Patent ID: 9558425
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A system for automatically predicting emotional content of a digital image, comprising: a programmed computer having memory and an input for receiving the digital image from the memory of a device used to capture or store the image, and wherein the computer is programmed to perform the following functions automatically: (a) extract visual information from the image; (b) model shape features in the image including roundness and angularity based upon the extracted visual information; and (c) compute information relating to the emotional content of the image based upon the extracted visual information and modeled shape features; and an output device in communication with the programmed computer enabling a user to receive the information relating to the computed emotional content of the image, the information including a classification of the image into one of a plurality of categories at least including anger, disgust, fear, sadness, amusement, awe, contentment, and excitement, wherein the roundness in the image is automatically computed by fitting the shape features extracted from the image to a circle, and wherein the angularity in the image is automatically computed by fitting the shape features extracted from the image to ellipses and measuring the elongatedness of the fitted ellipses.