Patents by Inventor Munehiko Sasajima
Munehiko Sasajima 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: 8212922Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Patent number: 8019163Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided in which with respect to video/audio data to be recorded and stored, the determination of division and a control point suitable for viewing and listening and the giving of relevant information can be performed without requiring a manual operation each time. The information processing apparatus includes a recording medium 90, a video data acquisition unit 48, a video data specification unit 47, an audio data separation unit 25, a key creation unit 31, a key relevant data acquisition unit 55, and a key data management unit 10.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2006Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Momosaki, Tatsuya Uehara, Kazunori Imoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Kazuhiko Abe, Manabu Nagao, Munehiko Sasajima
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Patent number: 7925509Abstract: A closed caption display controller to control a display mode of a closed caption corresponding to a speech of an audio signal, the controller comprises an analysis unit to analyze the speech on a speech quality, an examination unit configured to examine a speech listening level according to a given rule based on an analysis result of the analysis unit, and a determination unit to determine a display mode according to an examination result of the examination unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Momosaki, Koichi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kazuhiko Abe, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20090074378Abstract: A closed caption display controller to control a display mode of a closed caption corresponding to a speech of an audio signal, the controller comprises an analysis unit to analyze the speech on a speech quality, an examination unit configured to examine a speech listening level according to a given rule based on an analysis result of the analysis unit, and a determination unit to determine a display mode according to an examination result of the examination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Kohei Momosaki, Koichi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kazuhiko Abe, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20090040378Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Patent number: 7467088Abstract: A closed caption display controller to control a display mode of a closed caption corresponding to a speech of an audio signal, the controller comprises an analysis unit to analyze the speech on a speech quality, an examination unit configured to examine a speech listening level according to a given rule based on an analysis result of the analysis unit, and a determination unit to determine a display mode according to an examination result of the examination unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2004Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Momosaki, Koichi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kazuhiko Abe, Munehiko Sasajima
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Patent number: 7443449Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2004Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20080091422Abstract: A speech recognition method includes inputting an audio signal including a speech signal and a non-speech signal, discriminating a signal mode of the audio signal, processing the audio signal according to a discrimination result of the discriminating to separate substantially the speech signal from the audio signal, and subjecting the separated speech signal to speech recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20080027713Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20080025698Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Patent number: 7299183Abstract: A closed caption signal processing apparatus comprises a speech recognition unit to recognize speech contents from the speech signal, a speech timing detecting unit to detect a speech timing of the speech contents, a closed caption contents acquisition unit to acquire closed caption contents from the closed caption signal associated with the speech signal, a presentation timing detecting unit to detect a presentation timing of the closed caption contents, an agreement detecting unit to detect an agreement between the speech contents and the closed caption contents, and a time difference calculating unit to calculate a time difference between the speech timing and the presentation timing that are detected on the speech contents and the closed caption contents that agree with each other, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kohei Momosaki, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20060239130Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided in which with respect to video/audio data to be recorded and stored, the determination of division and a control point suitable for viewing and listening and the giving of relevant information can be performed without requiring a manual operation each time. The information processing apparatus includes a recording medium 90, a video data acquisition unit 48, a video data specification unit 47, an audio data separation unit 25, a key creation unit 31, a key relevant data acquisition unit 55, and a key data management unit 10.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Momosaki, Tatsuya Uehara, Kazunori Imoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Kazuhiko Abe, Manabu Nagao, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20060224616Abstract: An information processing device including a key sound achieving unit 21 for achieving audio data serving as a retrieval key, a designated point achieving unit 51 for achieving as a designated point a time for designating a section of the achieved audio data, a variation point detector 31 for converting the achieved audio data to acoustic feature or image feature parameters and analyzing these feature parameters, and detecting a variation point a time at which variation appears, and a retrieval key generator 41 for determining a retrieval key section on the basis of the variation point and the designated point and recording the portion corresponding to the retrieval key section of the achieved audio data as a retrieval key into a storage medium according to a predefined method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazunori Imoto, Kohei Momosaki, Tatsuya Uehara, Manabu Nagao, Yasuyuki Masai, Munehiko Sasajima, Kazuhiko Abe
