Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080260253 | Information Processing Apparatus, Feature Extraction Method, Recording Media, and Program - The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a feature extraction method, a recording media, and a program that are adapted to easily and correctly extract features of classes in which a plurality of elements are classified. Of all combinations of metadata for each piece of content belonging to each class subject to feature extraction, a combination extraction block | 10-23-2008 |
20090063132 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Program - An information processing apparatus includes: morphological analysis means for performing morphological analysis on a text document; managing means for managing a connection pattern indicating a connection relationship of a morpheme of a predetermined part of speech; and extracting means extracting, from a string of morphemes obtained by performing morphological analysis by the morphological analysis means, a phrase including a plurality of morphemes having a same connection relationship as the connection relationship indicated by the connection pattern managed by the managing means. | 03-05-2009 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20090144635 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus for recommending content includes a recommending unit configured to perform a content recommendation process in which a content item is determined on the basis of each of a plurality of strategies, each planned on the basis of a relationship with short term interests, a long term preference, and knowledge of a user. | 06-04-2009 |
20100281497 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION - An information processing apparatus includes: importance calculation means configured to calculate an experience importance degree of content for a user based the basis of a relationship among a reaction analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a reaction (attitude) of the user to the content at the time when the user experiences the content, an environment analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on an external environment of the user at the time when the user experiences the content, a signal analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a video signal or voice signal of the content, and a language analysis result obtained by performing predetermined language analysis on language information described about the content; and determination means configured to, if the experience importance degree of the content calculated by the importance calculation means is high, determine the content as recommendation content to be recommended to the user. | 11-04-2010 |
20110208750 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMPORTANCE CALCULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including: a storage unit that has an attribute table storing attribute values given to a plurality of contents; and an importance calculation unit that calculates an importance to a specific attribute of content with respect to one or more attributes other than the specific attribute of content using attribute values stored in the attribute table, wherein the importance calculation unit calculates the importance using a decision table with the specific attribute as a decision attribute and the one or more attributes as condition attributes. | 08-25-2011 |
20110225497 | DISPLAY CONTROL PROCESSING APPARTUS, DISPLAY CONTROL PROCESSING METHOD AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROCESSING PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a display control processing apparatus including: display control means configured to display pieces of metadata for a predetermined group of music each serving as a favorite with a user on a metadata display portion for displaying the pieces of metadata in a format allowing the user to specify a desired piece of the metadata; specification means configured to specify a piece of the metadata displayed on the metadata display portion by the display control means; determination means configured to select a music with its metadata corresponding to metadata specified by the specification means from the pieces of metadata displayed by the display control means on the metadata display portion as metadata for the predetermined group of music and to determine the selected music as music to be recommended to the user; and reproduction means configured to reproduce music determined by the determination means. | 09-15-2011 |
20120296931 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a setting unit that sets a search character string, a searching unit that searches information including the set search character string, and a determining unit that extracts a co-occurrence character string candidate group other than partial character strings appearing as only a part of other partial character strings, among all partial character strings appearing in a plurality of pieces of the information obtained as a search result, and determines a co-occurrence character string from the co-occurrence character string candidate group, on the basis of the extracted co-occurrence character string candidate group and kinds of characters used in characters before and after the co-occurrence character string candidate group. | 11-22-2012 |
20120316865 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus performs topic analysis on one or more collected documents to calculate a probability indicating the degree of fitness of each sentence constituting the collected document for each item of a local topic, performs linguistic analysis on the collected document to detect a unique expression pattern in each item of the local topic, sets topic usefulness for each sentence constituting the collected document on the basis of evaluation of the sentence by an evaluator, sets a total evaluation value with respect to each item of the local topic on the basis of the topic analysis result and the topic usefulness, selects an item of the local topic on the basis of the total evaluation values, and extracts an appropriate sentence for a unique expression pattern in the selected item of the local topic from the collected document as a profound text candidate. | 12-13-2012 |
20120330986 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an evaluation value calculating unit that acquires time-series data of a discrete system including sampling values x | 12-27-2012 |
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 |
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 |
20140282649 | Apparatus, Method, and Program for Processing Information - An information processing apparatus includes: importance calculation means configured to calculate an experience importance degree of content for a user based the basis of a relationship among a reaction analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a reaction (attitude) of the user to the content at the time when the user experiences the content, an environment analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on an external environment of the user at the time when the user experiences the content, a signal analysis result obtained by performing predetermined analysis on a video signal or voice signal of the content, and a language analysis result obtained by performing predetermined language analysis on language information described about the content; and determination means configured to, if the experience importance degree of the content calculated by the importance calculation means is high, determine the content as recommendation content to be recommended to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282733 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a display and a controller that controls display of a current program. The controller also controls display of a plurality of first images in a first arrangement. Each first image corresponds to content of the current program. The controller additionally controls display of a plurality of second images in a second arrangement. Each second image corresponds to content associated with a user. | 09-18-2014 |
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 |