ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20170270915A1
• Filed: 03/02/2017
• Published: 09/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: BORDEWIECK, Aurel, CARDINAUX, Fabien, HAGG, Wilhelm, KEMP, Thomas, UHLICH, Stefan, HOHL, Fritz
• Granted Patent: US 10,224,026 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3329 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/433 using audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90332 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/35 Discourse or dialogue representation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/1815 Semantic context, e.g. disambiguation of the recognition hypotheses based on word meaning
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/30 Distributed recognition, e.g. in client-server systems, for mobile phones or network applications

Abstract

An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to record sensor data that is obtained from data sources and to retrieve information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to record sensor data that is obtained from data sources and to retrieve information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to record sensor data without any intervention from the user.

3. Electronic device according to claim 1, wherein a concept is defined based on a dialogue between the electronic device and the user of the electronic device.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to define a concept through a question and answer process between the user and the electronic device.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to specify a new concept by reference to sensor data related to a previous instance of this concept.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to specify a new concept by relating to or modifying an existing concept.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to specify a new concept by using linguistic information.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to specify a new concept by visualization of results and confirmation by user.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to specify a new concept by reference to an existing concept which is generic across users.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to use methods of linguistic semantics in order to find the relation of a new concept to a set of existing concepts.

11. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to use semantic analysis to distinguishing existing concepts combined together in a query.

12. A system comprising circuitry which is configured to record sensor data that is obtained from data sources and to retrieve information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.

13. A method comprising

recording, by processing circuitry, sensor data that is obtained from data sources, and

retrieving, by processing circuitry, information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.

14. A computer program comprising instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform:

recording sensor data that is obtained from data sources, and

retrieving information from the recorded sensor data using concepts that are defined by a user.