Patents by Inventor Samuel Lee SPAULDING

Samuel Lee SPAULDING has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • MAINTAINING ATTENTION AND CONVEYING BELIEVABILITY VIA EXPRESSION AND GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR WITH A SOCIAL ROBOT
    Publication number: 20180229372
    Abstract: A socio-emotive-cognitive architecture for a social robot that includes at least two of an attention system that determines at least one of the subject on which and the direction to which the robot focuses at least one of its resources in real-time; an embodied speech system that facilitates intent-based variation of utterances combined with multi-segment body movement; a motivation system that adjusts at least one of the degree of interaction and a mode of interaction for engaging a human user; and an emotion system that partially determines how the attention system, the embodied speech system, and the motivation system perform for any given interaction with a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Cynthia BREAZEAL, Fardad FARIDI, Sigurdur Orn ADALGEIRSSON, Samuel Lee SPAULDING, Andrew Paul Burt STOUT, Thomas James DONAHUE, Matthew R. BERLIN, Jesse V. GRAY