Patent ID: 11936948
Assignee: ROKU, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions that upon execution by a computing system, cause performance of a set of acts in connection with a shared content viewing session in which multiple users are receiving and viewing respective instances of media content in a synchronized manner, the set of acts comprising:
accessing metadata associated with the media content, wherein the metadata specifies (i) a time point in the media content at which a particular event occurs, and (ii) an expected type of physical reaction associated with the particular event;
near the time point in the media content at which a particular event occurs, detecting that each of the multiple users respectively exhibits a threshold extent of physical reaction around a same viewing time within the shared content viewing session, and (ii) the expected type of physical reaction matches a type of the physical reaction of the multiple users;
responsive to the detecting, for each of the multiple users, generating and/or storing respective visual content representing that user's physical reaction;
generating a visual content composition that includes at least the generated and/or stored visual content for each of the multiple users, wherein the generated visual content composition further includes a portion of the media content that corresponds to a time point or range at or during which the users' physical reactions occurred; and
outputting for presentation, the generated visual content composition.