Olympus Corporation

Kazutaka Tanaka

Osamu Nonaka

Kazuhiko Osa

Yuichi Ito

Yutaka Shibata

An information acquisition device and method. The information acquisition device includes a first control circuitry. The first control circuitry is configured to acquire user information including a user's voiceprint, and a user name indicated by the user's voiceprint, based on an authentication audio data acquired in a state where functions related to an information acquisition are restricted, execute a user authentication to cancel the restrictions on the information acquisition when the user's voiceprint agrees with a registered user's voiceprint which is a voiceprint of a preliminarily registered user, and the user name agrees with a registered user name indicated by the registered user's voiceprint, perform the information acquisition after the user authentication is executed, and generate an authenticated data so that the information acquired by the information acquisition is associated with the user name.

Information acquisition device, information acquisition system, and information acquisition method

A sound collection apparatus includes: a sound collection unit including a microphone configured to collect sound; a noise determination unit configured to determine noise in dictation based on voice collected by the sound collection unit; and a presentation unit configured to perform presentation based on a determination result by the noise determination unit. With this configuration, presentation is performed to indicate environmental noise at sound collection for dictation, which leads to improved efficiency of dictation work.

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Hachioji, Japan

Kazutaka Tanaka