Patents by Inventor HIROYASU IGAMI

HIROYASU IGAMI 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).

  • Answering device, control method for answering device, and recording medium
    Patent number: 11062701
    Abstract: A response sentence that is satisfactory to a user is formed. A response device (1) includes: a related term searching section (13) configured to, in a case where an input sentence contains an unknown word, detect a related term, which is a known word that shares, with the unknown word, at least one shared word; and a response sentence forming section (16) configured to form the response sentence whose content is related to the related term that has been detected by the related term searching section (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Satoh, Kazunori Morishita, Hiroyasu Igami, Naoki Esumi
  • ANSWERING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR ANSWERING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20200090645
    Abstract: A response sentence that is satisfactory to a user is formed. A response device (1) includes: a related term searching section (13) configured to, in a case where an input sentence contains an unknown word, detect a related term, which is a known word that shares, with the unknown word, at least one shared word; and a response sentence forming section (16) configured to form the response sentence whose content is related to the related term that has been detected by the related term searching section (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: SHINYA SATOH, KAZUNORI MORISHITA, HIROYASU IGAMI, NAOKI ESUMI
  • DIALOG DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF DIALOG DEVICE, AND A NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20190311716
    Abstract: A completion processing section (23) is configured to, if a user's speech inputted to an interactive device (1) omits some phrase, complete the speech of the user. A speech storing section (25) stores a user's speech having no omitted or incorrect phrases in a speech database (50) for use in generation of a speech of the interactive device (1). User's previous speech data thus stored are made effective use of for generation of a speech of the interactive device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: KAZUNORI MORISHITA, SHINYA SATOH, HIROYASU IGAMI, NAOKI ESUMI