Patents by Inventor Nayuko Watanabe
Nayuko Watanabe 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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Publication number: 20240086636Abstract: According to an embodiment, a keyword detection device includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to: detect a phrase related to a keyword from text information that is a recognition result of input information represented in a predetermined input form; calculate output similarities conforming to similarities between the phrase and the keywords included in a keyword list in which, for each of a plurality of the keywords, keyword notation of the corresponding keyword is associated with keyword form information representing the corresponding keyword in an input form; and output the keywords in the keyword list according to the output similarities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yuka KOBAYASHI, Takami YOSHIDA, Kenji IWATA, Tsuyoshi KUSHIMA, Hisayoshi NAGAE, Nayuko WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230014452Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor generates a template, regarding a recording data sheet including a plurality of items, for one or more of the items that can be specified, with reference to an input order of input target items selected from the items. The processor performs a speech recognition on an utterance of a user and generate a speech recognition result. The processor determines an input target range relating to one more items specified by the utterance of the user among the items based on the template and the speech recognition result.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nayuko WATANABE, Toshiaki NAKASU
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Patent number: 11538475Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a conversion unit, and a display controller. The acquisition unit acquires multimedia data associated with an item of record data having a plurality of items. The conversion unit performs a conversion process from the multimedia data to first display data showing a content of the multimedia data. The display controller displays the first display data when the conversion process is completed, and displays second display data showing a progress status of the conversion process when the conversion process is incomplete in association with the item of the record data.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nayuko Watanabe, Hiroshi Fujimura, Toshiaki Nakasu
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Patent number: 11062705Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to detect a trigger from a voice signal, the trigger indicating start of voice recognition; and to perform voice recognition of a recognition sound section subsequent to a trigger sound section including the detected trigger, referring to a trigger and voice recognition dictionary corresponding to the trigger.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Nayuko Watanabe, Takehiko Kagoshima, Hiroshi Fujimura
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Publication number: 20210174799Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a conversion unit, and a display controller. The acquisition unit acquires multimedia data associated with an item of record data having a plurality of items. The conversion unit performs a conversion process from the multimedia data to first display data showing a content of the multimedia data. The display controller displays the first display data when the conversion process is completed, and displays second display data showing a progress status of the conversion process when the conversion process is incomplete in association with the item of the record data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nayuko WATANABE, Hiroshi FUJIMURA, Toshiaki NAKASU
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Publication number: 20200242144Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display control system includes a processor. The processor is capable of displaying a second sentence and at least a part of a first question-answer pair when accepting a first sentence including a first query keyword. The first sentence is input by a user. The first question-answer pair includes a first question and a first answer to the first question. The first question includes the first query keyword. The second sentence includes a first question keyword included in the first question. The processor is capable of displaying a word other than the first query keyword and the first question keyword in a first form, the first query keyword in a second form different from the first form, and the first question keyword in a third form different from the first form and the second form.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Takami Yoshida, Nayuko Watanabe, Hiroshi Fujimura, Kenji Iwata, Yuka Kobayashi
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Patent number: 10609455Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire target sentence data including a plurality of morphemes obtained by speech recognition and speech generation time of each morpheme from the plurality of morphemes; and assign display time according to a difference between a confirmed sentence of which a user's correction for the target sentence data is confirmed and a second confirmed sentence of a previous speech generation time.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Nayuko Watanabe, Kosei Fume, Hiroshi Fujimura
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Publication number: 20200027453Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more processors configured to detect a trigger from a voice signal, the trigger indicating start of voice recognition; and to perform voice recognition of a recognition sound section subsequent to a trigger sound section including the detected trigger, referring to a trigger and voice recognition dictionary corresponding to the trigger.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Nayuko WATANABE, Takehiko KAGOSHIMA, Hiroshi FUJIMURA
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Publication number: 20190087768Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inspection work support system includes a memory device, a detector, and a change processor. The memory device stores a work manual including a predetermined work content and a predetermined wok procedure, and worker information on a worker engaged in the work. The detector detects input from the worker. The change processor changes a method of presenting a content and a procedure of the work manual based on the input from the worker, based on a skill level of the worker for the work obtained referring to the worker information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Nayuko Watanabe, Uihyun Kim
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Publication number: 20180279010Abstract: According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire target sentence data including a plurality of morphemes obtained by speech recognition and speech generation time of each morpheme from the plurality of morphemes; and assign display time according to a difference between a confirmed sentence of which a user's correction for the target sentence data is confirmed and a second confirmed sentence of a previous speech generation time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2017Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Nayuko WATANABE, Kosei FUME, Hiroshi FUJIMURA
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Patent number: 9484034Abstract: According to one embodiment, a voice conversation support apparatus includes an input unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit, a third determination unit, and a scoring unit. The input unit accepts a text data input according to a voice input mode and another input mode. The first determination unit extracts at least one subject keyword representing a current subject from the text data input. The second determination unit estimates a category of a word that can be an answer. The third determination unit calculates a question pair likelihood. The scoring unit calculates a score about a priority of each input mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nayuko Watanabe, Satoshi Kamatani, Kazuo Sumita
