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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2007
Gyung-hye Yang, Seoul, KR;
Seung-nyung Chung, Seoul, KR;
Gyung-Hye Yang, Seoul, KR;
Seung-Nyung Chung, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method to check whether a user likes a multimedia file based on the user's emotional reaction index of the multimedia file and repeatedly reproducing the multimedia file if the user likes the multimedia file. The multimedia file reproducing apparatus can include an emotional reaction index calculation unit to calculate an emotional reaction index based on a physical reaction signal of a user; a like/dislike checking unit to check whether the user likes or dislikes a corresponding audio file based on the calculated emotional reaction index; a list generation unit to generate a list of audio files that the user likes based on an average of emotional reaction indices for each audio file and the user's preference for each audio file; and a reproduction management unit to control the reproduction of the corresponding audio file based on whether the user likes or dislikes the corresponding audio file and to reproduce the audio files in the generated list.