STORAGE DEVICE, FILE WRITING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: November 30, 2017
Application Number:
20170344305
A storage device according to the present application includes a receiving unit and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a write request for writing a file with a specified directory name. The control unit writes the file in association with a directory of the specified directory name into a memory device, within a range up to an upper limit set for the number of files to be written in the memory device in association with each directory, in response to the write request received…
REGISTERING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, REGISTERING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: November 23, 2017
Application Number:
20170339159
A registering apparatus disclosed herein includes a receiving unit and a registering unit. The receiving unit receives a registration request that is transmitted from a first terminal apparatus of which reliability has been verified on the basis of a predetermined rule and that is a request including certification indicating that a second terminal apparatus is trusted by the first terminal apparatus on the basis of a rule held in the first terminal apparatus. The registering unit…
INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING STRUCTURE OF DATA FOR DIGITAL SCREEN DISPLAY, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: November 23, 2017
Application Number:
20170337627
According to one aspect of an embodiment an information distribution apparatus includes an acquisition unit that, acquires a predetermined score stored in a storage device for a user corresponding to the client information terminal device; a selection unit that selects a data item to be incorporated as a. component into the data for digital screen display to be distributed to the client information terminal device in accordance with the score acauired by the acquisition unit; and a…
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NEAR REAL-TIME LOOKALIKE AUDIENCE EXPANSION IN ADS TARGETING
Granted: November 16, 2017
Application Number:
20170330239
A signature matrix is used to test each online event for inclusion of a user in a pre-generated lookalike audience. Locality Sensitive Hashing is used to compile the signature matrix to dramatically reduce memory storage requirements and processing time for each received online event. A technique of producing incremental signature matrices between generation of the full signature matrix helps to enable near-real time performance in processing each received event to see if a user…
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: November 2, 2017
Application Number:
20170316451
An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines the degree of familiarity between a user and an artifact that performs interactive interaction with the user, on the basis of at least one of the type and the amount of the user's action detected when the artifact is accompanied by the user, and a change unit that changes the content of the interaction in accordance with the degree of familiarity determined by the determination unit.
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: November 2, 2017
Application Number:
20170316452
An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines the degree of familiarity between a user and an artifact that performs interactive interaction with the user, on the basis of at least one of the type and the amount of the user's action detected when the artifact is accompanied by the user, and a change unit that changes the content of the interaction in accordance with the degree of familiarity determined by the determination unit.
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Granted: November 2, 2017
Application Number:
20170316453
An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit that determines the degree of familiarity between a user and an artifact that performs interactive interaction with the user, on the basis of at least one of the type and the amount of the user's action detected when the artifact is accompanied by the user, and a change unit that changes the content of the interaction in accordance with the degree of familiarity determined by the determination unit.
NOTIFICATION-NEEDED INFORMATION PRESENTING APPARATUS, NOTIFICATION-NEEDED INFORMATION PRESENTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: November 2, 2017
Application Number:
20170318433
A notification-needed information presenting apparatus that includes a plurality of display devices configured to display information to an occupant of a vehicle, at least one sensor included in each of the plurality of display devices that is configured to detect at least one of a position of the occupant and a behavior of the occupant, and a processor operatively coupled with the plurality of display devices and each of the at least one sensor that is programmed to determine behavior…
LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: October 26, 2017
Application Number:
20170308773
According to one aspect of an embodiment a learning device includes a generating unit that generates a new second learner by using a part of a first learner in which deep learning has been performed on the relationship held by a combination of first content and second content that has a type different from that of the first content. The learning device includes a learning unit that allows the second learner generated by the generating unit to perform deep learning on the relationship…
DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND DETERMINATION METHOD
Granted: September 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170270097
According to one aspect of an embodiment a determination apparatus includes an association unit that associates three words between which association is to be determined, on a distributed representation space. The determination apparatus includes a determination unit that determines association between the three words as an angle defined by the three words associated with each other on the distributed representation space.
