Monitoring of user response to performances
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsTimothy Alan Heath Wilkinson, David Trevor Cliff
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Abstract
A portable apparatus for monitoring the reaction of a user to a performance contains one or more sensors for detecting an indirect user response to the performance and a user interface enabling the user to provide a direct user response to the performance. A processor in the portable apparatus is programmed to provide a user reaction signal comprising a combination of the indirect user response and the direct user response to the performance. This user reaction signal may be transmitted to to remote apparatus. A monitoring system using such portable apparatus, and a music playing system using such a monitoring system, are also described.
Claims23
A portable apparatus for monitoring the reaction of a user to a performance, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more sensors adapted to detect one or more sensor signals together constituting an indirect user response to the performance;
- a user interface adapted for the user to provide a direct user response signal to the performance;
- a processor adapted to provide a user reaction signal comprising a combination of the indirect user response and the direct user response signal to the performance;
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- a transmitter, whereby the processor is adapted to control the transmitter to transmit the user reaction signal to remote apparatus.
A system for monitoring the response of users to a performance, comprising:
- two or more portable apparatuses, each for montoring the reaction of a user to a performance, each each apparatus comprising one or more input devices each for obtaining an indirect user response signal to the performance, a processor adapted to provide a user reaction signal from the user responses or each user response, and a transmitter, whereby the processor is adapted to control the transmitter to transmit the user reaction signal to a central monitoring apparatus;
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- a central monitoring apparatus having a receiver and a processor adapted to receive user reaction signals from the receivers and to combine them into an audience reaction signal.
A performance generating system, comprising:
- two or more portable apparatuses, each for monitoring the reaction of a user to a performance, each such apparatus comprising an input device for obtaining a reaction signal to the preformance, and a transmitter adapted to transmit the user reaction signal to a central performance generator;
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- a central monitoring apparatus having a receiver, a memory including a plurality of performance elements, and processor adapted to receive user reaction signals from the receiver and to generate a performance comprising at least one performance element selected from the memory in response to the user reaction signals.
A method of monitoring the reaction of a person at a performance to the performance, the method comprising:
- detecting an indirect reaction of the person to the performance;
- instructing the person to make a direct reaction to the performance;
- the person reacting to the instruction by making a direct reaction to the performance;
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- deriving an indication of the reaction of the person to the performance by combining the direct and indirect reactions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.