KR101982260B1 - Home Social Robot - Google Patents

Abstract

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a home social robot for a subscriber of a living noise sharing application, the home social robot comprising: an acoustic receiver for receiving sound including a first living noise of a first subscriber; A communication unit communicating with a management server of the first subscriber and a terminal of the first subscriber through a network; a communication unit communicating with the sound receiver, the storage unit, the speaker, And a control unit connected to the communication unit, wherein the control unit is configured to transmit the acoustic information to the management server.

Description

Home Social Robot {Home Social Robot}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a home social robot, and more particularly, to a home social robot that audibly shares in-home activity information of a single household.

The number of single-person households worldwide is increasing. It is surveyed that 20 ~ 30 to 1 households, which occupy the largest portion of households, feel loneliness but feel tired of the relationship. This tendency to reduce social relations is the cause of social isolation. Looking at the problems faced by those living in their 20s, 30s and 1s, these families are feeling tired of human relations. Recently, due to the stress of human relationships, more and more people prefer to enjoy their own time rather than trying to make a good relationship with others, and new words such as "relationship" and " This word represents the 20s and 30s who do not feel the need for a new human relationship and feel irritated and skeptical about unnecessary and exhausting human relationships. In this era of time, experts have diagnosed that they are products of a modern society that has become accustomed to living alone, rather than training to engage with people. However, they do not feel lonely because they feel tired of the relationship and voluntarily become a single household. Loneliness accounts for a large portion of the difficulties experienced by living alone in existing research on households between 20 and 30 in Korea.

This disclosure attempts to promote companionism to address the social isolation of single households and has devised a way to share activity information. One of the activities to share is best suited to the life patterns of households, but the house is the most private space, so there may be concerns about privacy violation in sharing information about activity in the home. In the present disclosure, attention is paid to sharing social activity information with 'social robot' and 'hearing' as a way to reduce privacy concerns. The social cues' physical implementation of agent 'and' The purpose of this study is to investigate the social connection feeling of friends, companion to agents, and sharing activity information that can increase companionship to friends by minimizing invasion of privacy through auditory interface type. Experimental results show that when the agent is physically implemented and transmits the activity information of the friend through the voice of the robot, the social connection feeling for the friend, the companion for the agent, and the companion for the friend are the highest. Based on the experimental results, we constructed a home social robot that audibly informs the activity information in the home.

The problems to be solved by the present disclosure are not limited to the above-mentioned problems, and other matters not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a home social robot for a subscriber of a life noise sharing application, comprising: an acoustic receiver for receiving sounds including a first living noise of a first subscriber; a storage unit for storing acoustic information about the received sounds; A communication unit communicating with the management server of the first subscriber and the management server of the first social subscriber through a network; and a control unit connected to the sound receiver, the storage unit, the speaker, and the communication unit, And the control unit is configured to transmit the acoustic information to the management server.

In one embodiment, the control unit may be configured to receive acoustic information of a second subscriber who has decided to share life noise from the management server.

In one embodiment, the control unit may be configured to receive the acoustic information of the second subscriber to share the life noise and to convert the acoustic information of the second subscriber as it is, or as a robot sound or a human voice, and output .

In one embodiment, the acoustic receiver may include four or more receive sensors.

In one embodiment, the home social robot may further include an affirmative response button for communicating positive feedback about the acoustic information of the second subscriber to share the life noise.

In one embodiment, the controller guides the type of living noise through the speaker when the home social robot is installed, causing the first subscriber to generate a corresponding living noise, and stores the generated living noise in the storage unit And also to the management server.

In one embodiment, the controller extracts at least one living noise belonging to a category shared with the second subscriber among the sounds received from the sound receiving unit through machine learning, and stores the extracted acoustic information of living noises in the storage And transmit the sound information to the management server.

In one embodiment, the category may include at least one of a door opening noise, a refrigerator opening noise, and a TV lighting noise.

