Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11762457 B1) for “consumer consolation monitoring and notification.” The objective is to verify customers are comfy sporting the upcoming Imaginative and prescient Professional.
In regards to the patent
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Apple’s patent entails programs, strategies, and units for assessing the consolation state of customers viewing content material. The tech big says {that a} consumer’s consolation state whereas viewing content material on an digital gadget can have a big impact on the consumer’s expertise.
For instance, a consumer could expertise a rise or a lower in consolation state whereas utilizing a head-mounted gadget (HMD) in a computer-generated actuality (CGR) surroundings, akin to watching entertaining content material or interacting with different customers.
Improved methods for assessing the consolation state of a consumer viewing and interacting with content material could improve the consumer’s enjoyment of the content material. Apple’s plan is that, based mostly on figuring out the consumer’s consolation state, content material creators and show programs could possibly present higher and extra tailor-made consumer experiences.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “Some implementations disclosed herein current multimedia content material to a consumer, establish a consolation state of the consumer (e.g., pleased, sad, distressed, and so forth.) based mostly on physique knowledge of the consumer (e.g., facial expressions, hand actions, physiological knowledge, and so forth.), and replace the multimedia content material based mostly on the recognized consolation state.”
