Abstract: A method of presenting personalized additional information along with displayed content includes accessing a content viewing history and a user profile. Detecting an event by extracting metadata related to content provided for display, the content provided for display related to other content not contained within the content viewing history, and accessing additional information related to the detected event. Additional features include overlaying an object onto the content being displayed on the content display device, and displaying background image information the surrounds the content display device in the view of the AR user. Any or all of the features may be present simultaneously.

Abstract: A method (400) of generating guest accounts in a local area network is provided including determining (410) a presence of at least one user in a premises and generating (420) at least one guest account in a local area network established in the premises based on the determined presence. An apparatus (101, 102, 300) for generating guest accounts in a local area network is provided, the apparatus including a processor (304), and at least one memory (312) coupled with the processor, the processor being configured to determine a presence of at least one user in a premises and generate at least one guest account in a local area network (150) established in the premises based on the determined presence. A computer-readable storage medium and a non-transitory computer-readable program product are also described.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods for providing privacy-preserving security using dormant computing power within a dwelling or building. In one aspect of the present disclosure, the devices, systems, and methods include a processor that receives at least one image captured within a premises, detects at least one face in the at least one image, determines if the detected at least one face matches at least one known face in a database and, if the detected at least one face does not match a known face, transmits a notification to at least one second device. In another aspect of the present disclosure, the processor determines a number of unique faces present in the at least one image and, if the determined number of unique faces is above a limit, transmits a notification to at least one second device.

Abstract: A system for converting image data from standard dynamic range (SDR) format to a high dynamic range (HDR) format involves partitioning input data representing a SDR image into a plurality of portions of data, wherein each portion represents a respective one of a plurality of SDR patches of the SDR image and each of the plurality of SDR patches covers a portion of the SDR image and the set of the plurality of SDR patches fully covers the SDR image; processing each of the plurality of SDR patches through a deep learning autoencoder responsive to a plurality of model weights representing a model of SDR to HDR conversion to produce a respective plurality of estimated HDR patches; and stitching the estimated HDR patches together to form a HDR image version of the SDR image.

Abstract: A system for applications including but not limited to machine learning and unsupervised learning for clustering of data processes an input dataset in a plurality of autoencoders where each autoencoder is configured to produce an indication of a particular structure included in the input dataset and an aggregator combines the indications produced by the plurality of autoencoders based on a weighting vector to produce a weighted combination of the indications that may be used to train the system to create a sparse representation of unlabeled datasets.

Abstract: A method for correlating Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) signals from multiple users watching the same content to identify scenes of interest in such content includes filtering GSR signals from each user by subtracting consecutive GSR signal samples from each other. The user reaction portion and baseline portion of the GSR signals for the users are collectively optimized to recover non-zero user responses for the users. The locations in the content having the non-zero responses for the users are then identified as the scenes of interest in such content for the users.

Abstract: A system and method for skin conductance-based regulation of an electronic device is described. The system includes a processor configured to receive, data representative of skin conductance of a user; determine, a conductance for the user as a function of a temperature and the skin conductance; and adjust, the temperature based on the determined conductance.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (500) and apparatus (1000, 250) for using the biometric responses of a first group of users watching and/or listening to digital multimedia content to generate a summary of the digital multimedia content by randomly selecting segments from the digital multimedia content as a function of segment scores determined from the biometric responses. In another method (600) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure, the biometric responses of a second group of users being shown the generated summary of the digital multimedia content can be used to extrapolate the biometric responses of the second group of users to the entire digital multimedia content. Furthermore, yet another method (650) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure can use the biometric responses of at least one user in the second group of users to generate recommendations.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method (500) and apparatus (1000, 250) for using the biometric responses of a first group of users watching and/or listening to digital multimedia content to generate a summary of the digital multimedia content by randomly selecting segments from the digital multimedia content as a function of segment scores determined from the biometric responses. In another method (600) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure, the biometric responses of a second group of users being shown the generated summary of the digital multimedia content can be used to extrapolate the biometric responses of the second group of users to the entire digital multimedia content. Furthermore, yet another method (650) and apparatus (1000, 250) of the present disclosure can use the biometric responses of at least one user in the second group of users to generate recommendations.

Abstract: A method of presenting personalized additional information along with displayed content includes accessing a content viewing history and a user profile. Detecting an event by extracting metadata related to content provided for display, the content provided for display related to other content not contained within the content viewing history, and accessing additional information related to the detected event. Additional features include overlaying an object onto the content being displayed on the content display device, and displaying background image information the surrounds the content display device in the view of the AR user. Any or all of the features may be present simultaneously.

Abstract: A method to determine an operational status of one appliance includes sampling a plurality of sensors monitoring operation of a plurality of appliances. The sampling producing composite sensor measurements; the sensors not dedicated to any particular appliance. Filtering the composite sensor measurements for information for the one appliance is accomplished to remove sampled data that represents appliances other than the one appliance. A comparison of the sensor data for the one appliance with the reference information of the one appliance is determined. If an operation anomaly is present in the information for the particular appliance, a notification is transmitted to a user device concerning the operation of the one appliance.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are described including receiving sensor data from at least one of a plurality of sensors in a sensor array associated with an environment, detecting a pattern in the received sensor data, determining a profile of at least one user present in the environment from a correlation between the detected pattern and patterns in a first database, determining an action to be performed responsive to the determined age range of the at least one user in the environment to actions associated with the user profile in a second database and performing the determined action on received content.

Abstract: A device and a method for controlling lighting conditions of a room. The room has at least one adjustable element that impacts the lighting conditions of the room. A multidirectional light sensor including a plurality of light sensors is arranged to capture the light intensity from a plurality of directions. The device obtains measurements from the multidirectional light sensor and adjusts the lighting conditions of the room. When the light in direction of the screen is higher than a first threshold, the device decreases the lighting conditions by sending a command to the adjustable element located in opposite direction to the screen. When the average value of light is lower than a second threshold, the device increases the lighting conditions by sending a command to at least one adjustable element of the room.

Abstract: Ways to provide optimized content for sequential viewing are described. A processing server (120) may be able to retrieve source content from a storage (110). The processing server (120) may optimize the content by removing redundant and irrelevant segments. The processing server may further accelerate a playback speed associated with the optimized content. The redundancy and/or relevancy of segments may be determined based at least partly on the subject matter included in the segments, user preferences, and/or other relevant factors. The processing server (120) may receive data from multiple analytics resource and use the data to identify relevant and/or redundant segments. The processing server may provide optimized content to a content server (140) which may, in turn, provide the content to a user device (150) for playback. Alternatively, the optimized content may be generated at the user device.

Abstract: The present principles generally relate to audio apparatus, methods, and computer program products and in particular, to improvements that adjust the sound level or levels of one or more audio outputs of an audio system based on the determined origin and/or direction of propagation of a detected human voice in a location. Such an adjustment may be to decrease, mute, or increase the sound level of an audio output producing sound in the direction of the origin of the voice. A sound level produced by other audio outputs may be unchanged.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a pre-determined number of top ranked items is described including accepting a probability of the method failing, iteratively performing the following steps, accepting the set of unranked items and the probability of erroneous pairwise comparisons, randomly selecting a pre-determined number of items from the set of unranked items, querying multiple observed pairwise comparisons, determining items of the set of unranked items that are in a top portion and in a bottom portion of the set of unranked items based on the query, reducing the set of unranked items by removing the items in the bottom portion and the top portion of the set of unranked items responsive to the determining step, querying the multiple observed pairwise comparisons, reducing the set of unranked items by removing items in the bottom portion of the set of unranked items responsive to the second querying step and returning the reduced set of unranked items.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a pre-determined number of top ranked items are described including accepting a set of unranked items, the pre-determined number, and a random selection of pairwise comparisons, creating a graph structure using the set of unranked items and the random selection of pairwise comparisons, wherein the graph structure includes vertices corresponding to the items and edges corresponding to a pairwise ranking and performing a depth-first search for each item that is an element of the set of unranked items for paths along the edges through the graph that are not greater than a length equal to the pre-determined number.