Patent SG-11201809397T-A (SG)
Title: Multiple interactive personalities robot
Inventor: FAVIS STEPHEN
IPC: G06N3/00
Filed: 2017-04-25
Abstract: WO 17 / 18955 9 Al (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (43) International Publication Date 02 November 2017 (02.11.2017) WIP0 I PCT omit VIII Hot 0 HE Em ono Elio oimIE (10) International Publication Number WO 2017/189559 Al 1013 . 1 (51) International Patent Classification: G06F 17/00 (2006.01) GOON 3/00 (2006.01) G06F 17/30 (2006.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2017/029385 (22) International Filing Date: 25 April 2017 (25.04.2017) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 62/327,934 26 April 2016 (26.04.2016) US (71) Applicant: TAECHYON ROBOTICS CORPO- RATION [US/US]; 4776 Duckhorn Drive, Sacramento, CA 95834 (US). (72) Inventors: FAVIS, Stephen; 1880 Charm Way, Sacramen- to, CA 95835 (US). SRIVASTAVA, Deepak; 6529 Tim- berview Court, San Jose, CA 95120 (US). (74) Agent: SCARITO, John, D. et al.; K&L Gates LLP, 210 Sixth Avenue, K&L Gates Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2613 (US). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Published: — with international search report (Art. 21(3)) — with amended claims and statement (Art. 19(1)) (54) Title: MULTIPLE INTERACTIVE PERSONALITIES ROBOT 100 (57) : Methods and systems are provided to generate and exhibit multi- ple interactive personalities (MIP) in a robot capable of switching back and forth between the MIP (e.g., synthesized digital voice representing a robot personal- ity, digitally recorded human voice representing a human personality) during a continuing interaction with a user, a group of users, or other robots depend- 117 112 ing upon the situation. The MIP of the robot are exhibited by the robot speak- ing in more than one voice type, accent, and emotion accompanied with a suit- able facial expression. Corresponding animated multiple interactive personality (AMIP) chat-bot and chatter-bot software is also provided which uses a web/ 110 mobile interface to train the MIP using crowd- sourcing methods for a group of users and customization for an individual user. Trained MIPs are downloadable 101 into the MIP robot, AMIP chat-bot and/or AMIP chatter-bot for uses including entertainment, social companionship, education and training, and customer ser- vice applications. 102 FIG. 1