US 11,940,170 B2
Control system, control method, and storage medium
Atsushi Shionozaki, Tokyo (JP); Satoshi Ikeda, Kanagawa (JP); Tetsuo Tawara, Kanagawa (JP); and Yasushi Miyajima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/018,736.
Application 17/018,736 is a continuation of application No. 15/515,653, granted, now 10,788,235, previously published as PCT/JP2015/072033, filed on Aug. 4, 2015.
Claims priority of application No. 2014-227005 (JP), filed on Nov. 7, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2020/0408437 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B25J 9/16 (2006.01); F24F 11/89 (2018.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64U 101/00 (2023.01)
CPC F24F 11/89 (2018.01) [B25J 9/1694 (2013.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); B64U 2101/00 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control system comprising:
circuitry configured to:
estimate an emotion of a user;
access emotion data representing a plurality of users having certain emotions in certain places; and
control a moving object to change a surrounding environment of the user based on the estimated emotion and the emotion data including controlling the moving object to move in a direction of the user,
wherein, when it is estimated that the user has an unpleasant emotion, the circuitry controls the moving object to move in the direction of the user,
wherein the change of the surrounding environment includes physically protecting the user from an element of the surrounding environment, and
wherein the circuitry is further configured to:
calculate a value representing the emotion of the user with respect to a specific object on the basis of an interaction evaluation for the specific object, and
perform control to adjust a range of the change of the surrounding environment which includes physically protecting the user from the element of the surrounding environment depending on the value representing the emotion of the user with respect to the specific object.