Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voice agent device and method for controlling the same
- Patent Title (中): 语音代理设备及其控制方法
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Application No.: US14062937Application Date: 2013-10-25
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Publication No.: US09324326B2Publication Date: 2016-04-26
- Inventor: Yuri Nishikawa , Kazunori Yamada
- Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2012-235902 20121025
- Main IPC: G10L17/00
- IPC: G10L17/00 ; G10L17/04

Abstract:
A voice agent device includes: a position detection unit which detects a position of a person in a conversation space to which the voice agent device is capable of providing information; a voice volume detection unit which detects a voice volume of the person from a sound signal in the conversation space obtained by a sound acquisition unit; a conversation area determination unit which determines a conversation area as a first area including the position when the voice volume has a first voice volume value and determines the conversation area as a second area including the position and being smaller than the first area when the voice volume has a second voice volume value smaller than the first voice volume value, the conversation area being a spatial range where an utterance of the person can be heard; and an information provision unit which provides provision information to the conversation area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140122077A1 VOICE AGENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2014-05-01
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