Emotion-Aware Image Capture System for Personalized Avatar Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies lack automated camera control and personalized media generation, resulting in avatars that resemble users but do not accurately depict their emotions, and require manual operation to capture meaningful content.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for automatically capturing and processing images of a user by determining emotion levels from multimedia content, adjusting based on user information, capturing images when the adjusted emotion level exceeds a threshold, prioritizing images based on emotion levels and facial features, and processing these images to generate personalized media.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automated camera control is implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomated media generationVSAvoidcamera control system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The automated camera control system is divided into separate functional modules: emotion detection module, camera control module, and media generation module. Each module performs a specific task independently, allowing the system to achieve high automation without excessive overall complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically detects user emotions and triggers camera operations without manual intervention. The camera control module autonomously captures images based on emotion detection results, and the media generation module automatically creates personalized media content, enabling the system to serve itself without user input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If emotion-based automated capture is implemented, then manufacturing precision is improved, but measurement precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotion-based image captureVSAvoidemotion detection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system captures multiple images when emotion thresholds are met, rather than relying on a single perfect capture. This excessive action approach ensures that at least some images will meet the quality requirements, compensating for variations in emotion detection precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user emotions and adjusts camera operation based on real-time feedback. When detected emotions meet predetermined thresholds, the camera automatically captures images, creating a closed-loop control system that improves capture precision through continuous adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If personalized media generation is implemented, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalized media creationVSAvoidmedia processing system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The media generation process is segmented into distinct steps: image selection based on emotion criteria, facial feature extraction, avatar creation, and media assembly. Each step is handled by a dedicated module, allowing high adaptability while managing complexity through functional decomposition.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system adjusts multiple parameters to achieve personalization: selecting images based on emotion intensity thresholds, adjusting facial feature extraction parameters, and modifying avatar generation settings. By changing these parameters dynamically, the system creates personalized media without requiring a completely different system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12307817B2Method and system for automatically capturing and processing an image of a user
Publication Date: 2025.05.20 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for automatically capturing and processing an image of a user is provided. The method includes determining a level of an emotion identified from a multimedia content; determining an adjusted emotion level by adjusting the level of the emotion based on user information; capturing a plurality of images of the user over a period of time, based on the adjusted emotion level being greater than a first threshold and a reaction of the user determined based on the plurality of images, being less than a second threshold; prioritizing the plurality of images based on at least one of a frame emotion level of the plurality of images, facial features of the user in the plurality of images, or a number of faces in the plurality of images; and processing the prioritized images to generate an output.