Sony patents system to predict viewer emotions from video quality
Sony describes a method for linking specific video quality settings to the emotional reactions of viewers. By analyzing how people feel while watching certain scenes, the system creates a profile that can predict how viewers will react to new content based on its technical quality.
In the filing’s own words
Effective use of a user emotion for each scene of moving image content is enabled. On the basis of a user emotion and video quality for each scene of moving image content A, correlation data obtained by associating the user emotion with the video quality is generated. The user emotion for each scene of moving image content B is predicted on the basis of the video quality for each scene of the moving image content B and the correlation data obtained by associating the user emotion with the video quality related to the moving image content A. For example, the predicted user emotion for each scene of the moving image content B is displayed and used.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device, comprising: circuitry configured to: receive video quality data associated with a plurality of scenes of moving image content, wherein the video quality data includes video quality information of each scene of the plurality of scenes; receive emotion data associated with the plurality of scenes of moving image content, wherein the emotion data includes first user emotion information of each scene of the plurality of scenes; associate the first user emotion information of each scene of the plurality of scenes with the video quality information of a corresponding scene of the plurality of scenes; and generate first correlation data based on the association of the first user emotion information of each scene of the plurality of scenes with the video quality information of the corresponding scene of the plurality of scenes.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- Information processing device and information processing method
- Patent number
- US12749341B2
- Application number
- 18690272
- Filed
- Mar 17, 2022
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 16
Classified under
G06V 40/174 Physics & computingG06F 3/14 Physics & computingG06T 7/0002 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30168 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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