159 results about "Emoticon" patented technology

A system and method of providing sender-customization of multi-media messages through the use of emoticons is disclosed. The sender inserts the emoticons into a text message. As an animated face audibly delivers the text, emoticons associated with the message are started a predetermined period of time or number of words prior to the position of the emoticon in the message text and completed a predetermined length of time or number of words following the location of the emoticon. The sender may insert emoticons through the use of emoticon buttons that are icons available for choosing. Upon sender selections of an emoticon, an icon representing the emoticon is inserted into the text at the position of the cursor. Once an emoticon is chosen, the sender may also choose the amplitude for the emoticon and increased or decreased amplitude will be displayed in the icon inserted into the message text.

An instant messaging terminal manages multiple conversation sessions across multiple instant messaging services. The terminal includes a display for conversation session windows, a data entry device, a communications module for wireless network communication, and a control module for coordinating network access and controlling conversation session management. The data entry device includes programmable keys for emoticons and the control module automates the generation of a key sequence for generation of a graphical symbol that is compatible with the service being used by a message recipient.

Methods and systems for providing dynamic emoticons during chat sessions across game consoles are disclosed. A dynamic emoticon may include haptic, visual, and/or auditory components. Each component may have an associated intensity level, e.g., based on a pressure with which a user of the game console presses a controller button or actuates a control input. The emoticon's auditory component may include or identify a sound effects filter or a known audio file; the emoticon's visual component may include or identify a visual effects filter or a known video or graphic file; the emoticon's haptic component may cause vibration of or force feedback on the controller. Emoticons may be sent from one voice chat participant's game console to another voice chat participant's game console across a network such as the Internet.

Described herein is a computer-implemented system and method for processing one or more alternate symbols associated or linked to a base symbol. A base symbol is a symbol to which at least one alternate symbol is linked. A base symbol commonly appears on a key of a keyboard or a display of a keyboard, or is a handwritten symbol recognized by handwriting entry software. Examples of alternate symbols are accented characters and punctuation marks that do not appear on a keyboard or are not commonly recognized by a handwriting entry program, and short symbol sequences. An example of a common short symbol sequence is an emoticon used in e-mail messages to convey tone or feelings. An example of a computer device that may embody the system or method is a hand-held computing device.

The present invention provides a method, and corresponding apparatus, for use of emoticons in IM applications by using sensory information captured by a device. Such information can include video, still image, and/or audio information. In one embodiment, based on a trigger to the system, multimedia input is captured, and relevant features are extracted from it. The extracted information is interpreted, and the interpreted information is mapped onto one or more specific pre-existing emoticons. These specific emoticons are then inserted into the IM communication via an IM API. In another aspect of the present invention, new emoticons are created based on the multimedia information captured. This can include generation of realistic emoticons based on the expressions on the user's face. Animated emoticons can also be created.

The invention discloses a chat emotion input method and device, and relates to the technical field of input methods. The method comprises the following steps: presetting a character sequence and/ or a corresponding relation between the character sequence and each emotion; collecting voice chat resource data and emotion resource data of each topic according to the corresponding relation; creating the emotion resource data based on the emotion type by utilizing the voice chat resource data; receiving an input sequence input by a user; analyzing the input sequence according to the corresponding relation; matching the input sequence and the character sequence and/ or words or phrase sequence to obtain the emotion of each topic corresponding to the character sequence and/ or the words or phrase sequence; sequencing the emotion of each topic, and displaying as an candidate item at a client. With the adoption of the chat emotion input method and device, the emotions of various topics can be conveniently provided to the user while the user inputs, and thus the user emotion input efficiency is raised.

An apparatus for insertion of graphical items into a text message sent from a first telephony user to a second telephony user through a telephony network, including: a receiver, deployed in the network, configured to receive the text message from the first telephony user, a graphical enhancer, associated with the receiver, configured to graphically enhance text of the text message by replacing a predefined character string in the text with a respective predefined graphical item from a graphical item repository, and a forwarder, associated with the graphical enhancer, configured to forward the graphically enhanced text in a message to the second telephony user.

A system method of advertising using a multi-media application system is disclosed. The multi-media application relates to the delivery of multi-media messages using animated entities that audibly deliver messages created by a sender using text-to-speech technologies. The method provides targeted advertising based on information learned about both the sender of a multi-media message and the recipient of the multi-media message. The information may relate to an analysis of a text message created by the sender, emoticons chosen by the sender and inserted into the text of the message, the choice by the sender of an animated entity, or other parameters such as background music chosen for which template is chosen by the sender. Advertising messages may be delivered before the recipient receives the multi-media message, during the reception by the recipient of the multi-media message or following the reception of the multi-media message. A decision regarding whether to include an advertising message may be based on a text analysis or an analysis of the emoticons or other tags inserted into the text by the sender. Further, animated entities such as professionally designed face models, templates, additional emoticons, animation or sound effects may also be purchased by the sender for a limited number of multi-media messages, for limited amount of time or longer for use in creating multi-media messages. The system comprises a server to handle the reception and processing of sender multi-media messages and client software for both creating multi-media messages and receiving multi-media messages.

