Patent ID: 11937929
Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. An image processing system, comprising:
at least one camera for capturing images of a surrounding environment; and
at least one processor and memory containing software;
wherein the software directs the at least one processor to:
obtain data comprising a sequence of images captured by the at least one camera;
detect a face for at least one person within a plurality of images in the sequence of images, wherein the at least one person is talking in at least one image of the plurality of images;
detect at least one emotional cue in the face based upon the plurality of images using a classifier that is trained using statistically representative social expression data that comprises image data of expressive talking sequences;
identify at least one emotion based on the at least one emotional cue; and
display at least one emotion indicator label in real time to provide therapeutic feedback to a user.