Patent ID: 9113190
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06F,H04N,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for controlling power to one or more devices in a multimedia system comprising: capturing image data of a field of view of an image capture device of the multimedia system; detecting a presence of a user in the field of view of the image capture device in the captured image data by a processor; identifying by the processor a first user interaction with a first device in the multimedia system in the image data, the first user interaction comprising a voice input from the user; determining by the processor if the first user interaction corresponds to a user intent to interact with the first device in the multimedia system by correlating a volume of the voice input with an increased probability that the user intends to engage with the first device; setting a first power level for the first device based on the first user interaction by the processor; capturing image data by the image capture device of a second user interaction with the first device of the multimedia system in the image data, the second user interaction including a gesture; altering by the processor the first power level for the first device based on the second user interaction, to generate a second power level for the first device; activating by the processor the first device based on the second power level; determining by the processor whether the second user interaction corresponds to a user intent to interact with at least one additional device in the multimedia system by the processor analyzing the captured data of the second user interaction; responsive to determining by the processor the second user interaction corresponds to the user intent to interact with the at least one additional device, altering a power level of the at least one additional device to an altered power level by the processor based on the second user interaction; and activating the at least one additional device for the user by the processor, based on the altered power level for the at least one additional device.