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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2018
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Osaka University, Suita, JP;
Hiroaki Sugiyama, Soraku-gun, JP;
Hiromi Narimatsu, Soraku-gun, JP;
Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Suita, JP;
Hiroshi Ishiguro, Suita, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Suita, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to promote a user's understanding or agreement, and to cause a dialogue to last long. A dialogue systemconducts a dialogue with a user. A humanoid robot-presents a first utterance which is a certain utterance. When the userperforms an action indicating that the user cannot understand the first utterance or it is predicted that the user performs an action indicating that the user cannot understand the first utterance or when the user does not perform any action indicating that the user can understand the first utterance, or it is predicted that the user will not perform any action indicating that the user can understand the first utterance, then the humanoid robot-presents a second utterance which is at least one utterance resulting from paraphrasing the contents of the first utterance.