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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2019
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takayuki Arakawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/63 (2013.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/16 (2006.01); G10L 25/18 (2013.01); G10L 25/75 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 25/63 (2013.01); A61B 5/165 (2013.01); A61B 5/4803 (2013.01); G10L 25/18 (2013.01); G10L 25/75 (2013.01);
Abstract
An emotion estimation apparatusincludes: a generation unitconfigured to generate acoustic characteristic information indicating an acoustic characteristic using a first acoustic signal output to the ear canal and a second acoustic signal produced by the first acoustic signal echoing inside the body; and an estimation unitconfigured to estimate emotion using the acoustic characteristic information.