View source for EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE AND EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD: abstract simplified (17486910)

*This abstract for appeared for patent application  number 17486910 Titled 'EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE AND EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD'

==Simplified Explanation==

This abstract describes a system that obtains information about equipment and functions associated with a target equipment based on speech recognition results. It includes a unit that determines if the time between speech and performing the target function is long. If it is, another unit determines a response sentence related to the target equipment based on the obtained information. Finally, an output control unit outputs information indicating the determined response sentence.


==Original Abstract Submitted==

There are included an equipment and function information obtaining unit that obtains equipment and function information in which target equipment is associated with a target function to be performed by the target equipment, the target equipment and the target function being determined on the basis of a result of speech recognition; a time determining unit that determines whether or not time from utterance to performance of the target function is long; a response sentence determining unit that determines a first response sentence related to the target equipment, on the basis of the equipment and function information obtained by the equipment and function information obtaining unit, when the time determining unit determines that the time from utterance to performance of the target function is long; and an output control unit that outputs information indicating the first response sentence determined by the response sentence determining unit.