Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a head-up display are disclosed. A head-up display including a plurality of graphical elements, each graphical element being generated at one of a range of depths on the head-up display is generated on a head-up display device. An indication that one of the graphical elements is currently selected is displayed. A user interface navigation signal to rotate the selection through the graphical elements in order of depth in response to user actuation of a navigation control is received from a user input device and an action associated with the currently selected graphical element in response to user actuation of the user input device is performed.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for enabling user-controlled extended reality (XR). The provided systems and methods may determine an XR portion should be included in a video feed that comprises a depiction of a first user, and the XR portion may be configured to occlude the entity in the video feed. An entity may be detected in the video feed, and user input may be received specifying that a detected entity in the video feed should not be occluded by the XR portion. Based on the user input, the video feed may be modified to exclude the XR portion from a portion of the video feed depicting the detected entity, wherein the portion is included at a different portion of the video feed, and the depiction of the first user is included in the video feed, and transmit the modified video feed to a second user device.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for enabling user-controlled extended reality (XR). The systems and methods may access one or more frames, depicting an environment surrounding a first user, of a video feed captured by a first user's device, and classify each portion of the frames as a physical background of the environment, as depicting the first user, or as depicting an additional entity. First and second masks may be generated for the depictions of the first and second users, respectively, and such masks may respectively define boundaries of the first user's depiction and the second user's depiction at which the XR portion should not be inserted. The frames may be modified by combining portions of the frames belonging to the physical background with the first mask and the second mask, and the video feed comprising the modified frames may be encoded and transmitted to the second user device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for analyzing predictive movements are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system identifies an entity in a video feed of an event and generates for display a prompt for a user to perform a predictive movement to predict an action of the entity in the video feed. The system uses computer vision techniques to analyze the action taken by the entity in the video feed and the predictive movement performed by the user prior to display of the action on the user's display device. If the system determines that the predictive movement matches the action taken by the entity, the system identifies the predictive movement as a correct prediction.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improving displays of media assets are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of text comments from a plurality of devices to which a media asset was transmitted. The system analyzes the comments to identify text strings within the text comments. The system generates interactable elements from the text strings in the text comments, such that an interaction with the text string causes display of identifiers of media assets corresponding to the text string.

Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and analyzing audio in a media presentation environment to determine whether to replay missed portions of media content are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, one or more computing devices detect audio in a media presentation environment. The one or more computing devices determine whether the audio relates to the media being presented. If the audio does not relate to the media being presented, the one or more computing devices cause replaying a portion of the media presentation corresponding to when the audio was being detected.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating audible pronunciation of a closed captioning word in a content item. For example, a system generates for output on a first device a content item comprising dialogue. The system generates for display on the first device a closed captioning word corresponding to the dialogue where the closed captioning word is selectable via a user interface of the first device. The system receives a selection of the closed captioning word via the user interface of the first device. In response to receiving the selection of the closed captioning word, the system generates for playback on the first device at least a portion of the dialogue corresponding to the selected closed captioning word.

Abstract: Systems and methods for overlaying virtual objects in a virtual environment based on user interest and user interactions are disclosed. The methods analyze a live view of a surface viewed through camera or a transparent lens and determine if the policies of the surface allow overlaying of virtual objects. The method fetches a virtual object and calculates a score based on user interest, user gaze, and user engagement. Virtual objects that meet the policies of the surface and a scoring criterion are overlayed on the surface in the virtual environment and enhanced based on a plurality of enhancement factors. Virtual objects are also overlayed in frames of a live broadcast based on their scores. Virtual objects displayed on a conference call interface, which may be meeting tools or icons associated with other conferencing functionality, are enhanced, or removed from the user interface based on their utilization.

Abstract: Systems and methods for overlaying virtual objects in a virtual environment based on user interest and user interactions are disclosed. The methods analyze a live view of a surface viewed through camera or a transparent lens and determine if the policies of the surface allow overlaying of virtual objects. The method fetches a virtual object and calculates a score based on user interest, user gaze, and user engagement. Virtual objects that meet the policies of the surface and a scoring criterion are overlayed on the surface in the virtual environment and enhanced based on a plurality of enhancement factors. Virtual objects are also overlayed in frames of a live broadcast based on their scores. Virtual objects displayed on a conference call interface, which may be meeting tools or icons associated with other conferencing functionality, are enhanced, or removed from the user interface based on their utilization.

