Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L51/00—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
  • H04L51/04—Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L12/00—Data switching networks
  • H04L12/02—Details
  • H04L12/16—Arrangements for providing special services to substations
  • H04L12/18—Arrangements for providing special services to substations for broadcast or conference, e.g. multicast
  • H04L12/1813—Arrangements for providing special services to substations for broadcast or conference, e.g. multicast for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms
  • H04L12/1827—Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation

Definitions

• a method of transmitting information for collective retrieval of emotional information A method of transmitting information for collective retrieval of emotional information.
• the present invention is in the field of telecommunications and more specifically in the sphere of communicating objects connected to a network. More specifically, the invention relates to new modes of transmission and collective retrieval of information relating to various individuals, or to various members of a group, connected by a communication network. This information may for example correspond to information representative of the mood, state of mind, health, state of tiredness ... of the people considered. This information is subsequently designated by the term "emotional state".
• Such emotional states are generally easily detectable, intuitively, when the interlocutors are in the presence of each other. This is however not the case when these interlocutors are distant, and simply connected by conventional means of communication, allowing only the transmission of written, voice and / or video messages.
• a disadvantage of this first technique is, of course, that the individual must make the approach to contact each person whose emotional state he wants to know.
• Another disadvantage of this technique is that the individual must renew contacts regularly at the risk of staying on emotional states that are no longer relevant, moods can change quickly ...
• Another disadvantage of this technique is that it does not simply share information about the emotional state of each member of a group among all members of the group. It is up to the individual to make the decision to disseminate the information, if he wishes.
• a second known technique for distributing information between two individuals implements two paired communicating objects connected to the Internet network, for example objects of the "Nabaztag®" type (according to the commercial name adopted by the company Violet) as described in particular on page 154 of issue 1058 of November 2005 of the journal "Science and Life".
• this technique when a first individual places an ear of his "Nabaztag®” in any position, this position is reproduced remotely on the "Nabaztag®” of the second individual, which can allow these two individuals to exchange information, for example information on their mood, according to a codification they agreed.
• a disadvantage of this second technique is that it is specifically dedicated to communication between two people, equipped with two devices coupled with each other. It can not be implemented simply to restore the reciprocal emotional states of a group of more than two individuals, unless to provide for each individual as many "Nabaztag®" as members of the group.
• this technique is limited to reproducing at a distance an action performed by an individual. It does not allow each user to set the restitution of information in a different form, according to his needs and preferences.
• the invention offers a solution that does not have these disadvantages, thanks to a method of transmitting information relating to at least two people. According to the invention, this method includes at least the following steps:
• each of said emotional states into state information; transmitting said state information to means for restoring emotions capable of associating with each person at least two rendering elements that can each take at least two predetermined states representative of at least two distinct respective emotional states.
• the invention makes it possible to restore said states of emotion, via the restitution means, as a function of said emotion state information.
• These means of reproduction, or communicating objects are for example objects of the domestic setting and may, inter alia, be an accessory, such as a set of photo frames for example, a computer, a personal assistant, a mobile phone, and more generally any object designed to take several states representative of these states of emotion, and connectable to access to a communication network (where appropriate via a terminal or a gateway), and in particular to a computer network, for example Internet type.
• This restitution can in particular be implemented by means of a visual signal, or for example a message or a sensory allusion (the) in the form of a sound effect, olfactory, tactile and / or taste or resulting from the control in motion of a mechanism ...
• the invention allows the transmission and the restitution substantially real time information informing on the mood or mood of people belonging, for example, to a group, and more generally information relating to the emotional state of these people at a specific moment.
• the method of the invention allows these people to know the most recent emotional state, or at least the most recently, of all other people.
• emotional state is understood to mean information, such as moods or various states of mind such as, for example, happy, curious, tense, angry, disillusioned, tired, or without particularity (still referred to as neutral in the following the description).
• This process also allows you to share, if you wish, your own emotional state with other people. This can be achieved by acting on the playback means or through any other terminal connected to the network.
• the same rendering element can be used to successively restore the emotional states of two different persons.
