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Patent No.:

US 11093716 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2017

Conversation support apparatus, conversation support method, and computer readable recording medium

Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Ayako Hoshino, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Eric Yen

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04M 3/51 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/20 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04M 3/5166 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

A conversation support apparatusincludes: an utterance reception unitthat receives an utterance in an on-going conversation; an utterance position estimation unitthat, for each node in a conversation tree in which at least one of a label and a topic is provided to each node, collates the at least one of the label and the topic provided to the node and the received utterance, and estimates a node that is most related to the received utterance; and a display unitthat adds a visual characteristic representation to the estimated node and displays the conversation tree on a screen.

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Hoshino, Ayako. (2021). Conversation support apparatus, conversation support method, and computer readable recording medium (U.S. Patent No. 11093716). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11093716

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