Command processing apparatus and program product executed thereby

• US 20060217986A1
• Filed: 11/09/2005
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Inagaki, Yoji, Ajioka, Yoshitaka, Mizuki, Kiyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,571,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• 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 2300/1081 Input via voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/204 the platform being a handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6072 of an input signal, e.g. pitch and rhythm extraction, voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8058 Virtual breeding, e.g. tamagotchi
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

A command processing apparatus includes an LCD. A manual trick action instruction to a dog object displayed on the LCD is accepted through a touch panel. The dog object performs a trick according to the accepted trick action instruction. An arbitrary voice command is fetched by a microphone in relation to the trick action. A voice command being coincident with the fetched voice command is retrieved from among the registered voices in a RAM through a voice verification process by a CPU core. When the verification process fails, a verification result indicates “−1”. The fetched voice command is assigned to the current trick. On the other hand, if the voice command found by the verification process is the voice command that is assigned to the current trick, a degree of relation corresponding to the trick is incremented. The dog object performs a different action depending on the degree of relation.

Claims

1. A command processing apparatus, comprising:

an accepting means for accepting a manual action instruction directed to an object;

a first requesting means for requesting said object to perform an action corresponding to the action instruction accepted by said accepting means;

a fetching means for fetching an arbitrary voice command in association with the request by said first requesting means;

a retrieving means for retrieving a voice command being coincident with the voice command fetched by said fetching means from among the voice commands which axe assigned to actions of said object;

a first assigning means for assigning the voice command fetched by said fetching means to the action according to the request by said first requesting means when said retrieving means fails in the retrieving process;

an increasing means for increasing a degree of relation indicating a highness in relevance between the action according to the request by said first requesting means and the voice command fetched by said fetching means when the voice command retrieved by said retrieving means is the voice command which is assigned to the action according to the request by said first requesting means; and

a first output means for outputting a different message depending on the degree of relation increased by said increasing means.

2. A command processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second requesting means for requesting said object to perform an action corresponding to the voice command.

3. A command processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a disabling means for disabling said fetching means when the degree of relation corresponding to the action according to the request by said first requesting means satisfies a condition.

4. A command processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said increasing means increases a numerical value indicating said degree of relation, and said disabling means disables said fetching means when the numerical value indicating said degree of relation reaches a threshold value.

5. A command processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a determining means for determining whether or not the degree of relation corresponding to the action according to the request by said first requesting means indicates a default value when said retrieving means fails in the retrieving process; and

a first decreasing means for decreasing the degree of relation noted by said determining means when the determination result by said determining means is negative, wherein said first assigning means suspends the assignment operation when the degree of relation noted by said determining means is larger than said default value.

6. A command processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second decreasing means for decreasing the degree of relation corresponding to the voice command retrieved by said retrieving means when said voice command retrieved by said retrieving means is different from the voice command assigned to the action according to the request by said first requesting means; and

a second assigning means for assigning the voice command fetched by said fetching means to the action according to the request by said first requesting means in place of the voice command retrieved by said retrieving means when the degree of relation decreased by said second decreasing means indicates the default value.

7. A command processing apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a second output means for outputting a message as to the decrease of said degree of relation.

8. A recording medium which records a game program to be executed by a processor of the command processing apparatus, wherein said game program comprises:

an accepting instruction for accepting a manual action instruction directed to an object;

a first requesting instruction for requesting said object to perform an action corresponding to the action instruction accepted by said accepting instruction;

a fetching instruction for fetching an arbitrary voice command in association with the request by said first requesting instruction;

a retrieving instruction for retrieving a voice command being coincident with the voice command fetched by said fetching instruction from among the voice commands which are assigned to actions of said object;

a first assigning instruction for assigning the voice command fetched by said fetching instruction to the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction when said retrieving instruction fails in the retrieving process;

an increasing instruction for increasing a degree of relation indicating a highness in relevance between the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction and the voice command fetched by said fetching instruction when the voice command retrieved by said retrieving instruction is the voice command which is assigned to the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction; and

a first output instruction for outputting a different message depending on the degree of relation increased by said increasing instruction.

9. A recording medium according to claim 8, wherein said game program further comprises a second requesting instruction for requesting said object to perform an action corresponding to the voice command.

10. A recording medium according to claim 8, wherein said game program further comprises a disabling instruction for disabling said fetching means when the degree of relation corresponding to the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction satisfies a condition.

11. A recording medium according to claim 10, wherein said increasing instruction increases a numerical value indicating said degree of relation, and said disabling instruction disables said fetching instruction when the numerical value indicating said degree of relation reaches a threshold value.

12. A recording medium according to claim 8, wherein said game program further comprises:

a determining instruction for determining whether or not the degree of relation corresponding to the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction indicates a default value when said retrieving instruction fails in the retrieving process; and

a first decreasing instruction for decreasing the degree of relation noted by said determining instruction when a determination result by said determining instruction is negative, wherein said first assigning instruction suspends the assignment operation when the degree of relation noted by said determining instruction is larger than said default value.

13. A recording medium according to claim 8, wherein said game program further comprises:

a second decreasing instruction for decreasing the degree of relation corresponding to the voice command retrieved by said retrieving instruction when said voice command retrieved by said retrieving instruction is different from the voice command assigned to the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction; and

a second assigning instruction for assigning the voice command fetched by said fetching means to the action according to the request by said first requesting means in place of the voice command retrieved by said retrieving means when the degree of relation decreased by said second decreasing means indicates the default value.

14. A recording medium according to claim 12, wherein said game program further comprises a second output instruction for outputting a message as to the decrease of said degree of relation.

15. A program product for storage in a recording medium to be executed by a processor of a command processing apparatus, comprising:

an accepting instruction for accepting a manual action instruction directed to an object;

a first requesting instruction for requesting said object to perform an action corresponding to the action instruction accepted by said accepting instruction;

a fetching instruction for fetching an arbitrary voice command in association with the request by said first requesting instruction;

a retrieving instruction for retrieving a voice command being coincident with the voice command fetched by said fetching instruction from among the voice commands which are assigned to actions of said object;

a first assigning instruction for assigning the voice command fetched by said fetching instruction to the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction when said retrieving instruction fails in the retrieving process;

an increasing instruction for increasing a degree of relation indicating a highness in relevance between the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction and the voice command fetched by said fetching instruction when the voice command retrieved by said retrieving instruction is the voice command which is assigned to the action according to the request by said first requesting instruction; and

a first output instruction for outputting a different message depending on the degree of relation increased by said increasing instruction.