Patents by Inventor Takaya Ueda

Takaya Ueda 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).

  • Information processing apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20010042082
    Abstract: A server acquires a web page corresponding to the URL that a client registers, and detects new text (to be referred to as new information hereinafter) inserted in that web page. The server converts the detected new information into one of a character string, phonetic character string, and synthetic speech, and delivers it to the client. The client receives the new information delivered from the server, converts it into synthetic speech, and outputs the synthetic speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Toshiaki Ueguri, Takaya Ueda, Takashi Aso, Makoto Hirota
  • Sound data processing system and processing method
    Publication number: 20010029540
    Abstract: In a sound data setting apparatus for setting an output format of each sound to output sounds corresponding to a plurality of sound data, metadata indicating contents of each sound data is acquired and an output format of a sound concerning the sound data corresponding to the metadata is set on the basis of each metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Fumiaki Ito, Yuji Ikeda, Takaya Ueda, Kenichi Fujii
  • Document processing method and apparatus therefor for translating keywords according to a meaning of extracted words
    Patent number: 6041293
    Abstract: A document processing apparatus and method extracts, from document data, both a first word, whose translation is to be determined, and a second word that is either the preceding word or the subsequent word of the first word. Then a keyword is extracted based on the frequency of occurrence of the first word and the keyword is translated into a predetermined language by referring to a dictionary in a process that considers a meaning of the first and second words existing together in the document data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Shibata, Minoru Fujita, Yuji Ikeda, Takaya Ueda, Fumiaki Itoh, Makoto Hirota
  • Text processing apparatus using modification relation analysis
    Patent number: 5170349
    Abstract: In a text processing apparatus, a diagram of the mutual relationships between words or phrases of an inputted sentence is formed and the modification relationships of the sentence structure are displayed. The modification relationship sentence-structure diagram reflects the order of each word or phrase in the sentence and the perspective of the distance between words or phrases in modification relationship to each other in the sentence. Corrections are made to the inputted sentence by correcting the diagram structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1992
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yagisawa, Takaya Ueda