US 10,382,692 B1Granted

Digital photo frames with personalized content

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsSumesh Santha Kumar, William R. Hazlewood

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for digital photo frames with personalized content. In one embodiment, an example device may include at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to determine a human face in an ambient environment, determine a user identifier associated with the human face, and determine a database index comprising relationships between media content and user identifiers. The at least one processor may be configured to determine a set of media content available to the device, the set of media content comprising pre-indexed images and videos, determine first media content of the set of media content associated with the user identifier in the database index, and initiate presentation of the first media content at a display in the ambient environment.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A digital photo frame comprising:

a camera;
a motion sensor;
a display;
at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions;
and
at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to:
detect, using the motion sensor, motion in an ambient environment;
initiate the camera after detecting the motion;
detect, using the camera, presence of a human face in an ambient environment;
determine that a gaze of the human face is oriented towards the digital photo frame;
determine a facial identifier of the human face, the facial identifier representing a geometric characteristic of the human face;
determine a user identifier associated with the facial identifier, wherein the user identifier is stored at a local database index in association with the facial identifier;
determine a location associated with the display, wherein the location is static;
determine that the user identifier is associated with the location of the display;
determine that the user identifier is an authorized user of the digital photo frame;
determine a set of local pre-indexed images that the user identifier is authorized to view;
determine a first image identifier of the pre-indexed images linked to the user identifier in the database index;
and
present a first image associated with the first image identifier at the display.

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A device comprising:

at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions;
and
at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to:
determine a human face in an ambient environment;
determine a user identifier associated with the human face;
determine a database index comprising relationships between media content and user identifiers;
determine a location associated with a display, wherein the location is static;
determine that the user identifier is associated with the location of the display;
determine a set of media content that is available to the device and for which the user identifier is authorized to access, the set of media content comprising pre-indexed images and videos;
determine first media content of the set of media content associated with the user identifier in the database index;
and
initiate presentation of the first media content at the display in the ambient environment.

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A method comprising:

determining, by one or more computer processors coupled to at least one memory, a human face in an ambient environment;
determining a user identifier associated with the human face;
determining a database index comprising relationships between media content and user identifiers;
determining a location associated with a display, wherein the location is static;
determining that the user identifier is associated with the location of the display;
determining a set of media content available to the one or more computer processors and for which the user identifier is authorized to access, the set of media content comprising pre-indexed images and videos;
determining first media content of the set of media content associated with the user identifier in the database index;
and
initiating presentation of the first media content at the display in the ambient environment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.