Display device, display method, program, and recording medium
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorYoichi Sugino
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Abstract
A display device is proposed that can encourage a user to frequently turn on and off the display device. The display device includes: a video signal display unit 110 acting as a display for displaying video; a camera unit 160 acting as an imaging device for generating image data by imaging; an image recognition unit 170 acting as a detector for detecting a viewer in an image of the image data generated by the camera unit 160; a measuring device for measuring a non-viewing time during which the video signal display unit 110 displays video and the image recognition unit 170 detects no viewers; and a viewing information managing unit 180 acting as a recording device for recording the measured time.
Claims16
A display device comprising:
- a display for displaying video;
- an imaging device for generating image data by imaging;
- a detector for detecting a viewer in an image of the image data generated by the imaging device;
- a measuring device for measuring a non-viewing time during which the video is displayed on the display and the detector detects no viewers;
- and
- a recording device for recording the measured time.
A display method comprising the steps of:
- displaying video;
- generating image data by imaging;
- detecting a viewer in an image of the image data generated in the imaging step;
- measuring a non-viewing time during which the video is displayed on a display and a detector detects no viewers;
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- recording the measured time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.