Patents by Inventor Tooru Nada

Tooru Nada 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).

  • Voice control system substituting the oppositely-working command in a pair if the recognized command is not selectable for the given system state
    Patent number: 7469211
    Abstract: A speech recognition (SR) dictionary switching unit selects a SR dictionary including commands that are for controlling target devices and selectable in current operating states detected by a device-state detecting unit. When a SR engine recognizes an uttered command of a user, it collates the speech with the commands included in the selected SR dictionary. If the command is not selectable in the current operating states of the target devices and is one of a reciprocal pair of commands working oppositely to each other, the other of the reciprocal pair is substituted for the command. This results in decreasing unreasonable and unpleasant feeling of the user in voice manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Takami, Tooru Nada
  • Voice control system
    Publication number: 20040030560
    Abstract: A speech recognition (SR) dictionary switching unit selects a SR dictionary including commands that are for controlling target devices and selectable in current operating states detected by a device-state detecting unit. When a SR engine recognizes an uttered command of a user, it collates the speech with the commands included in the selected SR dictionary. Commands that are not selectable in the current operating states of the target devices are thereby never determined as the uttered command. This results in decreasing unreasonable and unpleasant feeling of the user in voice manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Masayuki Takami, Tooru Nada