IMPRESSION DEGREE EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND IMPRESSION DEGREE EXTRACTION METHOD

• US 20110105857A1
• Filed: 04/14/2009
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Zhang, Wenli, Uranaka, Sachiko, Emura, Koichi
• Application Number:
  US13/001,459
• Publication Number:
  US 20110105857A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

An impression degree extraction apparatus which precisely extracts an impression degree without imposing a strain on a user in particular. A content editing apparatus (100) comprises a measured emotion property acquiring section (341) which acquires measured emotion properties which show an emotion having occurred in the user in a measurement period, and an impression degree calculating part (340) which calculates the impression degree being a degree which shows how strong the user was impressed in the measurement period by comparing reference emotion properties which shows an emotion having occurred in the user in a reference period and the measured emotion properties. The impression degree calculating part (340) calculates the impression degree to be higher with the increase of the difference between the first emotion properties and the second emotion properties with the second emotion properties as the reference.

Claims

1. An impression degree extraction apparatus comprising:

a first emotion characteristic acquisition section that acquires a first emotion characteristic indicating a characteristic of an emotion that has occurred in a user in a first period; and

an impression degree calculation section that calculates an impression degree that is a degree indicating intensity of an impression received by the user in the first period by means of a comparison of a second emotion characteristic indicating a characteristic of an emotion that has occurred in the user in a second period different from the first period with the first emotion characteristic.

2. The impression degree extraction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the impression degree calculation section calculates the impression degree as higher the greater a difference between the first emotion characteristic and the second emotion characteristic as a reference.

3. The impression degree extraction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a content editing section that performs content editing based on the impression degree.

4. The impression degree extraction apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a biological information measurement section that measures biological information of the user; and

a second emotion characteristic acquisition section that acquires the second emotion characteristic, wherein;

the first emotion characteristic acquisition section acquires the first emotion characteristic from the biological information; and

the second emotion characteristic acquisition section acquires the second emotion characteristic from the biological information.

5. The impression degree extraction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second emotion characteristic and the first emotion characteristic are at least one of an emotion measured value indicating intensity of an emotion including arousal and valence of an emotion, an emotion amount obtained by time integration of the emotion measured value, and emotion transition information including a direction or velocity of a change of the emotion measured value.

6. The impression degree extraction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second period is a period in which a user is in a normal state, or a period in which external environment information is obtained that is identical to external environment information obtained in the first period.

7. The impression degree extraction apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the biological information is at least one of heart rate, pulse, body temperature, facial myoelectrical signal, voice, brainwave, electrical skin resistance, skin conductance, skin temperature, electrocardiographic frequency, and facial image, of a user.

8. The impression degree extraction apparatus according to claim 3, wherein:

the content is video content recorded in the first period; and

the editing is processing whereby a summary video is generated by extracting a scene for which an impression degree is high from the video content.

9. An impression degree extraction method comprising:

a step of acquiring a first emotion characteristic indicating a characteristic of an emotion that has occurred in a user in a first period; and

a step of calculating an impression degree that is a degree indicating intensity of an impression received by the user in the first period by means of a comparison of a second emotion characteristic indicating a characteristic of an emotion that has occurred in the user in a second period different from the first period with the first emotion characteristic.