Abstract: Systems and methods for overlaying virtual objects in a virtual environment based on user interest and user interactions are disclosed. The methods analyze a live view of a surface viewed through camera or a transparent lens and determine if the policies of the surface allow overlaying of virtual objects. The method fetches a virtual object and calculates a score based on user interest, user gaze, and user engagement. Virtual objects that meet the policies of the surface and a scoring criterion are overlayed on the surface in the virtual environment and enhanced based on a plurality of enhancement factors. Virtual objects are also overlayed in frames of a live broadcast based on their scores. Virtual objects displayed on a conference call interface, which may be meeting tools or icons associated with other conferencing functionality, are enhanced, or removed from the user interface based on their utilization.

Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to determine latency budgets for particular microservices for an application associated with a user equipment (UE) device, wherein the microservices are deployed in a cloud computing center. The processor may be further configured to determine that a measured latency for a particular microservice has exceeded a latency budget for the particular microservice by at least a latency budget threshold; deploy the particular microservice on a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) network associated with a base station servicing the UE device, based on determining that the measured latency for the particular microservice has exceeded the latency budget for the particular microservice by at least the latency budget threshold; and send a recommendation to the UE device to use the particular microservice deployed at the MEC network.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for controlling one or more devices based on measured sound levels. A device management system may access managed devices on a network, determine if any managed devices are generating sound, identify the sound-generating device, access a loudness policy associated with the sound-generating device, select a sound measuring device near the sound-generating device, receive from the sound measuring device a measured sound level of the sound-generating device, determine if the measured sound level exceeds a threshold from the loudness policy, and issue a command to the sound-generating device to reduce the volume. The sound measuring device may be selected because it is close to or in the same room as the sound-generating device. A management system may set and store a sound level limit as a loudness policy for a device, room, building, community, or more.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for identifying, using a sensor, a location of an object in an environment, and determining a classification of the object. A human may be identified in proximity with the object, an identity of the human may be determined, and a determination may be made that a hazardous condition may occur, based on a combination of the location of the object, the classification of the object, and the identity of the human in proximity with the object. In response to determining that the hazardous condition may occur, an augmented reality scene associated with the potentially hazardous condition associated with the object may be generated for presentation, at a user device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improving displays of media assets are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of text comments from a plurality of devices to which a media asset was transmitted. The system analyzes the comments to identify text strings within the text comments. The system generates interactable elements from the text strings in the text comments, such that an interaction with the text string causes display of identifiers of media assets corresponding to the text string.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for generating a media asset for presentation during a consumption session associated with a user profile, and while generating for presentation the media asset, generating for presentation an option to enable a social network profile, associated with a social network and associated with the user profile, to interact with a social network profile of a performer included in a cast of the media asset. In response to receiving selection of the option, an image of a frame of a current scene of the media asset may be extracted, and input associated with the image of the frame may be received. A request to post a message on the social network may be transmitted, toe enable a plurality of devices to access the message via the social network, and the message may comprise the extracted image of the frame and the received input.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improving displays of media assets are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of text comments from a plurality of devices to which a media asset was transmitted. The system analyzes the comments to identify text strings within the text comments. The system generates interactable elements from the text strings in the text comments, such that an interaction with the text string causes display of identifiers of media assets corresponding to the text string.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improving displays of media assets are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of text comments from a plurality of devices to which a media asset was transmitted. The system analyzes the comments to identify text strings within the text comments. The system generates interactable elements from the text strings in the text comments, such that an interaction with the text string causes display of identifiers of media assets corresponding to the text string.

Abstract: Systems and methods for obscuring images and/or text during a screen sharing operation in a video conferencing session are described herein. In some embodiments, a client device detects a screen sharing operation. As part of the screen sharing operation, the client device captures an image of a display. The client device recognizes images and/or text in the image of the display and determines whether any of the images and/or text are restricted. If the images and/or text are determined to be restricted, the client device obscures the images and/or text prior to encoding of the image of the display for transmission.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for determining that a conferencing device participating in a video conference via a conferencing server is a mobile device. The mobile device may be performing virtual background processing to generate for display a virtual background during the video conference. Based on a monitored parameter of the mobile device, a determination may be made whether the virtual background processing being performed by the mobile device should be offloaded to an edge computing device. In response to determining the virtual background processing should be offloaded, at least a portion of the virtual background processing being performed by the mobile device may be offloaded to the edge computing device, and the edge computing device may be configured to receive a video feed from the conferencing device, modify the video feed by performing the virtual background processing, and transmit the modified video feed to the conferencing server.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, streaming and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel conference framework that automatically determines and prioritizes speaker allocation within a conference in order to remedy and/or avoid conflicts between speakers so that a clear and decisive dialog can occur. The disclosed conference framework balances a determined weighting factor and queue management ranking of the conference to provide a prioritized speaker queue that enables all participants to speak without conflict or interruption. The disclosed systems and methods enable a prioritized, conflict-resolution based conferencing environment where orderly conferencing can occur while maintaining each participants rights to participate accordingly.