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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2023
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Philip Golyshko, Westminster, CO (US);
Ramesh Babu Anaparti, Leander, TX (US);
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for automatically control parental settings based on audience detected. An example embodiment operates by detecting an audience within a vicinity of a media device based on identification information of the audience received by the media device, determining a category of the audience with a user identification system based on the identification information, identifying a parental control setting for the audience based on the category of the audience, determining a category of a content played by the media device, and applying the identified parental control setting to the media device based on the category of the content.