Sony wants your phone to shoot continuous selfies
Sony wants your phone to shoot continuous selfies
When Sony says that the selfies are snapped continuously, they weren't kidding. The program continues to shoot away, even when you're sleeping. That can actually help you discover the reason why you are not awakening every morning feeling refreshed and alert.
"A system and method include determining predicted emotional events associated with an emotional response by a subject; forming a timeline based on the predicted emotional events; and acquiring image data associated with the subject to be acquired based on the timeline. Determining the predicted emotional events may include identifying emotional images, identifying prior emotional events associated with the emotional images, and determining the predicted emotional events based on the prior emotional events. Determining the predicted emotional events based on the prior emotional events may include: identifying digital content associated with a prior emotional event, determining an attribute of the digital content, identifying other digital content associated with the attribute, and determining the predicted emotional events based on the other digital content."-from Sony's patent application
The patent was filed globally with WIPO and was originally submitted on Christmas Eve 2013, just as the selfie craze was beginning to take off. This could end up as one of those ideas that sounds good and even looks good on paper, but could be derailed by issues pertaining to privacy rights and other legal questions.
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