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Google patents smart screens that show personal content only to recognized users

This patent describes a system where a device uses its camera to identify who is standing in front of it. It creates a queue of active users and only displays personalized or restricted content when a specific person is close enough and recognized.

Why it mattersIt offers a way for shared devices like smart displays to automatically switch between different people's private accounts without manual logins.

In the filing’s own words

Implementations relate to an automated assistant that provides and manages output from one or more elements of output hardware of a computing device. The automated assistant manages dynamic adjustment of access permissions to the computing device according to, for example, a detected presence of one or more users. An active-user queue can be established each time a unique user enters a viewing window of a camera of the computing device when, up to that point, no user was considered active. Multiple image frames can be captured via the camera and processed to determine whether an initial user remains in the viewing window and/or whether another user has entered the viewing window. The initial user can be considered active as long as they are exclusively detected in the viewing window. Restricted content associated with the user may be rendered by the computing device whilst the user is active.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising: processing, at a computing device, one or more images captured by a camera that is connected to the computing device, wherein the computing device provides access to an automated assistant; determining, based on processing one or more of the images, that a user is located within a field of view of the camera and that the user is associated with a user account that is accessible via the automated assistant, wherein determining that the user is associated with the user account that is accessible via the automated assistant comprises: processing one or more of the images using a facial recognition model stored locally at the computing device to generate a face embedding; comparing the face embedding to an embedding, for the user account, that is stored locally at the computing device; and determining that the user is associated to the user account based on the comparison; determining a distance of the user from the computing device; determining that an input has been provided to an interface of the computing device; and causing, in response to the input being provided to the interface of the computing device, the computing device to render content, wherein causing the computing device to render the content includes causing the computing device to render personalized content in response to the distance of the user from the computing device satisfying a proximity threshold.

Facts

Company
Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title
Assigning priority for an automated assistant according to a dynamic user queue and/or multi-modality presence detection
Patent number
US12764380B2
Application number
18982816
Filed
Dec 16, 2024
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
6
Claims
20

Classified under

H04N 21/44218 Electricity & electronicsG06T 7/70 Physics & computingH04N 21/25875 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/25891 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/4126 Electricity & electronicsH04W 12/64 Electricity & electronics
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