Abstract: Techniques (methods and devices) for neural stimulation through audio with dynamic modulation characteristics are disclosed. The techniques include receiving a mapping of sensor-input values and modulation-characteristic values, wherein each sensor-input value corresponds to a respective modulation-characteristic value; receiving an audio element from an audio source, wherein the audio element comprises at least one audio parameter; identifying an audio-parameter value of the audio parameter; receiving a sensor-input value from a sensor; determining a sensor-input value based on the sensor-input value; selecting from the mapping of sensor-input values and modulation-characteristic values, a modulation-characteristic value that corresponds to the sensor-input value; generating an audio output based on the audio-parameter value and the modulation-characteristic value; and playing the audio output.

Abstract: A system for content presentation is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes Input/Output(I/O) circuitry to receive an indicated location and an indicated one or more preferred sources of content. Memory stores scheduling information that includes a location information and date information associated therewith. A processor identifies at least one media segment for inclusion into a customized media programming stream based on (a) comparing the indicated location to the location information; (b) comparing the current date to the associated date information; and (c) comparing the indicated one or more preferred sources for content to the content source information. The processer assembles a customized media programming stream by adding the at least one identified media segment to the customized media programming stream. The I/O circuitry transmits the customized media programming stream for presentation on a user device.

Abstract: A system for facilitating a virtual screening is disclosed. The system identifies a user for participating in a virtual screening of media content. The system generates a unique link for the user to facilitate access to the media content. When the user interacts with the link, the system prompts the user to authenticate with the system and determines whether the authentication was successful. If authentication is successful, the link is associated with an identifier of the user and/or a user device. A request for a key for decrypting the media content and a request for a digitally signed file accessing the media content pursuant to parameters are made. If the digitally signed file is valid, the system applies a watermark to the media content to track the use of the media content and streams the media content to the user. Feedback on the media content is obtained from the user.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for collecting user feedback information from viewers of content are described. Feedback information is received from viewers of content. The feedback indicates, based on head tracking information in some embodiments, where users are looking in a simulated environment during different times of a content presentation, e.g., different frame times. The feedback information is used to prioritize different portions of an environment represented by the captured image content. Resolution allocation is performed based on the feedback information and the content re-encoded based on the resolution allocation. The resolution allocation may and normally does change as the priority of different portions of the environment change.

Abstract: Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device obtains sensor data from one or more first sensors of the wearable multimedia device, and generates a first content item based on the sensor data. Further, the device obtains biometric data regarding a user of the device. The biometric data is obtained from one or more second sensors of the wearable multimedia device. The device determines a metric for the first content item based on the biometric data, and stores the first content item and the metric. The metric is stored as metadata of the first content item.

Abstract: Provided is a processing apparatus for deriving a level of immersion in content includes a state data acquisition part configured to acquire state data including data indicating a user's first reaction and data indicating a user's second reaction during image display of the content, a first analysis part configured to analyze the data indicative of the first reaction to derive a first immersion evaluation value based on the user's first reaction, a second analysis part configured to analyze the data indicative of the second reaction to derive a second immersion evaluation value based on the user's second reaction, a weight setting part configured to set a weight value for each of the first and second immersion evaluation values, and an immersion level deriving part configured to derive the level of immersion in the content from the first and second immersion evaluation values and from the respective weight values thereof.

Abstract: A system that includes a content distributor, a reaction content server, and a plurality of viewer computer devices. The content distributor provides original content to the viewer computer devices. The viewer computer devices present the original content to viewers and generate viewer-reaction content of the viewers during presentation of the original content. The viewer computer devices provide the viewer-reaction content to the reaction content server to provide to other viewer computer devices. The viewer computer devices also present viewer-reaction content received from the reaction content server to the viewers in synchronization with the original content, which allows the viewers to experience other viewer's reactions while experiencing the same original content.

Abstract: Multidimensional digital content search techniques are described that support an ability of a computing device to perform search with increased granularity and flexibility over conventional techniques. In one example, a control is implemented by a computing device that defines a multidimensional (e.g., two-dimensional) continuous space. Locations in the multidimensional continuous space are usable to different search criteria through different weights applied to the criteria associated with the axes. Therefore, user interaction with this control may be used to define a location and corresponding coordinates that may act as weights to the search criteria in order to perform a search of digital content through use of a single user input.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating for display a notification to a plurality of users at a position within a display screen to which each user of the plurality of users is paying attention. Specifically, the media guidance application captures lines of sight of users who are paying attention to a display screen, based on which the media guidance application determines line-of-sight regions on the display screen that the users are paying attention to. The media guidance application then determines a display area that is noticeable to the users based on the respective line-of-sight regions on the display screen to display an electronic message.

Abstract: A system and method of wireless display, including a transmitter processing a first encrypted content into a second encrypted content without decoding, and transferring the second encrypted content over a wireless display connection to a receiver.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect a presence status. An example apparatus includes media identification circuitry to generate first signatures representative of first audio data associated with a monitored media device, a comparator to obtain second signatures from a portable meter, the second signatures representative of second audio data sensed by the portable meter and compare the first signatures and the second signatures to determine a comparison result, presence detection circuitry to determine a presence status of a user based on the comparison result, the user associated with the portable meter, and network communication circuitry to transmit the presence status to a data processor to perform audience measurement based on the presence status.

Abstract: Audience monitoring systems and related methods are described herein. An example audience monitoring system includes a beacon to be disposed proximate a media presentation device. The beacon is to transmit a ping signal. The system also includes a portable metering device to be carried by a person. The portable metering device includes a microphone to receive an audio signal and a processor to determine a distance value indicative of a distance between the portable metering device and the beacon based on the ping signal.

Abstract: Brain modelling includes receiving time-coded bio-signal data associated with a user; receiving time-coded stimulus event data; projecting the time-coded bio-signal data into a lower dimensioned feature space; extracting features from the lower dimensioned feature space that correspond to time codes of the time-coded stimulus event data to identify a brain response; generating a training data set for the brain response using the features; training a brain model using the training set, the brain model unique to the user; generating a brain state prediction for the user output from the trained brain model, and automatically computing similarity metrics of the brain model as compared to other user data; and inputting the brain state prediction to a feedback model to determine a feedback stimulus for the user, wherein the feedback model is associated with a target brain state.

Abstract: A wearable device worn on a remote shopping assistant that includes one or more sensors configured to detect a weight, quantity, freshness and quality of one or more grocery items, a transceiver configured to communicate data indicative of the weight, quantity, freshness and quality of the one or more grocery items to and from a remote server, wherein the remote server is configured to communicate data to a remote shopper, and a camera configured to capture image data related to the one or more grocery items.

Abstract: A watching behavior estimation device includes an input unit to which a value of a first index indicating a playback state of a video distributed via a network is input, and a calculation unit configured to calculate, by applying the value which is input to the input unit to a function indicating a relationship between the first index, and a second index regarding a behavior of a viewer of the video, an estimated value of the second index, thereby making it possible to estimate the behavior of the viewer of the video distributed via the network.

Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for adaptive metering are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a condition analyzer to determine a condition associated with a mobile device, a meter selector to select a meter for the mobile device based on the condition, and a data collector to collect data pertaining to the mobile device based on the selected meter.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selecting one or more network-connected devices to provide device functions required by an event. A media guidance application may detect an event in which a user is currently engaged. The media guidance application may identify a set of device capabilities associated with the event. The media guidance application may search, within a plurality of network-connected devices of the user, to identify one or more devices that enable functions corresponding to the set of device capabilities to be perceptible to the user, and the media guidance application may instruct the identified one or more devices to provide the functions corresponding to the set of device capabilities associated with the event.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for dynamically modifying interactive digital content based on viewer sentiment is provided. The present invention may include measuring, by one or more sensors, characteristics of viewers associated with a viewed portion of the interactive digital content, while the viewers are viewing the interactive digital content; inferring the sentiment of the viewers with respect to the viewed portion of the interactive digital content based on the measured characteristics; predicting content satisfying to the viewers based on the sentiment; and modifying the interactive digital content in real time based on the predicted content.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and system for collecting attentiveness information associated with a user's response to consuming a piece of media content. The attentiveness information is used to create an attentiveness-labelled behavioural data for the user's response. A computer-implemented attentiveness model may be generated by applying machine learning techniques to the a set of attentiveness-labelled behavioural data from multiple users. The system may comprise an annotation tool that facilitates human labelling of the user's response with attentiveness data. The resulting attentiveness model is therefore based on correlations indicative of attentiveness within the attentiveness-labelled behavioural data and/or physiological data that are based on real human cognition rather than a predetermined feature or combination of features.

