JP2000172589A - Emotion image communication method and device, and recording medium recording emotion image communication program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and properly transmit its own emotion to the opposite party together with a message in a message transmission/reception system. SOLUTION: The emotion expressions are sorted into plural types, and the identification ID and an emotion image are associated with each other and prepared at the transmitting and receiving sides respectively. At the transmitting side, the ID corresponding to an emotion expression and selected by a user is added to a message and transmitted. At the receiving side, an emotion image corresponding to the ID that is added to the message is selected and presented to the user together with the message.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the transmission and reception of image messages, and more particularly, to an emotion that selects an image suitable for one's emotion from a plurality of types of emotion images prepared in advance and presents the selected image together with a message to a partner. The present invention relates to an image communication method and apparatus, and a recording medium storing an emotion image communication program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in transmitting and receiving an image message, as a method of transmitting a sender's emotion to a partner, a method of writing a sentence expressing the current emotion in a sentence,
There is a method of creating an emoticon expressing the current emotion by combining symbols such as parentheses and inequality signs, and writing it in a message document.

[0003]

In the method of writing a sentence expressing one's emotion in a sentence, it is necessary to newly create a sentence that appropriately expresses the emotion. There is a problem that the creation is complicated.
Also, the method of composing emoticons by combining symbols such as parentheses and inequality signs has a problem that the types of emoticons are limited and the types of emotions are not exhaustive, so that it is not always possible to properly express one's own emotion. is there.

[0004] An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems in transmitting and receiving image messages, and to provide an emotion image communication method and apparatus for easily transmitting one's own emotions to a partner, and a recording medium storing an emotion image communication program. Is to provide.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention classifies emotion expressions into a plurality of types, associates them with identification IDs and emotion images, and prepares them in advance on the transmission side and the reception side. The identification ID corresponding to the emotion expression selected by the person is added to the message and transmitted, and the receiving side selects the emotion image corresponding to the identification ID added to the message,
That is, the selected emotion image is presented to the user together with the message. Thereby, it is possible to easily and appropriately convey one's own emotions to the other party.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an emotion image communication device according to the present invention. The emotion image communication device includes an information expression image storage unit 101, a message template storage unit 102, an emotion message processing unit 103, an input / output control unit 104, a communication control unit 105, a display 106, and a text input device 107. The terminals of such an emotion image communication device are connected to each other through a communication line, and image messages are transmitted and received.

The emotion expression image storage unit 101 stores an emotion classification table 201 and an emotion image table 202.
FIG. 2 shows a specific example. The emotion classification table 201
As shown in FIG. 2A, an emotion identification ID, emotion classification information, and an emotion expression image ID are stored in correspondence with a predetermined emotion expression.
As shown in (B), an actual emotion expression image is stored corresponding to the emotion expression image ID.

There are various findings on the recognition of emotions. Among them, Woodworth is a highly sensitive emotion classification method that can recognize emotions from face photographs without error.
Are classified into six categories. FIG.
Are based on the six categories of Woodworth, but the emotion images need not necessarily be six.

[0009] The message template storage unit 102
A template (message template) 300 that defines a message format used in the present emotion image communication is stored, and FIG. 3 shows a specific example thereof. As shown in FIG. 3, the message template 300 includes a header information display area 301, a body text display area 302, and an emotion image display area 303.

Hereinafter, an operation example of the emotion image communication of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the transmitting side will be described. The user gives an instruction to create a message for transmission by selecting a button on the display screen of the display 106, inputting a function key from the text input device 107, or the like. Upon receiving the transmission message creation instruction, the input / output control unit 104 reads the message template 300 as shown in FIG. 3 from the message template storage unit 102,
It is displayed on the display 106. The user enters the message template 300 displayed on the display 106.
At the same time, a text document is input from the text input device 107. The input text document is displayed on the display 106 via the input / output control unit 104.

Further, the user gives an instruction to display an emotion classification menu by selecting a button on the display screen of the display 106 or inputting a function key from the text input device 107 in order to present the emotion image to the other party.
Thereby, the dialog of the emotion classification menu is displayed on the display 106 via the input / output control unit 104. FIG. 4 shows how the emotion classification menu is displayed. For example, an emotion classification menu 400 is displayed over a message template. The user selects a desired emotion from the emotion classification menu 400 displayed in the dialog. Here, it is assumed that “surprise” is selected. The identification ID (here, E02) corresponding to the emotion (surprise) selected by the user is stored in the input / output control unit 10.
4 and the emotional message processing unit 103
Sent to The emotion message processing unit 103 searches for an emotion expression image ID from the information classification table 201 as shown in FIG. 2A using the sent identification ID as a key, and searches for the emotion expression image ID (here, PE02). The emotion image table 20 as shown in FIG.
2 and input / output control unit 10
Send back to 4. This emotion image is temporarily stored in the input / output control unit 104 and the text template 300
And is displayed on the display 106. FIG. 5 shows the display on the display 106 at this time.

