Method for providing video call analysis service and an electronic device thereof

• US 9,100,632 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2013
• Issued: 08/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hyung-Joon, Hong, Young-Joo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah, Melur
• Application Number:
  US13/917,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20140002573A1
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/00 Diagnosis, testing or measuring for television systems or their details
• 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

A method and an electronic device for providing a video call analysis service are provided. The method includes receiving video call data, detecting an emotional change of a call party using the received video call data, and, when the emotional change is detected, storing the video call data at a time point at which the emotional change is detected.

Claims

1. A method for providing a video call analysis service in an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving video call data;

detecting an emotional change of a call party using the received video call data; and

when the emotional change is detected, storing the video call data at a time point at which the emotional change is detected.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the emotional change of a call party includes:

estimating an emotion using video call data received at a first time point;

estimating the emotion using video call data received at a second time point; and

detecting the emotional change by comparing the emotion estimated at the first time point with the emotion estimated at the second time point.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first time point and the second time point are consecutive or are spaced apart from each other by a predefined time interval.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the estimating of the emotion includes estimating the emotion of the call party using at least one piece of information of video information and voice information included in the received video call data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the video call data includes storing the video call data during a predefined reference interval before or after the time point at which the emotional change is detected.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the video call data includes storing the video call data during a reference interval starting from the time point at which the emotional change is detected.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing at least one of words and sentences used by the call party at the time point at which the emotional change is detected as emotion estimation information, when the emotional change is detected.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a list of at least one piece of video call data stored at the time point at which the emotional change of the call party is detected, when a first event occurs; and

when at least one piece of video call data is selected from the list of video call data, replaying the selected video call data.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining whether there is video call data stored at the time point when the emotional change of the call party is detected; and

proceeding to displaying the list of video call data, when there is the video call data.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

displaying an indication that video call data stored at the time point when the emotional change of the call party is detected does not exist, when there is no video call data.

11. An electronic device comprising:

at least one processor;

a memory; and

at least one program stored in the memory and configured to be executable by the processor,

wherein the at least one program includes at least one instruction to;

receive video call data;

detect an emotional change of a call party using the received video call data; and

,

when the emotional change is detected, store the video call data at a time point at which the emotional change is detected.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the instruction to detect emotional change of a call party is configured to:

estimate an emotion using video call data received at a first time point;

estimate the emotion using video call data received at a second time point; and

detect the emotional change by comparing the emotion estimated at the first time point with the emotion estimated at the second time point.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the first time point and the second time point are consecutive or are spaced apart from each other by a predefined time interval.

14. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the instruction to estimate emotion is configured to estimate the emotion of the call party using at least one piece of information of video information and voice information included in the received video call data.

15. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the instruction to store the video call data is configured to store the video call data during a predefined reference interval before or after the time point at which the emotional change is detected.

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the instruction to store the video call data is configured to store the video call data during a reference interval starting from the time point at which the emotional change is detected.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the at least one program further includes an instruction to store at least one of words and sentences used by the call party at the time point at which the emotional change is detected as emotion estimation information, when the emotional change is detected.

18. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the at least one program further includes an instruction to display a list of at least one piece of video call data stored at the time point at which the emotional change of the call party is detected, when a first event occurs, and when at least one piece of video call data is selected from the list of video call data, replay the selected video call data.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the at least one program further includes an instruction to determine whether there is video call data stored at the time point when the emotional change of the call party is detected, and display the list of video call data when there is the video call data.

20. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the at least one program further includes an instruction to display an indication that video call data stored at the time point when the emotional change of the call party is detected does not exist, when there is no video call data.