KR20100125994A - Method for providing emotion of message sender and receiver using this - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for providing emotion of a message sender, and a receiver using the same are provided to confirm the emotion state of a transmitter efficiently by applying the emotional state to an animation character. CONSTITUTION: A receiver(201) receives a character packet including emotion information, and a converter(202) extracts first emotion intensity and a first emotion kind from the emotion information. Based on the characteristics of the transmitter, the converter converts the first emotion strength into the second emotion strength. Based on an emotion parameter including the first emotion kind and the second emotion strength, a provider(204) provides the emotional state of the transmitter.

Description

Method for providing emotion of a message sender and a device for receiving a message using the same {Method for providing emotion of message sender and Receiver using this}

It relates to techniques for identifying the emotional state of a message sender.

With the development of information and communication technology, portable devices have been equipped with the ability to send and receive short sentences. Text messaging services of mobile phones are typical. These text messaging services are particularly popular among teenagers, so the telecommunications companies may offer a fee system specialized for text messaging services.

Text messages are characterized by a very short sentence length due to the limitation of transmission capacity. Therefore, it is common for a person who wants to send a text message to write a concise message that contains only the core of the content. As a result, the sender's way of expressing his or her feelings is very limited, and it is very difficult for the receiver to see the contents of the message and to understand the emotional state of the sender.

Recently, people have expressed their emotions by using various emoticons. However, since emoticons must be included in the message content, the content to be sent is inevitably expressed in a more compact manner. In addition, since emoticons have limitations in expressing the sender's various emotional states, it is difficult for the receiver to determine the sender's emotional state by looking at the emoticon only.

In this specification, a technique for more accurately identifying an emotional state of a sender for transmitting a message is disclosed.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing an emotional state of a message sender, receiving a text packet including emotion information, extracting a first emotion type and a first emotion intensity from the emotion information, converting the first emotion intensity to a second emotion intensity based on a personality, and providing an emotional state of the sender based on an emotion parameter including the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity. .

In addition, the apparatus for receiving messages according to an aspect of the present invention includes a receiving unit for receiving a text packet including emotion information; A conversion unit for extracting the first emotion type and the first emotion intensity from the emotion information and converting the first emotion intensity to the second emotion intensity based on the propensity of the sender; And a provider configured to provide an emotional state of the sender based on an emotion parameter including the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity.

Further, according to one aspect of the present invention, the emotion information may be converted using a predetermined emotion intensity conversion tool, wherein the emotion intensity conversion tool is stored in advance in the storage or generated in real time when a text packet is received. It is possible.

Further, according to one aspect of the present invention, the second emotion intensity may be generated by applying the first emotion intensity to the emotion intensity transformation tool.

In addition, according to one aspect of the present invention, the emotional state of the sender can be displayed by the animation character, the motion, facial expression, voice tone of the animation character is based on the emotion parameter consisting of the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity Can be adjusted.

In the case of the existing text message, it is not easy to express the emotion of the sender compared to the voice, which is misleading. However, when emotion information is sent to the message written by the user and the emotion state is applied to an animation character to output voice and motion, the emotion state of the sender can be more effectively identified.

Hereinafter, specific examples for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 illustrates a configuration of a message transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the message transmission device 100 according to the present embodiment may be a communication device such as a mobile phone, a PDA, a PC, or the like. The message transmission apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment may include a text receiver 101, an emotion information generator 102, and a text packet generator 103.

The text receiving unit 101 receives text from a user.

The user can be a sender who wants to send a message, and the text can be the content of a message written by the sender.

The emotion information generator 102 generates emotion information indicating the emotion state of the sender.

In the present embodiment, the emotion information may be defined by the type of emotion and the intensity of the emotion.

For example, the emotional state may be represented by emotional information such as Sad (3). In this case, Sad represents the kind of emotion and (3) represents the intensity of emotion. Therefore, if the emotional state of the sender is Sad (3), the kind of emotion is sad and its intensity (severity) is three.

The emotion information generating unit 102 may generate various emotion information.

For example, the emotion information generator 102 may request emotion information from the sender when the sender completes text input. The sender can enter the emotion information by itself according to this request.

As another example, the emotion information generator 102 may analyze the facial expression of the sender and generate the emotion information based on the analyzed facial expressions.

As another example, the emotion information generator 102 may analyze the sender's recent call tone and generate emotion information based on the analyzed call tone.

