Patents by Inventor Kentaro Nagatomo

Kentaro Nagatomo 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).

  • Patent number: 9905227
    Abstract: Provided is a speech recognition system, including: a first information processing device including a speech recognition processing unit for receiving data to be used for speech recognition transmitted via a network, carrying out speech recognition processing, and returning resultant data; and a second information processing device connected to the first information processing device via the network. The second information processing device performs conversion of the data into data having a format that disables a content thereof from being perceived by application of a mapping function on phoneme ID's associated with the content, and also enables the speech recognition processing unit to perform the speech recognition processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 9520129
    Abstract: Provided is a speech recognition system, including: a first information processing device including a speech recognition processing unit for receiving data to be used for speech recognition transmitted via a network, carrying out speech recognition processing, and returning resultant data; and a second information processing device connected to the first information processing device via the network. The second information processing device performs conversion of the data into data having a format that disables a content thereof from being perceived by application of a mapping function on phoneme ID's associated with the content, and also enables the speech recognition processing unit to perform the speech recognition processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20160358608
    Abstract: Provided is a speech recognition system, including: a first information processing device including a speech recognition processing unit for receiving data to be used for speech recognition transmitted via a network, carrying out speech recognition processing, and returning resultant data; and a second information processing device connected to the first information processing device via the network. The second information processing device performs conversion of the data into data having a format that disables a content thereof from being perceived and also enables the speech recognition processing unit to perform the speech recognition processing. Thereafter, the second information processing device transmits the data to be used for the speech recognition by the speech recognition processing unit and constructs resultant data returned from the first information processing device into a content of a valid and perceivable recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro NAGATOMO
  • Patent number: 9215314
    Abstract: A voice input system (100) includes a processing receiving unit (104) that receives identification information of a telephone that is to receive a callback, in order to input a voice, together with a voice recognition process request, a call processing unit (106) that originates a callback based on the identification information of the telephone received by the processing receiving unit (104), a voice data receiving unit (108) that receives voice data of a voice when the callback originated by the call processing unit (106) is received and the user's voice is input, and a voice recognition result storage unit (122) that stores result data which is data of a voice recognition result of the voice data received by the voice data receiving unit (108) in association with the identification information of the telephone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8818801
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dialogue speech recognition system that can expand the scope of applications by employing a universal dialogue structure as the condition for speech recognition of dialogue speech between persons. An acoustic likelihood computation means (701) provides a likelihood that a speech signal input from a given phoneme sequence will occur. A linguistic likelihood computation means (702) provides a likelihood that a given word sequence will occur. A maximum likelihood candidate search means (703) uses the likelihoods provided by the acoustic likelihood computation means and the linguistic likelihood computation means to provide a word sequence with the maximum likelihood of occurring from a speech signal. Further, the linguistic likelihood computation means (702) provides different linguistic likelihoods when the speaker who generated the acoustic signal input to the speech recognition means does and does not have the turn to speak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8712779
    Abstract: An information retrieval system comprises: a speech input unit for inputting speech; an information storage unit for storing information with which speech information, of a length with which text degree of similarity is computable, is associated as a retrieval tag; an information selection unit for comparing a feature of each spoken content item extracted from each item of said speech information, with a feature of spoken content extracted from said input speech, to select information with which speech information similar to input speech is associated. The system further comprises an output unit for outputting information selected by said information selection unit, as information associated with input speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Patent number: 8670978
    Abstract: The present invention provides a topic transition analysis system that determines a position on a primary media stream leading to a certain statement made in a language communication carried out in a secondary channel associated with the primary media stream. The topic transition analysis system includes a statement trigger string determination unit receiving a primary media stream and one or a plurality of language communication streams (hereinafter, language streams) executed in parallel with the media stream and determining whether or not a certain statement on the one or plurality of language streams has been made newly in response to contents of the media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20140058729
