Patents by Inventor Miwako Doi
Miwako Doi 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).
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Patent number: 9049278Abstract: A screen display processing apparatus used for a portable terminal apparatus includes a moving unit configured to relatively move a plurality of cases of the portable terminal apparatus, a detection unit configured to detect a parameter value representing a degree of relative movement of the cases, a determination unit configured to determine based on the parameter value whether a shape of the portable terminal apparatus changes, and a first control unit configured to control a function about the screen display provided in the portable terminal apparatus in accordance with the parameter value and the change or no change in the shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Isao Mihara, Miwako Doi
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Patent number: 8862466Abstract: A device for speech input includes a speech input unit configured to convert a speech of a user to a speech signal; an angle detection unit configured to detect an angle of the speech input unit; a distance detection unit configured to detect a distance between the speech input unit and the user; and an input switch unit configured to control on and off of the speech input unit based on the angle and the distance.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Miwako Doi, Ryohei Orihara, Daisuke Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8856010Abstract: A dialog generation apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a first text from a dialog partner, an information storage unit configured to store profile information specific to a person who can be the dialog partner and a fixed-pattern text associated with the person, a presentation unit configured to present the first text to a user, a speech recognition unit configured to perform speech recognition on speech the user has uttered about the first text presented to the user, and generate a speech recognition result showing the content of the speech, a generation unit configured to generate a second text from the profile information about the dialog partner, fixed-pattern text about the dialog partner, and the speech recognition result, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the second text to the dialog partner.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Miwako Doi, Yuka Kobayashi, Daisuke Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8762145Abstract: According to one embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes a determination unit, an estimating unit, and a voice recognition unit. The determination unit determines whether a component with a frequency of not less than 1000 Hz and with a level not lower than a predetermined level is included in a sound input from a plurality of microphones. The estimating unit estimates a sound source direction of the sound when the determination unit determines that the component is included in the sound. The voice recognition unit recognizes whether the sound obtained in the sound source direction coincides with a voice model registered beforehand.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Toshiyuki Koga, Daisuke Yamamoto, Miwako Doi
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Patent number: 8723980Abstract: An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-emission of light from the illumination unit, captures a first image of an imaging area including the limited area or part of the limited area based on the timing signal, the first image being taken from a position different from the illumination unit when the illumination unit emits light, captures a second image of the imaging area based on the timing signal, the second image being taken from the position when the illumination unit emits no light, and acquires a third image which is a difference image between the first image and the second image.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shunichi Numazaki, Miwako Doi
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Patent number: 8693103Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an image projection unit. The image projection unit is configured to project a light flux toward one eye of a human viewer by using a projection plate to reflect the light flux. The light flux includes an image including a display object having a vanishing point. The projection plate is reflective and transmissive. The image projection unit is configured to dispose the vanishing point of the display object at a position different from a position of a vanishing point of a background image viewed by the human viewer through the projection plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Aira Hotta, Akihisa Moriya, Haruhiko Okumura, Miwako Doi
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Patent number: 8521681Abstract: Moving information of an object is input, and first sound information around the object is input. A motion status of the object is recognized based on the moving information. Second sound information is selectively extracted from the first sound information, based on the motion status. A first feature quantity is extracted from the second sound information. A plurality of models is stored in a memory. Each model has a second feature quantity and a corresponding specified context. The second feature quantity is previously extracted by the second extraction unit before the first feature quantity is extracted. A present context of the object is decided based on the specified context corresponding to the second feature quantity most similar to the first feature quantity. The present context of the object is output.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Miwako Doi, Kazunori Imoto, Masaaki Kikuchi, Rika Hosaka
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Patent number: 8421932Abstract: An embodiment of an apparatus for speech recognition includes a speech input unit configured to acquire acoustic signal, a first recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external server, a second recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal by utilizing the external server via the communication unit, and a remote signal input unit configured to acquire a control signal from a remote controller. The switching unit is configured to switch between the first recognition unit and the second recognition unit for recognizing the acoustic signal in response to a start trigger. The switching unit selects the second recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the control signal, and the switching unit selects the first recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the acoustic signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Miwako Doi
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Patent number: 8374845Abstract: A word coinciding with a key word input by speech and a word related to the word are set as retrieval candidate words based on a word dictionary in which words representing formal names and aliases of the formal names are registered in association with a family attribute indicating a familiar relation among the words. Content related to any one of retrieval words selected out of the retrieval candidate words and a word related to the retrieval word is retrieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Miwako Doi, Kaoru Suzuki, Toshiyuki Koga, Koichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8327398Abstract: A data distribution apparatus includes a data file configured to store video data and advertisement data to be provided to a receiving terminal of a Video on Demand service; a video distributing unit configured to distribute video data in accordance with a distribution request from the receiving terminal; a video presentation confirming unit configured to confirm a presentation state of the video data at the receiving terminal; an advertisement distribution determining unit configured to determine distribution of advertisement data to the receiving terminal when it is confirmed that the video data to be distributed by the video distributing unit is being called; and an advertisement distributing unit configured to distribute the advertisement data.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Miwako Doi, Tetsuro Muranaga, Noriaki Koyama, Tetsuya Gotou, Hideki Tsutsui
