Patent ID: 7333969

Claim:
A human nervous system-based emotion synthesizing apparatus for a humanoid, comprising: at least one stimulus sensor that senses an external stimulus; an emotion generator that generates a predetermined simulated emotion corresponding to the sensed external stimulus; a physiological signal generator that generates at least one artificial physiological signal that models a physiological response of the human body to the sensed stimulus and the generated simulated emotion, wherein the physiological response comprises a response of the autonomic nervous system of the human body, and the artificial physiological signal is generated by modeling concentrations of neurotransmitters affecting the autonomic nervous system of the human body; and an emotional behavior generator that generates at least one simulated emotional behavior through a predetermined physical reaction in response to the sensed stimulus and the generated simulated emotion, wherein the generated artificial physiological signal is fed back to the emotion generator and the emotional behavior generator, and the generated simulated emotional behavior is fed back to the emotion generator and the physiological signal generator so that the generated simulated emotion, the artificial physiological signal and the simulated emotional behavior are combined to produce a simulated complex emotion that is expressed by the humanoid.