LIFE RECORDER

• US 20090171902A1
• Filed: 12/28/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Multerer, Boyd Cannon, Bathiche, Steven N., MacLaurin, Matthew B., O'Rourke, Bret P., Miller, John Mark, Flora, William T.
• Application Number:
  US11/966,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20090171902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system that can automatically capture life experiences of a user across a number of senses or perceptions is provided. Once the data is captured, it can be annotated and saved for subsequent playback. The innovation also enables the data to be synchronized to for playback, for example, audio can be time-synced to a corresponding video with a corresponding smell, etc. Still further, the innovation provides for controls that enable a user to adjust or select granularity for capture as well as playback.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates recreation of an experience, comprising:

an experience monitor component that observes a plurality of experiences in view of context; and

an experience capture component that employs at least two perceptions to obtain data associated with a subset of the plurality of experiences.

2. The system of claim 1, the plurality of perceptions includes at least two of vision, hearing, touch, smell, or taste.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of perception sensing components that facilitate data capture associated with a corresponding perception.

4. The system of claim 3, each of the perception sensing components includes at least one of a physiological or environmental sensor component.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a context sensing component that establishes the context based upon activity context, user context or device context.

6. The system of claim 1, the context sensing component includes at least one of a physiological or environmental sensor component.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising an annotation component that attaches a tag to a subset of the data wherein the tag facilitates queried retrieval of the subset of the data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the context includes at least two of activity context, user context or environment context.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the activity context includes at least one of a current activity, a current state or current resource.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the user context includes at least one of topic knowledge, state of mind or last location.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the environment context includes at least one of physical conditions, social setting, people present, security rating, date/time, or location.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

an experience analysis component that analyzes each of the plurality of experiences; and

an experience recorder component that captures the subset of data as a function of the analysis.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rendering management component that facilitates presentation of the subset of data.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising a content configuration component that synchronizes the subset of data based upon the at least two perceptions in view of a user preference.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a device configuration component that arranges the subset of data in accordance with display characteristics of a target device, wherein the subset of data is rendered via the target device as a function of the at least two perceptions.

16. The system of claim 1, further comprising a machine learning and reasoning component that employs at least one of a probabilistic and a statistical-based analysis that infers an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

17. A computer-implemented method of capturing data associated to a real-world experience, comprising:

monitoring experiences based upon at least two perceptions in view of context;

capturing data associated to the at least two perceptions;

annotating the data based upon perception type; and

storing the annotated data.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the at least two perceptions include at least two of vision, hearing, touch, smell, or taste.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

generating a query;

employing the query to retrieve stored data as a function of the annotations;

synchronizing the retrieved data based upon context; and

rendering the synchronized data.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates capturing data, comprising:

means for monitoring data associated to at least two perceptions of a user, wherein the at least two perceptions include vision, hearing, touch, smell or taste;

means for capturing a subset of the data;

means for annotating the subset of the data;

means for synchronizing the annotated subset of the data; and

means for storing the synchronized annotated subset of the data.