Peripheral device, communication system, communication method, and recording medium storing communication program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019253491-A1
Application number	US-201916273028-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 11, 2019
Priority date	Feb 14, 2018
Publication date	Aug 15, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A peripheral device communicates with a central control device. The peripheral device includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to transmit first information to the central control device. The first information includes a topic to be provided to the central control device or a user of the central control device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A peripheral device communicating with a central control device, the peripheral device comprising:
a control circuit configured to transmit first information including a topic to be provided to the central control device or a user of the central control device, wherein the first information includes information for proposal to the central control device or the user of the central control device in relation to at least one of information about a current situation of the peripheral device and information about a function of the peripheral device.

2 . The peripheral device according to claim 1 , wherein the first information includes a summary of at least one of information about a current situation of the peripheral device and information about a function of the peripheral device, and
the control circuit further receives a request from the central control device which has received the first information, and transmits, to the central control device, second information indicating details of at least one of the information about the current state of the peripheral device and the information about the function of the peripheral device.

3 . The peripheral device according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuit transmits an advertising signal which is a signal for allowing the central control device to discover the peripheral device, and
the first information is included in the advertising signal.

4 . A communication system comprising at least a peripheral device and a central control device that communicates with the peripheral device,
wherein the peripheral device comprises a first control circuit configured to transmit first information including a topic to be provided to the central control device or a user of the central control device, the central control device comprises a second control circuit configured to determine a response based on the received first information and perform the determined response, wherein the first information includes information for proposal to the central control device or the user of the central control device in relation to at least one of information about a current situation of the peripheral device and information about a function of the peripheral device.

5 . The communication system according to claim 4 , wherein the first control circuit further receives a request from the central control device which has received the first information, and transmits second information indicating details of information for proposal to the central control device or the user of the central control device in association with at least one of the information about the current state of the peripheral device and the information about the function of the peripheral device, and
the second control circuit further determines a response based on the received second information and performs the determined response.

6 . The communication system according to claim 4 , wherein the first control circuit transmits an advertising signal which is a signal for allowing the central control device to discover the peripheral device, and
the first information is included in the advertising signal.

7 . The communication system according to claim 5 , wherein the second control circuit integrates the first information transmitted from each of a plurality of peripheral devices and determines the response.

8 . The communication system according to claim 5 , wherein the second control circuit integrates the first information and the second information transmitted from each of a plurality of peripheral devices and determines the response.

9 . The communication system according to claim 4 , wherein the central control device comprises an interactive interface using a voice.

10 . The communication system according to claim 4 , wherein the second control circuit determines the correspondence by artificial intelligence.

11 . A communication method of a communication system including a peripheral device and a central control device that communicates with the peripheral device, the communication method comprising:
transmitting, by the peripheral device, first information including a topic to be provided to the central control device or a user of the central control device; determining, by the central control device, a response based on the received first information; and performing the determined response, wherein the first information includes information for proposal to the central control device or the user of the central control device in relation to at least one of information about a current situation of the peripheral device and information about a function of the peripheral device.

12 . A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a communication program in a communication system including a peripheral device and a central control device that communicates with the peripheral device, the communication program comprising:
receiving, from the peripheral device, first information including a topic to be provided to the central control device or a user of the central control device; and determining a response based on the received first information, wherein the first information includes information for proposal to the central control device or the user of the central control device in relation to at least one of information about a current situation of the peripheral device and information about a function of the peripheral device.

Assignees

• Olympus Corp

Inventors

• Nonaka Osamu
• Toyoda Tetsuya
• Fukushima Keito
• Ogata Yoshihisa
• Ito Kensei
• Shintani Koichi
• Kawaguchi Katsuhisa
• Osa Kazuhiko

Classifications

• G10L15/08

  Speech classification or search · CPC title

• G06F13/102 Primary

  where the program performs an interfacing function, e.g. device driver (G06F13/105 takes precedence; contention policies within device drivers G06F9/4881; scheduling within device drivers G06F9/52) · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04L12/2816

  Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities (arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00) · CPC title

• G10L15/22

  Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue · CPC title