US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Aug. 5 for "Voice operation device, voice operation method and voice operation program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,886, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Voice operation device, voice operation method and voice operation program" was invented by Hidetaka Koya (Musashino, Japan), Makoto Komiyama (Musashino, Japan), Akira Kataoka (Musashino, Japan) and Masashi Tadokoro (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A task determination unit determines a type of processing being operated, on the basis of an operation situation of an existing system. A conversion unit converts voice data input during a predetermined operation of an HID into text data, and determines whether the text data is used for a c...