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AssigneeGracenote, Inc.
InventorsAneesh Vartakavi, Peter C. DiMaria, Michael Gubman, Markus K. Cremer, Cameron Aubrey Summers, Gregoire Tronel
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A machine is configured to identify a media file that, when played to a user, is likely to modify an emotional or physical state of the user to or towards a target emotional or physical state. The machine accesses play counts that quantify playbacks of media files for the user. The playbacks may be locally performed or detected by the machine from ambient sound. The machine accesses arousal scores of the media files and determines a distribution of the play counts over the arousal scores. The machine uses one or more relative maxima in the distribution in selecting a target arousal score for the user based on contextual data that describes an activity of the user. The machine selects one or more media files based on the target arousal score. The machine may then cause the selected media file to be played to the user.
A system comprising:
A method comprising:
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause at least one machine to at least:
The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the at least one machine to play the selected media file to the user via a speaker in a vehicle.
The non-transitory machine readable storage medium 17, wherein the target multi-dimensional user state score is selected from a plurality of target multi-dimensional user state scores mapped to predetermined activities.
The non-transitory machine readable storage medium 17, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the at least one machine to identify the user activity based on at least one of location data, time of day, prior habits, or calendar entries.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.