In another aspect, there is provided a method of controlling a home social robot performed by a management server of a home social robot, comprising the steps of: receiving sound transmitted from a home social robot of a first subscriber; And transmitting the living noise of the matched category to one or more home social robots or terminals of one or more second subscribers who share life noise with the first subscriber, .

In one embodiment, the matching may comprise matching the sound to living noise of the category using machine learning.

In one embodiment, the method for controlling a home social robot comprises the steps of: receiving positive feedback about the sound of the first subscriber from a home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber; To a home social robot or terminal of the home network.

In one embodiment, transmitting the positive feedback may include transmitting a text message to a home social robot or terminal of the first subscriber.

In one embodiment, the terminals of the first and second subscribers may include one of a smart phone, a personal computer (PC), and a tablet PC.

In one embodiment, transmitting the matched life noise to the home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber may include transmitting a text message to the home social robot or the terminal of the second subscriber.

In one embodiment, the method of controlling a home social robot further comprises receiving a category of life noise to be shared with the second subscriber from a home social robot or terminal of the first subscriber, The step of transmitting to the home social robot or the terminal may include transmitting only the living noise belonging to the category of the living noise to be shared with the second subscriber.

In one embodiment, the step of transmitting to the second subscriber's home social robot or terminal may comprise transmitting the living noise of the first subscriber anonymously without providing the first subscriber's name.

According to the disclosed embodiments, the social isolation problem can be solved by connecting the user and other users through the interaction with the social robot capable of communicating with the person, thereby expanding the social connection sense of the single person household.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system environment for home social robot control performed by a management server of a home social robot, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
2 is a block diagram of a home social robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a home social robot performed by a management server of a home social robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Brief Description of the Drawings The advantages and features of the present disclosure and how to accomplish them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood, however, that the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments disclosed herein but may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the specific embodiments set forth herein, To fully explain the scope of the invention to a person skilled in the art, and this disclosure is only defined by the scope of the claims.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. For example, an element expressed in singular < Desc / Clms Page number 5 > terms should be understood to include a plurality of elements unless the context clearly dictates a singular value. Also, in this disclosure, it is to be understood that the terms " comprises, " or " having ", and the like, specify only those features, integers, steps, operations, elements, The use of the term does not exclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts or combinations thereof. Further, in the embodiments described herein, 'module' or 'sub-unit' may mean at least one function or a functional part performing an operation.

In addition, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, unless otherwise defined, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this disclosure belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and may be interpreted in an ideal or overly formal sense unless explicitly defined in the specification of the present disclosure It does not.

Embodiments of the present disclosure will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, in the following description, when there is a possibility that the gist of the present disclosure may be unnecessarily blurred, a detailed description of widely known functions and configurations will be omitted.

1 is a diagram illustrating a system environment for home social robot control performed by a management server of a home social robot, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

Referring to FIG. 1, a system environment 100 for home social robot control according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a management server 110. The management server 110 can be communicably connected to the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber and the plurality of second subscriber terminals 130-1, 130-2 ... 130-n through the network 140 have. Here, the network 140 may be an Internet network, a mobile communication network (e.g., a WCDMA network, a GSM network, a CDMA network), a wireless Internet network (e.g., Wired / wireless networks, and the like.

In one embodiment, the management server 110 may be a collocated server, such as a dedicated server, a hosting server, or a cloud server. The management server 110 receives sound from the first subscriber's home social robot 120 via the network 140 and transmits the sound to a category stored in a database (not shown) of the management server 110 Noise opening door, Noise opening on refrigerator, Noise on TV, Noise turning on computer, Noise turning on lights, Noise making phone calls, Noise turning on lights, Noise opening on bathroom doors, Noise opening windows, Noise turning on cleaners ), So that the living noise of the matched category can be transmitted to the home social robot (not shown) or the terminals 130-1, 130-2 ... 130-n of the second subscriber. Among the categories of living noise, there is a possibility of invasion of privacy, such as opening a toilet door or making a phone call. Therefore, if possible, at least one of opening door noise, refrigerator opening noise, It is desirable to share. It is possible to adjust the category of the living noise to be shared according to the intimacy of the first and second subscribers.

