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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masaru Kuroda, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/502 ; G10L 1/500 ; G10L 1/512 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 1/502 ; G10L 1/500 ; G10L 1/512 ;
Abstract
A device for speech recognition includes a dictionary which stores features of recognition objects. The device further includes a matching unit which compares features of input speech with the features of the recognition objects, and a dictionary updating unit which updates time lengths of phonemics in the dictionary based on the input speech when the matching unit finds substantial similarities between the input speech and one of the recognition objects.