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Think of one great idea and qualify why it is a patentable invention. Pet-to-human translator device A method of determining animal’s emotions from its voice with objective supports. The invention follows the procedures of converting animal's voices into electrical audio signals, extracting characteristics in a time to frequency component relation map of the audio signals as a input voice pattern, storing in advance in memory reference voice patterns for various emotions that respectively represent characteristics of time to frequency component relation maps, comparing the input voice pattern with the reference voice patterns, and determining what animal feels by declaring emotion of the particular reference voice pattern showing the highest correlation with the input voice pattern as a result of the comparison, and emotions represented by the reference voice patterns include “loneliness”, “frustration”, “aggressiveness”, “assertiveness”, “happiness”, and “wistfulness”, and hence, the present invention attains an effective way of determining dog's emotions with objective supports. A Patent is a grant issued by the government through the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines. It is an exclusive right granted for a product, process or an improvement of a product or process which is new, inventive and useful. This exclusive right gives the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling the product of his invention during the life of the patent. Patentable inventions should be a technocal solution to a problem, in any field of human activity, must be new, must involve an inventive step and must be industrially applicable.