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US 2004/0003393 A1Published application
Method, system and apparatus for monitoring use of electronic devices by user detection
AssigneeKoninlkijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsSrinivas Gutta, Miroslav Trajkovic, Vasanth Philomin
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Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus suitable for automatically detecting certain supervised users of a device and alerting an authorized user of information regarding that use. When a particular, supervised user and device are recognized, the supervised user's use of the device is monitored by generating a usage history accessible to the authorized user.
Claims36
An apparatus useful with consumer electronics devices, the apparatus comprising:
- a persistent data store having a plurality of storage locations to store a plurality of user data for a corresponding plurality of consumer electronic devices and a plurality of supervised consumer electronics device users;
- a user detection system;
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- a processor, communicatively coupled to the persistent data store and the user detection system, the processor configured to:
- a. automatically detect a supervised user of the plurality of supervised consumer electronics device users who is currently within a predetermined viewing area;
- b. automatically detect which of the plurality of consumer electronics devices is in use by the detected supervised user;
- c. automatically create at least one value of content identifying information relating to the use of the detected consumer electronics device by the detected supervised user;
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- d. make the content identifying information available for display to an authorized user of the detected consumer electronics device.
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An entertainment system, comprising:
- at least one entertainment system component providing programming available to at least one user, the programming being received by way of at least one input to the entertainment system component;
- a persistent data store having a plurality of storage locations to store information about a corresponding plurality of entertainment system supervised system users, wherein at least one unique storage location is dedicated to store the information for a unique corresponding supervised system user and the information comprises supervised user preference data set by an authorized user for the supervised system user;
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- a processor, operatively in communication with the at least one entertainment system component, the persistent data store, and a user detection system, the processor programmed to:
- a. automatically detect which supervised users of the plurality of supervised entertainment system users are currently within a predefined viewing area;
- b. automatically create a supervised user profile based on the information for each of the plurality of supervised users currently detected within the predefined viewing area;
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- c. dynamically adjust operating parameters for the entertainment system in response to the supervised user profile.
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A method for monitoring use of a consumer electronics device, the method comprising:
- automatically detecting one or more users within a predetermined viewing area;
- determining whether or not each of the detected users is an individual whose use of the consumer electronics device is subject to supervision by an authorized user of the device;
- for an identified, supervised user, determining content identifying information;
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- making the content identifying information available to the authorized user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.