ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,052, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to EMMA HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus for estimating emotion using multimodal model and method of training the same" was invented by Ryanghee Sohn (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus capable of estimating emotion includes an SER model processing unit that inputs an acquired speaker identity feature and speaker speech data feature to a predetermined SER model, and outputs a phonetic feature query, a phonetic feature key, and a phonetic feature value through a process, a TER model processing unit that outputs a text feature query, a te...