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- the subject invention concerns apparatus for suggesting scheduled television programs for watching or recording based on individual viewer preferences.
- Wehmeyer, et al. whenever a program is watched for a given period of time, for example, 5 minutes or more, the system keeps a record and thereby the viewing habits and preferences can be determined, which allows the system to predict which upcoming programs should be of interest to the users of the apparatus.
- the Wehmeyer, et al. apparatus stores information about the particular television shows which the user watches and uses that information as search criteria. Although the search criteria is editable by the viewer to further refine the searches, only limited amount user editable capability is provided.
- present inventors recognized the drawback with some prior methods and apparatus which assume previous viewing of a program with a particular characteristic for even a few minutes should be considered in the selection criteria.
- the present invention comprises in one aspect a method of generating a list of suggested scheduled television programs comprising obtaining television schedule guide data which comprises characteristics of scheduled programs, collecting and processing data on characteristics of televisions programs previously viewed and the amount of time previously viewed, automatically assigning weights to said characteristics based on the total time programs having said characteristics were previously viewed, allowing a user to manually adjust the weights assigned to characteristics, and using the optionally adjusted characteristic weights to generate the suggested list of scheduled television programs.
- the assigned weights may be periodically updated.
- Another aspect of the present invention comprises a television system for displaying suggested scheduled programs comprising memory for temporarily storing data representing a television program guide schedule list which includes characteristics data for scheduled television programs, memory for storing weights assigned by the system to characteristics of television programs previously viewed based on the total time programs having those characteristics was viewed by a user, a user interface for allowing a user to override the weights assigned by the system and cause the system to assign revised characteristic weights and a processor which calculates a suggested list of programs having user preferred characteristics ranked according to the revised characteristics weights.
- FIG. 1 is an illustration of a screen display of a characteristic weighting display embodiment, in accordance with an aspect of the invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart useful in understanding the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the learning process of the invention.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the method for calculating and displaying percentage values.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a user edit process.
- FIG. 6 is an illustration in block diagram form of apparatus suitable for use with the invention.
- the preferred system can calculate percentages based on the calculated weights for each characteristic, display the percentages, and allow the user to manually adjust or override the system assigned weights by adjusting the percentages using the display.
- the preferred system updates the weights periodically, for example every five minutes, and calculates the percentages based on those weights when the user requests a display of the preferences at the user interface.
- the user adjustments to percentages cause corresponding changes in the weights stored in memory, resulting in the revised characteristic weights.
- most television programs have a topic and a theme and a relevancy, for example from 1 to 10, that, for example, may be assigned by a broadcaster.
- a weight can be calculated based on the sum of the number of 5 minute periods time the relevancy. For example, if the user watches a program having topic(l) and theme(2) and broadcaster assigned relevancy of 7 for a period of 30 minutes, a time value of 6 (i.e., 30 minutes/5 min. interval) times relevancy of 7 results in a weight of 42 for topic-theme (1)(2).
- each topic- theme, (l)(l); (1)(2); . . .; (10)(I0) would have an independently calculated weighting for each user.
- a preferred system can have up to 5 users, and each user must log in for his viewing preferences to be learned and used in calculating the suggested list.
- the percentages displayed for the user to review and optionally adjust are calculated in a special way so as to avoid the prior art aberration wherein a program viewed for only 5 minutes would cause the percentage to increase to 100 where only one program had been viewed because the prior art used the weighting as the numerator and the highest weighting for any characteristic as the denominator.
- the present method and system uses the higher of the actual highest weighting number in memory or 500, resulting in the need to watch a program having a particular topic-theme combination for at least 50 five minute periods if relevancy is always 10, or at least 500 five minute periods if relevancy is always 1, before the 100 percent number will be displayed for the user so as to cause a gradual increase in percentage weightings assigned to a particular characteristic, rather than the abrupt increases encountered with prior systems.
- the percentage value increases as the absolute value increases, and manual changes to the percentages automatically change the absolute values in the counters. In the illustrated embodiment, the percentages are rounded off to the closest 10 percent, i.e., 10, 20, 30, . . . 100 percent can be displayed in the user interface.
- the display can be a conventional television screen and text and/or graphics comprising topic or theme preference weighting adjustment icons would be displayed.
- the characteristics would include not only topic-theme combinations, but title, date, and any other information which is provided in the schedule guide.
- schedule guide technology becomes more sophisticated, more and more types of information may be provided by the schedule provider or other source of data.
- the characters and actors, specifics as to the theme of the broadcast, and other characteristics are now provided by broadcast systems such as Direct TV and the like, and more detailed information may be provided in the future.
- This system and method can be used to develop preference weightings for any characteristics for which data can be obtained from a broadcast, an online or broadcast schedule, or any other data source.
- the controller can be any apparatus or software which is known for that purpose, and will typically comprise factory programmed firmware which operates the system and implements the method.
- the list of suggested scheduled programs can include selectable options to record a listed program, to add a listed program to a "plan to view” list, and/or to display, i.e., tune to, a listed program at the time it is broadcast.
- FIG. 1 shows a screen display produced, for example, by an RCA® DSS® direct broadcast satellite receiver system, manufactured by Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.
- FIG. 2 shows a routine by which weightings are assigned based on 5 minute time periods, topic and theme as the characteristics, and relevancies of characteristics, wherein when a channel is first tuned 11 and watched by an identified user who has a profile, a timer is started 12, set at 5 minutes, and upon expiration 13 of 5 minutes, learning enable/disable selection from the current user's profile is obtained 14. If "enable is selected according to the user's profile 15, then topic, theme and relevancy data is extracted from the program data included in the broadcast 16, a success check is made 17, and then the current user's counter for each topic-theme characteristics in the program is increased 18 by the relevancy score for that topic-theme characteristic in that program, i.e., one 5 minute interval times the relevancy.
