Patent ID: 9319742
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: G06F,G09B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A viewing authentication system for authenticating that a viewer of an audio-visual program is normally viewing the audio-visual program, the viewing authentication system comprising: a microprocessing unit, the microprocessing unit configured to: send the audio-visual program to an audio-visual terminal operated by the viewer in response to a request from the viewer; create motion instruction information unique to the audio-visual program which consists of information with which a program provider that provides the audio-visual program requests the viewer to make a predetermined motion at times unique to the audio-visual program; send the motion instruction information to the audio-visual terminal operated by the viewer; receive information about a response motion of the viewer which is obtained from a detection result detected by a motion sensor of the audio-visual terminal and which is output from the audio-visual terminal operated by the viewer and sent back to transmit the fact that the viewer is normally viewing the audio-visual program; process the received information about a response motion of the viewer into information for use in authenticating that the viewer has viewed the audio-visual program; and record the information for use in authenticating that the viewer has viewed the audio-visual program output from the viewing authentication system to authenticate that the viewer has viewed the audio-visual program; and analyze the received information about a response motion of the viewer to specify the response motion of the viewer.