    Abstract: Provided is a speech recognition system, including: a first information processing device including a speech recognition processing unit for receiving data to be used for speech recognition transmitted via a network, carrying out speech recognition processing, and returning resultant data; and a second information processing device connected to the first information processing device via the network. The second information processing device performs conversion of the data into data having a format that disables a content thereof from being perceived and also enables the speech recognition processing unit to perform the speech recognition processing. Thereafter, the second information processing device transmits the data to be used for the speech recognition by the speech recognition processing unit and constructs resultant data returned from the first information processing device into a content of a valid and perceivable recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro NAGATOMO
  • Publication number: 20120258769
    Abstract: A voice input system (100) includes a processing receiving unit (104) that receives identification information of a telephone that is to receive a callback, in order to input a voice, together with a voice recognition process request, a call processing unit (106) that originates a callback based on the identification information of the telephone received by the processing receiving unit (104), a voice data receiving unit (108) that receives voice data of a voice when the callback originated by the call processing unit (106) is received and the user's voice is input, and a voice recognition result storage unit (122) that stores result data which is data of a voice recognition result of the voice data received by the voice data receiving unit (108) in association with the identification information of the telephone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20120215528
    Abstract: Provided is a speech recognition system, including: a first information processing device including a speech recognition processing unit for receiving data to be used for speech recognition transmitted via a network, carrying out speech recognition processing, and returning resultant data; and a second information processing device connected to the first information processing device via the network. The second information processing device performs conversion of the data into data having a format that disables a content thereof from being perceived and also enables the speech recognition processing unit to perform the speech recognition processing. Thereafter, the second information processing device transmits the data to be used for the speech recognition by the speech recognition processing unit and constructs resultant data returned from the first information processing device into a content of a valid and perceivable recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110246183
    Abstract: The present invention provides a topic transition analysis system that determines a position on a primary media stream leading to a certain statement made in a language communication carried out in a secondary channel associated with the primary media stream. The topic transition analysis system includes a statement trigger string determination unit receiving a primary media stream and one or a plurality of language communication streams (hereinafter, language streams) executed in parallel with the media stream and determining whether or not a certain statement on the one or plurality of language streams has been made newly in response to contents of the media stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110131042
    Abstract: Disclosed is a dialogue speech recognition system that can expand the scope of applications by employing a universal dialogue structure as the condition for speech recognition of dialogue speech between persons. An acoustic likelihood computation means (701) provides a likelihood that a speech signal input from a given phoneme sequence will occur. A linguistic likelihood computation means (702) provides a likelihood that a given word sequence will occur. A maximum likelihood candidate search means (703) uses the likelihoods provided by the acoustic likelihood computation means and the linguistic likelihood computation means to provide a word sequence with the maximum likelihood of occurring from a speech signal. Further, the linguistic likelihood computation means (702) provides different linguistic likelihoods when the speaker who generated the acoustic signal input to the speech recognition means does and does not have the turn to speak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20110077943
    Abstract: A first system for generating a language model is a system for generating a language model including: a topic history dependent language model storing unit; a topic history accumulation unit; and a language score calculation unit. In the system for generating the language model, a language score corresponding to history of topics is calculated by the language score calculation unit using history of topics in an utterance accumulated in the topic history accumulation unit and a language model stored in the topic history dependent language model storing unit. The topic history dependent language model storing unit may store a topic history dependent language model dependent on only most recent n topics. The topic history accumulation unit may accumulate only most recent n topics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Miki, Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20100114571
    Abstract: An information retrieval system comprises: a speech input unit for inputting speech; an information storage unit for storing information with which speech information, of a length with which text degree of similarity is computable, is associated as a retrieval tag; an information selection unit for comparing a feature of each spoken content item extracted from each item of said speech information, with a feature of spoken content extracted from said input speech, to select information with which speech information similar to input speech is associated. The system further comprises an output unit for outputting information selected by said information selection unit, as information associated with input speech.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo
  • Publication number: 20100031142
    Abstract: Disclosed is a summarizing system including a speech input unit, an important portion indication unit, an important section estimation unit, a speech recognition unit, and txt summarization unit. The summarizing system captures a speech section, which is included in a speech received by the speech input unit and includes a portion specified by the important portion indication unit, as a section necessary for a summary. After estimating an appropriate section by the important section estimation unit, the summarizing system recognizes a speech considering the estimated section and performs text summarization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kentaro Nagatomo