Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Naoaki Sumida

Kazuhiro Nakadai

Nobuo Higaki

Yoshiaki Sakagami

Yuichi Yoshida

Keisuke Nakamura

Shinichi Matsunaga

Takahiro Oohashi

Shunichi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Kondo

Sachie Hashimoto

Kyosuke Hineno

Asuka Shiina

Kazuya Maura

Masaki Nakatsuka

Syozo Yokoo

Takashi Yamauchi

Atsuo Orita

Kazunori Kanai

Takahiro Ariizumi

A voice recognition part performs voice recognition on a voice data and generates an utterance text which is a text indicating an utterance content. A display processing part moves a position of a display text displayed on a display part, displays the utterance text as a display text in a free region generated by the movement, and fixes the display text in a section of which fixing of a display position is instructed according to an operation as a fixed text at a predetermined display position to display on the display part.

Conversation support device, conversation support system, conversation support method, and storage medium

A voice recognition part performs voice recognition on a voice data and generates a first text which is a text indicating an utterance content. A text acquisition part acquires a second text which is a text indicating an utterance content according to an operation. A display processing part moves a position of a display text displayed on a display part, displays a text of at least one of the first text and the second text as a display text in a free region generated by the movement, and when fixing of a display position of the second text is instructed according to an operation, fixes the second text as a fixed text at a predetermined display position and displays the second text on the display part.

A reception system includes: a visitor recognition unit that recognizes a visitor; a receiving person recognition unit that recognizes a receiving person that corresponds to the visitor; a receiving person contact information storage unit that stores contact information of the receiving person; a notification unit that notifies the receiving person of a visit of the visitor at the contact information of the receiving person stored by the receiving person contact information storage unit; and a receiving person selection unit that selects a substitute receiving person associated with the receiving person in a case where the receiving person is absent when the notification unit notifies the receiving person at the contact information of the receiving person, wherein the notification unit notifies the substitute receiving person selected by the receiving person selection unit when the receiving person is absent.

Reception system and reception method

A reception system includes: an imaging unit that captures an image; a reception information storage unit that stores an image of a visitor who visited in the past and information of a receiving person whom the visitor visited in the past in an associated manner; and an action performing unit that generates a question to the visitor based on a scenario regarding a response to the visitor and acquires information via a response to the question from the visitor, wherein the action performing unit changes a response presented to the visitor based on the scenario depending on whether or not the reception information storage unit stores an image that corresponds to the image captured by the imaging unit.

A voice processing apparatus includes: a sound input unit configured to acquire an audio signal; a voice recognition unit configured to perform voice recognition on the audio signal acquired by the sound input unit; an intention understanding unit configured to understand a user's intention on the basis of a recognition result recognized by the voice recognition unit; and a question unit configured to question the user on the basis of an understood result understood by the intention understanding unit. The question unit changes question content for the user according to the understood result and a predetermined priority.

Voice processing apparatus and voice processing method

A robot control apparatus () for controlling tasks to be executed by a plurality of robots which are capable of moving. The robot control apparatus () includes: a battery level determination device () which determines a battery level of each robot from a predetermined plurality of battery levels based on a remaining amount of charge in a battery of each robot; a task manager () which sets a task executive plan to be executed by each robot for the plurality of robots and rearranges the task executive plan for one or more tasks registered in the task executive plan in accordance with a process predetermined for each battery level; an executive instruction generator () which generates executive instructions requesting the robots to execute the tasks that are set in the task executive plans; and a transmitter which transmits the executive instructions to the robots.

Robot control apparatus

A communication robot including: a situation change detection unit for detecting writing of information into a situation database; a rule detection unit for detecting, from a rule database, a rule corresponding to the situation indicated by the data stored in the situation database when the writing of information into the situation database is detected by the situation change detection unit; an action inducing parameter setting unit for setting the degree of interest of the detected rule to at least one of movable parts and an audio output unit independently in the situation database; a parameter changing unit for independently changing the degree of interest set for the at least one of the movable parts and the audio output unit; and a command unit for requesting the at least one of the movable parts and the audio output unit to execute the execution command indicated by the detected rule.

