Patents by Inventor Yusaku KIKUGAWA
Yusaku KIKUGAWA 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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Patent number: 10770077Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device records an audio signal, determines a plurality of user-specific utterance features within the audio signal, the plurality of user-specific utterance features including a first set of user specific-utterance features associated with the registered user and a second set of user-specific utterance features associated with the unregistered user, and displays the identifier of the registered user differently than an identifier of the unregistered user.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd.Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
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Publication number: 20200243081Abstract: According to an embodiment, a voice recognition device includes a voice trigger detection unit that detects a keyword from a voice signal, and a similar keyword identification unit that calculates a degree of priority of the keyword depending on a time when the keyword is detected and a similarity between the voice signal and the keyword and outputs an identification code that corresponds to the keyword based on the degree of priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Yusaku KIKUGAWA, Yasuyuki MASAI, Keizo YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 10592198Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a hardware processor configured to display, on a screen, a first bar corresponding to utterance of a first user of a first zone, a second bar corresponding to utterance of a second user of a second zone, and a seek bar corresponding to a zone of a sound included in audio data when the audio data is played back. The hardware processor plays back, when a first position on the seek bar is specified, audio data from a first time point corresponding to the first position.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada, Ryuichi Yamaguchi, Hiroto Yoshihara, Hideya Minamiji
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Publication number: 20190206413Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device records an audio signal, determines a plurality of user-specific utterance features within the audio signal, the plurality of user-specific utterance features including a first set of user specific-utterance features associated with the registered user and a second set of user-specific utterance features associated with the unregistered user, and displays the identifier of the registered user differently than an identifier of the unregistered user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2019Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
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Publication number: 20190080690Abstract: A voice recognition device includes a voice input unit that receives input sounds and converts the input sounds into voice signals and a voice trigger detector to detect a keyword in a voice signal from the voice input unit. A similarity calculator is provided to compare the voice signal to a reference audio signal, calculate a similarity between the reference audio signal and the voice signal, and output a signal indicating the calculated similarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Yusaku KIKUGAWA, Yasuyuki MASAI, Keizo YAMASHITA, Yasuhiro FUKUJU
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Patent number: 10089061Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a memory and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is in communication with the memory. The hardware processor is configured to obtain a sound file including sound data and attached data, determine a type of meeting of the sound file classified based on an utterance state of the sound data, and display the sound file based on at least one of the sound data and the attached data such that the type of meeting is visually recognizable.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
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Publication number: 20170161014Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a hardware processor configured to display, on a screen, a first bar corresponding to utterance of a first user of a first zone, a second bar corresponding to utterance of a second user of a second zone, and a seek bar corresponding to a zone of a sound included in audio data when the audio data is played back. The hardware processor plays back, when a first position on the seek bar is specified, audio data from a first time point corresponding to the first position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada, Ryuichi Yamaguchi, Hiroto Yoshihara, Hideya Minamiji
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Publication number: 20170075652Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device records an audio signal, determines a plurality of user-specific utterance features within the audio signal, the plurality of user-specific utterance features including a first set of user specific-utterance features associated with the registered user and a second set of user-specific utterance features associated with the unregistered user, and displays the identifier of the registered user differently than an identifier of the unregistered user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
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Publication number: 20170061987Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a memory and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is in communication with the memory. The hardware processor is configured to obtain a sound file including sound data and attached data, determine a type of meeting of the sound file classified based on an utterance state of the sound data, and display the sound file based on at least one of the sound data and the attached data such that the type of meeting is visually recognizable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventor: Yusaku KIKUGAWA
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Publication number: 20160247520Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus displays a first object indicating a first speech zone and a second object indicating a second speech zone during recording, displays a first character string and a second character string corresponding to speech recognition of the first and the second speech zones. At least a part of the first speech zone and at least a part of the second speech zone are speech-recognized in an order of priority defined in accordance with display positions of the first object and the second object on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventor: Yusaku KIKUGAWA
