METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A COMPOSITION OF AN AUDIENCE OF AN INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method of detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device comprising:
- capturing at least one image of the audience;
determining a number of people within the at least one image;
prompting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is detected based on the number of people determined to be within the at least one image; and
if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a predetermined number of prompts of the audience, adjusting a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes: capturing at least one image of the audience; determining a number of people within the at least one image; prompting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is detected based on the number of people determined to be within the at least one image; and if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a predetermined number of prompts of the audience, adjusting a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device comprising:
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capturing at least one image of the audience; determining a number of people within the at least one image; prompting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is detected based on the number of people determined to be within the at least one image; and if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a predetermined number of prompts of the audience, adjusting a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An apparatus to detect a composition of an audience of an information presenting device comprising:
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a camera to capture at least one image of the audience; a processor; a memory storing computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to; determine a number of people within the at least one image; develop a prompt signal requesting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is visually detected; and an output device responsive to the prompt signal to output an indication requesting the audience to identify its members; and if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a number of prompts of the audience, the computer readable instructions cause the processor to adjust a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. A computer readable medium storing machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause at least one machine to:
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capture at least one image of an audience consuming a program; determine a number of people within the at least one image; output a prompt signal requesting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is detected from the at least one image; and if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a number of prompts of the audience, the computer readable instructions cause the at least one machine to adjust a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. An apparatus to detect a composition of an audience of an information presenting device comprising:
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an image sensor to capture at least one image of the audience; a people counter to determine a number of people in the at least one image; a change detector to compare the number of people in the at least one image to a value representative of a previous number of people in the audience; a prompter to request the audience to identify its members if the change detector identifies a difference between the number of people in the at least one image and the value representative of the previous number of people in the audience; and an input device to receive data from the audience. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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