US Patent Application 17486910. EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE AND EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD simplified abstract

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EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE AND EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD

Organization Name

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation


Inventor(s)

Masato Hirai of Tokyo (JP)


Daisuke Iizawa of Tokyo (JP)


EQUIPMENT CONTROL DEVICE AND EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD - A simplified explanation of the abstract

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

Simplified Explanation

This abstract describes a system that obtains equipment and function information based on speech recognition. The system includes a unit that determines whether the time from utterance to performance of a target function is long. If the time is long, the system determines a first response sentence related to the target equipment and outputs this information.


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.