EYE TRACKING ENABLED SMART CLOSED CAPTIONING

Patent №

US 9,568,997

Granted

2017-02-14

Filed 2014

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

3

nlp · vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14225181

Systems and methods for controlling closed captioning using an eye tracking device are provided. The system for controlling closed captioning may comprise a display device, a closed captioning controller configured to display closed captioning text for a media item during playback on the display device, and an eye tracking device configured to detect a location of a user's gaze relative to the display device and send the location to the closed captioning controller. The closed captioning controller may be configured to recognize a predetermined gaze pattern of the user's gaze and, upon detecting the predetermined gaze pattern, partially or completely deemphasize the display of the closed captioning text.

Natural languageVisionAI hardwareH04N 21/47G06F 3/013G11B 27/28G11B 27/34H04N 5/85H04N 21/4223H04N 21/44218H04N 21/4884+1 more

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.99
Vision0.83
Knowledge representation0.01
Planning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 390130714

Assignors

WILAIRAT, WEERAPAN, THUKRAL, VAIBHAV

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

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