Information processing system

• US 8,514,261 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2010
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kawasaki, Yuji, Koyama, Jun, Ishi, Futoshi, Yamazaki, Shunpei
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Hemant
• Application Number:
  US12/833,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20100271471A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,138 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416, 370259-271, 370351-356, 709201-207, 709217-248, 382100-154, 382276-308
• US Class Current: 348/14.01
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/145 by video means
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/165 Evaluating the state of mind, e.g. depression, anxiety
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/00 Image analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2005/2726 for simulating a person's appearance, e.g. hair style, glasses, clothes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

In an information processing system provided with a camera and a microphone, for transmitting and receiving information of a user to and from another information processing system through a transmission lime, image data of the user obtained by a camera is stored in a memory in advance. When one user communicates another user, image data of the one user is obtained by the camera and is synthesized with the image data stored in the memory in advance by image-processing. The clothes, hair, background, make-up etc. of the one user are made different to reality and the image data are transmitted to the another user in the communication.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

means for detecting a degree of tiredness of a user of the device; and

means for synthesizing a first image data with a second image data based on the degree of tiredness of the user,

wherein the first image data is obtained by a camera, and

wherein the second image data is stored in a memory.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the degree of tiredness of the user is obtained by measuring a number of blinks of the user per unit time.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the degree of tiredness of the user is obtained by measuring a bloodshot degree of eyeballs of the user.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first image data represents an expression of a face of the user.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the camera is a CCD camera.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the memory is a flash memory.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device is a personal computer.

8. A device comprising:

a display unit;

means for detecting a degree of tiredness of a user; and

means for synthesizing a first image data with a second image data based on the degree of tiredness of the user,

wherein the first image data is obtained by a camera, and

wherein the second image data is stored in a memory.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the degree of tiredness of the user is obtained by measuring the number of blinks of the user per unit time.

10. The device according to claim 8, wherein the degree of tiredness of the user is obtained by measuring a bloodshot degree of eyeballs of the user.

11. The device according to claim 8, wherein the first image data represents an expression of a face of the user.

12. The device according to claim 8, wherein the camera is a CCD camera.

13. The device according to claim 8, wherein the memory is a flash memory.

14. The device according to claim 8, wherein the device is a personal computer.

15. The device according to claim 8, wherein the camera is provided on the display unit.

16. A device comprising:

a display unit;

a microphone for obtaining a voice data of a user of the device;

means for detecting a degree of tiredness of the user of the device; and

means for synthesizing a first image data with a second image data based on the degree of tiredness of the user,

wherein the first image data is obtained by a camera, and

wherein the second image data is stored in a memory.

17. The device according to claim 16, wherein the degree of tiredness of the user is obtained by measuring the number of blinks of the user per unit time.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein the degree of tiredness of the user is obtained by measuring a bloodshot degree of eyeballs of the user.

19. The device according to claim 16, wherein the first image data represents an expression of a face of the user.

20. The device according to claim 16, wherein the camera is a CCD camera.

21. The device according to claim 16, wherein the memory is a flash memory.

22. The device according to claim 16, wherein the device is a personal computer.

23. The device according to claim 16, wherein the camera is provided on the display unit.

24. The device according to claim 16, wherein the microphone is provided on the display unit.