Intelligent pet robot
First Claim
1. A pet robot comprising a motor driving part for forward/backward and left/right turn movements, infrared ray generators and sensors for sensing objects, a sound sensing part for sensing sound, a mode setting part for setting the operation mode;
- a memory for storing programs and data, and a control part for controlling said motor driving part, said infrared ray generators and sensors, said sound sensing part, and said mode setting part in accordance with said set operation mode
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Abstract
The subject invention relates to an intelligent pet robot equipped with an electric motor which enables the pet robot to move. The pet robot, equipped further with infrared ray generators and sensors, not only can evade obstacles when it moves, but also can follow a racing track laid by a user. The pet robot, further comprising a sound sensing part, can receive sounds from a user. Since the user'"'"'s sound includes clapping of the hands, the user can give instructions to the pet robot by clapping his hands as well. The pet robot comprises further a mode setting part which allows setting of a specific operation mode among various operation modes of the pet robot. In addition to the Basic mode, the operation modes may include Racing mode, Escape mode, Sing-and-run mode, Sumo-wrestling mode, and so on. Since the pet robot is endowed with a gender, either a male or a female, it is also capable of dating with other pet robot under certain conditions. Restrictions in respect to the power reserve, age, etc of the pet robots may serve as prerequisites for a particular operation mode. The pet robot may further be equipped with an interface for data communication which enables the pet robot to connect to a server on the Internet, to download data, game programs, music, etc., and to recognize the gender of a partner before it proceeds to a dating with the partner
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20 Claims
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1. A pet robot comprising
a motor driving part for forward/backward and left/right turn movements, infrared ray generators and sensors for sensing objects, a sound sensing part for sensing sound, a mode setting part for setting the operation mode; -
a memory for storing programs and data, and a control part for controlling said motor driving part, said infrared ray generators and sensors, said sound sensing part, and said mode setting part in accordance with said set operation mode - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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14. A pet robot comprising:
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a motor driving part for forward/backward and left/right turn movements;
an infrared rays generating and sensing part including at lest two infrared ray generators and sensors on the front part, and at least two infrared ray generators and sensors at the bottom, a memory for storing behavior programs and data;
and a control part for controlling said motor driving part and said infrared rays generating and sensing part in accordance with mode set by said mode setting part.
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20. A pet robot comprising
a motor driving part including a motor capable of rotation and reverse-rotation, and wheels coupled with the axes of the motor, a sound sensing part including a microphone for converting sounds into electric signals, an amplifier for amplifying the electric signals from the microphone, a high-pass filter for filtering only high frequency signals from the amplifier, and a means for converting signals from the high-pass filter into signals perceivable to microprocessors; -
a sound generating part including a sound generating device and a sound source device;
a memory for storing the behavior programs and data;
and a control part for control of said motor driving part, said infrared ray generators and sensors, said sound sensing part, and said mode setting part in accordance with the operation mode as set by said mode setting part;
wherein said control part controls said sound generating part to generate a tone and to increase the scale of the tone at a predetermined speed for a predetermined time period upon perceiving a sound through said sound sensing part, further controls said sound generating part to stop generating the tone while virtually increasing the scale at a predetermined speed, and further controls, upon perceiving a sound during said virtual increase of the scale through said sound sensing part, said motor driving part to move a distance corresponding to the scale of the tone at the time of perceiving the sound
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