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).
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Patent number: 11864897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Publication number: 20230185997Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Shabnam HAKIMI, Scott CARTER, Jonathan A. DECASTRO, Emily S. SUMNER, Yue WENG, Nikos ARECHIGA
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Publication number: 20230127614Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Yue Weng, Emily Sumner, Shabnam Hakimi, Nikos Arechiga, Jonathan A. DeCastro
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Publication number: 20230129746Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: SHABNAM HAKIMI, YUE WENG
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Publication number: 20230131741Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan A. DeCastro, Shabnam Hakimi, Emily Sumner, Yue Weng, Nikos Arechiga
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Publication number: 20230083838Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Emily Sumner, Nikos Arechiga, Yue Weng, Shabnam Hakimi, Jonathan A. DeCastro
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Publication number: 20230063448Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Yin-Ying CHEN, Totte Harri HARINEN, Scott CARTER, Rumen ILIEV, Yue WENG
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Publication number: 20230004859Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Publication number: 20220366187Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicants: Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Totte Harinen, Alexandre L.S. Filipowicz, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Yin-Ying Chen, Yue Weng, Abishek Komma
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Publication number: 20220358383Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2021Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Charlene C. Wu, Kent Lyons
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Publication number: 20220332189Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Publication number: 20220326770Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Publication number: 20220322986Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Publication number: 20220318763Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Rumen Iliev, Charlene C. Wu, Kent Lyons, Yue Weng
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Publication number: 20220318511Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Rumen Iliev, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Publication number: 20220245837Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventors: Jeng-Yue Weng, Tzung-Min Su, Feng-Chi Liu
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Publication number: 20210221648Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Tsung-Fa Wang, Chiung-Wen Lin, Tzung-Min Su, Jeng-Yue Weng, Ting-Yang Chang, Chun-Sheng Lin
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Publication number: 20160151435Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: FENG-YUE WENG, WEN-HUANG LIU, CHIEN-LIANG KUO, CHIA-CHI LIN