Roku, Inc.

A9.com, Inc.

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Sunil Ramesh

Michael Cutter

Karina Levitian

Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua

Arnab S Dhua

Charles Brian Pinkerton

Colin Jon Taylor

Himanshu Arora

Douglas Ryan Gray

Xiaofan Lin

Gautam Bhargava

Max Delgadillo

Anthony John Wood

Yu Lou

Raghavan Manmatha

Ronica Jethwa

David Stern

Gurumurthy D Ramkumar

Adam Wiggen Kraft

Gregory Mack Garner

Sebastian Lehmann

Simant Dube

Andrea C Steves

Sonja E Hyde-Moyer

Shruti Sheorey

Mark Robins

Yu-Cheng Lin

Jaishanker K Pillai

Derek Cole Singer

Nathan John Condie

Shashank C Merchant

Matthew W Amacker

Supratik Bhattacharyya

Adil Jagmag

Erwin B Bellers

David Creighton Mott

William Brendel

Preethi Narayanan

Patrick Alan Brouillette

Mark Scott Waldo

Mark Jay Nitzberg

Ismet Zeki Yalniz

Soren Riise

Adam Neustein

Kenny Wu

Max Delgadillo, Jr

Keshav Menon

Philip Golyshko

Ketan Ramesh Deshpande

Sharada Palasamudram Ashok Kumar

Hugo Du Plooy

Katie Lauren Lucas

Kaolin Imago Fire

Johan Gerard Willem Maria Janssen

Michael Q Phung

Scott Allen Mongrain

Robert Caston Curtis

Greg Garner

Carl Sassenrath

Atul Kumar

Scott Paul Robertson

Whitney Gale Spathelf

Jonathan McGuire

Sean Niu

Zur Nehushtan

Pinkee Rasik Patel Gupta

Peter D Rowley

Matthew Warren Amacker

Thejaswi Hanumantha Raya

Bollapragada Manohar

Snehal Karia

Nicholas E Matsakis

Brian James Hetherman

Chen Fang

Ella Day Bench

Arnab Sunat Kumar Dhua

Sarah D Benjamin

Gd Ramkumar

Jonathan G Mcguire

In one aspect, disclosed is an example method for use by a lighting device including a microphone and a light source, the method including: (i) receiving, by the lighting device via the microphone, an audio signal; (ii) decoding and extracting, by the lighting device, a lighting device control instruction from the received audio signal; and (iii) using, by the lighting device, at least the decoded and extracted lighting device control instruction as a basis to control operation of the light source.

Lighting device with audio signal control feature

Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for controlling multiple displays (e.g., multiple display devices, multiple displays on a media device, etc.) using a remote control device. An example method can include receiving an image of a plurality of display devices. The method can include steps for analyzing the image to determine locations of the plurality of display devices, assigning a code specific to each of the plurality of display devices based on the image, and transmitting the code to a remote control. The code enables the remote control to independently operate each of the plurality of display devices.

Remote control system for multiple multimedia devices

Disclosed herein are computing system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing processing of sensor data. For example, a computing system may be configured to determine processing capabilities of each of one or more edge devices of a network. Additionally, the computing system may determine available processing resources of each of the one or more edge devices. Moreover, the computing system may select, from the one or more edge devices, a target device, based on the processing capabilities of each of the one or more edge devices and the available processing resources of each of the one or more edge devices. Further, the computing system may communicate with the target device to cause the target device to generate one or more feature vectors based on sensor data generated by the target device.

Distributed computing to implement privacy policies on edge devices

System, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program embodiments are provided for determining a presentation configuration of content. An example method can include determining information about primary content displayed on a first display and an environment of the first display, the information including a display configuration of the primary content, a characteristic of the primary content, and/or an indication whether a user is present in the environment and/or the environment includes a second display coupled to a client or a different client that is coupled to the client; based on the information, determining a different display configuration for displaying the secondary content; and based on the different display configuration, generating an instruction to display the secondary content at the second display or on an ROI at the first display, the ROI excluding the primary content or including a portion of the primary content having a saliency below a threshold.

Intelligent and adjustable configuration and presentation of media content

A method and a system for using crowdsourcing as a basis to predict and respond to emergency impact. An example method includes (i) a computing system receiving emergency-state reporting provided by multiple customer premises in a region, (ii) the computing system determining, based on the received emergency-state reporting provided by the multiple customer premises in the region, that a region-wide emergency situation exists in the region, and (iii) the computing system taking action, in response to the determining, based on the emergency-state reporting provided by the multiple customer premises in the region, that the region-wide emergency situation exists in the region.

Use of crowdsourcing as basis to predict emergency impact and to facilitate emergency response

In one aspect, an example method for use in connection with an audio system that is configured to present audio within a listening area includes (i) detecting, by a computing system, a position of a user located within the listening area; (ii) using, by the computing system, at least the detected position of the user to identify, from among multiple candidate reference positions, a reference position that most closely matches the detected position of the user; (iii) using, by the computing system, at least the identified reference position as a basis to select a set of audio settings that corresponds to the identified reference position; and (iv) configuring, by the computing system, the audio system based on the selected set of audio settings.

