System and method for embedment of emotive content in modern text processing, publishing and communication

• US 7,089,504 B1
• Filed: 05/02/2000
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Xenogenic Development Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Walt Froloff
• Inventors: Froloff, Walt
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cao (Kevin)
• Application Number:
  US09/563,624
• Time in Patent Office: 2,289 Days
• Field of Search: 345/762, 345/763, 345/764, 345/708, 345/781, 715/762, 715/763, 715/855, 715/854, 715/839, 715/764
• US Class Current: 715/839
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

Aspects of the invention provide ways to include emotive content in written communication. The emotive content serves many needs not currently addressed in written word computer applications and text generation aids such as word processors, web publishers, email, file archives, faxes, cell phones, PDAs other applications. Adding emotive content to messages adds information, which can help to interpret and amplify the text message, improve the message integrity and fidelity of communication. Emotional content can contain and convey the subliminal messages, which are vital to a user'"'"'s interaction with one another via modern communication technologies. Aspects of the invention provide ways for the sender or author to add emotional content, which can capture, maintain, and focuses a receiver'"'"'s interest.

Current expression of emotive content and emotive intensity in written word are rarely used because of lack of writing ability, lack of facilitation or lack of capability. An aspect of the invention provides mechanisms, which facilitate user emotive embedment in the written word without regard to personal language expression and language manipulation skills, vocabulary size or writing style.

Aspects of the invention provide sets of emotive primitives, mechanisms and techniques to manipulate these primitives to represent emotive states and emotive intensities while “co-existing” with the actual textual message in the communications. These are primarily done through the use of face glyphs, colors, animation, fonts and also sets of “feeling” words.

Claims

1. A method for embedding emotive content into text in a computer application comprising:

selecting text displayed by the computer application;

selecting an emotive state from a plurality of emotive states residing in a computer memory associated with said computer application;

selecting an emotive intensity from a range of emotive intensities residing in a computer memory associated with said computer application;

mapping to a face glyph representative of the selected emotive state and associated emotive intensity, from a plurality of face glyphs residing in a computer memory associated with computer application; and

mapping a set of numerical parameters for rendering face glyph mapped from selected emotive state and selected associated emotive intensity,

whereby a set of representative numerical values map the numerical parameter set to face glyph configuration rendering emotive state and associated intensities to face glyphs in the computer application selected text.

2. A system as in claim 1 further providing a means for selecting and displaying emotive intensity by increasing said size of the face glyph and density of the said face glyph per said selected text region.

3. A system as in claim 1 further providing means for displaying emotive intensity associated with a selected text by region varying features of said selected facial glyph.

4. A system as in claim 1 further comprising:

means for selecting a color from a plurality of colors residing in a computer memory associated with said computer application; and

means for associating said selected color with a desired emotive state; and

means for varying shade of said selected color to be representative of an intensity of the selected emotive state.

5. A system as in claim 1 further comprising means for generating emotive content in the form of face glyphs dynamically, comprising:

means for mapping selected emotive states and emotive intensities to one or more face glyph facial features which represent an emotive state to be associated with selected text; and

means for assigning said face glyph features representative of emotive states and intensities to sets of numerical parameters; and

means for assigning said numerical parameters to one or more facial feature dimensions of the face glyphs; and

means for applying said numerical parameters for providing facial features in said face glyphs, such that said numerical values can be used to dynamically provide said unique emotive states and intensities in face glyphs.

6. A method for embedding emotive content into text in a computer application comprising:

selecting text in the computer application;

selecting an emotive state from a plurality of emotive states stored electronically and associated with the computer application;

mapping a set of numerical parameters for rendering face glyph colors mapped from selected emotive state;

mapping a representative color to the selected emotive state; and

embedding a face glyph mapped from a plurality of face glyphs stored electronically and associated with the computer application, for rendering the face glyph representative of the selected emotive state in mapped color in the selected text of computer application.

7. A method as in claim 6 further comprising rendering selected emotive intensity associated with the emotive state, the shade of the mapped color representative of the selected emotive intensity of mapped color of face glyph rendering the face glyph with the shaded color in the selected text.

8. A method for embedding emotive content into text in a computer application memory buffers comprising:

selecting text of the computer application;

selecting a face glyph, from a set of face glyphs communicatively coupled with said computer application, said face glyph representing an emotive state and emotive intensity, emotive intensity selected from a set of range of intensities, for displaying selected emotive content; and

inserting face glyph at display positions not interfering with the readability of selected text;

displaying face glyphs with selected text at readable positions in text display,

whereby text and face glyphs are rendered readably superimposed on display.

9. A system as in claim 8 further comprising means for mapping emotive state to color and color intensity onto said face glyphs for display.

10. A system as in claim 8 for mapping emotive states and emotive intensity using mechanisms such as Chernoff Face comprising the manipulation of key facial features such as:

Head Eccentricity;

Eye Eccentricity

Pupil Size;

Eyebrow Slope;

Nose Size;

Mouth Vertical Offset;

Eye Spacing;

Eye Size;

Mouth Width;

Mouth Openness;

Frequency of”

blinking eyes,

such that the manipulation of said features can generate a glyph representative of a desired emotive state and intensity.

11. A method for decoding textual emotive content from a computer application communication stream, application communicatively coupled with a known collection of feeling words connoting emotion and known collection of qualifying words in association with text in the communication stream, method comprising:

parsing communication stream text for feeling words and qualifying words selected from a plurality of feeling words and qualifying words respectively;

identifying parsed feeling words and words qualifying feeling words, from the collection of feelings words and associated qualifying words stored in memory associated with the computer application;

normalizing the identified feeling words such that each feeling word is weighted numerically from a range, by mapping associated qualifying word to a relative magnitude of emotional intensity within a defined numerical range; and

storing said feeling words and associated mapped emotional intensity, in computer memory associated with the computer application,

whereby the stored words can be mapped to emotive content of selected text for decoding textual emotive content from a computer application communication stream.

12. A system as in claim 11 enabling construction of translators and parsers which utilize the said decoded emotive context of the selected text as well as the entire communication stream for deriving a translation to a translated text.

13. A method of placing face glyphs, from a set of face glyphs and numerical range of intensities, representing emotive state and associated emotive intensity with associated text, into a communication stream without visual interference, method comprising:

selecting associated text for placement of said glyphs;

performing logical AND operations on addresses in memory device buffers mapped to display devices containing the said text and said face glyphs;

summing values of said AND operation on memory device buffer addresses;

storing said summed values of said AND operations;

comparing said stored values of said AND operations and for choosing a smallest summed value indicative of the least amount of overlap between said glyph and said text;

and embedding the glyphs into associated text at positions giving least overlap between said glyph and said text, whereby glyph and text overlap are minimized, resulting in the least interference for display of face glyph with text.

14. A computer program residing on a computer-readable media, said computer program embedding emotive content into text in a computer application comprising:

selecting text displayed by the computer application;

selecting an emotive state from a plurality of emotive states residing in a computer memory associated with said computer application;

selecting an emotive intensity from a range of emotive intensities residing in a computer memory associated with said computer application; and

mapping to a face glyph representative of the selected emotive state and associated emotive intensity, from a plurality of face glyphs residing in a computer memory associated with computer application,

whereby emotive state and associated emotive intensity is rendered by the display of representative face glyph with the associated text in the computer application.