INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20160210276A1
• Filed: 08/04/2014
• Published: 07/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KAWANO, Shinichi, SAWAI, Kunihito, TAKAHASHI, Kei, SAIJO, Nobuhiro
• Application Number:
  US14/913,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20160210276A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/225 Feedback of the input speech

Abstract

To propose an information processing device, information processing method, and program capable of allowing the user to easily edit an input text string, there is provided an information processing device that includes a text segmentation unit configured to segment an input text string into a plurality of first portions of text, a text designation unit configured to designate a first portion of text to be selected by a user, of the plurality of first portions of text obtained by the segmentation, on the basis of the user'"'"'s operation of inputting a direction of a movement for moving a pointing position on a display screen on which the text string is displayed, and a text editing unit configured to edit the designated first portion of text on the basis of input information input by the user.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a text segmentation unit configured to segment an input text string into a plurality of first portions of text;

a text designation unit configured to designate a first portion of text to be selected by a user, of the plurality of first portions of text obtained by the segmentation, on the basis of the user'"'"'s operation of inputting a direction of a movement for moving a pointing position on a display screen on which the text string is displayed; and

a text editing unit configured to edit the designated first portion of text on the basis of input information input by the user.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the input information input by the user contains second text input by the user, and

wherein the text editing unit, when the user inputs the second text, replaces the first portion of text designated by the text designation unit with the second text in the text string.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the second text contains text determined by speech recognition being performed on a speech uttered by the user.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the input information input by the user contains deletion instruction information for deleting text, and

wherein the text editing unit, when the user inputs the deletion instruction information, deletes the first portion of text designated by the text designation unit from the text string.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the input information input by the user contains conversion instruction information for converting a word into an infinitive form, and

wherein the text editing unit, when the user inputs the conversion instruction information, replaces the first portion of text designated by the text designation unit with text obtained by converting the first portion of text into an infinitive form.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the input information input by the user contains conversion instruction information for converting kanji into hiragana, and

wherein the text editing unit, when the user inputs the conversion instruction information, replaces the first portion of text designated by the text designation unit with text obtained by converting the first portion of text into hiragana.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the input text string contains a text string determined by speech recognition being performed on a speech uttered by the user.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a text addition unit configured to, when the pointing position is located at a tail end of the text string, and a predetermined operation is performed, add a second text string to the tail end of the text string.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a display control unit configured to, when the predetermined operation is performed, cause the display screen to display a selection image for allowing the user to select one or more symbols,

wherein the text addition unit adds the one or more symbols selected by the user in the selection image, as the second text string, to the tail end of the text string.

10. The information processing device according to claim 8,

wherein the text addition unit adds a text string determined by speech recognition being performed on a speech uttered by the user, as the second text string, to the tail end of the text string.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the text segmentation unit segments the text string into the plurality of first portions of text on the basis of context of the text string.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the first portion of text includes one or more words.

13. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the user'"'"'s operation of inputting the direction of the movement includes the user'"'"'s operation of selecting a direction key for moving the pointing position on the display screen.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a line-of-sight direction determination unit configured to determine a direction of the user'"'"'s line of sight,

wherein the user'"'"'s operation of inputting the direction of the movement includes a movement of the direction of a line of sight performed by the user.

15. An information processing method comprising:

segmenting an input text string into a plurality of first portions of text;

designating a first portion of text to be selected by a user, of the plurality of first portions of text obtained by the segmentation, on the basis of the user'"'"'s operation of inputting a direction of a movement for moving a pointing position on a display screen on which the text string is displayed; and

editing, by a processor, the designated first portion of text on the basis of input information input by the user.

16. A program for causing a computer to function as:

a text segmentation unit configured to segment an input text string into a plurality of first portions of text;

a text designation unit configured to designate a first portion of text to be selected by a user, of the plurality of first portions of text obtained by the segmentation, on the basis of the user'"'"'s operation of inputting a direction of a movement for moving a pointing position on a display screen on which the text string is displayed; and

a text editing unit configured to edit the designated first portion of text on the basis of input information input by the user.