Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090271403 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PRESENTING METHOD OF RELATED ITEMS - The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including; a first similarity degree calculating section for calculating the degree of similarity between a predetermined item and a calculation target item: and a related item determining section for determining a predetermined quantity of the calculation target items as the related items of the predetermined items in the descending order of the degree of similarity, wherein meta information related to the calculation target item based on the behavior history of user is added to the predetermined items and the degree of similarity between the predetermined item and the calculation target item is calculated. | 10-29-2009 |
20100036839 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A base/inversion component extractor calculates an occupancy rate of each component of a vector of user preference information obtained from information stored on a user preference database, and extracts a base component from the user preference information in accordance with the calculated occupancy rate of the base component. The base/inversion component extractor extracts a similar base component from item preference information obtained from information stored on an item metadatabase. A recommendation engine calculates a similarity between a base vector of the user preference information and a base vector of the item preference information, and identifies, as candidate items, items of the predetermined number in the order of from high to low similarity. The recommendation engine further calculates a similarity between an inversion vector of the user preference information and an inversion vector of the item preference information, and identifies an item candidate having a low similarity. | 02-11-2010 |
20100061661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a managing unit that manages a scale calculated based on descriptions of an operation performed on a predetermined item and a series to which the item belongs in association with each other, a first extracting unit that extracts items belonging to the same series as top N series, obtained by sorting the scales, from among a plurality of items, a taste managing unit that manages taste of a user, a second extracting unit that calculates the degree of similarity between the taste managed by the taste managing unit and each item to extract items with higher degrees of similarity, and a recommending unit that recommends a predetermined number of items among the items extracted by the first extracting unit and the items extracted by the second extracting unit to the user. | 03-11-2010 |
20100070454 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTENT RECOMMENDATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An attribute weight adjustment engine adjusts a weight of a user in accordance with a record of an identified member ID out of records of an attribute weight adjustment database. The weight adjustment is performed through the multiple regression analysis based on a target similarity resulting from the record of the attribute weight adjustment database and a similarity of each attribute of the attribute weight adjustment database. The resulting weight is identified as the weight of each attribute of the identified user. To account for the weight of each attribute of the user, an attribute weight database is updated, and an unwanted record is deleted from the attribute weight adjustment database. | 03-18-2010 |
20110153598 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method - An information processing apparatus includes a correction unit configured to correct item feature quantities representing, as an item, features of a recommendation target item for which a recommendation process for recommending an item having features resembling those of the recommendation target item is performed by using user preferences representing preferences of a recommendation target user who is a party to whom the item is recommended with respect to the item; a matching unit configured to compare the item feature quantities corrected by the correction unit with the item feature quantities of another item and search for another item having item feature quantities that resemble those of the recommendation target item; and a recommendation unit configured to recommend related items having features resembling those of the recommendation target item on the basis of the result of the matching by the matching unit. | 06-23-2011 |
20110191360 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit successively specifying fields to be processed out of a plurality of fields included in program information in electronic program guide information and acquiring a character string included in each specified field; an analysis unit analyzing the acquired character string and outputting an analysis result for dividing the character string into a plurality of units; a sequence generating unit generating, for each field, a sequence corresponding to character string lengths of the units based on the outputted analysis result; a variance value calculating unit calculating, for each field, a variance value showing a degree of variance of magnitudes of values of items in the sequence; and a specifying unit specifying, for each program, a cast member field, in which cast member names are listed, out of the plurality of fields based on the calculated variance values. | 08-04-2011 |
20110196669 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including: an acquiring unit acquiring a title of content; an analyzing unit dividing the title into tokens; a calculating unit calculating, for each token, an evaluation value based on a token length and weighted according to the token's position in the title; a mapping unit mapping, for each token, a token point shown by an ordinal number showing the token's position in the title and the evaluation value, onto a coordinate plane; a deciding unit deciding, based on the mapped token points, coordinates of a criterion point used as a criterion for extracting a series identifier and an extraction criterion based on the criterion point; an extracting unit extracting token points that confoitu to the extraction criterion out of the token points; and a generating unit generating the series identifier from the character strings included in tokens associated with the extracted token points. | 08-11-2011 |
20110246509 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including: a storage unit that stores a plurality of exercise models each including one or more kinds of measured values measured in time series for a person doing exercise and exercise description data specifying exercise recognized based on the measured values; a selection unit that selects one or more exercise models from the plurality of exercise models stored in the storage unit according to a designated condition; and an output unit that outputs a series of output images representing the measured values and exercise specified by the exercise description data in time series for the exercise model selected by the selection unit. | 10-06-2011 |
