Remote assessment of emotional status
AssigneeFuture Life, LLC
InventorsJohn S. Conti Kilmer, William D'Alelio, Jeff Hayes, Andrew Ramsey
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Abstract
A software product encoding steps for execution by a computer to provide an interactive computer-to-computer link for remote communication between a patient's computer and a therapist's computer, comprising instructions for establishing two-way audio/visual communication between said patient's computer and said therapist's computer, and an emotional recognition algorithm in said patient's computer for recognizing said patient's emotional state.
Claims22
A software product encoding steps for execution by a computer to provide an interactive computer-to-computer link for remote communication between a patient's computer and a therapist's computer, comprising:
- instructions for establishing two-way audio/visual communication between said patient's computer and said therapist's computer;
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- an emotional recognition algorithm in said patient's computer for recognizing said patient's emotional state.
A method of assessing the emotional state of a patient, comprising:
- establishing two-way audio/visual communication between a patient's computer and a remotely-located therapist's computer;
- monitoring said patient's visual image with an emotional recognition algorithm provided within a software product installed in said patient's computer;
- correlating changes in said patient's visual image with emotional states with said emotional recognition algorithm;
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- transmitting signals indicating said patient's emotional state to said therapist's computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.