Information processing apparatus and electronic device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHideaki WATANABE
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Abstract
There is provided an information processing apparatus and an electronic device capable of correctly determining to which user a response is to be given. A speaker identification unit identifies a user existing in a predetermined angular direction as a speaker whose utterance is to be received on the basis of an image and voice in an environment where the user exists. A semantic analysis unit performs semantic analysis of the utterance of the identified speaker and thereby outputs a request of the speaker. The present technology is applicable to a household-use voice assistant device, for example.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a speaker identification unit that identifies a user existing in a predetermined angular direction as a speaker whose utterance is to be received on a basis of an image and voice in an environment where the user exists;
- and
- a semantic analysis unit that performs semantic analysis of the utterance of the identified speaker to output a request of the speaker.
An electronic device comprising:
- an imaging unit that obtains an image in an environment where a user exists;
- a voice acquisition unit that obtains voice in the environment;
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- a response generation unit that, after identification of the user existing in a predetermined angular direction as a speaker whose utterance is to be received on a basis of the image and the voice, generates a response to a request of the speaker output by execution of semantic analysis on the utterance of the identified speaker.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a user tracking unit that tracks a user whose utterance is to be received on a basis of a plurality of modalities obtained in an environment where the user exists;
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- a semantic analysis unit that performs semantic analysis of the utterance by the user being tracked to output a request of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.