Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Hiro Iwase

Yuhei Taki

Shinichi Kawano

Mari Saito

Kunihito Sawai

Masaki Takase

Akira Miyashita

Ikuo Yamano

Ryouhei Yasuda

Soichiro Inatani

Yasuo Kabe

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit that acquires inspiration information indicating inspiration of a user, and a prediction unit that predicts whether or not the user utters after the inspiration of the user on the basis of the inspiration information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A detection unit () detects an input start timing of a command by a gesture on an operation target with a temporal change. A command processing unit () performs processing of a command recognized from the gesture based on the state of the operation target at the input start timing detected by the detection unit ().

Information processing apparatus and command processing method

An information processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a character string whose part of speech is to be estimated; and a generation unit that generates part-of-speech estimation information for estimating a part of speech of the character string based on a byte sequence obtained by converting the character string.

To automatically determine a more memorable macro name. Provided is an information processing device that comprises an utterance learning adaptation unit that executes clustering pertaining to a plurality of function execution instructions by a user and estimates, as a macro, a cluster that includes the plurality of function execution instructions and a response control unit that controls the presentation of information pertaining to the macro, wherein the utterance learning adaptation unit determines a name for the estimated macro on the basis of a context acquired at the time of issuing the plurality of function execution instructions included in the cluster, the response control unit controls a notification of the macro name to the user, and the plurality of function execution instructions include at least one function execution instruction issued via an utterance.

Information processing device and information processing method

An information processing device according to the present disclosure includes: an acquisition unit that acquires, from a terminal device, input information input to the terminal device by a user; a generation unit that generates content of displaying an input item of each of functions including a corresponding input item that is an input item corresponding to the input information; and a transmission unit that transmits the content generated by the generation unit to the terminal device.

Information processing device, information processing method, display device, and display method

The present invention has an issue of effectively reducing the input load related to a voice trigger. There is provided an information processing device comprising a registration control unit that dynamically controls registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the registration control unit temporarily additionally registers at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice. There is also provided an information processing method comprising dynamically controlling, by a processor, registration of startup phrases used as start triggers of a voice interaction session, in which the controlling further includes temporarily additionally registering at least one of the startup phrases based on input voice.

An information processing apparatus includes: a determination unit () that, in a case where the determination unit () has recognized a user's phrase related to execution of a macro including at least one function execution instruction, determines a degree of security risk of the macro based on at least one of a matching rate, at the time of execution of the macro, of a context indicating a status of the user, or frequency of occurrence of the phrase; and a response control unit () that changes control of the execution of the macro based on a determination result of the determination unit ().

An information processing device includes an input unit, an extracting unit, an output unit, and a specifying unit. The input unit receives a voice operation. The extracting unit extracts a processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit. When the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit cannot be specified, the output unit outputs response information for the user to make a selection of at least one processing detail from a plurality of processing details extracted by the extracting unit. The specifying unit specifies the processing detail selected from among the plurality of processing details contained in the response information as the processing detail corresponding to the voice operation received by the input unit.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus and an information processing method are provided that enable suitable determination of sensing results used in estimating a user state. The information processing apparatus is provided with a determination unit that determines, on the basis of a predetermined reference, one or more second sensing results used in estimating the user state from among a plurality of first sensing results received from a plurality of devices. The information processing apparatus is further provided with an output control unit that controls an output of information on the basis of the one or more second sensing results.

Provided is an information processing device including a response control unit that controls a response to a user's utterance based on a first utterance interpretation result and a second utterance interpretation result. The first utterance interpretation result is a result of natural language understanding processing for an utterance text generated by automatic speech recognition processing based on the user's utterance and the second utterance interpretation result is an interpretation result acquired based on learning data in which the first utterance interpretation result and the utterance text used to acquire the first utterance interpretation result are associated with each other. The response control unit further controls the response to the user's utterance based on the second utterance interpretation result in a case where the second utterance interpretation result is acquired based on the user's utterance before acquisition of the first utterance interpretation result.

Provided is an information processing device comprising an estimation unit that estimates a phase regarding the user's decision making, and a response generation unit that generates a response to the user's utterance according to the estimated phase. The present technology can be applied to, for example, smart speakers and smart displays.

Information processing device and information processing method for response presentation

A response generating apparatus () includes an acquiring unit () that acquires input information that is a trigger for generating a response with respect to a user and context information that is information indicating a situation of the user and a response generating unit () that generates, based on the context information acquired from the user, a response associated with the input information.

Response generating apparatus, response generating method, and response generating program

An information processing apparatus includes an extracting unit () that extracts a changing message related to a change in macro data (M), the changing message including at least one piece of first information indicating a function to be executed, and second information linked to the first information, from a user speech; a presuming unit () that presumes an element to be changed in the macro data (M) based on the changing message extracted by the extracting unit (); and a changing unit () that changes the element to be changed in the macro data (M) presumed by the presuming unit (), based on the changing message.

Provided is an information processing apparatus and an information processing method which can adaptively switch a user interface to be used by a user to environmental information. The information processing apparatus includes an interface control unit that switches a user interface to be used by a first user at least between a first user interface using voice and a second user interface different from the first user interface on the basis of environmental information.

[Problem] The problem of the present disclosure relates to proposing an information processing device, an information processing terminal, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of controlling the output of a voice so as to be adaptive to an action purpose of a user. [Solution] An information processing device including: an inference unit that infers an action purpose of a user on the basis of a result of sensing by one or more sensors; and an output control unit that controls, on the basis of a result of inference by the inference unit, output of a voice to the user performed by an audio output unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiro Iwase