ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,075, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rovi Product Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Automatic media control based on viewer attention" was invented by Enda Loughman (Galway, Ireland) and Michael Buckley (Offaly, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is a system for automatically controlling media being viewed by a user based on the user attention levels predicted from gaze and drowsiness estimation and the user's position in a pre-marked monitoring zone. The system may be configured to adjust the monitoring zones based on varying lighting conditions, varying poses of the subjects or users, and the varying dist...