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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1977
R. D. Percy & Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for determining viewing habits of television viewers, or television viewer reaction, in a multi-channel television broadcast reception area includes a television broadcast display set. A remote control for the television set has a manually actuable device located at a distance from the television set or causing the television set to display a television broadcast received on any one of a predetermined number of channels. Apparatus is coupled to the remote control for determining for each broadcast displayed by the television set the channel on which that broadcast is being received. The system polls the determining apparatus as to the channel on which a broadcast displayed by the television set is received. The remote control may include a second manually actuable device for receiving television viewer reactions to displayed television broadcasts. In that case, the system also polls the second manually actuable device as to received viewer reactions to a displayed broadcast received over the latter channel.