Sony Corporation

Tom Cool

Olivier Demarto

Fabien Cardinaux

Philip Marivoet

Daavid Hentunen

An agent device for assisting one or more users is provided. The agent device supports a first operation mode in which the agent device is configured to identify individual users. Further, the agent device supports a second operation mode in which the agent device is configured to not identify individual users. The agent device includes a receiver circuit configured to receive, from an external device, a signal indicating that a person in the vicinity of the agent device does not want to be identified. Additionally, the agent device includes a control circuit configured to set an operation mode of the agent device to the second operation mode in response to receiving the signal.

Agent device and method for operating the same

A method of providing information about a device is proposed. According to the method, user-specific information of a first user is provided to the device. The user-specific information is related to a user experience of the device used by the first user. The user-specific information is stored in a non-volatile memory of the device. Upon a request of a second user, device-specific information based on the stored user-specific feedback information from the non-volatile memory of the device is outputted to the second user. A device with an electrical circuit, non-volatile memory, and an output circuit is proposed.

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Tom Cool