Situation awareness system, voice response device, and situation awareness method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025148215-A1
Application number	US-202118684367-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 22, 2021
Priority date	Sep 22, 2021
Publication date	May 8, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A situation awareness system that is configured to grasp a situation of a target person in a residence, includes one or more detection sensors configured to perform at least any one of detecting the target person, detecting a state of an installation object which is installed in the residence and of which the state is changeable due to an operation of the target person, and detecting a state of an environment in the residence, a voice response device configured to perform a voice response including an utterance to the target person, and a storage section configured to store information. The voice response device is configured to perform an utterance to the target person with a content in accordance with a result of the detection by the detection sensor, and store information including a conversation content with the target person accompanying the utterance in the storage section.

First claim

1 . A situation awareness system for grasping a situation of a target person in a residence, the situation awareness system comprising:
one or more detection sensors configured to perform at least any one of detecting the target person, detecting a state of an installation object which is installed in the residence and of which the state is changeable due to an operation of the target person, and detecting a state of an environment in the residence; a voice response device configured to perform a voice response including an utterance to the target person; and a storage section configured to store information, wherein the voice response device is configured to perform an utterance to the target person with a content in accordance with a result of the detection by the detection sensor, and store information including a conversation content with the target person accompanying the utterance in the storage section.

2 . The situation awareness system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the voice response device is configured to grasp the situation of the target person from the conversation content, and perform corresponding processing in accordance with the grasped situation.

3 . The situation awareness system according to claim 2 ,
wherein the voice response device is configured to transmit an operation signal to a device installed in the residence, and transmit the operation signal giving an instruction for an operation in accordance with the situation to the device, as the corresponding processing.

4 . The situation awareness system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the voice response device is configured to perform the utterance to the target person in order to check a change in the situation by the operation of the device based on the operation signal, after transmitting the operation signal.

5 . A voice response device configured to perform a voice response including an utterance to a target person in a residence, the voice response device comprising:
one or more detection sensors configured to perform at least any one of detecting of the target person, detecting a state of an installation object which is installed in the residence and of which the state is changeable due to an operation of the target person, and detecting a state of an environment in the residence; and a storage section configured to store information, wherein the voice response device is configured to perform an utterance to the target person with a content in accordance with a result of the detection by the detection sensor, and store information including a conversation content with the target person accompanying the utterance in the storage section.

6 . A situation awareness method of grasping a situation of a target person in a residence by a voice response device, the situation awareness method comprising:
a step (a) of performing at least any one of detecting the target person, detecting a state of an installation object which is installed in the residence and of which the state is changeable due to an operation of the target person, and detecting a state of an environment in the residence; and a step (b) of performing an utterance to the target person with a content in accordance with a result of the detection in the step (a), and storing information including a conversation content with the target person accompanying the utterance in a storage section.

Assignees

• Fuji Corp

Inventors

• Kito Shuichiro

Classifications

• G08B25/14

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• G08B21/0484

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• G08B21/0407

  based on behaviour analysis · CPC title

• G08B21/0469

  Presence detectors to detect unsafe condition, e.g. infrared sensor, microphone (G08B21/0476 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G10L15/00

  Speech recognition (G10L17/00 takes precedence) · CPC title