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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:
Aug. 19, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2008
Applicants:

Dimitar Petrov Filev, Novi, MI (US);

Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, West Bloomfield, MI (US);

Fazal Urrahman Syed, Canton, MI (US);

Erica Klampfl, Canton, MI (US);

Thomas J. Giuli, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Yifan Chen, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Inventors:

Dimitar Petrov Filev, Novi, MI (US);

Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin, West Bloomfield, MI (US);

Fazal Urrahman Syed, Canton, MI (US);

Erica Klampfl, Canton, MI (US);

Thomas J. Giuli, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Yifan Chen, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/00 (2013.01); G10L 25/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Information about a device may be emotively conveyed to a user of the device. Input indicative of an operating state of the device may be received. The input may be transformed into data representing a simulated emotional state. Data representing an avatar that expresses the simulated emotional state may be generated and displayed. A query from the user regarding the simulated emotional state expressed by the avatar may be received. The query may be responded to.

Published as:
US2008269958A1; WO2008134625A1; US2009055190A1; US2009055824A1; US2009063154A1; US2009064155A1; EP2140341A1; CN101669090A; JP2010531478A; EP2140341A4; EP2140341B1; ATE555433T1; US8812171B2; BRPI0809759A2; US2014313208A1; US9189879B2; US9292952B2; US9495787B2; US9811935B2; US2018047201A1; US10839583B2;

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