Renesas Electronics R-Car supports cocoro SB "Emotion Engine" feature

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Renesas Electronics Co., Ltd. (TSE:6723), a semiconductor solutions provider, today announced the successful development of an "Emotional Engine" (Note 1) for R-car that incorporates the artificial emotional intelligence technology developed by Cocoro SB, a subsidiary of Softbank Group. Development kit. The development kit allows the car to sense and read the driver's emotional condition and based on this to optimize the driver's needs.

The development kit incorporates cocoro SB's “emotion engine” that recognizes his emotional state, such as confidence or doubt, through the driver's language. A new driver user interface (UI) is integrated into the Renesas Electronics R-Car SoC (system on a chip) to show the car's response to the driver's emotional condition. Since the car understands the driver's language and senses its emotional state, it can respond appropriately and improve the safety of the driving process. The technology also integrates artificial intelligence-based machine learning capabilities so that the car can learn from the conversation with the driver to provide the best responsiveness for the driver's needs. Renesas Electronics expects to launch the development kit in the second half of this year.

The Softbank Group will hold the SoftBank World 2017 conference at the Garden Tower of the Royal Prince Hotel in Tokyo from July 20th to 21st. At that time, Renesas Electronics will also showcase its Internet car simulator at the conference. The simulator is equipped with support cocoro SB. A new development kit for "Emotion Engine" technology.

Renesas Electronics believes that driver's emotions, facial expressions, visual directions and vital signs are all key messages in improving the interactive experience of cars and drivers and the future development of autonomous vehicles. For example, if the car can recognize that the driver's current emotional condition is not good, even after the driver has switched to the automatic driving mode through voice control, the car can still ask the driver "Whether you want to continue driving, temporarily do not switch to the automatic driving mode. In addition, in the automatic driving mode at night, the car can also adjust the driving speed of the vehicle according to the emotional condition of the driver. By providing automakers and IT companies with development kits that incorporate "emotional engine" technology, Renesas Electronics hopes to apply this service model to the development of a new automotive-driver interface, as well as other moves that can take advantage of emotional state information. Application market.

Based on the newly launched Renesas Electronics Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and the self-driving development platform Renesas autonomy?, Renesas Electronics creates a safe, reliable and convenient driving experience for drivers by providing next-generation solutions to Internet vehicles.

Note 1: “Emotional Engine” is an artificial emotional intelligence technology, which consists of two parts. The first part is the speech emotion recognition that analyzes the speech signal. The second part is the emotion generation technology, which builds virtual hormone balances from information from a variety of interconnected sensors to generate emotions for the device. On this basis, it can perceive the emotion of the speaker by drawing an “emotion map”. The emotion map can be presented in both color and volume. For example, yellow represents happiness, red represents sadness, and volume is differentiated by 1-10. .