Patent ID: 11954908
Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A communication support device comprising:
a camera that captures an image of a surrounding environment of a user to acquire a captured image;
a storage that stores a counterpart database in which an image of a counterpart and a category indicating a property of the counterpart are associated with the counterpart;
a central processing unit (CPU) that:
acquires position information indicating a position of a user;
sets a priority to the category according to the position information;
detects a counterpart belonging to the category in the captured image in order of the priority set by the category ranking setting unit;
measures a distance between the counterpart and the camera based on the captured image;
determines a facial expression of the counterpart based on the captured image; and
determines a motion of the counterpart based on the captured image; and

a notification unit that notifies the user of information regarding the counterpart detected by the counterpart detector,
wherein the notification unit notifies the user of identification information for identifying the counterpart by a voice when the distance measured by the CPU is an interaction distance of a first threshold or less, and notifies the user of the identification information and at least one of facial expression information related to the facial expression determined by the CPU and motion information related to the motion determined by the motion determination unit by a voice when the distance measured by the distance measuring unit is longer than the first threshold.