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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2012
Applicants:

Ronny Lempel, Zichron Yaakov, IL;

Edward Bortnikov, Haifa, IL;

Nadav Golbandi, Pardes Hanna Karkur, IL;

Sergiy Bilobrov, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ronny Lempel, Zichron Yaakov, IL;

Edward Bortnikov, Haifa, IL;

Nadav Golbandi, Pardes Hanna Karkur, IL;

Sergiy Bilobrov, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04H 60/58 (2008.01); H04H 60/66 (2008.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00315 (2013.01); G06F 17/30743 (2013.01); G06K 9/00335 (2013.01); G06K 9/00711 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0255 (2013.01); H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04N 21/42203 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04H 60/58 (2013.01); H04H 60/66 (2013.01); H04H 2201/90 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for aggregating emotions of users for a media program. A server stores reference audio signal fingerprints, each associated with a reference audio signal of the program. For each user, the server computer: receives a first audio signal fingerprint from a client device operated by a user, the first audio signal fingerprint associated with a first audio signal comprising ambient sound associated with the user and an audio signal of the program; searches the stored reference audio signal fingerprints to determine one that is related to the first audio signal fingerprint; determines an ambient sound signal by obtaining a difference between the stored reference audio signal fingerprint and the first audio signal fingerprint; and determines, using the ambient sound signal, an emotion of the user for a program segment. The server computer aggregates the emotions to determine a representative emotion of the users for the segment.


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