Multimedia Messaging Layering for Emotion Expression
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multimedia messaging systems fail to accurately convey the sender's sentiment or emotion, as the subjective nature of emotions can be difficult for recipients to infer from multimedia messages, even when combined with text messages.
Innovation Solution
A multimedia messaging system that incorporates a graphical representation of the sender's sentiment or emotion by combining multimedia content, text content, and graphical representations, using sensors to identify gestures that correspond to predefined gestures, allowing for the automatic selection and sending of multimedia messages with embedded emotional representations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multimedia messages include only multimedia content and text, then the message structure remains simple, but the sender's sentiment cannot be accurately conveyed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary element (sentiment indicator or graphical representation) that mediates between the sender's internal emotional state and the external multimedia message. This intermediary visually encodes the sender's sentiment, allowing recipients to accurately perceive the intended emotion without requiring complex verbal descriptions or relying on ambiguous text interpretation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a visual copy or representation of the sender's internal emotional state through graphical indicators, emojis, or sentiment visualizations embedded in the multimedia message. This copied representation preserves and transmits the sender's sentiment information in a format that can be easily perceived and understood by recipients, maintaining fidelity to the original emotional state.
2Productivity
If the system automatically selects multimedia messages based on gestures, then messaging speed increases, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service mechanism where the system automatically detects user gestures and autonomously selects and sends appropriate multimedia messages without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by mapping detected gestures to predefined message templates or content, enabling rapid communication while the complexity is encapsulated within the automated selection logic.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent prepares multiple multimedia message templates and gesture mappings in advance, so that when a gesture is detected, the system can immediately retrieve and send the appropriate pre-prepared message. This preliminary preparation of message options and gesture associations enables fast response times while the complexity is managed through pre-configured mappings rather than real-time decision-making.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables clear and direct communication of the sender's sentiment or emotion, allowing recipients to easily recognize the intended feeling through graphical representations integrated into the multimedia messages, enhancing emotional expression in messaging.
Implementation Method 1
The one or more sensors include a motion sensor. The motion sensor includes at least one of a gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, radar, or lidar.
Implementation Method 2
The one or more sensors include a motion sensor. The motion sensor includes at least one of a gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, radar, or lidar.
Implementation Method 3
The one or more sensors include a motion sensor. The motion sensor includes at least one of a gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, radar, or lidar.
Implementation Method 4
The messaging apparatus further includes a touch screen, which functions as the one or more sensors. The touch screen generates the sensor data based on a motion of a user on the touch screen.
Data Source
AI summary
A messaging apparatus for sending a multimedia message includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and including instructions stored thereon. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the messaging apparatus to send display a list of multimedia contents on a screen based on a search term, receive a user's selection of one of displayed multimedia contents, obtain text content corresponding to the selected multimedia content, receive a user's selection of a graphical representation of the user's emotion, combine, in order, the selected multimedia content, as a first layer, the selected graphical representation of the user's emotion, as a second layer, and the text content, as a third layer, to generate a flattened multimedia message, and send the flattened multimedia message via a messaging application.