The Emotient software could be used to make Siri more aware of the moods of her human masters. Apple wants its devices to understand the emotional states of human beings. At least its recent acquisitions and patents suggest so. The company today acquired a small firm called Emotient, whose software reads the facial expressions of people and divines their emotional states. The software can analyze video of a room full of people and classify the…
Apple buys a startup that may help it read your facial expressions
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