Voice Control via Sensor Fusion for Ambiguous Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display control systems struggle to provide natural voice-based instructions for controlling location-specific interactions without specifying a location, and they fail to consider scenarios where voice commands lack explicit location information.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device that acquires voice utterances, determines locations using environment sensing data from multiple sensors, and issues control commands based on this determination, even when specific location names are absent, by utilizing sensors like cameras and microphones to interpret demonstrative pronouns and user gestures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If voice-based control is used without explicit location names, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to ambiguity in location determination
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces environmental sensing data from multiple sensors as an intermediary to bridge the gap between ambiguous voice commands and precise location determination. The sensors (cameras, microphones, other detection devices) capture environmental information that serves as a mediator to resolve the uncertainty in location interpretation, enabling both natural voice input and accurate location identification
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs multiple types of sensors with different functions to determine location. The control unit integrates data from cameras, microphones, and other detection devices, allowing the system to use various sensing modalities universally to resolve location ambiguity, thereby maintaining reliability while enabling natural voice-based control
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors are used for environment sensing, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies multi-functionality by using multiple sensor types (cameras, microphones, other detection devices) that can serve various sensing purposes. This universal approach allows the system to achieve high measurement precision for location determination while managing device complexity through integrated multi-functional sensing capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit automatically processes and integrates data from multiple sensors without requiring manual intervention or complex external processing systems. The system self-services by autonomously combining sensor inputs to determine location, thereby achieving high precision while minimizing the complexity burden of having multiple sensors
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AI summary
[Problem] Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of giving an instruction for control relating to a location in a space even in voice utterance that does not include the name of a specific location. [Solution] The information processing device includes a control unit that acquires voice utterance corresponding to a processing command of control relating to a location in a space, determines the location in the space in the processing command on the basis of a result of environment sensing processing of the space by a plurality of kinds of sensors in a case where the acquired voice utterance does not include a word that specifies the location in the space, and performs control of issuing a processing command of control relating to the location in the space on the basis of the determined location.