IP Library Granted Patent US 12,008,992
Granted Patent B2
US 12,008,992 · App. 17/414,331 · Granted Jun 11, 2024

Generating dialog responses from dialog response frame based on device capabilities

Inventor: Junki Ohmura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
G10L15/22G10L13/08G10L15/01G10L2015/223
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Patent No.
US 12,008,992
App. No.
17/414,331
Granted
Jun 11, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information processing apparatus acquires a capability for each of agent devices that each output a dialog response, generates the dialog response corresponding to the capability, based on a general-purpose dialog response frame, and deploys the dialog response to each of the agent devices. The capability indicates a combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices. The apparatus applies to the general-purpose dialog response frame a conversion template including plural templates that convert values of parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame into converted forms in accordance with the combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices, and generate the dialog response for each of the agent devices, using the converted forms converted from the values of the parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame.

Claims (17)

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

acquire a capability for each of agent devices that each output a dialog response, the capability indicating a combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices;

generate the dialog response corresponding to the capability based on a general-purpose dialog response frame at a time of generation of the dialog response, and

deploy the dialog response to each of the agent devices, wherein

the circuitry is further configured to apply to the general-purpose dialog response frame a conversion template including plural templates that convert values of parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame into converted forms in accordance with the combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices, and generate the dialog response for each of the agent devices, by using the converted forms that were converted from the values of the parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the capability includes interface information regarding the combination of interfaces for each of the agent devices and capability information regarding ability of the interfaces.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to convert the dialog response corresponding to the capability into the dialog response corresponding to another capability.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to convert the dialog response by using a rule-based conversion algorithm or a machine learning-based conversion algorithm.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to select one or more interfaces from among the combination of interfaces on the basis of context information regarding context about a user of the agent devices, and generate the dialog response corresponding to the interfaces that were selected.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to select one or more interfaces from among the combination of interfaces corresponding to accessibility, and generate the dialog response corresponding to the interfaces that were selected.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to include additional information in the dialog response.

8. An information processing method by an information processing apparatus, the information processing method comprising:

acquiring a capability for each of agent devices that each output a dialog response, the capability indicating a combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices;

generating the dialog response corresponding to the capability based on a general-purpose dialog response frame at a time of generation of the dialog response; and

deploying the dialog response to each of the agent devices, wherein

the method further comprises applying to the general-purpose dialog response frame a conversion template including plural templates that convert values of parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame into converted forms in accordance with the combination of interfaces available for each of the agent devices, and generating the dialog response for each of the agent devices, by using the converted folnis that were converted from the values of the parameters of the general-purpose dialog response frame.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2021
From: OHMURA, JUNKI
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 056564/0854 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-008895 · Jan 23, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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