Patents by Inventor Tomoya Takatani
Tomoya Takatani 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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Publication number: 20230107401Abstract: A state prediction system includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a current state value indicating a current state of a targeted individual in a group. The controller is configured to acquire a state propagation amount indicating a state amount propagated from another person in the group to the targeted individual by communication between the targeted individual and the other person. The controller is configured to predict a future state value indicating a future state of the targeted individual from the acquired current state value of the targeted individual and the acquired state propagation amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuo Katsuhara, Tomoya Takatani, Hayato Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11485022Abstract: A dialogue apparatus includes a display unit, a first dialogue control unit configured to display a first character on the display unit and simulate a speech function of an external communication robot capable of having a dialogue to conduct the dialogue with a user, a second dialogue control unit configured to display a second character on the display unit and conduct the dialogue so as to mediate the dialogue between the user and the first dialogue control unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the external communication robot, dialogue information about the dialogue conducted by the first dialogue control unit and the second dialogue control unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mina Funazukuri, Tomoya Takatani
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Patent number: 11210060Abstract: An interaction system capable of making a user form an attachment to a particular interaction model is provided. A first interaction model is configured so that a communication function expressed to a user is improved from an initial state through communication with the user. A second interaction model is configured to interact with the user by a communication function better than the initial state of the first interaction model, and to make a speech for the user, the speech being made so as to support the improvement of the communication function of the first interaction model.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Mina Funazukuri, Tomoya Takatani
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Patent number: 11024326Abstract: An interest determination system includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a first data group indicating a feature of each word contained in user's dialog information; a first learning unit configured to learn by using a first input and output values, the first input value being set to a data group that associates the first data group with a second data group indicating a feature of a predetermined word, the first output value being set to information indicating whether there is a user's interest; and a determination unit configured to, when a data group that associates a third data group indicating a feature of a word to be determined with the first data group has been input to the first learning unit, determine whether there is a user's interest in the word to be determined, based on an output value output from the first learning unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Michimasa Inaba, Yuya Nawate, Tomoya Takatani
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Publication number: 20200272413Abstract: An interaction system capable of making a user form an attachment to a particular interaction model is provided. A first interaction model is configured so that a communication function expressed to a user is improved from an initial state through communication with the user. A second interaction model is configured to interact with the user by a communication function better than the initial state of the first interaction model, and to make a speech for the user, the speech being made so as to support the improvement of the communication function of the first interaction model.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mina Funazukuri, Tomoya Takatani
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Patent number: 10643032Abstract: An output sentence generation apparatus for automatically generating one output sentence from a plurality of input keywords includes a candidate sentence generator incorporating a learned neural network configured to take in the plurality of keywords and generate a plurality of candidate sentences each including at least some of the plurality of keywords, and an evaluation outputter configured to calculate an overlap ratio for each of the plurality of candidate sentences generated by the candidate sentence generator and increase an evaluation of the candidate sentence with a small overlap ratio to thereby determine an output sentence from the plurality of candidate sentences. The overlap ratio is the number of occurrences of an overlapping word with respect to the number of occurrences of all words included in the corresponding candidate sentence.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityInventors: Mamoru Komachi, Shin Kanouchi, Tomoya Ogata, Tomoya Takatani
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Publication number: 20200130195Abstract: A dialogue apparatus includes a display unit, a first dialogue control unit configured to display a first character on the display unit and simulate a speech function of an external communication robot capable of having a dialogue to conduct the dialogue with a user, a second dialogue control unit configured to display a second character on the display unit and conduct the dialogue so as to mediate the dialogue between the user and the first dialogue control unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the external communication robot, dialogue information about the dialogue conducted by the first dialogue control unit and the second dialogue control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mina Funazukuri, Tomoya Takatani
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Patent number: 10510347Abstract: A language storage method according to one aspect of the present invention includes vectorization steps for vectorizing language accumulated in a dialog log database using a word vector created in advance for each word; determination step for determining whether to employ the language that has been vectorized as response data; and a storage step for accumulating the language that has been determined to be employed as the response data in a response database, in which a dimension reduction step for reducing the number of dimensions of the vector of the language vectorized in the vectorization step is included between the vectorization step and the determination step, and in the determination step, it is determined which one of an employed group and an unemployed group the vector of the language whose number of dimensions has been reduced in the dimension reduction step belongs to.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityInventors: Toru Yamaguchi, Eri Shimokawara, Kazuki Hirata, Tomoya Takatani
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Patent number: 10381003Abstract: A voice acquisition system includes a plurality of mobile objects each of which includes one or more microphones and is movable around a sound source; a sound source number estimating unit which estimates the number of sound sources in a vicinity of any of the mobile objects; and a control unit which controls positions of the mobile objects, wherein the control unit controls, based on the number of sound sources in a vicinity of a first mobile object, a position of a second mobile object which differs from the first mobile object, and the voice acquisition system acquires voice using both a microphone included in the first mobile object and a microphone included in the second mobile object.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Youhei Wakisaka, Hitoshi Yamada, Tomoya Takatani, Narimasa Watanabe
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Publication number: 20180315440Abstract: An interest determination system includes a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a first data group indicating a feature of each word contained in user's dialog information; a first learning unit configured to learn by using a first input and output values, the first input value being set to a data group that associates the first data group with a second data group indicating a feature of a predetermined word, the first output value being set to information indicating whether there is a user's interest; and a determination unit configured to, when a data group that associates a third data group indicating a feature of a word to be determined with the first data group has been input to the first learning unit, determine whether there is a user's interest in the word to be determined, based on an output value output from the first learning unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Michimasa Inaba, Yuya Nawate, Tomoya Takatani
