Emotion-Based Digital Video Alteration

• US 20080068397A1
• Filed: 09/14/2006
• Published: 03/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gerard, Scott N., Carey, James E.
• Application Number:
  US11/531,715
• Publication Number:
  US 20080068397A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/176 Dynamic expression

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for emotion-based digital video alteration that include receiving digital video of a face of a person, detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person, and altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules. Emotion-based digital video alteration may also include establishing alteration rules by a user. Emotion-based digital video alteration may also include establishing alteration rules by a user displaying the altered expressions of the face represented in the digital video on a display screen.

Claims

1. A method of emotion-based digital video alteration, the method comprising:

receiving digital video of a face of a person;

detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person; and

altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules further comprises altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video to exaggerate the expressions of the face that characterize the emotional state of the person.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules further comprises altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video to suppress the expressions of the face that characterize the emotional state of the person.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person further comprises:

applying emotion filters to representations of the face in the digital video; and

determining the expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon the filtered digital video.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising establishing alteration rules by a user.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying the altered expressions of the face represented in the digital video on a display screen.

7. An apparatus for emotion-based digital video alteration, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

receiving digital video of a face of a person;

detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person; and

altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules further comprises altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video to exaggerate the expressions of the face that characterize the emotional state of the person.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules further comprises altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video to suppress the expressions of the face that characterize the emotional state of the person.

10. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person further comprises:

applying emotion filters to representations of the face in the digital video; and

determining the expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon the filtered digital video.

11. The apparatus of claim 7 further comprising computer program instructions capable of establishing alteration rules by a user.

12. The apparatus of claim 7 further comprising computer program instructions capable of displaying the altered expressions of the face represented in the digital video on a display screen.

13. A computer program product for emotion-based digital video alteration, the computer program product disposed upon a signal bearing medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions capable of:

receiving digital video of a face of a person;

detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person; and

altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the signal bearing medium comprises a recordable medium.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the signal bearing medium comprises a transmission medium.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules further comprises altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video to exaggerate the expressions of the face that characterize the emotional state of the person.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon alteration rules further comprises altering expressions of the face represented in the digital video to suppress the expressions of the face that characterize the emotional state of the person.

18. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein detecting expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize an emotional state of the person further comprises:

applying emotion filters to representations of the face in the digital video; and

determining the expressions of the face represented in the digital video that characterize the emotional state of the person in dependence upon the filtered digital video.

19. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising computer program instructions capable of establishing alteration rules by a user.

20. The computer program product of claim 13 further comprising computer program instructions capable of displaying the altered expressions of the face represented in the digital video on a display screen.