US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Sept. 23 for "Tag estimation device, tag estimation method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,237, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tag estimation device, tag estimation method, and program" was invented by Ryo Masumura (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tag estimation device capable of estimating, for an utterance made among several persons, a tag representing a result of analyzing the utterance is provided. The tag estimation device includes an utterance sequence information vector generation unit that adds a t-th utterance word feature vector and a t-th speaker vector to a (t-1)-th utterance sequence information vector ut-1 that includes an...