Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

Arun Ravisankar

Julianne Heinzmann

Arpit Mathur

Muneem Shahriar

Resmi Vijayan

Natalie Mazer

Sravani Dandu

Scott A Armstrong

Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for determining content being output by a device. One or more images of content being output on the device may be determined. The one or more images may be analyzed to determine text data displayed in the one or more images. The text data may be used to determine the content being output by the device.

Systems and methods for automatic content recognition

Methods and systems for preserving user privacy in captured content are disclosed. A device may capture content in a location. A user located at or near the location may not want to be depicted in the content. The user may be associated with a user device comprising a privacy setting (e.g., an opted-out device). The opted-out device may receive content features associated with the content. The opted-out device may determine if the user is depicted in the content by comparing the content features to a local content feature stored on the opted-out device. If the content features correspond to the local content feature, the opted-out device may determine that the user is depicted in the content. The opted-out device may protect the privacy of the user by causing the device to obfuscate the identity of the user in the content.

Preserving user privacy in captured content

Upon detection of a gesture, a current context of an environment in which the gesture is performed may be determined. The current context may be used to interpret the gesture to determine which of potentially a plurality of devices are to be controlled by the gesture and whether the gesture is configured to control the determined device(s) in the current context. The current context may also be used to determine whether to adjust a threshold for determining whether the gesture is intended as a control command. An aspect of the detected gesture may be compared to the threshold to determine whether the gesture is intended as a control command. If the gesture is intended as a control command, the determined device(s) may be controlled accordingly.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for execution of gesture commands

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