NAVIGATION DEVICE, SERVER, NAVIGATION METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20150106013A1
• Filed: 03/07/2012
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Yokoyama, Ryu
• Granted Patent: US 9,097,550 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/522
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3608 using speech input, e.g. using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

When a navigation device receives an input of speech from a user, it transmits data of inputted speech to a server and receives a speech recognition result. If a guide route includes a communication impossible area, the navigation device obtains terminal-use speech recognition data necessary for the navigation device to perform speech recognition from the server before reaching the communication impossible area. Thus, even if the speech is inputted by the user while traveling the communication impossible area, the navigation device can perform the speech recognition by itself by using the terminal-use speech recognition data.

Claims

1. A navigation device which performs navigation along a guide route to a destination, comprising:

a speech input unit which receives an input of speech;

a transmitting unit which transmits data of inputted speech to a server;

a receiving unit which receives a speech recognition result of the data of the inputted speech from the server; and

an obtaining unit which obtains terminal-use speech recognition data necessary for recognition of the inputted speech from the server, before reaching a communication impossible area where communication with the server is impossible, in a case where the guide route includes the communication impossible area.

2. The navigation device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a speech recognition unit which performs speech recognition of the inputted speech by using the terminal-use speech recognition data; and

a point determination unit which determines whether or not a current position belongs to the communication impossible area,

wherein the transmitting unit transmits the data of inputted speech to the server in a case where the current position does not belong to the communication impossible area when the speech input unit receives the input of speech, and the speech recognition unit performs the speech recognition by using the terminal-use speech recognition data in a case where the current position belongs to the communication impossible area when the speech input unit receives the input of speech.

3. The navigation device according to claim 2, wherein the transmitting unit transmits the data of inputted speech to the server after communication with the server becomes possible in a case where the speech recognition unit fails in the speech recognition by using the terminal-use speech recognition data and the current position belongs to the communication impossible area.

4. The navigation device according to claim 3, further comprising an estimation unit which estimates a necessary time necessary for the current position to enter a communication area from the communication impossible area,

wherein the transmitting unit transmits the data of inputted speech to the server after the communication with the server becomes possible in a case where the speech recognition unit fails in the speech recognition by using the terminal-use speech recognition data and the necessary time is shorter than a predetermined time.

5. The navigation device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit which stores history of words corresponding to the inputted speech to the speech input unit,

wherein the obtaining unit requests the terminal-use speech recognition data to the server based on the history of the words stored in the storage unit.

6. The navigation device according to claim 5,

wherein the storage unit stores frequency of use of the words as the history, and

wherein the obtaining unit requests, to the server, the terminal-use speech recognition data for the words of a predetermined number in an order from a high frequency of use to a low frequency of use.

7. The navigation device according to claim 5, further comprising an input unit for inputting an operation command,

wherein the storage unit stores history of the operation command inputted by the input unit, and

wherein the obtaining unit requests the terminal-use speech recognition data to the server based on the history of the operation command stored in the storage unit.

12. The navigation device according to claim 2, further comprising a storage unit which stores history of words corresponding to the inputted speech to the speech input unit,

wherein the obtaining unit requests the terminal-use speech recognition data to the server based on the history of the words stored in the storage unit.

13. The navigation device according to claim 3, further comprising a storage unit which stores history of words corresponding to the inputted speech to the speech input unit,

wherein the obtaining unit requests the terminal-use speech recognition data to the server based on the history of the words stored in the storage unit.

14. The navigation device according to claim 4, further comprising a storage unit which stores history of words corresponding to the inputted speech to the speech input unit,

wherein the obtaining unit requests the terminal-use speech recognition data to the server based on the history of the words stored in the storage unit.

8. A navigation method executed by a navigation device which performs navigation along a guide route to a destination, comprising:

a speech input process which receives an input of speech;

a transmitting process which transmits data of inputted speech to a server;

a receiving process which receives a speech recognition result of the data of the inputted speech from the server; and

an obtaining process which obtains terminal-use speech recognition data necessary for recognition of the inputted speech from the server, before reaching a communication impossible area where communication with the server is impossible, when the guide route includes the communication impossible area.

9-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A server communicable with a terminal device by wireless communication, comprising:

a route search unit which receives a start point and a destination from the terminal device, calculates a guide route from the start point to the destination and transmits the guide route to the terminal device;

a storage unit which stores information on a communication impossible area where wireless communication with the terminal device is impossible; and

a transmitting unit which transmits terminal-use speech recognition data necessary for the terminal device to perform speech recognition to the terminal device in a case where the calculated guide route includes the communication impossible area.