Display device content selection through viewer identification and affinity prediction

摘要

Method and device are described for customizing the content selection to present on a display device based on identifying the viewer of the device. In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to selecting from among a group of digital images, those images that are most likely to be of interest to the viewer. In general, many of the images available to the display device will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Using the relationship information to predict subject affinity, the display device computes an image affinity for each image by accumulating the individual subject affinity predictions between the viewer and each subject identified in each image. The image affinities are used to select images for presentation on the display device.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method comprising:
obtaining information identifying a reference person; obtaining information identifying a collection of images associated with the reference person; obtaining information identifying a social relationship between the reference person and one of a plurality of other subjects that appear in the collection of images; obtaining a subject affinity defining a subject affinity score between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects based on the identified social relationship between the reference person and the one of the plurality of other subjects, the plurality of other subjects corresponding to subjects other than the reference person; determining an image affinity for each of a plurality of images in the collection of images based on the subject affinity for the one of the plurality of other subjects, each image affinity defining an image affinity score between the reference person and a corresponding one of the plurality of images based on the one of the plurality of other subjects appearing in the image; selecting at least one image from the plurality of images based on the image affinities of the plurality of images, the at least one image comprising the one of the plurality of other subjects; and effecting presentation of the at least one image on a display of a display device.