Monitoring of crowd response to performances
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1. Monitoring apparatus for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance, the apparatus comprising:
- two or more monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of at least a portion of those people reacting to the performance can be estimated, wherein the two or more monitoring devices comprise at least one device of a first type and at least one device of a second type, wherein devices of the first type monitor a different quality of user response to devices of the second type, the device of the first type being a dance floor sensor adapted to monitor people on a dance floor at the performance, the dance floor sensor comprising a thermal imaging camera adapted to capture a digital image of at least a portion of a dance floor, and an image processor adapted to process the image to identify the number of people present in the captured image, the behaviour of those people, or both; and
a processor adapted to process the at least one output signal provided by the two or more monitoring devices to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance.
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Abstract
Monitoring apparatus and methods for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance use two or more monitoring devices of different types. Output signals from the monitoring devices are combined to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance. Particularly appropriate types of monitoring device are described, as is automatic performance generating apparatus, such an automatic DJ, adapted to use crowd reaction signals to modify performances.
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33 Claims
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1. Monitoring apparatus for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance, the apparatus comprising:
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two or more monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of at least a portion of those people reacting to the performance can be estimated, wherein the two or more monitoring devices comprise at least one device of a first type and at least one device of a second type, wherein devices of the first type monitor a different quality of user response to devices of the second type, the device of the first type being a dance floor sensor adapted to monitor people on a dance floor at the performance, the dance floor sensor comprising a thermal imaging camera adapted to capture a digital image of at least a portion of a dance floor, and an image processor adapted to process the image to identify the number of people present in the captured image, the behaviour of those people, or both; and
a processor adapted to process the at least one output signal provided by the two or more monitoring devices to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. Monitoring apparatus for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance, the apparatus comprising:
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two or more monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of at least a portion of those people reacting to the performance can be estimated, wherein the two or more monitoring devices comprise at least one device of a first type and at least one device of a second type, wherein devices of the first type monitor a different quality of user response to devices of the second type, the device of the first type being a dance floor sensor adapted to monitor people on a dance floor at the performance;
a processor adapted to process the at least one output signal provided by the two or more monitoring devices to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance; and
a sensor adapted to monitor people not on a dance floor at the performance, whereby the processor is thereby able to obtain an output signal representative of a percentage of people attending the performance and on the dance floor.
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13. Monitoring apparatus for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance, the apparatus comprising:
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one or more first monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of an individual reacting to the performance can be estimated;
one or more second monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of a plurality of those people reacting to the performance can be estimated, at least one of the one or more second monitoring devices being a dance floor sensor adapted to monitor people at the performance, the dance floor sensor comprising a thermal imaging camera adapted to capture a digital image of at least a portion of a dance floor, and an image processor adapted to process the image to identify the number of people present in the captured image, the behaviour of those people, or both; and
two or more monitoring devices to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. Monitoring apparatus for monitoring the reaction of people to a performance, the apparatus comprising:
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one or more first monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of an individual reacting to the performance can be estimated;
one or more second monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of a plurality of those people reacting to the performance can be estimated, at least one of the one or more second monitoring devices being a dance floor sensor adapted to monitor people at the performance, and at least a further one of the one or more second monitoring devices is a sensor adapted to monitor people not on a dance floor at the performance, whereby the processor is thereby able to obtain an output signal representative of a percentage of people attending the performance and on the dance floor; and
two or more monitoring devices to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance.
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21. A performance generating system for automatically controlling one or more features of a performance in response to user feedback, comprising:
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one or more monitoring devices, each adapted to provide at least one output signal from which the behaviour of one or more of those people reacting to the performance can be estimated, at least one of the one or more monitoring devices being a dance floor sensor adapted to monitor people on a dance floor at the performance, the dance floor sensor comprising a thermal imaging camera adapted to capture a digital image of at least a portion of a dance floor, and an image processor adapted to process the image to identify the number of people present in the captured image, the behaviour of those people, or both;
a memory for containing a plurality of performance elements; and
one or more processors together adapted to process the at least one output signal provided by the one or more monitoring devices to produce at least one crowd reaction signal indicative of the reaction of those people to the performance and from the one or more crowd reaction signals to select one or more performance elements from the plurality of performance elements in response to the one or more crowd reaction signals, and to perform the selected performance elements. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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- 27. A monitoring device adapted to sense people on a dance floor, comprising a dance floor sensor and adapted to provide at least one output signal from which at least one aspect of behaviour of at least a portion of those people present at an event can be estimated, the dance floor sensor comprising a thermal imaging camera which is adapted to capture a digital image of at least a portion of the dance floor, and an image processor adapted to process the image to identify the number of people present in the captured image or the behaviour of those people or both.
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33. A monitoring device adapted to sense people on a dance floor, comprising a dance floor sensor and adapted to provide at least one output signal from which at least one aspect of behaviour of at least a portion of those people present at an event can be estimated;
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a processor and at least one further sensor for monitoring the number of people present at the event that are not on the dance floor, the processor being arranged to combine output of the further sensor and the dance floor to provide an output signal representative of the percentage of people on the dance floor.
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