Vehicular device, server, and information processing method

• Main Authors: NAGAI, YASUSHI, SHIMIZU, ATSUSHI, YAMAGUCHI, TAKASHI, SEKIGUCHI, TAKAAKI, SAWAJIRI, HARUHIKO, DUAN, QINGZHU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 01.04.2015
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; NAVIGATION; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SURVEYING; TESTING; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

A speech dialog technique is offered which preferably performs speech dialogs with a vehicular driver. The technique is implemented by a vehicular device for performing dialogs with the driver. This device has: a communication portion (211, 201) for communicating with a server; an output portion (209) for outputting speech information to the driver; an input portion (202) for inputting information based on speech uttered by the driver; and a controller (200) for controlling the communication portion (211, 201), the output portion (209), and the input portion (202). When trigger information for starting a dialog process in the vehicular device or in the server is generated, the controller (200) receives information indicative of the type of a first dialog forming a starting point of the dialog process and information indicative of the type of a second dialog forming an ending point of the dialog process from the server and carries out the dialog process based on the received information. The second dialog is different in type from the first dialog.