DETERMINING AUDIENCE STATE OR INTEREST USING PASSIVE SENSOR DATA

Patent №

US 9,628,844

Granted

2017-04-18

Filed 2015

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

2

speech · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14815321

This document describes techniques and apparatuses for determining an audience's state or interest using passive sensor data. The techniques receive sensor data that measures an audience during presentation of a media program. The techniques, based on this sensor data, then determine a state or interest of the audience members during the media program.

SpeechKnowledge representationH04N 21/42201H04N 21/42203H04N 21/4223H04N 21/44213H04N 21/44218H04N 21/4667

AI classification

Speech0.99
Knowledge representation0.77
Evolutionary computation0.23
Machine learning0.17
Planning0.04
AI hardware0.01
Vision0.01
Natural language0.01

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 362750400

Assignors

CONRAD, MICHAEL J., HULTEN, GEOFFREY J., KRUM, KYLE J., MENDHRO, UMAIMAH A., REMINGTON, DARREN B.

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

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