Patents by Inventor Seiki NAGAO

Seiki NAGAO 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: 20240203448
    Abstract: A dysarthria detection method includes an obtaining step and a detecting step. In the obtaining step, voice information regarding voice uttered by a subject is obtained. In the detecting step, it is detected whether the subject has dysarthria, based on an output result obtained by inputting the voice information obtained in the obtaining step into a detection model. The detection model has been trained by machine learning to output information regarding whether the subject has dysarthria by using voice information inputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro KAMAI, Akiho SAKURAI, Katsunori DAIMO, Kazunori KAWAMI, Shogo TAKAHATA, Seiki NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20240127846
    Abstract: An articulation abnormality detection method includes: calculating an acoustic feature from utterance data of a speaker; calculating, from the acoustic feature, a first speaker feature indicating a speaker characteristic of the utterance data by using a trained deep neural network (DNN); calculating a degree of similarity between a second speaker feature of the speaker and the first speaker feature, where the second speaker feature is a speaker feature obtained when the speaker articulated properly; and determining whether the speaker has an articulation abnormality, based on the degree of similarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Katsunori Daimo, Shogo TAKAHATA, Kazunori KAWAMI, Seiki NAGAO, Ryota OHMAE