Dialog data recording method

• US 20030120517A1
• Filed: 12/03/2002
• Published: 06/26/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Inada, Genji, Sakaki, Mamoru, Hosoi, Nobuyuki, Shimomura, Masako, Eida, Masataka, Asaki, Noriyasu
• Application Number:
  US10/308,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20030120517A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

In a system in which a computer terminal of a doctor, capable of entering audio data and an image and of data printing, is capable of communicating with a server managed by a third person and having a large-capacity memory apparatus, dialog data, containing an image and audio data in a dialog between the doctor and a patient, are transmitted from the computer terminal of the doctor to the server for storage in the large-capacity memory apparatus, then the audio data in the dialog data are recognized and converted into text data, clinical report data are generated from the text data, and the clinical report data are printed by the computer terminal of the doctor to generate a clinical report. The clinical report is shown to the patient and is given an approving signature, which is stored in correlation with the dialog data.

Claims

1. A dialog data recording method in a system in which a computer terminal of a person, capable of entering audio data and an image and of data printing, is capable of communicating with a server managed by a third person and having a large-capacity memory apparatus, the method comprising steps of:

transmitting dialog data, containing an image and audio data in a dialog between said person and another person, from the computer terminal of said person to said server for storage in said large-capacity memory apparatus;

recognizing and converting the audio data in said dialog data into text data;

generating script data based on said text data; and

printing said script data by the computer terminal of said person.

2. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein said generating step generates said script data based on said text data and image data relating to said unspecified person.

3. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, further comprising steps of:

generating agreement data indicating that said person and another person agree to the content of said printed script data; and

transmitting said agreement data to said server for storage together with said dialog data in said large-capacity memory apparatus.

4. A dialog data recording method according to claim 3, wherein said agreement data are an image and audio data of a behavior representing an agreement, or an image of a signature or a stamp on said printed script data.

5. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein, in said transmission step, a secret file observable only by said specified person is attached to said dialog data.

6. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein, after said specified person and another person agree to the content of said printed script data, said script data are transferred to said another person or a representative person thereof by transmission or by recording in a recording medium.

7. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein, in said transmission step, the data are transmitted under enciphering.

8. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein a cipher key is set for said image and audio data or for said script data, thereby limiting a person who can observe said data.

9. A dialog data recording method according to claim 2, wherein said image data are concealed by deletion or a obscuring process in a specified part, and are transmitted after such concealing.

10. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein said script data include a date and a time, a location, and names of the persons executing said dialog.

11. A dialog data recording method according to claim 10, wherein said script data further include an image of the persons executing said dialog.

12. A dialog data recording method according to claim 10, wherein said script data are generated by identifying a speech of each of the persons executing said dialog.

13. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein, in said printing step, all the speeches of said dialog or data obtained by converting said dialog are recorded on a rear surface of a sheet.

14. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein said person is a person providing a business service, and another person executing the dialog with said person is a general person receiving said business service.

15. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein said person is a person executing a medical action, and another person executing the dialog with said person is a patient or a representative person thereof.

16. A dialog data recording method according to claim 1, wherein said script data are generated by extracting and editing specified items from said text data.