Communication apparatus and communication method

• US 20050171741A1
• Filed: 12/28/2004
• Published: 08/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Doi, Miwako
• Application Number:
  US11/022,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20050171741A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/189
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/256 of results relating to different input data, e.g. multimodal recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/165 using facial parts and geometric relationships

Abstract

A communication apparatus includes a sensor input portion, a distributed sensor storage portion which stores sensor information from the sensor input portion in association with sensor type information or an attribute, a distributed ambient behavior processing portion which performs processing of recognition based on the sensor information stored in the distributed sensor storage portion, a certainty factor grant portion which grants a certainty factor in accordance with a result of recognition of the distributed ambient behavior processing portion, and a distributed ambient behavior storage portion which stores the result of recognition of the distributed ambient behavior processing portion as recognition information and the certainty factor granted by the certainty factor grant portion in association with the sensor information of the distributed sensor storage portion.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

a sensor input portion;

a distributed sensor storage portion which stores sensor information from the sensor input portion in association with sensor type information or an attribute;

a distributed ambient behavior processing portion which performs processing of recognition based on the sensor information stored in the distributed sensor storage portion;

a certainty factor grant portion which grants a certainty factor in accordance with a result of recognition of the distributed ambient behavior processing portion; and

a distributed ambient behavior storage portion which stores the result of recognition of the distributed ambient behavior processing portion as recognition information and the certainty factor granted by the certainty factor grant portion in association with the sensor information of the distributed sensor storage portion.

2. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a distributed ambient behavior edition portion which reads the sensor information stored in the distributed sensor storage portion, and corrects the recognition information and the certainty factor based on the sensor information,

wherein the recognition information and the certainty factor are stored in the distributed ambient behavior storage portion.

3. The communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication control portion which performs communication control based on the recognition information and the certainty factor stored in the distributed ambient behavior storage portion;

a communication generating portion which generates a communication under control of the communication control portion; and

a communication presentation portion which presents a result generated by the communication generating portion.

4. The communication apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a communication control portion which performs communication control based on the recognition information and the certainty factor stored in the distributed ambient behavior storage portion;

a communication generating portion which generates a communication under control of the communication control portion; and

a communication presentation portion which presents a result generated by the communication generating portion.

5. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the distributed ambient behavior processing portion includes a personal authentication portion which authenticates a person to be authenticated, and

the certainty factor grant portion grants a certainty factor in accordance with a result of authentication of the personal authentication portion.

6. The communication apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the certainty factor grant portion grants a certainty factor in accordance with accuracy information of the sensor input portion as a result of recognition based on the sensor information.

7. A communication method comprising:

storing sensor information from a sensor input portion in association with sensor type information or an attribute by means of a distributed sensor storage portion;

performing processing of recognition based on the sensor information by means of a distributed ambient behavior processing portion;

granting a certainty factor in accordance with a result of recognition of the distributed ambient behavior processing portion by means of a certainty factor grant portion; and

storing the result of recognition and the certainty factor in association with the sensor information of the distributed sensor storage portion by means of a distributed ambient behavior storage portion.