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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2012
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Keiichi Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of information input units; an event detection unit that generates event information including estimated position information and estimated identification information of users present in the real space based on analysis of the information from the information input unit; and an information integration processing unit that inputs the event information, and generates target information including a position of each user and user identification information based on the input event information, and signal information representing a probability value of the event generation source, wherein the information integration processing unit includes an utterance source probability calculation unit, and wherein the utterance source probability calculation unit performs a process of calculating an utterance source score as an index value representing an utterance source probability of each target by multiplying weights based on utterance situations by a plurality of different information items from the event detection unit.