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US 2012/0233633 A1Published application
Using image of video viewer to establish emotion rank of viewed video
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorYuko Nishikawa
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Abstract
A method whereby an actual image of a TV viewer as captured by a camera housed in the TV or an emotion rank, which is either an emoticon or descriptive words corresponding to the emoticon, generated by ranking engine software can be displayed on the viewer's display or uploaded to a social networking website on the Internet. The viewer may also vote in categorical manner on multiple images of friend's faces pertaining to the video currently being presented.
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System comprising:
- a viewer video display;
- a processor coupled to the viewer video display;
- a camera communicating with the processor;
- the processor executing logic on a computer readable storage medium to generate an image of the viewer using the camera and to provide the image to a ranking mechanism, the processor receiving back from the ranking engine the original image and an emotion rank pertaining to a video presented on the display and overlaying the original image and/or emotion rank onto the video, the emotion rank being an emoticon emulating the viewer's face and/or descriptive words that correspond to the detected emotion.
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A method comprising:
- generating an image of a viewer of a TV using a camera associated with the TV;
- providing the image to a ranking mechanism;
- receiving back from the ranking engine the image and an emotion rank pertaining to a video presented on the display;
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- overlaying the original image and/or emotion rank onto the video, the emotion rank being an emoticon emulating the viewer's face and/or descriptive words that correspond to the detected emotion.
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Apparatus comprising:
- a viewer video display;
- a processor coupled to the viewer video display;
- a camera communicating with the processor;
- the processor executing logic on a computer readable storage medium to, responsive to a viewer selection to capture a picture of his or her face, causing an image of the viewer to be captured, the processor providing the image to a ranking engine, the processor receiving from the ranking engine an emotion rank, the processor responsive to user command overlaying the image and/or the emotion rank onto a video being played on the display to enable a viewer to watch the video being played and view the image and/or emotion rank simultaneously.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.