Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Shimamura

Toshiaki Shimamura 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).

  • Server for automatically scoring opinion conveyed by text message containing pictorial-symbols
    Patent number: 8478582
    Abstract: A server is disclosed for computing a score of an opinion that a message in a text file is expected to convey regarding a subject to be evaluated, wherein the message is written using literal strings and pictorial symbols. In this server, by the use of a pictorial-symbol dictionary memory storing a correspondence between designated pictorial-symbols to be rated and scores of opinions expressed by the respective pictorial-symbols, at least one of the used pictorial-symbols in the message which is coincident with at least one of the designated pictorial-symbols stored in the pictorial-symbol dictionary memory, is extracted from the message, at least one of the opinion scores which corresponds to the at least one extracted pictorial-symbol is retrieved within the pictorial-symbol dictionary memory, and an aggregate net opinion score for the message is calculated, based on an aggregate opinion score for the at least one extracted pictorial-symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Yukiko Habu, Ryoichi Kawada, Nobuhide Kotsuka, Sung Jiae, Koki Uchiyama, Santi Saeyor, Hirosuke Asano, Toshiaki Shimamura
  • SERVER FOR AUTOMATICALLY SCORING OPINION CONVEYED BY TEXT MESSAGE CONTAINING PICTORIAL-SYMBOLS
    Publication number: 20100198584
    Abstract: A server is disclosed for computing a score of an opinion that a message in a text file is expected to convey regarding a subject to be evaluated, wherein the message is written using literal strings and pictorial symbols. In this server, by the use of a pictorial-symbol dictionary memory storing a correspondence between designated pictorial-symbols to be rated and scores of opinions expressed by the respective pictorial-symbols, at least one of the used pictorial-symbols in the message which is coincident with at least one of the designated pictorial-symbols stored in the pictorial-symbol dictionary memory, is extracted from the message, at least one of the opinion scores which corresponds to the at least one extracted pictorial-symbol is retrieved within the pictorial-symbol dictionary memory, and an aggregate net opinion score for the message is calculated, based on an aggregate opinion score for the at least one extracted pictorial-symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: KDDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukiko Habu, Ryoichi Kawada, Nobuhide Kotsuka, Sung Jiae, Koki Uchiyama, Santi Saeyor, Hirosuke Asano, Toshiaki Shimamura