US Patent Issued to CITIZEN WATCH on Sept. 30 for "Emotion assessment apparatus, emotion assessment method and emotion assessment program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,816, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CITIZEN WATCH Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Emotion assessment apparatus, emotion assessment method and emotion assessment program" was invented by Hideki Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The emotion assessment apparatus has a detecting unit detecting heartbeat information including the heart rate of a subject, an emotion assessment unit assessing whether the emotion of the subject is a negative emotion or a positive emotion based on the heartbeat information, a counting unit counting the number of heart rate variations within a predetermined time period, an emotional expression assessment ...