Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Abe

Noriyuki Abe 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).

  • Publication number: 20200318986
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: a map information storage unit that stores map information; a communication control unit that acquires traffic information; a travel history database in which a travel history of the vehicle with respect to each road is recorded; a route estimation unit that estimates a travel route of the vehicle by using the map information and the travel history database; a traveling time calculation unit that calculates actual traveling time of the vehicle with respect to the travel route and calculates predicted traveling time required when traveling the travel route estimated by the route estimation unit by using the traffic information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a map screen indicating the travel route and display the actual traveling time and the predicted traveling time together with the map screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI, Norimasa KISHI
  • Publication number: 20200317054
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: an assistance processing unit that executes assistance processing for providing a user with specified information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a list according to a sequential order of the assistance processing executed by the assistance processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI, Norimasa KISHI
  • Publication number: 20200304648
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a priority setting unit configured to set the lowest failure recovery priority for devices belonging to a first group for which it is not possible to determine how to recover from failures, among devices in which the failures have occurred, and set a failure recovery priority higher than the lowest failure recovery priority, for devices belonging to a second group for which it is possible to determine how to recover from the failures, among the devices in which the failures have occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20200233908
    Abstract: A dialogue system includes a response utterance selecting unit generating a response utterance original sentence to an input utterance; an input utterance emotion estimating unit estimating emotion of the input utterance by calculating input utterance emotion scores indicating degree of matching between the emotion represented by the input utterance and a plurality of emotions; and a response utterance modifying unit for calculating response utterance emotion scores of a response utterance original sentence as emotion scores for each of the plurality of emotions, modifying the response utterance original sentence by a method of modification determined by the values of input utterance emotion score and the response utterance emotion score, and thereby generating and outputting a response utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Noriyuki ABE, Kanako ONISHI, Kentaro TORISAWA, Canasai KRUENGKRAI, Yutaka KIDAWARA
  • Publication number: 20200227897
    Abstract: A bus bar electric wire includes a flat conductor which is formed of aluminum and inevitable impurities, and which has a cross-section of a substantially rectangular shape. An area of the cross-section is 15 mm2 or more and 240 mm2 or less. The flat conductor includes a bent portion having a predetermined bending R in a plane direction of the flat conductor, and a conductor part that is an outermost side of a bend in the bent portion has a plate width being set within a range satisfying uniform bending of the conductor part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Hiroki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20200183983
    Abstract: A dialogue system includes: a question generating unit receiving an input sentence from a user and generating a question using an expression included in the input sentence, by using a dependency relation; an answer obtaining unit inputting the question generated by the question generating unit to a question-answering system and obtaining an answer to the question from question-answering system; and an utterance generating unit for generating an output sentence to the input sentence, based on the answer obtained by the answer obtaining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Noriyuki ABE, Kanako ONISHI, Kentaro TORISAWA, Canasai KRUENGKRAI, Jonghoon OH, Ryu IIDA, Yutaka KIDAWARA
  • Publication number: 20200159755
    Abstract: A summary generating apparatus includes; a text storage device storing text with information indicating a portion to be focused on; word vector converters vectorizing each word of the text and adding an element indicating whether the word is focused on or not to the vector and thereby converting the text to a word vector sequence; an LSTM implemented by a neural network performing sequence-to-sequence type conversion, pre-trained by machine learning to output, in response to each of the word vectors of the word vector sequence input in a prescribed order, a summary of the text consisting of the words represented by the word sequence; and input units inputting each of the word vectors of the word vector sequence in the prescribed order to the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Ryu IIDA, Kentaro TORISAWA, Jonghoon OH, Canasai KRUENGKRAI, Yoshihiko ASAO, Noriyuki ABE, Junta MIZUNO, Julien KLOETZER
  • Patent number: 10528311
    Abstract: A display device that is to be connected with an information terminal includes: a video reception unit that receives video information about a screen including a cursor from the information terminal; a touch panel that brings up on display the screen based upon the video information received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the information terminal, displacement quantity information corresponding to a quantity of displacement from the display position of the cursor to the touch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Katsuya Matsuyuki, Noriyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 10475230
    Abstract: A device for generating a simulation image including circuitry which obtains information including normal vector map and light source information about a source of light to be applied to a surface of a material, calculates incident light information about incident light to each of pixels in an image to be generated as simulation of a finish of a pattern including a picture and an uneven shape on the surface, calculates a radiance of reflected light from the surface with respect to each of the pixels in the image, based on calculation information including the incident light information, the normal vector map, diffuse reflectance information about the picture, gloss information indicating gloss of the surface, and observation condition information about the material, and controls display of the image based on the radiance of each of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Abe, Koichi Takase
  • Publication number: 20190115020
    Abstract: A server system includes: a related word storage unit that stores information representing a relation between a plurality of registered words; a content storage unit that stores information about a content corresponding to any one of the plurality of words; a communication unit that acquires an input word; a related word search unit that searches for a related word, which is related to the acquired input word, by using the related word storage unit; and a content determination unit that provides a user with any of information about a content corresponding to the input word and information about a content corresponding to the related word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Makoto ORINO, Takuya FUJIEDA, Kimio OKAMOTO, Noriyuki ABE
