Data creation apparatus

• US 20040225416A1
• Filed: 02/23/2004
• Published: 11/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Equos Research
• Original Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Equos Research
• Inventors: Matsuda, Manabu, Hirano, Tadashi, Adachi, Kazuhide, Hori, Koji, Kubota, Tomoki, Kondo, Hiroaki, Fujii, Kazuaki
• Application Number:
  US10/487,424
• Publication Number:
  US 20040225416A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0231 Circuits relating to the driving or the functioning of the vehicle monitoring tyres B60C23/00; indicating overspeed B60K31/00; for dash boards B60K37/00, B60Q3/10; for indicating emergencies B60Q1/52; brake control systems B60T; registering or indicating the working of vehicles G07C5/00; measuring distance G01C, e.g. combinations of speed and distance G01C23/00; engine indicators G01L; measuring speed or acceleration G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming

Abstract

An agent apparatus has a system capable of executing, periodically or when a particular condition is satisfied, processing to judge whether or not a condition to autonomously start (automatically present) an agent is satisfied based on scenario data created by a scenario creating apparatus, and automatically presenting the agent when the condition is satisfied. Thus, in the scenario creating apparatus, regardless of whether having knowledge of programming or not, it is possible to create and edit scenario data of an agent which automatically appears and responds when a particular condition is satisfied by having a scenario editor.

Claims

1. An on-vehicle apparatus, comprising:

a screen element transition storing means for externally obtaining and storing a screen element transition object constituted by combining screen elements, in which one screen element defines at least one of a display content and a processing content of a character, and a start condition of the screen element transition object;

a condition judging means for judging whether or not the start condition is satisfied based on at least one of an on-vehicle sensor and user data; and

a screen element transition object executing means for executing the screen element transition object when the start condition is judged to be satisfied.

2. The on-vehicle apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said on-vehicle sensor detects at least one of a time, a location, a road type, a vehicle state, and an operating state of a navigation device.

3. The on-vehicle apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said screen transition object executing means displays an executed screen transition object on a display device in a vehicle room.

4. A data creating apparatus, comprising:

an offering means for offering a plurality of selection items for at least one target out of a time, a location, a road type, a vehicle state, an operating state of a navigation device, and user data;

a character setting means for selecting one or more items from the offered plural selection items and setting a display content and a processing content of a character to the selected item; and

a screen element transition object creating means for creating a screen element transition object by combining screen elements, in which one screen element defines at least one of the display content and the processing content of the character, and a transition condition between the screen elements.

5. The data creating apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the screen element transition object starts from a screen element whose content is an active action such as a suggestion, a question, a greeting, and the like by the character.

6. The data creating apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

an effective sound displaying means for displaying effective sound information which specifies one or plural effective sounds in a list;

an effective sound selecting means for selecting one effective sound information from the displayed effective sound information; and

an effective sound setting means for setting an effective sound corresponding to the selected effective sound information as an effective sound to be outputted at a time of starting one screen element or in conjunction with the display content and the processing content of the character.

7. A data creating program for realizing functions on a computer, the functions comprising:

a screen element setting function to set one screen element based on a display content and a processing content of a character;

a transition condition setting function to set one or more transition conditions for proceeding from one screen element to a next screen element which are set by said screen element setting function; and

a screen element transition object setting function to create a screen element transition object to be executed and processed in a display device in a vehicle room based on the screen element and the transition condition.

8. The data creating program for realizing functions on a computer according to claim 7, the functions further comprising:

a start condition setting function to set a start condition for starting the screen element transition object by at least one of a time, a location, a road type, a vehicle state, an operation state of a navigation device, and user data.

9. The data creating program for realizing functions on a computer according to claim 7, the functions further comprising:

a converting function to convert the screen element transition object into an operation format to be operated in a navigation device.

10. The data creating program according to claim 7,

wherein said screen element setting function comprises an effective sound setting function to set an effective sound to be outputted at a time of starting the screen element or in conjunction with the display content and the processing content of the character.

11. The data creating program for realizing functions on a computer according to claim 7, the functions further comprising:

a mental state setting function to enable setting of the transition condition according to a mental state of the character.