Patents by Inventor Osamu Nisiyama

Osamu Nisiyama 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).

  • Transcription support system and transcription support method
    Patent number: 9489946
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a transcription support system includes: a first storage, a playback unit, a second storage, a text generating unit, an estimating unit, and a setting unit. The first storage stores the voice data therein; a playback unit plays back the voice data; and a second storage stores voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string. The text creating unit creates text; the estimating unit estimates already-transcribed voice positional information based on the voice indices; and the setting unit sets a playback starting position that indicates a position at which playback is started in the voice data based on the already-transcribed voice positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kouji Ueno, Nobuhiro Shimogori, Tomoo Ikeda, Osamu Nisiyama, Hirokazu Suzuki, Manabu Nagao
  • TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TRANSCRIPTION SUPPORT METHOD
    Publication number: 20130030806
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a transcription support system includes: a first storage, a playback unit, a second storage, a text generating unit, an estimating unit, and a setting unit. The first storage stores the voice data therein; a playback unit plays back the voice data; and a second storage stores voice indices, each of which associates a character string obtained from a voice recognition process with voice positional information, for which the voice positional information is indicative of a temporal position in the voice data and corresponds to the character string. The text creating unit creates text; the estimating unit estimates already-transcribed voice positional information based on the voice indices; and the setting unit sets a playback starting position that indicates a position at which playback is started in the voice data based on the already-transcribed voice positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kouji Ueno, Nobuhiro Shimogori, Tomoo Ikeda, Osamu Nisiyama, Hirokazu Suzuki, Manabu Nagao