Communication robot

An imaging device installed on an autonomously movable body which comprises an image-taking section for taking images of the surrounding environment, and an object detecting section for detecting objects and obstacles by processing the obtained images. The imaging device comprises: an image processing section to perform color detection of the images taken by the image-taking section; a white calibration plate for the image-taking section to perform color correction; and a calibration plate control section for moving the calibration plate into a field of view of the image-taking section, wherein it is determined whether color information which is sufficient to perform color detection is obtainable from the images taken by the image-taking section, and color correction is performed using the calibration plate when it is determined that the images taken by the image-taking section do not provide color information sufficient to perform color detection.

Imaging device for autonomously movable body, calibration method therefor, and calibration program therefor

To automate the work of recognizing a guest, check the appointment, notify a host of the arrival of the guest and conduct the guest to a designated place, a robot having a function to autonomously travel is equipped with camera/microphone for recognizing a guest at least according to image information. The system comprises management database adapted to communicate with the robot and equipped with an information database for identifying the recognized guest, and identifies the guest according to the information obtained from the camera/microphone and management database. The robot recognizes the guest from the image thereof, and the recognized guest is identified and verified by comparing the image of the visitor with the information contained in the database so that the robot can automatically conduct the guest to the designated meeting room according to the information of the appointment stored in the database.

Receptionist robot system

An apparatusfor controlling a movable robot recognizes the person to be followed up from an image taken by a camera C by an image processing portion, controls leg portions Rof a movable robot A so as to keep a prescribed interval between the movable robot A and the person by a portionfor detecting an action, and notify the degree of the distance between the movable robot A and the person to the person by a voice from a voice outputting portion

Apparatus, process, and program for controlling movable robot control

An autonomous robot is controlled by the local robot information controller which is connected to a robot application network to which the transceiver to communicate with the autonomous robot is attached. The robot application network, a user LAN adaptive controller an information distribution manager and the third party information provider subsystem are linked with a public network. The information distribution manager acquires the information from the third party information provider subsystem on the schedule which is set by the user LAN adaptive controller. The local robot information controller receives the information distribution manager and convert it into the data that generates robot gestures. The robot performs actions in accordance to the gesture data received from the local robot information controller.

Autonomously moving robot management system

A face identification apparatus for identifying a face is designed to have a face region expectation measure for expecting his/her face region within the image; a pupil-candidate-point detection measure for converting the face region to an image of a standard size, making it a standard image, and detecting his/her right/left pupil candidate points out of a search region within the standard image; a reference data generation measure for generating a normalization image from the standard image with making it a standard a distance of the right/left pupil candidate points and making reference data for evaluating advisability of the face region from the normalization image; and a face region evaluation measure for obtaining a degree of approximation between the reference data and standard data prepared in advance and evaluating the advisability of the face region.

Face identification apparatus, face identification method, and face identification program

A posture recognition apparatus recognizes instructions signified by postures of persons present in the surroundings, from images obtained with an image capture device. The posture recognition apparatus includes an outline extraction device that extracts an outline of a body which is a candidate for a person from the images; a distance calculation device that calculates a distance to the body being the candidate, from distance information of each pixel within the outline in the image; a search device that searches for a candidate for a hand of a person based on the outline and the distance to the body represented by the outline; and a posture determination device that determines an instruction corresponding to the relative position of the candidate for a hand and the outline, and outputs this determination result as a posture determination result.

Posture recognition apparatus and autonomous robot

An autonomous action robot which can turn its line of sight to face a person who calls out, can recognize the face of a person, and can perform various actions in response to commands. First, a sound emitted from a person or other sound source is detected by a sound detector, and the direction of the sound source is specified based on the detected sound. Then, a robot head section is controlled, and the imaging direction of the robot head section is moved to face the specified direction of the sound source. Next, an image is captured in the direction of the sound source, and a target image of a specific shape is extracted from the captured image. Then, the imaging direction of the robot head section is controlled and moved to face in the direction of the extracted target image.

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