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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:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2003
Applicant:
Hiroshi Rikimaru, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroshi Rikimaru, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
RION Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01); G09B 19/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a diagnostic device that presents, to a patient, a Noise-Vocoded Speech Sound signal that is obtained by dividing at least one portion of a sound signal into a single or a plurality of frequency band signals and subjecting the frequency band signals to noise, and analyzing the content of a response recognized by the patient and the presented stimulus to diagnose a disease of the patient based on the analysis results, so that diagnosis including determining the disease of the patient and estimating a damaged site can be performed.