System and method for capturing and using biometrics to review a product, service, creative work or thing

• US 20050289582A1
• Filed: 06/24/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Odaka, Toshiyuki, Tavares, Clifford
• Application Number:
  US10/876,848
• Publication Number:
  US 20050289582A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

A system enables capturing biometric information while a user is perceiving a particular product, service, creative work or thing. For example, while movie-goers watch a movie, the system can capture and recognize the facial expressions, vocal expressions and/or eye expressions (e.g., iris information) of one or more person'"'"'s in the audience to determine an audience'"'"'s reaction to movie content. Alternatively, the system could be used to evaluate an audience'"'"'s reaction to a public spokesman, e.g., political figure. The system could be useful to evaluate consumer products or story-boards before substantial investment in movie development occurs. Because these biometric expressions (laughing, crying, etc.) are generally universal, the system is generally independent of language and can be applied easily for global-use products and applications. The system can store the biometric information and/or results of any analysis of the biometric information as the generally true opinion of the particular product, service, creative work or thing, and can then enable other potential users of the product to review the information when evaluating the product.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a biometric capturing device configured for capturing biometric data of a person while the person is perceiving a product; and

a device for storing information based on the biometric data and information about the product.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the product includes a video clip.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the information about the product includes a video index.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the information about the product includes the product.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the biometric data includes at least one of primary biometric data and secondary biometric data.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the biometric data includes at least one expression from the group of facial expressions, voice expressions, iris information, body language, perspiration levels, heartbeat information, unrelated talking, and related talking.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the biometric capturing device includes at least one of a microphone, a camera, a thermometer, a heart monitor, and an MRI device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the biometric capturing device further includes a biometric expression recognizer.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the information based on the biometric data includes at least one of primary biometric information, secondary biometric information, and reaction review metric information.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a decision mechanism and reaction integrator for interpreting biometric data as emotions.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising an advertising estimator for estimating a cost of an advertisement based on the biometric data.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a reviewer for enabling another person to review the information based on the biometric data and the information about the product.

13. A method comprising:

capturing biometric information while a person perceives a product; and

storing information based on the biometric information and information about the product in a database for future consumption.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the product includes a video clip.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the information about the product includes a video index.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the information about the product includes the product.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the biometric data includes at least one of primary biometric data and secondary biometric data

18. The method of claim 13, wherein the biometric data includes at least one expression from the group of facial expressions, voice expressions, iris information, body language, biometric information, perspiration levels, heartbeat information, unrelated talking, and related talking.

19. The method of claim 13, wherein the information based on the biometric data includes at least one of primary biometric information, secondary biometric information, and reaction review metric information.

20. The method of claim 13, further comprising recognizing the biometric data as emotions and emotional levels.

21. The method of claim 13, further comprising estimating a cost of an advertisement based on the biometric data.

22. The method of claim 13, further comprising enabling another person to review the biometric information and the information about the product.

23. A system comprising:

means for capturing biometric information while a person perceives a product; and

a database for storing information based on the biometric information and information about the product for future consumption.

24. A content providing system comprising:

at least one device for presenting content to a user, for capturing biometric information of the user, and for sending the captured biometric information to a server; and

a server for storing the content and previously obtained biometric information corresponding to the content, for providing the content and the previously obtained biometric information to the at least one device, for receiving the captured biometric information of the user from the at least one device, and for updating the previously obtained biometric information based on the captured biometric information received from the at least one device.