US 6,983,231 B2
Information processing device and method, data holding device, and program
Hideki Noma, Kanagawa (Japan); Masahiro Fujita, Saitama (Japan); Makoto Inoue, Kanagawa (Japan); Noritoshi Inoue, Tokyo (Japan); Katsuya Muramatsu, Kanagawa (Japan); and Masashi Takeda, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 9/958,244
PCT Filed Feb. 09, 2001, PCT No. PCT/JP01/00948
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Oct. 05, 2001,
PCT Pub. No. WO01/59703, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 16, 2001.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-038096 (JP), filed on Feb. 09, 2000; and application No. 2000-038256 (JP), filed on Feb. 10, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2003/0074107 A1, Apr. 17, 2003
Int. Cl. G06G 7/48 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 703—6 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device, comprising
an inheritance data creation means for creating a new second inheritance data which
regulates the shape and/or behaviors, of a virtual creature that can be expressed as data and is designed to be programmed to perform actions by the virtual creature, based on a first inheritance data which regulates the shape and/or behaviors of said virtual creature; and
providing means for providing for a robot to associate with said second inheritance data,
wherein said second inheritance data is created by said inheritance data creation means; whereby said robot acquires at least one new behavior relating to said new second inheritance data.