Method and system for the determination of a present viewer in smart tv
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorEvgeny BESKROVNY
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system for determining a list of currently watching one or more viewers of a smart TV, which comprises at the smart TV: (a) a mobile phone connection unit for detecting pre-registered telephones of potential viewers that are within a short range from the TV; (b) a normal schedule unit for pre-recording for each potential viewer his normal schedule; (c) a recent activity monitoring unit for recording recent viewers activity within the smart TV; and (d) a viewer determination unit for receiving data from said mobile phone connection unit, from said normal schedule unit, and from said recent activity unit, and for determining from said data a list of one or more currently watching viewers of the TV.
Claims8
A system for determining a list of currently watching one or more viewers of a smart TV, which comprises at the smart TV:
- a) a mobile phone connection unit for detecting pre-registered telephones of potential viewers that are within a short range from the TV;
- b) a normal schedule unit for pre-recording for each potential viewer his normal schedule;
- c) a recent activity monitoring unit for recording recent viewers' activity within the smart TV;
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- d) a viewer determination unit for receiving data from said mobile phone connection unit, from said normal schedule unit, and from said recent activity unit, and for determining from said data a list of one or more currently watching viewers of the TV.
A method for determining one or more currently watching viewers of a smart TV, which comprises the steps of:
- a) preparing a list of potential viewers;
- b) preparing a normal schedule for each of said potential viewers;
- c) preparing a list of mobile phones that belong respectively to each of said viewers, each of said phones are capable of accessing the smart TV from a short range;
- d) providing a list which indicates, for each of said potential users, his recent activities on the smart TV resepctively;
- e) determining those mobile phones that are in close range from the TV, and their respective owners;
- f) determining recent activities on the TV and the respective persons that performed these activities and updating respectively said list of recent activities;
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- g) calculating an estimation for the current one or more TV viewers based on data relating to:
- current time;
- mobile phones that are currently found to be within said short range from the TV;
- said normal schedules of said potential viewers;
- and, the viewers that have been detected to perform said recent activities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.