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US 11,907,667 · App. 17/885,541 · Granted Feb 20, 2024

Apparatus, system, and method of assisting information sharing, and recording medium

Inventor: Tomohiro Shima (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,907,667
App. No.
17/885,541
Filed
Aug 11, 2022
Granted
Feb 20, 2024
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2654
USPC
704/9
Abstract

A system for assisting sharing of information includes circuitry to: input a plurality of sentences each representing a statement made by one of a plurality of users, the sentence being generated by speaking or writing during a meeting or by extracting from at least one of meeting data, email data, electronic file data, and chat data at any time; determine a statement type of the statement represented by each one of the plurality of sentences, the statement type being one of a plurality of statement types previously determined; select, from among the plurality of sentences being input, one or more sentences each representing a statement of a specific statement type of the plurality of types; and output a list of the selected one or more sentences as key statements of the plurality of sentences.

Claims (55)

1. A system, comprising:

circuitry configured to

input a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting;

identify each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements;

generate, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and

output the evaluation result.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to output a part of a statement, of the plurality of statements, in a format that is previously determined according to a type of the statement.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to

identify a particular participant, of the one or more participants, who has made a statement of the plurality of statements, and

output for display the statement in association with the identified particular participant.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to output for display a statement, which corresponds to a particular statement type, from among the plurality of statements input by the circuitry.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry generates the evaluation result based on the number of statements and a type of a statement of the plurality of statements.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to

calculate a cost based on personnel expenses of the one or more participants in the meeting, and

output the cost.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to generate the evaluation result based on a difference between a time spent for the meeting and a time scheduled for the meeting.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to

identify a particular participant, of the one or more participants, who has made a particular statement of the plurality of statements;

generate a particular evaluation result for the particular participant based on a number of statements made by the particular participant and a type of the particular statement; and

output the particular evaluation result.

9. The system of claim 5 , wherein the circuitry generates the evaluation result based on a subjective evaluation having been input by the circuitry.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein

the circuitry is further configured to train a classifier to determine a type of a statement of the plurality of statements,

the classifier determines the type of the statement based on at least one of features of the statement, a role of a participant of the one or more participants, or a type of the meeting, and

the at least one of features include at least one of adverb, adjective, noun or auxiliary verb of the statement.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein

the circuitry is further configured to train a classifier to determine a type of a statement of the plurality of statements,

the classifier determines the type of the statement based on at least one of features of the statement, a role of a participant of the one or more participants, or a type of the meeting, and

the circuitry determines the type of the statement based on an identity of a participant who has made the statement.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to

determine a topic boundary for classifying the plurality of statements into one or more groups, and

generate a topic, for each group of the one or more groups, defined by the topic boundary.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein for each group of the one or more groups, a respective topic represents at least one of a subject, theme, feature, or issue of the plurality of statements belonging to the group, or statements to which sentence compression is performed.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to

translate a statement, of the plurality of statements, into a language different than a language of the statement having been input to generate a translated statement, and

output the translated statement.

15. A method, comprising:

inputting a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting;

identifying each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements;

generating, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of the one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and

outputting the evaluation result.

16. A non-transitory recording medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to perform a method comprising:

inputting a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting;

identifying each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements;

generating, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and

outputting the evaluation result.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to

input a plurality of statements made by one or more participants in a meeting;

identify each participant, of the one or more participants, that has made a statement of the plurality of statements;

generate, for each participant identified as having made a statement, an evaluation result based on a number of statements of one or more statements made by the participant during the meeting; and

output the evaluation result.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to output information indicating contribution to the meeting made by a participant of the one more participants.

19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to output information indicating contributions to the meeting made by each participant of the one more participants.

20. The system of claim 1 , wherein in a case that the number of statements is greater than a predetermined threshold, the circuitry is further configured to receive a user input in response to the output evaluation result.

Priority Claims (2)
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Continuity (4)
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