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Publication number: 20120268607Abstract: An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-emission of light from the illumination unit, captures a first image of an imaging area including the limited area or part of the limited area based on the timing signal, the first image being taken from a position different from the illumination unit when the illumination unit emits light, captures a second image of the imaging area based on the timing signal, the second image being taken from the position when the illumination unit emits no light, and acquires a third image which is a difference image between the first image and the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shunichi NUMAZAKI, Miwako DOI
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Publication number: 20120245932Abstract: According to one embodiment, a voice recognition apparatus includes a determination unit, an estimating unit, and a voice recognition unit. The determination unit determines whether a component with a frequency of not less than 1000 Hz and with a level not lower than a predetermined level is included in a sound input from a plurality of microphones. The estimating unit estimates a sound source direction of the sound when the determination unit determines that the component is included in the sound. The voice recognition unit recognizes whether the sound obtained in the sound source direction coincides with a voice model registered beforehand.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Kazushige OUCHI, Toshiyuki Koga, Daisuke Yamamoto, Miwako Doi
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Publication number: 20120170130Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an image projection unit. The image projection unit is configured to project a light flux toward one eye of a human viewer by using a projection plate to reflect the light flux. The light flux includes an image including a display object having a vanishing point. The projection plate is reflective and transmissive. The image projection unit is configured to dispose the vanishing point of the display object at a position different from a position of a vanishing point of a background image viewed by the human viewer through the projection plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takashi Sasaki, Aira Hotta, Akihisa Moriya, Haruhiko Okumura, Miwako Doi
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Publication number: 20120162540Abstract: An embodiment of an apparatus for speech recognition includes a speech input unit configured to acquire acoustic signal, a first recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external server, a second recognition unit configured to recognize the acoustic signal by utilizing the external server via the communication unit, and a remote signal input unit configured to acquire a control signal from a remote controller. The switching unit is configured to switch between the first recognition unit and the second recognition unit for recognizing the acoustic signal in response to a start trigger. The switching unit selects the second recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the control signal, and the switching unit selects the first recognition unit when the start trigger is detected from the acoustic signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Miwako Doi
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Patent number: 8169496Abstract: An image processing system includes an illumination unit and an illumination control unit configured to adjust light emitted from the illumination unit so as to illuminate a limited area in a space, the system generates a timing signal for controlling emission/non-emission of light from the illumination unit, captures a first image of an imaging area including the limited area or part of the limited area based on the timing signal, the first image being taken from a position different from the illumination unit when the illumination unit emits light, captures a second image of the imaging area based on the timing signal, the second image being taken from the position when the illumination unit emits no light, and acquires a third image which is a difference image between the first image and the second image.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shunichi Numazaki, Miwako Doi
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Publication number: 20110310034Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects an operation to first and second touch panels respectively provided above first and second display; a determining unit that determines, when the detecting unit detects a selection operation for selecting a region of a screen on the first display using the first touch panel, kind of an object in a selected region; a generating unit that generates an application list including application candidates to be started to open the object according to the kind; a display controller that displays, when the detecting unit detects a transmission operation for transmitting the selected region to the second display using the first touch panel, the application list on the second display; and an application controller that starts, when the detecting unit detects a selection operation for selecting any one of the applications, a selected application.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Miwako Doi, Naoki Iketani, Yuka Kobayashi, Kazunori Imoto, Tomonori Senoo
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Publication number: 20110301950Abstract: A device for speech input includes a speech input unit configured to convert a speech of a user to a speech signal; an angle detection unit configured to detect an angle of the speech input unit; a distance detection unit configured to detect a distance between the speech input unit and the user; and an input switch unit configured to control on and off of the speech input unit based on the angle and the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kazushige Ouchi, Miwako Doi, Ryohei Orihara, Daisuke Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7986320Abstract: A method of displaying 3D image on a 3D image displaying apparatus that produces a parallax at least in one direction, the method includes displaying by a displaying unit 2D information that is viewed as a 2D content by a viewer in such a manner that a 2D information angle (?_2D) formed with a virtual display surface of the 2D information and a real horizontal plane satisfies ?_D<?_2D?90°, wherein a display surface is arranged at an angle (?_D) formed with the real horizontal plane in a real space, where 0°??_D<90°.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2007Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Rieko Fukushima, Yuzo Hirayama, Miwako Doi
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Publication number: 20100217588Abstract: Moving information of an object is input, and first sound information around the object is input. A motion status of the object is recognized based on the moving information. Second sound information is selectively extracted from the first sound information, based on the motion status. A first feature quantity is extracted from the second sound information. A plurality of models is stored in a memory. Each model has a second feature quantity and a corresponding specified context. The second feature quantity is previously extracted by the second extraction unit before the first feature quantity is extracted. A present context of the object is decided based on the specified context corresponding to the second feature quantity most similar to the first feature quantity. The present context of the object is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kazushige OUCHI, Miwako Doi, Kazunori Imoto, Masaaki Kikuchi, Rika Hosaka
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Publication number: 20100188355Abstract: An object is separately located from a touch panel in a touch panel coordinate system, and visible by a user via the touch panel. A touch position detector detects the user's touch position on the touch panel. The user's touch position is converted to a touch position in a world coordinate system using a position information of the touch position detector in the world coordinate system. A half-line connecting the touch position and a view position of the user is generated in the world coordinate system. It is decided whether the half-line crosses the object using a position information of the object in the world coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2010Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kaoru SUGITA, Miwako Doi, Yasunobu Yamauchi, Sumihiko Yamamoto, Hideki Hayashi, Satoshi Komatsu, Hisashi Tsuji