Emotion Visualization for Online Meeting Atmosphere Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Participants in online meetings are difficult to grasp the atmosphere and reactions due to their remote participation, lacking a system for effective management.
Innovation Solution
An analysis apparatus that acquires individual emotion data from face images, generates analysis data with color tone information, and outputs a display image showing participant emotions, allowing for a visual overview of the meeting atmosphere.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If participants join online meetings from separate locations via terminals, then meeting accessibility and convenience are improved, but the ability to grasp meeting atmosphere and participant reactions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of emotion recognition units and visualization units that mediate between remote participants and the meeting atmosphere. These units process facial expression data and generate visual representations that convey participant emotions and meeting atmosphere, allowing users to perceive the virtual meeting environment without being physically present.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates visual copies or representations of participant emotions and meeting atmosphere through generated images. The visualization unit produces graphical representations that replicate the emotional state and atmospheric characteristics of the meeting, enabling users to observe and understand the virtual gathering dynamics from a distance.
2Device complexity
If traditional online meeting systems are used, then device complexity is reduced, but the ability to visually represent participant emotions and meeting state deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the complex emotion visualization system into separate functional modules: emotion recognition units that process facial expressions, analysis units that interpret emotional data, and visualization units that generate graphical representations. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, making the overall system more manageable while achieving sophisticated emotion representation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs a multi-functional system where the same infrastructure (terminals, communication networks) supports both traditional meeting operations and the enhanced emotion visualization capabilities. The visualization units can operate with or without facial recognition, and the system can adapt to different meeting scenarios, providing universal functionality across various use cases.
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AI summary
An analysis apparatus acquires individual emotion data for each participant generated on the basis of face image data of the participants in an online meeting during the meeting. The analysis apparatus generates, for each participant, analysis data indicating a degree of emotion in the online meeting on the basis of the individual emotion data. The analysis apparatus stores each piece of the analysis data for each participant in association with corresponding color tone information. The analysis apparatus generates, as a display image indicating a state of the online meeting, an image in which element figures represented by the color tone information associated with the analysis data are disposed for each of a plurality of the participants who have participated in the online meeting. The analysis apparatus outputs the generated display image.