Patents by Inventor Sawako Furuya

Sawako Furuya 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: 11508370
    Abstract: An on-board agent system includes: a plurality of agent functional units, each of the plurality of agent functional units being configured to provide a service including outputting a response using voice to an output unit according to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a common operator configured to be shared by the plurality of agent functional units and provided in the vehicle, wherein, when an operation is executed on the common operator with an operation pattern set to correspond to each of the plurality of agent functional units, an agent functional unit corresponding to the operation pattern of the executed operation is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Patent number: 11355114
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Mototsugu Kubota, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 11325605
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota
  • Patent number: 11240342
    Abstract: A agent device includes a plurality of agent function parts configured to provide a service including causing an output section to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of an occupant in a vehicle, the plurality of agent function parts includes a first agent function part and a second agent function part having less dependence on a network connection than that of the first agent function part, a network observation part configured to recognize or predict a change in communication environment of the network connection is further provided, and the second agent function part stores a speech of the occupant in the vehicle in a storage when the first agent function part is under operation and deterioration of the communication environment of the network connection is recognized or predicted by the network observation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Patent number: 11211033
    Abstract: An agent device includes: an agent functional unit configured to provide a service including an output of a response to a voice to an outputter in response to a speech of an occupant of a vehicle; and a display controller configured to cause a display provided in the vehicle to display an animation regarding an agent corresponding to the agent functional unit. The display controller moves the animation between a first display area included in the display and a second display area of which a position is different from a position of the first display area in the vehicle in response to an instruction from the occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200322450
    Abstract: A agent device includes a plurality of agent function parts configured to provide a service including causing an output section to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of an occupant in a vehicle, the plurality of agent function parts includes a first agent function part and a second agent function part having less dependence on a network connection than that of the first agent function part, a network observation part configured to recognize or predict a change in communication environment of the network connection is further provided, and the second agent function part stores a speech of the occupant in the vehicle in a storage when the first agent function part is under operation and deterioration of the communication environment of the network connection is recognized or predicted by the network observation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200317209
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota
  • Publication number: 20200320996
    Abstract: An on-board agent system includes: a plurality of agent functional units, each of the plurality of agent functional units being configured to provide a service including outputting a response using voice to an output unit according to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a common operator configured to be shared by the plurality of agent functional units and provided in the vehicle, wherein, when an operation is executed on the common operator with an operation pattern set to correspond to each of the plurality of agent functional units, an agent functional unit corresponding to the operation pattern of the executed operation is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Hiroki Nakayama, Kengo Naiki, Yusuke Oi
  • Publication number: 20200319634
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Publication number: 20200321001
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kengo Naiki, Mototsugu Kubota, Sawako Furuya, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Toshikatsu Kuramochi
  • Publication number: 20200320997
    Abstract: An agent apparatus includes: a first acquirer configured to acquire voice of a user; a recognizer configured to recognize the voice acquired by the first acquirer; and a plurality of agent functional units, each of the agent function unit being configured to provide services including causing an output unit to output a response on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein, when a first agent functional unit included in the plurality of agent functional units is not able to cope with a request included in the voice recognized by the recognizer and another agent functional unit of the plurality of agent functional units is able to cope with the request, the first agent functional unit causes the output unit to output information for recommending the other agent functional unit to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Wagatsuma, Sawako Furuya
  • Publication number: 20200302937
    Abstract: In an agent system, a first server device transmits information associated with a speech of a first user acquired from a first terminal device to a second server device, and the second server device transmits information associated with the speech of the first user acquired from the first server device to a second terminal device or an on-vehicle agent device on the basis of existence of a second user recognized by the second terminal device or the on-vehicle agent device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Kengo Naiki, Hiroki Nakayama, Yoshifumi Wagatsuma
  • Publication number: 20200286452
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Hiroki Nakayama, Sawako Furuya
  • Publication number: 20200286450
    Abstract: An agent device includes: an agent functional unit configured to provide a service including an output of a response to a voice to an outputter in response to a speech of an occupant of a vehicle; and a display controller configured to cause a display provided in the vehicle to display an animation regarding an agent corresponding to the agent functional unit. The display controller moves the animation between a first display area included in the display and a second display area of which a position is different from a position of the first display area in the vehicle in response to an instruction from the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Sawako Furuya, Yusuke Oi