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US 8,286,202 B2Granted
Systems and methods for memorializing a viewers viewing experience with captured viewer images
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorNicholas Newell
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Abstract
Systems and methods of memorializing a viewer's viewing experience are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment presents a movie to the viewer, detects an occurrence of one of a plurality of event capture triggers, captures at least one image of the viewer in response to detecting the event capture trigger, and stores the image of the viewer.
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A method for capturing one or more images of a viewer, the method comprising:
- presenting a movie to the viewer on a media presentation device;
- detecting an occurrence of one of a plurality of event capture triggers, wherein a plurality of scenes of interest of the movie are each associated with one of the plurality of event capture triggers, and wherein the plurality of event capture triggers are embedded in a closed captioning stream of the movie;
- capturing images of the viewer, wherein at least one image of the viewer is captured in response to detecting each one of the plurality of event capture triggers;
- and
- storing the captured images of the viewer.
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A media device configured to capture one or more images of a viewer, comprising:
- an interface that receives a movie in at least one program stream, wherein the movie comprises a video stream portion having a plurality of scenes, an audio stream portion with sounds corresponding to the plurality of scenes of the movie, and a closed captioning stream of the movie, wherein a plurality of scenes of interest of the movie are each associated with an event capture trigger;
- a processor system communicatively coupled to the interface, wherein the processor system monitors a presentation of the movie to the viewer and detects an occurrence of the event capture trigger corresponding to presentation of each one of the plurality of scenes of interest, wherein the plurality of event capture triggers are embedded in the closed captioning stream of the movie, and wherein the processor system generates an image capture command based upon the event capture trigger;
- an image capture device communicatively coupled to the processor system, wherein the image capture device captures the at least one image of the viewer in response to receiving the generated image capture command;
- and
- a memory communicatively coupled to the image capture device that stores the at least one captured image of the viewer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.