Method of communicating and disclosing feelings of mobile terminal user and communication system thereof

• US 7,280,041 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2005
• Issued: 10/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Ryou, Jung Ryul
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Benjamin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAM, LAM P
• Application Number:
  US11/154,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20050280545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.12, 340/573.1, 340575-576, 455/550.1, 455/553.1, 455/567, 455/575.1, 600300-301, 600/306, 128903-904
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/903 Radio telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/904 Telephone telemetry

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of communicating and disclosing feelings of a mobile terminal user and communication system thereof, by which a user'"'"'s feeling state can be delivered to a counter party by real time as well as voice, video, characters, text, and the like are transmitted/received. The present invention includes collecting bio-information of a mobile terminal user, generating feeling data indicating a feeling of the user using the bio-information, and transmitting the generated feeling data with a communication signal.

Claims

1. A method of communicating feelings of a mobile terminal user, comprising:

collecting bio-information of the mobile terminal user;

generating feeling data indicating a feeling of the mobile terminal user using the bio-information; and

transmitting the generated feeling data with a communication signal;

wherein the bio-information includes at least one of physiological information and biorhythm information of the mobile terminal user.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, extracting the feeling data from the transmitted communication signal.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising, outputting an indication of the feeling of the mobile terminal user corresponding to the extracted feeling data.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the indication comprises at least one of an image, text, and voice indicating the feeling of the user.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the image is one of a still picture and a moving picture indicating a facial expression corresponding to a human feeling.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the text indicates at least one of a human feeling and an indication of truthfulness.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the voice is a synthesized sound indicating at least one of a human feeling and an indication of truthfulness.

8. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

comparing the extracted feeling data with data in a look-up table; and

outputting an indication of the feeling of the mobile terminal user based on the comparison to the data in the look-up table.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the data in the look-up table corresponds to at least one of an image, text, and voice indicating the feeling of the mobile terminal user.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the image is one of a still picture and a moving picture indicating a facial expression corresponding to a human feeling.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the text indicates indicating at least one of a human feeling and an indication of truthfulness.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the voice is a synthesized sound indicating at least one of a human feeling and an indication of truthfulness.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the feeling data comprises numbers corresponding to the feelings of the mobile terminal user.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the physiological information corresponds to at least one action of an autonomic nervous system of the mobile terminal user.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the physiological information comprises at least one of body temperature, respiration, pulse, electric skin reflection degree, blood pressure, and blood flow measurements made by a mobile terminal of the mobile terminal user.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication signal comprises a voice signal for a voice communication.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the feeling data is transmitted via a traffic channel allocated to a transmission of the voice signal.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the feeling data is encoded on the voice signal.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein the feeling data is transmitted via a control channel allocated for a control of the voice communication.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the communication signal comprises one of a video signal for a video communication, a short message service signal for a short message service transmission, and a packet signal for a packet transmission.

21. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the transmitted feeling data with another mobile terminal; and

outputting an indication of the feeling of the mobile terminal user based upon the received feeling data.

22. The method according to claim 1, wherein the bio-information is collected during a communication.

23. A communication system for communicating feelings, comprising:

a transmitting side mobile terminal comprising a first unit that collects bio-information of a user, a second unit that generates feeling data indicating a feeling of the user based on the bio-information, and a third unit that transmits the feeling data with a communication signal; and

a receiving side mobile terminal comprising a fourth unit that extracts the feeling data from a signal received from the transmitting side mobile terminal and a fifth unit that outputs an indication of the feeling corresponding to the extracted feeling data;

wherein the first unit comprises at least one of a physiological state collecting unit that extracts physiological information of the user and a biorhythm generating unit that computes a biorhythm based on a date of birth of the user.

24. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the physiological state collecting unit measures at least one autonomic nervous system action of the user.

25. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the physiological state collecting unit comprises at least one of:

a sensor that measures a body temperature of the user;

a sensor that measures a respiration of the user;

a sensor that measures a pulse of the user;

a sensor that measures an electric skin reflection degree of the user;

a sensor that measures a blood pressure of the user; and

a sensor that measures a blood flow of the user.

26. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the feeling data comprises numbers indicating the feelings of the user.

27. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the third unit encodes the feeling data on the communication signal.

28. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the communication signal comprises a voice signal for a voice communication.

29. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the feeling data is transmitted via a traffic channel allocated to a transmission of a voice signal.

30. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the feeling data is transmitted via a control channel allocated for a control of a voice communication.

31. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the communication signal comprises one of a video signal for a video communication, a short message service signal for a short message signal transmission, and a packet signal for a packet transmission.

32. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the receiving side mobile terminal further comprises a look-up table that stores data correlating extracted feeling data with feeling indication information.

33. The communication system according to claim 23, the receiving side mobile terminal further comprises a look-up table storing statistical numeric values corresponding to computed human feelings.

34. The communication system according to claim 33, wherein the fifth unit searches the look-up table to compare a value of the feeling data extracted by the fourth unit and then outputs an indication of the feeling corresponding to a result of the comparison.

35. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the fifth unit outputs at least one of an image, text, and voice.

36. The communication system according to claim 35, wherein the image is one of a still picture and a moving picture indicating a facial expression corresponding to a human feeling.

37. The communication system according to claim 35, wherein the text indicates at least one of a human feeling and an indication of truthfulness.

38. The communication system according to claim 35, wherein the voice is a synthesized sound indicating at least one of a human feeling and an indication of truthfulness.

39. The communication system according to claim 23, wherein the bio-information is collected during a communication.