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Publication number: 20060222327Abstract: A broadcast reception apparatus 10 includes a broadcast program reception part 101 to acquire broadcast program information from a signal of a broadcast program, an audio information temporary storage part 103 to acquire audio information of the broadcast program to be recorded and to temporarily store it onto an audio information temporary recording medium 102, an audio check part 105 to check audio key information recorded on an audio key recording medium 104 against the temporarily stored audio information, a program reservation control part 106 to determine a program reservation control method based on an audio check result, and a broadcast program recording part 108 to record the reserved program onto a broadcast program recording medium 107.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuhiko Abe, Tatsuya Uehara, Kohei Momosaki, Yasuyuki Masai, Munehiko Sasajima, Kazunori Imoto, Manabu Nagao
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Publication number: 20060222318Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus in which with respect to video to be recorded and stored, division suitable for viewing, the determination of control points and the giving of relevant information can be performed without requiring a manual operation each time. A video/audio processing apparatus includes a key data management part 10, a video data acquisition part 41, an audio data separation part 22, a key matching part 30, a matching result recording instruction part 35, and a recording medium 90, detects an audio period similar to an audio pattern of a key from audio data, determines division points or control points in accordance with a previously specified attribute and with reference to a starting and a terminal ends of the detected period, and sets a previously specified name or a name given in accordance with a previously specified naming method to a divided period, the control point or the whole audio data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kohei Momosaki, Tatsuya Uehara, Manabu Nagao, Yasuyuki Masai, Kazuhiko Abe, Kazunori Imoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20050080631Abstract: An information processing apparatus using a speech signal, comprising a playback unit configured to play back the speech signal, a speech recognition unit configured to subject the speech signal to speech recognition, a text generator to generate a linguistic text having linguistic elements and time information for synchronizing with playback of the speech signal, by using a speech recognition result of the speech recognition unit, and a presentation unit configured to present selectively the linguistic elements together with the time information in synchronism with the speech signal played back by the playback unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2004Publication date: April 14, 2005Inventors: Kazuhiko Abe, Akinori Kawamura, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kohei Momosaki, Munehiko Sasajima, Koichi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20050060145Abstract: A closed caption signal processing apparatus comprises a speech recognition unit to recognize speech contents from the speech signal, a speech timing detecting unit to detect a speech timing of the speech contents, a closed caption contents acquisition unit to acquire closed caption contents from the closed caption signal associated with the speech signal, a presentation timing detecting unit to detect a presentation timing of the closed caption contents, an agreement detecting unit to detect an agreement between the speech contents and the closed caption contents, and a time difference calculating unit to calculate a time difference between the speech timing and the presentation timing that are detected on the speech contents and the closed caption contents that agree with each other, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2004Publication date: March 17, 2005Inventors: Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kohei Momosaki, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20050038661Abstract: A closed caption display controller to control a display mode of a closed caption corresponding to a speech of an audio signal, the controller comprises an analysis unit to analyze the speech on a speech quality, an examination unit configured to examine a speech listening level according to a given rule based on an analysis result of the analysis unit, and a determination unit to determine a display mode according to an examination result of the examination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Inventors: Kohei Momosaki, Koichi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kazuhiko Abe, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20050027522Abstract: A speech recognition method includes inputting an audio signal including a speech signal and a non-speech signal, discriminating a signal mode of the audio signal, processing the audio signal according to a discrimination result of the discriminating to separate substantially the speech signal from the audio signal, and subjecting the separated speech signal to speech recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2004Publication date: February 3, 2005Inventors: Koichi Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Munehiko Sasajima
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Publication number: 20040252979Abstract: An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Kohei Momosaki, Kazuhiko Abe, Yasuyuki Masai, Makoto Yajima, Koichi Yamamoto, Munehiko Sasajima