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US 12,250,431 · App. 18/154,539 · Granted Mar 11, 2025

Content receiver control based on intra-content metrics and viewing pattern detection

Inventor: Abhijit Sharma (Denver, CO)
Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
H04N21/4668G06N5/025H04N21/44204H04N21/4661H04N21/4665H04N21/835
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Patent No.
US 12,250,431
App. No.
18/154,539
Granted
Mar 11, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are provided to facilitate content receiver control for particularized output of content items based on intra-content metrics. Observation data, corresponding to indications of detected content receiver operations associated with a content receiver and mapped to a first set of content items, may be processed. A first set of intra-content metrics may be detected. An audiovisual pattern of intra-content metrics may be mapped based on correlating the set of observation data with the first set of intra-content metrics. A second set of content items may be processed to detect a second set of intra-content metrics. A subset of the second set of content items may be selected based on a visual category and/or an audio category of the audiovisual pattern of intra-content metrics. The subset may be specified to cause a content receiver to modify operations to record and/or output content corresponding to the subset.

Claims (40)

1. A system comprising:

one or more processing devices; and

memory communicatively coupled with and readable by the one or more processing devices and having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:

receiving at least part of first audio video content;

detecting a first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of at least a portion of the first audio video content that is before an end of the first audio video content and/or of a segment of the first audio video content;

selecting second audio video content from a plurality of audio video content items based at least in part on matching a second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics to the first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of at least the portion of the first audio video content; and

causing a content receiver to record and/or output the second audio video content after the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content.

2. The system as recited in claim 1 , where the first set and the second set correspond to one or more music characteristics and/or one or more dialogue characteristics.

3. The system as recited in claim 1 , where the first set and the second set correspond to one or more color characteristics.

4. The system as recited in claim 1 , the operations further comprising only processing a last portion of the first audio video content before the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content to detect the first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of the last portion of the first audio video content.

5. The system as recited in claim 1 , the operations further comprising:

processing at least a portion of the second audio video content to detect the second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of at least the portion of the second audio video content.

6. The system as recited in claim 5 , where the processing at least the portion of the second audio video content corresponds to only processing an initial portion of the second audio video content to detect the second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of the initial portion of the second audio video content.

7. The system as recited in claim 1 , the operations further comprising:

learning a pattern of color characteristics, dialogue characteristics, and/or music characteristics mapped to content viewed by a user;

where the selecting the second audio video content from the plurality of audio video content items is further based at least in part on matching the second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics to the learned pattern of color characteristics, dialogue characteristics, and/or music characteristics.

8. The system as recited in claim 1 , where the second audio video content is output sequentially after the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content.

9. A method comprising:

receiving at least part of first audio video content;

detecting a first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of at least a portion of the first audio video content that is before an end of the first audio video content and/or of a segment of the first audio video content;

selecting second audio video content from a plurality of audio video content items based at least in part on matching a second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics to the first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of at least the portion of the first audio video content; and

causing a content receiver to record and/or output the second audio video content after the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content.

10. The method as recited in claim 9 , where the first set and the second set correspond to one or more music characteristics and/or one or more dialogue characteristics.

11. The method as recited in claim 9 , where the first set and the second set correspond to one or more color characteristics.

12. The method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising only processing a last portion of the first audio video content before the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content to detect the first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of the last portion of the first audio video content.

13. The method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising:

processing at least a portion of the second audio video content to detect the second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of at least the portion of the second audio video content.

14. The method as recited in claim 13 , where the processing at least the portion of the second audio video content corresponds to only processing an initial portion of the second audio video content to detect the second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of the initial portion of the second audio video content.

15. The method as recited in claim 9 , further comprising:

learning a pattern of color characteristics, dialogue characteristics, and/or music characteristics mapped to content viewed by a user;

where the selecting the second audio video content from the plurality of audio video content items is further based at least in part on matching the second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics to the learned pattern of color characteristics, dialogue characteristics, and/or music characteristics.

16. The method as recited in claim 9 , where the second audio video content is output sequentially after the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content.

17. One or more non-transitory, machine-readable media having machine-readable instructions thereon which, when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising:

receiving at least part of first audio video content;

detecting a first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of least a portion of the first audio video content that is before an end of the first audio video content and/or of a segment of the first audio video content;

selecting second audio video content from a plurality of audio video content items based at least in part on matching a second set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics to the first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of at least the portion of the first audio video content; and

causing a content receiver to record and/or output the second audio video content after the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content.

18. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable media as recited in claim 17 , where the first set and the second set correspond to one or more music characteristics and/or one or more dialogue characteristics.

19. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable media as recited in claim 18 , where the first set and the second set correspond to one or more color characteristics.

20. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable media as recited in claim 17 , the operations further comprising only processing a last portion of the first audio video content before the end of the first audio video content and/or of the segment of the first audio video content to detect the first set of one or more audio characteristics and/or one or more visual characteristics of the last portion of the first audio video content.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2023
From: SHARMA, ABHIJIT
To: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
Reel/Frame 062375/0451 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17391393 · Aug 2, 2021
Continuation 15783951 · Oct 13, 2017
Related Publication 20230156285A1 · May 18, 2023
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