SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULATING EXPRESSION OF MESSAGE

• US 20110112826A1
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: Lee, James, Wang, Wen-Nan, Chen, Wei-Te, Tsai, Tzu-Chen, Hsu, Eden
• Granted Patent: US 8,285,552 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 13/00 Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems

Abstract

A system and a method for simulating expression of a message are provided. The system comprises a network platform end and at least one user end. The network platform end comprises a message capturing module for capturing a user message; a feature analyzing module for performing a characteristic analysis on content of the user message, so as to mark at least one simulation action tag on the message content; and a simulation message generating module for acquiring simulation instructions corresponding to the at least one simulation action tag and combining the same with the message content to generate a simulation message. The user end comprises a user device for receiving the simulation message and outputting the message content and simulation instructions contained in the simulation message to a simulation device; and the simulation device for playing the received message content and executing corresponding simulation instructions.

Claims

1. A system for simulating an expression of a message, comprising a network platform end and at least a user end, wherein the network platform end communicates with the at least user end through a communication network, and wherein

the network platform end comprises:

a message capturing module for capturing a user message;

a feature analyzing module for performing a characteristic analysis on a message content of the user message so as to mark at least one simulation action tag on the message content; and

a simulation message generating module for acquiring a plurality of simulation instructions corresponding to the at least one simulation action tag and combining the simulation instructions with the message content to generate a simulation message; and

the user end comprises;

a user device comprising a network module for receiving the simulation message through the communication network and a driving module for outputting the message content and the simulation instructions contained in the simulation message; and

a simulation device for receiving the message content and the simulation instructions from the driving module and for playing the received message content and executing the corresponding simulation instructions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the feature analyzing module comprises:

an emotion feature recognition unit for recognizing at least an emotion feature in the message content; and

a simulation action tagging unit for tagging each of the at least emotion feature the corresponding simulation action tag, wherein the simulation action tag includes an activated time of the at least emotion feature appearing in the message content.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the simulation device executes the simulation instructions according to the activated time of the corresponding simulation action tag while playing the message content.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network platform further comprises:

a simulation instruction database for recording at least one simulation instruction corresponding to each of the at least one simulation action tags.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the simulation device executes each of the simulation instructions for generating at least a simulation response action.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the network platform end further comprises:

a user database for recording the simulation device corresponding to the at least user end, wherein

the simulation instruction database further records at least one simulation instruction corresponding to each of the at least one simulation action tag for the corresponding one of a plurality of simulation devices; and

the simulation message generating module acquires at least one instruction corresponding to each of the at least one simulation action tag for the corresponding simulation device with respect to one of the at least user end according to the user database and the simulation instruction database, and combines the acquired at least simulation instruction with the message content to generate the simulation message.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the simulation instruction database is further provided for a user to update at least one of the simulation instructions corresponding to the at least one simulation action tag.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein, the simulation message generating module further marks a time point of each of the emotion features appearing in the message content in the simulation instructions, and when the simulation device plays the message content, the simulation instructions are executed respectively according to the corresponding time points.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the simulation device comprises:

an audio module for playing the message content in the simulation message.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the simulation device further comprises:

a display module, for executing the simulation instructions to display a simulation expression while the audio module plays the message content at the time point marked in the simulation instructions.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the simulation device further comprises:

an action module, for executing the simulation instructions to perform a simulation action while the audio module plays the message content at the time point marked in the simulation instructions.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the simulation device further comprises:

a converting module for converting the message content into a voice message through a text-to-speech technique for being played by the audio module.

13. A system for simulating an expression of a message, comprising a network platform end and at least a user end, wherein the network platform end communicates with the at least user end through a communication network, and wherein the user end comprises:

a network module for receiving a message from the network platform end through the communication network;

a feature analyzing module for performing a characteristic analysis on a message content of the message so as to mark at least a simulation action tag on the message content;

a simulation message generating module for acquiring a plurality of simulation instructions corresponding to the at least one simulation action tag and combining the simulation instructions with the message content to generate a simulation message;

a driving module for outputting the message content and the simulation instructions contained in the simulation message; and

a simulation device for receiving the message content and the simulation instructions from the driving module and for playing the received message content and executing the corresponding simulation instructions.

14. A method for simulating an expression of a message, adapted to a network platform end, wherein the network platform end communicates with at least a user end through a communication network, the method comprising:

capturing a user message;

performing a characteristic analysis on a message content of the user message so as to mark at least one simulation action tag on the message content;

acquiring a plurality of simulation instructions corresponding to the at least one simulation action tags and combining the simulation instructions with the message content to generate a simulation message; and

transmitting the simulation message to a simulation device of the at least user end so that the simulation device executes each of the simulation instructions for generating at least a simulation response action.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of performing the characteristic analysis on the message content of the user message so as to mark the at least simulation action tag on the message content comprises:

recognizing at least an emotion feature in the message content; and

tagging each of the at least emotion feature the corresponding simulation action tag, wherein the simulation action tag comprises an activated time of the corresponding emotion feature appearing in the message content.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of acquiring the plurality of simulation instructions corresponding to the at least one simulation action tag comprises:

querying a simulation instruction database for acquiring the simulation instructions, wherein the simulation instruction database records at least one simulation instruction corresponding to each of the at least one simulation action tag.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving an updating message uploaded by a user so as to update the at least one simulation instruction corresponding to each of the at least one simulation action tag.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the step of generating the simulation message further comprises:

marking a time point of the corresponding emotion feature appearing in the message content in each of the simulation instructions.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the step the simulation device executes each of the simulation instructions for generating at least a simulation response action comprises:

playing the message content contained in the simulation message and executing the simulation instructions respectively according to the time points.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of playing the message content contained in the simulation message further comprises:

converting the message content into a voice message through a text-to-speech technique for being played.