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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsNaohiro Yokoo, Yasuhiko Kato, Masakazu Hattori, Masahiro Fujita, Hiroaki Kitano
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An electronic pet having reality by various machines is implemented. An IC card stores a matter to be renewed in accordance with an action when an electronic pet takes the action on the basis of an internal status parameter which contains the feeling of the electronic pet and represents the internal status thereof, and it is detachably mounted in a device functioning as the body of the electronic pet. A virtual pet device functions as the body of the electronic pet and performs processing to display the electronic pet, and it has a slot in which the IC card is detachably mounted. A pet type robot functions as the body of the electronic pet, and it has a slot in which the IC card is detachably mounted.
A robot system, comprising:
A storage medium detachably mountable on a robot which creates an action by a moveable part, the storage medium comprising a stored internal status parameter representing an internal status of a virtual living body which performs an action on a mobile information processing device, the internal status parameter being updated based on the internal status in accordance with the action performed by the virtual living body.
A robot comprising an internal status parameter representing an internal status of a virtual living body which performs an action on a mobile information processing device, the robot creating an action in accordance with the internal status parameter, and the internal status parameter being updated based on the internal status in accordance with the action performed by the virtual living body.
A mobile information processing device comprising a display for displaying a virtual living body that creates an action based on an internal status parameter representing an internal status of a robot which both creates an action based on an externally-given stimulus and creates an action based on an internal status of the robot, the internal status parameter being updated based on the internal status in accordance with the action performed by the robot.
A robot system, comprising:
A method for operating a robot system, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for operating a storage medium detachably mountable on a robot which creates an action by a moveable part, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for operating a robot, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for operating a mobile information processing device, the method comprising the steps of:
A method for operating a robot system, the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Term ended 18 Aug 2018 (estimated)
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a storage medium, a robot, an information processing device and an electronic pet system, and particularly to a storage medium which can implement an electronic pets by each of various devices, a robot, an information processing device and an electronic pet system.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an embodiment of an electronic pet system to which the present invention is applied;
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a more specific construction of the electronic pet system;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a second construction of a body portion of FIG. 1;
FIG. 1 schematically shows an embodiment of an electronic pet system (in this specification, the system is defined as a logical assembly of plural devices, and there is no limitation as to whether the respective devices are placed in the same housing or not) to which the present invention is applied.
For example, according to another view, an animal which is a living body is believed as having the body and the spirit which dwells within the body and presides over the function of mind. The electronic pet system of FIG. 1 comprises a spirit portion 1 and a body portion 2 which correspond to the spirit and the body, respectively.
That is, the spirit portion 1 functions as the spirit of the electronic pet, and represents the features of the electronic pet. The body portion 2 functions as the body of the electronic pet, and represents the action (conduct) of the electronic pet. The action of the body portion 2 is taken on the basis of the features of the electronic pet which are owned by the spirit portion 1, and thus the spirit portion 1 may be called as the core of the electronic pet (core).