SITUATION-AWARE ROBOT

Patent №

US 11,040,441

Granted

2021-06-22

Filed 2018

Owner

SONY CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · vision · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16137153

A robot in a location interacts with a user. The robot includes a camera, an image recognition processor, a microphone and a loudspeaker, a voice assistant, and a wireless transceiver. The robot moves around and creates a model of the location, and recognizes changes. It recognizes objects of interest, beings, and situations. The robot monitors the user and recognizes body language and gesture commands, as well as voice commands. The robot communicates with the user, the TV, and other devices. It may move around to monitor for regular and non-regular situations. It anticipates user commands based on a situation. It determines if a situation is desired, and mitigates the situation if undesired. It can seek immediate help for the user in an emergency. It can capture, record, categorize and document events as they happen. It can categorize and document objects in the location.

Natural languageVisionSpeechAI hardwareB25J 9/0003B25J 9/1697B25J 11/0005B25J 11/008G06V 20/10H04L 12/282

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Vision1.00
AI hardware1.00
Machine learning0.22
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

SONY CORPORATION

assignment · 470860139

Assignors

YOUNG, DAVID, MILLER, LINDSAY, WINGO, LOBRENZO, DEMERCHANT, MARVIN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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