US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 14 for "Communication robot, communication robot control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,996, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Communication robot, communication robot control method, and program" was invented by Randy Gomez (Wako, Japan), Yu Fang (Wako, Japan) and Keisuke Nakamura (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication robot includes an auditory information processing portion configured to recognize a volume of voice collected by a sound collection portion and generate an auditory attention map by projecting a sound position in a three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional attention map in which the robot is located at a center, a visual information processing por...