Patent Document ID: 8201080
Application ID: 11439806

Base Claim:
1. A method for annotating a content data stream, comprising: receiving a content data stream; annotating a portion of an image representing a person in the content data stream with metadata that symbolically describes emotional information conveyed by the person, wherein the portion is a body part of the person; and outputting the content data stream augmented with non-textual annotations of the portion of the image representing the person having a requested modality for the interpretation or cognition of the annotated content, wherein the emotion information is conveyed by both the portion of the image and the non-textual annotations individually, wherein the non-textual annotations are configured to be detected and processed by a personal annotation output device receiving the outputted content data stream to output the portion of the image and output the non-textual annotations in the requested modality for the interpretation or cognition of the annotated content, wherein the requested modality is transmitted by the personal annotation output device.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising rendering the non-textual annotations using a personal annotation output device which generates and outputs the non-textual annotations to an individual using said device.