JP2008278302A - Television receiver and viewing information acquiring apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a television receiver and a viewing information acquiring apparatus capable of acquiring accurate information even if a viewing user himself/herself does not actively notify that the user is viewing to the television receiver and the viewing information acquiring apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: The television receiver for receiving an operation performed by the viewing user, selecting a broadcast program and subjecting the selected program to image display is provided with: a picked-up image acquiring part 9 for acquiring a user's picked-up image; a user verifying part 8 for verifying the identity of the user on the basis of the acquired picked-up image; and a user viewing storing part 12 for making information on the result of identity verification of the user correspond to information on a broadcast program to be subjected to image display and stores both information. The user verifying part 8 compares a user's picked-up image acquired during identity verification of the user with a user's prior picked-up image acquired by preliminarily imaging the user to verify the identity. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a television receiver and a viewing information acquisition device, and more particularly to a television receiver and a viewing information acquisition device capable of collecting viewing information using an information acquisition / recognition system.

When viewing a television program, a television receiver (hereinafter sometimes simply referred to as “TV”) is used. As a TV program broadcaster and a company that wants to watch TV commercials, which TV commercial users tend to be shy away from, what programs they are watching (such as audience rating surveys) Among them, it has been proposed to acquire information such as which CM is being viewed better (preference survey etc.). In this case, in the conventional method, information on a household basis or just a TV is turned on. There is also a situation that it is not seen alone, and when obtaining detailed user information, there is a background that the user who is watching is getting information by sending information himself, Easy information acquisition cannot be performed (see Patent Documents 1 and 2).
JP 2001-320743 A JP 2003-309862 A

  In the information of the household unit obtained by the conventional method, it is not possible to grasp the personal preference of watching TV, and it is not known whether or not you are actually watching TV, and in order to obtain detailed individual information, Because the viewing user must actively communicate that he / she is watching, it is difficult for the TV program broadcasting station side or the company side to receive the CM broadcast to obtain accurate information. It has become a problem.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a television receiver and a viewing information acquisition device capable of acquiring accurate information without actively telling that the viewing user himself / herself is viewing. .

  The present invention uses a personal authentication system such as “Iris / Retina”, “Face”, etc., to obtain preference information on what kind of person the user who is watching TV is and what he / she is interested in. This is a television receiver that can easily acquire, recognize, and utilize information (without requiring any work from the user).

  That is, the present invention provides a television receiver that selects a broadcast program and displays an image in response to an operation of a viewing user, based on a captured image acquisition unit that acquires the captured image of the user and the acquired captured image. The television receiver includes a user confirmation unit for confirming the identity of the user, and a user viewing storage unit for storing the user identity confirmation result information and broadcast program information for image display in association with each other.

  Further, the present invention is a television receiver in which the user confirmation unit compares the user's captured image acquired at the time of identity verification with the user's pre-captured image acquired in advance to confirm the identity.

  The present invention is the television receiver in which the user confirmation unit confirms the identity by using the face authentication method.

  Furthermore, the present invention provides a broadcast program information acquisition unit that receives broadcast program information for selecting and displaying an image from a connected television receiver, and a captured image acquisition for acquiring a captured image of a user who views the television receiver. A user confirmation unit that confirms the user's identity based on the acquired captured image, and a user viewing storage unit that stores the user's identity confirmation result information and broadcast program information for image display in association with each other. It is a viewing information collection device.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to specify the person who is watching without making the user aware of it, so that the audience rating survey on the TV program broadcasting station side, the preference survey on the company side that broadcasts the CM, etc. Since it becomes easy to acquire information and more detailed and more accurate information can be obtained, it can act as a merit.

The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described.
Embodiments of a television receiver and a viewing information acquisition apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  Examples will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the television receiver of this embodiment includes a video input unit 2, a tuner unit 3, a channel selection unit 4, an AV switch unit 5, a video signal processing unit 6, a video display device 7, an authentication control unit (retina). Authentication, face authentication, etc.) 8, information receiver (CCD camera, etc.) 9, communication controller 10, CPU (system control) 11, RAM 12, ROM 13, remote control light receiver 14, communication terminal 15, non-volatile memory (EEPROM) 18) and a communication bus line 19.

