JPS62258541A - Viewer information collection system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automate unifiedly collection, totalling and broadcast of viewer information by receiving an incoming call from a telephone exchange network, forming a picture based on data received by a viewer equipment and converting the said information into a television signal. CONSTITUTION:A questionnaire to viewers is displayed by a telop device 14 by a television set 4. When a viewer dials from a telephone set 6 to a viewer information collection system 3, it is detected by a network control section 7 and replied to the viewer equipment 1. When the viewer depresses a buttoon of the telephone set 6, a PB signal is received by the section 7. The PB signal is analyzed by a signal detection section 8, converted into numeral information and sent to a data logging section 9. The section 9 totalizes the number of times of each numeral information input and its content is edited instantly into telop information by a picture information edition section 10. The information is superimposed on a video image during display by a video switching section 15 and the result is sent from a transmission section 17.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a viewer information gathering system in an interactive television system.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, two-way television systems can be realized in so-called wired television systems such as cable television and Videotex, but in wireless television systems, information cannot be transmitted unilaterally. It is only provided to viewers, and there is no means to collect information from viewers. If we were to collect information from viewers, we would need the assistance of another system, such as having an operator answer the phone calls or collecting information by receiving letters. .

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

Therefore, in a wireless television system, a large number of operators are required to provide information and simultaneously collect viewer information, and a large amount of time is also required to aggregate the collected results. It was done. Furthermore, even if the tally results are broadcast on television, manual intervention is required, which has the disadvantage of impairing immediacy.

Furthermore, when performing two-way communication in a wired television system, it is necessary to install a dedicated terminal device in order to input information to each viewer, which cannot be said to be economical.

[Means for solving problems]

An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, and its features include a plurality of network control means connected to a telephone switching network and receiving push-button dialing signals (hereinafter referred to as "PB signals"); means for converting PB signals inputted from a plurality of network control means into numerical information; means for aggregating this numerical information; means for editing the aggregation results of the aggregating means into image information; and means for converting this image information into television signals. The purpose of the system is to extract and process information input from a telephone and send it to a television broadcasting system in real time.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a viewer device 1, a telephone switching network 2, a viewer information system 3, and a television broadcast system 4 are clearly shown. In FIG. 1, viewer equipment 1 includes a television set 5 for receiving broadcasts from a television broadcast system 4, and a push-button dial telephone 6 for inputting information by the viewer. Further, the telephone switching network 2 is connected to a push-button dial telephone 6 of the viewer device 1 and a plurality of network control units 7 provided in the viewer information collection system 3. The viewer information collection system 3 includes a network control 7 that is connected to the telephone exchange network 2 and that detects incoming calls from the telephone exchange network 2 and receives PB signals sent through the telephone exchange network 2.
, a push-button dial signal detection section 8 that analyzes the PB signal received by the network control section 7 and converts it into numerical information, and a data aggregation section that receives and totals the numerical information sent from the push-button dial signal detection section 8. , an image information editing section 10 that creates image information to be broadcast on television based on the aggregation contents obtained by the data aggregation section 9;
It has a television signal converter 11 that converts into an SC system television signal. The television broadcasting system 4 also includes a video tape recorder 12, a television camera 13, a telop device 14, a video switching unit 15 that switches the video input from these, and the video switching unit 15 and the video tape recorder 12. The television signal conversion unit 11 of the viewer information collection system 3 has a control unit 16 that controls the video switching unit 16, and a transmission unit 17 that transmits the video information selected by the video switching unit 15 using television radio waves. 15.

FIG. 2 is an operational flowchart of the embodiment of the present invention.

In the process (1) shown in FIG. 3, the telop device 14 of the television broadcasting system 4 broadcasts questions to the viewers in telops, as shown in FIG.

Next, in process (2), when the viewer who watched this broadcast on the television set 5 dials the subscriber telephone number of the viewer information collection system 3 from the push-button dial telephone 6 of the viewer device 1, the process In (3), the network control unit 7 detects the calling signal sent from the telephone switching network 2,
A response is made to the viewer device 1. In process (4), after the viewer device 1 confirms the response from the network control unit 7, the viewer presses either ■■ or ■■ of the push button of the push-button dial telephone 6, so that, for example, ' The information that her new song will sell or will not sell is input.

In a push button dial telephone, when a push button is pressed, the PB signal corresponding to each push button is terminated.
Since the information is transmitted end to end, information input from the viewer device 1 is received as a PB signal by the network control unit 7 via the telephone switching network 2. In process (5), the PB signal received by the network control unit 7 is analyzed by the push button dial signal detection unit 8, and numerical information P1# (corresponding to the push button ■■) or P2# (corresponding to the push button ■■ ) is converted into viewer device 1
The data is sent to the data aggregation unit 9 as input data. In this embodiment, 96 network control sections 7 are provided, and the PB signals received by each network control section 7 are processed in the same manner as described above. In process (6), the number of times numerical information P1# is inputted and the number of times numerical information P2# is inputted are counted by the data aggregation unit 9 as needed, and the content of the tally is immediately stored in the image information editing unit 10. As shown in Figure 4, it is edited into telop information. In process (7), the telop information edited by the image information editing department is
The television signal is converted into an NTSC television signal by the television signal converter 11 at any time, and then sent to the television broadcasting system 4.
The video switching unit 15 superimposes the video being broadcast at that time, for example, the video being captured by the video camera 13, and transmits the superimposed image from the transmitting unit 17.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention receives an incoming call from a telephone exchange network, receives information from the viewer device operated by the viewer who is the caller, and creates image information in real time based on the received data. However, by converting this image information into television signals, it is possible to consistently automate the collection, aggregation, and broadcasting of viewer information, which reduces the man-hours involved in these tasks, and also reduces the amount of information This has the effect of quickly and accurately collecting information, and making it possible to broadcast the progress of information aggregation to viewers in real time.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the operation of the embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are diagrams for explaining an example of telop sending in the embodiment of the present invention. . DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Viewer device, 2...Telephone exchange network, 3...Viewer information collection system, 4...Television broadcasting system, 5...Television set, 6...Push button dial Telephone, 7... Network control section, 8... Push button dial signal detection section, 9... Data aggregation section, 10
...Image information editing section, 11...Television signal conversion section, 12...Video tape recorder, 13...Television camera, 14...Title device, 15...
- Video switching unit, 16...control unit, 17...transmission unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a viewer information collection system for an interactive television system, a plurality of network control means are connected to a telephone switching network and receive push-button dialing signals, and the push-button dialing signals inputted from the plurality of network control means are converted into numerical information. A numerical information converting means for converting, a numerical information aggregating means for aggregating the numerical information, an image information editing means for editing the aggregation result by the numerical information aggregating means into image information, and an image information editing means for converting the image information into a television signal. What is claimed is: 1. A viewer information collection system comprising a television signal converting means, extracting and processing information input from a telephone, and transmitting the extracted information to a television broadcasting system in real time.