35 results about "Audience participation" patented technology

In one form, an audience participation method and apparatus whereby mass audience members who are physically present in a venue can, upon being cued, convey quantitative data regarding their personal real-time individual and collective preferences, choices, opinions, and other personal responses concerning events taking place in the venue or otherwise, to digital image data processing systems, data bases and data transmission media by the act of posing passive, user-manipulated personal data-source devices, a multiplicity of such devices being visible within the Field of View (FOV) of one or more venue-associated digital imagers which can collect images of the devices and pass said images to image analysis computer programs with the analysis results being promptly available for uses by other venue systems such as those used for announcements and displays to the venue audiences as well as optionally being made available to information systems addressing audiences not within the venue.

According to the present invention there is provided a method of analysis of the audience for channels selectable by a channel selector device for presentation on a presentation device, the channel selector device providing data indicating which channels are selected and the lengths of time for which selected channels remain selected. The data relating to the lengths of time for which channels remain selected is subject to a capping procedure, whereby the indicated length of time for which a channel remains selected is reduced to a capped maximum permitted length of time if the indicated length of time exceeds the maximum permitted length, to provide capped data. The capped data is employed to select, in dependence upon the indication of the channel selected and length of time for which the channel is selected, an array of probabilities of individuals' exposure (PIVs) to the presentation of the channel on a presentation device, for individuals of different demographies, whereby the data provided by the channel selector device can be resolved into data estimating the likelihood of individuals of different demographies participating in the audience.

The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live spectator events. The method includes providing spectators with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broadcasting audio programming to the spectator through the interactive device, querying the spectators, wherein answers to the querying may be entered by spectators via the user interface of the interactive device, transmitting the answers to a central processor, storing the answers as spectator data, processing the spectator data into results, storing the results of the processing of the spectator data and broadcasting the results of the processing of the spectator data.

Methods are provided for enabling audience members at a live or substantially live performance to interact with performers and participate in the performance.

Multiple schemes and techniques for enhancing slide content sharing during presentations, engaging audience participation, and facilitating social networking through digital devices within in-person conferences are described. For example, Internet-enabled digital devices used by persons attending presentations are used to establish dialog loops with presenters and other attendees or remote participants. The dialog loops allow seamless sharing of slides, Q&A sessions, instantaneous surveys and the establishment of connections between people that may be unknown to each other in the conference space thereby facilitating more meaningful business or professional experiences in these settings.

The invention discloses a gift giving method and system. A live-broadcasting platform server counts and obtains the practical gift income of an anchor live-broadcasting room corresponding to an anchor client side; if the practical gift income (namely gifts given by audiences) is up to the first gift giving upper limit value, the anchor live-broadcasting room corresponding to the anchor client side is controlled to return gifts to audiences in the anchor live-broadcasting room in the anchor client side according to the first gift return proportion; namely, gift return to users in a live-broadcasting room can be carried out; users having relatively low payment rate in live broadcasting also can be used as targets, to which gifts are given; the gift giving range is enlarged from anchors to live-broadcasting audiences; all audiences in a current room can receive other limited small gifts separated according to the proportion; small gifts given by the audiences are innovatively bound with the audiences in the current room; the audience participation of the current room is improved; and thus, the gift effect is improved indirectly.

The embodiments of the invention provide a method and apparatus for generating a graphics interchange format (GIF) picture and are applied to the technical field of image processing. The method for generating the GIF picture comprises the following steps: obtaining key data in a video, wherein the key data identifies play characteristics of the video and / or audience participation of the video; according to the key data, obtaining at least one video clip of the video; and selecting at least one video clip for converting into the GIF picture. According to the method for generating GIF picture in the embodiments of the invention, a video can automatically generates a GIF picture, and the efficiency of converting the video into the GIF picture is improved.

The present disclosure provides an apparatus for detecting placards in a captured image, comprising: input circuitry operable to receive the captured image; detector circuitry operable to detect placards in the captured image on a basis of a predetermined shape and / or color of the placards, the detector circuitry being operable to detect placards of a plurality of different shapes and / or colors; and counter circuitry operable to count a number of detected placards of each different shape and / or color.

A two-way PDA, cell phone and laptop audience participation system providing the ability for real-time audience participation in questions and surveys and for real-time generation and display of results. A plurality of two-way wireless communication devices such as PDAs, cellphones or laptops are provided for use by participants at an event. At least one two-way wireless communication device, such as a wireless tablet, is provided for use by a presenter. Communications are between the presenter and participants are managed by a central server, wireless access points and routers.

A system for identifying audience members and sequencing audience participation, the system includes: a computing device with logic and storage devices electrically connected audience member control panels, audience identification devices, and a moderator or speaker user interface; wherein the audience control panels are configured for individual audience members to make requests; wherein the computing device: receives the audience member requests and position identifiers and places them in a sequential list in the order received; records position identifiers for the audience members in the sequential list; sends the sequential list to the moderator or speaker; retrieves audience member seat coordinates in response to the recorded position identifiers; calculates actuation commands to control the audience identification devices; actuates the audience identification devices to highlight or focus on an audience member; and activates a microphone located in the vicinity of the recognized audience member, while disabling additional audience member microphones.

The present disclosure provides an apparatus for detecting placards in a captured image, comprising: input circuitry operable to receive the captured image; detector circuitry operable to detect placards in the captured image on a basis of a predetermined shape and / or colour of the placards, the detector circuitry being operable to detect placards of a plurality of different shapes and / or colours; and counter circuitry operable to count a number of detected placards of each different shape and / or colour.

The present invention relates to an interactive system enabling audience participation at a live event taking place in a venue. The system includes use of an interactive device that presents a promotional message (that is displayed on an electronic display) to an audience member, wherein said audience member is capable of responding to said message by entering feedback into said interactive device. Said feedback is transmitted to a central processor, where said feedback is stored as audience data and subsequently processed into results.

Methods are provided for enabling audience members at a live or substantially live performance to interact with performers and participate in the performance.