Patents by Inventor Tomoharu Kokubu
Tomoharu Kokubu 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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Patent number: 10078672Abstract: According to an embodiment, a search device includes a first storage to store therein a keyword group generated by grouping keyword candidates which are to be candidates for a search keyword according to a rule set in advance; a first acquisition unit to acquire a first recommended keyword which is the keyword candidate partially including an input string not yet been entered; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second recommended keyword which is included in the keyword group to which the first recommended keyword belongs and which is the keyword candidate other than the first recommended keyword; an output unit to output a search screen for displaying the first recommended keyword and the second recommended keyword in a selectable way; and a search unit to perform a search with the first recommended keyword or the second recommended keyword selected on the search screen as the search keyword.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignees: TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru Nakano, Toshihiko Manabe, Tomoharu Kokubu, Masumi Inaba
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Patent number: 9507857Abstract: According to an embodiment, a document classification apparatus includes an extraction unit, a clustering unit, a classification unit, and a label assignment unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract feature words from documents. The clustering unit is configured to cluster the feature words into clusters so that a difference between the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to one cluster and the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to another cluster is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value. The classification unit is configured to classify the documents into the clusters so that each document belongs to the cluster to which the feature word included in the each document belongs. The label assignment unit is configured to assign a classification label to each cluster as a word representative of the corresponding feature words.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masumi Inaba, Toshihiko Manabe, Tomoharu Kokubu, Wataru Nakano
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Patent number: 9146999Abstract: A search keyword improvement apparatus includes a unit extracting a word as an additional keyword candidate from a new document, number of times of appearance of the word in the new document being greater than number of times of appearance of the word in each of a first documents except for the new document, if the new document and a new search target identification information item which is used to search the new document are accumulated, a unit generating a first search query based on an input keyword, a second search target associated with the input keyword, and one of the additional keywords, and generating a second search query, a unit moving the additional keyword candidate and the third search target identification information item, if the desired search result is selected from a third search result list corresponding to the second search query.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2009Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masaru Suzuki, Tomoharu Kokubu
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Patent number: 8812504Abstract: According to one embodiment, a keyword presentation apparatus includes an extraction unit, a selection unit and a clustering unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract, as technical terms, morpheme strings, which are not defined in a general concept dictionary, from a document set. The selection unit is configured to evaluate relevancies between each of basic term candidates and the technical terms, and to preferentially select basic term candidates having high relevancies as basic terms. The clustering unit is configured to calculate weighted sums of statistical degrees of correlation between the basic terms based on the document set, to calculate conceptual degrees of correlation between the basic terms based on the general concept dictionary, and to cluster the basic terms based on the weighted sums.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomoharu Kokubu, Toshihiko Manabe, Kosei Fume, Wataru Nakano, Hiromi Wakaki
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Publication number: 20130268535Abstract: According to an embodiment, a document classification apparatus includes an extraction unit, a clustering unit, a classification unit, and a label assignment unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract feature words from documents. The clustering unit is configured to cluster the feature words into clusters so that a difference between the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to one cluster and the number of documents each including any one of the feature words belonging to another cluster is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value. The classification unit is configured to classify the documents into the clusters so that each document belongs to the cluster to which the feature word included in the each document belongs. The label assignment unit is configured to assign a classification label to each cluster as a word representative of the corresponding feature words.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Masumi Inaba, Toshihiko Manabe, Tomoharu Kokubu, Wataru Nakano
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Publication number: 20130254190Abstract: According to an embodiment, a search device includes a first storage to store therein a keyword group generated by grouping keyword candidates which are to be candidates for a search keyword according to a rule set in advance; a first acquisition unit to acquire a first recommended keyword which is the keyword candidate partially including an input string not yet been entered; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second recommended keyword which is included in the keyword group to which the first recommended keyword belongs and which is the keyword candidate other than the first recommended keyword; an output unit to output a search screen for displaying the first recommended keyword and the second recommended keyword in a selectable way; and a search unit to perform a search with the first recommended keyword or the second recommended keyword selected on the search screen as the search keyword.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Wataru Nakano, Toshihiko Manabe, Tomoharu Kokubu, Masumi Inaba
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Publication number: 20120179709Abstract: A document searching system of an embodiment comprises a storage device storing structured document data, extracted phrase information of phrases in the structured document data which includes an identifier of the extraction-source structured document data containing each of the phrases and includes an attribute of each of the phrases in the extraction-source structured document data, and a mode determination rule including a search mode and a display format for each attribute. The document searching system of this embodiment inputs a search phrase, determines an attribute of the search phrase with reference to the extracted phrase information if the extracted phrase information contains a phrase matching the search phrase, determines a search mode for searching the structured document data and a display format of a search result with reference to the mode determination rule based on the determined attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Inventors: Wataru NAKANO, Toshihiko MANABE, Tomoharu KOKUBU, Masumi INABA
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Publication number: 20120078907Abstract: According to one embodiment, a keyword presentation apparatus includes an extraction unit, a selection unit and a clustering unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract, as technical terms, morpheme strings, which are not defined in a general concept dictionary, from a document set. The selection unit is configured to evaluate relevancies between each of basic term candidates and the technical terms, and to preferentially select basic term candidates having high relevancies as basic terms. The clustering unit is configured to calculate weighted sums of statistical degrees of correlation between the basic terms based on the document set, to calculate conceptual degrees of correlation between the basic terms based on the general concept dictionary, and to cluster the basic terms based on the weighted sums.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: Tomoharu Kokubu, Toshihiko Manabe, Kosei Fume, Wataru Nakano, Hiromi Wakaki
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Publication number: 20090248674Abstract: A search keyword improvement apparatus includes a unit extracting a word as an additional keyword candidate from a new document, number of times of appearance of the word in the new document being greater than number of times of appearance of the word in each of a first documents except for the new document, if the new document and a new search target identification information item which is used to search the new document are accumulated, a unit generating a first search query based on an input keyword, a second search target associated with the input keyword, and one of the additional keywords, and generating a second search query, a unit moving the additional keyword candidate and the third search target identification information item, if the desired search result is selected from a third search result list corresponding to the second search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Masaru SUZUKI, Tomoharu Kokubu
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Publication number: 20090138473Abstract: An apparatus for retrieving structured documents includes a first categorizing unit configured to categorize components into a first component of typical descriptions and a second component of atypical descriptions, based on statistics information for the components, a second categorizing unit configured to categorize the terms into a first term whose appearance ratio in the first component exceeds a threshold and a second term whose appearance ratio in the first component is not more than the threshold, an extraction unit configured to extract a set of structured documents each having the first component including the first term and the second component from the structured documents, and a ranking unit configured to rank the set of structured documents by a retrieval score calculating based o a relation between the second term and the second component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: May 28, 2009Inventors: Toshihiko Manabe, Tomoharu Kokubu
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Publication number: 20080082505Abstract: A document searching apparatus includes an input unit that inputs a search query for conducting a search in a structured document, the structured document being obtained by expressing elements included in a document in a hierarchical manner; a query converting unit that converts a query sentence constituting the search query and a search target element of the query sentence according to a predetermined rule so as to generate a new search query; a document searching unit that searches the structured document by using the new search query; and a search-result presenting unit that presents a result of the search.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tomoharu Kokubu, Toshihiko Manabe, Tetsuya Sakai