As another example, the emotion information generator 102 may analyze the emoticon included in the text input by the sender and generate the emotion information based on the analyzed emoticon.

The text packet generator 103 generates a text packet including the received text and the generated emotion information. The generated text packet is transmitted to the message receiving apparatus according to the present embodiment.

2 illustrates a configuration of a message receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the message receiving device 200 according to the present embodiment may be a communication device such as a mobile phone, a PDA, or a PC corresponding to the message transmitting device 100. The message receiving device 200 according to the present embodiment may include a receiving unit 201, a converting unit 202, and a providing unit 203.

The receiver 201 receives a text packet including emotion information.

As described above, the text packet is composed of text and emotion information, and the emotion information may be defined by the type of emotion and the intensity of the emotion.

The converter 202 extracts emotion information from the received text packet, and extracts a first emotion type and a first emotion intensity from the extracted emotion information.

For example, when the extracted emotion information is Sad (3), the conversion unit 202 can extract Sad as the first emotion type and (3) as the first emotion intensity.

At this time, the emotional state of the sender is a sad state, and the degree can be assumed to be three. But we know empirically that the degree of emotional expression depends on the personality of the person. For example, even if the degree of sadness is three, if the person is a very introverted person, the degree of sadness may actually be seven.

The converting unit 202 converts the first emotional strength to the second emotional strength by reflecting the personality of the sender. Various methods may be used for the method of converting the emotion strength by reflecting the propensity of the sender.

As an example, the conversion unit 202 may generate a conversion tool for each type of emotion, which converts the intensity of emotion based on the propensity of the sender. Such a transformation tool may be a transformation graph or a transformation equation and is referred to as an emotion intensity transformation tool for convenience. The conversion unit 202 can convert the emotion intensity based on this conversion tool.

As another example, the emotion intensity conversion tool for each emotion type may be previously stored in the storage unit 203 for each sender. The conversion unit 202 may select an emotion intensity conversion tool for each specific emotion type from the storage unit 203 and convert the emotion intensity based on the selected conversion tool.

The emotion intensity conversion tool for each emotion type generated based on the propensity information for each sender and the propensity information may be stored in the storage unit 203 in advance. For example, when the user (ie, the recipient) stores the sender's contact information in the form of an address book, it is possible to input propensity information for each sender.

The provider 204 provides the sender with an emotional state of the sender based on an emotion parameter including the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity.

For example, when emotion information called Happy (10) is received from A that expresses emotion exaggeratedly because the personality is too cheerful, the conversion unit 202 converts the emotion information into Happy (3) in consideration of the propensity of A, The provider 204 may apply an emotion parameter composed of Happy 3 to an animated character such as an avatar.

Therefore, it is possible to more accurately grasp the emotional state of the sender in consideration of the propensity of the sender.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 will be described in more detail with respect to the emotional intensity conversion in consideration of personality and propensity.

3 illustrates propensity information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 3, the propensity information may be configured with propensity characteristics such as extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, and the like.

For example, Extroversion (2) means that outgoing degree is 2. The propensity information may be configured by inputting propensity characteristics and characteristics for each sender when the user inputs or edits an address book.

4 illustrates an emotion intensity conversion graph according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 4, the emotion intensity conversion graph is generated for each sender and for each emotion type based on the propensity information as shown in FIG. 3. The emotion intensity conversion graph may be generated in real time by the conversion unit 202 when the text packet is received, or may be stored in the storage unit 203 in advance.

For convenience of explanation, it is assumed that a plurality of emotion intensity conversion graphs are stored in the storage unit 203 for each sender, and when the text packet is received, the conversion unit 202 selects and loads one of them.

For example, when receiving emotion information Sad (3) from a person A, the conversion unit 202 retrieves the emotion intensity conversion graph of A. Since the emotion type is sad, select the emotion intensity conversion graph corresponding to Sad. 4 may be a selected emotion intensity conversion graph.

In FIG. 4, the conversion unit 202 may input the first emotion intensity, that is, (3) as the X value, and use (5), which is the output Y value, as the second emotion intensity.

5 illustrates a method for displaying an emotional state according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 5, 500 may be a display unit provided in the message receiving apparatus. The display unit 500 may include an avatar display unit 501 and a text display unit 502.

An avatar character is displayed on the avatar display unit 501. The text display unit 502 displays the text created by the sender.

