EP3063933A2 - Commande de dispositifs multimédias basée sur la proximité pour présentations multimédias - Google Patents

Commande de dispositifs multimédias basée sur la proximité pour présentations multimédias

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EP3063933A2
EP3063933A2 EP14859083.9A EP14859083A EP3063933A2 EP 3063933 A2 EP3063933 A2 EP 3063933A2 EP 14859083 A EP14859083 A EP 14859083A EP 3063933 A2 EP3063933 A2 EP 3063933A2
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user
media device
content
media
devices
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Michael Edward Smith Luna
Thomas Alan Donaldson
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AliphCom LLC
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/47—End-user applications
    • H04N21/488—Data services, e.g. news ticker
    • H04N21/4882—Data services, e.g. news ticker for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/4104—Peripherals receiving signals from specially adapted client devices
    • H04N21/4122—Peripherals receiving signals from specially adapted client devices additional display device, e.g. video projector
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/41—Structure of client; Structure of client peripherals
    • H04N21/414—Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance
    • H04N21/41407—Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/433—Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
    • H04N21/4331—Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/442—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk
    • H04N21/44213—Monitoring of end-user related data
    • H04N21/44218—Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/442—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk
    • H04N21/44227—Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/45—Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies, resolving scheduling conflicts
    • H04N21/458—Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming stream; Updating operations, e.g. for OS modules ; time-related management operations

