# US 12,192,574 B2 · Systems and methods for automatically identifying a user preference for a participant from a competition event

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- Number: US 12,192,574 B2
- Document ID: US12192574B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/437,902
- Filed: 2024-02-09
- Published: 2024-07-11
- Granted: 2025-01-07
- Earliest claimed: 2022-01-04
- Assignees: Adeia Guides Inc.
- Applicants: Adeia Guides Inc.
- Inventors: Maria Rocio Ramirez; Denisse Breaux; Angel Merced
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12192574B2

## CPC

- G06Q 30/0252: {based on events or environment, e.g. weather or festivals}
- H04N 21/44218: {Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV programme (methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45)}
- G06Q 30/0269: {based on user profile or attribute}
- G06V 20/42: {of sport video content}
- G06V 40/174: {Facial expression recognition}
- G10L 15/26: Speech to text systems (G10L15/08 takes precedence)
- H04H 60/33: Arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions
- H04H 60/46: for recognising users' preferences
- H04H 60/65: for using the result on users' side
- H04N 21/251: {Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies (details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08)}
- H04N 21/4668: {for recommending content, e.g. movies}
- H04N 21/8456: {by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments}
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
- G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
- H04H: BROADCAST COMMUNICATION (multiplex communication H04J; pictorial communication aspects of broadcast systems H04N)

## Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining a preference of a user for or against a participant of an event when a media asset relating to the event is being played based on monitoring user reactions to the event. Specifically, the media guidance application may detect a change of at least one of the biometric state (e.g., pulse rate, blood pressure, etc.) and physiological state (e.g., facial expression, gesture, body movement, etc.) with a user. The media guidance application may determine that an event has occurred within the sporting event that triggered the change. The media guidance application may determine that the user favors the first participant over the second participant, if the user reacts positively towards a score for the first participant in the event.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method comprising:
monitoring, via control circuitry, a mental state of a user while a media asset is being generated for display, wherein the media asset comprises a plurality of events;
detecting a change in the mental state of the user at a first progression point of the media asset;
in response to detecting the change in the mental state of the user:
transmitting, to a server, a request for information relating to a plurality of other users who have experienced a change in mental state during presentation of the media asset;
receiving information relating to a subset of the plurality of other users who have experienced the change in mental state within a time interval of the first progression point;
determining whether a number of the subset of the plurality of other users is greater than a social watching threshold; and
in response to determining that the number of the subset of the plurality of other users is greater than the social watching threshold, determining that the change in the mental state of the user is related to an occurrence of an event of the media asset corresponding to the first progression point.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, further comprising in response to determining that the change in the mental state of the user is related to the occurrence of the event of the media asset corresponding to the first progression point, generating for display a media asset recommendation to the user related to the event.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the media asset is transmitted from a linear data source.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the media asset is an on-demand asset.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the mental state of the user comprises at least one of: a biometric state of the user and a physiological state of the user.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting the change in the mental state of the user comprises:
accessing a data table storing biometric and physiological characteristics of a plurality of mental states;
for each mental state stored in the data table:
comparing a biometric state and a physiological state with the stored biometric and physiological characteristics corresponding to the respective mental state; and
computing a respective overlapping metric based on the comparing;
determining a mental state from the plurality of mental states corresponding to a highest overlapping metric; and
designating the determined mental state as a mental state of the user.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of other users who have experienced the change in mental state during presentation of the media asset are other users who share social connections with the user or other users who are within the same geographical location as the user.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the information relating to the subset of the plurality of other users comprises receiving a list of user identifiers, corresponding mental state changes, and a corresponding time when the mental state changes occur.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The method of claim 8, wherein a data source stores the information relating to the plurality of other users who have experienced the change in mental state while the plurality of other users is watching the media asset from a common live channel.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting the change in the mental state of the user comprises detecting a change of at least one of: a pulse rate, a blood pressure, a body temperature, an electroencephalogram pattern, a pupil dilation pattern, a body part movement orientation, a body part movement velocity, a pose or a gesture of a body part and a facial expression.

### Claim 11

A system comprising:
a memory;
an input/output circuitry (I/O circuitry); and
a control circuitry configured to:
monitor a mental state of a user while a media asset is being generated for display, wherein the media asset comprises a plurality of events;
detect a change in the mental state of the user at a first progression point of the media asset;
in response to detecting the change in the mental state of the user:
transmit, via the I/O circuitry, to a server, a request for information relating to a plurality of other users who have experienced a change in mental state during presentation of the media asset;
receive, via the I/O circuitry, information relating to a subset of the plurality of other users who have experienced the change in mental state within a time interval of the first progression point, wherein the received information is stored in the memory;
determine whether a number of the subset of the plurality of other users is greater than a social watching threshold; and
in response to determining that the number of the subset of the plurality of other users is greater than the social watching threshold, determine that the change in the mental state of the user is related to an occurrence of an event of the media asset corresponding to the first progression point.

### Claim 12 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the I/O circuitry is further configured to, in response to determining that the change in the mental state of the user is related to the occurrence of the event of the media asset corresponding to the first progression point, generate for display a media asset recommendation to the user related to the event.

### Claim 13 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the media asset is transmitted from a linear data source.

### Claim 14 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the media asset is an on-demand asset.

### Claim 15 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the mental state of the user comprises at least one of: a biometric state of the user and a physiological state of the user.

### Claim 16 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is configured to detect the change in the mental state of the user by:
accessing a data table storing biometric and physiological characteristics of a plurality of mental states;
for each mental state stored in the data table:
comparing a biometric state and a physiological state with the stored biometric and physiological characteristics corresponding to the respective mental state; and
computing a respective overlapping metric based on the comparing;
determining a mental state from the plurality of mental states corresponding to a highest overlapping metric; and
designating the determined mental state as a mental state of the user.

### Claim 17 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of other users who have experienced the change in mental state during presentation of the media asset are other users who share social connections with the user or other users who are within the same geographical location as the user.

### Claim 18 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the I/O circuitry is configured to receive the information relating to the subset of the plurality of other users by receiving a list of user identifiers, corresponding mental state changes, and a corresponding time when the mental state changes occur.

### Claim 19 (depends on 18)

The system of claim 18, wherein a data source stores the information relating to the plurality of other users who have experienced the change in mental state while the plurality of other users is watching the media asset from a common live channel.

### Claim 20 (depends on 11)

The system of claim 11, wherein the control circuitry is configured to detect the change in the mental state of the user by detecting a change of at least one of: a pulse rate, a blood pressure, a body temperature, an electroencephalogram pattern, a pupil dilation pattern, a body part movement orientation, a body part movement velocity, a pose or a gesture of a body part and a facial expression.