Patent ID: 6466765
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
A portable radio listening status recorder which is carried by a subject for a radio listener rating survey, comprising:a display unit; an input unit; and a processor; wherein said processor comprises: a data memory; data entry support means for supporting said subject in his newly entering radio listening status data containing items of at least a listening start date and time, a name of a tuned station, a place of listening and a listening stop date and time via said input unit; data recording means for recording in said data memory said radio listening status data containing values of said items entered with the support of said data entry support means and finally determined by said subject; and data readout means for reading out said data from said data memory for output to an external; terminal, wherein said data entry support means displays the current date and time as an input value candidate at the time of entering the listening start date and time and then sequentially changes said current date and time to the next candidate in response to instructions from said input unit and, at the time of entering the name of the tuned station, displays as an input value candidate the same tuned station name as contained in an immediately previously recorded radio listening status data and then sequentially changes the tuned station to those contained in a list of preselected stations in response to instructions from said input unit.