Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mototsugu Kubota

Toshikatsu Kuramochi

Kengo Naiki

Yoshifumi Wagatsuma

Sawako Furuya

Hiroyuki Sakaguchi

Yusuke Oi

Junichiro Onaka

Tomohisa Manabe

Hiroshi Honda

An on-vehicle device includes: a plurality of agent function units configured to provide services including causing an output unit to output an audio response in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a content management unit configured to determine whether or not the instructed content is stored in an in-vehicle storage device mounted in the vehicle or a portable storage medium brought into the vehicle when the playback of the content is instructed by the utterance of the occupant, and to cause the playback device to play back the content present in the in-vehicle storage device or the portable storage medium when the instructed content is determined as being stored in the in-vehicle storage device or the portable storage medium.

On-vehicle device, method of controlling on-vehicle device, and storage medium

A recommendation system includes: a display control unit configured to use a rank of a selection evaluation element selected from each of the plurality of evaluation elements, thereby allowing a display device to display a rank distance screen in which a user icon indicating the user and a first proposal activity icon indicating the proposal activity are arranged such that a distance between the user icon and the first proposal activity icon becomes shorter as the rank of the selection evaluation element assigned to the proposal activity becomes higher, the display device being used by the user.

Recommendation system and recommendation method

According to an embodiment, an agent system includes: a plurality of agent functions mounted on a plurality of different objects and configured to each provide a service which includes a service for causing an output to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of a user; and an information provider configured to include attribute information associated with the same kind of agent function in response content by the same kind of agent function and provide the attribute information to a portable mobile terminal of the user when the same kind of agent function is in the plurality of objects among the plurality of agent functions.

Agent system, agent server, method of controlling agent server, and storage medium

A recommendation system includes: an input operation mode recognition unit configured to recognize a mode of an input operation from a user to an input device; a user mood estimation unit configured to estimate a mood of the user, based on the mode of the input operation; a proposal activity information acquisition unit configured to access an activity database, to extract a proposal activity suitable for the mood of the user, and to acquire information on the proposal activity; and an output control unit configured to allow an output device to output the information on the proposal activity, the output device being used by the user.

An agent apparatus includes a plurality of agent function portions each providing a service including outputting a voice response from an output in response to an occupant's speech in a vehicle, and a selector referring to history information indicating a history of a quality of a service executed by each of the plurality of agent function portions with respect to a content of the occupant's speech, and selecting an agent function portion making a response to the occupant's speech in the vehicle from among the plurality of agent function portions.

Agent apparatus, agent apparatus control method, and storage medium

An information providing device of an embodiment is an information providing device including an acquirer that acquires personal information of a plurality of occupants in a moving body, a processor that generates integrated personal information by combining at least a part of the personal information of the plurality of occupants acquired by the acquirer, and an information provider that provides information to the plurality of occupants based on the integrated personal information processed by the processor.

Information providing device, information providing method, and storage medium

A vehicular electronic device such that volume increase/decrease adjustment can be easily performed using a volume switch displayed on a touch-panel type display unit. Upon detection of a touch operation in a reference volume switch region displayed in an operation region of the display unit, an operation area enabling volume increase/decrease is enlarged from the reference volume switch region to a wide-region volume switch region. Thus, the operation for increasing or decreasing (adjusting) volume (volume increase/decrease operation) can be easily performed.

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