Patents by Inventor Mototsugu Kubota
Mototsugu Kubota 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: 11797261Abstract: An on-vehicle device includes: a plurality of agent function units configured to provide services including causing an output unit to output an audio response in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a content management unit configured to determine whether or not the instructed content is stored in an in-vehicle storage device mounted in the vehicle or a portable storage medium brought into the vehicle when the playback of the content is instructed by the utterance of the occupant, and to cause the playback device to play back the content present in the in-vehicle storage device or the portable storage medium when the instructed content is determined as being stored in the in-vehicle storage device or the portable storage medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshikatsu Kuramochi, Mototsugu Kubota
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Patent number: 11537677Abstract: A recommendation system includes: a display control unit configured to use a rank of a selection evaluation element selected from each of the plurality of evaluation elements, thereby allowing a display device to display a rank distance screen in which a user icon indicating the user and a first proposal activity icon indicating the proposal activity are arranged such that a distance between the user icon and the first proposal activity icon becomes shorter as the rank of the selection evaluation element assigned to the proposal activity becomes higher, the display device being used by the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroyuki Sakaguchi
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Patent number: 11518398Abstract: According to an embodiment, an agent system includes: a plurality of agent functions mounted on a plurality of different objects and configured to each provide a service which includes a service for causing an output to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of a user; and an information provider configured to include attribute information associated with the same kind of agent function in response content by the same kind of agent function and provide the attribute information to a portable mobile terminal of the user when the same kind of agent function is in the plurality of objects among the plurality of agent functions.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Honda, Toshikatsu Kuramochi, Yusuke Oi, Mototsugu Kubota
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Patent number: 11494389Abstract: A recommendation system includes: an input operation mode recognition unit configured to recognize a mode of an input operation from a user to an input device; a user mood estimation unit configured to estimate a mood of the user, based on the mode of the input operation; a proposal activity information acquisition unit configured to access an activity database, to extract a proposal activity suitable for the mood of the user, and to acquire information on the proposal activity; and an output control unit configured to allow an output device to output the information on the proposal activity, the output device being used by the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakaguchi, Mototsugu Kubota
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Patent number: 11355114Abstract: An agent apparatus includes a plurality of agent function portions each providing a service including outputting a voice response from an output in response to an occupant's speech in a vehicle, and a selector referring to history information indicating a history of a quality of a service executed by each of the plurality of agent function portions with respect to a content of the occupant's speech, and selecting an agent function portion making a response to the occupant's speech in the vehicle from among the plurality of agent function portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Mototsugu Kubota, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
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Patent number: 11325605Abstract: An information providing device of an embodiment is an information providing device including an acquirer that acquires personal information of a plurality of occupants in a moving body, a processor that generates integrated personal information by combining at least a part of the personal information of the plurality of occupants acquired by the acquirer, and an information provider that provides information to the plurality of occupants based on the integrated personal information processed by the processor.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20210303648Abstract: A recommendation system includes: a display control unit configured to use a rank of a selection evaluation element selected from each of the plurality of evaluation elements, thereby allowing a display device to display a rank distance screen in which a user icon indicating the user and a first proposal activity icon indicating the proposal activity are arranged such that a distance between the user icon and the first proposal activity icon becomes shorter as the rank of the selection evaluation element assigned to the proposal activity becomes higher, the display device being used by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroyuki Sakaguchi
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Publication number: 20210303581Abstract: A recommendation system includes: an input operation mode recognition unit configured to recognize a mode of an input operation from a user to an input device; a user mood estimation unit configured to estimate a mood of the user, based on the mode of the input operation; a proposal activity information acquisition unit configured to access an activity database, to extract a proposal activity suitable for the mood of the user, and to acquire information on the proposal activity; and an output control unit configured to allow an output device to output the information on the proposal activity, the output device being used by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Hiroyuki Sakaguchi, Mototsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20200317209Abstract: An information providing device of an embodiment is an information providing device including an acquirer that acquires personal information of a plurality of occupants in a moving body, a processor that generates integrated personal information by combining at least a part of the personal information of the plurality of occupants acquired by the acquirer, and an information provider that provides information to the plurality of occupants based on the integrated personal information processed by the processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20200319841Abstract: An agent apparatus includes a display controller configured to perform control of causing a display to display an agent which provides a service including causing an output unit to output a response using speech in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle, and a controller configured to control the agent on the basis of a situation of the occupant, an operating situation of the agent, and an operating situation of the vehicle, wherein, when interruption control occurs in the course of service provision according to the agent, the controller performs control of displaying interruption information that is information about the interruption and sub-interruption related information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota, Toshikatsu Kuramochi, Yusuke Oi
