Meter for passively logging the presence and identity of TV viewers
AssigneeControl Data Corporation
InventorOscar M. Lurie
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Abstract
A meter for passively logging the presence of TV viewers including circuitry for disabling the audio of a TV set, a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the audio to a plurality of headphones, a circuit responsive to the headphones presence upon the head of a viewer for transmitting a headphone ID signal to a monitor, a receiver in the monitor for logging the fact that particular headphones are activated, and a time of day clock for logging the period of time particular headphones are activated.
Claims16
Apparatus for recording the presence and identity of the audience of a television set comprising transmitter means associated with said television set for transmitting a signal containing the audio portion of a program to which the television set is tuned;
- individual receiver means for each person comprising said audience, said individual receiver means including sensor means for sensing the positioning of said individual receiver means on a respective person, audio receiver means for receiving the transmitted signal from said transmitter means and for providing the audio portion of the program to the respective person, and identification means responsive to said sensor means for transmitting an identification signal representative of the individual receiver means;
- and monitor means for receiving and recording identification signals from all of said individual receiver means.
Apparatus for logging the presence and identity of viewers of a TV set, comprising:
- a tuner for tuning a TV program comprising audio and video signals;
- means for wirelessly transmitting the audio signal;
- at least one headphone means for receiving and converting to audible audio the wirelessly transmitted audio signal;
- the headphone means including
- sensor means for determining when the headphone means is positioned on the head of a viewer;
- and
- wireless response means responsive to said sensor means for wirelessly transmitting signals representative of the headphone;
- and
- monitor means for monitoring the presence of viewers watching the TV set, including
- logging means for receiving the representative signal transmitted by the responding of said at least one headphone means and for storing the time of day the responding headphone means was present on the head of a viewer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.