Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Hijikata

Yoshinori Hijikata 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: 9402101
    Abstract: A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Kotaro Sakata, Masaki Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20150143394
    Abstract: A content presenting method of the present disclosure includes: a history collecting step of collecting a viewing history of a user; a determining step of analyzing the viewing history to determine an active time segment in which an output section is in a state of being viewed; a data collecting step of collecting meta data assigned to a viewed content; an analyzing step of analyzing the meta data to extract a word representing the content; a profile generating step of generating, for each active time segment, a user profile based on the extracted word; a calculation step of calculating an estimated viewing time; and a playlist generating step of selecting contents based on the user profile generated correspondingly to the active time segment to be compatible with the estimated viewing time, to generate a playlist which defines an order in which the selected contents are played.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property of America
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Kotaro Sakata, Masaki Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 7490090
    Abstract: The present invention permits users to obtain detailed information concerning those portions of web contents in which they are most interested and provides an information extraction system. In an embodiment, the information extraction system comprises a server and a client, connected via a communication network, wherein the server provides a data file for a client to browse; and wherein the client includes a browser for displaying the contents of the data file that is received from the server via the communication network, an operation event detection analyzer for detecting a predetermined specific operation based on a user's operation when the user reads the contents of the data file displayed by the browser, and a text extractor for extracting information that is displayed at a location whereat the specific operation that is detected by the operation event analyzer is performed on a display screen of the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Yoshinori Aoki, Amane Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20090019015
    Abstract: A mathematical expression structured language object search system according to the present invention includes a mathematical expression structured language search engine (4) for collecting web documents having a mathematical expression structured language object embedded therein by a crawler beforehand based on a document tree structure of the mathematical expression structured language object, indexing the web documents using the document tree structure of the mathematical expression structured language object as an index term, and storing the indexed web documents in a database in the form of inverted files; a web browser serving as a client (1); and a server (3) for receiving search query information from the client (1), inputting a search query into the mathematical expression structured language search engine (3) based on the search query information, thereby performing a search and thus acquiring a web document or a web document part including a related mathematical expression structured language objec
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventor: Yoshinori Hijikata
  • Publication number: 20060280191
    Abstract: This invention provides a communication method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Applicants: Kai Nishida (90%), Yoshinori Hijikata (10%)
    Inventors: Kai Nishida, Yoshinori Hijikata
  • Publication number: 20050246348
    Abstract: The present invention permits users to obtain detailed information concerning those portions of web contents in which they are most interested and provides an information extraction system. In an embodiment, the information extraction system comprises a server and a client, connected via a communication network, wherein the server provides a data file for a client to browse; and wherein the client includes a browser for displaying the contents of the data file that is received from the server via the communication network, an operation event detection analyzer for detecting a predetermined specific operation based on a user's operation when the user reads the contents of the data file displayed by the browser, and a text extractor for extracting information that is displayed at a location whereat the specific operation that is detected by the operation event analyzer is performed on a display screen of the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Yoshinori Aoki, Amane Nakajima
  • Patent number: 6934750
    Abstract: The present invention permits users to obtain detailed information concerning those portions of web contents in which they are most interested and provides an information extraction system. In an embodiment, the information extraction system comprises a server and a client, connected via a communication network, wherein the server provides a data file for a client to browse; and wherein the client includes a browser for displaying the contents of the data file that is received from the server via the communication network, an operation event detection analyzer for detecting a predetermined specific operation based on a user's operation when the user reads the contents of the data file displayed by the browser, and a text extractor for extracting information that is displayed at a location whereat the specific operation that is detected by the operation event analyzer is performed on a display screen of the browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Yoshinori Aoki, Amane Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20050102619
    Abstract: A document processing device 100 is provided, the device 100 comprises an accessing part 110, a collecting part 120, a morpheme analysis part 130, an extracting part 140, a storing part 150, and a displaying part 160. The collecting part 120 collects evaluation comments aiming at a certain evaluation subject as a first evaluation comment group from the database 180, and collects evaluation comments, in which these evaluation comments are comments on evaluation subjects other than the said certain evaluation subject by valuers who provided evaluation comments on the said certain evaluation subject as a second evaluation comment group from the database 180. The morpheme analysis part 130 segments sentences included in the said first and second evaluation comment groups into pairs of an attribute having at least one predetermined keyword and an attribute value having at least one part of speech regarding the attribute using a morpheme analysis technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Hanako Ono, Yukitaka Kusumura, Shogo Nishida
  • Publication number: 20010016840
    Abstract: The present invention permits users to obtain detailed information concerning those portions of web contents in which they are most interested and provides an information extraction system. In an embodiment, the information extraction system comprises a server and a client, connected via a communication network, wherein the server provides a data file for a client to browse; and wherein the client includes a browser for displaying the contents of the data file that is received from the server via the communication network, an operation event detection analyzer for detecting a predetermined specific operation based on a user's operation when the user reads the contents of the data file displayed by the browser, and a text extractor for extracting information that is displayed at a location whereat the specific operation that is detected by the operation event analyzer is performed on a display screen of browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hijikata, Yoshinori Aoki, Amane Nakajima