US 12,243,524 B2
Assistance device, conversation control device, and program
Christoph Neumann, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to EASY DIALOG G.K., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/996,980
Filed by EASY DIALOG G.K., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 23, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/016535
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 24, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/215540, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/014,721, filed on Apr. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0335128 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 25/00 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 15/22 (2013.01) [G10L 2015/225 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assistance device that assists with an implementation of operations of a device to be controlled, the assistance device comprising:
an output control unit that controls operations of an output unit that outputs an utterance inputted into an input unit that receives an input of an utterance which is information outputted by an output source, wherein
in a case in which information indicating an event that has a possibility of occurring in a human-device conversation, that is, an interaction between the device to be controlled and a user of the device to be controlled, is inputted, the output control unit causes the output unit to output an event indicating the inputted information, and
in a case in which information indicating an event that has a possibility of occurring in an (N−1)th place (where N is an integer equal to or greater than 1) during the human-device conversation is inputted into the input unit, the output control unit causes the output unit to output information prompting for an input of information indicating an event that has a possibility of occurring in the Nth place during the human-device conversation,
one event that has a possibility of occurring in the human-device conversation is a response process execution event that is an event in which the device to be controlled executes a response process that is a process according to an utterance inputted into the input unit, and
the output unit displays information related to a candidate of the response process execution event in natural language.