Patents by Inventor Ryosuke Aoki
Ryosuke Aoki 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: 20250013306Abstract: A vibration perception position control device includes a sound image localization setting unit, a vibration signal generation unit, a synchronization control unit, a guidance control unit, a sound control unit, and a vibration control unit. The sound image localization setting unit performs setting for localizing a sound image in a drive signal of a sound device on the basis of information indicating a direction of a sound source of each sound included in sound data. The vibration signal generation unit generates a vibration signal on the basis of information indicating vibration of a vibration device that applies vibration to a palm surface of a user. The synchronization control unit performs control to synchronize timings at which sound and vibration are generated. The guidance control unit controls presentation of guidance information for guiding the orientation and angle of the palm surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Toki TAKEDA, Arinobu NIIJIMA, Ryosuke AOKI, Shinji MIYAHARA
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Publication number: 20240402840Abstract: An input device includes: an operation unit including a plurality of protrusion units and configured to receive an operation by a body of an operator; a sensor configured to measure a 3-dimensional pressure value pressed by the plurality of protrusion units; a first elastic unit configured to inhibit the operation unit from being separated from the sensor; and a second elastic unit configured to weaken a force by which the operation unit presses the first elastic unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Ryosuke AOKI, Yuki KUBO, Yukio KOIKE
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Publication number: 20240377897Abstract: An input device includes: an operation unit including a plurality of protrusions and configured to receive an operation by a body of an operator; a sensor configured to measure a 3-dimensional pressure value pressed by the plurality of protrusions; and a pressing operation unit configured to press the sensor through an operation by the body of the operator independently of the operation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Ryosuke AOKI, Yuki KUBO, Yukio KOIKE
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Publication number: 20240353966Abstract: A user moves a cursor on a display of an operation terminal on the basis of a pressure change in X-axis and Y-axis directions, and performs a tap operation on the display on the basis of a pressure change in a Z-axis direction. However, in a case where the user performs a tap operation, not only a pressure in the X-axis and Y-axis directions but also a pressure in the Z-axis direction is applied, and erroneous measurement of a tap operation may occur.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2021Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Yuki KUBO, Ryosuke AOKI, Yukio KOIKE
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Publication number: 20240319800Abstract: There is provided an input device including: an operation unit that includes a plurality of protrusion portions and receives an operation by a body of an operator; and a sensor that measures a three-dimensional pressure value when being pressed by the plurality of protrusion portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Ryosuke AOKI, Yuki KUBO, Yukio KOIKE
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Publication number: 20240310928Abstract: An input system includes an input device and an information processing device, in which the input device includes: an operation unit that includes a plurality of protrusions and receives operation by a body of an operator; and a sensor that measures a three-dimensional pressure value obtained by pressing by the plurality of protrusions, and the information processing device includes: a measurement value receiving unit that receives data indicating a measurement value from the input device; and a measurement value processing unit that selects a character to be input on the basis of the measurement value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: September 19, 2024Inventors: Ryosuke AOKI, Yukio KOIKE
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Publication number: 20240181297Abstract: A light touch maintaining device includes: a contact load evaluation unit that determines whether a subject person is in a light touch state, on the basis of a contact load between the subject person and a support; and an exercise intervention control unit that controls exercise intervention on the subject person, to maintain a light touch state when the subject person is not in a light touch state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Masato SHINDO, Takashi ISEZAKI, Ryosuke AOKI
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Patent number: 11980791Abstract: A living body guidance device includes: a measurement unit 1 that measures biometric information of a user; a stimulus unit 2 that is installed in contact with the user's body and presents a tactile stimulus to the user; a database unit 3 that has a relationship between the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit and the biometric information according to the tactile stimulus recorded; an input unit 4 that sets target biometric information which is target biometric information that is desired of the user to realize; and a control unit 7 that, when there is a difference between current biometric information which is current biometric information of the user estimated based on the measurement result by the measurement unit and the target biometric information, controls the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit so that the difference is reduced, so as to guide the user so that the current biometric information approaches the target biometric information, based on the relationship recorded in thType: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Mana Sasagawa, Arinobu Niijima, Kana Eguchi, Ryosuke Aoki, Takashi Isezaki, Tomoki Watanabe, Toshitaka Kimura
