FACILITATING DYNAMIC AND INTELLIGENT GEOGRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF HUMAN EXPRESSIONS AND GESTURES

• US 20170090582A1
• Filed: 09/24/2015
• Published: 03/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: GANESAN, KRISHNA KUMA, ADAMS, NICHOLAS J., GOUGH, ROBERT E.
• Application Number:
  US14/864,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20170090582A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/42 Data-driven translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic and intelligent geographical interpretation of human expressions and gestures according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a gesture initiated by a sending user having access to a computing device, determining a geographic location of the computing device, and accessing a translation table having one or more translations of one or more gestures based on one or more geographic locations, where accessing further includes choosing a translation corresponding to the gesture. The method may further include interpreting a first intent associated with the gesture based on the translation, and triggering a first action based on the first intent.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

detection/reception logic to detect a gesture initiated by a sending user having access to the apparatus;

geographical identification logic to determine a geographic location of the apparatus;

reference and translation logic to access a translation table having one or more translations of one or more gestures based on one or more geographic locations, wherein the reference and translation logic is further to choose a translation corresponding to the gesture;

interpretation logic to interpret a first intent associated with the gesture based on the translation; and

application/execution logic to trigger a first action based on the first intent.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising preferences and profile logic to collect user preferences relating to at least one of the sending user and the receiving user, wherein the user preferences include user-preferred criteria regarding at least one of translation of the gesture, interpretation of the gesture, and transmission of the gesture.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the preferences and profile logic is further to generate at least one of a first user profile relating to the sending user and a second user profile relating to the receiving user, wherein the first and second user profiles are generated based on the user preferences.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first and second user profiles comprise identifying data relating to the first and second users, respectively, wherein the identifying data includes one or more of names, citizenships, nationalities, ethnicities, mother tongues, language skills, accents, physical appearances, and historical acts.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reference and translation logic is further to access the preferences and profile logic to obtain reference content from at least one of the user preferences, the first user profile, and the second user profile.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the interpretation logic is further to interpret a second intent associated with the gesture based on the translation and the reference content, and wherein the application/execution logic is further to trigger a second action based on the second intent.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising communication/compatibility logic to transmit a message based on at least one of the first action and the second action, wherein the message includes at least one of the gesture, an equivalent gesture that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent, a textual message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, an audio message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, and an animated message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, wherein the message is transmitted to a receiving user via a computing device over a communication medium.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the detection/reception logic is further to detect an expression initiated by the sending user having access to the apparatus, wherein the expression is at least one of translated and interpreted to determine a third action based on a third intent relating to the expression, wherein the message is transmitted based on the third action.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the gesture includes a physical gesture caused by a movement of at least one of one or more physical body parts and one or more physical objects, wherein the expression includes a bodily movement causing a facial expression including one or more of smiling, frowning, raising of eyebrows, rolling of eyes, opening or closing of the eyes, showing of teeth, wrinkling of a forehead, and changing of facial color.

10. A method comprising:

detecting a gesture initiated by a sending user having access to a computing device;

determining a geographic location of the computing device;

accessing a translation table having one or more translations of one or more gestures based on one or more geographic locations, wherein accessing further includes choosing a translation corresponding to the gesture;

interpreting a first intent associated with the gesture based on the translation; and

triggering a first action based on the first intent.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising collecting user preferences relating to at least one of the sending user and the receiving user, wherein the user preferences include user-preferred criteria regarding at least one of translation of the gesture, interpretation of the gesture, and transmission of the gesture.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein collecting further comprises generating at least one of a first user profile relating to the sending user and a second user profile relating to the receiving user, wherein the first and second user profiles are generated based on the user preferences.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the first and second user profiles comprise identifying data relating to the first and second users, respectively, wherein the identifying data includes one or more of names, citizenships, nationalities, ethnicities, mother tongues, language skills, accents, physical appearances, and historical acts.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising obtaining reference content from at least one of the user preferences, the first user profile, and the second user profile.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising interpreting a second intent associated with the gesture based on the translation and the reference content, and triggering a second action based on the second intent.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting a message based on at least one of the first action and the second action, wherein the message includes at least one of the gesture, an equivalent gesture that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent, a textual message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, an audio message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, and an animated message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, wherein the message is transmitted to a receiving user via a computing device over a communication medium.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising detecting an expression initiated by the sending user having access to the apparatus, wherein the expression is at least one of translated and interpreted to determine a third action based on a third intent relating to the expression, wherein the message is transmitted based on the third action.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the gesture includes a physical gesture caused by a movement of at least one of one or more physical body parts and one or more physical objects, wherein the expression includes a bodily movement causing a facial expression including one or more of smiling, frowning, raising of eyebrows, rolling of eyes, opening or closing of the eyes, showing of teeth, wrinkling of a forehead, and changing of facial color.

19. At least one machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions, executed on a computing device, to facilitate the computing device to:

detect a gesture initiated by a sending user having access to a computing device;

determine a geographic location of the computing device;

access a translation table having one or more translations of one or more gestures based on one or more geographic locations, wherein accessing further includes choosing a translation corresponding to the gesture;

interpret a first intent associated with the gesture based on the translation; and

trigger a first action based on the first intent.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the computing device is further to collect user preferences relating to at least one of the sending user and the receiving user, wherein the user preferences include user-preferred criteria regarding at least one of translation of the gesture, interpretation of the gesture, and transmission of the gesture,

wherein the computing device is further to generate at least one of a first user profile relating to the sending user and a second user profile relating to the receiving user, wherein the first and second user profiles are generated based on the user preferences, wherein the first and second user profiles comprise identifying data relating to the first and second users, respectively, wherein the identifying data includes one or more of names, citizenships, nationalities, ethnicities, mother tongues, language skills, accents, physical appearances, and historical acts.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the computing device is further to obtain reference content from at least one of the user preferences, the first user profile, and the second user profile.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 21, wherein the computing device is further to interpret a second intent associated with the gesture based on the translation and the reference content, and trigger a second action based on the second intent.

23. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the computing device is further to transmit a message based on at least one of the first action and the second action, wherein the message includes at least one of the gesture, an equivalent gesture that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent, a textual message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, an audio message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, and an animated message that conveys at least one of the first intent and the second intent with or without the gesture, wherein the message is transmitted to a receiving user via a computing device over a communication medium.

24. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the computing device is further to detect an expression initiated by the sending user having access to the apparatus, wherein the expression is at least one of translated and interpreted to determine a third action based on a third intent relating to the expression, wherein the message is transmitted based on the third action.

25. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the gesture includes a physical gesture caused by a movement of at least one of one or more physical body parts and one or more physical objects, wherein the expression includes a bodily movement causing a facial expression including one or more of smiling, frowning, raising of eyebrows, rolling of eyes, opening or closing of the eyes, showing of teeth, wrinkling of a forehead, and changing of facial color.