Dynamic presentation of personal information during presentation of audiovisual content
AssigneeDISH Network L.L.C.
InventorAndrea Charlotte Barros
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Abstract
Systems and methods for dynamically presenting personal information associated with people shown in content being presented to a user. While the content is being presented to the user, the user provides an information request regarding an individual being shown in the content. This request may be a voice command or question that is captured by a microphone. In response to receiving the request, a facial recognition mechanism is employed on the content to identify the person being shown in the content. Information on the identified person is then obtained and presented to the user along with the content.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a content receiver, video content to present to a user of the content receiver;
- presenting, by the content receiver, the video content to the user via a display device;
- and
- during presentation of the video content to the user:
- receiving, by the content receiver, user input requesting information regarding an individual being shown in the video content;
- and
- in response to receiving the user input:
- selecting, by the content receiver, a video frame of the video content relative to the user input being received;
- transmitting, by the content receiver, the selected video frame to a remote computing system to perform facial recognition on the selected video frame to identify the individual being shown in the video content;
- receiving, by the content receiver, an identifier of the identified individual from the remote computing system;
- obtaining, by the content receiver, information on the identified individual using the received identifier;
- and
- presenting, by the content receiver, the obtained information with the video content to the user via the display device.
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A content receiver, comprising:
- a memory configured to store computer instructions;
- and
- a processor system configured to execute the computer instructions to:
- receive content to display to a user;
- display the content to the user via a display device;
- and
- while the content is being displayed during to the user:
- receive a request from the user for information regarding a person in the content;
- and
- in response to receiving the request:
- identify a previous scene of the content referenced by the user in the request, the previous scene being prior to a current scene of the content;
- identify the person in the previous scene of the content by employing a facial recognition mechanism on the content;
- obtain information on the identified person;
- and
- display the obtained information with the content to the user via the display device.
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A system, comprising:
- a crowdsource server configured to:
- receive crowdsourced information requests for content from a plurality of users;
- identify a trend in the crowdsourced information requests relative to a user;
- select the content for the user based on the identified trend;
- and
- provide the content to the user;
- and
- a content receiver including:
- a content reception module configured to receive the content to display to a-the user;
- a user input module configured to receive a request for information regarding a person in the content;
- a facial recognition module configured to identify the person in the content in response to receipt of the request from the user;
- a content processing module configured to obtain information on the person identified by the facial recognition module;
- and
- a content display module configured to display the obtained information with the content to the user via a display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.