Patents by Inventor Yasunori Oishi

Yasunori Oishi 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: 11907425
    Abstract: To implement a video processing device, a video processing method, and a video processing program capable of estimating a movement vector from a video content and providing processing information based on the movement vector to a haptic device or other force sense presentation devices, a video processing device according to the present disclosure includes a scene identification unit to estimate scene class information that is information identifying a scene class for a video content and a plurality of movement information estimation units to estimate a movement vector from the video content. One movement information estimation unit that is selected from the plurality of the movement information estimation units in response to the scene class identified by the scene class information estimates the movement vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Oishi, Hiroaki Gomi
  • Patent number: 11727446
    Abstract: The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display segment in a broadcast program with higher precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Oishi, Takahito Kawanishi, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Kunio Kashino
  • Patent number: 11728914
    Abstract: To enable extraction of an area related to a sponsor credit from a video including the sponsor credit of a television broadcast or the like without generating learning data for each form of various kinds of sponsor credits. A detection device (10) according to the present invention includes a detection unit (19) that associates a still image including a prescribed character or figure from a preliminary video or a still image not including the prescribed character or figure with a sound signal including the prescribed sound acquired from the preliminary video so as to detect a desired scene as an area that includes at least one of the prescribed character or figure and the prescribed sound from the target video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Oishi, Takahito Kawanishi, Kunio Kashino
  • Publication number: 20230216598
    Abstract: A detection device detecting a scene related to a sponsor credit included in a commercial message from a target video is provided. The detection device comprises a detection unit that associates, from a preliminary video, a still image related to the sponsor credit with an audio signal related to the sponsor credit included other than in a frame or an audio signal configuring the commercial message so as to detect the scene related to the sponsor credit from the target video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Oishi, Takahito Kawanishi, Kunio Kashino
  • Patent number: 11645845
    Abstract: The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program with higher precision. A sponsorship credit display detection device 100 according to the present invention includes: a CM segment detection unit 120 that extracts a cut point, which is a time point where a frame in which the volume of an audio signal of a broadcast program is less than a volume threshold value and the amount of change from a previous frame is at least a pixel change threshold value is played, and detects a CM segment by comparing an interval of the extracted cut point with a CM defined length; a sponsorship credit display segment estimation unit 130 that estimates, as a sponsorship credit display segment, a predetermined time period before or after at least one continuous CM segment detected by the CM segment detection unit 120; and an output unit 140 that outputs information indicating the sponsorship credit display segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Oishi, Takahito Kawanishi, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Kunio Kashino
  • Publication number: 20220335944
    Abstract: A voice conversion device is provided with a linguistic information extraction unit that extracts linguistic information corresponding to utterance content from a conversion source voice signal, an appearance feature extraction unit that extracts appearance features expressing features related to the look of a person's face from a captured image of the person, and a converted voice generation unit that generates a converted voice on a basis of the linguistic information and the appearance features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kameoka, Ko Tanaka, Yasunori Oishi, Takuhiro Kaneko, Aaron Puche Valero
  • Patent number: 11412304
    Abstract: Information related to CMs included in a broadcast program can be automatically added. A CM information generation device 100 includes: a CM section detection unit 120 that detects one or more CM sections within a broadcast program by comparing the volume of the broadcast program with a volume threshold; a CM detection list generation unit 150 that generates a CM detection list describing company names of companies that have advertised detected CMs, which are CMs in the CM sections detected by the CM section detection unit 120, by cross-referencing the detected CMs with CM masters that have been associated with company names of advertisers in advance; a company name list generation unit 170 that generates a company name list describing company names that are specified by a sponsorship credit display indicating sponsors of the broadcast program; and a CM information generation unit 180 that generates CM information related to the detected CMs by comparing the CM detection list with the company name list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Oishi, Takahito Kawanishi, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Kunio Kashino
