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| 20080270362 | Search scheduling apparatus, program and recording medium having the same program recorded therein - To provide a search scheduling apparatus which makes it possible to control influence given by a group of spots of nonspecific reaction or errors of the reaction to arrangement and search to arrange and search probe or the like having an objective characteristic among data of experimental results of an experiment using a microarray. If an expression intensity Ep(I) of a probe P(I), which hybridizes with a sample sm(X) as a search condition, that is, an expression intensity Ep(I)t of an objective probe P(I)t, is set and inputted for a desired sample sm(X) that a user wishes to search by an input/output apparatus | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080295036 | Display Control Apparatus, Display Method, and Computer Program - A display control apparatus includes a search unit for searching for a second content related to a first content in accordance with at least part of metadata attached to each of the first content and the second content, a generating unit for generating a three-dimensional display model, the three-dimensional display model including a first layer and a second layer, the first layer having one of a first image and a first character representing the first content arranged therewithin, and the second layer having one of a second image and a second character representing the second content arranged therewithin, and a display control unit for controlling displaying one of the first image and the first character and one of the second image and the second character using the three-dimensional display model. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090006288 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Program - An information processing apparatus learning a preference of a user for a content item includes acquiring means for acquiring an operation or expression of the user for a certain content item as feedback information; training data generating means for generating training data for the preference learning from the feedback information acquired by the acquiring means; and learning means for learning the preference of the user and how to attach a meaning to the feedback information in association with the training data by using multiple pieces of training data generated by the training data generating means. | 01-01-2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20090150491 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus used by a first user, includes a generating unit adapted to generate recommendation information at least including an identifier for uniquely identifying a content recommended on the basis of preference information of the first user, and a sending unit adapted to send the generated recommendation information to another information processing apparatus which is used by a second user who is the same as or different from the first user and adapted to present the content recommended on the basis of the identifier included in the recommendation information. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100142925 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data processing device including an output control unit configured to extract a character string targeted for a search from subtitle data of content data including image data, voice data, and the subtitle data, search the voice data for data of a voice uttering the character string, acquire timing information indicating time when the character string is uttered, which is included in the image data, generate subtitle timing information including identification information provided to identify the subtitle data including the character string and the timing information, where the identification information and the timing information are associated with each other, so that the subtitle timing information is acquired, and synchronize the subtitle data and image data of time indicated by timing information associated with identification information of the subtitle data, and output the subtitle data and the image data based on the subtitle timing information is provided. | 06-10-2010 |
