Voice control system for operating home electrical appliances
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
InventorsToshinobu Kawasaki, Yoshiyuki Komoda, Yoshihiko Tokunaga, Yukio Okada, Hirotatsu Shinomiya, Takehito Hayami
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Abstract
A voice control system for managing home electrical appliances includes a home agent server (HAS) connected to the home electrical appliances, a microphone and a speaker linked to the agent server through an in-house network. An transaction processing (TP) program runs on HAS and interprets the user's voice request to find a destined appliance and a manner of control the same, and performs the requested control to the destined appliance. The result is notified to the user by means of a voice message.
Claims21
A voice control system for operating home electrical appliances, said system comprising:
- a home agent server (HAS) adapted to be installed in a house and connected to the home electrical appliances for controlling the operation of the same;
- a microphone and a speaker linked to said home agent server through an in-house network;
- a voice recognition means which recognizes a user's voice request received at the microphone,
- a transaction processing program (TP) executable at the HAS to manage the home electrical appliances, said TP program having an instruction interpreting module which prepares from the voice request a particular instruction indicating a destined appliance and a method for controlling the destined appliance, and provides an output command for controlling the destined appliance in accordance with the particular instruction.
The system as set forth in claim wherein
- said HAS includes a personal information table storing a relation between individual users and the appliances allocated to be accessible by the individual users,
- said TP program further including:
- a user identification module which identifies a particular user from the user's voice request,
- an access permission module which selects the appliance allocated to the identified user with reference to the personal information table and limits the TP program to the execution for the allocated appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.