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Title:
CONVERSATION ROBOT AND ITS OPERATION METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004034274
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a conversation robot that talks more friendly with a user.

For example, when the conversation robot 1 talks to the user, a user recognizer 33 recognizes the user, a face direction recognizer 34 (or a body direction recognizer 35) recognizes a front direction of a face (or a front direction of a body) of the recognized user, a front movement controller 36 moves the conversation robot 1 to the front of the user's face (or body) based on the recognized front direction of the face (or the body) of the user, an eye recognizer 37 recognizes the user's eyes at the moved front position, a neck and eye controller 38 controls a neck and eyes 17 of the robot toward a direction of the recognized user's eyes, and then a conversation processor 39 talks to the user.


Inventors:
TAKUHARA MASAHITO
HIURA RYOTA
Application Number:
JP2002198258A
Publication Date:
February 05, 2004
Filing Date:
July 08, 2002
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD
International Classes:
A63H3/33; A63H3/40; A63H11/00; B25J5/00; B25J13/00; G10L15/00; G10L15/22; G10L15/24; (IPC1-7): B25J13/00; A63H3/33; A63H3/40; A63H11/00; B25J5/00; G10L15/00; G10L15/22; G10L15/24
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Toshiro Mitsuishi
Tadahiro Mitsuishi
Yasuyuki Tanaka
Hiroshi Matsumoto