US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 26 for "Conference support system and conference support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,640, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conference support system and conference support method" was invented by Rinna Kanao (Tokyo), Genki Okada (Tokyo), Daisuke Inaishi (Tokyo), Seiji Muramatsu (Tokyo) and Takanori Kubota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a conference support system that includes a user information acquisition unit that acquires voice information of each of users, and an analysis unit that generates text data of each user statement on the basis of the voice information, wherein the user information acquisition unit acquires classification information of a problem proposal ...