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AUDIO, VIDEO, SIMULATION, AND USER INTERFACE PARADIGMS

  • US 20140347272A1
  • Filed: 08/13/2014
  • Published: 11/27/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • acquiring activity data of a user located within range of one or more sensors, the one or more sensors associated with a display screen displaying video content, the displayed video content having a volume level, the activity data being in the form of one or more temporal audio or video samples;

    analyzing, using at least one processor operatively coupled with a memory, one or more of the temporal video samples to determine if the user has looked away from the display screen for a first predetermined period of time by searching successive images of the temporal video samples to detect a presence or absence of a frontal face corresponding to the user; and

    analyzing one or more of the temporal audio samples to determine if the user has had an emotional response relative to the activity on the display screen for a second predetermined period of time by searching a plurality of successive subsets of the temporal audio samples having a predetermined duration to detect a presence or absence of the user'"'"'s voice activity in each subset, and determining whether or not the user'"'"'s voice activity is present in a predetermined consecutive number of the subsets at a volume greater than a predetermined level.

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