Patents by Inventor Satoshi Hosokawa

Satoshi Hosokawa 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).

  • Patent number: 11915334
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a presence/absence prediction unit that performs prediction of presence/absence of a user at a visit destination on a basis of sensed data, and a providing unit that provides a result of the prediction to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Reiko Kirihara, Norihiro Takahashi, Saki Yokoyama, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11386785
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may receive an event detected in a geographic space by a mobile object of a plurality of mobile objects. The embodiment may determine a reliability of the event based on a reliability associated with the mobile object. The embodiment may store the event in a mobile object database based on the reliability of the even being above a reference reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Makoto Tanibayashi, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11200798
    Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for grouping a plurality moving objects capable of communicating with a server computer. The server computer performs the method comprising: predicting travel routes of the plurality of moving objects, using current traveling data and travel history data; grouping the plurality of moving objects into at least one group, using the predicted travel routes; determining a representative moving object in each group; and communicating with the representative moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Asuka Tokunaga, Satoshi Hosokawa, Shoichiro Watanabe, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11163806
    Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a computer system, and/or a computer program product. An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for obtaining one or more candidates for a relationship type and its label. The method comprises the following steps: analyzing a document annotated with entity types, the analysis comprising counting the number of pairs of co-occurring entity types in each sentence in the document, and judging whether there exists, in the document, a candidate for a label of a relationship type which shows relationship between or among the co-occurring entity types and, if the judgment is positive, storing a candidate for the relationship type and a candidate for its label; and outputting a result of the analysis. The method may further comprise, if the judgment is negative, storing a candidate for the relationship type without a candidate for its label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Atsushi Ono, Chikako Oyanagi
  • Patent number: 11062063
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for generation of vehicle travel data. Past-travel data including previously taken trips, along with metadata including, but not limited to, vehicle type, vehicle model, navigation device model, are obtained and classified. A travel route for simulation data is selected. Data from various previous trips are combined to create a simulation data set for the travel route. This data is based on actual vehicle data. This can enable a new level of accuracy for data analysis and simulations based on this data as compared with purely simulated data. Actual vehicle data accounts for driver behavior, road obstacles, signage, vegetation, vehicle characteristics, and other factors that may not be able to be captured with purely simulated traffic data. Using the data generated by disclosed embodiments enables these factors to be considered in traffic analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shoichiro Watanabe, Mari A. Fukuda, Yasutaka Nishimura, Asuka Unno, Satoshi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 11003843
    Abstract: A system comprises a display unit; an input device configured to receive user input; and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the display unit and the input device. The processing unit is configured to cause the display unit to display a plurality of lines of natural language text on the display unit together with corresponding annotations including a plurality of relation lines. The processing unit is further configured to adjust spacing between each of the plurality of lines of natural language text based on the corresponding annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Keisuke Nitta, Yuka Nomura, Atsushi Ono, Chikako Oyanagi
  • Patent number: 10788330
    Abstract: Generating routes based on aggregated path data includes accumulating trajectory data from a plurality of users, wherein data entries in the trajectory data each include an origin and a destination. When a request for a route from a designated location to a particular destination is received from a particular user, one or more of the data entries are identified as relevant to the request for the route when the origin of a particular data entry is similar to the designated location and the destination of the particular data entry is similar to the particular destination. Route recommendations are generated for the particular user based on one or more data entries identified as relevant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari Fukuda, Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10745010
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for detecting anomalous vehicle behavior. It is determined whether a plurality of received car probes include one or more indicators of unusual behavior. An object agent corresponding to a vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior is selected. A search is performed to select one or more vehicles surrounding the vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior. An information entropy is determined from received car probes, for the vehicle having a car probe that includes an indicator of unusual behavior and for each of the selected surrounding vehicles. An anomalous point value is calculated for each vehicle, based on the determined information entropies. In response to determining that the anomalous point value for a car exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the vehicle is flagged as a vehicle exhibiting anomalous behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mari Abe Fukuda, Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20200218854
    Abstract: A system comprises a display unit; an input device configured to receive user input; and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the display unit and the input device. The processing unit is configured to cause the display unit to display a plurality of lines of natural language text on the display unit together with corresponding annotations including a plurality of relation lines. The processing unit is further configured to adjust spacing between each of the plurality of lines of natural language text based on the corresponding annotations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Keisuke Nitta, Yuka Nomura, Atsushi Ono, Chikako Oyanagi
  • Publication number: 20200193546
