Dialogue control system, dialogue control method and robotic device

• US 20030220796A1
• Filed: 03/04/2003
• Published: 11/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Keiichi, Aoyama, Kazumi, Shimomura, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US10/379,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20030220796A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue

Abstract

A dialogue control system, a dialogue control method and a robotic device are capable of remarkably improving the entertainment factor. In the dialogue control system in which a robot and the information processing device are connected via the network, in the case of conducting the conversation by word games between the robot and the user, the history data regarding the word game in said user'"'"'s speech content is formed and transmitted to the information processing device. Then, said information processing device selectively reads out the contents best suited to the user based on said history data from the memory means and provides to the original robot.

Claims

1. A dialogue control system in which a robot and an information processing device are connected via network, wherein:

said robot comprising;

interactive means for interacting with the human beings and recognizing the utterance of the user to become the object through the conversation;

forming means for forming a history data related to the word games out of said user'"'"'s speech contents by said interactive means;

updating means for updating said history data formed by said forming means corresponding to said user'"'"'s speech contents to be obtained through said word games; and

communication means for transmitting said history data to said information processing device via the network in the case of starting said word games; and

said information processing device comprising;

memory means for memorizing content data showing the contents of a plurality of said word games;

detection means for detecting said history data transmitted via said communication means; and

communication control means for selectively reading out said content data from said memory means based on said history data detected by said detection means and for transmitting to the original said robot via the network, wherein

said interactive means of said robot outputs contents of said word games based on said content data transmitted from the communication control means of said information processing device.

2. The dialogue control system according to claim 1, wherein:

in said robot,

said interactive means recognizes the evaluation related to the content of said word games based on said content data put out to said user from said user'"'"'s utterance;

said updating means updates said history data corresponding to said evaluation;

said communication means transmits said history data updated by said updating means to said information processing device; and

in said information processing device;

said memory means memorizes annex data accompanying said content data of said word games connected to said content data; and

said communication control means updates data part relating to the evaluation based on said history data transmitted from said communication means on said annex data accompanying to said selected content data.

3. The dialogue control system according to claim 1, wherein:

in said robot,

said interactive means recognizes contents of a new word game put out to said user from said user'"'"'s utterance; and

said communication means transmits new content data showing contents of said word game to said information processing device; and

in said information processing device,

said memory means memorizes said new content data transmitted from said communication means after adding to said content data concerning said corresponding user.

4. The dialogue control system according to claim 1, wherein

said memory means is database that can be owned jointly by the plural number of said robots.

5. A dialogue control method in which a robot and an information processing device are connected via network, comprising:

a first step in said robot, for recognizing targeted user'"'"'s utterance through the conversation with the human beings, forming history data related to word games out of said user'"'"'s speech contents, and updating and transmitting said formed history data corresponding to said user'"'"'s speech contents to be obtained through said word games to said information processing device via said network in the case of starting said word games;

a second step in said information processing device, for reading out said content data selected based on said history data transmitted from said robot out of content data showing said contents of the plural number of said word games memorized in advance and for transmitting to the said original robot via said network; and

a third step in said robot, for outputting contents of said word games based on said content data transmitted from said information processing device.

6. The dialogue control method according to claim 5, wherein:

at said first step,

after identifying the evaluation related to the content of said word games based on said content data put out to said user from said user'"'"'s utterance, said history data is updated according to said evaluation and said updated history data is transmitted to said information processing device; and

at said second step,

annex data accompanying to the content data of said word games is memorized related to said content data, and on said annex data accompanying to said content data selected, and the data part relating to the evaluation based on said history data transmitted is updated.

7. The dialogue control method according to claim 5, wherein:

at said first step, after recognizing contents of a new word game put out to said user, new content data showing contents of said word game is transmitted to said information processing device; and

at said second step, said content data regarding said corresponding user is added, and said new content data transmitted from said communication means is memorized.

8. The dialogue control method according to claim 5, wherein

at said second step, the content data showing the contents of multiple said word games stored in advance is database-controlled so as to be owned by the plural number of said robots.

9. A robotic device connected via an information processing device and the network, comprising:

interactive means for interacting with the human beings and recognizing the utterance of the user to become the object through the conversation;

forming means for forming history data related to word games out of said user'"'"'s speech contents by said interactive means;

updating means for updating said history data formed by said forming means corresponding to said user'"'"'s speech contents to be obtained through said word games, wherein

said interactive means outputs the contents of said word games based on said content data, when said content data selected based on said history data transmitted from said communication means are transmitted via said network out of content data showing contents of said multiple word games memorized in advance in said information processing device.

10. The robotic device according to claim 9, wherein:

said interactive means recognizes the evaluation related to the content of said word games based on said content data put out to said user from said user'"'"'s utterance;

said updating means updates said history data corresponding to said evaluation;

said communication means transmits said history data updated by said updating means to said information processing device; and

in said information processing device, regarding the annex data accompanying to said content data selected out of annex data attached to the content data of said word game memorized in advance and associated with said content data, the data part related to the evaluation based on said history data transmitted from the communication means is updated.

11. The robotic device according to claim 9, wherein:

said interactive means recognizes contents of a new word game output to said user from said user'"'"'s utterance;

said communication means transmits new content data showing contents of said word game to said information processing device; and

in said information processing device, said new content data transmitted from said communication means is memorized after adding to said content data related to said corresponding user.