Method and system for real-time determination of a subject's interest level to media content
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1. A system for unobtrusively detecting a subject'"'"'s level of interest in media content, comprising:
- means for detecting a subject'"'"'s attention to said media content;
means for measuring said subject'"'"'s relative arousal level; and
means for determining said level of interest based on information regarding said subject'"'"'s arousal level and said subject'"'"'s attention to said media content,wherein said means for determining said level of interest adaptively infers said level of interest.
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Abstract
A system and method for unobtrusively detecting a subject'"'"'s level of interest in media content, includes detecting to what a subject is attending, measuring a subject'"'"'s relative arousal level; and combining information regarding the subject'"'"'s arousal level and attention to infer a level of interest.
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1. A system for unobtrusively detecting a subject'"'"'s level of interest in media content, comprising:
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means for detecting a subject'"'"'s attention to said media content; means for measuring said subject'"'"'s relative arousal level; and means for determining said level of interest based on information regarding said subject'"'"'s arousal level and said subject'"'"'s attention to said media content, wherein said means for determining said level of interest adaptively infers said level of interest. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for unobtrusively detecting an object of a subject'"'"'s interest in media content, comprising:
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means for detecting an object of said subject'"'"'s attention; means for measuring the subject'"'"'s relative arousal level; and means for determining said level of interest based on information regarding said subject'"'"'s arousal level and said subject'"'"'s attention to said media content, wherein said means for determining said level of interest adaptively infers said level of interest. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method of unobtrusively detecting a subject'"'"'s level of interest in media content, comprising:
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detecting a subject of said subject'"'"'s attention; measuring a subject'"'"'s relative arousal level; and determining said level of interest based on information regarding said subject'"'"'s arousal level and said subject'"'"'s attention to said media content, wherein said determining said level of interest comprises adaptively inferring said level of interest. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A method of unobtrusively detecting the object of a subject'"'"'s interest in media content, comprising:
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detecting the object of said subject'"'"'s attention; measuring the subject'"'"'s relative arousal level; and determining said level of interest based on information regarding the subject'"'"'s arousal level and said subject'"'"'s attention to said media content, wherein said determining said level of interest comprises adaptively inferring said level of interest. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A method for detecting a person'"'"'s level of interest in media content, comprising:
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assessing whether a person is attending to the media content, to produce first data; assessing a person'"'"'s relative arousal level with regard to the media content, to produce second data; determining said level of interest in said media content based on said first and second data; and communicating said level of interest as feedback about the media content to a manager of said media content, wherein said determining said level of interest comprises adaptively inferring said level of interest. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A signal-bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method for computer-implemented unobtrusive detection of a subject'"'"'s level of interest in media content, said method comprising:
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detecting an object of said subject'"'"'s attention; measuring a subject'"'"'s relative arousal level; and determining said level of interest based on information regarding said subject'"'"'s arousal level and said subject'"'"'s attention, wherein said determining said level of interest comprising adaptively inferring said level of interest. - View Dependent Claims (62, 63, 64)
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60. A signal-bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method for computer-implemented unobtrusive detection of a subject'"'"'s level of interest in media content, said method comprising:
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assessing whether a subject is attending to the media content, to produce first data; assessing a subject'"'"'s relative arousal level with regard to the media content, to produce second data; determining said level of interest in said media content based on said first and second data; and communicating said level of interest as feedback about the media content to a manager of said media content, wherein said determining said level of interest comprises adaptively inferring said level of interest. - View Dependent Claims (65, 66, 67)
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61. A system for unobtrusively measuring a subject'"'"'s interest in media content, comprising:
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a detector for detecting a subject'"'"'s attention to said media content; a measuring device which measures a subject'"'"'s arousal level; and an inference engine which infers subject'"'"'s interest level based on information regarding said subject'"'"'s arousal level and said subject'"'"'s attention to said media content, wherein said inference engine adaptively infers said interest level.
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