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Apparatus and methods for providing a persistent companion device

a companion device and companion technology, applied in the field of persistent companion devices, can solve the problems of limited device ability to engage human users

Inactive Publication Date: 2015-11-05
JIBO
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Benefits of technology

The present patent is about a companion device that can live in a person's environment and interact with them to provide emotional engagement. The device can be created using a development platform that allows developers to create content assets, expressions, behavioral sequences, and skills that can be executed by the companion device. The platform also includes a logic level module that maps inputs to coded responses, a perceptual level module that detects vision and sound events, a speech / sound recognizer that detects defined sounds, and an expression engine that generates animations expressive of emotional states. Overall, the technology allows for the creation of rich interactions and customized experiences for users and applications.

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While devices such as smart phones and tablet computers have increasing capabilities, such as networking features, high definition video, touch interfaces, and applications, such devices are limited in their ability to engage human users, such as to provide benefits of companionship or enhanced emotional experience from interacting with the device.

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[0038]In accordance with exemplary and non-limiting embodiments, there is provided and described a Persistent Companion Device (PCD) for continually residing in the environment of a person / user and to interact with a user of the companion device. As used herein, “PCD” and “social robot” may be used interchangeably except where context indicates otherwise. As described more fully below, PCD provides a persistent, social presence with a distinct persona that is expressive through movement, graphics, sounds, lights, scent. There is further introduced below the concept of a “digital soul” attendant to each embodiment of PCD. As used herein, “digital soul” refers to a plurality of attributes capable of being stored in a digital format that serve as inputs for determining and executing actions by a PCD. As used herein, “environment” refers to the physical environment of a user within a proximity to the user sufficient to allow for observation of the user by the sensors of a PCD.

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Abstract

A development platform for developing a skill for a persistent companion device (PCD) includes an asset development library having an application programming interface (API) configured to enable a developer to at least one of find, create, edit and access one or more content assets utilizable for creating a skill, an expression tool suite having one or more APIs via which are received one or more expressions associated with the skill as specified by the developer wherein the skill is executable by the PCD in response to at least one defined input, a behavior editor for specifying one or more behavioral sequences of the PCD for the skill and a skill deployment facility having an API for deploying the skill to an execution engine of the PCD.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 14 / 210,037, filed Mar. 13, 2014. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 210,037 claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 61 / 788,732 filed Mar. 15, 2013.[0002]This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 62 / 024,738 filed Jul. 15, 2014.[0003]All of the above applications are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.BACKGROUND[0004]1. Field of the Invention[0005]The present application generally relates to a persistent companion device. In particular, the present application relates to an apparatus and methods for providing a companion device adapted to reside continually in the environment of a person and to interact with a user of the companion device to provide emotional engagement with the device and / or associated with applications, content, services or longitudinal data collection about the inte...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B25J11/00B25J9/00
CPCB25J11/0005B25J11/0015B25J9/0003H04N23/611B25J11/001G10L15/197G10L15/22G10L15/32G10L2015/223B25J9/1694
Inventor BREAZEAL, CYNTHIAMICHAUD, AVIDALABERGE, FRANCOISROSS, JONATHAN LOUISSAUND, CAROLYN MAROTHYQUERZE, III, ELIO DANTEFARIDI, FARDAD
Owner JIBO
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