APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT ACCORDING TO EMOTION VARIATION

• US 20110144452A1
• Filed: 10/20/2010
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Jin-Hoon, Jo, Jun, SHIN, Hyun-Soon, Lee, Yong-Kwi, Choi, Jun-Sik
• Application Number:
  US12/908,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20110144452A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation. The method for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation includes sensing bio signals and environmental signals from a plurality of sensors; defining an emotional variation threshold value for each signal sensed at the sensing; extracting the emotional signal by analyzing the bio signals and inferring the emotional quotient for each bio signal based on the extracted emotional signal and the environmental signals; determining the emotional variation threshold values and the emotional quotient based on the inference results of the emotional quotient; and evaluating the determined emotional quotient. With the present invention, it can provide the emotional care service capable of informing and communicating the true emotional state of the person to user.

Claims

1. A method for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation, comprising:

defining an emotional variation threshold value based on bio signals and environmental signals sensed from a plurality of sensors;

extracting emotional signal by analyzing the bio signals and inferring the emotional quotient for each bio signal based on the extracted emotional signal and the environmental signals;

determining the emotional variation threshold values and the emotional quotient based on the inference results of the emotional quotient;

evaluating the determined emotional quotient; and

re-determining the emotional variation threshold value and the emotional quotient of the determining according to the evaluation results of the evaluating.

2. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 1, wherein the determining the emotional variation threshold values and the emotional quotient includes performing multimodal emotional inference by using the emotional quotient for each bio signal as the multi input, the emotional variation threshold value and the emotional quotient being determined according to the multimodal emotional inference results.

3. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 1, wherein the evaluating includes determining a way for evaluating the emotional quotient for evaluating the emotional quotient among self diagnosis and emotional care service feedback.

4. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 3, wherein the evaluating further includes querying whether the user agrees on the recognized emotional state when self diagnosis is used.

5. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 4, wherein the re-determining includes:

if agreed on the recognized emotional state by the response to the query, fixing the emotional variation threshold values in an emotional threshold management table, and

if not, adjusting the level of the information sensed from the bio signals and the environmental signals to correct the emotional variation threshold value.

6. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 3, wherein the evaluating further includes:

analyzing service consuming patterns according to the user'"'"'s emotional state to select the emotional care service meeting the emotional quotient when the emotional care service feedback is used;

monitoring the emotional variation while the selected emotional care service is provided; and

analyzing the emotional variation in the current emotional quotient according to the monitored results.

7. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 6, wherein the re-determining further includes:

when the current emotion of the user is not varied, adjusting the level of the emotional quotient if it is determined that it is negative emotion by searching the emotional quotient, and

if not, fixing the emotional variation threshold values in the emotional threshold management table.

8. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 6, wherein the re-determining includes:

when the current emotion of the user is varied, confirming whether the emotion is varied to the positive emotion; and

when the emotion is varied to the positive emotion, fixing the emotional variation threshold values in the emotional threshold management table.

9. The method for determining emotional quotient of claim 8, further comprising when the current emotion of the user is varied, confirming whether the emotion is varied to the negative emotion;

and

when the emotion is varied to the negative emotion, adjusting the level of the emotional quotient.

10. An apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation, comprising:

a plurality of sensors that sense bio signals and environmental signals;

a sensing signal processor that processes sensing signals sensed by the plurality of sensors; and

an emotional signal processor that defines emotional variation threshold values as a reference capable of recognizing emotional variation, analyzes the sensing signals from the sensing signal processor to extract emotional signal, and infers the emotional quotient based on the extracted emotional signal and the environment signals.

11. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 10, wherein the emotional signal processor further includes:

an error condition recognizing unit that analyzes the environmental information to sense the error condition of the extracted emotional signal; and

an emotional signal compensator that compensates the error condition recognized by the error condition recognizing unit to optimize the emotional signal.

12. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 11, wherein the emotional signal compensator adjusts the level of the emotional quotient to compensate for the error condition of the emotional signal.

13. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 10, wherein the emotional signal processor extracts the emotional signal from the bio signals based on the emotional variation threshold values.

14. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 10, wherein the emotional signal processor further includes:

an emotional signal information managing unit that manages the emotional variation threshold values, the emotional quotient, the emotional signal, and the state information of the emotional signal feedback from the corresponding user.

15. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 14, wherein the emotional signal information managing unit evaluates the emotional quotient based on the feedback result from the user and determines the optimized emotional variation threshold values and the emotional quotient according to the evaluation results.

16. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 14, wherein the emotional signal information managing unit evaluates the emotional quotient through the self diagnosis or the emotional care service feedback for the emotional state recognition result.

17. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 16, wherein the emotional signal information managing unit queries whether the user agrees on the recognized emotional state when the emotional quotient is evaluated through the self diagnosis, to evaluate the evaluation quotient according to the response from the user.

18. The apparatus for determining emotional quotient according to emotional variation of claim 16, wherein the emotional signal information managing unit monitors the emotional variation while the emotional care service is provided when the emotional quotient is evaluated through the emotional care service feedback, to confirm whether the emotion for the recognized emotional state is varied and to evaluate the emotional quotient according to the result.