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Publication number: 20200319634Abstract: An agent device includes an in-vehicle agent function unit mounted in a vehicle and configured to provide a service including causing an output unit to output a voice response in accordance with speech of a user, an in-vehicle communication unit configured to cause the in-vehicle agent function unit to be connected to a network via an in-vehicle communication device, and a terminal communication unit configured to cause the in-vehicle agent function unit to be connected to the network via a general-purpose terminal. A state in which the in-vehicle agent function unit is connected to the network is selected from a first connection state implemented via the in-vehicle communication unit and a second connection state implemented via the terminal communication unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
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Publication number: 20200317055Abstract: An agent device includes a plurality of agent functions configured to provide a service including a response in response to speech of an occupant of a vehicle, wherein a first agent function that is active among the plurality of agent functions is configured to activate another agent function upon receiving an instruction to activate the other agent function.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Masaki Kurihara, Mototsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20200317215Abstract: According to an embodiment, an agent system includes: a plurality of agent functions mounted on a plurality of different objects and configured to each provide a service which includes a service for causing an output to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of a user; and an information provider configured to include attribute information associated with the same kind of agent function in response content by the same kind of agent function and provide the attribute information to a portable mobile terminal of the user when the same kind of agent function is in the plurality of objects among the plurality of agent functions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Hiroshi Honda, Toshikatsu Kuramochi, Yusuke Oi, Mototsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20200321001Abstract: An agent apparatus includes a plurality of agent function portions each providing a service including outputting a voice response from an output in response to an occupant's speech in a vehicle, and a selector referring to history information indicating a history of a quality of a service executed by each of the plurality of agent function portions with respect to a content of the occupant's speech, and selecting an agent function portion making a response to the occupant's speech in the vehicle from among the plurality of agent function portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Mototsugu Kubota, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
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Publication number: 20200301654Abstract: An on-vehicle device includes: a plurality of agent function units configured to provide services including causing an output unit to output an audio response in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a content management unit configured to determine whether or not the instructed content is stored in an in-vehicle storage device mounted in the vehicle or a portable storage medium brought into the vehicle when the playback of the content is instructed by the utterance of the occupant, and to cause the playback device to play back the content present in the in-vehicle storage device or the portable storage medium when the instructed content is determined as being stored in the in-vehicle storage device or the portable storage medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Toshikatsu Kuramochi, Mototsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20200286479Abstract: An agent device includes: a plurality of agent function units, each of the plurality of agent function units being configured to provide services including outputting a response to an output unit in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; a recognizer configured to recognize a request included in the occupant's utterance; and an agent selector configured to output a request recognized by the recognizer to the plurality of agent function units and select an agent function unit which outputs a response to the occupant's utterance to the output unit among the plurality of agent function units on the basis of the result of a response of each of the plurality of agent function units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Masaki Kurihara, Shinichi Kikuchi, Hiroshi Honda, Mototsugu Kubota, Yusuke Oi
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Publication number: 20200286452Abstract: There is provided an agent device, including an agent functional unit configured to provide a service including causing an output unit to output a response using a voice, in response to an utterance of an occupant in a vehicle; and a display controller configured to cause a display provided in the vehicle to display an animation related to an agent corresponding to the agent functional unit, wherein the display controller is configured to cause the display to display the animation in different types between a case where the animation is displayed in a first display area of the display, and a case where the animation is displayed in a second display area which is different from the first display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Sawako Furuya
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Patent number: 9760270Abstract: A vehicular electronic device such that volume increase/decrease adjustment can be easily performed using a volume switch displayed on a touch-panel type display unit. Upon detection of a touch operation in a reference volume switch region displayed in an operation region of the display unit, an operation area enabling volume increase/decrease is enlarged from the reference volume switch region to a wide-region volume switch region. Thus, the operation for increasing or decreasing (adjusting) volume (volume increase/decrease operation) can be easily performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Tomohisa Manabe, Junichiro Onaka
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Publication number: 20160062626Abstract: A vehicular electronic device such that volume increase/decrease adjustment can be easily performed using a volume switch displayed on a touch-panel type display unit. Upon detection of a touch operation in a reference volume switch region displayed in an operation region of the display unit, an operation area enabling volume increase/decrease is enlarged from the reference volume switch region to a wide-region volume switch region. Thus, the operation for increasing or decreasing (adjusting) volume (volume increase/decrease operation) can be easily performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Tomohisa Manabe, Junichiro Onaka