- FIG. 3 shows a routine of calculating the suggested scheduled program list which starts 19 with getting the user's weights information from their profile, getting a first program in the database 21 (received from DirecTV, for example), extracting 22 that program's topic, theme, and relevancy data from the data included with the program schedule received from the broadcaster or guide distributor, checking if successful 23, then if so calculating 24 the weighting using the weighting algorithm, and then inserting the program into the suggested program list according to its weighting 25, determining if there are additional users in the profile system 26, calculating the program weightings for the next user using the weighting algorithm 27, and repeating this routine until all of the programs in the program guide schedule have been calculated by performing an "all programs calculated?" test 28, if not all programs have been calculated, then finding the next program 29 until all the programs have been calculated, wherein the routine is done 30.
- the suggestion list only keeps a preset number of programs, e.g., 40, with the highest weightings.
- FIG. 4 shows a method wherein the user may press 31 a soft button, i.e., a virtual, screen displayed button icon, as shown in FIG 1 which illusrated "Edit Movies" to see the weightings stored in system memory (also illustrated in FIG 1), wherein the system then gets the values in all counters from the current user's profile 32, tests 33 whether the highest value is at least 500, and, if not, assigns 500 as the highest value 35 or, if yes, uses the actual highest value 34, then calculates 36 the relative weights in terms of percentage value related to the "highest value.” Then the system displays 37 the relative weights in the user interface.
- a soft button i.e., a virtual, screen displayed button icon
- FIG 5 shows an embodiment where the user uses the on screen soft buttons (FIG 1) to edit relative weights in term of percentages 38 from the user interface, getting 39 the relative values in terms of percentages as reset by the user, getting 40 the "highest value," i.e., the larger of 500 and the actual highest value assigned to any topic-theme, calculating 41 the actual counter value related to the highest value, writing 42 the edited actual values to the counters of the current user's profile.
- the system calculates and displays the revised actual values in percentage format at the user interface.
- Topic-Theme Relevancy of a Topic-Theme is currently included in the data provided by the distributor of the program guide, and is usually between 1 and 10, with 10 being the most relevant.
- ' Fo ' fe " ach " userrthe " sy stem reserves 16 x 16 counters to store program characteristics that viewer has watched.
- the exemplified system accommodates five unique users. There are counters for up to 16 topic numbers and under each topic there are up to 16 theme numbers in this embodiment.
- topic # 1 can be Movie, and the system accommodates up to 16 movie themes such as Action, Horror, Romance, and/or others.
- the topic numbers are assigned by the DirecTV broadcast system, which also assigns a relevancy number from 1 to 10 for each topic and theme for each program in the DirecTV schedule or broadcast.
- the counters store [number of 5 minute periods] X [relevancy] product for each topic/theme combination at a topic/theme cell for a unique user. Then a relative weight value is calculated and displayed in the user interface screen in terms of percentages.
- the relative weight is generated by the system for display on the user interface manual adjustment screen so the user can view the relative weight in terms of a percentage, in 10 percent increments from 0 to 100, and can edit these percentages manually, in which case the actual counter values are be calculated according to the percentage value the user reset and 5 will be written to the counter which is stored in EEPROM memory.
- the system algorithm is programmed to display to the user the relative weight in terms of percentages, as mentioned, instead of the actual value in the counters because the actual value would not make sense the user.
- a transmitter 400T processes a data signal from a source 401 (e.g., a television signal source) and transmits it to a satellite 400S which receives and rebroadcasts the signal to a receiving antenna 400A which applies the signal to a receiver 400R.
- Transmitter 400T includes an encoder 410T, a modulator (i.e., modulator/forward error corrector (FEC)) 420T, and an uplink unit 430T.
- Encoder 410T compresses and encodes
- MPEG is an international standard developed by the Moving Picture Expert Group of the International Standards Organization for coded representation of moving pictures and associated audio stored on digital storage medium.
- An encoded signal from unit 410T is supplied to modulator Forward Error Corrector (FEC) 420T, which encodes the signal with error
- Uplink unit 430T transmits the compressed and encoded signal to satellite 400S, which broadcasts the signal to a selected geographic reception area.
- the signal from satellite 400S is received by an antenna dish 400A coupled to an input of a so-called set-top receiver
- Receiver 400R (i.e., an interface device situated atop a television receiver).
- Receiver 400R includes a demodulator (demodulator Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoder) 410R to demodulate the signal and to decode the error correction data, an IR receiver 412 for receiving IR remote control commands, a microprocessor 415R, which operates interactively with demodulator/FEC unit 41 OR, and a transport unit 420R to transport the signal to an
- FEC demodulator Forward Error Correction
- NTSC Encoder 440R encodes the decoded signal to a format suitable for use by signal processing circuits in a standard NTSC consumer VCR 402 and standard NTSC consumer television receiver 403.
- Microprocessor (or microcontroller, or microcomputer) 415R receives infrared (IR) control signals from remote control unit 450R,
- Microprocessor 415R also generates the on-screen display (OSD) signals needed for presenting the interactive sentence, or confirmation sentence, to the user. Microprocessor 415R also receives and interprets cursor key X and Y information in order to control the highlighting of user choices in the onscreen displays.
- OSD on-screen display
- the preferred embodiment changes the displayed percentage gradually because of the use of the higher of 500 or actual highest characteristics weight, as discussed above, and thereby shows the user the machine learning process, rather than as in prior systems where only a very small period of viewing time resulted in very abrupt percentage changes in the preferences display screen.
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