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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2015
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mariko Yamada, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 17/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 17/22 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device control method includes acquiring voice information, obtaining a spoken command indicating a control instruction as to a device based on the acquired voice information, identifying speaker information relating to a speaker which has uttered the acquired voice information, based on the acquired voice information, identifying, out of a plurality of devices, a device to be controlled, based on the spoken command and the speaker information, and controlling the identified device to be controlled.