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Granted Patent B2
US 12,293,150 · App. 17/253,087 · Granted May 6, 2025

Posted information extraction control device and computer readable storage medium

Inventors: Kuniaki Andou (Inzai, JP); Rikuto Kunimoto (Inzai, JP); Takeshi Takai (Inzai, JP); Kazuo Ohtake (Inzai, JP)
Assignee: Takenaka Corporation
G06F40/253G06F16/353G06F16/387G06F40/166G06F40/279G06Q50/01H04L51/02H04L51/52G06F18/23G06V10/70
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Patent No.
US 12,293,150
App. No.
17/253,087
Granted
May 6, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A registree management function receives member (user) registration, carries out a survey upon registration, performs category classification for the registered user, learns the classified categories, and the like. A comment analysis function performs text mining on comments acquired from an SNS posted comment server, determines post origin positions identified by the text mining and the level of credibility thereof, and executes evaluation and the like of a target relating to a theme. An information provision function edits a social heat map generated based on the results of analyzing the comments to be provided to the user, and also performs user category management and the like.

Claims (27)

1. A posted information extraction control device comprising:

at least one processor that is configured to:

acquire posted information that includes at least one of characters or an image and that has been submitted over a network and includes position information for a submission origin of the posted information;

perform natural language analysis on the acquired posted information to select first posted information from the posted information, the first posted information including character string information of a location character string indicating a position;

split the first posted information into individual words and determine respective parts of speech of the individual words using machine learning;

certify whether the first posted information is submitted from within a given area based on one or more tenses of the respective parts of speech of the individual words, wherein the given area is related to the position indicated by the character string information;

extract, as second posted information, a part of the first posted information that is certified as submitted within the given area and that includes selected information, which is selected as relating to a target present within the given area;

receive longitude-latitude information that has been generated from sensor data on a user device that is a submission origin of the posted information, the longitude-latitude information having been automatically embedded in the position information included in the posted information;

compare the longitude-latitude information with the character string information indicating the position and generating thereby a comparison result;

determine a credibility of the position, which is indicated by the character string information, based on the comparison result,

request a user to provide a response to a predetermined statement upon registration by the user,

analyze the response and classify the user into a category of a plurality of user categories; and

provide a social heat map including a density level of a subset of the selected information, which relates to the target present within the given area, that corresponds to the category into which the user was classified.

2. The posted information extraction control device of claim 1 , wherein:

the selected information relating to the target further includes action information indicating an action with respect to the target and includes evaluation information indicating an opinion about the target; and

a graded evaluation is set based on a sensory expression in the character string information in the second posted information for at least the evaluation information.

3. The posted information extraction control device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:

determine whether the posted information has a high level of credibility based on the credibility of the position,

include the posted information in a comment database when the posted information has the high level of credibility, and

exclude the posted information from the comment database when the posted information lacks the high level of credibility.

4. The posted information extraction control device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:

link the target with the selected information relating to the target and sort the target into a plurality of predetermined categories.

5. The posted information extraction control device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:

in cases in which the posted information includes an image, perform image analysis including at least one of object detection or image captioning, in order to generate character string information describing the image.

6. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a posted information extraction control program configured to cause a computer to operate as the posted information extraction control device of claim 1 .

7. The posted information extraction control device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:

send instructions to a user device that cause a display of a user device to display the social heat map.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 7, 2023
From: ANDOU, KUNIAKI; KUNIMOTO, RIKUTO; TAKAI, TAKESHI; OHTAKE, KAZUO
To: TAKENAKA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 065799/0494 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-116210 · Jun 19, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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