Patents by Inventor Haru Kato

Haru Kato 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).

  • Audio conversation device, method, and robot device
    Publication number: 20060177802
    Abstract: In a conventional voice dialogue system, there is a case where it is difficult to perform a natural dialogue with the user. Therefore, we designed to perform speech recognition on the user's utterance, to control a dialogue with the user according to a scenario previously given, based on the speech recognition result to generate an answering sentence corresponding to the contents of the user's utterance as the occasion demands, and to perform voice synthesis processing to one sentence in the reproduced scenario or the generated answering sentence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Atsuo Hiroe, Hideki Shimomura, Helmut Lucke, Katsuki Minamino, Haru Kato