System and method for providing augmented content
OwnerGary M. Coheninventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for selectively augmenting an electronic media file with additional content responsive to the user viewing portions of the electronic media file are provided. The system includes a computing device with a display for playing an electronic media file that includes portions that are augmentable with additional content. The system also includes a camera and image processing software to track the focus of the user's eyes on the display while looking at the electronic media file. The system can determine whether the focus of user eyes corresponds to an augmentable portion of the electronic media file and augment the electronic media file by playing additional content to the user, and then continue playing the electronic media file.
Claims24
A computer-implemented method for the augmentation of an electronic media file, of the type that is playable to a user on a computing device having a processor and a computer readable storage medium and code in the form of one or more software modules stored on the storage medium and executable in the processor, the method comprising:
- activating a camera mounted to the computing device;
- playing an electronic media file on a display of the computing device;
- monitoring, using code executing in the processor, pixel image data from the camera including at least a current position of the user's eyes while the user looks at the display playing the electronic media file;
- discerning, using code executing in the processor, a focal point of the user's eyes;
- correlating, using code executing in the processor, coordinates on the display to the focal point of the user's eyes;
- determining, using code executing in the processor, whether the coordinates correspond to an augmentable portion of the electronic media file;
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- in the event that the coordinates correspond to the augmentable portion of the electronic media file, causing an augmentation file associated with the augmentable portion to be played.
A system for augmenting an electronic media file having a computing device and one or more processors configured to interact with a camera, a display and a computer-readable storage medium and to execute one or more software modules stored on the storage medium, comprising:
- a display module that executes so as to configure the processor to play an electronic media file on the display of the computing device;
- a camera module that executes so as to configure the processor to activate the camera and monitor pixel image data from the camera including at least a current position of a user's eyes while the user looks at the display playing the electronic media file;
- an image analysis module that executes so as to configure the processor to discern a focal point of the user's eyes, to correlate the focal point of the user's eyes to coordinates on the display, and to determine whether the coordinates correspond to an augmentable portion of the electronic media file;
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- an augmentation module that executes so as to configure the processor to cause an augmentation file associated with the augmentable portion to be played.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.