• such an information transmission method comprises a step of placing at least a second person in communication with a first person having previously declared his or her emotional state.
• the invention may provide a systematic, or in other words automatic and unsolicited, procedure. call or put the second person in communication with the first person to take news and try to appease or comfort the latter.
• Such a feature may, for example, be offered by judiciously connecting the playback means with call means.
• the rendering means make it possible to propose to the second person to put it into communication with the first person, for example by clicking on an avatar.
• the obtaining step comprises a step of declaring its emotional state by at least one of said persons.
• the various persons can participate in the updating of the information representative of their emotional state so as to boost the use and / or the service rendered by the invention.
• such a declaration step includes a step of associating a creation date with said emotional state.
• the means of restitution are able to restore on the one hand the emotional state and on the other hand the date of update and / or the time elapsed since the declaration of this emotional state.
• date we do not mean here only the identification of a day, but of course more generally the declaration of a moment, if necessary with a time of declaration.
• the transformation step comprises a step of adapting the state information as a function of said creation date so as to enable a degree of expiry of said information to be restored. 'state.
• the reproduction of the state information is implemented in the form of a specific light illumination of the rendering element, it is possible to adapt the light intensity as a function of the time elapsed since the date of creation, so as to restore the degree of expiry of the state information.
• an increasing degree of expiry can be perceived by the reduction of an amplitude of displacement, if the restitution of the state information is implemented by an alternating movement. at least a part of the rendering element.
• the method may comprise a step of identifying persons belonging to a group comprising the following steps:
• the group and the persons in the group may be designated by their pseudonym, which may allow, if necessary, to maintain a confidentiality and / or to preserve the privacy of these persons, or to secure access to the means of restitution.
• said emotional state is converted into a control signal that can be interpreted by the emotion reproduction means.
• the operation and implementation of the rendering means are simplified and made more reliable by converting the emotional state into a control signal beforehand.
• the method of the invention may in particular comprise a step of restoring said emotional state information implementing at least one of the forms of restitution belonging to the group comprising:
• the restitution step implementing at least one illumination of at least a part of a rendering element, the implementation parameters of said lighting belong to the group comprising:
• said restitution means comprising means for capturing at least one emotional state
• said obtaining step comprises a step of entering an emotional state by selection using said means inputting a state from a set of at least two predetermined states.
• the person of the group can advantageously use the restitution means to declare his emotional state, for example by pressing specific buttons integrated for this purpose on the means of restitution.
• the invention also relates to a system for transmitting information relating to at least two persons.
• such an information transmission system comprises:
• such a system may comprise means necessary for the implementation of one of the information transmission methods described above.
• the invention also relates to a restitution terminal comprising means for restoring emotions capable of associating at least two people with at least two respective restitution elements that can each take at least two predetermined states representative of at least two distinct emotional states.
• such a terminal comprises: means for receiving at least two state information obtained by transforming at least two associated emotional states;
• said rendering means comprise a light frame.
• said means for rendering emotions comprise a screen making it possible to represent the image of at least one avatar associated with one of said persons.
• each avatar is constituted by a fish included in an aquarium and the associated status information is restored by means of at least one of the display parameters belonging to the group comprising :
• said emotional state is restored according to a user's perception abilities.
• a user's perception abilities For example for users who are keen on new technologies and / or who have the taste to interpret complex information, it can be expected to decline the nuances in the perceptible states of restitution at will.
• the invention also relates to an information management server relating to at least two persons.
• such a management server comprises:
• such a management server allows a synchronization of information flows from different people, especially in the case where a delay time is provided for transmitting the emotional state information to the respective means of restitution of these people.
• a server may include means for storing the emotional states of people, for example in dynamic tables of a database.
• the invention also relates to a computer program product downloadable from a communication network and / or stored on a computer readable medium and / or executable by a microprocessor, comprising program code instructions for the execution of all or part of steps of at least one of the information transmission methods as described above, when executed on a computer.