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  • Embodiments of the present application relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, wearable, hand held, and portable computing devices for facilitating communication of information. More specifically, disclosed are media devices that detect proximity of users and/or user devices and take actions and handle content after detecting presence of users and/or user devices
  • Conventional paradigms for media devices require a user to take some action using a finger press to a touch screen or press a button, or the like, in order to initiate some function on the device, such as listening to music, for example.
  • Conventional media devices are not configured to recognize and act on user preferences as to how the media device serves the user's needs based on changing circumstances and changing environments the user and media device are subject to.
  • conventional media devices are typically personal devices that are mostly if not always used solely by the user and are therefore not well adapted to servicing the needs of friends, guests, or the like who may want to share content on their devices with the user.
  • FIG. 2A depicts one example of a configuration scenario for a user device and a media device according to an embodiment of the present application
  • FIG. 8B is a front side view depicting an example of proximity detection island coverage according to embodiments of the present application.
  • FIG. 8C is a side view depicting an example of proximity detection island coverage according to embodiments of the present application.
  • RF system 107 includes at least one RF antenna 124 that is electrically coupled with a plurality of radios (e.g., RF transceivers) including but not limited to a Bluetooth® (BT) transceiver 120, a WiFi transceiver 130 (e.g., for wireless communications over a wireless and/or WiMAX network), and a proprietary Ad Hoc (AH) transceiver 140 pre-configured (e.g., at the factory) to wirelessly communicate with a proprietary Ad Hoc wireless network (AH- WiFi) (not shown).
  • BT Bluetooth®
  • WiFi WiFi transceiver 130
  • AH Ad Hoc
  • AH- WiFi proprietary Ad Hoc wireless network
  • AH 140 and AH- WiFi are configured to allow wireless communications between similarly configured media devices (e.g., an ecosystem comprised of a plurality of similarly configured media devices) as will be explained in greater detail below.
  • RF system 107 may include more or fewer radios than depicted in FIG. 1 and the number and type of radios will be application dependent. Furthermore, radios in RF system 107 need not be transceivers, RF system 107 may include radios that transmit only or receive only, for example. Optionally, RF system 107 may include a radio 150 configured for RF communications using a proprietary format, frequency band, or other existent now or to be implemented in the future. Radio 150 may be used for cellular communications (e.g., 3G, 4G, or other), for example.
  • Radio 150 may be used for cellular communications (e.g., 3G, 4G, or other), for example.
  • Radio 150 e.g., a transceiver or other transceiver in RF 107
  • Radio 150 may be used in conjunction with the de -tuning capabilities of antenna 124 to sense proximity, to detect and or spatially locate other RF sources such as those from other media devices 100, devices of a user, just to name a few.
  • RF system 107 may include a port 123 configured to connect the RF system 107 with an external component or system, such as an external RF antenna, for example.
  • the transceivers depicted in FIG. 1 are non-limiting examples of the type of transceivers that may be included in RF system 107.
  • PROX 113 may include one or more proximity detection islands
  • RF proximity broadly means within adequate signal strength range of the BT transceivers 120, WiFi transceivers 130, or any other transceivers in RF system 107, RF systems in the users devices (e.g., 202, 220), and other wireless devices such as wireless routers, WiFi networks (e.g., 270), WiMAX networks, and cellular networks, for example.
  • Adequate signal strength range is any range that allows for reliable RF communications between wireless devices.
  • provisioned media devices broadly means devices including some, all, or more of the systems depicted in FIG. 1 and designed (e.g., by the same manufacture or to the same specifications and/or standards) to operate with one another in a seamless manner as media devices are added to or removed from an ecosystem.
  • configured media devices may be configured to arbitrate among themselves as to which of the configured devices will act to configured the newly added un-configured media device.
  • the existing media device that was configured last in time e.g., by a date stamp on its CFG 125
  • the existing media device that was configured first in time e.g., by a date stamp on its CFG 125
  • the existing media device that was configured first in time may be the one selected to configure the newly added un-configured media device.
  • subsequently added unconfigured media devices may be automatically configured by an existing configured media device by each media device recognizing other media devices (e.g., via wireless systems), determining the status (e.g., configured or un-configured) of each media device, and then using the wireless systems (e.g., RF 107, AV 109, I/O 105, OPT 185, PROX 113) of a configured media device to configure the un-configured media device without having to resort to the APP 225 on the user's device 220 to intervene in the configuration process.
  • the wireless systems e.g., RF 107, AV 109, I/O 105, OPT 185, PROX 113
  • module may refer, for example, to an algorithm or a portion thereof, and/or logic implemented in either hardware circuitry or software, or a combination thereof. These may be varied and are not limited to the examples or descriptions provided.
  • Software, firmware, algorithms, executable computer readable code, program instructions for execution on a computer, or the like may be embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium.
  • RGB LED 616 may be used to generate one or more colors of light that indicate to user 201 that the user's presence has been detected and the media device is ready to take some action based on that detection.