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Patent number: 11978443Abstract: Implemented is a communication with reasonably smooth conversation even between people having different proficiency levels in a common language. Included are a voice recognition unit (14) that acquires a speech rate of a speaker and recognizes a voice on a speech content; and a call voice processing unit (12) that processes a part of a voice recognition result based on a result of comparing the acquired speech rate with a reference speech rate, and transmits a video on which a text character image of the voice recognition result having been processed is superimposed to a communication terminal TM of the speaker.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ryosuke Aoki, Munenori Koyasu, Naoki Oshima, Naoki Mukawa
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Publication number: 20240062673Abstract: A relaxation support device including: an electrical stimulation control unit configured to control electrical stimulation to a muscle different from a muscle to be relaxed based on a muscle activity of the muscle to be relaxed; and an electrical stimulation presentation unit configured to present the electrical stimulation to a muscle different from the muscle to be relaxed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Arinobu NIIJIMA, Toki TAKEDA, Ryosuke AOKI, Yukio KOIKE
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Patent number: 11837105Abstract: The number n of times of chewing is counted by chewing number of times calculation means (13b2) based on a change in the distance l from a photoreflector (50), which is received together with time t by measurement value receiving means (13b1). To vary hardness h of a bag (30) to a stage that can be sensed, according to the number n of times of chewing, a required air pressure is set according to the current number n of times, based on a hardness/air pressure correspondence recording unit (13g) in which stages that have a significant difference therebetween and are stored in association with the number n of times of chewing are recorded. To realize the set air pressure inside the bag (30), the amount of sucking performed using a vacuum pump 20 is controlled by air pressure control means (13b4).Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Mana Sasagawa, Arinobu Niijima, Ryosuke Aoki, Tomoki Watanabe, Tomohiro Yamada
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Patent number: 11687554Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is provided with a projective transform model including a plurality of nodes and a projection table, the plurality of nodes each holding a reference vector having a dimension corresponding to the dimension of multi-dimensional data. The projection table indicates the correspondence relation between the number of each node and a coordinate in a two-dimensional space as a projection target of the reference vector held by the node. First in a learning phase, multi-dimensional input data of a positive example and a negative example is acquired, the amplitude characteristic amounts thereof are calculated, and this amplitude characteristic amount data is learned as the reference vectors of the nodes for each sample.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Isezaki, Ryosuke Aoki, Tomoki Watanabe, Tomohiro Yamada
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Patent number: 11596336Abstract: A reliable technology for determining the masticatory side of the user is provided. First and second electromyographic waveforms respectively originating from left and right muscles related to masticatory actions of a user are acquired; a coefficient of correlation between pieces of information respectively extracted from the first and the second electromyographic waveforms is calculated as a first feature value; a second feature value is calculated from a power spectrum obtained by performing frequency analysis on the first electromyographic waveform; a third feature value is calculated from a power spectrum obtained by performing frequency analysis on the second electromyographic waveform; a learning model is generated by associating the first, second, and third feature values with a plurality of labels; and the masticatory side of the user is determined based on first, second, and third feature values calculated from a newly acquired electromyographic waveform and the learning model.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Arinobu Niijima, Takashi Isezaki, Ryosuke Aoki, Tomoki Watanabe, Tomohiro Yamada
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Patent number: 11510605Abstract: An instantaneous heartbeat reliability evaluation apparatus includes: extraction means which extracts waveforms having a maximum value corresponding to depolarization of a heart in a biosignal of an examinee; first calculation means which calculates an interval between two waveforms neighboring in a time series; dividing means which divides a signal output from measurement means into signals of predetermined periods; second calculation means which calculates feature quantities of a potential of each divided signal; first evaluation means which evaluates whether a measurement state of each divided signal is normal or abnormal on the basis of feature quantities; and second evaluation means which evaluates measurement states of two neighboring extracted waveforms on the basis of an evaluation result obtained by the first evaluation means and evaluates reliability of a measurement state of the interval between the waveforms depending on a type of the evaluated measurement states of the waveforms.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Kana Eguchi, Ryosuke Aoki, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Tomohiro Yamada