• FIG. 1 illustrates a first exemplary embodiment of an information transmission system according to the invention for which a terminal for restitution of one of the persons is in the form of a set of picture frames.
• FIG. 2 illustrates in block diagram form a succession steps of the method according to the invention implemented before transmission of the control information to the restitution terminal shown in FIG. 1;
• FIG. 3 illustrates a second exemplary embodiment of the invention in which the persons of the group are represented on a screen by fish swimming in an aquarium.
• the invention thus proposes a new approach for collecting and transmitting emotional state information, or emotional state information, of several people to means of rendering emotions, to be restored together in a form that can be including apprehended in a simple and intuitive way by a spectator.
• each person or member of a group can thus have access by means of unique restitution, on the one hand, to the emotional state of the persons of the group having declared it and, on the other hand, on the other hand, to an indication of the general emotional state of the group, and thus to be able to stay closer to the people in the group, and in particular to be more considerate and / or complicit with certain people.
• the invention also allows each person in the group to share their emotions with this group.
• the implementation of the invention only requires that at least one person in a group is connected to a communication network and that other people in the group can connect to this communication network.
• the invention proposes to restore the emotional states of all persons, still called members, of a group on as many restitution elements as the group counts of people.
• the case of an implementation of the emotion state information transmission method according to the invention is presented by way of example to a rendering terminal comprising a set of illuminated frames of the invention. inside.
• the user of the rendering terminal can customize each frame by placing inside it a picture of a member of a group to which the frame has been assigned.
• the group to which the terminal has been allocated is made up of members of the terminal user's family, including his grandmother 14, his father 15 and the oldest of his children 16.
• FIG. 1 illustrates an example of an information transmission system according to the invention
• the elements for restoring the emotion state information are illuminated Plexiglas frames 11, 12, 13. from the inside by three trichromatic diodes, respectively of blue, red and green color.
• These frames can be fixed by magnetization, for example on the door of a refrigerator in the home of the user of the restitution terminal. Holes (not shown) may be provided in the thickness of the frame to allow the user to pin the frames to a wall.
• Photographs 141, 151 and 161 of the three aforementioned family members residing in the dwellings 142, 152 and 162 have been slid by the user respectively inside the frames 11 to 13. They are maintained for example at the using tongs 17.
• Each frame includes a coding wheel, associating a logical number between 1 and 4, allowing the frame to be assigned to a particular member of the group.
• Four-wire serial type buses connect the frames 11 to 13 to a central control box 18, which completes the playback terminal.
• the housing 18 is connected to a communication module to the wireless local area network 181, and in this example via a "wifi" connection (for "wireless fidelity” in English) with a home communication gateway 19 (for example a "Livebox”). (trademark)).
• the control unit 18 connected to the network is configured to periodically transmit to a server 110, via the gateway 19, a request for transfer of control information corresponding to the emotional state information provided by the other members of the group. and stored in dynamic tables of a specific database hosted by the server 110.
• the emotional state information is transmitted back by the server.
• the form of reproduction of the rendering elements 11 to 13 concerned is then updated according to the control information transmitted to the box via the gateway 19 by the server 110, for example according to the IP exchange protocol (English “ Internet Protocol “for” Internet Protocol ").
• the server can spontaneously carry out control information transfers in order to perform an automatic update of the return means of members who have previously made the request for example during a registration procedure with a manager of such a service.
• this restitution of the emotional state results in the variation of the lighting colors of the frames.
• Seven states of restitution, corresponding to these colors, can be obtained by feeding one of the diodes or by feeding a combination of two or three diodes.
• the information transmission system allows the user to setting the attribution of one of the seven lighting colors of the frames to the emotional states that can be restored by its rendering terminal, by accessing, for example via a computer 112 to the hosted management application that manages the preferences of each user .
• it may also be envisaged to act on the intensity of the illumination and / or on the pulsation of the diodes to restore an emotional state interpretable by the user, or seniority (expiration ) of the restored state.
• the housing comprises means for adjusting the light intensity of the frame, so as to weaken for example in proportion to the time elapsed since the date of creation of a declared emotional state.
• a frame flash at a specific frequency may be provided to indicate to the user that a member of the group with which the frame is associated has declared a change in his emotional state.
• members 14, 15 and 16 belonging to the user's emotional sharing group declare their emotional state through a specific application installed on their computer 143, 153, 163.
• This application allows the display of a pop-up input window for scrolling seven pictograms, also called "emoticons" by abuse of language, representing the seven emotional states accessible in this embodiment and select one of these pictograms to declare his emotional state at the same time.
