US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on July 14 for "Prediction device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,988, issued on July 14, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Prediction device" was invented by Shigeki Tanaka (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Yusuke Fukazawa (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to improve accuracy of prediction of a result of scoring relating to user's singing of a new musical piece. A prediction device is a device that acquires a result of scoring relating to a user's singing of a musical piece in the past for each section of the musical piece in time, acquires pitch information representing pitches of notes configuring the musical piece and aligned in a time series in the sectio...