Abstract: A physique determination device includes: an acquisition unit to acquire an image of a person; a detection unit to detect, from the acquired image, at least one of a plurality of physical feature points of the person; a determination unit to determine, on the basis of the at least one physical feature point that has been detected, a physique of the person; and a calculation unit to calculate, on the basis of the at least one physical feature point that has been detected, a degree of reliability of the determined physique of the person.

Abstract: Disclosed is an occupant detection device that detects an occupant riding in a vehicle, including: a first occupant detection unit to output at least one detection result about the occupant, the detection result being detected using an electric wave, each of the at least one detection result being about a corresponding one of detection result types; a degree of influence determination unit to acquire the vibration amount of the vehicle, and to use the vibration amount and the detection result from the first occupant detection unit, to thereby determine, as to each of the detection result types, a degree of influence which depends on the vibration amount; and an output determination unit to determine, using the degree of influence, whether to adopt or reject the detection result, and to, when determining to adopt the detection result, cause the detection result to be outputted.

Abstract: An occupant detection device includes: an occupant detection unit to output detection results about occupants, each of the detection results being detected using an electric wave and being about a corresponding one of seat positions of the occupants; an output determination unit to output the detection results in accordance with the vibration amount of the vehicle; a storage control unit to store the detection results while linking the detection results with the seat positions; and a movement detection unit to detect a movement as to each occupant detected using means other than an electric wave. When the movement detection unit detects a movement of an occupant in a state where no detection result is outputted from the output determination unit, the storage control unit corrects a link between a detection result and a seat position which are stored.

Abstract: A radio wave sensor includes: a transmission antenna that emits a radio wave toward a presence allowable area which is an area in which an occupant can be present in an area in a vehicle interior of a vehicle; and a reception antenna including a plurality of reception antenna elements that receives a reflection wave of the radio wave emitted from the transmission antenna. The positions where the plurality of reception antenna elements are arranged in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle are different from each other.

Abstract: It is an object to provide technology enabling an increase in accuracy of determination of an occupant in an interior of a vehicle. An occupant determination apparatus includes: a size detection unit to detect a size of a moving subject in the interior based on a reflected wave acquired by an acquisition unit; an occupant detection unit to detect whether there is an occupant in the interior based on the reflected wave acquired by the acquisition unit by a reflection of a wave; and a controller to determine whether there is a predetermined occupant in the interior based on a result of detection of the size detection unit and a result of detection of the occupant detection unit.

Abstract: A confusion degree determining unit determines a degree of confusion of an occupant by using occupant state information acquired by an occupant state acquiring unit. A recognition degree determining unit determines a degree of recognition of the occupant, with respect to surrounding conditions and automatic control of a vehicle, by using surrounding condition information and control information acquired by a host vehicle status acquiring unit and the occupant state information acquired by the occupant state acquiring unit. An information generation unit generates information to be provided to the occupant by using the surrounding condition information and control information acquired by the host vehicle status acquiring unit, the degree of confusion determined by the confusion degree determining unit, and the degree of recognition determined by the recognition degree determining unit.

Abstract: An operation restriction control device includes processing circuitry configured to set restriction on the manual operation input to a valid state in a case where a vehicle is traveling, set the restriction on the manual operation input to an invalid state when a voice command corresponding to release of the restriction on the manual operation input is input to the first operation input device by a passenger in the vehicle in a state where the restriction on the manual operation input is set to a valid state, and set the restriction on the manual operation input to a valid state when a duration during which a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle is directed to the in-vehicle information device has exceeded a first reference time in a state where the restriction on the manual operation input is set to an invalid state.

Abstract: A speech recognition device includes: a speech recognition unit for executing speech recognition on a spoken sound that is made for an operational input by a speaking person among multiple on-board persons seated on speech recognition target seats in a vehicle; a speaking person identification unit for executing at least one of personal identification processing of identifying the speaking person, and seat identification processing of identifying the seat on which the speaking person is seated; and a response mode setting unit for executing response mode setting processing of setting a mode for a response to the speaking person, according to a result identified by the speaking person identification unit; the response mode setting processing is processing in which the mode for the response is set as a mode that allows each of the multiple on-board persons to determine whether to be subjected to the response.

Abstract: A correspondence relationship between keywords for instructing the start of a speech dialogue and modes of a response is defined in a response-mode correspondence table. A response-mode selecting unit selects a mode of a response corresponding to a keyword included in the recognition result of a speech recognition unit using the response-mode correspondence table. A dialogue controlling unit starts the speech dialogue when the keyword is included in the recognition result of the speech recognition unit, determines a response in accordance with the subsequent recognition result from the speech recognition unit, and controls a mode of the response in such a manner as to match the mode selected by the response-mode selecting unit. A speech output controlling unit generates speech data on the basis of the response and mode controlled by the dialogue controlling unit and outputs the speech data to a speaker.

