Method for controlling emotion information in wireless terminal

• US 20060203992A1
• Filed: 03/10/2006
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Bo-Yeon
• Application Number:
  US11/372,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20060203992A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/265.60
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

A method for controlling emotion information in a wireless terminal is provided. The method includes determining a degree of harmonization of emotion between a user of the wireless terminal and a communication partner in a communication mode, when the degree of harmonization is greater than a predetermined reference value, reporting that the degree of harmonization between the user and the communication partner is high, and when the degree of harmonization is smaller than the predetermined reference value, reporting that the degree of harmonization between the user and the communication partner is low.

Claims

1. A method for controlling emotion information in a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

determining a degree of harmonization of emotion between a user of the wireless terminal and a communication partner in a communication mode;

when the degree of harmonization is greater than a predetermined reference value, reporting that the degree of harmonization between the user and the communication partner is high; and

when the degree of harmonization is smaller than the predetermined reference value, reporting that the degree of harmonization between the user and the communication partner is low.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the determining the degree of harmonization comprises:

analyzing voice data of the user and voice data of the communication partner;

extracting a degree of emotion of the user and a degree of emotion of the communication partner through the analyzed voice data; and

determining the degree of harmonization between the user and the communication partner through the extracted degrees of emotion.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising, when the degree of harmonization is smaller than the predetermined reference value, selecting music and outputting the music as background music during communication.

4. A method for controlling emotion information in a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

analyzing voice data of a communication partner and extracting a degree of emotion of the communication partner in a communication mode; and

storing the extracted degree of emotion so as to correspond to a number of the communication partner.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the storing comprises:

searching for the number of the communication partner in a phone book;

when the number of the communication partner exists in the phone book, storing the extracted degree of emotion in the phone book so as to correspond to the number of the communication partner; and

when the number of the communication partner does not exist in the phone book, newly registering both the extracted degree of emotion and the number of the communication partner in the phone book.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the extracted degree of emotion comprises date information and is stored so as to correspond to the number of the communication partner.

7. A method for controlling emotion information in a wireless terminal, the method comprising:

when a display of a degree of emotion for a corresponding number is selected, displaying the degree of emotion of the corresponding number on a date-by-date basis; and

when a communication key is pressed, attempting a communication connection to the corresponding number.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the selecting the display of the degree of emotion is performed in a phone book.

9. A method for controlling emotion information in a wireless terminal, the method comprises:

when a communication connection to a corresponding number is attempted, displaying a degree of emotion of the corresponding number on a date-by-date basis; and

when a communication connection is selected, attempting the communication connection to the corresponding number.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the degree of emotion of the corresponding number comprises date information and is displayed by a graph.

11. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the degree of emotion of the corresponding number comprises date information and is displayed by a graph.

12. A method for controlling emotion information in a wireless terminal, the method comprises:

searching for each degree of emotion for numbers of a phone book in each predetermined period;

when the degree of emotion is smaller than a predetermined reference value, reporting that a degree of user emotion of a corresponding number is low; and

when the degree of user emotion of the corresponding number is low, switching into a predetermined mode and transmitting data to the corresponding number.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the switching into the predetermined mode and transmitting the data to the corresponding number comprises:

when a communication connection is selected in the predetermined mode, performing a communication connection to the corresponding number;

when a message/e-mail is selected in the predetermined mode, transmitting a message/e-mail to the corresponding number; and

when “

sending a present”

is selected in the predetermined mode, selecting and transmitting a present, such as ringing sound, a music letter and background music, to the corresponding number.