Patent ID: 11940170
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B  G | IPC B  F  G

Claim 16:
17. A control method comprising:
estimating an emotion of a user;
accessing emotion data representing a plurality of users having certain emotions in certain places; and
controlling, by circuitry, a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user based on the estimated emotion and the emotion data including controlling the moving object to move in a direction of the user,
wherein, when it is estimated that the user has an unpleasant emotion, the controlling includes controlling the moving object to move in the direction of the user,
wherein the change of the surrounding environment includes physically protecting the user from an element of the surrounding environment, and
wherein the method further comprises:
calculating a value representing the emotion of the user with respect to a specific object on the basis of an interaction evaluation for the specific object, and
performing control to adjust a range of the change of the surrounding environment which includes physically protecting the user from the element of the surrounding environment depending on the value representing the emotion of the user with respect to the specific.