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Masami Akamine
Also filed as: AKAMINE MASAMI
44 granted patents·5 pending applications·2,069 citations·filing 1990–2019
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49 records- 0197US6553343B1Speech synthesis methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 22, 2003·171 cites·1 claims
- 0295US5230036ASpeech coding system utilizing a recursive computation technique for improvement in processing speedTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1990·Granted Jul 20, 1993·245 cites·6 claims
- 0392US6339758B1Noise suppress processing apparatus and methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 15, 2002·206 cites·20 claims
- 0492US6167375AMethod for encoding and decoding a speech signal including background noiseTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 26, 2000·178 cites·24 claims
- 0585US6704702B2Speech encoding method, apparatus and programTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 9, 2004·36 cites·19 claims
- 0685US5265167ASpeech coding and decoding apparatusTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1992·Granted Nov 23, 1993·108 cites·12 claims
- 0784US6427135B1Method for encoding speech wherein pitch periods are changed based upon input speech signalTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2000·Granted Jul 30, 2002·37 cites·10 claims
- 0883US6760703B2Speech synthesis methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 6, 2004·27 cites·3 claims
- 0983US6240384B1Speech synthesis methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1996·Granted May 29, 2001·77 cites·16 claims
- 1082US8494856B2Speech synthesizer, speech synthesizing method and program productLATORRE JAVIER·Filed 2011·Granted Jul 23, 2013·14 cites·5 claims
- 1182US5864798AMethod and apparatus for adjusting a spectrum shape of a speech signalTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1996·Granted Jan 26, 1999·112 cites·22 claims
- 1281US6064962AFormant emphasis method and formant emphasis filter deviceTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1996·Granted May 16, 2000·103 cites·18 claims
- 1380US9269347B2Text to speech systemTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2013·Granted Feb 23, 2016·9 cites·23 claims
- 1480US6332121B1Speech synthesis methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 18, 2001·22 cites·10 claims
- 1579US7184958B2Speech synthesis methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2004·Granted Feb 27, 2007·19 cites·7 claims
- 1678US6161091ASpeech recognition-synthesis based encoding/decoding method, and speech encoding/decoding systemTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 12, 2000·90 cites·26 claims
- 1776US5150387AVariable rate encoding and communicating apparatusTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1990·Granted Sep 22, 1992·85 cites·16 claims
- 1874US8380500B2Apparatus, method, and computer program product for judging speech/non-speechTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2008·Granted Feb 19, 2013·8 cites·10 claims
- 1974US6202046B1Background noise/speech classification methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 13, 2001·58 cites·12 claims
- 2072US8370139B2Feature-vector compensating apparatus, feature-vector compensating method, and computer program productTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2007·Granted Feb 5, 2013·8 cites·8 claims
- 2172US6748358B1Electronic speaking document viewer, authoring system for creating and editing electronic contents to be reproduced by the electronic speaking document viewer, semiconductor storage card and information provider serverTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 8, 2004·20 cites·11 claims
- 2270US5819213ASpeech encoding and decoding with pitch filter range unrestricted by codebook range and preselecting, then increasing, search candidates from linear overlap codebooksTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1997·Granted Oct 6, 1998·60 cites·22 claims
- 2367US11270683B2Interactive system, apparatus, and methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 8, 2022·1 cites·12 claims
- 2467US5400399ASpeech communication apparatus equipped with echo cancellerTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1992·Granted Mar 21, 1995·45 cites·19 claims
- 2566US7191120B2Speech encoding method, apparatus and programTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 13, 2007·9 cites·10 claims
- 2665USRE36721ESpeech coding and decoding apparatusTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1995·Granted May 30, 2000·45 cites·14 claims
- 2765US5214741AVariable bit rate coding systemTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1990·Granted May 25, 1993·39 cites·4 claims
- 2864US5677986AVector quantizing apparatusTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1995·Granted Oct 14, 1997·25 cites·31 claims
- 2963US7251601B2Speech synthesis method and speech synthesizerTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 31, 2007·10 cites·20 claims
- 3062US8046225B2Prosody-pattern generating apparatus, speech synthesizing apparatus, and computer program product and method thereofTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2008·Granted Oct 25, 2011·3 cites·7 claims
- 3162US5990962AVideo preprocessing device with motion compensation prediction processing similar to that of a main prediction processing deviceTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1998·Granted Nov 23, 1999·21 cites·16 claims
- 3261US8407053B2Speech processing apparatus, method, and computer program product for synthesizing speechLATORRE JAVIER·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 26, 2013·4 cites·14 claims
- 3356US8078462B2Apparatus for creating speaker model, and computer program productSHINOHARA YUSUKE·Filed 2008·Granted Dec 13, 2011·2 cites·5 claims
- 3456US5878387ACoding apparatus having adaptive coding at different bit rates and pitch emphasisTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1995·Granted Mar 2, 1999·33 cites·13 claims
- 3555US9454963B2Text to speech method and system using voice characteristic dependent weightingTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2013·Granted Sep 27, 2016·1 cites·20 claims
- 3655US5926785ASpeech encoding method and apparatus including a codebook storing a plurality of code vectors for encoding a speech signalTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 20, 1999·32 cites·20 claims
- 3755US5786859AVideo coding/decoding apparatus with preprocessing to form predictable coded video signal portionTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1995·Granted Jul 28, 1998·16 cites·12 claims
- 3853US5890118AInterpolating between representative frame waveforms of a prediction error signal for speech synthesisTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1996·Granted Mar 30, 1999·30 cites·19 claims
- 3951US5671327ASpeech encoding apparatus utilizing stored code dataTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1993·Granted Sep 23, 1997·24 cites·17 claims
- 4048US10847151B2Dialogue system and dialogue methodTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2018·Granted Nov 24, 2020·0 cites·9 claims
- 4148US2010169094A1Speaker adaptation apparatus and program thereofTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 4247US2010076759A1Apparatus and method for recognizing a speechTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2009·Application pending·0 cites
- 4345US6529874B2Clustered patterns for text-to-speech synthesisTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1998·Granted Mar 4, 2003·24 cites·26 claims
- 4444US11417319B2Dialogue system, dialogue method, and storage mediumTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 16, 2022·0 cites·12 claims
- 4544US2008077404A1Speech recognition device, speech recognition method, and computer program productTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4643US2007276662A1Feature-vector compensating apparatus, feature-vector compensating method, and computer productTOSHIBA KK·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
- 4736US2012065961A1Speech model generating apparatus, speech synthesis apparatus, speech model generating program product, speech synthesis program product, speech model generating method, and speech synthesis methodLATORRE JAVIER·Filed 2011·Application pending·0 cites
- 4835US6202048B1Phonemic unit dictionary based on shifted portions of source codebook vectors, for text-to-speech synthesisTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 13, 2001·8 cites·23 claims
- 4932USRE36646ESpeech coding system utilizing a recursive computation technique for improvement in processing speedTOSHIBA KK·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 4, 2000·4 cites·7 claims
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