Recognition and Feedback of Facial and Vocal Emotions
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An approach is provided for an information handling system that identifies emotions and notifies a user that may otherwise have difficulty identifying the emotions displayed by others. A set of real-time inputs, such as audio and video inputs, are received at one or more receivers. The inputs are received from a human subject who is interacting with a user of the information handling system with the information handling system being a portable system carried by the user. The received set of real-time inputs are compared to predefined sets of emotional characteristics in order to identify an emotion that is being displayed by the human subject. Feedback is provided to the user of the system regarding the identified emotion exhibited by the human subject.
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16. An information handling system comprising:
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one or more processors; a memory coupled to at least one of the processors; a plurality of receivers accessible by at least one of the processors, wherein the plurality of receivers includes a video camera and a microphone; a feedback component accessible by at least one of the processors; and a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors, wherein the set of instructions perform actions of; receiving, from a human subject, a set of real-time inputs at one or more receivers, wherein the human subject is interacting with a user of the information handling system; comparing the received set of real-time inputs to one or more predefined sets of emotional characteristics stored in the memory; identifying an emotion being displayed by the human subject in response to the comparisons; and providing, via the feedback component, feedback to the user regarding the identified emotion. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A computer program product stored in a computer readable medium, comprising computer instructions that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include:
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receiving, from a human subject, a set of real-time inputs at one or more receivers included in the information handling system, wherein the human subject is interacting with a user of the information handling system; comparing the received set of real-time inputs to one or more predefined sets of emotional characteristics; identifying an emotion being displayed by the human subject in response to the comparisons; and providing feedback to the user of the information handling system regarding the identified emotion. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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