US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 23 for "Information processing device, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,897, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device, information processing method, and program" was invented by Kanna Tominaga (Tokyo), Shuhei Miyazaki (Tokyo), Hiromi Fukaya (Tokyo), Takeshi Matsui (Tokyo), Masayuki Sagano (Tokyo) and Saki Nishihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes an emotion recognition unit, a facial expression output unit, and an avatar composition unit. The emotion recognition unit recognizes an emotion on the basis of a speech waveform. The facial expression output unit outputs a facial expression corresponding to the...