Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019251990-A1
Application number	US-201716330849-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 17, 2017
Priority date	Oct 31, 2016
Publication date	Aug 15, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

This technology relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method for easily obtaining sentences that express emotions appropriately.
The information processing apparatus includes an emotion recognition section that recognizes an emotion input by a user performing an operation, and a modification section that modifies a sentence on the basis of the recognized emotion. This technology applies, for example, to apparatuses, servers, clients, and applications for performing speech recognition; and to apparatuses, servers, clients, and applications for performing diverse processes based on the result of the speech recognition.

First claim

1 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
an emotion recognition section configured to recognize an emotion input by a user performing an operation; and a modification section configured to modify a first sentence on a basis of the recognized emotion.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a speech recognition section configured to convert an input speech into the first sentence, wherein the modification section modifies the first sentence following the conversion by the speech recognition section.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein,
in a case where the user performs an operation during input of the input speech, the modification section modifies a portion of the first sentence, the portion corresponding to the speech input during the operation performed by the user.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
the emotion recognition section recognizes the emotion on the basis of the input speech.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the emotion recognition section recognizes at least either a type or a level of the emotion.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein
the emotion recognition section recognizes the emotion level on the basis of an amount of the operation performed by the user.

7 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein
the emotion recognition section recognizes the emotion level on the basis of a combination of an amount of a swipe made by the user on an operation section and an amount or a time during which the operation section is pressed down.

8 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein
the emotion recognition section recognizes the emotion type on the basis of a direction in which the user performs the operation.

9 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the modification section adds a character string to at least one of the beginning, an intermediate position, or the end of the first sentence.

10 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein
the modification section adjusts an amount of the character string to be added on the basis of the recognized emotion level.

11 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein
the modification section changes the character string to be added on the basis of the recognized emotion type.

12 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the modification section changes an expression of the first sentence while maintaining the meaning thereof.

13 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein
the modification section adjusts a degree at which the expression is changed on the basis of the recognized emotion level.

14 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the modification section selects a method of changing the expression on the basis of the recognized emotion type.

15 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the emotion recognition section recognizes the emotion on the basis of the first sentence.

16 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the emotion recognition section recognizes the emotion on the basis of a second sentence preceding the first sentence.

17 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
in the case where the first sentence is a response to a third sentence, the emotion recognition section recognizes the emotion on the basis of the third sentence.

18 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the modification section adds to the first sentence an expression corresponding to the recognized emotion.

19 . An information processing method comprising the steps of:
recognizing an emotion input by a user performing an operation; and modifying a first sentence on the basis of the recognized emotion.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Nakagawa Yusuke
• Kawano Shinichi
• Taki Yuhei

Classifications

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F40/166

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title

• G10L15/26

  Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/16

  Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L) · CPC title

• G10L25/63 Primary

  for estimating an emotional state · CPC title