公开(公告)号：US20190015993A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-17

申请号：US16027224

申请日：2018-07-03

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： YUJI KUNITAKE ,  SEIYA HIGUCHI

IPC: B25J13/08 ,  B25J5/00 ,  B25J19/02 ,  B25J19/04 ,  B25J9/16

Abstract: A robot controlled by a control circuit moves to a predetermined target point by rotating its spherical body. The robot detects a value of a pitch angle and then determines a minimum control amount corresponding to the statistical value of the pitch angle. When the robot arrives at a predetermined distance short of the predetermined target point, the control circuit generates a deceleration control amount for a drive mechanism greater than or equal to the minimum control amount. The control circuit then decelerates rotation of the spherical body by controlling the drive mechanism in accordance with the deceleration control amount.

公开(公告)号：US20180169865A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

申请号：US15897646

申请日：2018-02-15

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： SHIKI KOU ,  RYOUTA MIYAZAKI ,  MASAHIRO ISHII ,  KENTO OGAWA ,  YUJI KUNITAKE ,  SEIYA HIGUCHI

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J5/00 ,  G06N3/00 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/225 ,  H04R1/02 ,  G06F3/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1697 ,  A63H11/00 ,  A63H33/005 ,  A63H2200/00 ,  B25J5/00 ,  B25J9/1679 ,  B25J11/0005 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G06K9/00664 ,  G06K9/00671 ,  G06N3/008 ,  G10L15/22 ,  H04N5/2252 ,  H04N5/2257 ,  H04N7/185 ,  H04R1/028 ,  Y10S901/01 ,  Y10S901/46 ,  Y10S901/47

Abstract: A robot including a spherical housing made up of a main housing portion, a first spherical cap portion, and a second spherical cap portion. The main housing portion is disposed between the first spherical cap portion and the second spherical cap portion. The robot further including a weight that is provided in the main housing portion and configured to rotate around a pivot that is orthogonal to a shaft connecting the spherical cap portions. When outputting a response to an input instruction received from a user, via an input device, based on a predetermined processing is determined to require a predetermined time or more, a robot controls a first drive mechanism during the predetermined processing such that the first drive mechanism rotates a weight around the pivot to reciprocally move the weight in the opposite directions of the pivot.

公开(公告)号：US20180166076A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15834030

申请日：2017-12-06

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： SEIYA HIGUCHI ,  YUJI KUNITAKE ,  YUSAKU OTA ,  RYOUTA MIYAZAKI

IPC: G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/18 ,  G10L15/24 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G10L25/48 ,  G06K9/00 ,  B25J13/00

CPC classification number: G10L15/22 ,  B25J9/0003 ,  B25J11/0005 ,  B25J13/003 ,  G06F3/167 ,  G06F16/00 ,  G06F16/3329 ,  G06K9/00281 ,  G06K9/00288 ,  G06K9/00664 ,  G06K9/6292 ,  G10L13/043 ,  G10L15/1815 ,  G10L15/24 ,  G10L15/26 ,  G10L25/21 ,  G10L25/48 ,  G10L2015/088 ,  G10L2015/223 ,  Y10S901/01 ,  Y10S901/46

Abstract: A topic providing device includes a candidate topic extractor, a provided topic determiner, a voice synthesizer, and a speaker. When a determination is made that a parent and child are conversing and that there is a need to provide a new topic to the parent and child, based on a conversation history database and a child activity database storing at least one activity name indicating an activity the child was engaged in for a first predetermined period of time, the candidate topic extractor extracts at least one candidate topic that corresponds to the at least one activity name in the child activity database and does not correspond to an activity name included in text data recorded in a first database. From the at least one candidate topic, the provided topic determiner selects one topic to provide to the parent and the child. The voice synthesizer generates voice data containing the one topic. The speaker outputs the voice data.