Patents by Inventor Takeaki Kobayashi

Takeaki Kobayashi 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: 10229392
    Abstract: A group supporting apparatus and related computer readable recording medium to execute a process including: collecting input contents, which are input by participants via terminals, from the terminals; arranging the collected input contents into input content groups based on groups to which the participants belong; setting a representative flag on each of representative input contents selected from the respective input content groups; extracting the representative input contents and matching input contents, which match a predetermined extracting condition and are different from the representative input contents, from the collected input contents; and displaying a list of the representative input contents and the matching input contents on a display device that all the participants are able to view at a same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Takehiro Nabae, Kenji Sakata
  • Patent number: 9761149
    Abstract: A presenter selection support apparatus including: a display unit configured to display one or more opinions input from each of a plurality of terminals; a selection unit configured to select any one of opinions that belongs to a certain group based on a predetermined criterion when the certain group among at least one group formed by being classified from opinions displayed in the display unit is designated; and an instruction unit configured to instruct a terminal, in which an opinion other than the selected opinion is input, to display a screen in which each of a plurality of items related to relevancy to the selected opinion is selectable, wherein the predetermined criterion is a criterion used to specify any one terminal based on the number of times that one item among the plurality of items is selected in the past in each of the plurality of terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, toshio tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Kenji Sakata
  • Patent number: 9711057
    Abstract: A question setting apparatus is disclosed, including a processor and a storage part. The storage stores problem information which maintains problem data including a problem and a correct answer of the problem included in a test sent to students, and student answer information which maintains answer data and a correct/incorrect answer determination result for each of the students. The processor processes test operations of referring to the problem information, sending the problem data to the student terminals, receiving the answer data from the student terminals in a given time for the test, and recording the answer data in the student answer information. The processor processes a progress display. A progress state is displayed in the given time and indicates an answer state of the problem data based on the correct/incorrect answer determination result. A display instruction is sent to the student terminals to stop the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9666087
    Abstract: An education support method includes searching for first student information corresponding to a student whose evaluation score has been improved and discussion information on the basis of evaluation-score-and-group information in which the discussion information identifying a group discussion, group information identifying a group, student information identifying a student and an evaluation score of the student are associated with one another; searching for second student information including group information associated to the first student information on the basis of the first student information and the discussion information; and generating created group information that is associated with the second student information and a selected student information. Further, a computer-readable recording medium storing an education support program that, when executed, causes a computer to perform the education support method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Shigenori Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9613540
    Abstract: The examination support apparatus includes a question database, an answer status database, a question output unit, an answer acquisition unit, a correct/incorrect determination unit, a calculation unit, and a determination unit. The question output unit extracts and outputs examination questions from the question database. The answer acquisition unit acquires an answer to each of the above-described examination questions transmitted from an examinee terminal, and the correct/incorrect determination unit determines whether the answer is correct or incorrect. The calculation unit calculates for the examinee a correct-answer percentage to the examination questions in the same administering section based on a result of the correct/incorrect determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9536440
    Abstract: A question setting apparatus is disclosed, including a processor and a storage part. The storage part stores a problem database which maintains problem data including a problem and a correct answer and a student answer database which maintains answer data including an answer of a student for the problem and a correct/incorrect answer determination result for each of the students. The processor performs recording the answer data and the correct/incorrect answer determination result by using the problem database based on a correct answer of the problem, the answer data being received during a test from each of student terminals connected through a network; and sending a comment to the student terminals through the network in which during the test, an answer state of the students is determined by using the student answer database and the comment related to the problem is acquired from a teacher based on a determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20160350717
    Abstract: A group supporting apparatus and related computer readable recording medium to execute a process including: collecting input contents, which are input by participants via terminals, from the terminals; arranging the collected input contents into input content groups based on groups to which the participants belong; setting a representative flag on each of representative input contents selected from the respective input content groups; extracting the representative input contents and matching input contents, which match a predetermined extracting condition and are different from the representative input contents, from the collected input contents; and displaying a list of the representative input contents and the matching input contents on a display device that all the participants are able to view at a same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko MAYUMI, Toshio TANAKA, Takeaki KOBAYASHI, Takehiro NABAE, Kenji SAKATA
  • Patent number: 9477384
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive designation of at least one data among a plurality of data when each of the plurality of data is disposed and displayed in each of a plurality of different first areas of a display area by a display apparatus; and a changing unit configured to change a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the designation received by the reception unit when the designation is received by the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9449069
    Abstract: A method of supporting a group work includes collecting input contents, which are input by participants via terminals, from the terminals; arranging the collected input contents into input content groups based on groups to which the participants belong; setting a representative flag on each of representative input contents selected from the respective input content groups; extracting the representative input contents and matching input contents, which match a predetermined extracting condition and are different from the representative input contents, from the collected input contents; and displaying a list of the representative input contents and the matching input contents on a display device that all the participants are able to view at a same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Takehiro Nabae, Kenji Sakata
  • Publication number: 20160171636
