US Patent Issued to RICOH on Oct. 27 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,338, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Masaki Nose (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuyuki Omura (Tokyo), Naotsugu Shinohara (Kanagawa, Japan), Tohru Fukuhara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Noriko Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to obtain speech data, detect, from a speech represented by the speech data, an utterance section in which an utterance is made, determine whether the utterance in the utterance section satisfies one or ...