Audience Media Recommendation via Individual Viewer Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing media content recommendation systems fail to effectively recommend content to groups of viewers based on the dynamic traits and interactions of individual viewers, such as emotions and body positions, which are crucial for personalized experiences.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize image processing to capture key attributes of individual viewers, create group profiles, and provide recommendations based on these attributes, including emotions, demographics, and location, using a combination of facial and body analysis, and machine-learning algorithms to predict preferred media content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional recommendation systems are used, then implementation is simple, but recommendation accuracy for groups is poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the audience into individual viewers and analyzes each person's unique traits (emotions, body positions, demographics) separately, then synthesizes these individual analyses into a comprehensive group recommendation. This segmentation approach enables precise measurement of each viewer's characteristics while maintaining overall system functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces image processing technology and machine learning algorithms as intermediary components between the viewers and the recommendation engine. These intermediaries capture and analyze viewer attributes (emotions, body positions) and translate them into actionable recommendation data, bridging the gap between simple system operation and accurate group recommendations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If dynamic viewer traits are analyzed, then recommendation relevance improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation personalizationVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously capturing and pre-processing viewer image data in the background, extracting key attributes (emotions, body positions, demographics) before they are needed for recommendations. This allows the system to have viewer trait data ready when generating recommendations, reducing actual processing time while maintaining high personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual or traditional mechanical analysis methods with automated image processing and machine learning algorithms. This substitution enables rapid analysis of dynamic viewer traits (emotions, body positions) in real-time, achieving high adaptability without significant time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Measurement precision

If image processing is used to capture viewer attributes, then measurement precision improves, but computational load increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewer attribute detection accuracyVSAvoidcomputational energy
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential and most relevant viewer attributes from image data, such as emotions, body positions, and key demographic features. By taking out only these critical elements rather than processing all possible image data, the system achieves high measurement precision for key traits while reducing overall computational energy requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11589094B2System and method for recommending media content based on actual viewers
Publication Date: 2023.02.21 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P
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AI summary

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations include detecting each individual of an audience viewing media content on user equipment; retrieving a user profile for each individual of the audience resulting in user profiles; creating a group profile from the user profiles; determining, based on the group profile, a recommendation for viewing a candidate media content; and providing the recommendation to the user equipment for the audience. Other embodiments are disclosed.