Broadcasting receiver with function to determine as to whether instruction from operator is executable
AssigneeHitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorMayuko Tanaka
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Abstract
In a broadcasting receiver, the receiver is so operated as not to disturb viewing by audiences other than an operator. The broadcasting receiver has an image pickup unit for photographing images of televiewers, a face detection unit for detecting faces of the televiewers from the photographed image, an individual discrimination unit for managing detected faces discriminately, a watching concentration degree calculation unit for calculating degrees of concentration of watching a television in respect of individual discriminated faces and an operation execution decision unit for deciding a television operator and deciding execution of operation in accordance with values of watching concentration degrees of the televiewers other than the operator.
Claims17
A broadcasting receiver provided with an image pickup unit for forming a video image of one or more televiewers, comprising:
- a face detector configured to acquire image information of a face region inclusive of a face of each televiewer from the video image formed by said image pickup unit and generate face detection information for detecting the face by using the image information of the face region;
- an individual discrimination unit configured to discriminate the one or more televiewers in the video image from each other on the basis of the face detection information;
- an operator specifying unit configured to specify an operator, who provides an instruction to the broadcasting receiver, from the one or more televiewers discriminated by the individual discrimination unit;
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- an operation execution decision unit configured to determine invalidity of the instruction in accordance with viewing conditions of at least one televiewer other than the operator specified by the operator specifying unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.