Television audience survey system providing feedback of cumulative survey results to individual television viewers
First Claim
1. In a method of determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvements comprising in combination the steps of:
- broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area;
providing a display of said broadcast video program;
determining a relative number of said sets responding to said broadcast video program; and
providing in said display a pictorial representation of said relative number of responding sets.
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Abstract
A video program is broadcast to different video display sets in a broadcast reception area for display at the discretion of television viewers in that area. In order to determine the reaction of television viewers to the displayed broadcast video program, a determination of a relative number of sets responding to the particular broadcast is made. A display of the broadcast video program is provided with a pictorial representation of the relative number of responding sets. Potentially participating sets may be provided with a facility for registering any of a predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions to the broadcast video program. A display of the broadcast video program may be provided with a facility for displaying a number of pictorial representations corresponding to the predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions for individually indicating each viewer reaction type. Viewer reactions received through the registering facility may be displayed in the display of the broadcast video program according to reaction type through the corresponding pictorial representations.
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49 Claims
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1. In a method of determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvements comprising in combination the steps of:
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broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; providing a display of said broadcast video program; determining a relative number of said sets responding to said broadcast video program; and providing in said display a pictorial representation of said relative number of responding sets. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. In a method of determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination the steps of:
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broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; providing a display of said broadcast video program; displaying a visual graduation system in said display; determining a relative number of said sets responding to said broadcast video program; and providing in said graduation system in said display a pictorial representation of said relative number of responding sets. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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12. In a method of determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination the steps of:
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broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; providing potentially participating sets with a facility for registering any of a predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions to said broadcast video program; providing a display of said broadcast video program; providing said display with a facility for displaying a number of pictorial representations corresponding to said predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions for individually indicating each viewer reaction type; receiving said types of viewer reactions through said registering facility; and displaying in said display received viewer reactions according to reaction type through the corresponding pictorial representations. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. In a method of determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination the steps of:
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broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; providing potentially participating sets with a facility for registering any of a predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions to said broadcast video program; providing a facility for displaying to participating television viewers a number of pictorial representations corresponding to said predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions for individually indicating each viewer reaction type; receiving said types of viewer reactions through said registering facility; and displaying to participating television viewers received viewer reactions according to reaction type through the corresponding pictorial presentations. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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23. In a method of determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination the steps of:
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broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; determining a relative number of said sets responding to said broadcast; and displaying to participating television viewers an indication of said relative number of responding sets.
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24. In a system for determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination:
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means for broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; for providing a display of said broadcast video program; means operatively associated with said sets for determining a relative number of said sets responding to said broadcast video program; and means operatively associated with said determining means and said display means for providing in said display a pictorial representation of said relative number of responding sets. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. In a system for determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination:
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means for broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; means operatively associated with said broadcasting means for providing a display of said broadcast video program; means operatively associated with said display means for displaying a visual graduation system in said display; means operatively associated with said sets for determining a relative number of said sets responding to said broadcast video program; and means operatively associated with said determining means and said display means for displaying in said graduation system a pictorial representation of said relative number of responding sets. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34)
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35. In a system for determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination:
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means for broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; means operatively associated with potentially participating sets for registering any of a predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions to said broadcast video program; means operatively associated with said broadcasting means for providing a display of said broadcast video program; means operatively associated with said display means for displaying a number of pictorial representations corresponding to said predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions for individually indicating each viewer reaction type; and means operatively associated with said registering means and said pictorial representations displaying means for displaying registered viewer reactions according to reaction type through the corresponding pictorial representations. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. In a system of determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination:
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means for broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; means operatively associated with potentially participating sets for registering any of a predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions to said broadcast video program; and means operatively associated with said registering means for displaying to participating television viewers a number of pictorial representations corresponding to said predetermined number of different types of viewer reactions for individually indicating each viewer reaction type, said displaying means including means for displaying to participating television viewers received viewer reactions according to reaction type through the corresponding pictorial presentations. - View Dependent Claims (45)
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46. In a system for determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination:
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means for broadcasting said video program to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; means operatively associated with said sets for determining a relative number of said sets responding to said broadcast; and means operatively associated with said determining means for displaying to participating television viewers an indication of said relative number of responding sets.
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47. In a system for determining the reaction of television viewers to a video program displayed by different video display sets in a broadcast reception area, the improvement comprising in combination:
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means for broadcasting said video program over a predetermined television channel to said sets for display at the discretion of television viewers in said area; channel selector means at each potentially participating set for selectively receiving said video program broadcast over said predetermined television channel for display by the particular set; means operatively associated with each potentially participating set for registering different types of viewer reactions to a video program display by the particular set, said registering means including first means in addition to said channel selector means for registering a first type of television viewer reaction to a video program display by the particular set, and second means in addition to said channel selector means and said first means for registering a second type of television viewer reaction to a video program display by the particular set; means coupled to the second means for altering in response to a second type of television viewer reaction registered with respect to a video program display by a particular set the display of that video program by the particular set; and means operatively associated with the viewer reactions registering means of participating sets for separately displaying indications of registered first and second types of television viewer reaction. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49)
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Specification