Patent Document ID: 9679380
Application ID: 14606340

Base Claim:
1. A method of modifying an input image to change an emotion conveyed by the image, the method comprising: accessing two or more sample images stored in a memory; transforming the input image using each of the sample images to generate output images; generating a metric for each output image corresponding to emotion conveyed by said output image, the emotion arranged along a plurality of emotion dimensions; receiving a command to modify an emotion in the input image according to a specified emotion change identified by a user; obtaining an emotion-transformed input image by selecting the output image whose generated metric is closest to the specified change; and displaying the emotion-transformed input image.

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Claim 5:
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of emotion dimensions comprises orthogonal axes, and wherein pairs of negatively correlated emotions are arranged on opposing ends of the orthogonal axes.