US 12,010,382 B2
Providing enhanced viewing experience using user gaze detection and video casting
Aurovind Sagar Epari, Karnataka (IN); Sandeep Guddekoppa Suresh, Bangalore (IN); and Vinod Jatti, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Horsham, PA (US)
Filed by ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/647,260.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/156,542, filed on Mar. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0286741 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 21/44 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01); H04N 21/4223 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/44218 (2013.01) [G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04N 21/42203 (2013.01); H04N 21/4223 (2013.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01)] 36 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a media control device for controlling at least one media content presentation in a media stream, the media stream including one or more media content presentations, the media control device being in communication with a camera device and a display device, the method comprising:
receiving, by the media control device, one or more user-gaze detections captured via the camera device;
ascertaining, by the media control device, one or more viewpoints on the display device corresponding to the one or more user-gaze detections;
ascertaining, by the media control device, at least a first viewpoint of the one or more viewpoints, the first viewpoint corresponding to at least one of: a first largest number of similar viewpoints of the one or more viewpoints, or a most-recent viewpoint of the one or more viewpoints; and
adjusting, by the media control device, at least one parameter of a first media content presentation based, at least in part, on the first viewpoint, wherein the adjusting the at least one parameter of the first media content presentation based on the first viewpoint further comprises:
restricting, by the media control device, at least one of: a location of at least a second media content presentation from a location proximate to the first viewpoint, or a generation of the at least second media content presentation from a location proximate to the first viewpoint.