US 12,423,053 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method
Aiko Sawado, Setagaya-ku (JP); Daisuke Kikuchi, Yokohama (JP); and Wataru Kaku, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/464,482.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-150751 (JP), filed on Sep. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0094980 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G09B 5/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 65/1089 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G09B 5/14 (2013.01); H04L 12/1831 (2013.01); H04L 65/1089 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus for supporting a dialogue using a dialogue apparatus used by each of a plurality of users located remotely from each other, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
estimate, during execution of a remote dialogue, a parameter of each interlocutor with respect to a topic of the remote dialogue based on a video of each interlocutor,
display an alert, on the dialogue apparatus of a first user, indicating each interlocutor whose estimated parameter is less than a threshold, and
when the first user gazes at and speaks to an interlocutor displayed with the alert among a plurality of interlocutors as second users displayed on a screen of the dialogue apparatus, transmit first audio data with a high volume to the dialogue apparatus of the interlocutor and transmit second audio data with a low volume to the dialogue apparatuses of interlocutors other than the interlocutor, wherein
when a second user gazes at and speaks to the first user, the controller is configured to transmit the first audio data to the dialogue apparatus of the first user and transmit the second audio data to the dialogue apparatuses of the users other than the first user and the second user who spoke.