Provided is a method of making a graphic available to be transmitted over a communication network. Access is granted to a graphic that a sender of a first communication can select for inclusion in the first communication to be transmitted over the communication network. Selection by the sender of a restricted graphic for inclusion in the first communication is prevented. Using a computer operatively connected to the communication network, the content of the first communication entered by the sender is received, and includes the graphic available for selection by the sender. The first communication including the graphic is transmitted over the communication network. A code associated with a product is received, and the product is registered based at least in part on the code. In response to successful registration of the product, the sender is granted access to the restricted graphic, allowing the sender to select the restricted graphic for inclusion in a second communication.

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to chat transcript generation for instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for emotional state transcription for chat sessions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for emotional state transcription for chat sessions can be provided. The method can include initializing a chat session in an instant messenger, engaging in an audio conversation through the instant messenger, collecting emotion meta-data for the audio conversation and mapping the emotion meta-data to emoticons, and combining a speech recognized form of the audio conversation with the emoticons and text from the chat session into a chat transcript. The method further can include computing a milleau for the chat session from the emotion meta-data and incorporating the milleau for the chat session in the transcript.

One or more character image elements can be detected from an identifier that includes a character image of an emoticon, the image elements including a base image identifier and character modifier identifier. After detection at least one uniform resource identifier component corresponding to said at least one character image element can be generated. After component generation a uniform resource locator (URL) incIuding said at least one uniform resource identifier component can be generated. After URL generation, a network resource can be requested from the URL.

There is provided a method of easily inputting icons representing user emotions (emoticons). In the emoticon input method in a mobile terminal, a plurality of emoticons, formed by utilizing a plurality of typical characters and special characters in combination, are grouped and stored by groups in the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal enters an emoticon input mode, displays the stored emoticon groups, displays the emoticons of an emoticon group selected by a user, stores an emoticon selected by the user, and transmits an SMS message including at least one emoticon selected by the user.

Embodiments are provided that utilize images of users to represent true or personalized emotions for the users in messaging or social networking applications. A library of user facial expression images is generated for this purpose, and made accessible to messaging or social networking applications, such as on a smartphone or other user devices. The images of facial expressions include face photographs of the user that convey emotions or expressions of the user, such as a happy face or a sad face. An embodiment method includes detecting an image accessible by an electronic device, determining whether the image shows a face of the user and whether the image shows a facial expression expressed by the face of the user, adding the image to a library of facial expressions of the user in accordance with the determining step, and sending a message including the image as an emoticon.

The invention provides a method, client and system for adding insert type data in a recording process during instant messaging, belonging to the technical fields of communications and software. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a triggering message of a recording operation during instant messaging interaction and entering into a recording state for recording audio and/or video data; after triggering an insert type control in a recording process, loading insert type data; in a streaming media interaction frame formed in the process of recording audio and/or video data, corresponding to the position where the inert type data is added in the recording process, adding all or a part of insert type data or adding insert marks used for outputting the insert type data after the insert marks are triggered; and between an initiator and a receiver, transmitting and outputting the streaming media interaction frame with the insert type data. By the method, client and system, the insert type data such as emoticons can be conveniently added in the streaming media interaction frame formed in the process of recording audio and/or video data during instant messaging.

The invention discloses a method for performing emotional tendency classification to microblog by using emoticons. The method comprises the following steps: building a neutral emotion set, a passive emotion set and a positive emotion set; building a neutral emotion Bayes classifier by using the neutral emotion set, the passive emotion set and the positive emotion set; building a polar emotion Bayes emotion classifier by using the passive emotion set and the positive emotion set; performing emotion classification to the microblog by using the neutral emotion Bayes classifier and the polar emotion Bayes classifier. According to the method for performing emotional tendency classification to microblog by using emoticons, two sections of classification is built, namely, building the neutral emotion classifier to remove the microblog with neutral emotion, and building the polar emotion classifier to divide the microblog with the polar emotion into the passive emotion and the positive emotion; the classifier is rapid in classifying speed, small in occupied space and robust; attitude of people to current hot topics or events and emotion of net citizens can be accurately understood through the microblog, so that the method for performing emotional tendency classification to microblog by using emoticons has important help for social scientific research and survey.

System and methods are disclosed that replace shorthand items such acronyms, abbreviations, jargon, slang, codes, shortcut expressions, emojis, stickers, ideograms and emoticons in an electronic message with expansions, which are definitions or meanings of the shorthand items. Based on a number of times previous messages to the recipient included an expansion of the shorthand item, the system determines whether to stop or to continue expanding the shorthand item in electronic messages to that recipient. This may be based on a threshold or other preferences selected by a user. The system also indicates which text in the message presented to the recipient is an expansion of a shorthand item and suggests shorthand items to insert into outgoing messages based on the text of the message.

The present invention relates to a civil aviation public opinion emotion analysis method. The method comprises the steps of performing searching, preprocessing and word segmentation on microblog texts comprising keywords about civil aviation security public opinions in the internet; building a dictionary; grading each microblog text to obtain a microblog text emotion value; performing objective and subjective judgment on the microblog text according to the emotion value, so as to obtain a threat value of the microblog text for civil aviation security; and determining the threat level of the opinion in the microblog text for civil aviation security according to the threat value. The emotion value of the microblog text is determined by combining text semantics and microblog emoticons, the limitation of the dictionary and semantics rules are overcome, and the emotion value is determined more accurately. Due to full use of the characteristic of the microblog text, the threat level is determined more reasonably. The method differs from a machine learning method and is not trained with a large scale of tagged data, thereby being more suitable for processing of real-time data flow.