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Conversation apparatus, robot, conversation apparatus control method, and recording medium

A technology of a conversation device and a control method, which is applied in the direction of program control of manipulators, instruments, and manipulators, can solve the problems such as the lack of conversation atmosphere and enthusiasm among users, and achieve the effect of warm conversation atmosphere.

Active Publication Date: 2019-12-03
CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD
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However, as mentioned above, in the existing conversational communication system, since only the topics corresponding to the user's past conversation content or the location information of the user's terminal are provided to multiple users, it is impossible to perform as if participating multiple users. Speeches like conversations between users are not enough to make conversations between users lively

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[0022] The conversation device according to the embodiment of the present invention listens to conversations between a plurality of users, obtains the characteristics of each user, selects a target user to be approved by the plurality of users based on the characteristics of each user, and performs approval The target user speaks like that. Here, the term “approval” refers to the opinion of the selected target user, and the conversation device makes a statement that agrees with the target user in terms of interests, hobbies, ideas, opinions, etc., by making a statement that agrees with the target user. The conversation device according to the embodiment of the present invention can make people feel as if they are participating in a conversation of multiple users with will and emotion by agreeing to a certain user’s speech as described above, thereby enabling multiple users to communicate with each other. The conversation atmosphere is warm. In addition, the term “user” here do...

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[0069] In the first embodiment, the selection unit 13 performs a process of selecting a user with the most ideal personality as an object of approval based on the personality information of each user acquired by the feature acquisition unit 12, but it is not limited to this. For example, the conversation device may store its own avatar as a parameter in the storage unit 20 to select a user with a personality similar to the own avatar. The conversation device according to the second embodiment will be described.

[0070] Such as Figure 8 As shown, the conversation device 101 according to the second embodiment has a configuration in which the device feature storage unit 22 is added to the conversation device 100 according to the first embodiment. Device feature storage unit 22 such as Picture 9 The personification characteristic information (virtual character etc.) of the conversation device 101 is stored as shown. in Picture 9 In the example shown, the name of the conversation...

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[0076] In the above-described embodiment, the selection unit 13 selects the target users to be approved based on the characteristics of the user (personality information, etc.), and therefore it is also considered that the target users become the same user more consecutively. But in this case, there is a possibility that the user who wants the conversation device to approve but is not approved may be hurt. For this reason, when the target user becomes the same person consecutively a predetermined number of times, the selection unit 13 selects a person other than this, and such a modification 1 will be described.

[0077] The utterance processing of Modification 1 is in the above-mentioned utterance processing ( Image 6 ) Is performed immediately after the determination of "No" in step S205 (immediately before step S209, after step S208, and after step S214 "No") Picture 10 The shown target user change processing. In the target user change process, a variable C that counts the ...

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This application relates generally to a conversation apparatus, a robot, a conversation apparatus control method, and a recording medium. A speech is made like if someone participates in a conversation between multiple users to make the conversation between users warm. The conversation device (100) includes a sound output unit (42), a feature acquisition unit (12), a selection unit (13), and a speech control unit (14). The voice output unit (42) outputs a voice to perform a speech. The feature acquisition unit (12) acquires the respective features of a plurality of users. The selection unit (13) selects a target user to be approved or disapproved from the plurality of users based on the characteristics of each of the plurality of users acquired by the feature acquisition unit (12). The speech control unit (14) executes speech control, and controls the sound output unit (42) to make a speech corresponding to the target user selected by the selection unit (13).

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[0001] Reference for related applications [0002] With regard to this application, priority is claimed based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2018-099332 filed on May 24, 2018, and all the contents of this basic application are incorporated into this application. Technical field [0003] The invention relates to a conversation device, a robot, a control method of the conversation device, and a storage medium. Background technique [0004] The development of technology that can further promote communication between users is constantly advancing. For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2016-6607 describes a conversational communication system that monitors the status of a conversation being conducted between multiple users, and provides topics that interest the user when the conversation is stalled. [0005] The conversational communication system described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2016-6607 provides topics that match the words and sentences conta...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B25J11/00B25J9/16
CPCB25J11/0005B25J9/1602G10L17/00G06F40/35G10L25/63G10L17/02G10L15/22
Inventor 中村利久
Owner CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD