Interactive adaptive narrative presentation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9697867-B2
Application number	US-201514866454-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2015
Priority date	Sep 25, 2015
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A narrative presentation system may include at least one optical sensor capable of detecting objects added to the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor. Using data contained in signals received from the at least one optical sensor, an adaptive narrative presentation circuit identifies an object added to the field-of-view and identifies an aspect of a narrative presentation logically associated with the identified object. The adaptive narrative presentation circuit modifies the aspect of the narrative presentation identified as logically associated with the identified object.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. An adaptive narrative presentation system, comprising:
at least one optical sensor having a field-of-view;
a communications interface; and
an adaptive narration presentation circuit communicably coupled to the at least one optical sensor and the communications interface, the adaptive narration presentation circuit to:
generate a narrative presentation output at the communications interface;
optically identify an object added to the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor, the optical identification based at least in part on at least one intrinsic parameter of the object;
identify at least one aspect of the narrative presentation associated with the identified object; and
modify the at least one aspect of the narrative presentation based at least in part on the identified object.

2. The system of claim 1 , the adaptive narration presentation circuit to further:
identify at least one aspect of the narrative presentation associated with the identified object including one or more of: a plot of the narrative, a setting of the narrative, an atmosphere of the narrative, a character in the narrative, a theme occurring in the narrative, or a point of view in the narrative.

3. The system of claim 2 , the adaptive narration presentation circuit to further:
identify at least one of: a location where the narrative occurs during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, a time period during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, a weather condition during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, a social condition during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, or a mood of the narrative during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified.

4. The system of claim 1 , the adaptive narration presentation circuit to further:
generate an audio/visual narrative presentation output at the communications interface.

5. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a storage device communicably coupled to the adaptive narrative presentation circuit, the storage device including:
a data store that includes data indicative of intrinsic parameters logically associated with each of a number of objects.

6. The system of claim 5 the adaptive narration presentation circuit to further:
optically identify the object based at least in part on at least one intrinsic parameter of the object including at least one of: a shape of the object, a color of the object, a proportion of the object, or an anatomical feature of the object.

7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a storage device communicably coupled to the adaptive narrative presentation circuit, the storage device including:
a data store that includes data indicative of objects identifiable by the adaptive narration presentation circuit and one or more respective aspects of the narrative associated with each of the object identifiable by the adaptive narration presentation controller.

8. The system of claim 1 the adaptive narration presentation circuit to further:
identify a number of permissible aspect changes in the narrative presentation responsive to successfully identifying the object; and
autonomously select one of the number of permissible aspect changes in the narrative presentation based at least in part on the at least one aspect of the narrative presentation logically associated with the identified object.

9. The system of claim 1 further comprising:
at least one output device communicably coupled to the communications interface.

10. The system of claim 1 the adaptive narration presentation circuit to further:
optically identify an object removed from the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor, the optical identification based at least in part on at least one intrinsic parameter of the object;
identify at least one aspect of the narrative presentation logically associated with the identified object removed from the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor; and
autonomously modify the at least one aspect of the narrative presentation based at least in part on the identified object removed from the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one optical sensor comprises:
at least one optical sensor that provides one or more signals including red/green/blue (RGB) information and depth information from the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor; and
the adaptive narration presentation circuit to further:
identify the object added to the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor using at least one of the RGB information or the depth information from the field-of-view of the at least one optical sensor.

12. An interactive adaptive narrative presentation method, comprising:
generating, by an adaptive narration presentation circuit, a narrative presentation output at a communicably coupled communications interface;
receiving, by the adaptive narration presentation circuit, a signal containing data indicative of an object placed in a field-of-view of at least one optical sensor communicably coupled to the adaptive narrative presentation system;
concurrent with the narrative presentation, optically identifying, by the adaptive narration presentation circuit, the object based at least in part on at least one intrinsic characteristic of the object;
autonomously identifying, by the adaptive narration presentation circuit, at least one aspect of the narrative presentation associated with the identified object; and
modifying, by the adaptive narration presentation circuit, the at least one aspect of the narrative presentation based at least in part on the identified object.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein autonomously identifying at least one aspect of the narrative presentation associated with the identified object further comprises:
autonomously identifying, by the adaptive narration presentation circuit, at least one aspect of the narrative presentation associated with the identified object including one or more of: a plot of the narrative, a setting of the narrative, an atmosphere of the narrative, a character in the narrative, a theme occurring in the narrative, or a point of view in the narrative.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein autonomously identifying at least one aspect of the narrative presentation associated with the identified object including a setting of the narrative further comprises:
identifying at least one of: a location where the narrative occurs during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, a time period during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, a weather condition during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, a social condition during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified, or a mood of the narrative during a portion of the narrative at which the object is identified.

15. The method of claim 12 wherein generating a narrative presentation output at a communicably coupled communications interface further comprises:
generating a narrative presentation audio/visual output at the communications interface.

16. The method of claim 12 wherein optically identifying the object based at least in part on at least one intrinsic characteristic of the object further comprises:
optically identifying the object based at least in part on at least one intrinsic characteristic including at least one of: a characteristic shape of the object, a characteristic color of the object, a characteristic proportion

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Kamhi Gila
• Zamir Nadav
• Nistel Kobi
• Ferens Ron
• Moran Amit
• Hurwitz Barak
• Kouperman Vladimir

Classifications

• H04N25/134

  based on three different wavelength filter elements · CPC title

• G06K9/00201

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N13/0203

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G11B27/028

  with computer assistance · CPC title

• H04N9/045

  Electricity · mapped topic