Back to results
US 7,233,684 B2Granted
Imaging method and system using affective information
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsElena A. Fedorovskaya, Serguei Endrikhovski, Tomasz A. Matraszek, Kenneth A. Parulski, Carolyn A. Zacks, Karen M. Taxier, Michael J. Telek, Frank Marino, Dan Harel
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Imaging methods and systems are provided that use affective information. In one aspect an image of a scene is captured. Affective information is collected. The affective information is associated with the image.
Claims22
An imaging method comprising the steps of:
- capturing an image of a scene;
- collecting affective information at capture;
- and
- associating the affective information with the scene image, wherein the step of collecting affective information comprises monitoring the physiology of a user and, wherein the step of collecting affective information comprises the steps of interpreting the collected physiological information to determine the relative degree of importance of the scene image.
1 more element
An imaging method comprising the steps of:
- capturing a stream of images;
- collecting a stream of affective information during image capture;
- and
- associating the stream of affective information with the stream of images, wherein the stream of affective information comprises is examined to determine when relevant changes in affective information occur and the step of associating the affective information with the corresponding stream of images comprises associating data representing relevant changes in the affective information with the stream of images at a points in the stream of images that correspond to the occurrence of the relevant changes.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.