The management server 110 may store the living noise that may occur in the home in a database in the management server 110 for each category through machine learning. For example, the management server 110 stores the frequencies of the front door opening noise occurring in the homes in the database, and when the frequency of the living noise of a similar pattern is received later, it is determined that the living noise is noise that opens the front door . The management server 110 can continuously update the frequency of the living noise through machine learning. In addition, the management server 110 can use machine learning to match the sound from the first subscriber's home social robot 120 with a particular category of living noise.

Although not shown, it is possible to communicate with a terminal (not shown) of the first subscriber of the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber through WiFi, Bluetooth, infrared communication, WiMax, or the like. The first subscriber can control the home social robot 120 through the application after installing an application in the terminal and performing user registration (for example, interlocking the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber with the terminal) .

The first subscriber terminal and the plurality of second subscriber stations 130-1, 130-2 ... 130-n may be various types of handheld based devices such as a notebook computer, a note pad, A wireless communication device of the first subscriber and a computer or a server capable of communicating with another device through the network 140. The first subscriber terminal and the plurality of second subscriber terminals 130-1, 130-n are not limited thereto.

If the second subscriber also installs the home social robot, the management server 110 transmits the living noise from the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber to the second subscriber terminals 130-1 and 130- 2 ... 130-n, it is possible to transmit the living noise from the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber to the home social robot of the second subscriber. Further, in another embodiment, the living noise from the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber may be transmitted to both the second subscriber terminal 130-1, 130-2 ... 130-n and the home social robot of the second subscriber It is also possible to transmit.

2 is a block diagram of a home social robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The home social robot 120 includes a sound receiving unit 240 for receiving sound, a storage unit 230 for storing sound information about the received sound, a speaker 250 for outputting sound information about sound, A communication unit 220 for communicating with the subscriber's terminal (not shown) and the management server 110 of the home social robot via the communication network 140, the sound receiver 240, the storage unit 230, the speaker 250, And a control unit 210 connected to the communication unit 220.

The control unit 210 may transmit the sound information to the management server 110 via the network 140. [ In one embodiment, when the control unit 210 transmits the sound received through the sound receiving unit 240 directly to the management server 110, the management server 110 matches the sound with the living noise of the category stored in the database And transmits the living noise of the matched category to the home social robot or terminal of one or more second subscribers who share life noise with the first subscriber. The task of matching these sounds with the living noise of a particular category can be performed using machine learning, which is advanced through a large amount of data learning.

Alternatively, in another embodiment, to reduce the overload of the management server 110, the control unit 210 of the home social robot 120 may share with the second subscriber of the sound received from the sound receiving unit 240 through machine learning It is also possible to extract at least one living noise belonging to the category described below, store the extracted sound information of the living noise in the storage unit 230, and transmit the sound information to the management server 110.

In one embodiment, the controller 210 of the home social robot 120 may be configured to receive acoustic information of a second subscriber who has decided to share life noise from the management server 110. [ The control unit 210 may be configured to receive the acoustic information of the second subscriber to share life noise and to convert the acoustic information of the second subscriber as it is or as a robot sound or a human voice.

The sound receiving unit 240 includes four or more receiving sensors, such as four, six, eight, and so on, so that it is effective to increase the sound receiving efficiency.

In one embodiment, the home social robot 120 may further include an affirmative response button (not shown) for communicating positive feedback on the acoustic information of the second subscriber who has decided to share life noise. The home social robot 120 can receive the sound information (for example, opening the door of the refrigerator door) of the second subscriber anonymously or in a blind name through the management server 110, A positive response to the activity of the second subscriber can be expressed. When receiving sound information anonymously through the management server 110 from the home social robot (not shown) or the terminal 130-1 of the second subscriber, for example, the hearing of "one of the friends opened the refrigerator door" Information is transmitted through the speaker 250 of the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber and the first subscriber presses the positive response button of the home social robot 120, Quot; button has been pressed by the terminal 130-1 or the home social robot (not shown) of the " friend " In this case, the second subscriber can improve the bond with friends by checking who has pressed the 'Like' button through the group SNS using the terminal 130-1 or the home social robot.

