US Patent Issued to NTT on Feb. 17 for "Mood forecasting method, mood forecasting apparatus and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,152, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Mood forecasting method, mood forecasting apparatus and program" was invented by Shuhei Yamamoto (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Toda (Tokyo), Takeshi Kurashima (Tokyo) and Tomu Tominaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention can forecast a future-mood and to present the forecasting and a behavior that is the basis of the forecasting by causing a computer to execute: a first-training procedure for training a first-neural network in accordance with behavior time-series data and mood time-series data in each time interval, the first-neural network using behavior time-ser...