US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 24 for "Determining a current system utterance with connective and content portions from a user utterance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,803, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Determining a current system utterance with connective and content portions from a user utterance" was invented by Atsushi Ikeno (Kyoto, Japan), Yusuke Jinguji (Hiroo-gun, Japan), Toshifumi Nishijima (Kasugai, Japan), Fuminori Kataoka (Nisshin, Japan), Hiromi Tonegawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Norihide Umeyama (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice dialogue system includes: a voice input unit which acquires a user utterance, a dialogue text creator which creates a text of a system utterance, a voice output unit which outputs the system utterance ...