Laugh detector and system and method for tracking an emotional response to a media presentation
First Claim
1. An apparatus for using information in the form of passively collected emotional responses to a media presentation that is made to one or more individuals, comprising:
- a media presentation perceivably exhibited to at least one individual having a profile;
a detector for passively capturing emotional responses of said at least one individual to said media presentation during exhibition of said media presentation;
a processor for producing a correlation that reflects a relationship between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation which contained stimuli that elicited said emotional responses;
said processor identifying at least one group having a profile that is similar to the profile of said at least one individual;
wherein at least one or more of said portions of said media presentation is perceivably exhibited to said group;
wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are selected based upon said correlation between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation that contained stimuli that elicited said emotional response; and
wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are presented to said group with some assurance of a positive reception by said group.
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Abstract
Information in the form of emotional responses to a media presentation may be passively collected, for example by a microphone and/or a camera. This information may be tied to metadata at a time reference level in the media presentation and used to examine the content of the media presentation to assess a quality of, or user emotional response to, the content and/or to project the information onto a demographic. Passive collection of emotional responses may be used to add emotion as an element of speech or facial expression detection, to make use of such information, for example to judge the quality of content or to judge the nature of various individuals for future content that is to be provided to them or to those similarly situated demographically. Thus, the invention asks and answers such questions as: What makes people happy? What makes them laugh? What do they find interesting? Boring? Exciting?
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29 Claims
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1. An apparatus for using information in the form of passively collected emotional responses to a media presentation that is made to one or more individuals, comprising:
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a media presentation perceivably exhibited to at least one individual having a profile; a detector for passively capturing emotional responses of said at least one individual to said media presentation during exhibition of said media presentation; a processor for producing a correlation that reflects a relationship between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation which contained stimuli that elicited said emotional responses; said processor identifying at least one group having a profile that is similar to the profile of said at least one individual; wherein at least one or more of said portions of said media presentation is perceivably exhibited to said group; wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are selected based upon said correlation between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation that contained stimuli that elicited said emotional response; and wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are presented to said group with some assurance of a positive reception by said group. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for using information in the form of passively collected emotional responses to a media presentation that is made to one or more individuals, comprising the steps of:
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perceivably exhibiting a media presentation to at least one individual having a profile; passively identifying detectable, emotional, visceral responses of said at least one individual to at least a portion of said media presentation; and identifying any of the type of media presentation that was associated with said responses, the time at which said responses occurred during said media presentation, the location of said media presentation that caused said responses, and a value of said responses for either profiling for or for collecting group responses, said identified value being used for the steps of; associating metadata with individual and group profiles; producing a correlation that reflects a relationship between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation which contained stimuli that elicited said emotional responses; identifying at least one group having a profile that is similar to the profile of said at least one individual; wherein at least one or more of said portions of said media presentation is perceivably exhibited to said group; wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are selected based upon said correlation between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation that contained stimuli that elicited said emotional response; and wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are presented to said group with some assurance of a positive reception by said group. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An apparatus for using information in the form of passively collected emotional responses to a media presentation that is made to one or more individuals, comprising:
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a media presentation perceivably exhibited to a plurality of individuals, each individual having a profile; a detector for passively and simultaneously capturing emotional responses of multiple individuals to said media presentation during exhibition of said media presentation; and a processor for producing a correlation that reflects a relationship between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation which contained stimuli that elicited said emotional responses; said processor identifying at least one group having a profile that is similar to the profile of at least one of said individuals; wherein at least one or more of said portions of said media presentation is perceivably exhibited to said group; wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are selected based upon said correlation between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation that contained stimuli that elicited said emotional response; and wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are presented to said group with some assurance of a positive reception by said group. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28)
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29. A method for using information in the form of passively collected emotional responses of one or more individuals to a media presentation, comprising:
perceivably exhibiting a media presentation to at least one individual having a profile; passively capturing emotional responses of said at least one individual to said media presentation during exhibition of said media presentation; producing a correlation that reflects a relationship between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation that contained stimuli that elicited said emotional response; identifying at least one group having a profile that is similar to the profile of said at least one individual; perceivably exhibiting at least one or more of said portions of said media presentation to said group; wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are selected based upon said correlation between said at least one individual'"'"'s emotional responses and at least one portion of said media presentation that contained stimuli that elicited said emotional response; and wherein the at least one or more of said portions of said media that are perceivably exhibited to said group are presented to said group with some assurance of a positive reception by said group.
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