ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,805, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Fumihiko Iida (Tokyo), Ryuichi Suzuki (Tokyo), Kuniaki Torii (Tokyo) and Emika Kaneko (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device including: an output control unit that controls an output from an interaction device to a user; an action evaluation unit that determines an action of the user performed in correspondence with an output of the interaction device; an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of the user corresponding to the action of the user; ...