Patent Document ID: 20100217588
Application ID: 12708818
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for recognizing a context of an object, comprising: a first input unit configured to input moving information of an object; a second input unit configured to input first sound information around the object; a recognition unit configured to recognize a motion status of the object based on the moving information; a first extraction unit configured to selectively extract second sound information from the first sound information, based on the motion status; a second extraction unit configured to extract a first feature quantity from the second sound information; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of models, each model having a second feature quantity and a corresponding specified context, the second feature quantity being extracted by the second extraction unit before the first feature quantity is extracted; a decision unit configured to decide that the specified context corresponding to the second feature quantity most similar to the first feature quantity is a present context of the object; and an output unit configured to output the present context.