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Patent number: 9141706Abstract: According to one embodiment, a region-of-interest extraction apparatus includes following units. The acquisition unit acquires a structured document including elements. The first extraction unit extracts block regions including specific elements, from the structured document. The second extraction unit extracts, as a display region, parts of the elements being displayed on a display screen, from the structured document. The third extraction unit extracts a region of interest, in which a user is interested, from the structured document, based on relations between the block regions and the display region.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Nayuko Watanabe, Masaaki Kikuchi, Takayuki Iida
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Publication number: 20150228280Abstract: According to one embodiment, a voice conversation support apparatus includes an input unit, a first determination unit, a second determination unit, a third determination unit, and a scoring unit. The input unit accepts a text data input according to a voice input mode and another input mode. The first determination unit extracts at least one subject keyword representing a current subject from the text data input. The second determination unit estimates a category of a word that can be an answer. The third determination unit calculates a question pair likelihood. The scoring unit calculates a score about a priority of each input mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nayuko WATANABE, Satoshi KAMATANI, Kazuo SUMITA
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Patent number: 8904285Abstract: According to one embodiment, a keyword extraction apparatus includes a display, a first calculation unit, a scroll unit, a first generation unit, an extraction unit, a scoring unit and a second generation unit. The first calculation unit calculates a partial region indicating a part of the document displayed. The scroll unit scrolls the document to display other than the partial region in a document. The scoring unit calculates scores of the keywords in accordance with positions that the keywords occur within the document. The second generation unit generates a window for selecting the keywords in descending order of the scores from first keywords.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Nayuko Watanabe, Masayuki Okamoto
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Patent number: 8782049Abstract: In one embodiment, there is provided a keyword presenting device including: an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of keywords from a browsing document; a determination unit configured to arrange keywords with spellings similar to each other among the plurality of keywords to obtain a plurality of groups of similar keyword; an integration unit configured to classify the keywords into main keywords that are titles and the other sub-keywords for each group of similar keywords, and to integrate the sub-keywords into the main keywords; and a presentation unit configured to present the main keywords to a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Nayuko Watanabe
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Publication number: 20130035929Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an analysis unit, and a generation unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a status of a user while the user is working with a resource. The analysis unit is configured to acquire text information included in the resource by analyzing the resource. The generation unit is configured to generate at least one work label from the status of the user and the text information, and to generate a work history including a part of the text information, to which the work label is assigned.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Nayuko Watanabe, Kenta Cho
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Publication number: 20120219225Abstract: According to one embodiment, a region-of-interest extraction apparatus includes following units. The acquisition unit acquires a structured document including elements. The first extraction unit extracts block regions including specific elements, from the structured document. The second extraction unit extracts, as a display region, parts of the elements being displayed on a display screen, from the structured document. The third extraction unit extracts a region of interest, in which a user is interested, from the structured document, based on relations between the block regions and the display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masayuki OKAMOTO, Nayuko WATANABE, Masaaki KIKUCHI, Takayuki IIDA
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Publication number: 20120210213Abstract: According to one embodiment, a keyword extraction apparatus includes a display, a first calculation unit, a scroll unit, a first generation unit, an extraction unit, a scoring unit and a second generation unit. The first calculation unit calculates a partial region indicating a part of the document displayed. The scroll unit scrolls the document to display other than the partial region in a document. The scoring unit calculates scores of the keywords in accordance with positions that the keywords occur within the document. The second generation unit generates a window for selecting the keywords in descending order of the scores from first keywords.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Nayuko WATANABE, Masayuki OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20120036144Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information recommendation device includes following units. The input unit is configured to input a first document and a second document which has been browsed before the first document. The subject-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first and second subject keywords from the first and second documents, respectively. The interest-keyword extraction unit is configured to extract first interest keywords from the first and second subject keywords, and to extract second interest keywords based on information specifying the first and second documents, the first interest keywords, and the first and second subject keywords. The second interest keywords are estimated to be keywords in which the user is next interested. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire, based on the second interest keywords, recommendation information on third documents which are candidates to be browsed after the first document. The presentation unit presents the recommendation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Nayuko Watanabe, Masaaki Kikuchi, Takayuki Iida, Mika Fukui
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Publication number: 20110246464Abstract: In one embodiment, there is provided a keyword presenting device including: an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of keywords from a browsing document; a determination unit configured to arrange keywords with spellings similar to each other among the plurality of keywords to obtain a plurality of groups of similar keyword; an integration unit configured to classify the keywords into main keywords that are titles and the other sub-keywords for each group of similar keywords, and to integrate the sub-keywords into the main keywords; and a presentation unit configured to present the main keywords to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masayuki Okamoto, Nayuko Watanabe