    Abstract: [Problem] To enable more accurate notification of presence/absence information about a user at a visit destination to be given to a visitor. [Solution] Provided is an information processing device including a presence/absence prediction unit that performs prediction of presence/absence of a user at a visit destination on a basis of sensed data, and a providing unit that provides a result of the prediction to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Reiko KIRIHARA, Norihiro TAKAHASHI, Saki YOKOYAMA, Satoshi HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200193338
    Abstract: [Problem] To make it possible to create more appropriate action plan of a plurality of users on the basis of a relationship among the plurality of users. [Solution] There is provided an information processing apparatus including a relationship estimation unit configured to estimate a relationship among a plurality of users on the basis of sensing data, and an action plan creation unit configured to create an action plan of the plurality of users on the basis of a result of the estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Reiko KIRIHARA, Norihiro TAKAHASHI, Saki YOKOYAMA, Satoshi HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200184820
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may receive an event detected in a geographic space by a mobile object of a plurality of mobile objects. The embodiment may determine a reliability of the event based on a reliability associated with the mobile object. The embodiment may store the event in a mobile object database based on the reliability of the even being above a reference reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Makoto Tanibayashi, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200175856
    Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for grouping a plurality moving objects capable of communicating with a server computer. The server computer performs the method comprising: predicting travel routes of the plurality of moving objects, using current traveling data and travel history data; grouping the plurality of moving objects into at least one group, using the predicted travel routes; determining a representative moving object in each group; and communicating with the representative moving object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Asuka Tokunaga, Satoshi Hosokawa, SHOICHIRO WATANABE, YASUTAKA NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 10635854
    Abstract: A system comprises a display unit; an input device configured to receive user input; and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the display unit and the input device. The processing unit is configured to cause the display unit to display a plurality of lines of natural language text on the display unit together with corresponding annotations including a plurality of relation lines. The processing unit is further configured to adjust spacing between each of the plurality of lines of natural language text based on the corresponding annotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Keisuke Nitta, Yuka Nomura, Atsushi Ono, Chikako Oyanagi
  • Patent number: 10628522
    Abstract: In an approach to rule and dictionary creation based on an improvement cycle, a computing device receives a corpus, wherein the corpus comprises textual data. The computing device stores, in a rule database, a rule based on a user input. The computing device stores, in a dictionary, one or more words based on the corpus. The computing device updates one or more of the rule database and the dictionary based on an improvement cycle comprising user selections from system-generated recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Shunsuke Ishikawa, Chikako Oyanagi, Yuichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10614707
    Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for grouping a plurality moving objects capable of communicating with a server computer. The server computer performs the method comprising: predicting travel routes of the plurality of moving objects, using current traveling data and travel history data; grouping the plurality of moving objects into at least one group, using the predicted travel routes; determining a representative moving object in each group; and communicating with the representative moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Asuka Tokunaga, Satoshi Hosokawa, Shoichiro Watanabe, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10600322
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may receive an event detected in a geographic space by a mobile object of a plurality of mobile objects. The embodiment may determine a reliability of the event based on a reliability associated with the mobile object. The embodiment may store the event in a mobile object database based on the reliability of the even being above a reference reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Makoto Tanibayashi, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10593133
    Abstract: Embodiments generally relate to locating a moving vehicle. In some embodiments, a method includes determining driving information associated with a vehicle that is moving, where the driving information includes pattern information associated with past movement of the vehicle. The method further includes periodically receiving reported vehicle probe information from the vehicle, where the reported vehicle probe information includes a current location of the vehicle. The method further includes acquiring context information on surroundings of the vehicle if no reported vehicle probe information is received from the vehicle for a predetermined amount of time. The method further includes generating estimation vehicle probe information associated with the vehicle based on the context information, where the estimation vehicle probe information includes one or more candidate locations of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Asuka Unno, Satoshi Hosokawa, Shoichiro Watanabe, Yasutaka Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10540895
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for managing mobile objects. The embodiment may determine, by a mobile object server, a position of a mobile object in a geographic space managed by the mobile object server. The embodiment may determine a plurality of routes based on the position of the mobile object in the geographic space. The embodiment may calculate, by the mobile object server, a plurality of route parameters for the plurality of routes, wherein the plurality of route parameters includes a passage possibility of the mobile object over each route. The embodiment may calculate a plurality of edge parameters for a plurality of edges, wherein each edge is a segment of a route, and wherein the edge parameter includes the passage possibility of the mobile object over each edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Hosokawa, Satoshi Hosokawa, Yasutaka Nishimura, Makoto Tanibayashi, Takahito Tashiro, Shoichiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190375609
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of improving convenience of use of a moving object on a route according to schedule information of a user. An information processing device includes a control unit that determines whether or not a moving object is used on a route to a destination calculated on the basis of a current position and closest schedule information of a user and performs control to move the moving object used on the route to a riding place of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Satoshi HOSOKAWA, Takanori KUBOTA, Noriaki TAIRA, Takuro JOJU