LAUGH DETECTOR AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO A MEDIA PRESENTATION
First Claim
1. An apparatus for passively collecting information in the form of emotional responses to a media presentation, comprising:
- a media presentation perceivably exhibited to at least one individual;
a detector for capturing emotional responses of said at least one individual to said media presentation during exhibition of said media presentation;
a processor for correlating said emotional responses with portions of said media presentation which contained stimuli that elicited said emotional responses.
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Abstract
Information in the form of emotional responses to a media presentation may be passively collected, for example by a microphone and/or a camera. This information may be tied to metadata at a time reference level in the media presentation and used to examine the content of the media presentation to assess a quality of, or user emotional response to, the content and/or to project the information onto a demographic. Passive collection of emotional responses may be used to add emotion as an element of speech or facial expression detection, to make use of such information, for example to judge the quality of content or to judge the nature of various individuals for future content that is to be provided to them or to those similarly situated demographically. Thus, the invention asks and answers such questions as: What makes people happy? What makes them laugh? What do they find interesting? Boring? Exciting?
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29 Claims
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1. An apparatus for passively collecting information in the form of emotional responses to a media presentation, comprising:
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a media presentation perceivably exhibited to at least one individual; a detector for capturing emotional responses of said at least one individual to said media presentation during exhibition of said media presentation; a processor for correlating said emotional responses with portions of said media presentation which contained stimuli that elicited said emotional responses. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for passively collecting information in the form of emotional responses to a media presentation, comprising the steps of:
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perceivably exhibiting a media presentation to at least one individual; passively identifying detectable, emotional, visceral responses of said at least one individual to at least a portion of said media presentation; and identifying any of the type of media presentation that was associated with said responses, the time at which said responses occurred during said media presentation, the location of said media presentation that caused said responses, and a value of said responses for either profiling for or for collecting group responses. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. An apparatus for passively collecting information in the form of emotional responses to a media presentation, comprising:
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a media presentation perceivably exhibited to a plurality of individuals; a detector for simultaneously capturing emotional responses of multiple individuals to said media presentation during exhibition of said media presentation; and a processor for correlating said emotional responses with portions of said media presentation which contained stimuli that elicited said emotional responses. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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