  • Patent number: 11368762
    Abstract: A CM section within a broadcast program is detected with high accuracy. A CM section detection device 100 includes: a CM section detection unit 120 that detects one or more CM sections by comparing a volume of a broadcast program with a volume threshold, and generates detected CM sections representing the CM sections that have been detected; and a CM section correction unit 140 that corrects the detected CM sections based on a sponsorship credit display section that is a section which is included in the broadcast program and in which a sponsorship credit indicating a sponsor of the broadcast program is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Oishi, Takahito Kawanishi, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Kunio Kashino
  • Publication number: 20220115031
    Abstract: A credit segment identifying device includes an extracting unit which extracts, from a first speech signal, a plurality of first partial speech signals which are each a part of the first speech signals and shifted from each other in time direction and an identifying unit which identifies a credit segment in the first speech signal by determining whether each of the first partial speech signals includes a credit according to an association between each of second partial signals extracted from a second speech signal and the presence/absence of a credit, so that credit segments can be identified more efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Kunio KASHINO
  • Publication number: 20220109517
    Abstract: To enable extraction of an area related to a sponsor credit from a video including the sponsor credit of a television broadcast or the like without generating learning data for each form of various kinds of sponsor credits. A detection device (10) according to the present invention includes a detection unit (19) that associates a still image including a prescribed character or figure from a preliminary video or a still image not including the prescribed character or figure with a sound signal including the prescribed sound acquired from the preliminary video so as to detect a desired scene as an area that includes at least one of the prescribed character or figure and the prescribed sound from the target video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Kunio KASHINO
  • Publication number: 20220091676
    Abstract: To implement a video processing device, a video processing method, and a video processing program capable of estimating a movement vector from a video content and providing processing information based on the movement vector to a haptic device or other force sense presentation devices, a video processing device according to the present disclosure includes a scene identification unit to estimate scene class information that is information identifying a scene class for a video content and a plurality of movement information estimation units to estimate a movement vector from the video content. One movement information estimation unit that is selected from the plurality of the movement information estimation units in response to the scene class identified by the scene class information estimates the movement vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Hiroaki GOMI
  • Patent number: 11212572
    Abstract: An identifier of query content is accurately determined. A content determining device 100 includes an input unit 2 that inputs query content, a storage unit 1 that stores a plurality of pieces of master content, and a content determining unit 4 that determines a region where feature values of two pieces of master content out of the plurality of pieces of master content do not match each other, calculates a matching feature count which is a count of feature values of the region that match feature values in a corresponding region of the query content, for each of the two pieces of master content, and determines an identifier of the query content on the basis of the matching feature count of each of the pieces of master content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito Kawanishi, Hidehisa Nagano, Kunio Kashino, Yasunori Oishi, Kaoru Hiramatsu
  • Publication number: 20210241323
    Abstract: The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display segment in a broadcast program with higher precision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Kaoru HIRAMATSU, Kunio KASHINO
  • Publication number: 20210241324
    Abstract: The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program with higher precision. A sponsorship credit display detection device 100 according to the present invention includes: a CM segment detection unit 120 that extracts a cut point, which is a time point where a frame in which the volume of an audio signal of a broadcast program is less than a volume threshold value and the amount of change from a previous frame is at least a pixel change threshold value is played, and detects a CM segment by comparing an interval of the extracted cut point with a CM defined length; a sponsorship credit display segment estimation unit 130 that estimates, as a sponsorship credit display segment, a predetermined time period before or after at least one continuous CM segment detected by the CM segment detection unit 120; and an output unit 140 that outputs information indicating the sponsorship credit display segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Kaoru HIRAMATSU, Kunio KASHINO
  • Publication number: 20210240993
