ADAPTING MEDIA STORAGE BASED ON USER INTEREST AS DETERMINED BY BIOMETRIC FEEDBACK

• US 20090192961A1
• Filed: 01/25/2008
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: FITHIAN, RACHEL H., HOCKETT, HUGH E.
• Granted Patent: US 8,005,776 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/115 Selection of the code volume for a coding unit prior to coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/162 User input
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence

Abstract

The present invention discloses a system, method, apparatus, and computer usable product code adapting a media stream based upon biometric feedback. The system can include one or more biometric sensor, a media handling component, an importance inference engine, and a media processing component. The biometric sensor can be able to receive biometric feedback from at least one user. The media handling component can be a media creation component (e.g., video recorder, camera, etc.) and/or a media playback component (e.g., video player, music player, etc.). The importance inference engine can be configured to analyze biometric feedback received from the biometric sensor to determine an emotional interest level that a provider of the biometric feedback has in the media of the media handling component. The media processing component can modify the media of the media handling component based upon the emotion interest level determined by the importance inference engine.

Claims

1. A system for adapting a media stream based upon biometric feedback comprising:

at least one biometric sensor able to receive biometric feedback from at least one user;

a media handling component configured to perform at least one media operation involving media for the at least one user, wherein said media operation comprises at least one of capturing input to create media and presenting output of media;

an importance inference engine able to analyze biometric feedback received from the biometric sensor to determine an emotional interest level that a provider of the biometric feedback has in the media of the media handling component; and

a media processing component configured to modify said media of the media handling component based upon the emotional interest level determined by the importance inference engine.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the media processing component is configured to adjusts a bitrate of said media based upon the emotional interest level.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the media processing component adjusts the media to have a greater than baseline bitrate when the emotional interest level is greater than a baseline interest level.

4. The system of claim 1, said system further comprising:

a medium for storing said media after said media is modified by said media processing component, wherein said media stored in said medium is stored with a variable bitrate along a duration of said media.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said media is at least one of music object and a video object, wherein said variable bitrate adjustment is made in a manner that ensures a segment of said media has a greater than baseline bitrate when the emotional interest level for that segment is greater than a baseline interest level.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said biometric sensor, said media handling component, said importance inference engine, and said media processing component are located within a hand-held media device, wherein said at least one biometric sensor is in direct contact with a hand of the provider of the biometric feedback, and wherein said biometric feedback includes a heart rate.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said media handling component is configured to capture input used to generate the media, wherein the biometric feedback used by the inference engine is acquired at a time the captured input is obtained and is time-synched with the captured input.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein said media handling component is configured to present said media, wherein the biometric feedback used by the importance inference engine is acquired as the media is being presented and is time-synched with a presentation of the media.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said media comprises a plurality of sections, wherein different ones of said sections are modified by the media processing component based upon an emotional interest level of that section as determined by the importance inference engine.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

at least one navigation control for jumping to an associated playback point of said media, wherein said media comprises a plurality of markers indicating an associated emotional interest level of a corresponding section, wherein said navigation control is able to move said associated playback point of said media from one of said markers to another.

11. A method for handling media comprising:

executing a media operation, wherein said media operation comprises at least one of capturing input to create media and presenting output of media, wherein the media is segmented into a plurality of portions;

capturing biometric feedback as the media operation executes;

using the biometric feedback to determine an emotional interest level of a provider of the biometric feedback, wherein different ones of the portions of the media is associated with different determined emotional interest levels; and

storing said media in a variable manner based upon the determined emotion interest levels.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said media comprises at least one of audio and video, wherein the plurality of portions are stored in accordance with different bitrates based upon the different determined emotional interest levels.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the biometric feedback comprises a heart rate of the provider, wherein a greater than baseline heart rate is indicative of a higher than average emotional interest level in a portion of the media corresponding to a time the biometric feedback was obtained, and wherein a lesser than baseline heart rate is indicative of a lower than average emotional interest level in a portion of the media corresponding to a time the biometric feedback was obtained.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein said media operation captures input to create media, wherein the biometric feedback is acquired at a time the captured input is obtained and is time-synched with the captured input.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein said media operation presents output of media, wherein the biometric feedback is acquired as the media is being presented and is time-synched with a presentation of the media.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein said media comprises at least one of audio, video, and a set of images.

17. A computer program product for handling media, the computer program product comprising:

a computer usable medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising;

computer usable program code configured to execute a media operation, wherein said media operation comprises at least one of capturing input to create media and presenting output of media, wherein the media is segmented into a plurality of portions;

computer usable program code configured to capture biometric feedback as the media operation executes;

computer usable program code configured to use the biometric feedback to determine an emotional interest level of a provider of the biometric feedback, wherein different ones of the portions of the media is associated with different determined emotional interest levels; and

computer usable program code configured to store said media in a variable manner based upon the determined emotion interest levels.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein said media comprises at least one of audio and video, wherein the plurality of portions are stored in accordance with different bitrates based upon the different determined emotional interest levels.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein said media operation captures input to create media, wherein the biometric feedback is acquired at a time the captured input is obtained and is time-synched with the captured input.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein said media operation presents output of media, wherein the biometric feedback is acquired as the media is being presented and is time-synched with a presentation of the media.