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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2003
Kyung-hwan Kim, Kyungki-do, KR;
Seok-won Bang, Seoul, KR;
Dong-geon Kong, Busan, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, Kyungki-Do, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an emotion recognition apparatus and method thereof which enables perception of a user's emotional state by monitoring one or more of his or her physiological signals. The emotion recognition apparatus comprises a feature analyzer adapted to analyze features of the physiological signals acquired from a user and generate feature values, a subtractor adapted to obtain differences between the feature values generated by the feature analyzer and feature values used as a standard to perceive an emotional state of the user, and an emotion classifier adapted to analyze the differences obtained by the subtractor and classify an emotion into a plurality of emotional categories so as to perceive an emotional category exhibiting the greatest intensity to be the emotional state of the user.