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM
Granted: September 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170270433
An information processing apparatus according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a generation unit. The acquisition unit acquires, when a user performs one of specific behaviors respectively having a plurality of types, information on a behavior of the user performed on a terminal device and information on context associated with the user. The generation unit executes machine learning by using, as feature amounts, information on each of the specific behaviors and…
CONTROL APPARATUS FOR MAN-MACHINE INTERACTION USING RECEPTOR AND EFFECTOR, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170270592
A control apparatus for a man-machine interaction according to the present application includes a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The first processing unit acquires detection information detected using a sensor as a receptor by an artifact including an interface configured to perform a man-machine conversational interaction with a user, using the sensor and an effector as an output apparatus, the detection information indicating a status of the interaction. The second…
IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170270683
An image processing apparatus according to the present application includes a reception unit and a specification unit. The reception unit receives image data produced through image capturing by a predetermined image capturing apparatus and including an elliptical figure. The specification unit performs projection transform of the image data so that the elliptical figure included in the image data received by the reception unit appears to be an exact circle, and specifies, based on…
DECISION DEVICE FOR SWITCHING DIGITAL DATA PACKET STREAM, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: September 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170272835
A decision device for switching a digital data packet stream according to the present application includes an acquiring unit and a decision unit. An acquiring unit acquires, as feature information associated with a first digital data packet stream that is transmitted via an information and telecommunications network, the length of playback time in a case where the digital data packet stream is played back by rendering at a standard playback rate. A decision unit decides, on the basis of…
TERMINAL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INSURANCE CONDITION DETERMINATION DEVICE
Granted: September 21, 2017
Application Number:
20170273047
A terminal device that includes a first execution unit that executes a first application having a navigation function for a user in a vehicle, and a second execution unit that executes a second application having a transmission function and a reception function of a message, and the second execution unit automatically replies to the message in cooperation with the first application in a case where the second execution unit receives the message to the second application while the vehicle…
SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND SEARCH PROGRAM
Granted: September 14, 2017
Application Number:
20170262895
An advertising apparatus receives requirements for searching documents, acquires, for each of the requirements, a first list that arranges in ascending order document numbers, each of which is associated with a corresponding one of the documents and extracts starting document numbers of the respective requirements of the first list to thereby prepare a second list. Each starting document number totals a count that satisfies a minimum requirement count that represents the number of…
System and Method for Traffic Quality Based Pricing via Deep Neural Language Models
Granted: September 14, 2017
Application Number:
20170262878
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for determining the quality of traffic received from different web page publishers, and setting a pricing structure for the different traffic based on the determined quality of traffic. Accurately determining the quality of traffic and/or clicks from different publishers allows the network system described herein to offer a fair marketplace with just return on investments (ROI) for advertisers, and offer a robust and accurate traffic quality…
QUALITY-BASED SCORING AND INHIBITING OF USER-GENERATED CONTENT
Granted: August 31, 2017
Application Number:
20170249311
Methods and devices for assessing the quality of user-generated content are described. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for measuring the quality of a user-generated answer to a question by combining various factors, including question-answer surface word vector similarity, question-answer explicit semantic analysis vector similarity, answer-answer explicit sematic analysis vector similarity, query performance predictor, sentiment analysis, textual analysis of the answer, and…
ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM
Granted: August 24, 2017
Application Number:
20170241786
According to one aspect of an embodiment an estimation device includes a detection unit that detects a predetermined physical state that is produced at a time of movement. The estimation device includes an estimation unit that estimates a moving velocity from a state detected by the detection unit, by using a learner that has learned a velocity zone with the physical state being produced therefrom.
DELIVERY APPARATUS, DELIVERY METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DELIVERY SYSTEM
Granted: August 24, 2017
Application Number:
20170243288
A delivery apparatus according to the present application includes an acquisition unit, a generation unit, and a delivery unit. The acquisition unit acquires user information that represents information relating to a user. The generation unit generates, using the user information acquired by the acquisition unit, loan information that represents information including loan terms for the user. The delivery unit delivers the loan information generated by the generation unit to a terminal…
