioning a cuisine preparation process after the processor is initially unable to determine the sectioning position for sectioning the cuisine preparation processes into a) a pre-preservation process of steps preparing and preserving an ingredient using a predetermined preservation process that is no longer than its predetermined preservation period after which its quality deteriorates, and b) a finishing process performed no later than the end of the predetermined preservation period. A screen displays an area for receiving an instruction to switch the time for performing the finishing process, in response to the processor being rendered unable to section the cuisine preparation process into separately displayed pre-preservation steps and finishing steps when the input time at which the finishing process is to be performed is later than the end of the predetermined preservation period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hirokazu KITO, Atsuko OONO, Yoshimi NISHII, Mitsuhiro ASO, Akinori OZEKI
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Publication number: 20200211176Abstract: A bottle storage includes a housing portion that houses a bottle therein, a cooling-warming portion that is provided around the housing portion, a sensor which detects insertion of the bottle into the housing portion, an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion, a controller that causes the image capture portion to perform image capture for capturing the image of the bottle when the bottle is sensed to be inserted into the housing portion by the sensor, an information manager that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on recognition result of the bottle image captured by the control of the controller, and an output portion that outputs characteristics of a beverage of the brand identified by the information manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: YASUHIRO YUKI, MASAHIRO ISHII, MITSUHIRO ASO, TAKAYUKI HAYAMI, TOMOKO KAJIMOTO
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Patent number: 10621712Abstract: A bottle storage includes: a housing portion that houses a bottle therein; a cooling-warming portion (cooling-warming devices) that is provided around the housing portion; a rotation portion (rotation motor) that rotates the bottle housed in the housing portion; an image capture portion that captures an image of the bottle housed in the housing portion; a controller that controls the bottle rotation performed by the rotation portion and the image capture performed by the image capture portion, based on the bottle image captured by the image capture portion; an information manager (storage manager) that identifies at least a brand of the bottle, based on the bottle image captured by the control of the controller; and an output portion (display portion) that outputs at least one of the brand identified by the information manager and relevant information regarding the identified brand.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yuki, Masahiro Ishii, Mitsuhiro Aso, Takayuki Hayami, Tomoko Kajimoto
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Patent number: 10545632Abstract: A method includes causing a processor to execute determining a first operation from among a plurality of operations to be performed in sequence in cooking, and displaying a guide image on a display, the guide image including operation information that indicates a content of the first operation and ingredient information that indicates a name of an ingredient prepared for the cooking, where in the displaying of the guide image, when an ingredient on which a process has been performed in a second operation different from the first operation is used in the first operation, the name of the ingredient included in the ingredient information is replaced with ingredient process information indicating that the process has been performed on the ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
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Patent number: 10482315Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display unit that displays a first image; an obtaining unit that obtains a recognition result of recognizing a foodstuff serving as a cooking target on the basis of a photographed image obtained from a camera; a determination unit that determines whether a recognized foodstuff indicated by the recognition result is present in a superposable area where the first image can be superposed on the foodstuff; and a display control unit that causes the display unit to: (i) superpose the first image on the foodstuff when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is present in the superposable area; and (ii) superpose the first image on a second image when the determination unit determines that the foodstuff is not present in the superposable area.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Hiroyuki Kubotani
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Patent number: 10395553Abstract: A method includes: causing a processor to determine a first step from among a plurality of steps that should be executed in order in cooking; and causing the processor to display, on a display, a guide image including a first indicative contents of the determined first step and a second indicative contents of a second step that is a step that should be executed next to the first step.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro Aso, Masao Nonaka
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Publication number: 20190226683Abstract: A heating power control system includes a storage that stores cooking information including a cooking process being executed using a cooking appliance, a receiver that receives detection information indicating an absence or a presence of a user of the cooking appliance, and a controller that determines whether or not the user is absent for a predetermined period of time based on the detection information, determines, based on the cooking information, whether or not the cooking process is a heating process when the user is determined to be absent for the predetermined period of time, determines, based on the cooking information, a control method of controlling heating power of the cooking appliance when the cooking process is determined to be a heating process, and controls the heating power of the cooking appliance by the control method.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Mitsuhiro ASO, Masao NONAKA
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Patent number: 10355947Abstract: An information providing method is an information providing method for consumer electronics devices, a display device, and a server, all of which are connected via a public network, the information providing method including: (a) receiving, by the server from the consumer electronics devices, information pieces on the consumer electronics devices; (b) filtering, by the server, the information pieces on the consumer electronics devices received in step (a), to obtain one or more filtered information pieces, and performing, by the server, processing for generating display information for display, by the display device, in a specific display format; and (c) transmitting, by the server, the display information generated in step (b) to the display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Shigehiro Iida, Kazunori Yamada, Mitsuhiro Aso, Michiko Sasagawa, Masayuki Hiromoto