Robot Emotion Prediction Model Using Preliminary Action

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current artificial intelligence systems lack the ability to predict human emotion status at a future moment, limiting their capacity to enhance user experience and improve communication efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A method that determines a user's current emotion status using sensors and an emotion digital model, and predicts future emotion status based on personalized factors, conversation scenario information, and external environment information, allowing for timely warnings or communication skill suggestions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the robot calculates emotion status only at the current moment using an intelligence engine, then the emotion recognition is simple and fast, but the ability to predict future emotion status is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotion prediction accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing emotion status data over time, building a historical database that enables future prediction. The emotion prediction model is trained in advance with大量 historical data, so when prediction is needed, the system can quickly infer future emotion states without complex real-time calculation, thus improving reliability while controlling complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

An emotion prediction model serves as an intermediary between the current emotion status and future emotion status. This model acts as a bridge that processes historical emotion data and generates predictions, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling accurate prediction capability. The intermediary model handles the complex prediction task separately, allowing the main system to remain relatively simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If the system collects detailed communication interaction information, then the emotion recognition accuracy improves, but the data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotion status detection accuracyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential emotion-related features from detailed communication interaction information, separating critical data elements from redundant details. By taking out only the necessary features (such as emotional expressions, tone, key interaction patterns), the system maintains high detection accuracy while significantly reducing data processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The detailed communication interaction information is segmented into distinct feature categories (emotional expressions, interaction patterns, contextual elements). This segmentation allows the system to process different types of data independently using specialized algorithms, improving measurement precision for each feature type while managing overall data processing complexity through modular approaches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If the robot provides real-time emotion status feedback, then the user experience improves, but the response time for prediction increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidprediction time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and storing emotion status data in advance, building ready-to-use historical records. When real-time prediction is needed, the system can quickly query and analyze pre-processed data without performing heavy computation in real-time, thus providing timely feedback that improves communication efficiency while minimizing prediction time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces complex real-time mechanical computation with optimized algorithms and pre-computed models. By substituting heavy real-time calculation with efficient prediction models that have been trained in advance, the system can provide real-time emotion status feedback with minimal delay, improving both user experience and communication efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11670324B2Method for predicting emotion status and robot
Publication Date: 2023.06.06 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

This application related to Artificial Intelligence technical field and discloses a robot and a method for predicting an emotion status by a robot. The method includes: determining a first emotion status of a first user, where the first emotion status is an emotion status of the first user at a first moment; predicting a second emotion status based on the first emotion status and a first emotion prediction model, where the second emotion status is an emotion status of the first user at a second moment, and the second moment is later than the first moment; and outputting a response to the first user based on the second emotion status.