Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus, method of controlling the same based on speech recognition, and computer program product
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置,基于语音识别的控制方法以及计算机程序产品
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Application No.: US12610774Application Date: 2009-11-02
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Publication No.: US08314943B2Publication Date: 2012-11-20
- Inventor: Yoshimichi Kanda
- Applicant: Yoshimichi Kanda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-284811 20081105; JP2009-228580 20090930
- Main IPC: G06F1/00
- IPC: G06F1/00 ; G06F3/12 ; G06K1/00 ; H04N1/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a speech input unit that collects a sound including an ambient sound and a speech from a user for operating the image forming apparatus, a speech recognizing unit that recognizes the speech from collected sound, and an operation control unit that changes, when speech recognizing unit recognizes the speech, an operation state of the image forming apparatus.
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