If living noise is shared with a real name, it is possible to alleviate the loneliness of each other through 1: 1 SNS with the friend.

In one embodiment, when the first subscriber purchases and installs the home social robot 120, the type of living noise is guided through the speaker 250 to cause the first subscriber to generate the corresponding living noise, The noise can be stored in the storage unit 230 and transmitted to the management server 110. By doing so, the home social robot 120 and the management server 110 can accumulate data on living noises, and can continuously update the frequency of living noises by using a machine learning function.

The communication unit 220 may be configured to implement a communication protocol that supports transmission and reception of various information under the control of the control unit 210. [ In this case, the communication protocol may be implemented with appropriate hardware and / or firmware. In some implementations, the communication protocol may include a Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP / IP) protocol and / or a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) protocol. The communication unit 220 may be implemented by hardware and / or firmware implementing various RATs (Radio Access Technologies) including LTE / LTE-A. In some implementations, the communication unit 220 may be implemented to comply with a wireless communication interface specification such as LTE-Ue. The communication unit 220 communicates with the management server 110 and a plurality of second subscriber stations 130-1, 130-2 ... 130-n and a home social robot (not shown) under the control of the controller 210 Communication.

The storage unit 230 may store the frequency of the living noise by category. The storage unit 230 may also store software / firmware and / or data for operation of the control unit 210, and may also store input / output data and the like.

The storage unit 230 may be a flash memory type, a hard disk type, a multimedia card micro type, a card type memory (for example, SD or XD memory) (Random Access Memory), SRAM (Static Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), PROM A disk, and / or an optical disk.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling a home social robot performed by a management server of a home social robot according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 3, the management server 110 receives the sound transmitted from the home social robot 120 of the first subscriber (S301), and transmits the sound to the user terminal of the category stored in the database (Step S302). In step S302, the user performs a step of matching with a living noise (e.g., opening door noise, refrigerator opening noise, TV on noise, etc.). The step of matching these sounds with living noises of a particular category can be performed using machine learning. Various techniques of machine learning have been well known, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted. Thereafter, the management server 110 performs a step of transmitting lifelong noise of the matched category to the home social robot or terminal of one or more second subscribers who share life noise with the first subscriber (S303). The step of transmitting the matched living noise to the home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber can be performed, for example, by transmitting a text message to the home social robot or the terminal of the second subscriber.

In one embodiment, the management server 110 receives positive feedback about the sound of the first subscriber from the home social robot of the second subscriber or the terminal (S304), and transmits such positive feedback to the first subscriber To the home social robot or the terminal (S305). The step of transmitting positive feedback can be performed by transmitting a text message to the home social robot or terminal of the first subscriber. Here, the terminals of the first and second subscribers may include one of a smart phone, a personal computer (PC), and a tablet PC.

In one embodiment, the method of controlling a home social robot further comprises receiving a category of living noises to be shared with a second subscriber from a home social robot or terminal of the first subscriber, The step of transmitting to the robot or the terminal may include transmitting only the living noise belonging to the category of the living noises to be shared with the second subscriber. That is, the first subscriber excludes the noise of opening the toilet door, the noise of the telephone conversation, etc., which may be a problem of privacy invasion in the categories of living noise, the noise of opening the door, the noise of opening the refrigerator , And noise that turns on the TV can be shared.

In one embodiment, the step of transmitting to the home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber may be performed by transmitting the living noise of the first subscriber anonymously without providing the first subscriber's name. If life noise is shared with a real name, it is possible to alleviate loneliness through 1: 1 SNS with the friend, but there is a problem of privacy invasion. If you share anonymously with only living noise, there is less concern about privacy. Even if you share your life noise anonymously, in the case of a lonely friend, you can use a terminal or a home social robot to improve the bond with friends by checking who has clicked on the positive response button (for example, the "favorite" function button) have.

