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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Kimiko Kawashima, Musashino, JP;
Kazuhisa Yamagishi, Musashino, JP;
Assignee:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44204 (2013.01);
Abstract
A watching behavior estimation device includes an input unit to which a value of a first index indicating a playback state of a video distributed via a network is input, and a calculation unit configured to calculate, by applying the value which is input to the input unit to a function indicating a relationship between the first index, and a second index regarding a behavior of a viewer of the video, an estimated value of the second index, thereby making it possible to estimate the behavior of the viewer of the video distributed via the network.