US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Oct. 20 for "Voice operation control device and voice operation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,619, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Voice operation control device and voice operation method" was invented by Masakiyo Sakano (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice operation control device includes: a voice command determination unit configured to recognize an utterance of a user and determine whether the recognized utterance is a voice command; and a voice command accepting unit configured to accept the accepted voice command. The voice command determination unit is configured to, when the accepted utterance indicates that an utterance coincident with a preset voice command...