In the embodiments disclosed herein, the arrangement of the components shown may vary depending on the environment or requirements in which the invention is implemented. For example, some components may be omitted or some components may be integrated into one. In addition, the arrangement order and connection of some components may be changed.

It is to be understood that elements of the embodiments of the present disclosure described above may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, middleware, or a combination thereof and may be utilized as a system, subsystem, component, or subcomponent thereof I must understand. When implemented in software, the elements of the present disclosure may be instructions / code segments for performing necessary tasks. The program or code segments may be stored in a machine-readable medium, such as a processor-readable medium, or a computer program product. A machine-readable medium or a processor-readable medium may include any medium that can be read by a machine (e.g., processor, computer, etc.) and capable of storing or transmitting information in an executable form.

While the foregoing has been shown and described with respect to various embodiments of the disclosure, it is to be understood that the present disclosure is not to be limited to the specific embodiments set forth hereinabove, and that the above-described embodiments are intended to cover any variations, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Accordingly, the technical scope of the present disclosure should be determined only by the appended claims.

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Claims (17)

As a home social robot for life noise sharing application subscribers,
An acoustic receiver for receiving sounds including the living noise of the first subscriber,
A storage unit for storing sound information about the received sound;
A speaker for outputting auditory information about the sound;
A communication unit for communicating with a management server of the first subscriber and a home social robot via a network;
And a control unit connected to the sound receiver, the storage unit, the speaker, and the communication unit to transmit the sound information to the management server,
The control unit
Extracting at least one living noise belonging to a category shared by the second subscriber among the sounds received from the sound receiving unit through machine learning, storing the extracted acoustic information of the living noises in the storage unit, And to transmit to the management server. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the control unit is configured to receive sound information of a second subscriber who is to share living noises from the management server. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the control unit is configured to receive the sound information of the second subscriber to share the life noise and to convert the sound information of the second subscriber as it is or a sound of a robot or a voice of a human. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sound receiving unit includes four or more receiving sensors. The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising an affirmative response button for communicating positive feedback about the acoustic information of the second subscriber to share the life noise. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the control unit guides the type of living noise through the speaker when the home social robot is installed so as to cause the first subscriber to generate the corresponding living noise and store the generated living noise in the storage unit, RTI ID = 0.0 > a < / RTI > home social robot. delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the category includes at least one of a front door opening noise, a refrigerator opening noise, and a TV turning noise. A home social robot control method performed by a management server of a home social robot,
Receiving the sound transmitted from the home social robot of the first subscriber,
Matching the sound with living noise of a category stored in a database;
And transmitting the living noise of the matched category to one or more home social robots or terminals of one or more second subscribers who share life noise with the first subscriber. 10. The method of claim 9,
The matching step comprises:
And matching the sound with living noise of the category using machine learning. 10. The method of claim 9,
Receiving positive feedback about the sound of the first subscriber from the home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber;
And sending the positive feedback to a home social robot or terminal of the first subscriber. 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the step of transmitting the positive feedback comprises:
And sending a text message to the home social robot or terminal of the first subscriber. 12. The method of claim 11,
Wherein the terminals of the first and second subscribers include one of a smart phone, a personal computer (PC), and a tablet PC. 12. The method of claim 11,
And transmitting the matched living noise to the home social robot or the terminal of the second subscriber,
And sending a text message to the home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the category includes at least one of a door opening noise, a refrigerator opening noise, and a TV turning noise. 16. The method of claim 15,
Further comprising receiving a category of life noise to be shared with the second subscriber from the home social robot or terminal of the first subscriber,
Wherein the step of transmitting to the home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber includes transmitting only the living noise belonging to the category of the living noises to be shared with the second subscriber. 10. The method of claim 9,
Wherein the step of transmitting to the home social robot or terminal of the second subscriber comprises:
And transmitting the living noise of the first subscriber anonymously without providing a name of the first subscriber.

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