Intellectual property

U.S. Patent No. 11,587,561 B2

Title
Communication system and method of extracting emotion data during translations
Inventor
Mary Lee Weir
Owner
Mary Lee Weir
Priority date
25 October 2019
Granted
21 February 2023
License
Exclusive research and development license to RealComm Global LLC

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What it covers

A method for carrying emotion with a message, and a hologram at the end of it.

From the granted specification
“The communication system may analyze cultural data associated with emotion metadata to generate a hologram that includes mannerisms that are adjusted for delivery of emotion.”

In plain language:

When a person speaks, the message carries emotional and prosodic information alongside its words. Conventional machine translation, in its early years, captured the words. The patented method combined sentiment analysis with machine translation to capture the emotional content during translation: representing it as structured data bound to the specific words and phrases that produced it, and carrying it across the language boundary with the message, so that a recipient receives not only what was said, but the manner in which it was said.

The specification further contemplates representations that carry adjusted vocal delivery in the target language, and from that, a holographic presentation of the speaker.

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