WO2023199256A3 - Affective response modulation in embodied agents - Google Patents

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WO2023199256A3
WO2023199256A3 PCT/IB2023/053784 IB2023053784W WO2023199256A3 WO 2023199256 A3 WO2023199256 A3 WO 2023199256A3 IB 2023053784 W IB2023053784 W IB 2023053784W WO 2023199256 A3 WO2023199256 A3 WO 2023199256A3
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Felix MARCON SWADEL
Mark Sagar
Tim Wu
Hazel WATSON-SMITH
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An affective response system for autonomous agents creates a configurable mapping from perceived emotions from stimuli to appropriate response emotions as part of an empathetic autonomously animated system. The capacity to configure the empathetic response allows for the easy and intuitive creation of different styles of response to convey desired personality traits and tailor the emotional performance to specific use-cases. The parameters that describe the empathetic response can be modified dynamically to simulate mood swings or changes in the state of mind. The input emotions can come from any emotion classification system including but not limited to an NLP system or facial emotional analysis system. The outputs can be used to drive verbal or non-verbal behaviors.
PCT/IB2023/053784 2022-04-13 2023-04-13 Affective response modulation in embodied agents WO2023199256A2 (en)

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US20200090392A1 (en) * 2018-09-19 2020-03-19 XRSpace CO., LTD. Method of Facial Expression Generation with Data Fusion
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JP5729692B2 (en) * 2011-02-28 2015-06-03 国立大学法人信州大学 Robot equipment
KR20130091364A (en) * 2011-12-26 2013-08-19 한국생산기술연구원 Apparatus and method for generating emotion of robot
US20200349752A1 (en) * 2013-08-02 2020-11-05 Soul Machines Limited System for neurobehaviorual animation
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