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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING BIDS FOR PLACING ADVERTISEMENTS

Granted: October 12, 2023
Application Number: 20230325887
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for determining a bid value for placing an advertisement onto advertising space available through an electronic marketplace. A method is used for calculating the option value of maintaining the advertisement in the advertising space during one or more periods of time. The option value may be based on expected profits and the estimated future value of maintaining the advertisement. The option value may then be used to calculate the bid price…

OUTPUT DEVICE, OUTPUT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: January 2, 2020
Application Number: 20200005137
An output device includes an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of output information generated from predetermined target information by a plurality of models each of which generates, from input information, output information that includes a plurality of pieces of information having an order relation. The output device includes a selecting unit that selects, based on a similarity between the plurality of pieces of output information, from among the plurality of pieces of…

GENERATING DEVICE, GENERATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: December 19, 2019
Application Number: 20190385590
A generating device according to the present application includes an obtaining unit and a first generating unit. The obtaining unit obtains training data including an acoustic feature value of a first observation signal, a late reverberation component corresponding to the first observation signal, and a phoneme label associated with the first observation signal. The first generating unit generates an acoustic model to identify a phoneme label corresponding to a second observation signal…

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: December 19, 2019
Application Number: 20190384761
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a selecting unit. The acquiring unit acquires a plurality of pieces of second triple information hierarchized based on a conceptual system in a plurality of pieces of first triple information indicating a relationship about three types of elements and statistical information indicating the number of pieces of the first triple information associated with each of the plurality of pieces…

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: November 21, 2019
Application Number: 20190354533
An information processing device according to the application concerned includes a generating unit and a providing unit. The generating unit generates a rating function for each node of a second-type graph which is generated from a first-type graph in which predetermined elements are treated as nodes and the relationships among the elements are treated as links, and which indicates a futuristic state of the first-type graph. The providing unit provides the information related to the…

TRAINING APPARATUS, TRAINING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: July 25, 2019
Application Number: 20190228336
According to one aspect of an training apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a first model including an input layer to which input information is input; a plurality of intermediate layers that executes a calculation based on a feature of the input information that has been input; and an output layer that outputs output information that corresponds to output of the intermediate layer. The training apparatus includes a training unit that trains the first model such that, when…

DETERMINATION DEVICE THROUGH CLUSTERING ANALYSIS OF POSITION HISTORY DATA, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: July 4, 2019
Application Number: 20190208368
According to an embodiment a determination device through a clustering analysis of position history data includes an estimation unit that, by conducting a clustering analysis on history data of pieces of geographical position information on Earth of a plurality of movable bodies that is obtained by a positioning device, based on a horizontal position constituted of a latitude and a longitude and a lapse of time, acquires pieces of area information indicating a characteristic of…

DATA MANAGEMENT DEVICE, DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: June 20, 2019
Application Number: 20190188289
A data management device is provided, which includes an interpreting unit that interprets an input record, and convert the input record to abstract expression by which a correspondence relation between a data item and data itself is recognizable; and a converting unit that stores, in a storage unit, a data set, in which the data itself and index information capable of identifying the record are associated, as column data for each of the data items.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 23, 2019
Application Number: 20190156588
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a providing unit. The acquiring unit acquires a usage situation of a user who has used a moving vehicle. The providing unit provides, in accordance with the usage situation acquired by the acquiring unit, a predetermined incentive to the user.

CREATING DEVICE, CREATING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 23, 2019
Application Number: 20190156846
According to one aspect of an embodiment a creating device includes an estimating unit that estimates a predetermined range that is included in an observation signal and in which a predetermined signal is included. The creating device includes a creating unit that creates, based on an enhancement range in which the predetermined signal included in a signal included in the predetermined range has been enhanced, a filter that is used to enhance a signal having the same characteristic as…

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 23, 2019
Application Number: 20190156451
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a deciding unit. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information on a user. The deciding unit decides, based on the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit, a placement position in which a virtual riding point that corresponds to a riding point that is used for the user to ride in a moving vehicle and that is virtually set is placed.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 23, 2019
Application Number: 20190156258
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a specifying unit and a deciding unit. The specifying unit specifies a placement available position that is a position in which a virtual riding point that corresponds to a riding point that is used to ride in a moving vehicle and that is virtually set can be placed. The deciding unit decides, based on the placement available position specified by the specifying unit, the placement position in which the…

LEARNING APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: May 23, 2019
Application Number: 20190156248
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning apparatus includes a generating unit that generates a model. The model includes an encoder that encodes input information. The model includes a vector generating unit that generates a vector by applying a predetermined matrix to the information encoded by the encoder. The model includes a decoder that generates information corresponding to the information from the vector. The learning apparatus includes a learning unit that, when…

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

Granted: May 16, 2019
Application Number: 20190147470
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes a reception unit, a decision unit, and a transmitting unit. The reception unit receives from a user terminal an order request, including information on a moving body that makes an on-the-spot sale, for a product to be sold at the on-the-spot sale. The decision unit decides a price of the product in accordance with the information, received by the reception unit, on the moving body. The transmitting unit…

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED BIDDING USING DEEP NEURAL LANGUAGE MODELS

Granted: April 25, 2019
Application Number: 20190122252
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for predicting potential effectiveness of query-triggered internet advertisements received from different web page publishers using a deep learning neural network language model for clustering queries, and for automatically adjusting bids for advertisements by advertisers based on the predicted potential effectiveness. Using query-clusters rather than queries for adjusting bids for advertisements allows for more accurate and more consistent…

LEARNING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND LEARNING METHOD

Granted: April 25, 2019
Application Number: 20190122117
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning device includes a learning unit that learns an encoder that includes an input layer to which input information is input, a plurality of intermediate layers that extract features of the input information from output of the input layer in a stepwise manner, and an output layer that outputs the features of the input information extracted by the plurality of intermediate layers. The learning unit learns an applier that applies, to output of…

LEARNING APPARATUS, GENERATION APPARATUS, CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: April 25, 2019
Application Number: 20190122099
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning apparatus includes a first acquiring unit that acquires first output information that is output by an output layer when predetermined input information is input to a model that includes an input layer, a plurality of intermediate layers, and the output layer. The learning apparatus includes a second acquiring unit that acquires intermediate output information that is based on pieces of intermediate information that are output by the…

NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION CONTROL METHOD, AND TERMINAL DEVICE

Granted: April 25, 2019
Application Number: 20190121534
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an information control program that causes a computer to execute: determining whether predetermined operation of touching a display screen of a terminal device is performed and thereafter maintaining operation of maintaining a state, in which the display screen is touched as a result of performing the predetermined operation, is being performed; and controlling including continuing second change operation that is…

Systems and Methods for User Propensity Classification and Online Auction Design

Granted: April 18, 2019
Application Number: 20190114677
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for predicting a dynamic floor price for increasing cleared revenue cleared after a winning bid is determined in an online bid auction. The dynamic floor price is predicted from a cascading classifier strategy implemented through a series of cascading machine learning based classifier models that have been trained.

BOARDING INTENSION DETERMINATION DEVICE, BOARDING INTENSION DETERMINATION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: March 21, 2019
Application Number: 20190090083
A boarding intention determination device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires a positional relationship between boarding position information representing a boarding spot for boarding a mobile object and user position information representing a current position of a user. The determination unit determines whether the user has an intention to board the mobile object based on the positional relationship…