Emotion-Responsive Moving Object Control for Adaptive User Environment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies do not consider changing the surrounding environment of a moving user based on their emotions, limiting their ability to adapt to conditions such as rain or sunlight, which can affect their comfort.

Innovation Solution

A control system that estimates a user's emotion and controls a moving object to adjust their surrounding environment, using a combination of emotion estimation, heat maps, and environmental sensors to determine necessary adjustments, such as providing shelter from rain or sunlight.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a fixed device such as a beach parasol is used to control the surrounding environment, then the device can provide shelter from rain or sunlight, but it cannot track a moving user and change the environment of a moving person

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to track moving userVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the static beach parasol into a dynamic moving object (drone) that can actively track and follow the user's movements. The drone continuously adjusts its position to maintain a fixed relative location above the user, enabling real-time environmental control for moving persons rather than stationary areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The moving object drone is designed to perform multiple functions: it provides shelter from rain, blocks sunlight, and can potentially offer other environmental controls. This single device replaces what would traditionally require multiple fixed installations at different locations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If emotion estimation technology is added to control the moving object, then the system can adapt to user's emotional needs, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotion-based environmental controlVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates emotion estimation technology that continuously monitors the user's emotional state and feeds this information back to the drone controller. Based on the detected emotions, the drone automatically adjusts its behavior and environmental control actions, creating a closed-loop adaptive system that responds to user needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses the user's own emotional data to automatically control the environment without requiring manual input. The emotion estimation unit processes the user's physiological or behavioral data, and the moving object autonomously adjusts its actions based on this processed information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10788235B2Control system, control method, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2020.09.29 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

[Object] To provide a control system, a control method, and a storage medium through which a moving object can change a surrounding environment of a user depending on an emotion of the user.[Solution] Provided is a control system including: an estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a user; and a moving object controller that controls a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user depending on the estimated emotion.