# US 2018/0322874 A1 · Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information management apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0322874 A1 - Document ID: US20180322874A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/031,290 - Filed: 2018-07-10 - Published: 2018-11-08 - Earliest claimed: 2016-01-27 - Assignees: Yamaha Corporation - Applicants: Yamaha Corporation - Inventors: Hiroyuki IWASE; Yuki SETO; Yumiko OCHI; Tetsuro ISHIDA; Takahiro IWATA; Shota MORIGUCHI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180322874A1 ## CPC - G10L 15/22: Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue - G06F 3/165: {Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path} - G06F 13/00: Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units (interface circuits for specific input/output devices G06F3/00 {; multiprogram control therefor G06F9/46}; multiprocessor systems G06F15/16 ) - G10L 17/22: Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces - G10L 25/48: specially adapted for particular use - G10L 19/018: Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal - G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract An information processing apparatus includes a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to: generate a related information that is related to a guide voice specified by a sound-specifying information; generate an identification information that is to be notified to a terminal device upon emission of the guide voice; associate the sound-specifying information with the identification information; and associate the related information with the identification information. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information processing apparatus comprising a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to: generate a related information that is related to a guide voice specified by a sound-specifying information; generate an identification information that is to be notified to a terminal device upon emission of the guide voice; associate the sound-specifying information with the identification information; and associate the related information with the identification information. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sound-specifying information specifies an array of speech segments that form the guide voice. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the generation of the related information includes generating the related information that accords with speech content of each of the speech segments specified by the sound-specifying information by referring to reference data that represent speech content of each speech segment. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein generation of a related information and generation of an identification information are executed for each of multiple sound-specifying information in series, the multiple sound-specifying information specifying guide voices that differ from each other and including the sound-specifying information, wherein the processor is further configured to: generate management data in which each of the multiple sound-specifying information is associated with a corresponding one of multiple identification information; and generate delivery data in which each of multiple related information is associated with a corresponding one of the multiple identification information, the multiple related information corresponding one-to-one with the multiple sound-specifying information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein for each of multiple sound-specifying information provided in series from a guidance instruction apparatus, registration processing is executed in a case where the registration processing has not been executed in the past for each sound-specifying information, whereas the registration processing is omitted in a case where the registration processing has been executed for each sound-specifying information, and wherein the registration processing includes: generation of a related information; generation of an identification information; associating of the sound-specifying information with the identification information; and associating of the related information with the identification information. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to: separately generate, for each of multiple guidance systems, management data in which a sound-specifying information that specifies a guide voice emitted by the guidance system is associated with an identification information of the guide voice; and generate, for the multiple guidance systems as a whole, delivery data in which multiple related information that are related to guide voices are each associated with an identification information of a corresponding one of the guide voices, each of the guide voices being emitted by one of the multiple guidance systems. ### Claim 7 An information processing method comprising: generating a related information that is related to a guide voice specified by a sound-specifying information; generating an identification information that is to be notified to a terminal device upon emission of the guide voice; associating the sound-specifying information with the identification information; and associating the related information with the identification information. ### Claim 8 An information management apparatus comprising a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to: identify an identification information that corresponds to a sound-specifying information output from a guidance instruction apparatus by referring to management data in which, for each of multiple guide voices, a sound-specifying information that specifies an array of speech segments forming the guide voice is associated with an identification information of the guide voice; and generate a modulation signal indicative of the identified identification information. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The information management apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the modulation signal includes a sound component indicative of the identification information.