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20090043811 | Information processing apparatus, method and program - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program in which a content piece matching preference information of a user or a content piece similar to a specified content piece can be searched for with a smaller amount of computation and can be provided to the user. Each of items of metadata (such as title, artist name, genre, review text, tempo, beat, and rhythm) of music is classified into any of cluster layers (first to n-th layers), and is classified (clustering) into a plurality of clusters provided in the cluster layers into which actual information of each of the items is classified. Then, instead of the metadata, cluster information including cluster IDs (such as CL | 02-12-2009 |
20090077132 | Information Processing Device and Method, and Program - The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to prevent recommendation in a CF method from concentrating on a part of contents, and recommend a content to a user with little history information. In step S | 03-19-2009 |
20090089265 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a analysis mechanism obtaining a relationship between items pertaining to individually different fields on the basis of a user's evaluation on the individual items; a setting mechanism setting relationship information being information indicating the relationship obtained by an analysis of the analysis mechanism for individual items as meta data; and on the basis of the relationship information set by the setting mechanism for a predetermined item to be a reference, a recommendation mechanism identifying, as a recommendation item, an item pertaining to a different field from a field including the predetermined item having a relationship with the predetermined item. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089833 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing method includes the steps of: obtaining biometric information expressing biometric responses exhibited by a user during content playback; obtaining metadata for each content of which biometric information is obtained; identifying attributes linked to the biometric information within the attributes included in the obtained metadata and identifying, in the case of content wherein identified attribute values differ but the user exhibits similar biometric responses during playback, the different value of the attribute linked to the biometric information as a value not necessary to be distinguished; reconfiguring a profile by merging the information relating to the value which is identified which is not necessary to be distinguished, from the information included in the user profile; identifying recommended content based on the reconfigured profile; and presenting the identified recommended content information to the user. | 04-02-2009 |
20090144071 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, AND PROGRAM - An information processing terminal includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire biological information concerning a biological reaction of a user to each content block during playback of the content block, a group specifying unit configured to specify a group of content blocks, to which the user has similar biological reactions during playback, on the basis of the biological information acquired through the acquiring unit, a recommended content specifying unit configured to specify as recommended content a content block belonging to the same group as that to which a reference content block belongs, and a recommending unit configured to present information concerning the recommended content specified by the recommended content specifying unit to the user. | 06-04-2009 |
20090144225 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device is connected to multiple information processing terminals wherein multiple types of expressions exhibited by a user during playback of content are detected, evaluation of each played-back content is obtained, of the detected plurality of types of expressions a predetermined expression serving as a high evaluation index indicated by the user during playback of high evaluation content is identified, and the expression information serving as a identified high evaluation index and the information expressing evaluation as to each content are transmitted. The information device includes a receiving unit to receive expression information serving as the high evaluation index from multiple information processing terminals; a user identifying unit to identify a user indicating an expression of similar high evaluation index for the same content; a recommended content identifying unit to identify recommended content having-a high evaluation to other similar users; and a transmitting unit. | 06-04-2009 |
20100211595 | Information search system, information processing apparatus and method, and information search apparatus and method - The present invention relates to an information search system, an information processing apparatus and method, and information search apparatus and method. A PC extracts, from the mail document transmitted/received by a user, words corresponding to the user's interests and records the interest data. In steps S | 08-19-2010 |
20100262570 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method, and Program Thereof - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting means and an item characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the item; space creating means for creating a space in which the user is located, according to the preference information; and display control means for controlling display of the user located in the space, according to the space created by the space creating means and the preference information. The apparatus may be applied to, for example, an image display apparatus which displays server images for providing a variety of items and information. | 10-14-2010 |
20110173195 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program - Provided is an information processing apparatus including: analysis unit for determining association of attributes between items belonging to each different region, by analysis based on evaluation of respective items by users; setting unit for setting associated information which is information indicating the association determined by the analysis by the analysis unit to the respective items as metadata; acquisition unit for acquiring registration information in which attributes are registered corresponding to preferences of predetermined users; and recommendation unit for specifying, as recommendation items, the items which have association with attributes that are the attributes registered in the registration information acquired by the acquisition unit and have high dependence of the predetermined users, and which belong to a region different from a region to which the items of the attributes belong, based on the associated information. | 07-14-2011 |
