IMPRESSION ANALYSIS DEVICE, GAME DEVICE, HEALTH MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ADVERTISING SUPPORT DEVICE, IMPRESSION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, IMPRESSION ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20170177927A1
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Published: 06/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujita, Mitsuhiro, Kinoshita, Tomomi, Ihara, Yasuyuki
• Application Number:
  US15/115,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20170177927A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/28 Determining representative reference patterns, e.g. by averaging or distorting; Generating dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/772 Determining representative reference patterns, e.g. averaging or distorting patterns; Generating dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/171 Local features and components; Facial parts eye characteristics G06V40/18; Occluding parts, e.g. glasses; Geometrical relationships
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/174 Facial expression recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/175 Static expression

Abstract

Provided are: an impression analysis device with which it is possible to easily obtain a facial image evaluation of a person being evaluated; a game device; a health management device; an impression analysis system; an impression analysis method; a program; and a program recording medium. This impression analysis device (2) is characterized by comprising: a storage unit (11) which associates the pre-acquired facial image with the impression evaluation of the impression evaluator with respect to the facial image, and stores these pairs as impression information; a learning unit (12) which extracts characteristic parts from the facial images, and refers to the impression information to generate evaluation criteria; and an impression analysis result generating unit (13) that prepares, using the evaluation criteria generated by the learning unit (12), an impression evaluation from the facial image of a person being evaluated.

Claims

1. An impression analysis device comprising:

a storage unit that stores, as impression information, a preliminarily acquired facial image and an impression evaluation with respect to the facial image by an impression evaluator, to be stored in such a manner that the facial image is associated with the impression evaluation;

a learning unit that extracts a feature point from the facial image and generates an evaluation criterion by referring to the impression information; and

an impression analysis result generation unit that generates an impression evaluation result from a facial image of a person to be evaluated, based on the evaluation criterion generated by the learning unit.

2. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, wherein the impression evaluator is composed of a person who belongs to at least one of a group consisting of a specific business type, job type, and attribute.

3. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, wherein

the impression evaluation includes an impression evaluation of the impression evaluator according to a specific situation against the facial image, and

the impression analysis result generation unit generates the impression analysis result according to the specific situation.

4. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, wherein the impression analysis result includes an estimation result of the impression evaluation given by the impression evaluator, and in addition to the estimation result, includes at least one of an advice and a recommendation according to a purpose of use.

5. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, further comprising an impression information registration unit that associates and stores a facial image of the person to be evaluated, identification information of the person to be evaluated, and the impression analysis result generated by the impression analysis result generation unit, onto the storage unit as impression information.

6. The impression analysis device according to claim 5, further comprising an impression information detection unit that detects a specific impression evaluation and impression information that matches the impression analysis result of the impression information stored in the storage unit.

7. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, further comprising an impression analysis result image generation unit that generates an impression analysis result image based on the impression analysis result generated by the impression analysis result generation method.

8. The impression analysis device according to claim 7, wherein the impression analysis result image includes a facial image that is a modification of the facial image of the person to be evaluated, based on the impression analysis result.

9. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, further comprising an impression comparison information generation unit that generates an impression comparison result by comparing an impression analysis result of each facial image generated by the impression analysis result generation unit.

10. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, further comprising an advertisement selection unit that selects an advertisement according to the impression analysis result of the person to be evaluated.

11. The impression analysis device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an input unit and an output unit;

wherein

the input unit comprises at least one of a unit that inputs the specific impression evaluation and a unit that captures a facial image of the person to be evaluated, and

the output unit comprises at least one of a unit that displays the detected impression information, and a unit that displaying at least one from the group consisting of the impression analysis result generated by the impression analysis result generation unit, the impression analysis result image, the advertisement information, and the impression comparison result.

12. A game device comprising the impression analysis device according to claim 1.

13. A health management device comprising the impression analysis device according to claim 1.

14. An advertising support device comprising the impression analysis device according to claim 1.

15. An impression analysis system comprising:

a server including the impression analysis device according to claim 1;

an input terminal; and

an output terminal;

wherein

the input terminal and the output terminal are connected to the server via a communication line network;

the input terminal comprises at least one of a unit, that inputs the specific impression evaluation and a unit that captures a facial image of the person to be evaluated; and

the output terminal comprises at least one of a unit that displays the detected impression evaluation and a unit that displays at least one from the group consisting of the impression analysis result generated by the impression analysis result generation unit, the impression analysis result image, the advertisement information, and the impression comparison result.

16. An impression analysis method comprising:

storing, as impression information, a preliminarily acquired facial image and an impression evaluation with respect to the facial image by an impression evaluator, to be stored in such a manner that the facial image is associated with the impression evaluation;

extracting a feature point from the facial image and generating an evaluation criterion by referring to the impression information; and

generating an impression analysis result based on a facial image of a person to be evaluated, using the evaluation criterion.

17. The impression analysis method according to claim 16, wherein the impression evaluator is composed of a person who belongs to at least one of the group consisting of a specific business type, job type and attribute.

18. The impression analysis method according to claim 16, wherein the impression information associates the facial image with an impression evaluation by an impression evaluator according to a specific situation against the facial image, and the impression analysis result is generated according to the specific situation.

19. The impression analysis method according to claim 16, wherein the impression analysis result includes an estimation result of an impression evaluation given by the impression evaluator, and in addition to the estimation result, includes at least one of an advice and a recommendation according to a purpose of use.

20. The impression analysis method according to any one of claim 16, wherein the impression information includes an association with the facial image of the person to be evaluated, the identification information of the person to be evaluated and the impression analysis result.

21. The impression analysis method according to claim 20, further comprising detecting impression information that matches a specific impression evaluation and the impression analysis result of the impression information stored in the storage unit.

22. The impression analysis method according to claim 16, further comprising generating an impression analysis result image based on the impression analysis result.

23. The impression analysis method according to claim 22, wherein the impression analysis result image includes a modified facial image of the person to be evaluated, based on the impression analysis result.

24. The impression analysis method according to claim 16, further comprising selecting an advertisement according to the impression analysis result of the person to be evaluated.

25. The impression analysis method according to claim 16, wherein an impression comparison result is generated by comparing the impression analysis result of each of the facial images.

26. The impression analysis method according to claim 16, further comprising:

executing at least one of inputting the specific impression evaluation and capturing a facial image of the person to be evaluated; and

executing at least one of displaying the detected impression information and displaying at least one of the group consisting of the impression analysis result, the impression analysis result image, the advertisement information, and the impression comparison result.

27. A computer-readable program storage media storing a program storing:

a storing process that stores, as impression information, a preliminarily acquired facial image and an impression evaluation with respect to the facial image by an impression evaluator, to be stored in such a manner that the facial image is associated with the impression evaluation;

a learning process that extracts a feature point from the facial image and generates an evaluation criterion by referring to the impression information; and

an impression analysis result generation process that generates an impression analysis result from a facial image of the person to be evaluated, based on the generated evaluation criterion generated by the learning process.