The user inputs a message transmission command through the text input device 107 after confirming that the target emotion image has been assembled in a predetermined format on the display screen of the display 106. This is the display 10
Alternatively, a transmission button or the like on the display screen 6 may be selected. By the input of the message transmission command, a transmission message including the identification ID of the selected emotion image is transmitted to the communication control unit 105 via the input / output control unit 104, and the communication control unit 105 transmits the transmission message including the identification ID via the communication line. It is transmitted to the terminal of the emotion image communication device.

Next, the operation on the receiving side will be described. An e-mail is transmitted from the partner terminal via the communication line to the communication control unit 10.
Sent to 5. For example, in the header information of the transmitted message, the identification ID of the emotion image of the partner user is included.
It is included. The received message is temporarily stored in the input / output control unit 104. At the same time, the emotion image identification ID (E02 in this case) included in the message is sent to the emotion message processing unit 103.

The emotion message processing unit 103 reads the emotion classification table 201 as shown in FIG. 2A from the emotion expression image storage unit 101, and identifies the identification ID that matches the identification ID sent from the input / output control unit 104. Check if it exists. As a result of the comparison, if the corresponding identification ID exists,
The emotion message processing unit 103 uses the emotion expression image ID corresponding to the identification ID as a key to store the emotion expression image storage unit 101
The target emotion expression image is read from the emotion image table 202 as shown in FIG. 2B, and the image is sent to the input / output control unit 104. In addition, as a result of the verification, if the corresponding identification I
If D does not exist, the emotion message processing unit 1
03 sends a null code to the input / output control unit 104.

On the other hand, the message template storage unit 10
From 2, the message design template 300 as shown in FIG. The input / output control unit 104 assembles the header information and the message text included in the received e-mail into the format determined by the message template 301, and simultaneously transmits the emotion transmitted from the emotion message processing unit 103. The expression image is also assembled according to the format of the template. The information assembled in the input / output control unit 104 as specified by the message template 301 is sent to the display 106 and displayed. FIG.
Shows a display example of a message sentence on the display 106. This is, of course, the same as in FIG.

While the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the configuration of FIG. 1 is realized by using so-called computer hardware and software resources. Then, the emotion message processing unit 103, the input / output control unit 10
4 and processing functions and procedures (processes) of the communication control unit 105
Can be recorded on a floppy disk, a memory card, a CD-ROM, or the like and presented as a computer-executable program (emotional image communication program).

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention,
In sending and receiving a message, it is possible to easily and appropriately convey one's own emotions (emotions) to the other party. Also, since the message is merely added with the identification ID instead of the emotion image, the amount of information is hardly increased.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an emotion image communication device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an emotion classification table and an emotion image table.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a message template.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of an emotion classification menu.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen display example on the transmission side.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen display on the receiving side.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 emotion expression image storage unit 102 message template storage unit 103 emotion message processing unit 104 input / output control unit 105 communication control unit 106 display 107 text input device 201 emotion classification table 202 emotion image table 300 message template

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An emotion expression is classified into a plurality of types and an identification ID
And the emotion image are associated with each other and prepared in advance by the transmitting side and the receiving side. The transmitting side adds the identification ID corresponding to the emotion expression selected by the user to the message and transmits the message. An emotion image communication method comprising: selecting an emotion image corresponding to an identification ID added to a user; and presenting the selected emotion image to a user together with a message. 2. An emotion expression is classified into a plurality of types,
Means for storing the message and the emotion image in association with each other; means for storing a message template for defining the format of the transmitted / received message; creating a transmitted message based on the message template; Means for adding a corresponding identification ID and transmitting the same; means for selecting an emotion image corresponding to the identification ID added to the received message, assembling the message and the selected emotion image based on a message template, and presenting them to a user An emotional image communication device comprising: 3. An emotion expression is classified into a plurality of types,
A computer-readable recording medium storing an emotion image communication program for transmitting and receiving an emotion expression together with a message by holding the emotion expression together with a message, and an identification ID corresponding to the emotion expression selected by the user And a process of selecting an emotion image corresponding to the identification ID added to the received message and presenting it to the user together with the received message. Recording medium.