Patent ID: 8161504

Claim:
A media device configured to capture one or more images of a viewer, comprising: an interface that receives at least one program stream, wherein the program stream comprises a video stream portion having a plurality of scenes of a program, an audio stream portion with sounds corresponding to the plurality of scenes of the program, and a closed captioning stream portion with at least text of spoken words corresponding to words of the audio stream portion of the program, wherein a plurality of scenes of interest of the video stream portion are each associated with an event capture trigger residing in the closed captioning stream portion, and wherein the location of each event capture trigger in the closed captioning stream portion corresponds to the location of the corresponding scene of interest in the video stream portion; a processor system communicatively coupled to the interface, wherein the processor system monitors a presentation of the at least one program stream to the viewer and detects an occurrence of an event capture trigger corresponding to presentation of each one of the plurality of scenes of interest, wherein the processor system generates an image capture command based upon the event capture trigger; an image capture device communicatively coupled to the processor system, wherein the image capture device captures the at least one image of the viewer in response to receiving the generated image capture command; and a memory communicatively coupled to the image capture device that stores the at least one captured image of the viewer.