Audience-Verified Content Delivery Device for Home Cinema
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current movie distribution methods restrict consumers to watching new or first-run movies only in movie theaters, with no convenient in-home viewing options.
Innovation Solution
A content delivery device that detects the presence and number of audience members in a viewing area, initiates a payment request based on the number of viewers, and delivers multimedia content upon receiving appropriate payment, using sensors and pattern recognition software to differentiate between people and objects, and connecting to electronic devices for secure content delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If movie theaters are used for first-run movie distribution, then consumers can view new movies in a cinema environment, but consumers cannot watch movies at home or other locations
Solution Approach 1:
A content delivery device is introduced as an intermediary between the movie distribution system and the consumer's home environment. This device receives encrypted movie content and displays it through a television or monitor, enabling cinema-quality viewing at home without requiring consumers to physically visit theaters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of the cinema viewing experience by delivering encrypted movie content to a content delivery device that plays the content in a home environment. The encryption and audience verification systems ensure that the copied experience maintains the same quality control and revenue model as theatrical releases.
2Ease of operation
If home viewing is enabled without verification, then consumers can watch movies at home conveniently, but payment verification and audience control become problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting the presence of audience members before allowing movie playback to begin. Sensors scan the room and verify the number of people present, and the system requires proper payment verification before decrypting and playing the encrypted content, ensuring control is established before the viewing session starts.
Solution Approach 2:
The content delivery device continuously monitors the viewing environment using sensors that detect audience presence. The system provides feedback by comparing the detected number of audience members against the purchased ticket quantity, and can interrupt playback or request additional payment if discrepancies are found, maintaining verification throughout the viewing session.
3Measurement precision
If sensors are used to detect audience members, then the system can verify the number of viewers for payment purposes, but the system must differentiate between people and objects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs sensors that detect characteristics unique to human beings, such as body heat signatures, movement patterns, or biometric features. These sensors distinguish people from inanimate objects by detecting physiological or behavioral characteristics that objects cannot replicate, enabling accurate audience verification for payment purposes.
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques are presented herein for delivering multimedia content to members of an audience. At a content delivery device, an activation event is detected that causes the content delivery device to operate in a first mode to detect a presence of one or more of members of an audience in a viewing area. A number of members of the audience in the viewing area is determined. The content delivery device switches to a second mode to initiate a payment request event. The payment request event requests payment for the multimedia content based on the number of members of the audience. A determination is made as to whether an appropriate payment has been received based on the number of members of the audience. When the appropriate payment has been received, the content delivery device switches to a third mode to deliver the multimedia content to the members of the audience in the viewing area.