  Broadcast radio waves received by the antenna 1 are supplied to the tuner unit 3, and a channel desired by the user is selected by the channel selection unit 4. In addition, a video signal from an external device is input to the video input unit 2. These are route-selected by the video selector 5, supplied to the signal processor 6, subjected to predetermined signal processing, and an image is displayed on the display device 7.

  An example of a method for collecting user viewing information using the television receiver of this embodiment will be described. First, in advance, information for performing the personal authentication system is initially registered in a nonvolatile memory such as an EEPROM from an information receiving unit 9 such as a CCD camera. Actually, when the user views the television, the information is acquired from the information receiving unit 9 and is passed to the authentication control unit capable of performing retina authentication or facial shape authentication, and the actual authentication is performed. Here, a program for authenticating the person is recorded in the ROM 13, and the RAM 12 is used as a work area at the time of authentication. As a result of the personal authentication, information is transmitted from the communication terminal 15 through the communication control unit 10 through a communication line 16 such as a telephone line or a LAN. In this way, user viewing information can be collected. Note that the time interval for performing personal authentication can be set to, for example, 1 minute.

  In the present invention, on the TV side, as a user authentication system, a system capable of performing “iris / retinal authentication” and “face shape authentication”, which has been established as a conventional system, is installed, and the recognition is completed, that is, the TV screen When the user's eyes / face are facing and actually watching the TV, the recognition system is completed, and the user information can be determined therefrom. Further, a network system capable of feeding back information is installed on the television side, and the recognized information is fed back via the network. By these, information acquisition and recognition can be performed easily.

  In addition, in the present invention, a user authentication system is installed on the TV side, and the authentication system can be recognized by using a system that authenticates part of the face, such as “iris / retinal authentication” and “face shape authentication”. It is possible to easily acquire and recognize information by using the fact that the state is the same as the state where the user is watching TV

  As described above in the embodiments, the present invention relates to a broadcast program information acquisition unit that receives broadcast program information for selecting and displaying images from a connected television receiver, and a captured image of a user who views the television receiver. A captured image acquisition unit for acquiring the user, a user verification unit for verifying the identity of the user based on the acquired captured image, and a user for storing the user verification result information and the broadcast program information for displaying the image in association with each other This can be achieved by using a viewing information collecting device including a viewing storage unit.

  The present invention can be similarly applied to a display device such as a personal computer having a television reception function, a video device, a videophone device, and a cable television device.

The figure which shows the system configuration | structure of the television receiver of an Example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Antenna, 2 ... Video input part, 3 ... Tuner part, 4 ... Channel selection part, 5 ... AV switch part, 6 ... Video signal processing part, 7 ... Video | video Display device, 8... Authentication control unit (retinal authentication, facial shape authentication, etc.), 9... Information receiving unit (CCD camera etc.), 10... Communication control unit, 11. , 12... RAM, 13... ROM, 14... Remote control light receiver, 15... Communication terminal, 16 .. communication line (telephone line, LAN), 17. 18 ... Non-volatile memory (EEPROM, etc.), 19 ... Communication bus line

Claims (4)

In a television receiver that selects a broadcast program and displays an image in response to an operation of a viewing user,
Correspondence between a captured image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of the user, a user confirmation unit that confirms the identity of the user based on the acquired captured image, and information of the user identification result and broadcast program information for image display A television receiver, comprising: a user viewing storage unit that stores the stored information.   The television receiver according to claim 1, wherein the user confirmation unit compares the captured image of the user acquired at the time of identity verification with the pre-captured image of the user acquired by capturing in advance and performs identity verification.   The television receiver according to claim 1, wherein the user confirmation unit performs identity verification by a face authentication method.   Broadcast program information acquisition unit for receiving broadcast program information for selecting and displaying images from a connected television receiver, a captured image acquisition unit for acquiring a captured image of a user who views the television receiver, and the acquired imaging A viewing unit comprising: a user confirmation unit that performs identity verification of the user based on an image; and a user viewing storage unit that stores the user identification result information and broadcast program information for image display in association with each other. Information gathering equipment.