US 11,809,885 B2
Agent device, agent system, and recording medium
Eiichi Maeda, Itabashi-ku (JP); Chikage Kubo, Chofu (JP); Keiko Nakano, Kawasaki (JP); and Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Itabashi-ku (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/158,070.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-013026 (JP), filed on Jan. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0232414 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); B60K 37/02 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/453 (2018.02) [B60K 37/02 (2013.01); G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G10L 15/26 (2013.01); B60K 2370/148 (2019.05); B60K 2370/1575 (2019.05); B60K 2370/164 (2019.05)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agent device comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to:
receive, from a notification device for notifying information to a user, input information that is input by the user,
in a case in which the input information is a question from the user, execute inference processing on the input information to infer an intent of the question in order to acquire a response to the question based on the intent,
in a case in which a plurality of the responses are acquired, provide the notification device with option information that includes the plurality of responses as options,
in a case in which new input information is received, determine whether the new input information is information requiring the inference processing or is selection information relating to a selection result from selection of the options, and
in a case in which the new input information is the selection information, provide the notification device with response information regarding, among the acquired plurality of responses, the response associated with the selection result without executing the inference processing.