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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2001
Applicants:
Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Okumura, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Okumura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/56 (2008.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An audience response determination apparatus detects the state of an audience and the individual states of the members of the audience to determine the response of the audience to the content of entertainment and the like. Based on the thus determined audience response, a playback operation of the content such as a movie is controlled, so that the level of satisfaction felt by the audience to the content can be increased.