Multimedia experience according to biometrics

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10318233-B2
Application number	US-201615274466-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2016
Priority date	Sep 23, 2016
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

Disclosed herein are example techniques for multimedia experience based on biometric data. An example implementation may involve receiving first biometric data representing one or more first biological characteristics of an individual. After receiving the first biometric data, the example implementation may involve correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with a listening state of the individual. The example implementation may further involve receiving second biometric data representing one or more second biological characteristics of the individual. After receiving the second biometric data, the example implementation may involve determining that the one or more second biological characteristics corresponds to the one or more first biological characteristics. Based on the determination, the example implementation may involve initiating a playback setting corresponding to the listening state of the individual that was correlated with the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual.

First claim

We claim:

1. Tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions encoded therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause a media playback system to perform a method comprising:
the media playback system receiving, via a network interface from a first mobile device, first biometric data representing one or more first biological characteristics of an individual during a first time period;
the media playback system correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with a particular listening state of the individual, wherein the individual is asleep in the particular listening state;
the media playback system receiving, via the network interface from a second mobile device, one or more instructions to (i) form a first playback group that includes a first zone and a second zone of the media playback system and (ii) play back one or more audio tracks in synchrony from a playback queue of the first playback group, wherein the first zone comprises one or more first playback devices and the second zone comprises one or more second playback devices;
the media playback system receiving, via the network interface from a second mobile device, (i) location data indicating that the individual is in the second zone and (ii) second biometric data representing one or more second biological characteristics of the individual during a second time period, wherein the first time period precedes the second time period;
the media playback system determining that the one or more second biological characteristics corresponds to the one or more first biological characteristics such that the individual is currently asleep; and
based on the determination and in response to the one or more instructions, the media playback system initiating a playback setting corresponding to the particular listening state of the individual that was correlated with the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual, wherein initiating the playback setting comprises forming a second playback group that excludes the first zone and playing back the one or more audio tracks from a playback queue of the second playback group.

2. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein receiving the first biometric data representing the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual during the first time period comprises:
receiving, via the network interface from one or more wearable computing devices, data corresponding to at least one of following: (i) blood pressure, (ii) pulse, (iii) perspiration; (iv) blood oxygen level, (v) an accelerometer, (vi) a gyroscope, (vii) an electrocardiogram, (viii) electromyography, or (ix) temperature.

3. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein receiving the first biometric data representing the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual during the first time period comprises:
detecting, via one or more sensors, data corresponding to at least one of following: (i) Wi-Fi, (ii) Bluetooth, (iii) a millimeter wave scanner, (iv) an infrared laser, (v) electromagnetic radiation, (vi) a camera, (vii) a microphone, (viii) temperature, or (ix) perspiration.

4. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein receiving the first biometric data representing the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual during the first time period comprises:
receiving data corresponding to a social media account of the individual, wherein the data comprises social media updates of the individual; and
wherein correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual comprises:
determining the particular listening state based on content of the social media updates of the individual.

5. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual comprises:
correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual in a user profile associated with the individual.

6. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual comprises:
determining the particular listening state based at least on one of the following: (i) a current playback setting of one or more playback devices, (ii) weather, (iii) time of day, (iv) an event, or (v) a social media account associated with the individual.

7. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual comprises:
determining the particular listening state based at least on (i) a level of activity of the individual in a given environment in which one or more playback devices are playing back media, or (ii) a noise level of the given environment.

8. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual comprises:
determining a current mood of the individual based on the one or more first biological characteristics; and
correlating the current mood of the individual with the particular listening state.

9. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 8 , further comprising:
before receiving the first biometric data representing the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual during the first time period, causing one or more playback devices to play back audio in a given environment, wherein determining the current mood of the individual based on the one or more first biological characteristics comprises:
determining the current mood of the individual based on one or more audio characteristics of the audio that is being played in the given environment.

10. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , further comprising:
after correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual, causing a cloud computing system to store the correlated data in a user profile corresponding to the individual.

11. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein initiating the playback setting corresponding to the particular listening state of the individual that was correlated with the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual comprises:
causing the second playback group to play back audio.

12. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein correlating the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual with the particular listening state of the individual comprises determining that the individual is in either (a) an attentive listening state or (b) an inattentive listening state.

13. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1 , wherein initiating the playback setting corresponding to the particular listening state of the individual that was correlated with the one or more first biological characteristics of the individual comprises:
sending, to a media service provider, a request for an audio track corresponding to the particular listening state of the i

Assignees

• Sonos Inc

Inventors

• Pedersen Peter
• Papish Michael
• Clayton Eric

Classifications

• G06F3/011

  Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality (blind teaching G09B21/00) · CPC title

• G06F3/165 Primary

  Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path · CPC title

• G06F3/167

  Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback · CPC title

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• G06F3/015

  Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection · CPC title