Patents by Inventor Yue Weng

Yue Weng 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: 11864897
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether a user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining one or more properties of the task based on information regarding the task received from a database storing information regarding the task, determining one or more properties of the user with respect to the task, determining a state of the user based on one or more physiological sensors configured to sense one or more characteristics of the user, and determining that the user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in the task based on the determined one or more properties of the task, the determined one or more properties of the user, and the determined state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20230185997
    Abstract: A method for machine-assisted collaborative product design is described. The method includes training a neural network to simulate a plurality of stakeholder personas in a product review process to provide a plurality of stakeholder models. The method also includes simulating, using the plurality of stakeholder models, the plurality of stakeholder personas in the product review process of a potential product. The method further includes aggregating individual scores output from the plurality of stakeholder models corresponding to each of the plurality of stakeholder personas regarding the potential product; wherein each of the individual scores corresponds to a stakeholder persona and that stakeholder persona's reaction to the potential product. The method also includes displaying a summary providing an overview of the aggregated individual scores regarding the potential product to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Shabnam HAKIMI, Scott CARTER, Jonathan A. DECASTRO, Emily S. SUMNER, Yue WENG, Nikos ARECHIGA
  • Publication number: 20230127614
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating prototypes are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of creating a prototype includes receiving one or more input design parameters, generating, using a first neural network, a plurality of prototypes based on the one or more input design parameters, generating, using a second neural network, one or more decoy prototypes, and presenting, by an electronic display, a report including at least a portion of the plurality of prototypes and at least one of the one or more decoy prototypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Yue Weng, Emily Sumner, Shabnam Hakimi, Nikos Arechiga, Jonathan A. DeCastro
  • Publication number: 20230129746
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving biometric sensor data and generating a first a signal based on one or more conversational prompts. Systems and methods disclosed herein generate a prediction of a cognitive state for a user based on the biometric sensor data, and generate a recommendation based on the predicted cognitive state for the user. Systems and methods disclosed herein can generate, for a user interface, an indication of the generated recommendation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: SHABNAM HAKIMI, YUE WENG
  • Publication number: 20230131741
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a design with consumer feedback are provided. The method may include receiving a design within a design environment, wherein the design comprises a plurality of attributes. The method may further include automatically generating, using a computer model, consumer-based feedback regarding at least one attribute of the plurality of attributes. The method may additionally include presenting the consumer-based feedback within the design environment in real-time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan A. DeCastro, Shabnam Hakimi, Emily Sumner, Yue Weng, Nikos Arechiga
  • Publication number: 20230083838
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a system includes a processor, a memory module communicatively coupled to the processor, an NLP module communicatively coupled to the processor, and a set of machine-readable instructions stored in the memory module. The machine-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, direct the processor to perform operations including receiving a text data, and receiving a training text data for training one or more models of the NLP module. The operations also include generating, with a novice model of the NLP module, a novice suggestion based on the text data and the training text data to present an idea related to the text data, generating, with an expert model of the NLP module, an expert suggestion based on the text data and the training text data to present an idea elaborating on the text data, and outputting the novice suggestion and/or the expert suggestion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Sumner, Nikos Arechiga, Yue Weng, Shabnam Hakimi, Jonathan A. DeCastro
  • Publication number: 20230063448
    Abstract: A method for monitoring user decision making activity is described. The method includes logging a user decision and decision communications corresponding to the user decision. The method also includes identifying the user decision as a compromised user decision based on an emotional status of a user determined from the decision communications. The method further includes determining a subsequent emotional status of the user based on a subsequent user communication corresponding to the compromised user decision. The method also includes providing an advice recommendation to the user when a degraded emotional status is detected regarding the compromised decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Yin-Ying CHEN, Totte Harri HARINEN, Scott CARTER, Rumen ILIEV, Yue WENG
  • Publication number: 20230004859
    Abstract: A system and method for configuring a device includes using a machine learning model to generate a user behavior model based on user behavior data. The user behavior data may include time series data collected from user interactions with a first device, and the machine learning model may include a classification model configured to classify the user behavior data into the one or more classifications. A mapping may be created by training a machine learning model, using user behavior models from a plurality of users and device settings from the plurality of users, to identify one or more relationships between device settings and classifications of the user behavior data. The system and method configures one or more settings of a second device based on the user behavior model and the mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220366187
    Abstract: A method includes fitting a ML trained model to data features, the fitting generates complete data feature-set outputs that are associated with a first set of accuracy values, iteratively fitting, after an iterative removal of each data feature from the data feature-set, the ML trained model to subsets of the plurality of data features to determine respective reduced feature-set outputs, each subset lacks a different data feature of the plurality of data features, determining one or more of the reduced feature-set outputs as corresponding to a second set of accuracy values, designating the iteratively removed data features as accuracy-modifying data features, generating a first linear model, generating a second linear model based on one of the accuracy-modifying data features having a weight that is highest relative to respective different weights of the remaining ones of the accuracy-modifying data features, and identifying the second linear model as a generative model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Totte Harinen, Alexandre L.S. Filipowicz, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Yin-Ying Chen, Yue Weng, Abishek Komma
