VOICE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR OPERATING HOME ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES

Patent №

US 6,988,070

Granted

2006-01-17

Filed 2001

Owner

MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09852727

A voice control system for managing home electrical appliances includes a home agent server (HAS) connected to the home electrical appliances, a microphone and a speaker linked to the agent server through an in-house network. An transaction processing (TP) program runs on HAS and interprets the user's voice request to find a destined appliance and a manner of control the same, and performs the requested control to the destined appliance. The result is notified to the user by means of a voice message.

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.25
Planning0.07
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.

assignment · 119860467

Assignors

KAWASAKI, TOSHINOBU, KOMODA, YOSHIYUKI, TOKUNAGA, YOSHIHIKO, OKADA, YUKIO, SHINOMIYA, HIROTATSU, HAYAMI, TAKEHITO

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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