Audio system with dynamic audio setting adjustment feature

In one aspect, an example method in connection with a shared content viewing session in which multiple users are receiving and viewing respective instances of the same media content in a synchronized manner is disclosed. The example method includes (i) detecting that each of the multiple users respectively exhibits a threshold extent of physical reaction around the same time; (ii) responsive to the detecting, for each of the multiple users, generating and/or storing respective visual content representing that user's physical reaction; (iii) generating a visual content composition that includes at least the generated and/or stored visual content for each of the multiple users; and (iv) outputting for presentation, the generated visual content composition.

Method and system for generating a visual composition of user reactions in a shared content viewing session

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining, by a computing system, structured data; (ii) generating, by the computing system using a natural language generator, a textual description of the structured data; (iii) transforming, by the computing system using a text-to-speech engine, the textual description of the structured data into synthesized speech; and (iv) generating, by the computing system using the synthesized speech, a synthetic video comprising the synthesized speech.

Video-generation system with structured data-based video generation feature

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving, by a computing system and from an input device associated with the computing system, a command to map a customized gesture with a particular action of a plurality of actions that a media player is configured to perform; (ii) in response to receiving the command, monitoring, by the computing system and using a camera, a viewing environment of the media player to detect performance by a person of the customized gesture; and (iii) in response to detecting performance of the customized gesture: generating, by the computing system, a classification for use by the computing system for detecting the customized gesture, and storing, by the computing system, in memory, mapping data that correlates the detected customized gesture with the particular action.

Using gestures to control a media player

A method and system for collecting context information in response to prediction of an emergency event. A cloud-based computing system could determine that an emergency event is predicted to impact a customer premises at an upcoming time. Responsive to that determination, and before the upcoming time, the cloud-based computing system could then cause or more on-premises computing devices at the customer premises to collect and report context information, such as a count of people present at the customer premises and/or an operational state of one or more utilities or other systems at the customer premises, that may assist in responding to the emergency event. Further, the cloud-based computing system could select a given such device at the customer premises to function as a coordinating device to work with one or more other devices at the customer premises to collect and report the context information.

Dynamic collection and reporting of customer premises context information in response to predicted emergency event

A method and system for controlling media-content presentation based on user presence and/or user profile. An example method includes a computing system determining a quantity of users present at a media-presentation device, the quantity being at least one. Further, the example method includes, based on the determining, the computing system using the determined quantity of users present at the media-presentation device as a basis to control what media content a media player outputs for presentation by the media-presentation device. For instance, based on the determined quantity of users the computing system could tailor a graphical user interface (GUI) that the media player outputs for presentation by the media-presentation device, such as by tailoring a set of channel options that a channel-selection GUI provides, among other possibilities.

Dynamic control of media-content presentation based on user presence and/or user profile

A method and system for use of obfuscation coding. An example method includes a computing system receiving an image that depicts a human face. The method then includes the computing system generating a modified image based on the received image, with the generating of the modified image involving inserting into the received image an obfuscation marker that (i) obfuscates the human face in a manner that prevents a person observing the modified image from identifying the human face and (ii) includes predefined symbology that is interpretable by a machine to identify the obfuscated human face. Further, the method includes using the predefined symbology in the modified image as a basis to take action based on an identity of the human face.

Use of obfuscation marker to obfuscate a face image and enable computerized face identification

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining a set of user attributes for a user of a content-presentation device; (ii) based on the set of user attributes, obtaining structured data and determining a textual description of the structured data; (iii) transforming, using a text-to-speech engine, the textual description of the structured data into synthesized speech; and (iv) generating, using the synthesized speech and for display by the content-presentation device, a synthetic video of a targeted advertisement comprising the synthesized speech.

Method and system for generating synthetic video advertisements

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) receiving, from one or more cameras in a viewing environment of a content-presentation device, video of a user performing a fitness exercise in the viewing environment; (ii) using the received video and a skeletal detection model to estimate skeletal movement of the user; (iii) generating a synthetic video representing the user moving according to the estimated skeletal movement; (iv) based on a comparison of the estimated skeletal movement with predefined reference skeletal movement representing desired skeletal movement for the fitness exercise, and while the user is performing the fitness exercise, continually calculating a metric representing a difference between the estimated skeletal movement and the reference skeletal movement; and (v) causing the content-presentation device to concurrently display the generated synthetic video, a reference video representing the reference skeletal movement, and an indication of the metric.

Platform for visual tracking of user fitness

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) obtaining a first segment of video content; (ii) outputting for presentation, the obtained first segment; (iii) after outputting for presentation the obtained first segment, causing a user to be prompted for user-input data; (iv) receiving user-input data provided in response to the prompting; (v) using at least the received user-input data to synthetically generate a second segment of the video content, wherein the generated second segment is static, non-interactive content; and (vi) outputting for presentation, the generated second segment.

Content system with user-input based video content generation feature

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