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Electronic device, information processing apparatus,and method for controlling the same

  • US 9,257,114 B2
  • Filed: 07/09/2013
  • Issued: 02/09/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An electronic device comprising:

  • a display unit configured to display text on a screen;

    a voice outputting unit configured to output the text as voice;

    a sight-line detection unit configured to detect a sight-line direction of a user; and

    a control unit configured, assuming that a position of a character that the voice outputting unit is currently outputting as voice is defined as a position of a current output character, and a position of a character in the text that is present in the sight-line direction of the user detected by the sight-line detection unit is defined as a position of a current gazed character, to change a starting position at which the voice outputting unit starts voice output depending on a distance between the position of the current output character and the position of the current gazed character,the control unit including;

    a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the distance between the position of the current output character and the position of the current gazed character is equal to a preset threshold or more; and

    a setting unit configured, if the determination unit determined that the distance is equal to the preset threshold or more, to set the position of the current gazed character to the starting position at which the voice outputting unit starts voice output.

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