VIEWER-BASED DEVICE CONTROL

Patent №

US 8,922,480

Granted

2014-12-30

Filed 2010

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

3

vision · speech · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12763115

A computing device can monitor the gaze direction of people around the device to determine whether any unintended viewers are viewing content displayed on the device. A user can activate a privacy mode of the device, such that when an unintended viewer is detected the device can take an appropriate action. In some cases the device can notify the primary user of the device using audible, visual, or tactile alerts. In other cases, the device can modify the display of content such that the unintended viewer is unable to decipher or view the content, or is otherwise notified of the detection.

VisionSpeechEvolutionary computationG06F 21/60G06F 1/1686G06F 3/013G06F 3/0304G06F 21/10G06F 21/6245G06F 21/82G09G 5/00+6 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
Speech0.98
Evolutionary computation0.92
AI hardware0.27
Planning0.02
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 382300121

Assignors

FREED, IAN W., HART, GREGORY M., BEZOS, JEFFREY P.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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