    Abstract: The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program with higher precision. A sponsorship credit display detection device 100 according to the present invention includes: a learning data creation unit 140 that creates, as learning data, from a broadcast program in which the sponsorship credit display has been detected, a still image where the sponsorship credit display is displayed and a still image where the sponsorship credit display is not displayed; a learning unit 150 that uses the learning data created by the learning data creation unit 140 to learn a parameter to be applied to a detection model for detecting a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program; and a sponsorship credit display detection unit 170 that uses the detection model to which the parameter learned by the learning unit 150 has been applied to detect a sponsorship credit display in a recognition target broadcast program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Kaoru HIRAMATSU, Kunio KASHINO
  • Publication number: 20210235166
    Abstract: A CM section within a broadcast program is detected with high accuracy. ACM section detection device 100 includes: a CM section detection unit 120 that detects one or more CM sections by comparing a volume of a broadcast program with a volume threshold, and generates detected CM sections representing the CM sections that have been detected; and a CM section correction unit 140 that corrects the detected CM sections based on a sponsorship credit display section that is a section which is included in the broadcast program and in which a sponsorship credit indicating a sponsor of the broadcast program is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Kaoru HIRAMATSU, Kunio KASHINO
  • Publication number: 20210235160
    Abstract: Information related to CMs included in a broadcast program can be automatically added. A CM information generation device 100 includes: a CM section detection unit 120 that detects one or more CM sections within a broadcast program by comparing the volume of the broadcast program with a volume threshold; a CM detection list generation unit 150 that generates a CM detection list describing company names of companies that have advertised detected CMs, which are CMs in the CM sections detected by the CM section detection unit 120, by cross-referencing the detected CMs with CM masters that have been associated with company names of advertisers in advance; a company name list generation unit 170 that generates a company name list describing company names that are specified by a sponsorship credit display indicating sponsors of the broadcast program; and a CM information generation unit 180 that generates CM information related to the detected CMs by comparing the CM detection list with the company name list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori OISHI, Takahito KAWANISHI, Kaoru HIRAMATSU, Kunio KASHINO
  • Publication number: 20210219008
    Abstract: An identifier of query content is accurately determined. A content determining device 100 includes an input unit 2 that inputs query content, a storage unit 1 that stores a plurality of pieces of master content, and a content determining unit 4 that determines a region where feature values of two pieces of master content out of the plurality of pieces of master content do not match each other, calculates a matching feature count which is a count of feature values of the region that match feature values in a corresponding region of the query content, for each of the two pieces of master content, and determines an identifier of the query content on the basis of the matching feature count of each of the pieces of master content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahito KAWANISHI, Hidehisa NAGANO, Kunio KASHINO, Yasunori OISHI, Kaoru HIRAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20160178036
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressing unit for pressing an input disc in an axial direction includes a first hydraulic pressure chamber and a second hydraulic pressure chamber, a primary piston facing the first hydraulic pressure chamber and a secondary piston facing the second hydraulic pressure chamber, and oil holes configured to supply oil into the first hydraulic pressure chamber are formed in an input shaft, while oil paths configured to supply oil into the second hydraulic pressure chamber are formed in the secondary piston. Consequently, a separate oil hole configured to supply oil into the second hydraulic pressure chamber is not formed in the input shaft. Thus, it is possible to mitigate the cost and labor hours involved in fabrication of the input shaft. Two oil holes spaced apart from each other in an axial direction do not exist in the input shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro KITA, Yasunori OISHI, Hiroki NISHII
  • Patent number: 9339872
    Abstract: A pair of pinching members pinching a workpiece stem portion, and a deburring tool performing deburring onto the workpiece stem portion pinched by the pair of pinching members are disposed under a pair of guide rails. The deburring tool has a recess so that an opening of the recess faces the other end face of the workpiece stem portion, and is capable of a displacement motion in an axis extension direction of the recess while rotating around the recess axis, and a recess inner circumferential surface is formed so as to reduce its diameter as it goes from the recess opening side toward a recess internal side, and a blade portion is provided on the recess inner circumferential surface. Thereby, it is possible to perform deburring without increasing the machining line length, and prevent abnormal wear of a rubbing stone due to the deburring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: NITTAN VALVE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Zenke, Yasunori Oishi