CAPTURE AND RETRIEVAL OF A PERSONALIZED MOOD ICON

• US 20150052462A1
• Filed: 08/15/2013
• Published: 02/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kulkarni, Harshad Abhay
• Granted Patent: US 10,289,265 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/174 Facial expression recognition

Abstract

Disclosed herein is system, method and apparatus to capture and retrieve personalized mood icons. A personalized mood icon may be used to express a mood, tone, emotion, etc., and may comprise one or more components, including without limitation one or more visual and/or audible components. An icon may be generated from a media item depicting a user and a mood of the user. For example, an icon may be generated from a media item comprising one or more of still image, video, audio, multimedia, etc. content. An icon may comprise content from one or more media items and/or content portions of one or more media items. An icon may comprise a textual component, such as for example a textual title or description of the mood, tone, motion being portrayed using the icon.

Claims

1. The method comprising:

identifying, via at least one computing device, a mood;

obtaining, via the at least one computing device, a media item having content depicting an expression of a user;

using, via the at least one computing device, at least a portion of the media item depicting the user'"'"'s expression for a personalized mood icon for the user; and

storing, via the at least one computing device, a relationship between the user and the personalized mood icon.

2. The method of claim 1, the media item and the personalized mood icon comprising at least one of audio and video.

3. The method of claim 1, the media item and the personalized mood icon comprising at least one of image and video.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising.

creating, via the at least one computing device, the relationship by relating user identification information and personalized mood icon identification information.

5. The method of claim 4, the personalized mood icon identification information comprising a retrieval prompt, the method further comprising:

monitoring the user'"'"'s input to detect the personalized mood icon'"'"'s retrieval prompt in the user'"'"'s input;

causing, using the at least one computing device, the personalized mood icon to be retrieved using the personalized mood icon'"'"'s retrieval prompt detected in the user'"'"'s input; and

causing the retrieved personalized mood icon to be displayed.

6. The method of claim 5, the retrieving further comprising:

determining that the personalized mood icon does not exist; and

causing the identifying, obtaining, using and storing to be performed in response to determining that the personalized mood icon does not exist.

7. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

causing a personalized mood icon library user interface to be displayed at a user computing device;

receiving the user'"'"'s request to create the personalized mood icon; and

causing the identifying, obtaining, using and storing to be performed in response to a user request to create the personalized mood icon.

8. The method of claim 1, the obtaining further comprising:

obtaining, using a media item capturing device and a media item capturing user interface, the media item, the media item capturing user interface displaying an outline of the personalized mood icon superimposed over output of the media item capturing device being displayed in the media item capturing user interface.

9. The method of claim 8, the outline comprising an outer boundary of the personalized mood icon providing a positioning guide for the user'"'"'s face in the media item and two inner outlines providing a positioning guide for the user'"'"'s eyes in the media item.

10. A system comprising:

at least one computing device comprising one or more processors to execute and memory to store instructions to;

identify a mood;

obtain a media item having content depicting an expression of a user;

use at least a portion of the media item depicting the user'"'"'s expression for a personalized mood icon for the user; and

store a relationship between the user and the personalized mood icon.

11. The system of claim 10, the media item and the personalized mood icon comprising at least one of audio and video.

12. The system of claim 10, the media item and the personalized mood icon comprising at least one of image and video.

13. The system of claim 10, the instructions further comprising instructions to.

create the relationship by relating user identification information and personalized mood icon identification information.

14. The system of claim 13, the personalized mood icon identification information comprising a retrieval prompt, the instructions further comprising instructions to:

monitor the user'"'"'s input to detect the personalized mood icon'"'"'s retrieval prompt in the user'"'"'s input;

cause the personalized mood icon to be retrieved using the personalized mood icon'"'"'s retrieval prompt detected in the user'"'"'s input; and

cause the retrieved personalized mood icon to be displayed.

15. The system of claim 14, the instructions to retrieve further comprising instructions to cause at least the user computing device to:

determine that the personalized mood icon does not exist; and

cause the identifying, obtaining, using and storing to be performed in response to determining that the personalized mood icon does not exist.

16. The system of claim 10, the instructions further comprising instructions to:

cause a personalized mood icon library user interface to be displayed at a user computing device;

receive the user'"'"'s request to create the personalized mood icon; and

cause the identifying, obtaining, using and storing to be performed in response to a user request to create the personalized mood icon.

17. The system of claim 10, the instructions to obtain further comprising instructions to:

obtain, using a media item capturing device and a media item capturing user interface, the media item, the media item capturing user interface displaying an outline of the personalized mood icon superimposed over output of the media item capturing device being displayed in the media item capturing user interface.

18. The system of claim 17, the outline comprising an outer boundary of the personalized mood icon providing a positioning guide for the user'"'"'s face in the media item and two inner outlines providing a positioning guide for the user'"'"'s eyes in the media item.

19. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium for tangibly storing thereon computer readable instructions that when executed cause at least one processor to:

identify a mood;

obtain a media item having content depicting an expression of a user, use at least a portion of the media item depicting the user'"'"'s expression for a personalized mood icon for the user; and

store a relationship between the user and the personalized mood icon.

20. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 19, the media item and the personalized mood icon comprising at least one of audio and video.

21. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 19, the media item and the personalized mood icon comprising at least one of image and video.

22. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 19, the instructions further comprising instructions to.

create the relationship by relating user identification information and personalized mood icon identification information.

23. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 22, the personalized mood icon identification information comprising a retrieval prompt, the instructions further comprising instructions to:

monitor the user'"'"'s input to detect the personalized mood icon'"'"'s retrieval prompt in the user'"'"'s input;

cause the personalized mood icon to be retrieved using the personalized mood icon'"'"'s retrieval prompt detected in the user'"'"'s input; and

cause the retrieved personalized mood icon to be displayed.

24. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 23, the instructions to retrieve further comprising instructions to cause at least the user computing device to:

determine that the personalized mood icon does not exist; and

cause the identifying, obtaining, using and storing to be performed in response to determining that the personalized mood icon does not exist.

25. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 19, the instructions further comprising instructions to:

cause a personalized mood icon library user interface to be displayed at a user computing device;

receive the user'"'"'s request to create the personalized mood icon; and

cause the identifying, obtaining, using and storing to be performed in response to a user request to create the personalized mood icon.

26. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 19, the instructions to obtain further comprising instructions to:

obtain, using a media item capturing device and a media item capturing user interface, the media item, the media item capturing user interface displaying an outline of the personalized mood icon superimposed over output of the media item capturing device being displayed in the media item capturing user interface.

27. The computer readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 26, the outline comprising an outer boundary of the personalized mood icon providing a positioning guide for the user'"'"'s face in the media item and two inner outlines providing a positioning guide for the user'"'"'s eyes in the media item.