EP1186127A1 - Appareil d'identification de telespectateur, a utiliser dans la mesure de l'audimat - Google Patents

Appareil d'identification de telespectateur, a utiliser dans la mesure de l'audimat

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EP1186127A1
EP1186127A1 EP00918237A EP00918237A EP1186127A1 EP 1186127 A1 EP1186127 A1 EP 1186127A1 EP 00918237 A EP00918237 A EP 00918237A EP 00918237 A EP00918237 A EP 00918237A EP 1186127 A1 EP1186127 A1 EP 1186127A1
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Prior art keywords
remote control
tuning
display
identification
audience
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German (de)
English (en)
Inventor
Daozheng Lu
Barry Cook
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TNC US Holdings Inc
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Nielsen Media Research LLC
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H60/00—Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linking to broadcast information or broadcast space-time; Broadcast-related systems
    • H04H60/35—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users
    • H04H60/45—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying users
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H60/00—Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linking to broadcast information or broadcast space-time; Broadcast-related systems
    • H04H60/29—Arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services
    • H04H60/31—Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services

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  • the present invention relates to the measure-
  • This tuning data may be the identity
  • visual status indicator may comprise a plurality of se ⁇
  • the manual input device alternatively may be a
  • battery-powered remote control that includes a keypad
  • ratus or other data collector also provides a visual
  • the television display to indicate the currently recorded
  • the tuning data from the measurement apparatus is the tuning data from the measurement apparatus
  • the present invention solves one or more of the
  • a system comprises an input device and an output device
  • the input device has a transmitter and a
  • the transmitter is arranged to transmit the
  • the apparatus is located adjacent the
  • broadcast receiving appliance has a receiver arranged
  • the display is arranged
  • the apparatus has a transmitter
  • a remote control device for use in
  • appliance comprises a manual data entry device, a
  • the manual data entry device is operable by a user of the
  • transmitter is arranged to transmit the tuning output to
  • the microprocessor which is
  • the display to display a representation of the person's
  • an OFF state comprises an input device and a measurement apparatus .
  • the input device is located at the viewing
  • the measurement apparatus is adjacent to the
  • monitored television includes a microprocessor, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit, a graphics processing unit
  • the input device transmitter is arranged
  • the input device is configured to transmit the identification.
  • the receiver is arranged to receive a message.
  • the display is arranged to display a message.
  • the microprocessor is controlled
  • the senor is arranged
  • the measurement apparatus receiver is arranged to
  • measurement apparatus transmitter is arranged to transmit
  • the remote control tuning device is configured to control the remote control tuning device.
  • tuner at a location remote from the tuner and is arranged
  • the microprocessor is arranged to store
  • the transmitter is controlled by the
  • microprocessor and is arranged to transmit the tuning
  • the set of prompting rules is
  • the communication device is coupled to the
  • broadcast receiver has a transceiver adjacent thereto
  • the device and a manual persons datum input device.
  • method comprises the following steps: a) transmitting a
  • the tuner is controlled
  • the method comprises
  • controlling a tuner comprises a display, a manual input
  • the controller is coupled to
  • controller is arranged to accept an input from the manual input device indicating an identification of a member of
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of an audience
  • Figure 2 is an elevational view of a portable
  • Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram of the
  • Figure 4 is a software state diagram showing
  • Figure 5 is a software state diagram showing
  • Figure 6 is a schematic block diagram of the
  • portable remote control device 14 can be used " from a
  • the audience measurement system 10 is arranged to log data on audience membership (hereinafter
  • measurement system 10 may be arranged to also log tuning
  • the network 22 may be a
  • the portable remote control device 14 is slaved to a