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Publication number: 20220233916Abstract: A living body guidance device includes: a measurement unit 1 that measures biometric information of a user; a stimulus unit 2 that is installed in contact with the user's body and presents a tactile stimulus to the user; a database unit 3 that has a relationship between the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit and the biometric information according to the tactile stimulus recorded; an input unit 4 that sets target biometric information which is target biometric information that is desired of the user to realize; and a control unit 7 that, when there is a difference between current biometric information which is current biometric information of the user estimated based on the measurement result by the measurement unit and the target biometric information, controls the tactile stimulus presented by the stimulus unit so that the difference is reduced, so as to guide the user so that the current biometric information approaches the target biometric information, based on the relationship recorded in thType: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Mana SASAGAWA, Arinobu NIJIMA, Kana EGUCHI, Ryosuke AOKI, Takashi ISEZAKI, Tomoki WATANABE, Toshitaka KIMURA
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Patent number: 11381534Abstract: A communication server device that mediates communication information transmitted and received between a plurality of communication terminals provides people who are participating in a conversation using real-time chat with information that can create a trigger to prompt them to end the conversation.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Aoki, Yusuke Kameyama, Naoki Ohshima, Naoki Mukawa
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Publication number: 20220125328Abstract: A time feature value calculation apparatus according to an embodiment includes an interpolation unit (182) and a time feature value calculation unit (183). In accordance with a variability tendency of a biological signal exhibited in time-series data of the biological signal resulting from an abnormality value process performed to eliminate an abnormality value from the biological signal in response to an input of the biological signal having periodicity, the interpolation unit interpolates a missing value in the biological signal in the time-series data of the biological signal resulting from the abnormality value process. The time feature value calculation unit calculates a time feature value focusing on the variability tendency of the biological signal measured over an arbitrary time period, from the interpolated time-series data of the biological signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kana EGUCHI, Ryosuke AOKI, Shigekuni KONDO, Takuya INDO
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Publication number: 20220012262Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is provided with a projective transform model including a plurality of nodes and a projection table, the plurality of nodes each holding a reference vector having a dimension corresponding to the dimension of multi-dimensional data. The projection table indicates the correspondence relation between the number of each node and a coordinate in a two-dimensional space as a projection target of the reference vector held by the node. First in a learning phase, multi-dimensional input data of a positive example and a negative example is acquired, the amplitude characteristic amounts thereof are calculated, and this amplitude characteristic amount data is learned as the reference vectors of the nodes for each sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi ISEZAKI, Ryosuke AOKI, Tomoki WATANABE, Tomohiro YAMADA
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Publication number: 20210321630Abstract: The present invention relates to a plastic oil and fat composition for bakery food dough, wherein the plastic oil and fat composition has excellent extensibility, a method for producing the same, bakery food dough, bakery food, or the like. The present invention also relates to a method for improving extensibility of a plastic oil and fat composition containing edible oil and fat, and a method for improving rising of a layered puffed food. The plastic oil and fat composition for bakery food dough of the present invention is characterized in that it contains 60% by mass to 100% by mass of an edible oil and fat, in which the edible oil and fat contains 0.5% by mass to 20% by mass of soybean hypocotyl oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Ryosuke AOKI, Chihiro ISHIKAWA, Satoshi SHIMURA
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Publication number: 20210258273Abstract: A communication server device that mediates communication information transmitted and received between a plurality of communication terminals provides people who are participating in a conversation using real-time chat with information that can create a trigger to prompt them to end the conversation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke AOKI, Yusuke KAMEYAMA, Naoki OSHIMA, Naoki MUKAWA