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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:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2003
Applicants:
Hiroyuki Manabe, Yokosuka, JP;
Akira Hiraiwa, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiaki Sugimura, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Information relating to an amount of muscle activity is extracted from a myo-electrical signal by activity amount information extraction means, and information recognition is performed by activity amount information recognition means using the information relating to the amount of muscle activity of a speaker. There is a prescribed correspondence relationship between the amount of muscle activity of a speaker and a phoneme uttered by a speaker, so the content of an utterance can be recognized with a high recognition rate by information recognition using information relating to an amount of muscle activity.