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium contains a grouping support program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes receiving an input of the number of groups. A storage part that stores the discussion times of multiple groups and the facilitators of the groups in past discussions is referred to, and one or more of the groups in the past discussions are specified in accordance with a difference between each of the discussion times and a corresponding one of the averages of the discussion times. One or more facilitators are selected from the facilitator or facilitators of the specified one or more of the groups based on the number of groups. The selected one or more facilitators are output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Shigenori SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160093229
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recoding medium stores a display control program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes: receiving specification of a question; referring to scenario data including a scenario in association with each question and selecting one discussion point in accordance with the sequence of the scenario corresponding to the question whose specification has been accepted; and displaying the one discussion point in a mode different from a mode of other discussion points in display of the scenario including the plurality of discussion points and displaying an answer to the one discussion point in a mode different from a mode of other answers in display of a list of answers with respect to the question whose specification has been accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20160093228
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes generating screen data for answering questions about opinion information related to a topic which is input from a first student terminal; transmitting the screen data to second student terminals; collecting answers to the questions input from the second student terminals; and calculating correct answer rates of the answers to the questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20150125843
    Abstract: An education support method includes searching for first student information corresponding to a student whose evaluation score has been improved and discussion information on the basis of evaluation-score-and-group information in which the discussion information identifying a group discussion, group information identifying a group, student information identifying a student and an evaluation score of the student are associated with one another; searching for second student information including group information associated to the first student information on the basis of the first student information and the discussion information; and generating created group information that is associated with the second student information and a selected student information. Further, a computer-readable recording medium storing an education support program that, when executed, causes a computer to perform the education support method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko MAYUMI, Toshio TANAKA, Takeaki KOBAYASHI, Shigenori SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150037779
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has a program stored therein for causing a computer to execute a discussion support method, and the method includes calculating a correlation between an opinion of a student and a plurality of agendas for each opinion of the student; forming one or more groups of the students associated with one or more of the agendas, respectively, based on the correlations of the opinions and the agendas; and transmitting the one or more of the agendas to terminals of the students in the respective groups associated with the respective agendas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Takeaki Kobayashi, Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20140370489
    Abstract: A presenter narrowing apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display one or more opinions input from each of a plurality of terminals; and an instruction unit configured to instruct a terminal, in which an opinion other than a designated opinion among opinions that belong to a certain group is input, to display a screen in which each of a plurality of items related to relevancy to the designated opinion is selectable when the opinion which belongs to the certain group among at least one group formed by being classified from opinions displayed in the display unit is designated. In the presenter narrowing apparatus, the instruction unit allows the display unit to highlight an opinion input to a terminal, for which a timing at which one item among the plurality of items is selected satisfies a predetermined criterion, among the opinions that belong to the certain group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, toshio tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Kenji Sakata
  • Publication number: 20140370483
    Abstract: A presenter selection support apparatus including: a display unit configured to display one or more opinions input from each of a plurality of terminals; a selection unit configured to select any one of opinions that belongs to a certain group based on a predetermined criterion when the certain group among at least one group formed by being classified from opinions displayed in the display unit is designated; and an instruction unit configured to instruct a terminal, in which an opinion other than the selected opinion is input, to display a screen in which each of a plurality of items related to relevancy to the selected opinion is selectable, wherein the predetermined criterion is a criterion used to specify any one terminal based on the number of times that one item among the plurality of items is selected in the past in each of the plurality of terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Kenji Sakata
  • Publication number: 20140347367
    Abstract: A display processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive registration of a symbol by associating the symbol with a plurality of data selected from a group of data when each data included in the group of data is disposed and displayed on a different area among display areas by a display device; and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display the symbol registered by being associated with the plurality of selected data, by associating the symbol with the designated data, when the designated data is included in the plurality of data, in a case where any one data included in the group of data is designated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Kuniaki Ikematsu
  • Publication number: 20140340408
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive designation of at least one data among a plurality of data when each of the plurality of data is disposed and displayed in each of a plurality of different first areas of a display area by a display apparatus; and a changing unit configured to change a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the designation received by the reception unit when the designation is received by the reception unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20140337789
    Abstract: A display processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive an input of a symbol when each of a plurality of data is disposed and displayed on a different area among display areas by a display device; a registration unit configured to register a group of data according to a position and/or a shape of the symbol in the display area among data included in the plurality of data when the symbol is received by the reception unit; and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display other data included in the group of data, when any of data included in the plurality of data is designated and the designated data is included in the registered group of data, together with the designated data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko Mayumi, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20140297641
    Abstract: A storage medium storing a discussion support program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes collecting opinion data obtained from each information terminal and a group characteristic corresponding to the opinion data collected in each group including a plurality of information terminals set in advance, and calculating a point of a participant related to the information terminal based on representative opinion data chosen from the opinion data collected in each group and the group characteristic corresponding to the group to which the information terminal having transmitted the representative opinion data belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hidehiko MAYUMI, Toshio Tanaka, Takeaki Kobayashi, Takehiro Nabae, Kenji Sakata