	US 12,014,736 B2
	Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Tatsuma Sakurai, Tokyo (JP); and Ichitaro Kohara, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/413,158
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/042655 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 11, 2021, PCT Pub. No. WO2020/129421, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-237400 (JP), filed on Dec. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0051672 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G10L 15/22 (2006.01); A63H 5/00 (2006.01); A63H 11/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/28 (2013.01)

CPC G10L 15/22 (2013.01) [A63H 5/00 (2013.01); A63H 11/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/28 (2013.01); A63H 2200/00 (2013.01)]

18 Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to:

control an action of an autonomous operation unit;

control a transition between a plurality of states related to a speech recognition process through the autonomous operation unit, wherein the plurality of states includes a first active state in which the action of the autonomous operation unit is restricted, and a second active state in which the speech recognition process is performed;

accumulate speech sound collected by the autonomous operation unit in the first active state;

control the transition from the first active state to the second active state based on a detection of a trigger; and

control, in the second active state, transmission of the speech sound accumulated prior to the detection of the trigger to a speech recognition apparatus.