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Publication number: 20180253420Abstract: An output sentence generation apparatus for automatically generating one output sentence from a plurality of input keywords includes a candidate sentence generator incorporating a learned neural network configured to take in the plurality of keywords and generate a plurality of candidate sentences each including at least some of the plurality of keywords, and an evaluation outputter configured to calculate an overlap ratio for each of the plurality of candidate sentences generated by the candidate sentence generator and increase an evaluation of the candidate sentence with a small overlap ratio to thereby determine an output sentence from the plurality of candidate sentences. The overlap ratio is the number of occurrences of an overlapping word with respect to the number of occurrences of all words included in the corresponding candidate sentence.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityInventors: Mamoru KOMACHI, Shin KANOUCHI, Tomoya OGATA, Tomoya TAKATANI
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Publication number: 20180166077Abstract: A language storage method according to one aspect of the present invention includes vectorization steps for vectorizing language accumulated in a dialog log database using a word vector created in advance for each word; determination step for determining whether to employ the language that has been vectorized as response data; and a storage step for accumulating the language that has been determined to be employed as the response data in a response database, in which a dimension reduction step for reducing the number of dimensions of the vector of the language vectorized in the vectorization step is included between the vectorization step and the determination step, and in the determination step, it is determined which one of an employed group and an unemployed group the vector of the language whose number of dimensions has been reduced in the dimension reduction step belongs to.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityInventors: Toru Yamaguchi, Eri Shimokawara, Kazuki Hirata, Tomoya Takatani
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Publication number: 20180082686Abstract: A voice acquisition system includes a plurality of mobile objects each of which includes one or more microphones and is movable around a sound source; a sound source number estimating unit which estimates the number of sound sources in a vicinity of any of the mobile objects; and a control unit which controls positions of the mobile objects, wherein the control unit controls, based on the number of sound sources in a vicinity of a first mobile object, a position of a second mobile object which differs from the first mobile object, and the voice acquisition system acquires voice using both a microphone included in the first mobile object and a microphone included in the second mobile object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Youhei WAKISAKA, Hitoshi YAMADA, Tomoya TAKATANI, Narimasa WATANABE
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Patent number: 9299334Abstract: A sound source detecting system that detects a predetermined sound source on the basis of sounds collected by sound collectors includes: a noise extracting unit that extracts a noise from signals of the collected sounds; and a noise suppressing unit that suppresses a signal component of the noise extracted by the noise extracting unit from the signals of the collected sounds. The sound source detecting unit detects a location of the predetermined sound source, such as an approaching vehicle, using information about the sounds having the signals of which the noise is suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEIJO UNIVERSITYInventors: Jun Sato, Ryuji Funayama, Tomoya Takatani, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Publication number: 20150331095Abstract: A sound detection device is provided in a moving body and includes a sound detection unit configured to detect an ambient sound of the moving body and a determination unit configured to determine at least one of the presence of a sound source to be detected around the moving body, the approach of the sound source to the moving body, and the separation of the sound source from the moving body, on the basis of a degree of correlation between sound pressure information of a first preset frequency band in the ambient sound detected by the sound detection unit and sound pressure information of a second frequency band different from the first frequency band in the ambient sound detected by the sound detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun SATO, Ryuji FUNAYAMA, Tomoya TAKATANI, Toshiki KINDO, Hideo FUKAMACHI, Hiroaki SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20150117652Abstract: Disclosed is a noise model generation device that generates a noise model suitable for each environment by determining whether an sound source of a detection target is included in sound information collected by an sound collector with high accuracy. The noise model generation device generates a noise model relating to noise information other than the sound source of the detection target included in the sound information collected by the sound collector, which acquires a power spectrum from the sound information; determines whether the sound source of the detection target is included in the sound information collected by evaluating a probability density distribution (histogram) of the power spectrum; and generates a noise model from the collected sound information when it is determined that the sound source of the detection target is not included in the collected sound information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Sato, Ryuji Funayama, Tomoya Takatani, Toshiki Kindo, Hideo Fukamachi
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Publication number: 20140241532Abstract: A sound source detecting system that detects a predetermined sound source on the basis of sounds collected by sound collectors includes: a noise extracting unit that extracts a noise from signals of the collected sounds; and a noise suppressing unit that suppresses a signal component of the noise extracted by the noise extracting unit from the signals of the collected sounds. The sound source detecting unit detects a location of the predetermined sound source, such as an approaching vehicle, using information about the sounds having the signals of which the noise is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicants: MEIJO UNIVERSITY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Sato, Ryuji Funayama, Tomoya Takatani, Osami Yamamoto, Kensaku Asahi, Hideki Banno, Keiichi Yamada, Akira Ogawa, Yuichi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 8755537Abstract: To provide a microphone unit capable of acquiring a target sound with high accuracy. A microphone unit in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of microphones, a microphone substrate on which the plurality of microphones are mounted, and a vibration observation device disposed at roughly a center of gravity of a shape that is formed by connecting centers of certain adjacent microphones among the plurality of microphones.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoya Takatani
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Patent number: 8452592Abstract: Provided are a signal separating apparatus and a signal separating method capable of solving the permutation problem and separating user speech to be extracted. The signal separating apparatus separates a specific speech signal and a noise signal from a received sound signal. First, a joint probability density distribution estimation unit of a permutation solving unit calculates joint probability density distributions of the respective separated signals. Then, a classifying determination unit of the permutation solving unit determines classifying based on shapes of the calculated joint probability density distributions.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2008Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, National University Corporation Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Tomoya Takatani, Jani Even
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Publication number: 20120087513Abstract: To provide a microphone unit capable of acquiring a target sound with high accuracy. A microphone unit in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of microphones, a microphone substrate on which the plurality of microphones are mounted, and a vibration observation device disposed at roughly a center of gravity of a shape that is formed by connecting centers of certain adjacent microphones among the plurality of microphones.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoya TAKATANI