AUDIENCE RATING SURVEY APPARATUS AND AUDIENCE RATING SURVEY SYSTEM USING THE SAME

• US 20170332138A1
• Filed: 07/29/2016
• Published: 11/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TNMS Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: TNMS Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Min, Gyung Sook
• Granted Patent: US 10,448,097 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/24 Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests monitoring of server performance or load G06F11/34; arrangements for observation, testing or troubleshooting for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2407 Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads arrangements for monitoring programmes for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25 Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies maintenance or administration in data networks H04L41/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/251 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/258 Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data arrangements for services using the result on the distributing side of broadcast systems H04H60/66; profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44213 Monitoring of end-user related data arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4432 Powering on the client, e.g. bootstrap loading using setup parameters being stored locally or received from the server resetting in general G06F1/14; program loading or initiating in general G06F9/445; bootstrapping in general G06F9/4401; secure boots of computer platforms G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP

Abstract

A display device for audience rating survey is provided. The display device for audience rating survey includes: a power supply unit configured to be synchronized with a power supply unit of a surveying target equipment; a receiving unit configured to receive a signal for a viewing entity; a light emitting unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements configured to emit light according to the signal received; a storage unit configured to match the signal received and each of the plurality of light emitting elements and store the matched result; a control unit configured to allow a matched light emitting element to emit light according to the received signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit information for the light emitting element, which is emitting the light, to an external device.

Claims

1. A display device for audience rating survey comprising:

a power supply unit configured to be synchronized with a power supply unit of a surveying target equipment;

a receiving unit configured to receive a signal for a viewing entity;

a light emitting unit comprising a plurality of light emitting elements configured to emit light according to the signal received;

a storage unit configured to match the signal received and each of the plurality of light emitting elements and store the matched result;

a control unit configured to allow a matched light emitting element to emit light according to the received signal received; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit information for the light emitting element, which is emitting the light, to an external device.

2. The display device for audience rating survey of claim 1, wherein the power supply unit becomes ON state if the surveying target equipment becomes ON state, and becomes OFF state if the surveying target equipment becomes OFF state.

3. The display device for audience rating survey of claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit responds to a signal from the external device by the power unit supplying power to the transmitting unit in response to that power of the surveying target equipment is in ON state.

4. The display device for audience rating survey of claim 1, wherein information for the light emitting element, which is emitting the light, is wirelessly transmitted.

5. The display device for audience rating survey of claim 4, wherein the information for the light emitting element, which is emitting the light, is transmitted in a Bluetooth type.

6. An audience rating survey apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a signal for a viewing entity of a surveying target equipment;

a channel data collecting unit configured to determine a channel by collecting data for viewing channel;

a storage unit configured to store signal information for the viewing entity in association with the data for viewing channel;

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the signal information in association with data for viewing channel stored in the storage; and

a control unit configured to control the receiving unit, the channel data collecting unit, the storage unit, and the transmitting unit.

7. The audience rating survey apparatus of claim 6, further comprising a broadcasting data input unit to which broadcasting data transmitted to the surveying target equipment is input,

wherein the data for viewing channel is the broadcasting data.

8. The audience rating survey apparatus of claim 6, wherein the data for viewing channel is voice data output from the surveying target equipment.

9. The audience rating survey apparatus of claim 6, wherein the control unit allows the data for viewing channel to be collected if the control unit grasps that the surveying target equipment is in ON state by receiving a signal for viewing entity from the surveying target equipment.

10. The audience rating survey apparatus of claim 6, wherein the transmitting unit requests that a display device for audience rating survey transmits the signal for viewing entity, which is connected so as to be synchronized with the surveying target equipment in power, and the control unit grasps ON state of the surveying target equipment by receiving a response to the request.

11. An audience rating survey system comprising:

a display device for audience rating survey having a power unit synchronized with a power unit of a surveying target equipment and configured to allow a specific light emitting element to emit light according to a signal for a viewing entity by receiving the signal;

an audience rating survey apparatus configured to receive the signal for viewing entity from the display device for audience rating survey and transmit, to an audience rating survey server, the signal for viewing entity; and

the audience survey server configured to analyze an audience rating by receiving the signal for viewing entity from the audience rating survey apparatus.

12. The audience rating survey system of claim 11, wherein the audience rating survey apparatus collects, as viewing channel data, voice data output from the surveying target equipment.

13. The audience rating survey system of claim 11, wherein the audience rating survey apparatus comprises a broadcasting data input unit to which broadcasting data transmitted to the surveying target equipment is input and collects the input broadcasting data as the viewing channel data.

14. The audience rating survey system of claim 12, wherein the audience rating survey apparatus transmits, to the audience rating survey server, the viewing channel data in association with the signal for viewing entity.

15. The audience rating survey system of claim 13, wherein the audience rating survey apparatus transmits, to the audience rating survey server, the viewing channel data in association with the signal for viewing entity.

16. The audience rating survey system of claim 11, wherein the power supply unit of the display device for audience rating survey allows the display device for audience rating survey to become ON state only when the power supply unit of the surveying target equipment is in ON state.