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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2016
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Simon J. Gibbs, San Jose, CA (US);

Anthony Liot, Cupertino, CA (US);

Yu Song, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/00 (2006.01); G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/006 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 9/453 (2018.02); G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06F 2203/011 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, a method for operating a virtual agent will be described. An interaction context is obtained. An agent state is determined based on the obtained interaction context. The agent state indicates an activity of the virtual agent. The emotion of the virtual agent is updated based on the obtained interaction context, the determined agent state and/or a personality of the virtual agent. One or more behaviors are selected. Each behavior involves or indicates a change in an appearance of the virtual agent or generation of audio. Various embodiments relate to devices, servers, software and systems arranged to implement one or more of the above operations.


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