Abstract: A method to control the display of content on a screen connected to a processing platform, the content including access conditions, and the method including acquiring an image within a sensitive area, the sensitive area being an area within which content displayed on the screen would be within the field of view of an observer placed thereat, detecting a number of potential observers within the sensitive area, acquiring a number of credentials from the detected observers within the sensitive area, if the number of credentials is below the number of detected observers, disabling the display of the content, if the number of credentials equal the number of detected observers, comparing each credential with the access conditions and if all credentials match the access conditions, enabling display of the content.

Abstract: A system and method of adjusting playback of content in response to a viewer's emotional reaction is disclosed. The method includes detecting viewer emotion, via a camera, in reaction to subject matter of the content being presented on a display screen. The content includes subject matter and metadata associated with the subject matter. Additionally, the method analyzes the viewer emotion in reaction to the subject matter of the content presented on the display screen and identifies the analyzed viewer emotion in reaction to the subject matter of the content. The method also associates an identified viewer emotion with at least one playback attribute linked with the presentation of the content using the metadata associated with the subject matter of the content presented on the display screen. Further, the method adjusts the at least one playback attribute linked with presentation of the content that corresponds with the identified viewer emotion.

Abstract: A server configured to receive video clips from a mobile device, such as eyewear. The server has an electronic processor enabled to execute computer instructions to process the video clips to identify one or more characteristics in the frames of the video clips. The processor selects the video clips having the identified characteristics in the frames and creates a set of the selected video clips having the identified characteristics in the frames. The processor automatically trims the video clips based on frames that have the identified characteristics to create trimmed video clip segments, and then sends the trimmed video clip segments to the mobile device.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing variable output as a function of disbursed non-audio input are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve at least one processor configured to receive over a network, during a presentation, from a plurality of network access devices, a plurality of non-audio signals corresponding to activations of substitute audio buttons, each of the plurality of non-audio signals having an audio identity. The at least one processor may be configured to process the received plurality of non-audio signals to determine a quantity of non-audio signals corresponding to a specific audio identity. Disclosed embodiments may also involve a lookup in an audio-related data structure to select at least one particular audio file associated with the audio identity and the determined quantity, to output data for causing the at least one particular audio file to be played.

Abstract: One or more embodiments include an emotion analysis system for computing and analyzing emotional state of a user. The emotion analysis system acquires, via at least one sensor, sensor data associated with a user. The emotion analysis system determines, based on the sensor data, an emotional state associated with a user. The emotion analysis system determines a first component of the emotional state that corresponds to media content being accessed by the user. The emotion analysis system applies a first function to the emotional state to remove the first component from the emotional state.

Abstract: A method for zero-touch provisioning is disclosed. The method includes receiving a customer specification of network requirements exclusively specified for a CPE assigned to a specific customer at a specific customer premises. The CSNR includes information describing the premises and information describing an intended operation of the CPE. The method also includes storing a job assignment including a unique CPE identity and service information for the provisioning of the CPE. The identity is linked to the customer through the job assignment. The method also includes provisioning a class of service template exclusively for providing the intended operation of the CPE at the customer premises and paired with the CPE identity through the job assignment. The method also includes receiving a provisioning request sent by the CPE to a FQDN pointed at the ZTP server and including the CPE identity. Finally, the method includes pushing the COS template to the CPE.

