Patent ID: 11922538
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method of generating an emoji, the method comprising:
in response to an utterance of a user being input, acquiring, by a processer, at least one of context information or information about a sentiment of the user; and
generating, by the processor, a new emoji based on emoji generation information including information related to at least two among the context information, the information about the sentiment of the user, and information about an intent of the user corresponding to the utterance,
wherein the generating of the new emoji includes:
selecting, by the processor, a plurality of emojis that match the emoji generation information from among a plurality of stored emojis;
combining, by the processor, at least some of the plurality of emojis to generate the new emoji,
calculating a matching rate between a plurality of emoji generation tags representing the emoji generation information and a plurality of emoji tags representing the plurality of emojis,
selecting an emoji having a matching rate greater than or equal to a reference value from among the plurality of emojis,
classifying the selected plurality of emojis into a plurality of categories according to characteristic of the emojis, and
selecting at least two emojis from among the selected plurality of emojis as sub-emojis used to generate the new emoji according to the classifying of the selected plurality of emojis.