Patents by Inventor Sayuri Nakayama

Sayuri Nakayama 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).

  • Publication number: 20190096433
    Abstract: A voice processing method for estimating an impression of speech includes: executing an acquisition process that includes acquiring voice signals; executing a feature acquisition process that includes acquiring acoustic features regarding the voice signals from the voice signals; executing a voice-parameter acquisition process that includes acquiring a voice parameter regarding a frame of the voice signals; executing a relative-value determination process that includes determining a relative value between the determined voice parameter and a statistical value of the voice parameter; executing a weight assignment process that includes assigning a weight to the frame of the voice signals in accordance with the relative value; and executing a distribution determination process that includes determining a distribution of the acoustic features, based on the weight assigned to the frame of the voice signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: TARO TOGAWA, Sayuri Nakayama, Takeshi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20190080699
    Abstract: There is provided an audio processing device including a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to detect a first acoustic feature amount and a second acoustic feature amount of an input audio, calculate a coefficient for the second acoustic feature amount based on a time change amount by calculating the time change amount of the first acoustic feature amount, and calculate a statistical amount for the second acoustic feature amount based on the coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: TARO TOGAWA, Sayuri Nakayama, Takeshi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20190066714
    Abstract: A method for processing speech includes: executing a acquiring process that includes acquiring a speech signal; executing a detection process that includes detecting a first frequency spectrum from the speech signal; executing a calculation process that includes calculating a second spectrum based on an envelope of the first spectrum; executing a correction process that includes correcting the first spectrum based on comparison between a first amplitude of the first spectrum and a second amplitude of the second spectrum; executing a estimation process that includes estimating a pitch frequency of the speech signal in accordance with correlation between the corrected first frequency spectrum and periodic signals corresponding to frequencies in a certain band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sayuri Nakayama, TARO TOGAWA, Takeshi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20190027165
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to specify a first signal level of a first voice signal, specify a second signal level of a second voice signal, and execute evaluation of at least one of the first voice signal and the second voice signal based on at least one of a sum of the first signal level and the second signal level and an average of the first signal level and the second signal level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: TARO TOGAWA, Sayuri Nakayama, Takeshi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20190027158
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that records a program for causing a computer to execute an utterance impression determination process of: specifying a current fundamental frequency from a voice signal which is received, calculating a relaxation value by changing the current fundamental frequency in chronological order so that the change in the current fundamental frequency becomes moderate, and evaluating the voice signal based on a degree of a magnitude of a difference between at least one feature amount associated with the current fundamental frequency and the relaxation value corresponding to the feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro Togawa, Sayuri Nakayama, Takeshi OTANI
  • Patent number: 10094862
    Abstract: A sound processing device performs obtaining a first frequency spectrum that corresponds to a first sound signal and a second frequency spectrum that corresponds to a second sound signal, calculating a level difference between a level of each of frequency components in the first frequency spectrum and a level of each of frequency components in the second frequency spectrum, calculating a spread of a distribution of the level difference during a prescribed period for each of the frequency components, and determining a gain to be multiplied to the frequency component in the first frequency spectrum and a gain to be multiplied to the frequency component in the second frequency spectrum in accordance with the spread of the distribution of the level difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sayuri Nakayama, Taro Togawa, Takeshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20180261238
    Abstract: A confused state determination device that includes: an audio receiver that receives input of call audio; a memory; and a processor that is connected to the memory and that is configured to detect a questioning utterance in a call-hold duration of the call audio, compute a frequency of the questioning utterance detected in the call-hold duration, and determine a user to be in a confused state in a case in which the computed questioning utterance frequency is a first threshold value or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Taro TOGAWA, Sayuri NAKAYAMA, Takeshi OTANI
  • Patent number: 10014838
    Abstract: A gain adjustment apparatus includes a first output device configured to output a first audio signal, a second output device configured to output a second audio signal, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to convert the first audio signal and the second audio signal to a first frequency spectrum and a second frequency spectrum, calculate an estimated difference between the first frequency spectrum and the second frequency spectrum based on a comparison of the first frequency spectrum with the second frequency spectrum, and output a first and second adjustment spectra corresponding to the first and second frequency spectra, the first and second adjustment spectra being adjusted on the basis of the first and second frequency spectra and the estimated difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sayuri Nakayama, Taro Togawa, Takeshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20180090156
    Abstract: A speech evaluation apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to generate a first input spectrum obtained by frequency transforming a first signal that is a signal of a first period, generate a second input spectrum obtained by frequency transforming a second signal that is the signal of a second period earlier than the first period, generate a processed spectrum obtained by transforming frequency of the second input spectrum based on a change ratio set in advance, calculate a correlation value between the first input spectrum and the processed spectrum, and determine a change amount of pitch frequency from the first signal to the second signal based on the change ratio and the correlation value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Otani, Taro Togawa, Sayuri Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20180061436
    Abstract: An audio processing method including: generating a plurality of frequency spectra by transforming a plurality of audio signals inputted to a plurality of input devices respectively, comparing an amplitude of each of frequency components of a specific frequency spectrum included in the plurality of frequency spectra with an amplitude of each of frequency components of one or a more other frequency spectra different from the specific frequency spectrum included in the plurality of frequency spectra, for each of the frequency components, extracting, from the frequency components, a frequency component in which an amplitude of the specific frequency spectrum is larger than an amplitude of the one or more other frequency spectra, and controlling an output corresponding to the plurality of audio signal inputted to each of the plurality of input devices based on a proportion of the extracted frequency component in the frequency components whose amplitudes has been compared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sayuri Nakayama, Taro Togawa, Takeshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20180059155
    Abstract: A sound processing device performs obtaining a first frequency spectrum that corresponds to a first sound signal and a second frequency spectrum that corresponds to a second sound signal, calculating a level difference between a level of each of frequency components in the first frequency spectrum and a level of each of frequency components in the second frequency spectrum, calculating a spread of a distribution of the level difference during a prescribed period for each of the frequency components, and determining a gain to be multiplied to the frequency component in the first frequency spectrum and a gain to be multiplied to the frequency component in the second frequency spectrum in accordance with the spread of the distribution of the level difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sayuri Nakayama, TARO TOGAWA, Takeshi OTANI
  • Publication number: 20180062597
    Abstract: A gain adjustment apparatus includes a first output device configured to output a first audio signal, a second output device configured to output a second audio signal, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to convert the first audio signal and the second audio signal to a first frequency spectrum and a second frequency spectrum, calculate an estimated difference between the first frequency spectrum and the second frequency spectrum based on a comparison of the first frequency spectrum with the second frequency spectrum, and output a first and second adjustment spectra corresponding to the first and second frequency spectra, the first and second adjustment spectra being adjusted on the basis of the first and second frequency spectra and the estimated difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Sayuri Nakayama, Taro Togawa, Takeshi Otani
  • Publication number: 20180061434
    Abstract: A sound processing device includes a processor configured to generate a first frequency spectrum of a first sound signal corresponding to a first sound received at a first input device and a second frequency spectrum of a second sound signal corresponding to the first sound received at a second input device, calculate a transfer characteristic based on a first difference between an intensity of the first frequency spectrum and an intensity of the second frequency spectrum, generate a third frequency spectrum of a third sound signal transmitted from the first input device and a fourth frequency spectrum of a fourth sound signal transmitted from the second input device, specify a suppression level of an intensity of the fourth frequency spectrum based on a second difference between an intensity of the third frequency spectrum and an intensity of the fourth frequency spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi OTANI, Taro TOGAWA, Sayuri NAKAYAMA