Patent ID: 11909776
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. An online video distribution support system comprising one or more computers, the online video distribution support system comprising:
a plurality of viewer terminals used by N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2) viewers viewing an online video; and
a distributor terminal connected to communicate with the plurality of viewer terminals and capable of accepting an operation of a distributor that distributes the online video,
wherein each of the plurality of viewer terminals is configured to:
display a video distribution screen including a material transmitted from the distributor terminal, and
detect a line-of-sight position of the corresponding viewer on the video distribution screen by using a captured image obtained by capturing the corresponding viewer viewing the video distribution screen, and transmit the line-of-sight position to the distributor terminal,

wherein the distributor terminal is configured to:
acquire information on the line-of-sight position of each the viewers transmitted from each of the viewer terminals,
display the video distribution screen including the material,
detect and acquire a line-of-sight position of the distributor on the video distribution screen by using a captured image obtained by capturing the distributor, and
calculate and output a degree of interest of each of the viewers based on the line-of-sight position of the corresponding viewer and the line-of-sight position of the distributor.