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Physically-animated Visual Display

  • US 20090319459A1
  • Filed: 02/20/2009
  • Published: 12/24/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A physically-animated apparatus for improving a user'"'"'s current attention, cognitive performance, or emotional state, comprising:

  • a robotic device capable of multiple degree-of-freedom motion; and

    an affective-cognitive system, comprising;

    a feature extraction subsystem, adapted for deriving physical information about a user from data obtained from at least one device configured for sensing current physical state data about the user;

    a perception subsystem, adapted for processing the physical information received from the feature extraction subsystem in order to determine the user'"'"'s current emotional or affective-cognitive state;

    an action selection subsystem, adapted for determining an action to be taken in response to the determined emotional or affective-cognitive state; and

    a motor system, the motor system comprising at least one device adapted to physically animate the robotic device in accordance with the determined action.

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