  • the action taken will be application specific and may depend on actions the user 201 programmed into CFG 125 using APP 225, for example.
  • the action taken and/or the colors emitted by RGB LED 616 may depend on the presence and/or detection of a user device 210 in conjunction with or instead of detection of presence of user 201 (e.g., RF 565 from device 210 by RF 107).
  • Configuration 702 depicts five rectangular shaped proximity detection islands 520 positioned on top surface 199t with four positioned proximate to four corners of the top surface 199t and one proximately centered on top surface 199t.
  • Configuration 704 depicts three circle shaped proximity detection islands 520 proximately positioned at the left, right, and center of top surface 199t.
  • Configuration 706 depicts four hexagon shaped proximity detection islands 520 proximately positioned at the left, right, and two at the center of top surface 199t.
  • configuration 708 depicts two triangle shaped proximity detection islands 520 proximately positioned at the left, right of top surface 199t.
  • Proximity detection islands 520 may be configured to operate independently of one another, or in cooperation with one another.
  • Entry 825 of hand 801h or entry 820 of user 201 may cause one or more of the proximity detection islands 520 to indicate 840 that a presence has been detected, by emitting a color of light from RGB LED 616, for example.
  • the coverage pattern may be circular 830 and cover a 360 degree radius 870 about a center point 871 of proximity detection island 520. Circular 830 coverage pattern 830 may or may not overlap the circular 830 pattern of the other proximity detection islands 520.
  • the light, sound, or vibration are altered to comport with the detection of RF (e.g., from a user device 220), such as described above in regards to user device 220 in FIG. 9, for example.
  • notification of presence being detected occurs using one or more of light, sound, or vibration without modification.
  • the media device 100 indicates that it is ready to receive input from a user and/or user device (e.g., user 201 or a user device 220 via RF 107).
  • a query is made as to whether or not an input is received from a user.
  • FIG. 14 depicts one example 1400 of proximity detection islands associated with specific device functions.
  • DISP 180 may be actuated or selected by a user in connection with one of the functions assigned to proximity detection islands (II, 12, 13, 14). For example, to activate the "BT Pairing" function of island 12, control element 512 that is nearest 1427 to island 12 may be actuated by the user.
  • proximity detection islands (II, 12, 13, 14) may be associated with different users whose presence has been detected by one or more of the islands. For example, if proximity of four users (Ul, U2, U3, U4) has been detected by any of the islands, then Ul may be associated with 14, U2 with II, U3 with 12, and U4 with 13. Association with an island may be used to provide notifications to the user, such as using light from RGB LED 616 to notify the user of status (e.g., BT pairing status) or other information.
  • FIG. 17 depicts one example of content handling from a data capable wristband or wristwatch subsequent to proximity detection by a media device.
  • a hand 1700h of a user may comprise a user device in the form of a data capable wristband or wristwatch denoted as 1740.
  • Wristband 1740 may include information "I" that is stored in the wristband 1740 and is wirelessly accessible using a variety of wireless connections between media device 100, wireless router 1570, and Cloud 1750.
  • Media device 100 may serve as a wireless hub for wristband 1740 allowing wristband 1740 to send and retrieve information from Cloud 1750 via wireless connections between media device 100 and wireless router 1570 and/or Cloud 1750.
  • data D may include exercise, nutrition, dietary data, and biometric information collected from or sensed via sensors carried by the wristwatch 1740.
  • Data D may be transferred to media device 100 or Cloud 1750 and accessed via a URL to a web page of a user.
  • the data D may be shared among other users via their web pages.
  • some or all of users 1801a - 180 In may be consent to sharing their information "I" through media device 100, Cloud 1750, or both.
  • Users 1801a - 1801n may view each other's information "I”on DISP 180 or go to a URL in Cloud 1750 or the like to view each other's information "I”.
  • the media device 100 may playback other content C (e.g., an mp3 or mpeg file) while recording the content C to the selected location.
  • other content C e.g., an mp3 or mpeg file
  • media device 100 may begin to handle the content C from the various user devices as described in reference to FIGS. 19 and 20.
  • users Ul and U3 have static content C to be handled by media device 100 and user U2 has dynamic content C.

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Abstract

Des modes de réalisation de l'invention concernent de façon générale un matériel électrique/électronique, un logiciel informatique, des communications par réseau filaire et sans fil et des dispositifs multimédias portables, vestimentaires et stationnaires. Les émetteurs-récepteurs RF et/ou le système audio peuvent être utilisés dans chaque dispositif pour une communication sans fil entre des dispositifs multimédias et pour permettre que d'autres données soient transmises sans fil d'un dispositif multimédia à un autre dispositif multimédia. Le système de détection de proximité peut être conçu pour détecter une présence d'un utilisateur ou de multiples utilisateurs et lors de la détection de présence, accéder à un contenu sur un dispositif utilisateur, et enregistrer le contenu tout en reproduisant le contenu sur le dispositif multimédia. Un ou plusieurs dispositifs utilisateurs à proximité du dispositif multimédia après la détection peuvent communiquer sans fil avec le dispositif multimédia et le dispositif multimédia peut orchestrer la gestion et/ou la mise en attente de contenu en provenance de ces dispositifs ou d'un emplacement accessible sans fil tel que le nuage, Internet, un serveur NAS, une mémoire flash, ou d'autres sources sans fil.
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