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Patent number: 9375143Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a biological sensor, an extraction module, a state detector, and a transmission controller. The biological sensor generates first biological data. The extraction module extracts one or more first features from the first biological data. The state detector detects a communication state between a communication module and a server. The transmission controller transmits at least one of the first biological data and the one or more first features to the server, based on the detected communication state.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takaya Matsuno, Shingo Suzuki, Yusaku Kikugawa, Koji Yamamoto, Kentaro Takeda, Takashi Sudo, Tadashi Amada, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Chikashi Sugiura
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Publication number: 20160093315Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes circuitry configured to display, during recording, a first mark indicative of a sound waveform collected from a microphone and a second mark indicative of a section of voice collected from the microphone, after processing to detect the section of voice.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
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Publication number: 20150155001Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a memory and a processor. Each of files comprises positional information and time information. The files are prepared by apparatuses. The processing circuitry searches from files comprising a first file, for a second file corresponding to the first file based on the positional information and the time information associated with each of the files, determines whether recorded content of the second file comprises a part of recorded content of the first file, and transmits a third file comprising a part of the second file to a first apparatus when the recorded content of the second file comprises a part of the recorded content of the first file.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada, Kentaro Takeda
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Publication number: 20150119726Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sensor, an acquisition module, an estimation module, and a transmission controller. The sensor is configured to detect biomedical data of a user. The acquisition module is configured to acquire first and second biomedical data detected by the sensor. The estimation module is configured to estimate the user's status based on the first biomedical data. The transmission controller is configured to transmit the second biomedical data to an external apparatus at a timing in accordance with the user's estimated status.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Takaya Matsuno, Takashi Sudo, Kentaro Takeda, Yusaku Kikugawa, Shingo Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kanishima
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Patent number: 8948417Abstract: According to one embodiment, a characteristic correcting device includes: a correction filter configured to correct sound quality characteristics of a plurality of bands in a frequency range of an input signal based on a frequency characteristic which is set in advance to generate an output signal; an input module configured to input a surrounding sound signal of sound around an output device outputting the output signal; and an adjusting module configured to reduce the number of the bands of which the sound quality characteristics are to be corrected of the bands in the frequency range of the input signal in accordance with an increase in amplitude of the surrounding sound signal which is input.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Takashi Sudo, Masataka Osada, Takehiko Isaka
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Patent number: 8917887Abstract: According to one embodiment, a signal processor includes a band divider, a first correction module, a determiner, an adjuster, and a second correction module. The band divider calculates an amplitude indicating sound pressure from an acoustic signal for each frequency range. The first correction module corrects the amplitude to change the dynamic range of the amplitude to a target range. The determiner determines whether the maximum amplitude of amplitudes corrected by the first correction module is equal to or larger than a threshold. The adjuster adjusts first and second coefficients based on the first condition if the maximum amplitude is equal to or larger than the threshold. The second correction module adds a value obtained by multiplying the acoustic signal by the first coefficient to a value obtained by multiplying the correction amount of the amplitude by the second coefficient, and outputs a resulting value as an output signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Chikashi Sugiura, Takashi Sudo, Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada
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Patent number: 8908099Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes a compositional pattern determining module and an audio processor. The compositional pattern determining module is configured to estimate a compositional pattern of an input video signal. The audio processor is configured to perform audio processing according to the estimation.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
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Publication number: 20140320307Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a biological sensor, an extraction module, a state detector, and a transmission controller. The biological sensor generates first biological data. The extraction module extracts one or more first features from the first biological data. The state detector detects a communication state between a communication module and a server. The transmission controller transmits at least one of the first biological data and the one or more first features to the server, based on the detected communication state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Takaya Matsuno, Shingo Suzuki, Yusaku Kikugawa, Koji Yamamoto, Kentaro Takeda, Takashi Sudo, Tadashi Amada, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Chikashi Sugiura
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Publication number: 20140003630Abstract: According to one embodiment, an audio processor includes a detector and a controller. The detector is configured to detect a first interval during which a state in which a reproduced sound by an audio signal is assumed to be silent continues for at least a first time. The controller is configured to change, during the first interval, an output level of the audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takenhiko Demiya, Masataka Osada, Yusaku Kikugawa
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Publication number: 20130314599Abstract: An audio processing apparatus includes a compositional pattern determining module and an audio processor. The compositional pattern determining module is configured to estimate a compositional pattern of an input video signal. The audio processor is configured to perform audio processing according to the estimation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: November 28, 2013Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Yusaku KIKUGAWA