20110307350 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, ITEM RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An item recommendation system includes: a feedback receiving unit receiving feedbacks with respect to items by users; a feedback history storage unit storing information of feedbacks received at present or in the past by the feedback receiving unit in units of combinations of users and items; a relevance calculation unit calculating relevance between items base on first information indicating the degree in which the same user gives feedbacks to respective items and second information indicating the degree in which many users give feedbacks by using feedback information stored by the feedback history storage unit when receiving the feedback by the feedback receiving unit; and a recommendation unit immediately recommending items having higher relevance with respect to the item to the user who has given the feedback to the item by the feedback receiving unit based on the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. | 12-15-2011 |
20120233183 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PRESENTATION SYSTEM, CALCULATION METHOD OF EVALUATION SCORES, AND PROGRAM - Techniques are disclosed for selecting an item to recommend to a user from a plurality of items. A first set of scores indicating degrees of association between items of the plurality of items may be calculated using a first scoring algorithm having a first scale, and a second set of scores indicating degrees of association between items of the plurality of items may be calculated using a second scoring algorithm having a second scale. The second set of scores may be adjusted to match the second scale to the first scale, and a third set of scores may be calculated for the plurality of items by combining the first set of scores and the adjusted second set of scores. An item may be selected from the plurality of items to recommend to the user based on the third set of scores. | 09-13-2012 |
20120254310 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDED CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a device that generates a first feature based on information of a first type included in first content selected by a target user in past, generates a second feature based on information of a second type included in second content selected by the target user after selecting the first contest, generates a relational feature showing a relationship between the first content and the second content, based on the first feature and the second feature, and searches for content to be recommended to the target user by using the information of the first type included in content newly selected by the target user and the relational feature. | 10-04-2012 |
20120317064 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus may include a processor to acquire information associated with behavior of a user and information associated with satisfaction degree of the user, and to analyze an association between the information associated with behavior and the information associated with satisfaction degree | 12-13-2012 |
20130124536 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a difference applying unit that obtains, according to difference feature information indicating a difference between first feature information characterizing an action of a target user and second feature information characterizing another action performed by the target user after the foregoing action is performed and third feature information characterizing an action newly performed by the target user, fourth feature information; and a target extracting unit that extracts information based on the fourth feature information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138523 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a condition acquisition unit that acquires a task condition of a shopping task, a cost calculation unit that calculates a cost of a candidate of a purchase behavior for executing the shopping task by a participating member participating in the shopping task based on a characteristic of an item purchased through the purchase behavior, and a determination unit that determines the purchase behavior of the participating member based on the cost. | 05-30-2013 |
20130227600 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a managing unit that manages a scale calculated based on descriptions of an operation performed on a predetermined item and a series to which the item belongs in association with each other, a first extracting unit that extracts items belonging to the same series as top N series, obtained by sorting the scales, from among a plurality of items, a taste managing unit that manages taste of a user, a second extracting unit that calculates the degree of similarity between the taste managed by the taste managing unit and each item to extract items with higher degrees of similarity, and a recommending unit that recommends a predetermined number of items among the items extracted by the first extracting unit and the items extracted by the second extracting unit to the user. | 08-29-2013 |
20140040372 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a user extraction unit extracting, from second users whose information is set to be viewed by a first user in a service where it is possible to view information sent by other users, a presentation target user to present information to the first user, based on at least one of a first evaluation with respect to each second user by the first user, a second evaluation with respect to each second user within a range of the first user and the second users, and a third evaluation with respect to each second user within a predetermined range of users in the service, a first information extraction unit extracting information presented to the first user, from information sent from the presentation target user, and a presentation control unit controlling presentation of information to the first user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140129376 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, ITEM RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An item recommendation system includes: a feedback receiving unit receiving feedbacks with respect to items by users; a feedback history storage unit storing information of feedbacks received at present or in the past by the feedback receiving unit in units of combinations of users and items; a relevance calculation unit calculating relevance between items base on first information indicating the degree in which the same user gives feedbacks to respective items and second information indicating the degree in which many users give feedbacks by using feedback information stored by the feedback history storage unit when receiving the feedback by the feedback receiving unit; and a recommendation unit immediately recommending items having higher relevance with respect to the item to the user who has given the feedback to the item by the feedback receiving unit based on the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. | 05-08-2014 |