Patent ID: 7152050

Claim:
A learning system comprising: dialog means for obtaining the name of an object from a user through a dialog with said user; plural recognizing means for detecting a plurality of feature data of said object respectively, and for recognizing the object based on the detection result and the learning result of said corresponding feature data of a known object previously stored; storing means for storing relation information, said name of said known object is connected with the recognition result of the known object by each of said recognizing means; and control means, for determining that if said object is a new object based on the name of said object obtained by said dialog means, the recognition result of the object by each of said recognizing means, and said relation information stored in said storing means, for making said recognizing means perform the learning of said corresponding feature data of the object, and making said storing means store the relation information, wherein said control means manages the learning achievement degrees of said known object by said respective recognizing means, and wherein if said control means determines that said object is a known object based on the name of said object obtained by said dialog means, the control means makes said predetermined recognizing means perform the learning of said corresponding feature of the object, and updates said corresponding relation information according to the obtained new learning achievement degree.