The animation character displayed on the avatar display unit 501 may be an avatar that outputs text as a voice. At this time, the motion, facial expression, voice tone, etc. of the avatar are controlled by the emotion parameter, and the emotion parameter may be composed of the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity.

Since the emotional parameters that control the avatar's motion, facial expression, and voice tone are based on the converted emotional information, that is, the emotional information reflecting the sender's inclination, the receiver sees the avatar displayed on the avatar display unit 501 to determine the emotional state of the sender. It is possible to grasp more easily.

6 illustrates a method of providing an emotional state of a sender according to an embodiment of the present invention. The method according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

First, a text packet is received (601).

For example, it is possible for the receiving unit 201 to receive a text packet. Character packets consist of text and emotion information. The text may be content of a message directly input by the sender, and the emotion information may be composed of emotion type and emotion intensity as information indicating the sender's emotional state.

In operation 602, a first emotion type and a first emotion strength are extracted from the emotion information.

For example, the conversion unit 202 may analyze the emotion information included in the received text packet and separate the emotion information into types and strengths.

The first emotion intensity is converted into a second emotion intensity based on the personality of the sender (603).

For example, it is possible for the converter 202 to generate the emotion intensity conversion tool using the propensity of the sender and to generate the second emotion intensity by applying the first emotion intensity to the generated emotion intensity conversion tool. In addition, the conversion unit 202 loads and selects an emotion intensity conversion tool for each sender and emotion type stored in the storage unit 203, and applies a first emotion intensity to the loading and selected emotion intensity conversion tool to apply the second emotion intensity. You can also create

The emotion parameter is generated using the converted emotion information, that is, the emotion information including the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity, and the emotion state of the sender is provided based on the generated emotion parameter (604).

For example, it is possible for the providing unit 204 to apply an emotion parameter consisting of the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity to a predetermined animation character so that the animation character outputs a message reflecting the emotion state of the sender.

Meanwhile, the embodiments of the present invention can be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored.

Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical data storage devices, and the like, which may also be implemented in the form of carrier waves (for example, transmission over the Internet). Include. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. In addition, functional programs, codes, and code segments for implementing the present invention can be easily deduced by programmers skilled in the art to which the present invention belongs.

In the above, the specific example for the implementation of the present invention has been described. The foregoing embodiments are intended to illustrate the present invention by way of example and the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments.

1 illustrates a configuration of a message transmission apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 illustrates a configuration of a message receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 illustrates propensity information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 illustrates an emotion intensity conversion tool according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 shows an emotional state display means according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 illustrates a method of providing an emotional state of a message sender according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (10)

A receiving unit for receiving a text packet including emotion information; A conversion unit extracting a first emotion type and a first emotion intensity from the emotion information and converting the first emotion intensity to a second emotion intensity based on a propensity of a sender; And A providing unit to provide an emotional state of the sender based on an emotion parameter including the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity; Message receiving device for providing the emotional state of the sender comprising a. The method of claim 1, The conversion unit, the message receiving device for providing the emotional state of the sender for generating an emotion intensity conversion tool for each emotion type using the propensity of the sender. The method of claim 1, A storage unit for storing an emotion intensity conversion tool for each emotion type generated using the propensity of the transmitter or the propensity of the transmitter; Message receiving device for providing an emotional state of the sender further comprising. The method of claim 3, wherein And the conversion unit selects an emotion intensity conversion tool corresponding to the first emotion type, and provides an emotional state of a sender that applies the first emotion intensity to the selected emotion intensity conversion tool. The method of claim 1, The providing unit, the message receiving device for providing the emotional state of the sender applying the emotion parameter to the animation character. Receiving a text packet including emotion information; Extracting a first emotion type and a first emotion intensity from the emotion information, and converting the first emotion intensity into a second emotion intensity based on a propensity of the sender; And Providing an emotional state of the sender based on an emotion parameter including the first emotion type and the second emotion intensity; Method for providing an emotional state of the message sender comprising a. The method of claim 6, The converting may include generating an emotion intensity conversion tool for each emotion type using the propensity of the sender. The method of claim 6, The converting may include loading an emotion intensity conversion tool for each emotion type generated using the propensity of the sender. 9. The method according to claim 7 or 8, The converting may include selecting an emotion intensity conversion tool corresponding to the first emotion type, and applying the first emotion intensity to the selected emotion intensity conversion tool. The method of claim 6, The providing may include providing an emotional state of a message sender applying the emotional parameter to an animated character.

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