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).

  • Patent number: 10770077
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Publication number: 20200243081
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusaku KIKUGAWA, Yasuyuki MASAI, Keizo YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 10592198
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada, Ryuichi Yamaguchi, Hiroto Yoshihara, Hideya Minamiji
  • Publication number: 20190206413
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Publication number: 20190080690
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Yusaku KIKUGAWA, Yasuyuki MASAI, Keizo YAMASHITA, Yasuhiro FUKUJU
  • Patent number: 10089061
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Publication number: 20170161014
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada, Ryuichi Yamaguchi, Hiroto Yoshihara, Hideya Minamiji
  • Publication number: 20170075652
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Publication number: 20170061987
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Yusaku KIKUGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160247520
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventor: Yusaku KIKUGAWA
  • Patent number: 9375143
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takaya Matsuno, Shingo Suzuki, Yusaku Kikugawa, Koji Yamamoto, Kentaro Takeda, Takashi Sudo, Tadashi Amada, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Chikashi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20160093315
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Publication number: 20150155001
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada, Kentaro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20150119726
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Takaya Matsuno, Takashi Sudo, Kentaro Takeda, Yusaku Kikugawa, Shingo Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kanishima
  • Patent number: 8948417
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yusaku Kikugawa, Takashi Sudo, Masataka Osada, Takehiko Isaka
  • Patent number: 8917887
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Chikashi Sugiura, Takashi Sudo, Yusaku Kikugawa, Masataka Osada
  • Patent number: 8908099
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Publication number: 20140320307
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takaya Matsuno, Shingo Suzuki, Yusaku Kikugawa, Koji Yamamoto, Kentaro Takeda, Takashi Sudo, Tadashi Amada, Yasuhiro Kanishima, Chikashi Sugiura
  • Publication number: 20140003630
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takenhiko Demiya, Masataka Osada, Yusaku Kikugawa
  • Publication number: 20130314599
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Yusaku KIKUGAWA