  • the measurement apparatus 24 is configured to measure the television receiver 16.
  • control device 14 not only functions as a portable remote
  • control device for the television receiver 16 is
  • tuning and persons data As will be discussed at greater length hereinafter, the tuning and persons data
  • the audience measurement system 10 includes a
  • the data storage and forwarding unit 26 may also be any type of data storage and forwarding unit 26.
  • remote control device 14 may be configured as a half
  • duplex or full duplex transceiver of encoded infra-red pulse streams so that it can communicate with a
  • the portable remote control device is not limited to the second embodiment, the portable remote control device
  • the measurement apparatus 24 can comprise logic
  • measurement apparatus 24 may receive a signal replica
  • this signal is a signal detected by a signal detector 34. For example, this signal
  • detector 34 may be in the form of a video signal source
  • signal source detector may be positioned as taught in the
  • the signal detector 34 may
  • the signal detector 34 is
  • receiver 16 a replica of the video and/or audio signal
  • detector 34 can then be processed by the measurement
  • program or channel can be read from the signal replica
  • apparatus 24 in order to identify the program or channel.
  • oscillator frequency indicates the channel to which the
  • television receiver 16 is tuned, as is known in the
  • the measurement apparatus 24 may receive an
  • the ON/OFF sensor 36 ON/OFF input from an ON/OFF sensor 36.
  • 36 may be an inductive sensor which, as is
  • inductive sensor is practical, for the most part, only if
  • the television receiver 16 uses a CRT display.
  • the ON/OFF sensor 36 may have a
  • photodetector probe 38 positioned in relation to the
  • changing light levels or the amount of light emanating from the screen display can be used to indicate when the
  • the portable remote control device 14 may have
  • a keypad 40 and a display 42 which
  • the keypad 40 includes buttons 40a to allow a viewer to
  • buttons 40a may include other buttons as
  • TV/VCR TV/VCR (not shown) may also be provided.
  • TV/VCR TV/VCR
  • keypad 40 also includes buttons 40b which permit viewers
  • the display 42 may be a panel
  • buttons 40b are provided along the sides of the buttons 40b.
  • buttons 40b which removes the
  • statistically selected location 12 may be continuously
  • buttons 40b are associated with which viewers.
  • a tone to continually remind the viewers which buttons 40b are associated with which viewers.
  • a tone to continually remind the viewers which buttons 40b are associated with which viewers.
  • buttons 40b to record that the viewer has either entered
  • the user interface may also include an alpha
  • buttons 40b may be
  • identification and demographic information could be stored at the data collection central office 20 so that
  • central office 20 makes the association between presses
  • central office 20 The central office 20.
  • the data may have a port for receiving a connection to a data
  • portable remote control device 14 preferably operates in
  • a television receiver as a television receiver, a VCR, and/or a cable
  • VCR the currently active tuner
  • the currently active tuner e.g., the tuner of
  • the portable remote control device 14 is also " used to control
  • remote control device 14 may also include buttons which may be pressed to enter the gender and age of the viewers
  • an OK button which may function as an enter button.
  • the gender and age buttons are particularly useful in
  • Age may be entered through the use of
  • buttons 40a may be entered through the use of the buttons 40a.
  • microprocessor 52 suitably connected to
  • the keypad 40 the display 42, a ROM 54, a RAM 56, and a
  • the microprocessor 52 operates under
  • microprocessor 52 is running.
  • control device 14 is operated according to the first
  • the RAM 56 is used primarily
  • the RAM 56 may be required to store
  • the RAM 56 must be
  • the electronic processor 50 is
  • portable remote control device 14 is preferably
  • apparatus 24 compares each newly received message with
  • the measurement apparatus 24 transmits an
  • control device 14 In response to
  • the measurement apparatus 24 causes the persons data to
  • control device 14 causes the name or other identification indication of the new viewer to be displayed on the
  • an audible prompt such as a beep or a
  • the measurement apparatus 24 causes the tuning
  • the measurement apparatus 24 transmits a suitable error message back to
  • the portable remote control device 14 for display on the
  • keypad input is analyzed in order to determine if the
  • Each tuning command is transmitted to the tuner of the
  • appliance under control such as the tuner of the
  • a set of prompting rules 82 is