Abstract: A system and method applicable for determining the positions of radio tags based on triangulation and respective radio tag signals transmitted from each radio tag, where each of a set of base stations is configured to transmit a radio base signal including an identifier that uniquely identifies the base station, and other base stations of the set of base stations receive the radio base signal and forward received base station messages to a central control unit which determines a position for any added base station using triangulation and known positions for base stations already included in the system, in order to facilitate expanding the number of base stations in the system.

Abstract: Systems and methods for creating an ad hoc pervasive computing environment comprised of an inference recommendation engine coupled to commodity devices and sensors that passively collect human activity and behavioral data. Methods include machine learning and deep learning applications that analyze data to generate preference based recommendations to assist, inform, and guide subjects interacting with a connected living space and their connected social network.

Abstract: Creative intent input describing emotion expectations and narrative information relating to media content is received. Expected physiologically observable states relating to the media content are generated based on the creative intent input. An audiovisual content signal with the media content and media metadata comprising the physiologically observable states is provided to a playback apparatus. The audiovisual content signal causes the playback device to use physiological monitoring signals to determine, with respect to a viewer, assessed physiologically observable states relating to the media content and generate, based on the expected physiologically observable states and the assessed physiologically observable states, modified media content to be rendered to the viewer.

Abstract: A photographing method and a terminal device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first operation; starting, by the terminal device, a camera in response to the first operation; displaying, by the terminal device, a first preview screen including a first preview image, where the first preview image includes at least one photographed object, and the at least one photographed object in the first preview image matches preset first text information; and outputting, by the terminal device, first prompt information based on the first preview image and the first information, where the first prompt information is used to indicate a missing or redundant photographed object in the first preview image.

Abstract: A method provides for tracking client playback events when playing an asset specified in a manifest for streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) content. The method includes generating, with a manifest manipulator, a manifest that includes an asset URL inserted at a marker denoting a placement opportunity in a content manifest requested by a client. The manifest also includes callback URLs for tracking playback events to be returned by the client. The manifest manipulator sends the manifest to the client. At least one of the callback URLs is received by a tracking proxy associated with the manifest manipulator, indicating that the event has been performed by the client. In response, a tracking URL is obtained by the tracking proxy. The tracking URL is sent to at least one asset decision system participating in an asset decision process that resulted in providing the asset URL to the manifest manipulator.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and processes for monitoring attributes of a user's physical activity (e.g., workout) or inactivity, and to user interfaces (e.g., an activity indicator) for displaying the same. In some examples, a device determines whether physical activity corresponds to a first type based on a first set of criteria, and whether physical activity corresponds to a second type based on a second set of criteria. In some examples, the device controls an inactivity timer that measures user's inactivity. In some examples, the device displays a first visual representation of an attribute or amount of a first type of physical activity, and a second visual representation of an attribute or amount of a second type. In some examples, the device displays a third visual representation of an attribute or amount of a third type of activity. In some examples, the third visual representation corresponds to user's inactivity.

Abstract: An engagement estimation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a value of a parameter affecting a quality of video streaming in a certain period; and a calculation unit configured to substitute the value of the parameter acquired by the acquisition unit in an equation representing a relation between the parameter indicative of the quality and engagement with the video streaming to calculate a value of an index indicative of the engagement, thereby enabling estimation of the engagement with the video streaming.

Abstract: Techniques for generating highlight clips of an event are described herein. For example, unstructured data associated with an event may be received. Audio data and video data for the event may be obtained. Structured data may be extracted from the unstructured data using one or more feature extractors. In embodiments, a duration for a highlight clip of the event may be determined based at least in part on a model that uses the structured data, the audio data and the video data of the event. Metadata that identifies the duration for the highlight clip of the event may be generated based at least in part on the model. The highlight clip of the event may be stored based at least in part on the metadata.

