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Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2005
Applicants:

Nobuo Sato, Kokubunji, JP;

Yasunari Obuchi, Kodaira, JP;

Inventors:

Nobuo Sato, Kokubunji, JP;

Yasunari Obuchi, Kodaira, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/00 (2006.01); G10L 11/00 (2006.01); G08B 1/08 (2006.01); H04Q 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Provided is a crisis monitoring system that detects a crisis by identifying a person's emotion from his/her utterance includes an input unit to which an audio signal is inputted, a recording unit which records information necessary to judge a crisis situation, and a control unit which controls the input unit and the recording unit. The recording unit records emotion attribute information, which includes a feature of a specific emotion in an audio signal, and the control unit determines a person's emotion by comparing an audio signal inputted to the input unit with the emotion attribute information, and executes a predetermined emergency processing when it is judged that the determined emotion indicates a crisis situation.


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