CPC H04N 21/42202 (2013.01) [H04H 60/07 (2013.01); H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04H 60/45 (2013.01); H04H 60/66 (2013.01); H04N 21/4223 (2013.01); H04N 21/4415 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01)] | 24 Claims |
1. An audio-visual display system for presenting audio-visual media content to an audience, the system comprising:
an image capture device operable to obtain an image of audience members in an audience area;
a facial recognition module in signal communication with the image capture device and operable to receive the image, identify a facial image of one or more of the audience members, and analyze each identified facial image to obtain identifier information for each of the audience members for whom a facial image is identified;
a media content playback device operable to present audio-visual media content to the audience members in the audience area;
a content control module having storage containing audience member information for each of the audience members;
a processor in communication with the facial recognition module, the content control module, and the media content playback device; and
memory in data communication with the processor and having stored therein instructions that, when read by the processor, direct the processor to:
(a) receive the identifier information from the facial recognition module;
(b) receive, from the content control module, the audience member information for each of the audience members for whom identifier information has been received;
(c) generate, from the identifier information and the audience member information, current audience information for each of the audience members in the image for whom identifier information and audience member information have been received;
(d) determine whether a majority of the one or more of the audience members has a preference for a scientific aspect of an exhibit being viewed by the one or more of the audience members or a historical aspect of the exhibit being viewed by the one or more of the audience members;
(e) add a weight to the preference of each of the one or more of the audience members having a subscription to a service that provides preferential treatment for the each of the one or more audience members;
(f) generate media content information based on the current audience information for each of the audience members in the image for whom current audience information has been generated and based on the preference for the scientific aspect or the preference for the historical aspect,
wherein one of the preference for the scientific aspect or the preference for the historical aspect has a greater total weight,
wherein the media content information generated corresponds to the one of the preference for the scientific aspect or the preference for the historical aspect having the greater total weight;
(g) based on the media content information, select audio-visual media content from a content source for presentation to the each of the audience members for whom media content information has been generated; and
(h) operate the media content display device to present the selected audio-visual media content to each of the audience members for whom media content has been selected.
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