VIEWING INFORMATION COLLECTING SYSTEM, BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND VIEWING INFORMATION COLLECTING METHOD

摘要

An IPTV terminal has viewer information acquiring unit for acquiring viewer information, information about a viewer watching video/audio TV outputs; channel information detecting unit for detecting channel information about an IPTV broadcast distributed by IPTV broadcast distribution server; TV connection detecting unit for detecting connection between IPTV terminal and TV to generate connection information; viewing information generation unit for generating viewing information from channel information the channel information detecting unit detects when a viewer watching video/audio output from TV is present and when IPTV terminal is connected to TV by referring to the viewer information the viewer information acquiring unit acquires and to the connection information the TV connection detecting unit generates; and viewing information transmitting unit for transmitting the viewing information the viewing information generation unit generates to viewing information collecting server.