Emotion Information Generating Apparatus for Personalized Function Recommendation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current terminals lack the capability to effectively recognize and respond to user emotion changes during function execution, failing to provide personalized information or recommendations based on emotional states.

Innovation Solution

An emotion information generating apparatus and method that includes a function detector, emotion detector, and mapping unit to detect and map user emotional states to terminal functions, scoring emotion factors and recommending functions based on emotional changes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If emotion detection and mapping functions are added to terminals, then user experience and personalization capability are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The emotion recognition system is divided into independent functional modules: emotion detector for capturing emotional states, function detector for monitoring terminal usage, and mapping unit for correlating emotions with functions. This segmentation allows each module to operate independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining personalization capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mapping unit serves multiple purposes by correlating emotional states with various terminal functions, creating a universal emotion-function relationship that can be applied across different contexts and functions, thereby improving adaptability without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If emotion factors are scored and mapped to functions, then measurement precision of emotional state is improved, but computational requirements and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotional state detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes mapping relationships between emotional states and terminal functions through the mapping unit. By preparing these correlations in advance, the system can quickly retrieve and apply appropriate functions based on detected emotions, reducing real-time processing time while maintaining detection precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The emotion detector scores multiple emotion factors to create a comprehensive emotional state profile. By transforming qualitative emotional perceptions into quantifiable scores, the system achieves precise measurement while enabling efficient computational processing through standardized parameter representation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9311680B2Apparatus and method for generating emotion information, and function recommendation apparatus based on emotion information
Publication Date: 2016.04.12 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is an emotion information generating apparatus that is capable of recognizing a user's emotional state for each function of a terminal. The emotion information generating apparatus detects a user's emotional state and maps the user's emotional state to a function of the terminal, thus creating emotion information.