20110202530 | Information processing device, method and program - An information processing device includes an obtaining unit that obtains a plurality of contents to which labels indicating users' subjective evaluation of the contents are assigned as metadata, a selection unit that selects labels having a high reliability in regards to evaluation of the contents among the labels assigned to the plurality of contents obtained by the obtaining unit, a calculation unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the labels selected by the selection unit, a clustering unit that clusters the labels based on the degree of similarity calculated by the calculation unit, and a storage unit that stores a cluster obtained as a result of the clustering in the clustering unit, as one label. | 08-18-2011 |
20120223956 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method is provided for generating output image data. The method comprises receiving image data representing an input image, the input image containing at least one facial image. The method further comprises recognizing the facial image in the image data, and recognizing facial features of the facial image. The method further comprises generating data representing a makeup image based on the recognized facial features, the makeup image providing information assisting in the application of makeup. The method also comprises generating output image data representing the makeup image superimposed on the facial image. | 09-06-2012 |
20130103625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREOF - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting means and an item characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the item; space creating means for creating a space in which the user is located, according to the preference information; and display control means for controlling display of the user located in the space, according to the space created by the space creating means and the preference information. The apparatus may be applied to, for example, an image display apparatus which displays server images for providing a variety of items and information. | 04-25-2013 |
20130173660 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program storage medium which can present associated information related to a document to be processed to a user. An accumulation block accumulates a database of associated information. A presentation block presents to the user the associated information corresponding to the document to be processed at occurrence of an event. An agent control block controls the manner of displaying an agent for example. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179456 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM, COMPUTER- READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECORDING OR RECOMMENDING CONTENT - A program vector can represent attributes of a program to be generated. EPG data can be received, and metadata necessary for generation of a program vector PP can be extracted from the EPG data. A morphological analysis can be carried out on contents and title included in the metadata to disassemble the contents and the title into words. Items included in the metadata can be subjected to a vector creation process to generate the program vector PP. An effect vector can be extracted on the basis of a genre of a program associated with the metadata. The extracted effect vector can be associated with the generated program vector PP and the processing can be ended. This can be applied to a distribution server for distributing contents. | 07-11-2013 |
20130262458 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a theme setting unit that sets a theme to generate an item list including one or more items, an item list editing unit that adds an item designated for the theme by at least a user irrelevant to a setting of the theme to the item list in which the theme is set, and an output control unit that controls an output of the item list. | 10-03-2013 |
20130318013 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an evaluation giving unit that gives an evaluation based on a second user to an item in a list created on a basis of a first user, and a display control unit that controls display of the list, on a basis of the evaluation based on the second user. | 11-28-2013 |
20130346410 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed herein are an information processing apparatus and method, a program, and a recording medium, in which a content is recommended to each user on the basis of even the metadata that is assigned with no classification. A metadata analysis block resolves metadata acquired by a metadata acquisition block into components. A dictionary data generation block generates dictionary data in which genre is correlated with keyword and each component. An associated-information database generation block references the dictionary data to assign genre to the metadata which are assigned with no genre, thereby generating an associated-information database of content. An associated-information search block references the dictionary data to identify a genre from a keyword of interest data to search for associated information, thereby recommending content to the user. The present invention is applicable to personal computers or HDD recorders. | 12-26-2013 |
20140122606 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program which may accurately deliver information which is assigned to a part of content by a user. In a content reproducing screen, segment information assigned to designate a segment having a duration of time of a part of the content by the user is displayed in accordance with a position of the segment in the content. Further, information indicating a segment designated for the reproduced content by the user and the segment assignment information which is assigned to the designated segment are acquired. The present technology is applied, for example, to a system which performs a content delivery service. | 05-01-2014 |
20140304289 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device is connected to multiple information processing terminals wherein multiple types of expressions exhibited by a user during playback of content are detected, evaluation of each played-back content is obtained, of the detected plurality of types of expressions a predetermined expression serving as a high evaluation index indicated by the user during playback of high evaluation content is identified, and the expression information serving as a identified high evaluation index and the information expressing evaluation as to each content are transmitted. The information device includes a receiving unit to receive expression information serving as the high evaluation index from multiple information processing terminals; a user identifying unit to identify a user indicating an expression of similar high evaluation index for the same content; a recommended content identifying unit to identify recommended content having a high evaluation to other similar users; and a transmitting unit. | 10-09-2014 |