公开(公告)号：US10650802B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US16019701

申请日：2018-06-27

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yuji Kunitake ,  Yusaku Ota

IPC: G10L15/02 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/32 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L15/187

Abstract: A voice recognition method is provided that includes extracting a first speech from the sound collected with a microphone connected to a voice processing device, and calculating a recognition result for the first speech and the confidence level of the first speech. The method also includes performing a speech for a repetition request based on the calculated confidence level of the first speech, and extracting with the microphone a second speech obtained through the repetition request. The method further includes calculating a recognition result for the second speech and the confidence level of the second speech, and generating a recognition result from the recognition result for the first speech and the recognition result for the second speech, based on the confidence level of the calculated second speech.

公开(公告)号：US10650815B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US15834030

申请日：2017-12-06

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Seiya Higuchi ,  Yuji Kunitake ,  Yusaku Ota ,  Ryouta Miyazaki

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G06F17/27 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/24 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G10L25/48 ,  G06K9/00 ,  B25J13/00 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G06K9/62 ,  B25J11/00 ,  G06F16/00 ,  G06F16/332 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G10L15/08 ,  B25J9/00 ,  G10L25/21

Abstract: A topic providing device includes a candidate topic extractor, a provided topic determiner, a voice synthesizer, and a speaker. When a determination is made that a parent and child are conversing and that there is a need to provide a new topic to the parent and child, based on a conversation history database and a child activity database storing at least one activity name indicating an activity the child was engaged in for a first predetermined period of time, the candidate topic extractor extracts at least one candidate topic that corresponds to the at least one activity name in the child activity database and does not correspond to an activity name included in text data recorded in a first database. From the at least one candidate topic, the provided topic determiner selects one topic to provide to the parent and the child. The voice synthesizer generates voice data containing the one topic. The speaker outputs the voice data.

公开(公告)号：US10589426B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-17

申请号：US15897646

申请日：2018-02-15

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Shiki Kou ,  Ryouta Miyazaki ,  Masahiro Ishii ,  Kento Ogawa ,  Yuji Kunitake ,  Seiya Higuchi

IPC: B25J5/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  A63H11/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/225 ,  B25J11/00 ,  A63H33/00 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06N3/00 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04N7/18 ,  H04R1/02

Abstract: A robot including a spherical housing made up of a main housing portion, a first spherical cap portion, and a second spherical cap portion. The main housing portion is disposed between the first spherical cap portion and the second spherical cap portion. The robot further including a weight that is provided in the main housing portion and configured to rotate around a pivot that is orthogonal to a shaft connecting the spherical cap portions. When outputting a response to an input instruction received from a user, via an input device, based on a predetermined processing is determined to require a predetermined time or more, a robot controls a first drive mechanism during the predetermined processing such that the first drive mechanism rotates a weight around the pivot to reciprocally move the weight in the opposite directions of the pivot.

公开(公告)号：US10478971B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-19

申请号：US15806097

申请日：2017-11-07

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Kento Ogawa ,  Ryouta Miyazaki ,  Michiko Sasagawa ,  Yuji Kunitake ,  Seiya Higuchi

IPC: G06F19/00 ,  B25J11/00 ,  A63H11/00 ,  B25J5/00 ,  B25J19/02 ,  A63H33/00 ,  A63H3/28 ,  A63H5/00 ,  B60L58/13

Abstract: A robot includes a main casing, a first spherical cap and a second spherical cap, and a shaft linking the spherical caps. The robot further includes a display, a first driving mechanism causing the first and second spherical caps to be rotated by the shaft, and a second driving mechanism that causes the main casing to be rotated. The robot also includes a control circuit and an electric power source, charged by electric power from an external charger. If the remaining electric power of the electric power source is lower than or equal to a predetermined value, the second driving mechanism is controlled to stop rotation of the main casing, and the first driving mechanism is controlled to switch a rotational direction of the first spherical cap and the second spherical cap, causing the display to be reciprocally moved in a vertical direction.