- Number
- 11403289
- Published
- 2022-08-02
- Filed
- 2020-03-25
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Goslin; Michael P.
- CPC
- G06F16/24522; G10L15/22; G10L15/1815; G06F3/167; G06N5/022; G10L25/63
- Verdict
- Medium Notable software
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
The keeper's note
Conversational AI for interactive characters.
Abstract
This disclosure presents systems and methods to facilitate artificial intelligence communications. One or more sensors may be configured to generate output signals conveying user behavior information and/or other information. The user behavior information may represent one or more communicative behaviors of a user in a real world. The one or more communicative behaviors may be interpreted based on communication structures of the one or more communicative behaviors to determine a meaning of a message conveyed by the one or more communicative behaviors. The communication structures may be categorized by structure type. The structure types may include one or more of a verbal type communication structure and/or a non-verbal type communication structure. Verbal type communication structure may refer to the conveyance of words via speech and/or non-speech communications. Non-verbal communication structure may refer to the conveyance of one or more of feelings, emotions, and/or impressions.
Background
FIELD (1) This disclosure relates to systems and methods to provide bi-directional artificial intelligence communications. BACKGROUND (2) Current virtual assistants (e.g., Siri, Watson, Alexa, etc.) may be designed to be intelligent, but not necessarily entertaining. These systems provide verbal answers/responses for questions the user poses to the assistant. These systems focus on text (or speech-to-text conversion) and/or speech processing to interact with a user. SUMMARY (3) One or more aspects of the disclosure relate to providing bi-directional artificial intelligence communications. Speech captures only a small subset of human communications. Much of what is communicated between humans is non-verbal and/or non-speech, such as facial expressions, physical gestures, tone/inflection of voice, and/or other nonverbal communications. These elements may be brought into the communication with intelligent assistants (or characters) to make the experience more realistic. (4) The communications received from a user may be interpreted to determine meanings of messages conveyed by those communications. The interpretation may be based on determining structure of communicative behaviors of the user in the real world and/or other information. The structure may include one or a combination of a verbal type communication structure and/or a non-verbal type communication structure. The verbal type communication structure may refer to the conveyance of words. Both speech and non-speech beha
Claims
1. A system configured to facilitate communication between a user and a computer, the system comprising: non-transitory electronic storage storing association information, the association information providing a basis for interpreting communicative behaviors of a user in a real word, the association information including associations between individual communicative behaviors and individual meanings, and associations between individual combinations of communicative behaviors and different ones of the individual meanings, the communicative behaviors having individual communication structures classified by structure types, the structure types including a verbal type communication structure and a non-verbal type communication structure, such that the association information includes: a first association between a first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure and a first meaning; and a second association between a combination, the combination including a second communicative behavior of the non-verbal type communication structure and the first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure, and a second meaning; and one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: interpret the communicative behaviors of the user in the real world to determine the individual meanings of messages conveyed by the communicative behaviors, wherein interpretation is based on the communicative behaviors, the individual communication structures of the individual communicative behaviors, and the association information such that: the first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure is interpreted as conveying the first meaning based on the first association; and the combination including the second communicative behavior of the non-verbal type communication structure and the first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure is interpreted as conveying the second meaning based on the second association. ||
11. A computer-implemented method to facilitate communication between a user and a computer, the method comprising: obtaining association information, the association information providing a basis for interpreting communicative behaviors of a user in a real word, the association information including associations between individual communicative behaviors and individual meanings, and associations between individual combinations of communicative behaviors and different ones of the individual meanings, the communicative behaviors having individual communication structures classified by structure types, the structure types including a verbal type communication structure and a non-verbal type communication structure, the association information including: a first association between a first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure and a first meaning; and a second association between a combination, the combination including a second communicative behavior of the non-verbal type communication structure and the first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure, and a second meaning; and interpreting the communicative behaviors of the user in the real world to determine the individual meanings of messages conveyed by the communicative behaviors, wherein the interpreting is based on the communicative behaviors, the individual communication structures of the individual communicative behaviors, and the association information, including: interpreting, based on the first association, the first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure as conveying the first meaning; and interpreting, based on the second association, the combination including the second communicative behavior of the non-verbal type communication structure and the first communicative behavior of the verbal type communication structure as conveying the second meaning.