Patents by Inventor Shoko Miyamori

Shoko Miyamori 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: 10601757
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication support device includes a first acquisition unit, a creation unit, and an output unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a message to be notified to a user. The creation unit creates type information indicating a type of content of the message. The output unit outputs the message in an output mode based on importance of the message among a plurality of output modes including at least a first output mode for outputting an entire message, a second output mode for outputting the type information, and a third output mode for outputting reception information indicating reception of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuro Chino, Shoko Miyamori, Kouji Ueno
  • Patent number: 10505879
    Abstract: A communication support device performs communication with a plurality of terminal devices. The communication support device includes an acquirer, a changer, and a deliverer. The acquirer acquires messages from the terminal devices. The changer changes, on the acquired message, a delivery mode of the message to the delivery mode that eliminates confusion when the message has a possibility of causing the confusion. The deliverer delivers the message to the terminal devices in the delivery mode that is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuro Chino, Shoko Miyamori, Kouji Ueno
  • Patent number: 10269355
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data processing device generates result data which represents a result of performing predetermined processing on series data. The device includes an upper-level processor and a lower-level processor. The upper-level processor attaches order information to data blocks constituting the series data. The lower-level processor performs lower-level processing on the data blocks having the order information attached thereto, and attaches common order information, which is in common with the data blocks, to values obtained as a result of the lower-level processing. The upper-level processor integrates the values, which have the common order information attached thereto, based on the common order information and performs upper-level processing to generate the result data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shoko Miyamori, Takashi Masuko, Mitsuyoshi Tachimori, Kouji Ueno, Manabu Nagao
  • Patent number: 10210886
    Abstract: A voice starting end detection apparatus includes a first detector that detects a starting end of a voice segment from input signals that are input in a time series, a first transmitting unit that transmits, when the starting end is detected, input signals subsequent to the starting end, and a first receiving unit that receives a terminal end detection signal indicating that a terminal end of the voice segment has been detected. The voice terminal end detection apparatus includes a second receiving unit that receives input signals subsequent to the starting end, a second detector that detects the terminal end from the received input signals, a second transmitting unit that transmits, when the terminal end is detected, the terminal end detection signal. The first transmitting unit stops transmitting the input signals when the first receiving unit receives the terminal end detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shoko Miyamori, Mitsuyoshi Tachimori, Kouji Ueno
  • Patent number: 10003932
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication support apparatus supports communication among users. The apparatus includes a message receiver to receive a message from a user terminal; a participation request transmission controller to control such that, when the received message is a participation request message, the participation request message is transmitted to a user terminal to which the participation request message is to be transmitted; a response receiver to receive a response to the participation request message from the user terminal to which the participation request message has been transmitted; a group generator to generate a conversation group including as members the user terminal that has responded to the participation request message and the user terminal serving as a transmission source; and a conversation controller to control delivery of messages in the conversation mode such that a message received from a member of the conversation group is transmitted to another member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shoko Miyamori, Kouji Ueno, Tetsuro Chino
  • Publication number: 20170195278
    Abstract: A communication support device performs communication with a plurality of terminal devices. The communication support device includes an acquirer, a changer, and a deliverer. The acquirer acquires messages from the terminal devices. The changer changes, on the acquired message, a delivery mode of the message to the delivery mode that eliminates confusion when the message has a possibility of causing the confusion. The deliverer delivers the message to the terminal devices in the delivery mode that is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuro CHINO, Shoko MIYAMORI, Kouji UENO
  • Publication number: 20170110146
    Abstract: A voice starting end detection apparatus includes a first detector that detects a starting end of a voice segment from input signals that are input in a time series, a first transmitting unit that transmits, when the starting end is detected, input signals subsequent to the starting end, and a first receiving unit that receives a terminal end detection signal indicating that a terminal end of the voice segment has been detected. The voice terminal end detection apparatus includes a second receiving unit that receives input signals subsequent to the starting end, a second detector that detects the terminal end from the received input signals, a second transmitting unit that transmits, when the terminal end is detected, the terminal end detection signal. The first transmitting unit stops transmitting the input signals when the first receiving unit receives the terminal end detection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Shoko MIYAMORI, Mitsuyoshi TACHIMORI, Kouji UENO
  • Publication number: 20170063769
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication support device includes a first acquisition unit, a creation unit, and an output unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a message to be notified to a user. The creation unit creates type information indicating a type of content of the message. The output unit outputs the message in an output mode based on importance of the message among a plurality of output modes including at least a first output mode for outputting an entire message, a second output mode for outputting the type information, and a third output mode for outputting reception information indicating reception of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuro CHINO, Shoko MIYAMORI, Kouji UENO
  • Publication number: 20170064520
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication support apparatus supports communication among users. The apparatus includes a message receiver to receive a message from a user terminal; a participation request transmission controller to control such that, when the received message is a participation request message, the participation request message is transmitted to a user terminal to which the participation request message is to be transmitted; a response receiver to receive a response to the participation request message from the user terminal to which the participation request message has been transmitted; a group generator to generate a conversation group including as members the user terminal that has responded to the participation request message and the user terminal serving as a transmission source; and a conversation controller to control delivery of messages in the conversation mode such that a message received from a member of the conversation group is transmitted to another member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Shoko MIYAMORI, Kouji UENO, Tetsuro CHINO
  • Publication number: 20160316062
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a voice communication supporting device includes a voice receiving unit, a voice reproducing unit, a reproduction cancelling unit, and a notification sending unit. The voice receiving unit receives a voice message. The voice reproducing unit reproduces the received voice message. In response to a user operation, the reproduction cancelling unit performs control to cancel reproduction of the voice message. The notification sending unit sends, to a sender of the voice message whose reproduction has been cancelled, a cancellation notification about cancellation of reproduction of the voice message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shoko MIYAMORI, Kouji UENO, Tetsuro CHINO
  • Publication number: 20160274947
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a data processing device generates result data which represents a result of performing predetermined processing on series data. The device includes an upper-level processor and a lower-level processor. The upper-level processor attaches order information to data blocks constituting the series data. The lower-level processor performs lower-level processing on the data blocks having the order information attached thereto, and attaches common order information, which is in common with the data blocks, to values obtained as a result of the lower-level processing. The upper-level processor integrates the values, which have the common order information attached thereto, based on the common order information and performs upper-level processing to generate the result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shoko MIYAMORI, Takashi MASUKO, Mitsuyoshi TACHIMORI, Kouji UENO, Manabu NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20160267918
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a transmission device includes an obtaining unit, first and second encoding units, a first determining unit, a first control unit, and a first transmitting unit. The obtaining unit obtains sound data. The first encoding unit encodes the sound data at a first bit rate. The second encoding unit encodes the sound data at a second bit rate lower than the first bit rate. The first determining unit determines whether a bandwidth of a network subjected to congestion control has exceeded the first bit rate. When the bandwidth of the network is determined to have exceeded the first bit rate, the first control unit switches an output destination of the obtained sound data from the second encoding unit to the first encoding unit. The first transmitting unit transmits the obtained sound data, that is encoded by the first encoding unit or the second encoding unit, to a voice recognition device via the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kouji UENO, Shoko Miyamori, Mitsuyoshi Tachimori