Control apparatus, control method, program, and information storage medium

• US 10,434,412 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2015
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tamura, Keigo, Hisamatsu, Fumiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharma, Neeraj
• Application Number:
  US15/503,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20170239567A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,596 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/215 comprising means for detecting acoustic signals, e.g. using a microphone
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/424 involving acoustic input signals, e.g. by using the results of pitch or rhythm extraction or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/53 involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/28 Constructional details of speech recognition systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

Provided are a control apparatus, a control method, a program, and an information storage medium that are configured, if an execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled, to make a user recognize that, if recognition of an accepted speech is successful, the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled. A speech acceptance block accepts a speech. An execution block executes processing according to a result of recognition of the speech. An output control block executes control so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted. In accordance with success in the recognition of the speech, one of the execution of the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech and the output control of the information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is executed.

Claims

1. A control apparatus comprising:

a speech acceptance block configured to accept a speech;

an execution block configured to execute processing according to a result of recognition of the speech;

an output control block configured to execute output control so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted;

a control information acceptance block configured to accept control information for controlling enablement/disablement of the execution of processing based on speech recognition from a program being executed; and

an execution enable/disable control block configured to control enablement/disablement of the execution of processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech on the basis of the control information accepted by the control information acceptance block, wherein,

when control is executed to enable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the execution block executes the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech if-when the recognition of the speech is successful,

when control is executed to disable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the output control block executes control so that information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted when the recognition of the speech is successful, and

the control information acceptance block accepts the control information from a plurality of programs being executed, at least one of the plurality of programs being a game program that is executed separately from a system program that is executed on the control apparatus.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein output control of information for guiding a speech to be entered is executed as the execution of processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution enable/disable control block executes control to disable the execution of processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech while any of a voice chat between users, recording of a speech, and reproduction of a speech is executed.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled shows a program that outputted the control information, the information being controlled to be outputted by the output control block.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution block executes the processing controlled to be disabled in accordance with a result of recognition of the speech corresponding to a manipulation input accepted from a controller.

6. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the execution enable/disable control block executes control so that the execution of processing according to a command based on speech recognition for some of a plurality of commands is disabled;

and

the output control block executes control so that, when a command belonging to the some of the plurality of commands is identified as the result of the recognition of the speech, information indicative that execution of processing corresponding to the command is disabled in accordance with the identification of the command is outputted.

7. A control method comprising:

accepting a speech;

executing processing according to a result of recognition of the speech;

executing output control so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted;

accepting control information for controlling enablement/disablement of the execution of processing based on speech recognition from a program being executed; and

controlling enablement/disablement of the execution of processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech on the basis of the control information accepted by the control information acceptance block, wherein,

when control is executed to enable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the executing executes the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech when the recognition of the speech is successful,

when control is executed to disable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the executing output control executes control so that information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted when the recognition of the speech is successful, and

the controlling includes accepting the control information from a plurality of programs being executed, at least one of the plurality of programs being a game program that is executed separately from a system program that is executed on the control apparatus.

8. A computer, including a microprocessor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing a program, which when executed by the microprocessor, causes the computer to execute actions, comprising:

accepting, by a speech acceptance block, a speech;

executing, by an execution block, processing according to a result of recognition of the speech;

executing output control, by an output control block, so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted;

accepting, by a control information acceptance block, control information for controlling enablement/disablement of the execution of processing based on speech recognition from a program being executed; and

controlling, by an execution enable/disable control block, enablement/disablement of the execution of processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech on the basis of the control information accepted by the control information acceptance block, wherein,

when control is executed to enable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the executing executes the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech when the recognition of the speech is successful,

when control is executed to disable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the executing output control executes control so that information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted when the recognition of the speech is successful, and

the controlling includes accepting the control information from a plurality of programs being executed, at least one of the plurality of programs being a game program that is executed separately from a system program that is executed on the control apparatus.

9. A non-transitory, computer-readable information storage medium storing a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute actions, comprising:

accepting, by a speech acceptance block, a speech;

executing, by an execution block, processing according to a result of recognition of the speech;

executing output control, by an output control block, so that information indicative that execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted;

accepting by a control information acceptance block, control information for controlling enablement/disablement of the execution of processing based on speech recognition from a program being executed; and

controlling, by an execution enable/disable control block, enablement/disablement of the execution of processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech on the basis of the control information accepted by the control information acceptance block, wherein,

when control is executed to enable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the executing executes the processing according to the result of the recognition of the speech when the recognition of the speech is successful,

when control is executed to disable the execution of processing based on speech recognition, the executing output control executes control so that information indicative that the execution of processing based on speech recognition is disabled is outputted when the recognition of the speech is successful, and

the controlling includes accepting the control information from a plurality of programs being executed, at least one of the plurality of programs being a game program that is executed separately from a system program that is executed on the control apparatus.