System, apparatus and method for dynamically adjusting a video presentation based upon age

• US 9,965,988 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2014
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Lyons, Martin S., Hilbert, Scott T., Martin, Sean C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Marinelli, Patrick F
• Application Number:
  US14/889,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20160109942A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,474 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04897 Special input arrangements or commands for improving display capability
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/90 Determination of colour characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/178 estimating age from face image; using age information for improving recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0666 for control of colour parameters, e.g. colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/144 the light being ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2003 Display of colours specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/02 characterised by the way in which colour is displayed details of colour display specific for CRTs G09G1/28; specific for flat matrix panels other than liquid crystal displays G09G3/2003; specific for liquid crystal displays G09G3/3607
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/10 Intensity circuits

Abstract

A system, method and apparatus are set forth which adjusts one or more of the brightness, vibrancy and color shift of displayed content based upon the at least approximate age of the viewer. At a display (15) the user'"'"'s age is at least approximated by accessing an established user data file (835, 837) containing age determining data and/or capturing a facial image (804) of the user and processing the same to determine at least the approximate age of the user. Based upon the age determination the brightness, vibrancy and/or color shift may be adjusted to account for the effects of the aging of the human eye. User overrides (900, 902, 904) may be provided for the user to alter or turn off the adjustments. Adjustment of the brightness, vibrancy and/or color shift may also take into account ambient light conditions.

Claims

1. An apparatus with a video display for displaying video content to a user, the apparatus comprising:

a processor that is configured to execute instructions from a memory that cause the processor to;

receive age data of at least an approximate age of the user from a facility;

receive, via a digital camera, ambient light level data;

adjust brightness, vibrancy, and color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon the at least approximate age of the user, wherein the vibrancy and color shift are adjusted using pixel shaders on a graphics processing unit; and

adjust the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon ambient light data, wherein lower ambient light level results in an increased color shift and vibrancy.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the facility is a camera disposed to provide image data corresponding to the capture a facial image of the user and the processor is configured for determining the age data from the facial image data.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a controller for a user to control the processor to adjust at least one of the brightness, the vibrancy and a color shift for the content displayed at the video display.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the facility includes an interface for retrieval of the age data from a data structure storing the age data.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a memory device storing one or more default settings for at least one of the brightness, the vibrancy and a color shift and conditions at which the default settings are applied.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a memory device storing one or more default settings for at least one of the brightness, the vibrancy and a color shift and conditions at which the default settings are applied, the processor configured to adjust one or more of the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift for the video content displayed at the video display from the default setting to a condition based upon at least the approximate age of the user over time.

7. A method for displaying video content at a video display to a user, the method comprising:

receiving age data of at least an approximate age of the user from a facility;

receiving, via a digital camera, ambient light level data;

adjusting, via a processor, brightness, vibrancy, and color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon the at least approximate age of the user, wherein the vibrancy and color shift are adjusted using pixel shaders on a graphics processing unit; and

adjusting the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon ambient light data, wherein lower ambient light level results in an increased color shift and vibrancy.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

capturing facial image data of the user; and

processing at the processor the facial image data for deriving the data of at least the approximate age of the user.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

applying a default condition to the display of the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift; and

invoking an adjustment to the at least one of the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift based upon at least the approximate age of the user over time.

10. A system for adjusting brightness, vibrancy, and color shift for video content displayed at a video display to the user based upon the user'"'"'s at least approximate age, the system comprising:

a processor that is configured to execute instructions from a memory that cause the processor to;

derive age data of at least an approximate age of the user from a facility;

receive, via a digital camera, ambient light level data;

adjust the brightness, vibrancy, and color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon the at least approximate age of the user, wherein the vibrancy and color shift are adjusted using pixel shaders on a graphics processing unit; and

adjust the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon ambient light data, wherein lower ambient light level results in an increased color shift and vibrancy.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the facility is a camera disposed to capture a facial image of the user and for determining the at least the approximate age of the user from the facial image.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the facility includes an interface to a data structure to retrieve user data at the data structure including data representing the at least approximate age of the user.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the video display is a gaming device video display that is associated with a data structure that includes at least one of a player loyalty data structure and a credit card data structure.

14. The system of claim 10, further comprising a memory device storing one or more default settings for at least one of the brightness, the vibrancy, and a color shift and conditions at which the default settings are applied.

15. An apparatus with a video display for displaying video content to a user, the apparatus comprising:

a processor that is configured to execute instructions from a memory that cause the processor to;

determine an approximate age of the user;

determine an approximate viewer age demographic for the video content;

receive, via a digital camera, ambient light level data;

adjust brightness, vibrancy, and color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon the at least approximate age of the user, wherein the vibrancy and color shift are adjusted using pixel shaders on a graphics processing unit; and

adjust the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon ambient light data, wherein lower ambient light level results in an increased color shift and vibrancy.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising a memory device storing one or more default settings for at least one of the brightness, the vibrancy and a color shift and conditions at which default settings are applied.

17. A mobile device including software downloadable over a communication network to controllers adapted to display video content, the mobile device comprising:

a processor that is configured to execute instructions from a memory that cause the processor to;

receive age data of at least an approximate age of the user;

receive, via a digital camera, ambient light level data;

adjust brightness, vibrancy, and color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon the at least approximate age of the user, wherein the vibrancy and color shift are adjusted using pixel shaders on a graphics processing unit; and

dynamically adjust the brightness, the vibrancy, and the color shift for the video content displayed at the video display based upon ambient light data in real time in response to movement by the mobile device between areas with differing ambient light levels, wherein lower ambient light level results in an increased color shift and vibrancy.

18. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the processor is further configured to (i) access a database storing the data, (ii) access and process a facial image of the user to derive the data, or (iii) receive an input by the user representing the data.

19. The mobile device of claim 17, further comprising instructions to store in a memory at the mobile device, data representing default settings for at least one of the brightness, the vibrancy, and a color shift and conditions at which the default settings are applied.