  • Publication number: 20220358383
    Abstract: A method implemented by a processor of a device, the method including determining one or more user values, determining a prompt requiring a decision, and receiving a user selection to one or more choice options related to the one or more user values and pertaining to the prompt requiring a decision. The method further includes comparing the user selection to a risk-neutral utility function and assessing a risk of a potential decision based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Charlene C. Wu, Kent Lyons
  • Publication number: 20220332189
    Abstract: Electronic devices and methods for displaying information on electronic displays of electronic devices based on learned user behavior are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electronic device includes an electronic display, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to cause for display on the electronic display a selected representation of information among a plurality of representations based at least in part on learned behavior of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220326770
    Abstract: Systems and methods for selecting a channel of communication based on a type of thinking employed by a user for a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining that a user is employing System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking for the task based on one or more properties of the task, one or more properties of the user, and a state of the user based on physiological response data from one or more physiological sensors monitoring the user, and implementing a channel of communication to utilize for the task that corresponds to a determined type of thinking the user is employing for the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220322986
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether a user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining one or more properties of the task based on information regarding the task received from a database storing information regarding the task, determining one or more properties of the user with respect to the task, determining a state of the user based on one or more physiological sensors configured to sense one or more characteristics of the user, and determining that the user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in the task based on the determined one or more properties of the task, the determined one or more properties of the user, and the determined state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220318763
    Abstract: A method for generating and outputting a prompt for performing a task in a designated time segment is provided. The method includes obtaining, from a plurality of sensors, context data associated of the user related to time segments, categorizing each of the time segments into one of a plurality of thought states based on the context data, mapping a task from a task dataset associated with the user into one of the plurality of thought states, and generating a prompt for performing the task during a designated time segment of the time segments, the designated time segment corresponding to the one of the plurality of thought states to which the task is mapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Rumen Iliev, Charlene C. Wu, Kent Lyons, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220318511
    Abstract: Systems and methods for content framing monitoring and intervention are disclosed. In one example, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, first text conveying first information, performing natural language processing of the first text, determining a first framing of the first information based on the natural language processing of the first text, determining second text conveying the first information with a second framing, different from the first framing, and outputting the second text on an electronic display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
  • Publication number: 20220245837
    Abstract: Disclosed in a movement direction determination system comprising a first detection region, a second detection region and a processing circuit. The first detection region and the second detection region respectively comprises an optical sensor. The processing circuit determines a movement direction of an object according to the optical data generated by the first detection region and the second detection region. The present invention also discloses a movement direction determination system using a single detection region. The present invention also discloses an object volume computation system which can compute an object volume according to sensed optical data. The disclosed movement direction determination system can be used for various applications and the object volume computation system can assist product confirmation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Jeng-Yue Weng, Tzung-Min Su, Feng-Chi Liu
  • Publication number: 20210221648
    Abstract: In the present invention, an anti-pinch device which uses a simple optical mechanism to prevent the user being hurt by the moving part before the moving part touches the user is disclosed. Also, a space computing device which uses a simple optical mechanism to compute acquired space of a target object is disclosed. Additionally, a hovering control device which uses a simple optical mechanism thereby the user can control the hovering control device without touching the hovering control device is disclosed. The optical mechanism comprises at least one light source and at least one optical sensor, which can arrange in various ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Tsung-Fa Wang, Chiung-Wen Lin, Tzung-Min Su, Jeng-Yue Weng, Ting-Yang Chang, Chun-Sheng Lin
  • Publication number: 20160151435
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pharmaceutical composition and applications thereof. The pharmaceutical composition comprises an extract of Antrodia cinnamomea fruiting bodies and a pharmaceutical carrier. The extract is fabricated via soaking the powder of Antrodia cinnamomea fruiting bodies in hot water and then undertaking extraction with a low-polarity solvent to acquire the extract from the soaked powder. The pharmaceutical composition can function as an adjuvant drug of chemotherapy drugs to enhance the treatment effect of the chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and gemcitabine and relieve the chemotherapy drug-induced side-effects of hair loss, muscle degradation and atrophy, gastrointestinal lesion, nephritis and renal injury.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: FENG-YUE WENG, WEN-HUANG LIU, CHIEN-LIANG KUO, CHIA-CHI LIN