IoT Sensor Emotion Analytics for Audio-Visual Content Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack the ability to capture and analyze user emotions in real-time during audio-visual content consumption, failing to provide actionable feedback for improving the user experience by modifying future content frames based on emotional responses.

Innovation Solution

A method utilizing IoT sensors to capture user physiological data, convert emotions into connotations using emotional vector analytics and supervised machine learning, and generate suggestions for modifying video frames to better align with the intended emotional response of the content creator.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If real-time emotion capture and analysis systems are implemented, then user experience enhancement and content alignment improve, but system complexity and device requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience enhancement efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback by capturing user physiological data through IoT sensors, analyzing emotions via machine learning models, and generating actionable suggestions for content modification. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables continuous improvement of content alignment with user emotional responses, resolving the contradiction between enhanced productivity and system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that bridges raw sensor data and content modification decisions. This intermediary system includes emotional vector analytics and supervised machine learning models that translate complex physiological signals into actionable connotations, simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining high analytical accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If emotional vector analytics and machine learning techniques are applied, then emotion conversion accuracy improves, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotion conversion accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-training machine learning models and establishing emotional vector mappings before actual content consumption. This pre-computation enables rapid real-time emotion conversion during content viewing, reducing processing time while maintaining high accuracy through the pre-established analytical frameworks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent optimizes processing parameters by adjusting the complexity of analytical models based on data availability and urgency. The system dynamically changes processing parameters such as model selection, data sampling rates, and analysis depth to balance accuracy requirements with processing time constraints in real-time scenarios.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If IoT sensors and real-time data capture are deployed, then emotional feedback reliability improves, but device cost and infrastructure requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemotional feedback reliabilityVSAvoidinfrastructure requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs universal IoT sensor platforms that can capture multiple types of physiological data (heart rate, respiratory rate, movement, neural signals) through a single integrated infrastructure. This multi-functional approach ensures reliable emotional feedback while reducing infrastructure requirements by using standardized, versatile sensor devices rather than specialized equipment for each measurement type.

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

Data Source

PatentUS11949967B1Automatic connotation for audio and visual content using IOT sensors
Publication Date: 2024.04.02 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

In an approach for enhancing an experience of a user listening to and/or watching an audio-visual content by modifying future audio and/or video frames of the audio-visual content, a processor captures a set of sensor data from an IoT device worn by the first user. A processor analyzes the set of sensor data to generate one or more connotations by converting the emotion using an emotional vector analytics technique and a supervised machine learning technique. A processor scores the one or more connotations on a basis of similarity between the emotion exhibited by the first user and an emotion expected to be provoked by a second user. A processor determines whether a score of the one or more connotations exceeds a pre-configured threshold level. Responsive to determining the score does not exceed the pre-configured threshold level, a processor generates a suggestion for the producer of the audio-visual content.