INTELLIGENT MEDIA CONTENT PLAYING DEVICE WITH USER ATTENTION DETECTION, CORRESPONDING METHOD AND CARRIER MEDIUM

摘要

The present invention relates to providing intelligent user control options for consuming media content such as video images to one or more viewers. The present invention provides an apparatus for playing media content, and comprising: means for detecting a face (110, 115); means for playing the media content and associating the media content being played with a play index (130); means for storing the play index of the media content being played in response to detecting the absence of a previously detected face (240); means for generating a user interface (140, 145) in response to detecting a face following the detection of the absence of a face; wherein the playing means is arranged to re-play at least a part of the media content depending on the stored play index in response to receiving a user input from the user interface.