EMOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND EMOTION ANALYSIS METHOD

• Main Authors: MATTHEW JOHN LAWRENSON, DAVID MICHAEL DUFFY, YOSHIHARA TAKESHI, ELLIOTT BOWMAN BERNADETTE, CHRISTOPHER JOHN WRIGHT, IZUMI AKITOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 29.07.2021
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

To efficiently support realization of giving/receiving of hospitable care services targeted toward a care staff member and a care-receiver.SOLUTION: An emotion analysis system comprises: a microphone that collects voices based on speech of at least one of a care-giver and a care-receiver; a camera that acquires an image in which the care-giver and the care-receiver are imaged; an emotion processing unit that derives emotion data indicating emotion of each of the care-giver and the care-receiver relative to the other person on the basis of at least one of voice data of the speech collected by the microphone and image data of the care-giver and the care-receiver imaged by the camera; and a feedback unit that determines an action plan for the care-giver on the basis of the emotion data of each of the care-giver and the care-receiver, to notify a care-giver terminal held by the care-giver.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】介護スタッフおよび被介護者に向けた快適な介護サービスの授受の実現を効率的に支援する。【解決手段】感情分析システムは、介護者および被介護者のうち少なくとも一方の発話に基づく音声を収音するマイクと、介護者および被介護者を撮像した画像を取得するカメラと、マイクにより収音された発話の音声データとカメラにより撮像された介護者および被介護者の画像データとのうち少なくとも一方に基づいて、介護者および被介護者のそれぞれの相手に対する感情を示す感情データを導出する感情処理部と、介護者および被介護者のそれぞれの感情データに基づいて、介護者へのアクションプランを決定し、介護者が所持する介護者端末に通知するフィードバック部と、を備える。【選択図】図２