公开(公告)号：US11081100B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-03

申请号：US16321295

申请日：2017-08-03

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Hiro Iwase ,  Mari Saito ,  Shinichi Kawano

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  G10L13/033 ,  H04R3/00 ,  G10L13/02 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L25/27 ,  G10L25/93 ,  G11B27/34

Abstract: The present technology relates to a sound processing device and a method that can present progress of sound reproduction. The sound processing device includes a control unit for controlling a sound output that aurally expresses progress of sound reproduction with respect to an entirety of the sound reproduction according to the reproduction of a sound. The present technology can be applied to a sound speech progress presentation UI system.

公开(公告)号：US11586410B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-21

申请号：US16647018

申请日：2018-06-19

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Mari Saito ,  Hiro Iwase ,  Shinichi Kawano ,  Yuhei Taki

IPC: G06F17/00 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06N5/04 ,  G10L25/54 ,  H04R3/04

Abstract: [Problem] The problem of the present disclosure relates to proposing an information processing device, an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of controlling the output of a voice so as to be adaptive to an action purpose of a user.
[Solution] An information processing device including: an inference unit that infers an action purpose of a user on the basis of a result of sensing by one or more sensors; and an output control unit that controls, on the basis of a result of inference by the inference unit, output of a voice to the user performed by an audio output unit.

公开(公告)号：US11373635B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-28

申请号：US16959680

申请日：2018-10-26

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Hiro Iwase ,  Shinichi Kawano ,  Yuhei Taki ,  Kunihito Sawai ,  Masaki Takase ,  Akira Miyashita

IPC: G10L15/26 ,  G10L15/04 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G10L13/02 ,  G10L15/22

Abstract: An apparatus and method are capable of controlling the output of the system utterance upon the occurrence of barge-in utterance and enabling a smooth interactive between a user and the system. Fade processing is applied to lower at least one of volume, a speech rate, or a pitch (voice pitch) of system utterance from a starting time of the barge-in utterance acting as the user interruption utterance during executing the system utterance. Even after the completion of the fade processing, the output state upon completing the fade processing is maintained. In a case where the system utterance level is equal to or less than the predefined threshold during the fade processing, the system utterance is displayed on a display unit. One of stop, continuation, and rephrasing is executed based on an intention of the barge-in utterance and whether an important word is included in in the system utterance.

公开(公告)号：US11270074B2

公开(公告)日：2022-03-08

申请号：US16485620

申请日：2018-10-26

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Hiro Iwase ,  Shinichi Kawano ,  Yuhei Taki ,  Kunihito Sawai

IPC: G10L15/06 ,  G06F40/295 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/30 ,  G06F40/237

Abstract: Implemented are an apparatus and a method that enable highly accurate intent estimation of a user utterance. An utterance learning adaptive processing unit analyzes a plurality of user utterances input from a user, generates learning data in which entity information included in a user utterance with an unclear intent is associated with a correct intent, and stores the generated learning data is a storage unit. The utterance learning adaptive processing unit generates learning data in which an intent, acquired from a response utterance from the user to an apparatus utterance after input of a first user utterance with an unclear intent, is recorded in association with entity information included in the first user utterance. The learning data is recorded to include superordinate semantic concept information of the entity information. At the time of estimating an intent for a new user utterance, learning data with similar superordinate semantic concept information is used.

公开(公告)号：US11240482B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16764217

申请日：2018-08-30

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Yuhei Taki ,  Soichiro Inatani ,  Hiro Iwase ,  Ikuo Yamano

IPC: H04N13/194 ,  H04N13/167 ,  G02B27/00 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer program that can improve comfortability at the time when a plurality of users share and view a three-dimensional image. The information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform control for determining a transmission starting point of three-dimensional image information based on positional information and sight line information of a first user, positional information and sight line information of a second user, and display position information of the three-dimensional image information that is shared and viewed by the first user and the second user.

公开(公告)号：US11232781B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-25

申请号：US16492249

申请日：2018-04-03

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Hiro Iwase ,  Mari Saito ,  Shinichi Kawano

IPC: G10L13/047 ,  G10L25/51

Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, a voice output device, and a voice output method that allow a user to hear a speech from a home agent unit regardless of where the user is. The voice output device outputs, on the basis of an image and noise from a predetermined noise source which are obtained in a unit capable of outputting a voice toward a user, information indicating hearing difficulty of a voice from the unit at a position of the user. The present technology can be applied to a household voice assistant device that performs a speech to a user.

公开(公告)号：US20210319792A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-14

申请号：US17268421

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: Sony Corporation

Inventor： Yuhei Taki ,  Hiro Iwase ,  Kunihito Sawai ,  Masaki Takase ,  Akira Miyashita

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/28 ,  G10L15/02

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit (133) that extracts a changing message related to a change in macro data (M), the changing message including at least one piece of first information indicating a function to be executed, and second information linked to the first information, from a user speech; a presuming unit (134) that presumes an element to be changed in the macro data (M) based on the changing message extracted by the extracting unit (133); and a changing unit (135) that changes the element to be changed in the macro data (M) presumed by the presuming unit (134), based on the changing message.

公开(公告)号：US11996093B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US16650030

申请日：2018-07-12

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Shinichi Kawano ,  Hiro Iwase ,  Mari Saito ,  Yuhei Taki

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L13/033 ,  G10L25/78

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/00 ,  G10L13/033 ,  G10L25/78 ,  G10L2015/223

Abstract: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method are provided that enable suitable determination of sensing results used in estimating a user state. The information processing apparatus is provided with a determination unit that determines, on the basis of a predetermined reference, one or more second sensing results used in estimating the user state from among a plurality of first sensing results received from a plurality of devices. The information processing apparatus is further provided with an output control unit that controls an output of information on the basis of the one or more second sensing results.

公开(公告)号：US11948564B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US16973026

申请日：2019-03-13

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Hiro Iwase ,  Yuhei Taki ,  Kunihito Sawai

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G10L15/06 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/32

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G10L15/063 ,  G10L15/1815 ,  G10L15/32

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a response control unit that controls a response to a user's utterance based on a first utterance interpretation result and a second utterance interpretation result. The first utterance interpretation result is a result of natural language understanding processing for an utterance text generated by automatic speech recognition processing based on the user's utterance and the second utterance interpretation result is an interpretation result acquired based on learning data in which the first utterance interpretation result and the utterance text used to acquire the first utterance interpretation result are associated with each other. The response control unit further controls the response to the user's utterance based on the second utterance interpretation result in a case where the second utterance interpretation result is acquired based on the user's utterance before acquisition of the first utterance interpretation result.

公开(公告)号：US11302317B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-12

申请号：US16487456

申请日：2017-12-26

Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

Inventor： Mari Saito ,  Hiro Iwase ,  Shinichi Kawano

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L25/63

Abstract: Achieving voice utterance that can attract an interest of a target further effectively. There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes an utterance control unit that controls output of voice utterance. The utterance control unit determines a target on the basis of an analyzed context, and controls an output device to output an attracting utterance that attracts an interest of the target. Furthermore, there is provided an information processing method that includes executing, by a processor, output control of voice utterance. The execution of the output control further includes determining a target on the basis of an analyzed context and controlling an output device to output an attracting utterance that attracts an interest of the target.