Abstract: A machine learning system builds and uses computer models for identifying or predicting intensity of emotional reactions elicited by a particular video. Such computer models may also determine which particular emotional reaction corresponds to certain times during the video, and whether these reactions are positive or negative for a particular user. The computer models can also predict emotional reactions likely to be elicited by new videos based on learned correlations between video features and elicited emotional reactions.

Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent display of content are disclosed herein. According to one illustrative method, a computing device camera captures an image of a face. The control circuitry determines, based on the captured image, whether at least a portion of the face is directed toward a computing device display. The control circuitry retrieves, from a memory, a rule specifying criteria for determining whether to block or permit presentation of content based on whether one or more faces are directed toward the display. The control circuitry determines, based on the rule and whether at least a portion of the face is directed toward the display, whether to block or permit the presentation of the content, and blocks or permits the presentation of the content via the computing device based on a result of the determining.

Abstract: A mobile health device includes a sensor that monitors values of a health metric of a person, a control component that controls the device to perform actions as part of providing a health service, and components of the device that receive the control signal and perform an action to provide the health service based on the control signal. The components include user output components for producing sound and/or displaying information and where providing the health service includes playing information as sound, displaying information as text, displaying information as motion video, and/or displaying information still images. The control component includes an input that receives audio signals corresponding to the monitored values of the health metric and produces a control signal based on information about the person, including the monitored values of the health metric of the person. The mobile health device may also include a network interface component.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a message extractor to extract message information from a message obtained from a streaming monitor at a media exposure measurement location, the message information including media identification information of media presented in a direct media network and media device information associated with at least one of a streaming client device associated with the direct media network or a media presentation device associated with the direct media network, a media device identifier to identify at least one of the streaming client device or the media presentation device based on the media device information, a media identifier to identify the media based on the media identification information, and a media creditor to credit the media as having been accessed in response to identifying the media.

Abstract: In various example embodiments, a system and method for dynamically ordering content and discrete content segments are presented. A set of discrete content segments is received having a first order for distributing the set of discrete content segments during a display of a media stream. Each discrete content segment includes a set of ordering factors. Event data is received. The event data is representative of a set of events depicted by the media stream. A set of event instances is determined from the event data representing the set of events depicted by the media stream. A second order is generated for the set of discrete content segments based on the set of event instances and the sets of ordering factors.

Abstract: In accordance with some implementations, a method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, a representation of a first portion of a media object, wherein the first portion of the media object is associated with a first resource utilization value. The first resource utilization value characterizes a utilization of a respective resource by the electronic device. The method includes determining an engagement score that characterizes a level of user engagement with respect to the representation of the first portion of the media object. The method includes changing the utilization of the respective resource from the first resource utilization value to a second resource utilization value based on a function of the engagement score. The second resource utilization value is associated with a second portion of the media object.

Abstract: A secure content screening research and analysis system and process for securely conducting live audience test screenings and hosting focus groups for media content market research is disclosed. The secure content screening research and analysis system and process allows one to deploy extreme content security measures to stream sensitive content, such as in-progress films, to groups of public viewers to engage viewers in the groups in audience test screenings of such sensitive content and to perform research and analysis of viewer reactions while watching the content for media content market research. The secure content screening research and analysis system and process utilizes industry standard DRM to enforce a requirement of recording via web cam of each user watching the content and placing this information along the same presented content timeline for specific analysis of every scene's effect on the viewer.

Abstract: A fantasy sports interleaver may include a video segmenting device to create a plurality of video clips, a clip annotator to associate each of the plurality of video clips with at least one of achievement of an athlete, and an interleaver to associate and transmit at least some of the plurality of video clips to each of a plurality of users. The interleaver may interface with a fantasy sports platform hosting the fantasy team of the user, as well as incoming audio/video feeds from content providers, and content feeds from advertisers. In an “active bench” fantasy environment, users frequently move athletes of the user's fantasy team between “bench” and “field” to take advantage of a constantly evolving situation on actual fields of play. A user interfaces allows fantasy team control, provides updated video clips indicating potential opportunities, and updated rosters indicating whether athletes in non-fantasy games are benched or fielded.

