Automatic attractiveness rating machine

Abstract

The present invention teaches an amusement machine having the abilities of automatically estimating the degree of attractiveness of a user facial image. The amusement machine has a camera 11 for taking a facial image of the user and assigns the attractiveness score. The result is then displayed to the user on a computer screen 13.

1 . A method of playing a game comprising the steps of: 
 obtaining a digital facial image of a user;    determining an attractiveness score of the digital facial image of the user; and    notifying the user of the attractiveness score.    
   
   
       2 . The method as defined by  claim 1 , wherein the step of determining the attractiveness score comprises: 
 extracting geometrical features from the digital facial image; and    determining a degree of attractiveness based upon the extracted geometrical features.    
   
   
       3 . The method as defined by  claim 1 , wherein the degree of attractiveness is a numerical value within a prescribed range.  
   
   
       4 . The method as defined by  claim 1 , wherein the step of determining comprises: 
 determining a set of geometrical features of the digital facial image of the user;    assigning a value to each of the geometrical features of the digital facial image of the user; and    determining an attractiveness of the digital facial image of the user based upon the values assigned to each of the geometrical features.    
   
   
       5 . The method as defined by  claim 4 , wherein the step of determining an attractiveness of the digital facial image includes using an artificial neural network.  
   
   
       6 . The method as defined by  claim 5 , further comprising the step of training the artificial neural network using a training set prior to determining an attractiveness score.  
   
   
       7 . The method as defined by  claim 6 , wherein the training comprises associating attractiveness values to geometrical features.  
   
   
       8 . A method of rating a degree of attractiveness of a facial image, comprising the steps of: 
 measuring geometrical features of said facial image;    presenting said geometrical features at the input layer of a trained artificial neuron network; and    receiving said degree of attractiveness of said facial image at the output layer of said trained artificial neuron network.