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

Claim 0:
1. An online video distribution support method to be executed by an online video distribution support system, the online video distribution support system comprising one or more computers connected to communicate with a plurality of viewer terminals used by N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 2) viewers who view an online video, the online video distribution support method comprising:
displaying a video distribution screen including a material designated by a distributor that distributes the online video;
acquiring information on a line-of-sight position of each of the viewers on the video distribution screen from each of the viewer terminals;
detecting and acquiring a line-of-sight position of the distributor on the video distribution screen by using a captured image obtained by capturing the distributor; and
calculating and outputting 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.