IMITATED ANIMAL DEVICE HAVING REACTION CONTINUATION MEANS

摘要

An imitated animal device includes: perception means (1) using a computer for detecting a stimulus which an imitated animal receives as an external parameter and generating an event; stimulated feeling formation means (2) for expressing the imitated feeling as an internal parameter according to the detection state of the external parameter; and operation execution means (5) for deciding the reaction operation corresponding to a combination of the external parameter and the internal parameter and realizing the reaction operation into a movement of a predetermined portion upon reception of the event. The imitated animal device further includes reaction continuation means (6) used under the condition that the perception means (1) detects an external parameter judged to be a start of a predetermined static continuation action, for causing the operation execution means (5) to continue the reaction operation decided according to the combination of the detected external parameter and the internal parameter present upon the detection until detecting an external parameter judged to be end of the static continuation action. Thus, even for the static continuation action, reaction similar to the animal is expressed continuously until the stimulus is terminated.