Patents by Inventor Takaaki Shiratori

Takaaki Shiratori 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: 8786680
    Abstract: Body-mounted cameras are used to accurately reconstruct the motion of a subject. Outward-looking cameras are attached to the limbs of the subject, and the joint angles and root pose that define the subject's configuration are estimated through a non-linear optimization, which can incorporate image matching error and temporal continuity of motion. Instrumentation of the environment is not required, allowing for motion capture over extended areas and in outdoor settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Takaaki Shiratori, Hyun Soo Park, Leonid Sigal, Yaser Sheikh, Jessica K. Hodgins
  • Patent number: 8676791
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing assistance in detecting mistranslation in a translated document obtained by performing machine translation of an original document. A word included in the translated document is obtained. Search results are obtained of searching both a first document data group and a second document data group including the first document data group for pieces of document data related to the obtained word. Based on the obtained search results, an index is generated. The index indicates the adequacy of the obtained word as a translated word in a field corresponding to the first document data group. The generated index is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Maedera, Takaaki Shiratori
  • Patent number: 8494836
    Abstract: There is a system for selecting a text for output from among multiple texts according to whether or not a phrase is included in the multiple texts. The system includes a determination unit that determines whether or not each of predetermined multiple phrases is included in each of the multiple texts; an index calculation unit that, with respect to each of the multiple phrases, calculates a larger index for a text having the highest of priorities preset among texts including the phrase, then indexes for other texts; and an output unit that selects texts each having a larger sum of sums of the calculated index for each text and outputs a group of the selected texts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki Shiratori
  • Publication number: 20120327194
    Abstract: Body-mounted cameras are used to accurately reconstruct the motion of a subject. Outward-looking cameras are attached to the limbs of the subject, and the joint angles and root pose that define the subject's configuration are estimated through a non-linear optimization, which can incorporate image matching error and temporal continuity of motion. Instrumentation of the environment is not required, allowing for motion capture over extended areas and in outdoor settings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Takaaki Shiratori, Hyun Soo Park, Leonid Sigal, Yaser Sheikh, Jessica K. Hodgins
  • Publication number: 20120296632
    Abstract: There is a system for selecting a text for output from among multiple texts according to whether or not a phrase is included in the multiple texts. The system includes a determination unit that determines whether or not each of predetermined multiple phrases is included in each of the multiple texts; an index calculation unit that, with respect to each of the multiple phrases, calculates a larger index for a text having the highest of priorities preset among texts including the phrase, then indexes for other texts; and an output unit that selects texts each having a larger sum of sums of the calculated index for each text and outputs a group of the selected texts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki SHIRATORI
  • Patent number: 8249859
    Abstract: There is a system for selecting a text for output from among multiple texts according to whether or not a phrase is included in the multiple texts. The system includes a determination unit that determines whether or not each of predetermined multiple phrases is included in each of the multiple texts; an index calculation unit that, with respect to each of the multiple phrases, calculates a larger index for a text having the highest of priorities preset among texts including the phrase, then indexes for other texts; and an output unit that selects texts each having a larger sum of sums of the calculated index for each text and outputs a group of the selected texts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki Shiratori
  • Patent number: 8243805
    Abstract: Systems and methods for video completion by motion field transfer are described. In one aspect, a spatio-temporal target patch of an input video data sequence is filled in or replaced by motion field transfer from a spatio-temporal source patch of the input video data sequence. Color is propagated to corresponding portions of the spatio-temporal target patch by treating the transferred motion information as directed edges. These motion field transfer and color propagation operations result in a video completed spatio-temporal target patch. The systems and methods present the video data sequence, which now includes the video completed spatio-temporal target patch, to user for viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsushita, Sing Bing Kang, Xiaoou Tang, Takaaki Shiratori
  • Publication number: 20110202518
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing assistance in detecting mistranslation in a translated document obtained by performing machine translation of an original document. A word included in the translated document is obtained. Search results are obtained of searching both a first document data group and a second document data group including the first document data group for pieces of document data related to the obtained word. Based on the obtained search results, an index is generated. The index indicates the adequacy of the obtained word as a translated word in a field corresponding to the first document data group. The generated index is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Maedera, Takaaki Shiratori
  • Publication number: 20090024383
    Abstract: There is a system for selecting a text for output from among multiple texts according to whether or not a phrase is included in the multiple texts. The system includes a determination unit that determines whether or not each of predetermined multiple phrases is included in each of the multiple texts; an index calculation unit that, with respect to each of the multiple phrases, calculates a larger index for a text having the highest of priorities preset among texts including the phrase, then indexes for other texts; and an output unit that selects texts each having a larger sum of sums of the calculated index for each text and outputs a group of the selected texts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki Shiratori
  • Publication number: 20080112642
    Abstract: Systems and methods for video completion by motion field transfer are described. In one aspect, a spatio-temporal target patch of an input video data sequence is filled in or replaced by motion field transfer from a spatio-temporal source patch of the input video data sequence. Color is propagated to corresponding portions of the spatio-temporal target patch by treating the transferred motion information as directed edges These motion field transfer and color propagation operations result in a video completed spatio-temporal target patch. The systems and methods present the video data sequence, which now includes the video completed spatio-temporal target patch, to user for viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsushita, Sing Bing Kang, Xiaoou Tang, Takaaki Shiratori
  • Patent number: 6212513
    Abstract: The invention enables transformation of an SQL statement of CHAR type to another SQL statement of another data type adequate for a database that is defined by a character string type other than CHAR type, thereby enabling to access the database using an SQL statement of CHAR type. At a call level interface (CLI driver), a literal such as a condition clause of an SQL SELECT statement that is included in an application program, a column value of an UPDATE statement or the like is passed to a function of the call level interface as a parameter. The call level interface examines a character type and a character code included in the passed literal, selects the most probable one of character string data types of a database to be accessed, modifies its access syntax in line with the selected data type and attempts to access the database. Accessing of the database is attempted while sequentially modifying the access syntax in the order of probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Shiratori, Akio Kido, Shigeru Tachikawa, Tsuneo Mochizuki