ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,999, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Method for emotion recognition based on human-object time-space interaction behavior" was invented by Xinde Li (Nanjing, China) and Chuanfei Hu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emotion recognition method includes the following steps: acquiring video data of a human-object interaction behavior process; performing data labeling on the positions of a person and an object and the interaction behaviors and emotions expressed by the person; constructing a feature extraction model based on deep learning, extracting features of interaction between ...