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Patent No.:

US 10956761 B1

Date of Patent:

Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2019

Control apparatus, control method agent apparatus, and computer readable storage medium

Applicant:

Honda Motor Co.,ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Junichiro Onaka, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Primary Examiner:

Sm A Rahman

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 16/037 (2006.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G06K 9/00845 (2013.01); B60R 16/0232 (2013.01); B60R 16/0373 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01); G10L 2015/227 (2013.01);

Abstract

A control apparatus controls an agent apparatus functioning as a user interface of a request processing apparatus that acquires a request indicated by at least one of a voice and a gesture of a user and performs a process corresponding to the request. The control apparatus includes a transmission event detecting section that detects an occurrence of an event necessitating transmission of a message to a communication terminal of the user, and a transmission determining section that makes a determination to transmit a voice message to the communication terminal of the user, via a communication network, if an occurrence of the event is detected.

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