Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yoshiki Ohashi

Satoru Matsunaga

Hiroko Sugimoto

Kohei Tahara

Kazuhiro Kuroyama

Kentaro Nakai

Hiromu Ikeuchi

Yoichi Ikeda

Hiroki Urabe

Masafumi Torikai

A notification method obtains event information about an even that has occurred from information source device or information source service that is a source of information to be notified by notification device. The notification method generates a first notification trigger when the event information is obtained. The notification method generates a second notification trigger when, after the first notification trigger is generated, a predetermined condition is satisfied and the event information is not updated. The notification method causes notification device to output notification information indicating details of the event in at least one of a case where the first notification trigger is generated or a case where the second notification trigger is generated.

Notification method, recording medium, notification system, and notification device

A voice control method according to the present disclosure includes: judging, for each of a plurality of utterance objects capable of outputting voice, whether the utterance object is outputting voice; and based on a result of the judging, causing one or more of the plurality of utterance objects to output voice at one of a timing of immediately outputting voice and a timing of outputting voice after an end of outputting voice by an utterance object which is outputting voice among the plurality of utterance objects.

Voice control method, server apparatus, and utterance object

A voice speech device includes: a display; a selector that causes the display to display one or more candidates for a name to be provided to a target appliance (appliance), and accepts selection of one name among the one or more candidates; a receiver for receiving first state information that is sent from the target appliance and indicates a state of the target appliance; a speech sentence creator that creates a speech sentence for notifying the state of the target appliance, based on the first state information received by the receiver, the speech sentence containing the one name accepted by the selector; and a voice outputter that outputs the speech sentence by voice.

Voice speech device, voice speech system, and voice speech method to create name of a target appliance based on its operation history

An utterance test method for an utterance device, an utterance test server, an utterance test system, and a program perform an utterance test on a test device (). The utterance test system includes at least one utterance device () capable of uttering, a terminal device (), and an utterance test server (). The utterance test server () receives an utterance test start command from the terminal device (), sets at least one utterance device () to be a test device () as a target of an utterance test, sets test content of the utterance test, and causes the test device () to utter the test content.

Utterance test method for utterance device, utterance test server, utterance test system, and program

A control method includes obtaining an information item on operation of a first device from the first device, determining a priority level for the obtained information item according to the content or attribute of the obtained information item, storing the obtained information item in a memory unit in association with the determined priority level, and preferentially transmitting an information item associated with a higher priority level among information items stored in the memory unit to a second device to cause the second device to output the information item associated with the higher priority level by sound, the information items having been obtained in the obtaining.

Control method, controller, and recording medium

A notification control device includes: a sound notification controller sending a first notification control signal for causing a first device to provide a first notification, obtaining first response information to the first notification, and determining whether the first response information is in response to notification information; an image notification controller sending a second notification control signal for causing a second device to provide a second notification, obtaining second response information to the second notification, and determining whether the second response information is in response to the notification information; and a canceller sending a cancellation process signal for cancelling (a) the second notification when the sound notification controller determines that the first response information is in response to the notification information and (b) the first notification when the image notification controller determines that the second response information is in response to the notification information.

Notification control device, notification control system, and notification control method

A notification control device includes: a sound notification controller that sends a first notification control signal for causing a first device to provide a first notification, obtains first response information to the first notification, and determines whether the first response information is in response to notification information; an image notification controller that sends a second notification control signal for causing a second device to provide a second notification, when the first response information is determined not to be in response to the notification information, obtains second response information to the second notification, and determines whether the second response information is in response to the notification information; and a canceller that sends, to the first and second devices, a cancellation process signal for cancelling the notifications, when the first response information or the second response information is determined to be in response to the notification information.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshiki Ohashi