Abstract: A processing device and a method are disclosed in which instructions are executed to determine, from a fingerprint of television content being consumed by a user, what program the user is watching so that program information may be sent for use by a smart device streaming the content to the user. The fingerprint may be compared with a database of fingerprints to find a match. The database may include fingerprints of favorite programs or of previously watched programs. The search may be narrowed according to the user's favorite programs or according to a subset of programs most likely to be watched, e.g., from a chronological history of programs the user usually watches and/or those that viewers in general usually watch in chronological order. When narrowed searches fail to find a fingerprint match, larger subsets up to and including the entire database may be searched for a match.

Abstract: A method of transplanting a desired emotional state from a donor to a recipient, comprising determining an emotional state of the donor; recording neural correlates of the emotional state of the donor who is in the desired emotional state; analyzing neural correlates of the emotional state of the donor to decode at least one of a temporal and a spatial pattern corresponding to the desirable emotional state; converting said at least one of a temporal and a spatial pattern corresponding to the desirable emotional state into a neurostimulation pattern; storing the neurostimulation pattern in the nonvolatile memory; retrieving the neurostimulation pattern from the nonvolatile memory; stimulating the recipient's brain with at least one stimulus modulated with the neurostimulation pattern to induce the desired emotional state in the recipient.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a media guidance application (e.g., implemented on a user device) that avoids spoilers in presenting recording prompts relating to a competition by scheduling presentation of notifications according to the user profile.

Abstract: A software- or computer-implemented system and method utilized to track user engagement and mannerisms for gaming methods and systems. The present system and method is used in conjunction with open source software to track the plurality of facial expressions generated by a user in response to the publication and viewing of a plurality of media presentations. The plurality of facial expressions of the user are analyzed to determine approval or disapproval and, in turn, to ascertain the type of media presentations that are again published thereafter by the gaming machine, solely based on the plurality of facial expressions of the user.

Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an eye tracking sensor configured to obtain eye information by tracking both eyes of a user, a depth sensor configured to obtain depth information about one or more objects, and a processor configured to obtain information about a gaze point based on the eye information, and determine a measurement parameter of the depth sensor based on the information about the gaze point.

Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for detecting users within a range of a media device. A detection region may be defined that is within the range of the media device and smaller than the range. The detection region may be stored. It may be determined whether a user is within the detection region. The media device may be activated and settings associated with the user may be applied when a user is within the detection region. In some embodiments, settings associated with a user may be compared to provided media content when the user is within the detection region. The content may change when the settings conflict with the media content. Reminders may be provided to or directed to a plurality of users within the range of the media device.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for prompting web-based user interaction are provided. Aspects include determining a plurality of items of interest based on data associated with a user. Aspects also include associating an emotion with each item of the plurality of items of interest. Aspects also include associating an emotion with each digital media clip of a plurality of digital media clips. Responsive to detecting an internet browsing action performed by the user, aspects include displaying a selected digital media clip of the plurality of digital media clips and a selected item of interest of the plurality of items of interest. The selected digital media clip and the selected item of interest are associated with a same emotion.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a preference of a user for or against a participant of an event when a media asset relating to the event is being played based on monitoring user reactions to the event. Specifically, the media guidance application may detect a change of at least one of the biometric state (e.g., pulse rate, blood pressure, etc.) and physiological state (e.g., facial expression, gesture, body movement, etc.) with a user. The media guidance application may determine that an event has occurred within the sporting event that triggered the change. The media guidance application may determine that the user favors the first participant over the second participant, if the user reacts positively towards a score for the first participant in the event.

Abstract: Disclosed is a preference-based service providing method for operating preference-based service providing system and device by executing an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm in a 5G environment connected for the Internet of things. A preference-based service providing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include acquiring user video information obtained by imaging a user who is using an electronic device, analyzing a preference of the user for a service provided by the electronic device on the basis of the user video information including a face image and a posture image of the user, setting a priority of the service provided by the electronic device on the basis of the preference of the user, and providing a recommendation list of services provided by the electronic device on the basis of priorities of the services.