Analysis apparatus, analysis system, analysis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
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Solution Overview
Problem
In online meetings, it is difficult to grasp the atmosphere and reactions of participants due to their remote participation, necessitating a system that can effectively manage and visualize participant emotions.
Innovation Solution
An analysis apparatus that acquires individual emotion data from face images, generates analysis data indicating emotional states, associates it with color tone information, and outputs a display image showing participant emotions through color-coded figures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If participants join online meetings from separate locations via terminals, then participation flexibility and accessibility 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 organizer. This intermediary captures facial expressions and emotional states of participants, then visualizes them through avatars or indicators, thereby transmitting atmosphere information that would otherwise be lost in remote participation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates visual copies or representations of participants' emotional states through avatars, icons, or color-coded indicators. These copies replicate the emotional atmosphere of actual participants, allowing the organizer to perceive participant reactions without being physically present in the same location.
2Measurement precision
If detailed emotion analysis is performed for each participant, then understanding of participant reactions is improved, but system complexity and processing requirements deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the emotion analysis system into independent emotion recognition units, each responsible for analyzing specific facial regions or emotional attributes. This modular segmentation allows detailed emotion analysis to be performed on multiple participants simultaneously through parallel processing, maintaining high measurement precision while managing system complexity through functional decomposition.
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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.