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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2005
Applicants:
Takafumi Sonoura, Tokyo, JP;
Kaoru Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Takafumi Sonoura, Tokyo, JP;
Kaoru Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Kabuhsiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOkyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/19 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An interactive robot capable of speech recognition includes a sound-source-direction estimating unit that estimates a direction of a sound source for target voices which are required to undergo speech recognition; a moving unit that moves the interactive robot in the sound-source direction; a target-voice acquiring unit that acquires the target voices at a position after moving; and a speech recognizing unit that performs speech recognition of the target voices.