  • Too frequent prompting e.g., after each one of a series of channel changes that occur in short
  • the prompting rules 82 are based on parameters
  • television receiver 16 is turned on, after a time lapse
  • time lapse such as forty-
  • remote control device 14 if one or more persons are
  • the prompts described above may be differentiated such as
  • Such other events include, for example, a
  • receiver 16 is tuned to particular programs (such as
  • apparatus 24 is shown in Figure 6 and includes a
  • microprocessor 92 suitably connected to the transceiver
  • the signal detector 34 the signal detector 34, a ROM 94, a RAM 96, and an
  • microprocessor 92 executing a program stored in the ROM 94, is used to receive tuning status and persons status
  • apparatus 24 additionally may be arranged to determine
  • ON/OFF sensor 36 in order to prompt the viewer to
  • control device 14 in accordance with a set of prompting
  • the portable remote control device 14 is
  • portable remote control device 14 communicate by way of a
  • duplex or half-duplex link rather than by using a
  • the measurement apparatus 24 could transmit a
  • the measurement apparatus 24 has
  • the measurement apparatus 24 may instead be
  • control device 14 may function in several different modes
  • the portable remote control device 14 would store
  • forwarding unit 26 can also be eliminated if the portable
  • remote control device 14 is arranged to transmit tuning
  • central office 20 To facilitate such data transmission,
  • the portable remote control device 14 can be provided
  • apparatus 24 could be programmed to occasionally repeat
  • control device 14 according to the first embodiment of
  • the invention transmits tuning commands which are
  • the controlled tuner responds
  • remote control device 14 may be arranged to transmit tuning commands using codes recognized by the measurement
  • buttons may be used to indicate the significance
  • the display may be a light
  • emitting device such as an LED which is assigned to the
  • the display may be first and second light
  • the second light emitting device emits light
  • portable remote control devices archive the viewing (and
  • portable remote control device 14 were a universal television controller intended to operate multiple tuners
  • the portable remote control device Furthermore, the portable remote control device
  • the screen back-light could be any type of light. example, at the lowest level, the screen back-light could be any type of light.
  • control device 14 resumes normal operation. If the
  • remote control device 14 waits for a first predetermined
  • remote control device 14 again flashes the screen back ⁇
  • portable remote control device 14 flashes the " screen
  • the portable remote control device 14 resumes normal operation. If the
  • remote control device 14 waits mode for a second
  • predetermined amount of time e.g. 30 seconds
  • remote control device 14 resumes normal operation. If
  • remote control device 14 waits for a third predetermined
  • remote control device 14 prompts, waits, and so on for up
  • control device 14 enters a rest phase with the normal
  • the portable remote control device 14 may be any portable remote control device 14. Therefore, the portable remote control device 14 may be any portable remote control device 14. Therefore, the portable remote control device 14 may be any portable remote control device 14.
  • control device 14 proactively, and as a fail-safe to
  • the soft prompt serves
  • the prompting software may shorten the
  • intervals between prompts are shorter than the interval
  • the prompting interval is more frequent than
  • prompting software may lengthen the interval between

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Testing, Inspecting, Measuring Of Stereoscopic Televisions And Televisions (AREA)
  • Selective Calling Equipment (AREA)
  • Details Of Television Systems (AREA)

Abstract

Un système de mesure de l'audimat assure l'affichage de l'état de l'audimat enregistré ponctuellement, sur un dispositif de télécommande situé au niveau de l'endroit de visualisation ou à proximité de celui-ci, duquel un membre de l'auditoire regarde les émissions de télévision. L'affichage de l'état de l'audimat sur un petit écran situé à proximité du téléspectateur au lieu d'un écran séparé, placé à proximité du téléviseur, permet à la société de mesurer d'audience télévisuelle d'utiliser un équipement plus petit et moins encombrant, d'augmenter la probabilité que les téléspectateurs associés aux locaux de visualisation sélectionnés par statistique, coopèrent à la mesure de l'audience et de rendre plus discret l'équipement installé pour chaque membre d'un panel de recherche.
EP00918237A 1999-05-20 2000-03-22 Appareil d'identification de telespectateur, a utiliser dans la mesure de l'audimat Withdrawn EP1186127A1 (fr)

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