Method of assessing people's self-presentation and actions to evaluate personality type, behavioral tendencies, credibility, motivations and other insights through facial muscle activity and expressions
First Claim
1. A method of assessing an individual through facial muscle activity and expressions, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving a recording stored on a computer-readable medium of an individual'"'"'s response to a stimulus, the recording including a non-verbal response comprising facial expressions of the individual;
(b) accessing the computer-readable medium for detecting and recording expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images;
(c) coding contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings to at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion; and
(d) analyzing the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion to assess one or more characteristics of the individual to develop a profile of the individual'"'"'s personality in relation to the objective for which the individual is being assessed, wherein analyzing the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion comprises;
identifying moments of the recording that elicited emotion based on the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion; and
developing the profile of the individual'"'"'s personality based on a percentage of positive versus negative emotions and the specific emotions shown during the stimulus.
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Abstract
A method of assessing an individual through facial muscle activity and expressions includes receiving a visual recording stored on a computer-readable medium of an individual'"'"'s non-verbal responses to a stimulus, the non-verbal response comprising facial expressions of the individual. The recording is accessed to automatically detect and record expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images. The contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings are automatically coded to an action unit, a combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion. The action unit, combination of action units, and/or at least one emotion are analyzed to assess one or more characteristics of the individual to develop a profile of the individual'"'"'s personality in relation to the objective for which the individual is being assessed.
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1. A method of assessing an individual through facial muscle activity and expressions, the method comprising:
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(a) receiving a recording stored on a computer-readable medium of an individual'"'"'s response to a stimulus, the recording including a non-verbal response comprising facial expressions of the individual; (b) accessing the computer-readable medium for detecting and recording expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images; (c) coding contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings to at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion; and (d) analyzing the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion to assess one or more characteristics of the individual to develop a profile of the individual'"'"'s personality in relation to the objective for which the individual is being assessed, wherein analyzing the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion comprises; identifying moments of the recording that elicited emotion based on the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion; and developing the profile of the individual'"'"'s personality based on a percentage of positive versus negative emotions and the specific emotions shown during the stimulus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform, operations comprising:
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(a) receiving a recording stored on a computer-readable medium of an individual'"'"'s response to a stimulus, the recording including a non-verbal response comprising facial expressions of the individual; (b) accessing the computer-readable medium for automatically detecting and recording expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images; (c) automatically coding contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings to at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion; and (d) analyzing the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion to assess one or more characteristics of the individual to develop a profile of the individual'"'"'s personality in relation to the objective for which the individual is being assessed, wherein analyzing the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion comprises; identifying moments of the recording that elicited emotion based on the at least one of an action unit, a combination of action units, or at least one emotion; and developing the profile of the individual'"'"'s personality based on a percentage of positive versus negative emotions and the specific emotions shown during the stimulus. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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