US 11,029,803 B2Granted

Robot

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorShinyung Joo

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Abstract

Disclosed herein is a robot including at least one of a display or a speaker, at least one sensor configured to detect a physical stimulus, and a processor configured to detect a first physical stimulus based on a first sensing value acquired from the at least one sensor and output a first interface representing a first emotion corresponding to the first physical stimulus via at least one of the display or the speaker. The processor is configured to detect repetition of the first physical stimulus based on at least one sensing value sequentially acquired from the at least one sensor and output an interface representing an emotion equal to or different from the first emotion via at least one of the display or the speaker, whenever the repeated first physical stimulus is detected.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A robot comprising:

a head;
a body connected to the head;
an output device including at least one of a display or a speaker;
at least one sensor configured to detect a physical stimulus to the robot;
and
a processor configured to:
control the output device to output a first interface representing a first emotion corresponding to the physical stimulus detected by the at least one sensor,
wherein at least one sensor includes:
a first sensor provided in the head;
and
a second sensor provided in the body,
wherein the processor is further configured to:
recognize the physical stimulus based on at least one of the first sensor or the second sensor,
control the output device to output the first interface representing a positive emotion in response to the first sensor detecting the physical stimulus as a stroking of the head of the robot,
control the output device to output the first interface representing a negative emotion in response to the second sensor detecting the physical stimulus as a pushing of the body of the robot,
determine when the at least one of the first sensor or the second sensor detects repetitions of the physical stimulus, and
control the output device to cease outputting the first interface and to output a second interface representing a second emotion, and
wherein the first interface representing the first emotion and the second interface representing the second emotion are different.

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A robot comprising:

a head;
a body connected to the head;
an output device including at least one of a display or a speaker;
at least one sensor configured to detect a first physical stimulus or a second physical stimulus to the robot, wherein at least one sensor includes:
a first sensor provided in the head;
and
a second sensor provided in the body;
and
a processor configured to:
recognize the first physical stimulus based on at least one of the first sensor or the second sensor,
control the output device to output a first interface representing a first emotion when the at least one of the first sensor or the second sensor detects the first physical stimulus, wherein the first emotion is a positive emotion in response to the first sensor detecting the physical stimulus as a stroking of the head of the robot, and the first emotion is a negative emotion in response to the second sensor detecting the physical stimulus as a pushing of the body of the robot,
control the output device to output the first interface representing the first emotion,
recognize the second physical stimulus based on one or more of the first sensor or the second sensor, and
control the output device to output a second interface representing a second emotion,
wherein
the second emotion is a negative emotion in response to the second sensor detecting the physical stimulus as a pushing of the body of the robot after the first sensor detects the first physical stimulus, and
the second emotion is a positive emotion in response to the first sensor detecting the physical stimulus as a stroking of the head of the robot after the first sensor detects the first physical stimulus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/794,919Filed 19 Feb 2020
Priority: KR 10-2019-011676023 Sep 2019
Published: US 2021/0089172 A125 Mar 2021
Granted: 8 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 3/0481
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a…
G06F 3/0488
Using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of…:…
G06F 3/167
Sound input; Sound output: audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
G06F
Computing and data processing

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US 2021/0089172 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Mar 2021
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