US 12,293,760 B2
Vehicle agent device, vehicle agent system, and computer-readable storage medium
Chikage Kubo, Chofu (JP); Keiko Nakano, Kawasaki (JP); Eiichi Maeda, Tokyo-to (JP); and Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Nagakute (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/494,919.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-171495 (JP), filed on Oct. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0115014 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/30 (2013.01)
CPC G10L 15/22 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle agent device comprising a processor and a memory storing a program executed by the processor, so that the processor is configured to:
comprehend an intention of a content of an utterance by an occupant of a subject vehicle;
detect a vehicle function that was included in the content of the utterance comprehended and that the occupant intended to utilize;
determine whether or not the vehicle function is currently installed in the subject vehicle;
based upon the determination that the vehicle function is not currently installed in the subject vehicle, determine that the vehicle function is a non-installed function;
detect whether or not the non-installed function is installable in the subject vehicle;
based upon the detection that the non-installed function is installable in the subject vehicle, perform processing to acquire information relating to the detected non-installed function, and furnish the occupant with the information that includes proposal information for installing the non-installed function in the subject vehicle; and
based upon the detection that the non-installed function is not installable in the subject vehicle, do not furnish the occupant with the information.