US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Aug. 12 for "Utterance section detection device, utterance section detection method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,728, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Utterance section detection device, utterance section detection method, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshifumi Hirose (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an utterance section detection device including: a first lip shape estimation module configured to estimate a first lip shape of an utterer, based on sound data including a voice of the utterer, a second lip shape estimation module configured to estimate a second lip shape of the utterer; based on image data in which an image of at least a face of ...