Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a video scene adapted to establish an ambiance setting and providing the video scene to equipment of a user for presentation at a display device. A visual focus is detected of the user towards presentation of the video scene displayed proximate to the user and the video scene is modified responsive to the visual focus. The modifying of the video scene is adapted to discourage visual focus of the user towards the presentation of the video scene. Other embodiments are disclosed.

The disclosure relates to the technical field of computers, in particular to a control method and device, terminal and storage medium. The control method provided by an embodiment of the disclosure includes: receiving an image, obtaining position information of a first part and gesture information of a second part of a user based on the image, determining a movement trajectory of a navigation indicator based on the position information of the first part, and determining a control command based on the gesture information of the second part, the control command being used for controlling a visual element to which the navigation indicator is directed.

A focus group system for determining the user’s mood or reaction as the user views content based at least in part on physiological indicators measured by a physiological monitoring system and feedback from the user. The system may receive sensor data including physiological data of a user captured while the user is consuming content and receive feedback of the user associated with a reaction of the user when the sensor data was captured. The system may then determine, based at least in part on the sensor data and the feedback, a direction and magnitude of the reaction of the user to the content.

A media stream is delivered to a searcher by identifying a desirable emotional state for the searcher; identifying a current emotional state of the searcher; and estimating a target emotional trajectory that begins with the current emotional state and concludes with the desirable emotional state. Then the target emotional trajectory is matched to an aggregate emotional trajectory of the media stream; the media stream is recommended to the searcher in response to the matching; and a bit stream of the media stream is rendered to the searcher in response to the searcher's acceptance of the recommendation.

An information processing apparatus that performs an automatic operation of equipment by artificial intelligence is provided. An artificial intelligence information processing apparatus includes a control section that estimates and controls the operation of the equipment by artificial intelligence on the basis of sensor information, and a presentation section that estimates and presents a reason that the control section has performed the operation of the equipment by artificial intelligence on the basis of the sensor information, the presentation section, as estimating the operation by the artificial intelligence, estimating the reason that the operation of the equipment has been performed by using a first neural network that has learnt a correlation between the sensor information and the operation of the equipment and the reason that the operation of the equipment has been performed.

Systems and methods are related to tracking an attention of a user with respect to content presented on a virtual screen, detecting a defocus event associated with a first region of the content, and determining a next focus event associated with a second region of the content. The determination can be based at least in part on the defocus event and on the tracked attention of the user. The systems and methods can include generating, based on the determined next focus event, a marker for differentiating the second region of the content from a remainder of the content, and in response to detecting a refocus event associated with the virtual screen, triggering execution of the marker associated with the second region of the content.

The present invention is directed to a system for providing audience sentiment responses to an event and/or an item of media content. The audience sentiment responses are divided into at least four categories, including sentiments liking and disliking the event and/or the media content, and sentiments desiring more or less of the event and/or the media content. The system further provides analytics regarding audience sentiments, such as the times during the event and/or the points in the media content wherein audiences experienced the greatest shifts in one or more of the sentiment types.

A system and method for automated generation of control signals for sexual stimulation devices from usage history and other data. The system and method involve analyzing historical usage and other data for a user for a device or devices, processing the data through machine learning algorithms, and generating new or recombined patterns of stimulation based on the outputs from the machine learning algorithms. The resulting automated control signals represent partially or fully customized stimulation for a given user which evolve over time as the user continues to use the device or devices.

A method for improving a user experience through the use of at least one communications device. The method initially senses feedback of the user experience, wherein the user experience include one or more of the following three dimensional geolocation status, temporal status, experiential status, physiological status and emotional status. The method creates at least an initial contextual data set from the initially sensed feedback, and transmits media content to the user. The method subsequently senses feedback of the user experience, creating one or more subsequent contextual data set from the subsequent sensed feedback. The method measures changes in the user experience by comparing the initial contextual data set with the subsequent contextual data set. The method generates personalized user data based on measuring changes, wherein the generated personalized data is indicative of adjustments in one or more of the three dimensional geolocation, experiential status, physiological status and emotional status of the user when the comparing of the initial contextual data set with the subsequent contextual data set.

Systems and methods are provided for responding to a sleep-state event. One example method includes receiving and generating, at a computing device, media content for output and receiving a sleep-state event. A type of the content being generated for output is identified and, based on the type of content, an action to perform in response to receiving the sleep-state event is identified. The action to perform is generated.