Patents by Inventor Midori Nakamae

Midori Nakamae 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: 11211067
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a transceiver and a hardware processor. The transceiver establishes a wired connection or a wireless connection between the electronic device and a wearable device wearable by a user. The hardware processor receives voice data generated by collecting speech of the user from the wearable device. The hardware processor performs a process to recognize one of one or more first commands from the voice data when a first mode is set as a voice recognition mode, performs a process to recognize one of second commands from the voice data when a second mode is set as the voice recognition mode, and repeatedly performs a process to recognize one of third commands from the voice data when a third mode is set as the voice recognition mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DYNABOOK INC.
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Patent number: 11145304
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a hardware processor. The processor receives voice data acquired by collecting speech of a user from a wearable device wearable by the user. The processor sends first mode information indicative of a first mode to one or more application programs being executed on the electronic device when the first mode is set as a recognition mode. A first recognition process to recognize one of first commands from the voice data is performed in the first mode. The processor sends second mode information indicative of a second mode to the one or more application programs when the second mode is set as the recognition mode. A second recognition process to recognize one of second commands from the voice data is repeatedly performed in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Dynabook Inc.
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Patent number: 11042705
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a memory that stores dictionary data, a voice input receiver, and a hardware processor. The dictionary data comprises first dictionary data and updatable second dictionary data. A number of voice commands in the first dictionary data is greater than a number of voice commands in the second dictionary data. The first dictionary data is divided into sub-dictionaries. The hardware processor recognizes the received voice using at least one of the sub-dictionaries or the second dictionary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Dynabook Inc.
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20200098360
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a hardware processor. The processor receives voice data acquired by collecting speech of a user from a wearable device wearable by the user. The processor sends first mode information indicative of a first mode to one or more application programs being executed on the electronic device when the first mode is set as a recognition mode. A first recognition process to recognize one of first commands from the voice data is performed in the first mode. The processor sends second mode information indicative of a second mode to the one or more application programs when the second mode is set as the recognition mode. A second recognition process to recognize one of second commands from the voice data is repeatedly performed in the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20200098361
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a memory that stores dictionary data indicative of a relationship between a voice command and a key code corresponding to the voice command, a voice input receiver that receives a voice, and a hardware processor that recognizes the received voice and determines the key code corresponding to the recognized voice command of the received voice using the dictionary data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20200098359
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a transceiver and a hardware processor. The transceiver establishes a wired connection or a wireless connection between the electronic device and a wearable device wearable by a user. The hardware processor receives voice data generated by collecting speech of the user from the wearable device. The hardware processor performs a process to recognize one of one or more first commands from the voice data when a first mode is set as a voice recognition mode, performs a process to recognize one of second commands from the voice data when a second mode is set as the voice recognition mode, and repeatedly performs a process to recognize one of third commands from the voice data when a third mode is set as the voice recognition mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20200097542
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device comprises a memory that stores dictionary data, a voice input receiver, and a hardware processor. The dictionary data comprises first dictionary data and updatable second dictionary data. A number of voice commands in the first dictionary data is greater than a number of voice commands in the second dictionary data. The first dictionary data is divided into sub-dictionaries. The hardware processor recognizes the received voice using at least one of the sub-dictionaries or the second dictionary data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20170060564
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a memory and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to obtain a difference file for updating a program, and apply the difference file to the program at a first time point at which the program is permitted to be updated after elapse of a first application delay time from issuance of the difference file or obtention of the difference file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20150187056
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor and an extraneous object processor. The processor generates a first image from a camera and generates a second image corresponding to the first image by the camera based on setting data related to the first image. The extraneous object processor generates a corrected image by replacing a first area comprising an extraneous object in the first image with a second area in the second image, the second area corresponding to the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Midori Nakamae, Eiki Obara
  • Patent number: 9047858
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a storage module, a manipulation module, a voice output control module, and a display module. The storage module configured to store book data. The manipulation module is configured to convert a manipulation of a user into an electrical signal while the voice output control module configured to reproduce a voice by reading the book data in the storage module based on the manipulation, and the display module is configured to display the book data. When it is determined that a part to be reproduced includes an illustration or a figure, the user is urged to view the display module and the illustration or the figure is displayed at the display module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20130311187
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a storage module, a manipulation module, a voice output control module, and a display module. The storage module configured to store book data. The manipulation module is configured to convert a manipulation of a user into an electrical signal while the voice output control module configured to reproduce a voice by reading the book data in the storage module based on the manipulation, and the display module is configured to display the book data. When it is determined that a part to be reproduced includes an illustration or a figure, the user is urged to view the display module and the illustration or the figure is displayed at the display module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Patent number: 8538758
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a communication module, a storage module, a manipulation module, voice output control module, and a control module. The communication module receives book data delivered externally. The storage module stores the received book data. The manipulation module converts a manipulation of a user into an electrical signal. The voice output control module reproduces, as a voice, the book data based on the manipulation while controlling the reproduction speed of the voice. The control module determines a part that is important to the user, stores, in the storage module, a position of voice reproduction of the book data, and synchronizes the position of the voice reproduction with a reproduction position in the book data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20120197645
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a communication module, a storage module, a manipulation module, voice output control module, and a control module. The communication module receives book data delivered externally. The storage module stores the received book data. The manipulation module converts a manipulation of a user into an electrical signal. The voice output control module reproduces, as a voice, the book data based on the manipulation while controlling the reproduction speed of the voice. The control module determines a part that is important to the user, stores, in the storage module, a position of voice reproduction of the book data, and synchronizes the position of the voice reproduction with a reproduction position in the book data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20110173638
    Abstract: An event notifying apparatus includes: an extracting module configured to extract a periodically occurring event from acquired input data or a communication history; a predicting module configured to predict a future occurrence time of the event based on a cycle of occurrence of the event extracted by the extracting module; and a notifying module configured to notify an external device about the event based on the future occurrence time predicted by the predicting module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20100080097
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medium processor includes a detector, an acquiring module, a storage module, and an output module. The detector detects a data storage medium. The acquiring module acquires a use period that is set as a period during which data recorded on the data storage medium is supposed to be intact. The storage module stores identification information that identifies the data storage medium in association with the use period. The output module outputs the identification information and the use period stored in the storage module in association with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Midori Nakamae
  • Publication number: 20080002826
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a copyright protection system includes a copyright protection device which encrypts the data for transferring to a processor via a bus and includes a copyright protection device nonvolatile memory which stores an encryption key parameter to be a source of an encryption key to be used for the encryption by the protection device, a nonvolatile memory which is connected to the protection device via the bus and stores the encryption key parameter stored in the copyright protection device nonvolatile memory, and a decryption unit which is composed of software to be executed by the processor. The decryption unit generates the encryption key on the basis of the encryption key parameter stored in the copyright protection device nonvolatile memory and makes the processor execute processing to decrypt the encrypted data, transferred from the protection device via the bus, by using the generated encryption key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Midori Nakamae, Koji Kanazawa