Patent ID: 8423369

Claim:
A conversational speech analyzing system, comprising: a data capturing unit configured to capture data of a conversation or meeting; a motion sensor configured to capture motion information of a person involved in the conversation or meeting; and a computer, including: a frame detection unit configured to detect frames based on the captured data, a frame being a time segment of the conversation or meeting, and wherein the frame detection unit is configured to detect a first set of frames of data associated with a first person by using a second set of frames of data associated with a second person, a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature information from the sensor information of the first person in the first set of frames, a calculation unit configured to calculate a state of the first person in the conversation or meeting, including an interest level of the first person in the meeting, and to calculate a change of the state of the first person, including a change in interest level of the first person in the meeting, and a display unit configured to display at least one of: the state of the first person involved in the conversation or meeting, including a symbol of the first person, the symbol including a circle whose radius corresponds to a quantity of comments made by the first person in the conversation or meeting found to be useful or interesting by other participants, a plurality of time segments forming a time series, each time segment represented by a symbol including a rectangle whose shade or color corresponds to an aggregate of interest levels of persons involved in the conversation or meeting, and changes of the state of the first person shown in chronological order, including a graph that corresponds to the change over time in an interest level of the first person in the conversation or meeting.