System and method for supporting interactive operations and storage medium
First Claim
1. An interactive operation supporting system for an apparatus, comprising a display unit, a speech input unit, a speech output unit and an operation control unit, wherein said operation control unit includes:
- an assistant control means for generating a personified assistant and making said assistant appear on a screen of said display unit;
an output speech control means for determining speech required for said assistant to output said assistant'"'"'s speech to the outside through said speech output unit after speech synthesis;
an input speech recognition means for recognizing user'"'"'s voice as a speech inputted through said speech input unit;
an interaction management means for managing interaction between said assistant and said user according to said assistant'"'"'s speech determined by said output speech control means and said user speech recognized by said input speech recognition means; and
a command interpreting means for specifying a user'"'"'s intention or specifying said inputted user command based on a content of interaction traced by said interaction management means.
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Abstract
There is provided a system for supporting interactive operations for inputting user commands to a household electric apparatus such as a television set/monitor and information apparatuses. According to the system for supporting interactive operations applying an animated character called a personified assistant interacting with a user based on speech synthesis and animation, realizing a user-friendly user interface and simultaneously making it possible to meet a demand for complex commands or providing an entry for services. Further, since the system is provided with a command system producing an effect close to human natural language, the user can easily operate the apparatus with a feeling close to ordinary human conversation.
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51 Claims
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1. An interactive operation supporting system for an apparatus, comprising a display unit, a speech input unit, a speech output unit and an operation control unit, wherein said operation control unit includes:
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an assistant control means for generating a personified assistant and making said assistant appear on a screen of said display unit;
an output speech control means for determining speech required for said assistant to output said assistant'"'"'s speech to the outside through said speech output unit after speech synthesis;
an input speech recognition means for recognizing user'"'"'s voice as a speech inputted through said speech input unit;
an interaction management means for managing interaction between said assistant and said user according to said assistant'"'"'s speech determined by said output speech control means and said user speech recognized by said input speech recognition means; and
a command interpreting means for specifying a user'"'"'s intention or specifying said inputted user command based on a content of interaction traced by said interaction management means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 50)
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25. A method for supporting interactive operation of an apparatus or other externally connected apparatus including a display unit, a speech input unit and a speech output unit, comprising:
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an assistant control step for generating a personified assistant and making said generated assistant appear on a screen of said display unit;
an output speech control step for determining a speech required for the assistant to output the assistant'"'"'s speech to the outside through said speech output unit after speech synthesis;
an input speech recognition step for recognizing a user'"'"'s voice as a speech inputted through said speech input unit;
an interaction management step for managing interaction between said assistant and said user according to said assistant'"'"'s speech determined by said output speech control step and said user speech recognized by said input speech recognition step; and
a command interpreting step for specifying said user'"'"'s intention or specifying said inputted user command based on a content of interaction traced by said interaction management step. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 51)
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49. A storage medium storing a software program in computer-readable form, said software program describing an interactive operation support processing for execution on a computer system, said interactive operation support processing applied to an apparatus including a display unit, a speech input unit and a speech output unit for supporting input of a user command to said apparatus and/or another externally connected apparatus, wherein said software program includes:
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an assistant control step for generating a personified assistant to make said generated assistant appear on a screen of said display unit;
an output speech control step for determining a speech required to said assistant for output of said assistant'"'"'s speech to the outside through said speech output unit after speech synthesis;
an input speech recognition step for recognizing a user'"'"'s voice inputted through said speech input unit as speech;
an interaction management step for managing interaction between said user and said assistant according to said assistant'"'"'s speech determined by said output speech control step and said user speech recognized by said input speech recognition step; and
a command interpreting step for specifying said user'"'"'s intention or said inputted user command based on a content of interaction traced by said interaction management step.
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