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US 9,038,543 B2Granted
Amusement ride comprising a facial expression recognition system
AssigneeMaurer Soehne GmbH & Co. KG
InventorJoerg Beutler
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Abstract
The amusement ride 1 comprises a track 2 and a vehicle 3 being moveable along the track 2 at a velocity v. Within the vehicle 3 a video camera 4 is installed. The video camera 4 takes a video film of the face of a passenger received within the vehicle 3 during a ride. A sender 5 transmits the data 6 to a facial expression recognition system 7. The result 10 of the process carried out by facial expression recognition system 7 may be downloaded from a server 11 by a client 13.
Claims12
An amusement ride comprising:
- a track;
- a vehicle for receiving at least one passenger and for movement of the vehicle along said track;
- at least one video camera installed in the vehicle, the at least one video camera configured to record a film of the face of the at least one passenger in said vehicle from a start of a ride and continuing during the ride;
- a facial expression recognition system for analyzing said passenger's facial expression recorded in said film;
- and
- an output unit for outputting a result of said analysis of the facial expression of the passenger, wherein the result includes a classification of the facial expression at various points along the track.
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A method of operating an amusement ride, comprising the steps of:
- providing an amusement ride vehicle for receiving at least one passenger, the amusement ride vehicle including at least one video camera installed in the vehicle;
- recording a film of the face of the at least one passenger received in the amusement ride vehicle from a start of a ride and continuing during the ride of said vehicle along a track using the at least one video camera;
- recognizing a facial expression of said passenger from analyzing facial expressions recorded in said film;
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- outputting a result of said analysis of the facial expression of the passenger, wherein the result includes a classification of the facial expression at various points along the track.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.