Methods, systems, and products for language preferences

• US 9,507,770 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2015
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dimitriadis, Dimitrios B., Schroeter, Horst J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gauthier, Gerald
• Application Number:
  US14/827,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20160004689A1
• Time in Patent Office: 472 Days
• Field of Search: 380/229, 381/77, 382/118, 382/128, 382/305, 434/219, 704/8, 704/275, 705/14, 705/55, 709/205, 715/737, 715/747, 715/753, 717/171
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• 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: H04W 52/0209 in terminal devices terminal devices per se H04W88/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products provide personalized feedback in a cloud-based environment. A client device routes image data to a server for analysis. The server analyzes the image data to recognize people of interest. Because the server performs image recognition, the client device is relieved of these intensive operations.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a server, image data sent from a client device, the client device associated with a network address;

determining, by the server, a face recognized using the image data;

performing, by the server, a position analysis using the image data to determine a position associated with the face;

determining, by the server, a language preference associated with the face recognized using the image data;

sending, by the server, an audio language track to the client device associated with the network address, the audio language track corresponding to the language preference associated with the face; and

sending, from the server, an instruction to the client device associated with the network address, the instruction instructing the client device to align an audio output system to the position such that the audio language track is aligned to the position associated with the face.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing a web-based facial recognition analysis on the image data to recognize the face.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a profile associated with the face recognized using the image data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a name associated with the face recognized using the image data.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising querying an electronic database of profiles for the name associated with the face, the electronic database of profiles storing electronic associations between different profiles and different names including the name associated with the face.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising retrieving a profile of the different profiles having an electronic association with the name.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating different audio language tracks to content information.

8. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory device, the memory device storing instructions, the instructions when executed causing the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving a stream of image data sent from a client device, the client device associated with a network address;

performing a facial recognition analysis on the stream of image data to recognize faces;

performing a position analysis on the stream of image data to determine positions associated with the faces;

determining different language preferences associated with the faces recognized using the stream of image data;

sending different audio language tracks to the client device associated with the network address, each audio language track of the different audio language tracks corresponding to the different language preferences associated with the faces;

sending the positions to the client device associated with the network address; and

sending an instruction to the client device associated with the network address, the instruction instructing the client device to align an audio output system to the positions for outputting the different audio language tracks.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise aligning a microphone to one of the positions.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a profile associated with each one of the faces.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise determining a name associated with a face of the faces.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise querying an electronic database of profiles for the name associated with the face, the electronic database of profiles storing electronic associations between different profiles and different names including the name associated with the face.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a profile of the different profiles having an electronic association with the name.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise associating the different audio language tracks to content information.

15. A memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving image data sent from a client device, the client device associated with a network address;

performing a web-based facial recognition analysis to recognize faces digitally described within the image data;

performing a web-based position analysis to determine positions within a physical space associated with the faces;

determining different language preferences associated with the faces recognized using the image data;

sending different audio language tracks to the client device associated with the network address, each audio language track of the different audio language tracks corresponding to the different language preferences associated with the faces; and

sending alignment commands to the client device associated with the network address, each one of the alignment commands instructing the client device to aim one of the different audio language tracks to a different one of the positions.

16. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a profile associated with each one of the faces.

17. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise determining a name associated with a face of the faces.

18. The memory device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise querying an electronic database of profiles for the name associated with the face, the electronic database of profiles storing electronic associations between different profiles and different names including the name associated with the face.

19. The memory device of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise retrieving a profile of the different profiles having an association with the name.

20. The memory device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise associating the different audio language tracks to content information.