At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p.

At&t Corp.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Corporation

Shopify Inc.

At&t Intellectual Property I,l.p.

At&t Labs, Inc.

Zhu Liu

David Crawford Gibbon

Behzad Shahraray

Bernard S Renger

Lee Begeja

Eric Martin Zavesky

Andrea Basso

Raghuraman Gopalan

Tan Xu

Yadong Mu

Mazin E Gilbert

Amy Ruth Reibman

Patrick Guy Haffner

Paul Triantafyllou

Michael J Johnston

Allen Louis Gorin

Harris Drucker

Srinivas Bangalore

Qian Huang

Sumit Kumar

Mazin G Rahim

Steven Hart Lewis

Patrick John Ehlen

Kenneth H Rosen

Richard Vandervoort Cox

Aaron Edward Rosenberg

Mitchell J Weinraub

Stephanie A Morrison

Robert Edward Markowitz

Charles Douglas Blewett

Gary Lee Zamchick

Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tur

Gokhan Tur

Benjamin J Stern

Gustavo De Los Reyes

Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio

Sarangarajan Parthasarathy

Yih-Farn Robin Chen

Andrea Giuseppe Forte

Bin Wei

Juan A Garay

Christopher Volinsky

Evgene Vahlis

Ann Eileen Skudlark

Lien K Tran

Deirdre Paul

Rittwik Jana

Karrie Jo Hanson

Gerald Michael Karam

Richard Palazzo

Kenneth Mervin Huber

Murat Saraclar

Huale Huang

Giuseppe DiFabbrizio

Eric Zevesky

Daivd C Gibbon

Behzad Shahrarary

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system and method for selecting media content for a group of persons located at a venue. The system and method identify a plurality of viewers in a vicinity of a venue that has one or more display devices from location data and extracts a content viewing preference of each viewer from their profile data. The process includes aggregating the content viewing preference of each of the plurality of viewers to generate an aggregated content profile. Based on the aggregated content profile, a list of content is generated. Next, a first group of viewers approaching a viewing range of a display device are sensed by imaging data. Any conflicts between content viewing preferences of the first group of viewers are detected and resolved based on weighting the viewing preferences of the group. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Automated content selection for groups

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving first image data for a first image from an electronic device, the first image data including first information associated with a first object identified by the electronic device as being in the first image. Second image data for a second image is received from the electronic device subsequent to receiving the first image data. The second image data includes second information associated with a second object identified by the electronic device as being in the second image. Location information is determined based on the first information and the second information and sent to the electronic device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Dynamic image recognition model updates

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including obtaining an advertisement package, wherein the advertisement package defines an interactive extended reality advertisement and includes a plurality of optional features; obtaining information about a user, their equipment, and their environment; creating an interactive extended reality advertisement by choosing a selected feature of the plurality of optional features according to the user information; and presenting the interactive extended reality advertisement to the user equipment. Other embodiments are disclosed.

System for delivery of XR ad programs

A method for validating objects appearing in volumetric video presentations includes obtaining a volumetric video presentation depicting a scene, wherein the volumetric video presentation is associated with a metadata file containing identifying information for the scene, identifying user-generated content that depicts the scene, by matching metadata associated with the user-generated content to the metadata file associated with the volumetric video presentation, comparing a first object appearing in the volumetric video presentation to a corresponding second object appearing in the user-generated content, assigning a score to the first object based on the comparing, wherein the score indicates a probability that the first object has not been manipulated, and altering the volumetric video presentation to filter the first object from the volumetric video presentation when the score falls below a threshold.

Validating objects in volumetric video presentations

A processing system having at least one processor may establish a communication session between a first communication system of a first user and a second communication system of a second user, the communication session including first video content of a first physical environment of the first user and second video content of a second physical environment of the second user, determine a first visualization action for a first physical object in the first physical environment in accordance with a first configuration setting of the first user for the communication session, obtain the first video content from a first camera of the first communication system, detect the first physical object in the first video content, and perform the first visualization action to modify the first video content. The processing system may then transmit first visualization information including the first video content that is modified to the second communication system.