• a fourth frame 111 is associated with the user.
• buttons each corresponding to one of seven emotional states (eg: tense, pissed off, disillusioned, tired, curious, happy, neutral) accessible by the terminal in this particular embodiment.
• seven emotional states eg: tense, pissed off, disillusioned, tired, curious, happy, neutral
• the user By simply pressing one of the buttons on the frame 111, the user has the opportunity to communicate his emotional state to the other members of this group.
• Each frame can also be provided with a button for returning information to the server, and for example so that the user can notify the member of the group that he is aware of the emotional state and that he is about to call him, especially if the emotional state declared by this member is "tense".
• This button can also be used to directly engage a communication.
• means may be provided for automatically engaging a communication, for example upon receiving predetermined emotion state information.
• a switch is implemented on the frame to allow the user to use the rendering terminal to receive the emotional state of a second group of friends of the user.
• the information is obtained from the server 110.
• this obtaining step 21 comprises: a first step 211 of identification by secure access, for example by a user name and a password, to the database of the server included in the transfer request request to the server; a second step 212 identifying the group (possibly designated by a pseudonym) for which the transfer is requested;
• a third step 213 for searching information relating to the group identified in the successive fields of the dynamic table assigned to the user for this group identified in the dedicated database of the server includes the designation of the group (possibly via a pseudonym), the identity of the group members, the list of cadres and members with whom they have been associated, the emotional state declared by each member or assigned to it by default, and if applicable the date of creation of the emotional state.
• the obtaining step 21 is followed by a step 22 of transforming the emotional states obtained into emotion state information in the form of control information that can be interpreted by the rendering terminal.
• This control information is presented in this first exemplary embodiment of the invention in the form of a list of character strings encapsulated in a digital transmission file.
• the first six bits can be assigned to the rendering of the color of the frame, the next two bits to the illumination intensity and the last eight bits to the blinking controls of the frame.
• FIG. 3 is a second exemplary embodiment of the invention in which the emotional states of the members of the group are rendered by displaying a graphic window (or a screen) on a screen computer.
• the user can thus consult the emotional states transmitted by the Internet network of the members of a predefined group through a dedicated application installed on his computer by visualizing animated or variable representations (at least according to the states of emotions) of the different group members.
• animated or variable representations take the form of fish in an aquarium (defined by a graphic window).
• the user can thus interpret the emotional state obtained and, where appropriate, declared by the members of the group.
• the displacement amplitude of the fish can be set to be reduced according to the time elapsed since the date of creation of the emotional state driving the movement and the appearance of the fish. It can also be expected that the fish moves away as and when.
• the user can select with a pointer a fish to reveal a window describing the member of the group associated with the fish.
• a pointer a fish to reveal a window describing the member of the group associated with the fish.
• the selection of a fish will make it possible to launch a "web" type Internet application page to inform the user about the member associated with the fish or to enter in contact, for example by opening a chat window of an instant messaging service or via a new email from an email application.
• a message written by a member of the group may also be rendered by "his" fish, for example within a phylactery 36 associated therewith.
• extension modules of the restitution management application are provided to allow the user to draw the fish representing the members of the group, for example by providing an export interface from an art creation application.
• the rendering elements comprise means, such as for example a screen or a loudspeaker if it is a frame, for displaying or broadcasting a message saved by a group member during the declaration of his emotional state on the server;
• the terminal includes alert means for signaling a change of state (for any change or for certain states and / or identified individuals) or for signaling that his / her own emotional state has not been updated since a lapse of time predetermined time; - the terminals used by the different members are all identical
• the invention makes it possible to adapt the information collected from the server to different terminals.

Landscapes

• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Computer Networks & Wireless Communication (AREA)
• Signal Processing (AREA)
• General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Multimedia (AREA)
• Information Transfer Between Computers (AREA)
• User Interface Of Digital Computer (AREA)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Publications (1)

Family

ID=38515356

Family Applications (1)

Country Status (3)

Families Citing this family (72)

Family Cites Families (4)

• 2008
  • 2008-02-22 WO PCT/FR2008/050302 patent/WO2008113947A2/fr not_active Ceased
  • 2008-02-22 US US12/527,747 patent/US20100099955A1/en not_active Abandoned
  • 2008-02-22 EP EP08762143A patent/EP2127209A2/de not_active Withdrawn

Non-Patent Citations (1)

Also Published As

Similar Documents

Legal Events