Patents by Inventor Tae SATO
Tae SATO 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: 20240266025Abstract: Conventionally, a provider has prepared a plurality of motivational messages for implementing a predetermined activity such as a health activity and provided a predetermined motivational message to the user so that the user does not get bored. An object of the present invention is to provide a motivational message aligned with a user's propensity to think, while suppressing the load on a provider of the motivational message. The present invention is a message providing device that provides a user with a motivational message for initiating a predetermined activity, wherein a motivational message is generated by using input data indicating a current deprecated activity of the user, the effect of the deprecated activity, a recommended activity, and the effect of the recommended activity, and supplementing a component of a message stored in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tae SATO, Naoto ABE
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Patent number: 11936737Abstract: A notification control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a reception unit that receives movement event information indicating that a movement event of a user has occurred; a schedule presence/absence determination unit that determines whether or not the user has a schedule immediately following or immediately preceding an occurrence time point of the movement event; a message generation unit that generates an advice to be notified to the user on the basis of the determination and the occurrence time point of the movement event; and a presentation unit that presents the generated advice to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Reiko Aruga, Hitoshi Seshimo, Tae Sato
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Patent number: 11934623Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an information presentation apparatus for displaying information on a display device including a display area corresponding to a visual field range of a user includes: a first storage medium that stores presentation information including content information representing a presentation content and attribute information of the content information; a detection unit that detects a gaze point within the visual field range of the user; and a presentation control unit that determines a presentation position of the content information within the visual field range of the user in accordance with the attribute information stored together with the content information to be presented and the detected gaze point and cause the content information to be displayed at a position corresponding to the determined presentation position within the display area of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei Saijo, Shinichiro Eitoku, Masahiro Watanabe, Tae Sato
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Publication number: 20240031468Abstract: A recommended action selection device according to an embodiment includes: a user non-recommended action detection unit that detects that a user is taking a non-recommended action; an execution positive factor collection unit that collects an execution positive factor that is a subjective factor for which the user is taking the non-recommended action; and a recommended action selection unit that selects a subjective factor other than the execution positive factor, acquires a plurality of recommended action possibilities, and selects a recommended action on the basis of a first score indicating how easily each of the plurality of recommended action possibilities is implemented by the user for the subjective factor selected, a second score indicating how familiar the user is with each of the plurality of recommended action possibilities, and a first objective value for an evaluation axis for evaluating the plurality of recommended action possibilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tae SATO, Hitoshi SESHIMO, Reiko ARUGA, Akihiro CHIBA
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Publication number: 20230328148Abstract: A notification control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a reception unit that receives movement event information indicating that a movement event of a user has occurred; a schedule presence/absence determination unit that determines whether or not the user has a schedule immediately following or immediately preceding an occurrence time point of the movement event; a message generation unit that generates an advice to be notified to the user on the basis of the determination and the occurrence time point of the movement event; and a presentation unit that presents the generated advice to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2020Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Reiko ARUGA, Hitoshi SESHIMO, Tae SATO
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Publication number: 20230298617Abstract: A message generation device according to an embodiment includes: a communicator information acquisition unit that acquires communicator information for estimating the emotion of a communicator; a receiver information acquisition unit that acquires receiver information for estimating the emotion of a receiver who is to receive a message from the communicator; and a message generation unit that generates a message indicating an activity that corresponds to the emotion of the communicator that was estimated based on the communicator information acquired by the communicator information acquisition unit. If the emotion of the communicator estimated based on the communicator information acquired by the communicator information acquisition unit is similar to the emotion of the receiver estimated based on the receiver information acquired by the receiver information acquisition unit, the message generation unit generates a message that specifically indicates the activity, as the message indicating the activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Mana SASAGAWA, Tae SATO
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Publication number: 20230237751Abstract: In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes an interface that transmits or receives data to or from an input apparatus that inputs user position information indicating a position of a user, and a processor that calculates an evaluation value for an evaluation target position based on the user position information, determines a position in a virtual space or a real space where an agent supporting the user is placed based on the evaluation value, and places the agent at the determined position in the virtual space or real space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Ryohei SAIJO, Masahiro WATANABE, Tae SATO
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Publication number: 20230239259Abstract: A message selection device according to an embodiment includes a message database that holds a plurality of messages in correspondence with each of various emotion of a communicator, a communicator information acquisition unit configured to acquire communicator information for estimating the emotion of the communicator, a receiver information acquisition unit that acquires receiver information for estimating the emotion of a receiver who is to receive a message from the communicator, and a message selection unit that estimates the emotion of the communicator based on the communicator information acquired by the communicator information acquisition unit, estimates the emotion of the receiver based on the receiver information acquired by the receiver information acquisition unit, and selects a message from among the messages held by the message database based on the estimated emotions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Mana SASAGAWA, Tae SATO
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Publication number: 20230121643Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an information presentation apparatus for displaying information on a display device including a display area corresponding to a visual field range of a user includes: a first storage medium that stores presentation information including content information representing a presentation content and attribute information of the content information; a detection unit that detects a gaze point within the visual field range of the user; and a presentation control unit that determines a presentation position of the content information within the visual field range of the user in accordance with the attribute information stored together with the content information to be presented and the detected gaze point and cause the content information to be displayed at a position corresponding to the determined presentation position within the display area of the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Ryohei SAIJO, Shinichiro EITOKU, Masahiro WATANABE, Tae SATO
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Publication number: 20220327395Abstract: A data analysis apparatus according to the embodiment includes factor data collection means for collecting factor data assumed to affect to-be-predicted data serving as an objective variable; and generation means for calculating a corrected partial differential value of a change in a value of the factor data based on a degree of influence of a factor on the objective variable, which is a characteristic of the change in the value of the factor data, for each type of the factor data collected by the factor data collection means and generating an explanatory variable based on the corrected partial differential value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATIONInventors: Tae SATO, Akihiro CHIBA, Tomoki WATANABE, Shozo AZUMA, Takuya INDO