Patents by Inventor Takuma MINEMURA

Takuma MINEMURA 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: 11958497
    Abstract: A guidance device according to the present invention is installed in a movable body, the guidance device includes: an output device including a display device; an input device that receives an operation performed by an occupant of the movable body for starting each of a plurality of driving assistance functions installed in the movable body; and a guidance control device that determines whether the movable body is in a stopping period or in a traveling period, and allows the display device to display a video for explaining any one of the plurality of driving assistance functions when the movable body is in the stopping period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junya Obara, Sunao Yamaguchi, Takuma Minemura, Yusuke Ishida, Kenta Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20230074953
    Abstract: A guidance device according to the present invention is installed in a movable body, the guidance device includes: an output device including a display device; an input device that receives an operation performed by an occupant of the movable body for starting each of a plurality of driving assistance functions installed in the movable body; and a guidance control device that determines whether the movable body is in a stopping period or in a traveling period, and allows the display device to display a video for explaining any one of the plurality of driving assistance functions when the movable body is in the stopping period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Junya Obara, Sunao Yamaguchi, Takuma Minemura, Yusuke Ishida, Kenta Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10803867
    Abstract: A dialogue system, comprises an input unit configured to acquire utterance contents of a user in a dialogue; a mode determining unit configured to determine, based on the utterance contents acquired by the input unit, whether a mode of the dialogue is task-oriented or non-task-oriented; a plurality of intention understanding units each corresponding to a specific domain; and a domain determining unit configured to determine, when the mode of the dialogue is task-oriented, a domain of the dialogue based on a result of intention understanding of the utterance contents performed using each of the plurality of intention understanding units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sei Kato, Takuma Minemura
  • Patent number: 10629197
    Abstract: A voice processing system includes a voice acquisition unit that acquires an utterance of a user, a voice recognition unit that recognizes contents of the utterance acquired by the voice acquisition unit, an execution unit that executes processing based on a result of the voice recognition unit, and a determination unit that determines a candidate of a word to substitute a certain word. When the voice recognition unit recognizes a request including a first word, the execution unit executes the request including the first word and provides the user with a processing result. The determination unit determines a second word that is a substitute candidate of the first word. The execution unit also executes a request including the second word instead of the first word and stores a processing result in a storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sei Kato, Junichi Ito, Takuma Minemura, Junya Masui, Toshiyuki Namba
  • Patent number: 10593323
    Abstract: A keyword generation apparatus, comprises a vocabulary acquisition unit that acquires a keyword uttered by a first user; a first positional information acquisition unit that acquires first positional information including information representing a location at which the first user has uttered the keyword; a storage unit that stores the first positional information and the keyword in association with each other; a second positional information acquisition unit that acquires second positional information including information representing a current position of a second user; and an extraction unit that extracts a keyword unique to a locality in which the second user is positioned from the storage unit based on the second positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuma Minemura, Sei Kato, Junichi Ito, Youhei Wakisaka, Atsushi Ikeno, Toshifumi Nishijima, Fuminori Kataoka, Hiromi Tonegawa, Norihide Umeyama
  • Publication number: 20190108836
    Abstract: A dialogue system, comprises an input unit configured to acquire utterance contents of a user in a dialogue; a mode determining unit configured to determine, based on the utterance contents acquired by the input unit, whether a mode of the dialogue is task-oriented or non-task-oriented; a plurality of intention understanding units each corresponding to a specific domain; and a domain determining unit configured to determine, when the mode of the dialogue is task-oriented, a domain of the dialogue based on a result of intention understanding of the utterance contents performed using each of the plurality of intention understanding units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA INFOTECHNOLOGY CENTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sei Kato, Takuma Minemura
  • Publication number: 20180090133
    Abstract: A keyword generation apparatus, comprises a vocabulary acquisition unit that acquires a keyword uttered by a first user; a first positional information acquisition unit that acquires first positional information including information representing a location at which the first user has uttered the keyword; a storage unit that stores the first positional information and the keyword in association with each other; a second positional information acquisition unit that acquires second positional information including information representing a current position of a second user; and an extraction unit that extracts a keyword unique to a locality in which the second user is positioned from the storage unit based on the second positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuma MINEMURA, Sei KATO, Junichi ITO, Youhei WAKISAKA, Atsushi IKENO, Toshifumi NISHIJIMA, Fuminori KATAOKA, Hiromi TONEGAWA, Norihide UMEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170263250
    Abstract: Provided is a voice processing system including: a voice acquisition unit that acquires an utterance of a user; a voice recognition unit that recognizes contents of the utterance acquired by the voice acquisition unit; a execution unit that executes processing based on a result of the voice recognition unit; and a determination unit that determines a candidate of a word to substitute a certain word, wherein when the voice recognition unit recognizes a request including a first word, the execution unit executes the request including the first word and provides the user with a processing result, the determination unit determines a second word that is a substitute candidate of the first word, and the execution unit also executes a request including the second word instead of the first word and stores a processing result in a storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sei KATO, Junichi ITO, Takuma MINEMURA, Junya MASUI, Toshiyuki NAMBA