Agent device, agent system, and recording medium
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsEiichi MAEDA, Chikage KUBO, Keiko NAKANO, Hiroyuki NISHIZAWA
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Abstract
An agent device that receives, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user, based on the vehicle information, confirms a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and instructs the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.
Claims7
An agent device comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to:
- receive, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user,
- based on the vehicle information, confirm a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and
- instruct the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.
An agent system comprising:
- an agent device that includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to:
- receive, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user,
- based on the vehicle information, confirm a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and
- instruct the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible;
- and
- the onboard device, which is configured to control a display device provided to the vehicle so as to gray out an input button relating to the question when instructed by the agent device to block receipt.
A non-transitory recording medium storing a program that is executable by a computer to perform processing, the processing comprising:
- receiving, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle on at a time of start-up of the vehicle, and receiving question information corresponding to a question from a user,
- based on the vehicle information, confirming a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible;
- and
- instructing the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.