Physical object-based visual workspace configuration system

Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for composing a video in accordance with a user goal and an audience preference are described. For example, a processing system having at least one processor may obtain a plurality of video clips of a user, determine at least one goal of the user for a production of a video from the plurality of video clips, determine at least one audience preference of an audience, and compose the video comprising at least one video clip of the plurality of video clips of the user in accordance with the at least one goal of the user and the at least one audience preference. The processing system may then upload the video to a network-based publishing platform.

Video-log production system

A method for gaze-based workflow adaptation includes identifying a workflow in which a user is engaged, where the workflow comprises a plurality of tasks that collectively achieves a desired goal, creating a trigger for a given task of the plurality of tasks, wherein the trigger specifies an action to be automatically taken in response to a gaze of the user meeting a defined criterion, monitoring a progress of the workflow, monitoring the gaze of the user, and sending a signal to a remote device in response to the gaze of the user meeting the defined criterion, wherein the signal instructs the remote device to take the action.

Gaze-based workflow adaptation

A processing system including at least one processor may receive a task request for a user from a requesting party, identify a trust profile for the requesting party, identify a first automated system to access to fulfill the task request, determine whether the trust profile for the requesting party permits an access to the first automated system, and fulfill the task request via the first automated system when it is determined that the trust profile for the requesting party permits the access to the first automated system.

Context-based automated task performance for user contacts

A method for automatic selection of viewpoint characteristics and trajectories in volumetric video presentations includes receiving a plurality of video streams depicting a scene, wherein the plurality of video streams provides images of the scene from a plurality of different viewpoints, identifying a set of desired viewpoint characteristics for a volumetric video traversal of the scene, determining a trajectory through the plurality of video streams that is consistent with the set of desired viewpoint characteristics, rendering a volumetric video traversal that follows the trajectory, wherein the rendering comprises compositing the plurality of video streams, and publishing the volumetric video traversal for viewing on a user endpoint device.

Automatic selection of viewpoint characteristics and trajectories in volumetric video presentations

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, systems and methods aggregating video content and adjusting the aggregate video content according to a training model. The adjusted aggregate video content comprises a first subset of the images and does not comprise a second subset of the images. The first subset of the images is determined by the training model based on a plurality of categories corresponding to a plurality of events. The illustrative embodiments also include presenting the adjusted aggregate video content and receiving identifications for the first subset of the images in the aggregate video content. Further, the illustrative embodiments include adjusting the training model according to the identifications and providing the adjusted training model to a network device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and system for aggregating video content

A processing system having at least one processor may detect a first object in a volumetric video that is a focus of a user viewing a presentation of the volumetric video, detect an obstruction of a view of the user of at least a portion of the first object in the volumetric video, and perform at least one manipulation of the presentation of the volumetric video to the user to mitigate the obstruction of the view.

Opportunistic volumetric video editing

A method and apparatus for providing a recommended action are disclosed. For example, the method receives first data that is measured via at least one sensor deployed at a venue, receives second data from at least one user endpoint device present at the venue, wherein the second data comprises data that is measured via a sensor associated with the at least one user endpoint device, applies a perception model of the venue to the first data and the second data that are received, generates at least one recommended action when a threshold is reached, wherein the threshold is established for generating the at least one recommended action, and provides an update to the perception model of the venue based on the at least one recommended action that is generated.

Method and apparatus for providing a recommended action for a venue via a network

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, modifying a user profile associated with a user associated with a content service to generate an updated user profile according to consumption of media content by the user and user feedback information associated with the consumption of the media content, determining a user context according to information associated with user device, where the user context includes current activity of the user, modifying a set of media content according to the user context that is determined to generate an updated set of media content, where a type of media content is eliminated from the set of media content in the updated set of media content according to the user context, and presenting the updated set of content at a presentation device of the user via a personal media channel of the user associated with the content service. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Method and apparatus for content curation

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Zhu Liu