Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesising device

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EP 1 256 933 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	13.10.2004 Bulletin 2004/42

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	13.11.2002 Bulletin 2002/46

(21)	Application number: 01402176.0

(22)	Date of filing: 14.08.2001

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: G10L 13/08, G10L 13/02

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

11.05.2001 EP 01401203
13.07.2001 EP 01401880

(71)	Applicant: Sony France S.A.
	92110 Clichy (FR)

(72)	Inventor:
	Oudeyer, Pierre-Yves 75005 Paris (FR)

(74)	Representative: Bertrand, Didier et al
	S.A. FEDIT-LORIOT et autres Conseils en Propriété Industrielle, 38, avenue Hoche 75008 Paris 75008 Paris (FR)

(54)	Method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an emotion synthesising device

(57) The invention controls the operation of an emotion synthesising device (12), notably of the type where the emotion is conveyed on a sound, having at least one input parameter (Pi) whose value (Ei) is used to set a type of emotion to be conveyed, by making at least one parameter a variable parameter (VPi) over a determined control range, thereby to confer a variability in an amount of the type of emotion to be conveyed.
The variable parameter (VPi) can be made variable according to a variation model over the control range, the model relating a quantity of emotion control variable (δ) to the variable parameter, whereby said control variable is used to variably establish a value of said variable parameter.
Preferably the variation obeys a linear model, the variable parameter being made to vary linearly with a variation in a quantity of emotion control variable (δ).

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