INPUT AUXILIARY APPARATUS, INPUT AUXILIARY METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140052441A1
• Filed: 03/27/2012
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujibayashi, Toshihiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,728,189 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/231
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/24 Speech recognition using non-acoustical features
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/63 for estimating an emotional state
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an input auxiliary apparatus equipped with an input section to input character strings; an embellishment information retaining section to retain embellishment information on a plurality of postures in a storing section in advance to link each posture with the embellishment information; a posture detecting section to detect the posture; a reading section to read out the embellishment information linked with the posture detected by the posture detecting section from the storing section; and an embellishment applying section to apply the embellishment information read out by the reading section to the character strings. The input section preferably includes a speech recognition section to recognize voice data based on speech recognition and convert the voice data to the character strings. Accordingly, this enables emotions of a speaker to be correctly judged and suitable embellishments to be appended when performing speech recognition.

Claims

1. An input auxiliary apparatus comprising:

an input section for inputting character strings;

an embellishment information retaining section for retaining embellishment information on a plurality of postures in a storing section in advance in a manner to link each posture with the embellishment information;

a posture detecting section for detecting the posture;

a reading section for reading out the embellishment information linked with the posture detected by the posture detecting section from the storing section; and

an embellishment applying section for applying the embellishment information read out by the reading section to the character strings.

2. The input auxiliary apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input section includes a speech recognition section for recognizing voice data based on speech recognition and converting the voice data to character strings, or a taking section for taking in an external signal corresponding to recognition results of the speech recognition section.

3. The input auxiliary apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the embellishment information retaining section retains emotion information or season information linked with the embellishment information.

4. The input auxiliary apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the embellishment information retaining section retains the emotion information or the season information linked with the embellishment information and includes a display control section for changing a display mode of a display section based on the emotion information or the season information.

5. An input auxiliary method comprising:

an input step of inputting character strings;

an embellishment information retaining step of retaining embellishment information on a plurality of postures in a storing section in advance in a manner to link each posture with the embellishment information;

a posture detecting step of detecting the posture;

a reading step of reading out the embellishment information linked with the posture detected by the posture detecting section from the storing section; and

an embellishment applying step of applying the embellishment information read out by the reading step to the character strings.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored thereon which causes a computer to function as:

an input section for inputting character strings;

an embellishment information retaining section for retaining embellishment information on a plurality of postures in a storing section in advance in a manner to link each posture with the embellishment information;

a posture detecting section for detecting the posture;

a reading section for reading out the embellishment information linked with the posture detected by the posture detecting section from the storing section; and

an embellishment applying section for applying the embellishment information read out by the reading section to the character strings.