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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2021
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshifumi Hirose, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/25 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 25/75 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/25 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 25/75 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is an utterance section detection device including: a first lip shape estimation module configured to estimate a first lip shape of an utterer, based on sound data including a voice of the utterer, a second lip shape estimation module configured to estimate a second lip shape of the utterer; based on image data in which an image of at least a face of the utterer is photographed; and an utterance section detection module configured to detect an utterance section in which the utterer is vocalizing in the sound data, based on changes in the first lip shape and changes in the second lip shape.