Patents by Inventor Taro YANO

Taro YANO 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).

  • Publication number: 20250117581
    Abstract: In order to classify, stably with high accuracy, a document to be classified, a document classification apparatus (1) includes: a strategy selection section (11) that selects at least one generation strategy from among a plurality of generation strategies for generating a hypothetical sentence related to a candidate classification as which a document is to be classified; a hypothetical sentence generation section (12) that generates, in accordance with the at least one generation strategy selected by the strategy selection section (11), the hypothetical sentence, which is a sentence related to the candidate classification; and a classification section (13) that determines, on the basis of entailment between the document and the hypothetical sentence, a classification as which the document is to be classified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi OYAMADA, Taro YANO, Kunihiro TAKEOKA, Kosuke AKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250086388
    Abstract: In an information processing device, the class acquisition means acquires multiple classes to which target data is classified. The candidate set generation means generates a keyword candidate set which is a set of keyword candidates corresponding to each class. The keyword set generation means generates a keyword set corresponding to each class, from the keyword candidate set corresponding to each class, based on a relationship between the keywords included in the keyword candidate sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Yano, Kunihiro Takeoka, Masafumi Oyamada
  • Patent number: 12216696
    Abstract: The input means 181 accepts inputs of test data, a hierarchical structure in which a node of bottom layer represents a target class, and a classification score of a seen class as the classification score indicating a probability that the test data is classified into each class. The unseen class score calculation means 182 calculates the classification score of an unseen class based on uniformity of the classification score of each seen class. The matching score calculation means 183 calculates a matching score indicating similarity between the test data and each class label. The final classification score calculation means 184 calculates a final classification score indicating a probability that the test data is classified into the class so that the larger the classification score of each class, and the matching score, the larger the final classification score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taro Yano, Kunihiro Takeoka, Masafumi Oyamada
  • Publication number: 20240119079
    Abstract: The input means 181 accepts inputs of test data, a hierarchical structure in which a node of bottom layer represents a target class, and a classification score of a seen class as the classification score indicating a probability that the test data is classified into each class. The unseen class score calculation means 182 calculates the classification score of an unseen class based on uniformity of the classification score of each seen class. The matching score calculation means 183 calculates a matching score indicating similarity between the test data and each class label. The final classification score calculation means 184 calculates a final classification score indicating a probability that the test data is classified into the class so that the larger the classification score of each class, and the matching score, the larger the final classification score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Taro YANO, Kunihiro TAKEOKA, Masafumi OYAMADA
  • Patent number: 11246325
    Abstract: A coffee beverage having, regardless of a liquid temperature of the beverage, reduced bitterness and little aftertaste is provided. The content of guaiacol and the content of furfuryl methyl sulfide in the beverage are adjusted to specific ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro Yano, Ryosuke Sugino, Daigo Ibusuki, Chihiro Iwasa, Nobuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20200128845
    Abstract: A coffee beverage having, regardless of a liquid temperature of the beverage, reduced bitterness and little aftertaste is provided. The content of guaiacol and the content of furfuryl methyl sulfide in the beverage are adjusted to specific ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro YANO, Ryosuke SUGINO, Daigo IBUSUKI, Chihiro IWASA, Nobuhiro ITO