Emotion-Aware Experience Recording with Physiological and Scene Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices struggle to automatically capture emotionally significant moments without interrupting the user's experience, as they are often unaware of the importance of such moments or require manual intervention.
Innovation Solution
Devices and systems that utilize physiological and behavioral data to determine emotional states and scene understanding to automatically record positively valenced events, providing feedback and content enhancement to manage stress and anxiety, and share meaningful experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual intervention is required to capture moments, then recording accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects emotionally significant moments using physiological sensors and scene understanding algorithms, eliminating the need for manual user intervention. The device serves itself by autonomously determining when to record based on detected emotional states and environmental context, thereby maintaining high recording accuracy while dramatically improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors physiological data (heart rate, galvanic skin response, pupil diameter) and scene information, using this feedback to dynamically adjust recording decisions. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables automatic capture of meaningful moments with high accuracy without requiring user input, resolving the contradiction between precision and ease of use.
2Ease of operation
If recording is initiated without interrupting user experience, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability of capturing important moments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary monitoring of physiological signals and scene context continuously in the background before an emotionally significant moment occurs. By preparing detection algorithms and having sensors ready, the system can immediately capture important moments without interrupting the user experience, thus maintaining both ease of operation and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical intervention (user pressing a button) with automated sensor-based detection systems. Physiological sensors, eye-tracking cameras, and scene understanding algorithms work together to automatically identify and record meaningful moments, ensuring reliable capture without requiring user action that would interrupt the experience.
3Measurement precision
If physiological sensors and behavioral tracking are used to detect emotional states, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a head-mounted device that serves multiple functions: it provides the user's point of view for recording, contains physiological sensors for emotional detection, includes eye-tracking cameras for behavioral analysis, and performs scene understanding. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional platform, the system achieves high measurement precision while managing device complexity through integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges physiological sensing, behavioral tracking, scene understanding, and recording functions into an integrated system. The head-mounted device combines cameras, sensors, and processing capabilities that work together synergistically, allowing accurate emotional state detection without proportionally increasing complexity through modular integration.
Data Source
AI summary
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine to record an event based on an emotional state and a scene understanding of an environment. For example, an example process may include obtaining physiological data or behavioral data during a first period of time utilizing the one or more sensors. The process may further include determining an emotional state during the first period of time based on the physiological data or the behavioral data (e.g., elated, happy, etc.). The process may further include determining a scene understanding of an environment based on identifying one or more objects in the environment utilizing the one or more sensors. The process may further include determining to record an event occurring in the environment (e.g., positively valenced events, objects, or situations) based on the emotional state and the scene understanding and record the event utilizing one or more sensors.