  • Publication number: 20190042890
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory, the processor performing operations, the operations comprising: providing, based on a first reliability score being a value representing a degree of a relationship between an instance candidate being a candidate for an instance that is data included in a category being a set of predetermined data and a pattern being a characteristic expression in the predetermined data, a first label for at least a part of the instance candidates; and updating the first reliability score of the instance candidate provided with the first label.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki ABE, Takashi ONISHI, Shohei HIGASHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190025072
    Abstract: An information processing device is installed in a vehicle and comprises an action history DB which stores a plurality of action histories including a combination of a content that was played based on an instruction of a user and a situation in which the content was played, and an automatic playing unit which, when a current elapsed time as an elapsed time from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON or a current travel distance as a travel distance from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON matches any one of the action histories of the action history DB, plays a content included in the matching action history.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Akihiro KONDO, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20180339695
    Abstract: A collinear relationship is satisfied in which rotation speeds of first to third rotation elements and rotation speeds of fourth to sixth rotation elements are arranged respectively in this sequence on a single straight line in a collinear diagram. The first and fourth rotation elements are connected with first and second power sources respectively. The second and fifth rotation elements are connected with first and second driven units respectively. The second and sixth rotation elements are connected with each other by a first connecting mechanism in a way that rotating directions thereof are the same, and rotation speed of the former is greater than that of the later. The third and fifth rotation elements are connected with each other by a second connecting mechanism in a way that rotating directions thereof are the same, and rotation speed of the former is greater than that of the later.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazutaka KAWAHARA, Noriyuki ABE, Shigemitsu AKUTSU
  • Patent number: 10137778
    Abstract: A content startup control device includes: a reception unit that receives an instruction from a user to select a content; a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires information from a vehicle and/or information on traveling as vehicle information; a startup recording unit that stores the vehicle information, which is acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit when the content is selected or started up in response to the instruction received by the reception unit, as a startup record of the content; a condition creation unit that creates a startup condition under which the content is to be started up based on the startup record; and a content startup control unit that, if the vehicle information acquired from the vehicle information acquisition unit corresponds to the startup condition, proposes startup of a content related to the startup condition or starts up the content related to the startup condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Noriyuki Abe, Kimio Okamoto, Tetsuya Yamada, Takuya Fujieda
  • Patent number: 10056079
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device according to the present invention includes a voice input receiving unit that receives input information with a voice, an output control unit that transmits the input information to a predetermined external device, and then outputs a plurality of received content candidates according to order of a priority degree of the content candidates, and a content execution unit that executes the content candidate upon receipt of specification of any of the output content candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Takuya Fujieda, Noriyuki Abe, Makoto Orino, Kimio Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20180108168
    Abstract: A device for generating a simulation image including circuitry which obtains information including normal vector map and light source information about a source of light to be applied to a surface of a material, calculates incident light information about incident light to each of pixels in an image to be generated as simulation of a finish of a pattern including a picture and an uneven shape on the surface, calculates a radiance of reflected light from the surface with respect to each of the pixels in the image, based on calculation information including the incident light information, the normal vector map, diffuse reflectance information about the picture, gloss information indicating gloss of the surface, and observation condition information about the material, and controls display of the image based on the radiance of each of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki ABE, Koichi TAKASE
  • Publication number: 20180108154
    Abstract: An image processing device including circuitry that renders display data of a material based on illumination information, material information including texture information of the material, and a relative positional relationship of a light source, a display surface of a display on which an image of the material is displayed, and a viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki MIYOSHI, Noriyuki ABE
  • Patent number: 9813170
    Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal includes: a measurement unit that measures electric field strengths of radio waves for wireless communication emitted from information terminals located in a vicinity thereof; a main terminal identifying unit that identifies a predetermined main terminal among the information terminals; and a communication unit that establishes wireless communication with the identified main terminal and transmits a first electric field strength for another information terminal than the main terminal measured by the measurement unit, via the wireless communication to the main terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimio Okamoto, Noriyuki Abe, Yusuke Matsumoto, Tetsuya Yamada, Takuya Fujieda
  • Patent number: 9766801
    Abstract: An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryohei Kato, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Hidetaka Suzuki, Kimio Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9684523
    Abstract: In an in-vehicle information system including a portable information terminal and an in-vehicle device, the information terminal includes: a storage unit that stores applications; a control unit that executes a start-up application; a running application determination unit that determines an application that is executed by the control unit by a predetermined time interval; a comparison unit that compares the start-up application and the running application; and a restriction information transmission unit that transmits to the in-vehicle device restriction information corresponding to contents of action regulation imposed on the running application while a vehicle is in a traveling state based upon a result of the comparison by the comparison unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuya Matsuyuki, Noriyuki Abe, Masafumi Naitou, Norikazu Nara