INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND PROGRAM

• US 20180150279A1
• Filed: 08/21/2015
• Published: 05/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKI, YUHEI, KAWANO, SHINICHI, SAWAI, KUNIHITO
• Granted Patent: US 10,642,575 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/70 Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras camera calibration G06T7/80
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/00 Speaker identification or verification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/27 characterised by the analysis technique
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums

Abstract

To provide a technology capable of allowing a user to find whether speech is uttered with a volume at which speech recognition can be performed. Provided is an information processing device including: a determination portion configured to determine a user-uttered speech volume on the basis of input speech; and a display controller configured to control a display portion so that the display portion displays a display object. The display controller causes the display portion to display a first motion object moving toward the display object when the user-uttered speech volume exceeds a speech recognizable volume.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a determination portion configured to determine a user-uttered speech volume on the basis of input speech; and

a display controller configured to control a display portion so that the display portion displays a display object,

wherein the display controller causes the display portion to display a first motion object moving toward the display object when the user-uttered speech volume exceeds a speech recognizable volume.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the determination portion determines a user-uttered speech source direction, and

the display controller causes the display portion to display the first motion object on the basis of the user-uttered speech source direction.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a speech recognition portion configured to acquire a recognition string by performing speech recognition on input speech from the user-uttered speech source direction.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the display controller causes the display portion to display the recognition string.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the determination portion determines a noise volume on the basis of the input speech, and

the display controller causes the display portion to display a second motion object different from the first motion object when the noise volume exceeds the speech recognizable volume.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5,

wherein the determination portion determines a noise source direction, and

the display controller causes the display portion to display the second motion object on the basis of the noise source direction.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6,

wherein the second motion object is moved so that movement to the display object is blocked.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller controls a parameter relating to the first motion object on the basis of predetermined information corresponding to the input speech.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8,

wherein the parameter relating to the first motion object includes at least one of a size, shape, color, and movement speed of the first motion object.

10. The information processing device according to claim 8,

wherein the predetermined information corresponding to the input speech includes at least one of the user-uttered speech volume, a frequency of the input speech, a recognition string acquisition speed, feature quantity extracted from the input speech, and a user identified from the input speech.

11. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the determination portion determines the user-uttered speech source direction on the basis of an arrival direction of speech input with a volume having magnitude exceeding a threshold.

12. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the determination portion determines the user-uttered speech source direction on the basis of an arrival direction of speech input with a maximum volume.

13. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the determination portion determines the user-uttered speech source direction on the basis of a direction from a tip to a base of a finger.

14. The information processing device according to claim 6,

wherein the determination portion sets the speech recognizable volume to a prescribed value when the noise volume is below a minimum limit.

15. The information processing device according to claim 6,

wherein the determination portion sets the speech recognizable volume to a volume corresponding to an average value of the noise volume or a volume corresponding to the noise volume when the noise volume exceeds a minimum limit.

16. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller causes the display portion to display the display object when an object associated with the display object is recognized from a captured image.

17. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller causes the display portion to display the first motion object moving toward the display object with a representation of a movement from a near side to a far side when the user-uttered speech volume exceeds the speech recognizable volume.

18. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller causes the display portion to display a virtual object and to display a predetermined object included in the virtual object as the display object.

19. A method of information processing, the method comprising:

determining a user-uttered speech volume on the basis of input speech; and

controlling a display portion so that the display portion displays a display object,

wherein the display portion is caused to display a first motion object moving toward the display object when the user-uttered speech volume exceeds a speech recognizable volume.

20. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing device comprising:

a determination portion configured to determine a user-uttered speech volume on the basis of input speech; and

a display controller configured to control a display portion so that the display portion displays a display object,

wherein the display controller causes the display portion to display a first motion object moving toward the display object when the user-uttered speech volume exceeds a speech recognizable volume.