METHOD FOR EMOTION COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EMOTION SIGNAL SENSING DEVICE AND EMOTION SERVICE PROVIDING DEVICE

• US 20110172992A1
• Filed: 12/29/2010
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Lee, Sung Won, Hong, Choong Seon, SHIN, Hyun Soon
• Granted Patent: US 8,775,186 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/201
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0004 characterised by the type of physiological signal transmitted
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02416 using photoplethysmograph signals, e.g. generated by infrared radiation A61B5/14552 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0533 Measuring galvanic skin response
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/16 Devices for psychotechnics using teaching or educational appliances G09B1/00 - G09B7/00; Testing reaction times ; Devices for evaluating the psychological state
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

Provided are a method for emotion communication to share a user'"'"'s emotions between an emotion signal sensing device and an emotion service providing device. The method for emotion communication includes: the emotion signal sensing device'"'"'s sensing biological and environmental information of the user and generating an emotion signal and emotion information of the user based on the biological and environmental information; establishing an emotion communication connection with the emotion service providing device; transmitting the emotion signal and the emotion information to the emotion service providing device by the emotion communication connection establishment; and breaking the connection with the emotion service providing device

Claims

1. A method for emotion communication of an emotion signal sensing device that senses a user'"'"'s emotions, the method comprising:

sensing biological and environmental information of the user by the emotion signal sensing device;

generating an emotion signal and emotion information of the user based on the biological and environmental information;

establishing an emotion communication connection with the emotion service providing device; and

transmitting the emotion signal and the emotion information to the emotion service providing device via the established emotion communication connection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of an emotion signal and emotion information comprises:

setting a threshold value;

extracting a signal having a greater value than the threshold value from among the biological information; and

forming the emotion signal from the extracted signal.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving feedback information of the emotion signal and emotion information from the emotion service providing device; and

controlling the threshold value based on the feedback information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the establishing of an emotion communication connection comprises:

transmitting a first message requesting an emotion communication connection establishment to the emotion service providing device;

receiving a second message from the emotion service providing device in response to the first message; and

transmitting a third message to the emotion service providing device in response to the second message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first message contains a list of functions supported by the emotion signal sensing device, and the second message contains information on a function selected from the list of the functions by the emotion service providing device.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the establishing of an emotion communication connection comprises retransmitting the first message a predetermined number of times before receiving the second message from the emotion service providing device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the retransmitting comprises:

starting a timer after transmitting the first message; and

if the second message is not received until expiry of the timer, retransmitting the first message.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the retransmitting of the emotion signal and the emotion information comprises periodically transmitting the emotion signal and the emotion information.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a fourth message containing the reason for releasing the connection to the emotion service providing device; and

releasing the connection with the emotion service providing device.

10. A method for emotion communication of an emotion service providing device, the method comprising:

receiving a first message requesting an emotion communication connection establishment from an emotion signal sensing device;

transmitting a second message to the emotion signal sensing device in response to the first message;

receiving a third message from the emotion signal sensing device in response to the second message and establishing an emotion communication connection; and

receiving an emotion signal and emotion information from the emotion signal sensing device via the established emotion communication connection.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the transmitting of the second message comprises:

starting a timer after transmitting the second message; and

if the third message is not received until expiry of the timer, retransmitting the second message.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting feedback information on the emotion signal and emotion information to the emotion signal sensing device.

13. A method for emotion communication using a protocol layer for emotion communication between an emotion signal sensing device and an emotion service providing device,

wherein the protocol layer comprises:

a first layer that process an emotion signal and emotion information in order to transmit the same to the emotion service providing device;

a second layer that receives the processed emotion signal and emotion information from the first layer, and transmits the processed emotion signal and emotion information to the emotion service providing device; and

a protocol management plane that manages a first protocol for transmitting the processed emotion signal and emotion information to the emotion service providing device and a second protocol for establishing a connection between the emotion signal sensing device and the emotion service providing device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second layer receives feedback information on the emotion signal and emotion information from the emotion service providing device, and transmits the feedback information to the first layer, and

the first layer sets a threshold value for generating the emotion signal based on the feedback information.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first protocol includes at least one of a sensing information type field, a sensing information port field, a sensing information field, and a length field.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the second protocol includes at least one field contained in an EC_ConnectionEstablishment_Request message, an EC_ConnectionEstablishment_Response message, and an EC_ConnectionEstablishment_Confirm message.