Patents

I am the inventor or co-inventor of 9 patents covering 5 different technological issues (for more details, you can visit the European Patent Office web site):

Emotional Speech Synthesis

I am the inventor of 3 worldwide patents describing various aspects of a technology that describes the synthesis of emotional speech with computers. This technology has been integrated into the Qrio robot, and is being integrated into video games.

Emotional Speech Recognition

I am the inventor of one worldwide patent describing a technique which is useful in the process of building machines that can recognize the emotion/attitude of a human based on the prosody of its speech.

Robot behavioural shaping

Together with Frederic Kaplan, I am the co-inventor of a technique inspired from clicker -training which allows to teach various behaviours to a robot in a way which is quite similar to way real dogs or dolphins are trained. This technology has been integrated in the software of the commercial version of the AIBO robot.

Active learning

Together with Frederic Kaplan, I am the co-inventor of 2 patents which describe a machine learning technology which enables a learning machine to select autonomously its training examples so that each new example brings a maximal amount of information.