Abstract: Included here are: a speech recognition unit for performing speech recognition on a speaker's speech; a keyword extraction unit for extracting a preset keyword from a result of the speech recognition; a conversation determination unit for referring to a keyword extraction result and determining whether or not the speaker's speech is a conversation; and an operation command extraction unit for extracting a command for operating an apparatus from the speech recognition result when the speech is determined not to be a conversation, and not extracting the command from the speech recognition result when the speech is determined to be a conversation.

Abstract: A speech recognition system, which continuously recognizes speech uttered by at least one user and controls a navigation system on the basis of a recognition result, includes: a speech-operation-intention determination unit for determining whether or not the user has made a recognized speech with the intention of operating the navigation system through speech; and a control mode altering unit for changing, when the speech-operation-intention determination unit determines that the user has no operation intention, the control mode of the navigation system in such a manner that the user is less aware of or pays less attention to the control mode than the case in which the speech-operation-intention determination unit determines that the user has an intention of operating the navigation system.

Abstract: Disclosed is a voice recognition device (10) including: a voice recognition unit (11) for recognizing a user's uttered voice; a function performing unit (12) for performing a function corresponding to a recognition result provided by the voice recognition unit (11); a performance degree calculating unit (13) for calculating a degree to which the function performing unit (12) can perform the function corresponding to the recognition result; and a control unit (15) for, when the degree calculated by the performance degree calculating unit (13) is equal to or greater than a predetermined first reference, causing the function performing unit (12) to perform the function corresponding to the recognition result.

Abstract: Disclosed is a voice recognition device (10) including: a voice recognition unit (11) for recognizing a user's uttered voice; a function performing unit (12) for performing a function corresponding to a recognition result provided by the voice recognition unit (11); a performance degree calculating unit (13) for calculating a degree to which the function performing unit (12) can perform the function corresponding to the recognition result; and a control unit (15) for, when the degree calculated by the performance degree calculating unit (13) is equal to or greater than a predetermined first reference, causing the function performing unit (12) to perform the function corresponding to the recognition result.

Abstract: A correspondence relationship between keywords for instructing the start of a speech dialogue and modes of a response is defined in a response-mode correspondence table. A response-mode selecting unit selects a mode of a response corresponding to a keyword included in the recognition result of a speech recognition unit using the response-mode correspondence table. A dialogue controlling unit starts the speech dialogue when the keyword is included in the recognition result of the speech recognition unit, determines a response in accordance with the subsequent recognition result from the speech recognition unit, and controls a mode of the response in such a manner as to match the mode selected by the response-mode selecting unit. A speech output controlling unit generates speech data on the basis of the response and mode controlled by the dialogue controlling unit and outputs the speech data to a speaker.

Abstract: Because an information providing system according to the present invention generates recognition object words for selecting one headline from a plurality of headlines in such a way that the recognition object words do not overlap one another, the information providing system can select a headline uniquely through the user's utterance, and present information (content) corresponding to the headline selected thereby, and therefore the convenience to the user is improved.

Abstract: According to an in-vehicle control apparatus, it is configured to receive information of a plurality of operation keys displayed on a display, to identify from a result of voice recognition of a user's speech, the operation key corresponding thereto on the basis of the information of the operation keys, and to execute a function assigned to the operation key upon receiving an instruction for execution by the user using a decision key, so that it is possible to perform an operation without making contact directly with the plurality of operation keys displayed on the display and without the need of a complex key operation. Further, solely by mounting just one decision key on a steering wheel, it becomes possible to safely perform the operation about the operation key displayed on the display without the user releasing his/her hand from the steering wheel during driving.

Abstract: When the number of characters displayable on a character display area of a display is restricted, the information providing system generates a first recognition object word from information of object to be provided. At the same time, the information providing system generates a second recognition object word by using whole of a character string which is obtained by shortening the first recognition object word to have the specified character number when its number of characters exceeds a specified character number, to thereby recognize a speech voice by a user, using the first recognition object word and the second recognition object word.

Abstract: Because in a server for navigation that causes a navigation device mounted in a moving object to provide guidance on a moving route and display map data on the basis of the map data and the position of the moving object, from a recognition result of a user's utterance and position information, evaluation information about a point or is acquired automatically, an evaluation about the point can be left automatically and safely without requiring the user's special operation. Further, by adding the evaluation information to map data and displaying this map data at the time of use, the navigation system enables the user to revisit a point through which the user desires to pass once again, bypass a point through which the user desires to never pass again, and so on without requiring the user's work of consciously memorizing the impression about each point and so on.

Abstract: An information presentation system 1 includes: an extraction unit 12 configured to extract, from among linguistic units such as word strings included in a reading text, additional information related to the linguistic units which is capable of being acquired from an information source, as a word-of-speech-recognition target; a synthesis controller 13 configured to output accent information for use in speech-synthesis for reading out the reading text, and the word-of-speech-recognition target extracted by the extraction unit 12; a speech synthesizer 14 configured to read out the reading text using the accent information received from the synthesis controller 13; and a display controller 15 configured to control a display 4 to display the word-of-speech-recognition target received from the synthesis controller 13, in synchronization with a timing where the speech synthesizer 14 reads out the word-of-speech-recognition target.