Interest-based video streams

• US 9,015,746 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2011
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Holmdahl, Todd Eric, Treadwell, David Rogers III, Burger, Doug, Baldwin, James A.
• Primary Examiner(s): SHEPARD, JUSTIN E
• Application Number:
  US13/163,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20120324493A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,404 Days
• Field of Search: 725/10
• US Class Current: 725/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/33 Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/45 for identifying users
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44213 Monitoring of end-user related data arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38

Abstract

Embodiments related to delivering a video stream to a requesting viewer are disclosed. In one example embodiment, a video stream is delivered by receiving a request for the video stream from a requesting device, the request including the requesting viewer'"'"'s identity, assembling a list of selected video content items for display to the requesting viewer, the selected video items being selected from a plurality of video items based on the identity of the requesting viewer and a viewing interest profile comprising the requesting viewer'"'"'s viewing interests, and sending the video stream for display, the video stream including one or more of the selected video items.

Claims

1. On a computing device, a method of delivering video content to a requesting viewer, the method comprising:

for each of a plurality of video content items, aggregating a plurality of emotional response profiles, each emotional response profile comprising a temporal record of a prior viewer'"'"'s emotional response to a particular video content item when viewed by the prior viewer, to form aggregated emotional response profiles for each of the plurality of video content items;

receiving a request for a video stream from a requesting device, the request including the requesting viewer'"'"'s identity;

assembling a list of selected video content items for display to the requesting viewer, the selected video items being selected from the plurality of video content items based on the identity of the requesting viewer and a comparison of at least a portion of the aggregated emotional response profile for each selected video item with a threshold, wherein assembling the list of selected video content items comprises selecting an episode of a show having an aggregated emotional response magnitude that exceeds the threshold and not selecting an episode of the show having an aggregated emotional response magnitude that does not exceed the threshold; and

sending the video stream including one or more of the selected video content items for display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected video content items are further selected based on a viewing interest profile comprising the requesting viewer'"'"'s viewing interests, and further comprising obtaining the viewing interest profile for the requesting viewer from a user account for the requesting viewer based on the requesting viewer'"'"'s identity.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the requesting viewer'"'"'s identity is obtained based upon an image of the requesting viewer collected by an image sensor in a video viewing environment where the video stream is sent for display.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein assembling the list of selected video content items comprises selecting the selected video content items based on an emotional status of the requesting viewer received with the request for the video stream.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein assembling the list of selected video items includes selecting one or more of the selected video content items based on a positive correlation between the emotional status of the requesting viewer and an emotional response within the aggregated emotional response profiles for the plurality of video content items.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising filtering the aggregated emotional response profiles based on a social network to which the requesting viewer belongs.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein assembling the list of selected video content items includes selecting the selected video content items based on a time of day.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending supplementary content related to the video stream to a mobile computing device belonging to the requesting viewer.

9. A media presentation system, comprising:

a peripheral input configured to receive image data from a depth camera;

a display output configured to output video content to a display device;

a logic subsystem; and

a data-holding subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to;

collect image data capturing a requesting viewer;

based upon the image data, obtain an identity of the requesting viewer;

send a request for a video stream assembled from selected video items based on the identity of the requesting viewer;

receive the video stream, the video stream comprising one or more video content items each having an aggregated emotional response profile with at least a portion having a magnitude that exceeds a preselected threshold;

output the video stream to the display output;

receive a request to present a graphical representation of a specified aggregated emotional response profile that illustrates emotional response data as a function of time position; and

output the graphical representation of the specified aggregated emotional response profile to the display output.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising instructions to detect one or more of an emotional status of the requesting viewer and the identity of the requesting viewer using the image data, wherein the request includes the one or more of the emotional status and the identity of the requesting viewer.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising instructions to register a mobile computing device belonging to the requesting viewer with the media presentation system and to deliver supplementary content related to the video stream to the mobile computing device.

12. A computing system for delivering a video stream to a requesting viewer in a video viewing environment, comprising:

a logic subsystem; and

a data-holding subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to;

obtain, for each video item of a plurality of video items, an aggregated emotional response profile, each aggregated emotional response profile representing an aggregate of a plurality of emotional response profiles, each emotional response profile comprising a temporal record of a prior viewer'"'"'s emotional response to a particular video item;

receive an identity of the requesting viewer, the identity being determined from image data obtained from a video viewing environment sensor in the video viewing environment;

receive a current emotional status of the requesting viewer, the current emotional status being determined from the image data;

select video items for inclusion in a list of selected video items based on the identity of the requesting viewer, a viewing interest profile comprising the requesting viewer'"'"'s viewing interests, the current emotional status of the requesting viewer, and a comparison of at least a portion of the aggregated emotional response profile for each selected video item with a threshold, wherein assembling the list of selected video items comprises selecting an episode of a show having an aggregated emotional response magnitude that exceeds the threshold and not selecting an episode of the show having an aggregated emotional response magnitude that does not exceed the threshold; and

send for display a video stream including one or more of the selected video items.

13. The computing system of claim 12, further comprising instructions to:

aggregate the plurality of emotional response profiles for each of the plurality of video items;

wherein the instructions to assemble the list of selected video items further comprise instructions to select the selected video items based on a positive correlation between the current emotional status of the requesting viewer and an emotional response within the aggregated emotional response profiles for the plurality of video items.

14. The computing system of claim 13, further comprising instructions to filter the aggregated emotional response profiles based on a social network to which the requesting viewer belongs.

15. The computing system of claim 12, further comprising instructions to:

receive one of location information and Internet browsing information from a mobile computing device belonging to the requesting viewer, and

wherein the instructions to assemble the list of selected video items includes instructions to select the selected video items based on the one of location information and Internet browsing information.

16. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the instructions to assemble the list of selected video items further comprise instructions to select the selected video items based on a time of day.

17. The computing system of claim 12, further comprising instructions to send supplementary content related to the video stream to a mobile computing device belonging to the requesting viewer.

18. The computing system of claim 12, further comprising instructions to generate a programming guide for the video stream populated with information about the selected video items and send the programming guide for display.