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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2010
Applicants:

Tetsuya Handa, Tokyo, JP;

Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tokyo, JP;

Takehiro Aibara, Tokyo, JP;

Hitoshi Amagai, Tokyo, JP;

Naotaka Uehara, Tokyo, JP;

Takayuki Kogane, Tokyo, JP;

Sumito Shinohara, Chiba, JP;

Masato Nunokawa, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Tetsuya Handa, Tokyo, JP;

Kimiyasu Mizuno, Tokyo, JP;

Takehiro Aibara, Tokyo, JP;

Hitoshi Amagai, Tokyo, JP;

Naotaka Uehara, Tokyo, JP;

Takayuki Kogane, Tokyo, JP;

Sumito Shinohara, Chiba, JP;

Masato Nunokawa, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to make an act of viewing an image interactive and further enriched. A microphoneinputs a voice signal of a voice uttered by a viewer who is viewing a display image displayed on a display portion, and causes the voice signal to be stored in a buffer. A voice recognition portionidentifies at least one word from the voice uttered by the viewer based on the voice signal, and acquires them as a keyword. A countercalculates the number of incidences of the keyword. A display drivercauses information including a keyword having a number of incidences that exceeds a threshold value or information derived from the keyword to be displayed together with the display image displayed on the display portion


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