CONTENT DISPLAY CONTROLS BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

• US 20170251336A1
• Filed: 03/13/2017
• Published: 08/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Keller, Kevin E.
• Granted Patent: US 10,555,116 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3827 Portable transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/183 Processing at user equipment or user record carrier

Abstract

Approaches are described for controlling and filtering the display of content by computing devices. In particular, a mobile computing device can adjust the playing of media content (e.g., audio, video, images, games, ringtones) according to situational appropriateness and other environmental factors occurring around the device. For example, a mobile computing device such as a smart phone could use image and audio information captured by its sensors to determine that minors are present within the vicinity of the mobile phone, and filter certain portions of media content that would be deemed inappropriate for those minors. The environmental information can be determined based on data gathered by various sensors of the mobile device, including but not limited to cameras, microphones, global positioning system (GPS) devices, light sensors and others.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A computer-implemented method for controlling content presentation, the method comprising:

under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,

receiving an audio instruction to present content by a computing device;

determining a user profile associated with the audio instruction using voice recognition processing;

determining the content based at least in part on the user profile; and

causing presentation of the content.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, the method comprising:

receiving at least one content preference from a user; and

associating the content preference with the user profile.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving at least one of audio data or image data corresponding to a user; and

generating authentication data for the user profile using at least one of the voice recognition processing on the audio data or facial recognition processing on the image data.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, further comprising:

updating the authentication data for the user profile based on the audio data or the image data.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the content includes at one or more of video content, audio content, or image content.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 further comprising:

determining an identity of a person in proximity of computing device based on one or more of image data, audio data, or a presence of a device associated with the person; and

determining the user profile associated with the identity of the person.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 further comprising:

determining at least a portion of the content is inappropriate based at least in part on a location of the computing device and the user profile; and

adjusting presentation of the at least the portion of the content.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the user profile associated with the audio instruction includes one or more restrictions, the method further comprising:

determining the content based at least in part on the one or more restrictions.

10. A computing device, comprising:

one or more sensors capable of receiving data;

at least one processor; and

memory for storing instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to;

receive an audio instruction to present content;

determine a user profile associated with the audio instruction using voice recognition processing;

determine the content based at least in part on the user profile; and

present the content.

11. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to:

receive at least one content preference from a user; and

associate the content preference with the user profile.

12. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to:

receive at least one of audio data or image data corresponding to a user; and

generate authentication data for the user profile using at least one of the voice recognition processing on the audio data or facial recognition processing on the image data.

13. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to:

update the authentication data for the user profile based on the audio data or the image data.

14. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the content includes at one or more of video content, audio content, or image content.

15. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to:

determine an identity of a person in proximity of computing device based on one or more of image data, audio data, or a presence of a device associated with the person; and

determine the user profile associated with the identity of the person.

16. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to:

determine adjusted content based at least in part on a location of the computing device and the user profile; and

present the adjusted content.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions, the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

receive an audio instruction to present content by a computing device;

determine a user profile associated with the audio instruction using voice recognition processing;

determine the content based at least in part on the user profile; and

causing presentation of the content.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

receive at least one content preference from a user; and

associate the content preference with the user profile.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

receive at least one of audio data or image data corresponding to a user; and

generate authentication data for the user profile using at least one of the voice recognition processing on the audio data or facial recognition processing on the image data.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the content includes at one or more of video content, audio content, or image content.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the processor to:

determine an identity of a person in proximity of computing device based on one or more of image data, audio data, or a presence of a device associated with the person; and

determine the user profile associated with the identity of the person.