Sony patents video call overlays that show your mood and speech status
Sony describes a system that analyzes data from a video call to create visual overlays on the screen. These overlays adjust the size, color, or position of text and background images to reflect how the user is speaking or their general state during the conversation.
In the filing’s own words
To control display data displayed on a display part of a user terminal that carries out a conversation via a communication network and generate display data visualizing a user state and a conversation state. Received data from the user terminal carrying out a conversation via the communication network is analyzed, and display data having an utterance-text display region including text corresponding to a user utterance to be provided to the user terminal, on the basis of an analysis result is controlled. A display data control unit controls the size, position, color, or a movement of the utterance-text display region or at least one of output images around the utterance-text display region, and generates display data visualizing at least one of a user state and a conversation state of the user carrying out a conversation.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device comprising: a data analysis unit that analyzes received data from a user terminal carrying out a conversation via a communication network; and a display data control unit that controls display data having an utterance-text display region including text corresponding to a user utterance to be provided to the user terminal, on a basis of an analysis result of the data analysis unit, wherein the display data control unit controls a display mode of at least one of the utterance-text display region and a background region and generates display data visualizing at least one of a user state and a conversation state of a user carrying out a conversation.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
- Publication number
- US20260329506A1
- Application number
- 19112104
- Filed
- Aug 2, 2023
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/14 Physics & computingG10L 15/22 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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