Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090040383 | FRAME SPECIFYING METHOD - To provide a technology of properly specifying a process target frame in a dynamic image in accordance with a user's instruction. A frame specifying device plays a dynamic image, receives, when a user performs an operation of instructing execution of a process about a partial scene in the dynamic image, an instruction signal based on the user's operation, and specifies, as triggered by receiving the instruction signal, a frame under the play or a frame distanced by a predetermined length of time from the frame under the play as the process target frame when receiving the instruction signal in the frames constructing the dynamic image. | 02-12-2009 |
20090043769 | KEYWORD EXTRACTION METHOD - To provide a technology that facilitates a Web access based on information (search keyword) in an advertisement by extracting a search keyword from an image simulating a search box of a search engine and making a search with this search keyword. Image information is acquired, the image information is analyzed, a simulated search box area corresponding to a predetermined pattern simulating a search box is specified, and a search keyword is extracted from the simulated search box area. | 02-12-2009 |
20090148130 | RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A program extraction engine | 06-11-2009 |
20090158343 | RECORDING DEVICE OF BROADCASTING PROGRAM - A recording device comprising, information receiving unit receiving guide information of a program, operation receiving unit receiving information about a user's utilizing operation, recommendation level calculating unit obtaining a user's utilizing tendency based on a history of received information on the user's utilizing operation, and calculating a suitability level, as a program recommendation level, of the program guide information to the utilizing tendency, reserving unit automatically reserving recording of the program in accordance with the recommendation level, reservation management unit giving permission or non-permission of the reservation at predetermined timing, and recording unit recording the program based on the permitted reservation. | 06-18-2009 |
20090204927 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR LOCATING AN OVERLAID MESSAGE, MESSAGE LOCATING METHOD, AND MESSAGE LOCATING COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A computer-implemented method, for selectively locating an overlaid message on a screen of a display apparatus, includes: obtaining notification information that includes an indication of the content of the message to be displayed on a screen of the display apparatus; adaptively selecting an area of the screen to serve as an announcement area for eventual depiction of the message, a location of the announcement area being such that depiction of the message therein is less-likely to disrupt a viewer of the screen than depiction of the message in a work area of the screen for which disruption of the viewer would be more likely; and outputting, to a display apparatus, a control signal indicating the content of the message to be displayed and indicating the announcement area of the screen. | 08-13-2009 |
20100086281 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM THAT RECORDS RESERVATION INSTRUCTIONS, RECORDING RESERVATION METHOD AND RECORDING RESERVATION DEVICE - A television PC | 04-08-2010 |
20110029499 | CONTENT PROVIDING DEVICE, CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A content providing device includes, a data storage unit configured to store data representing characteristics of content items, a retrieval unit configured to retrieve, on the basis of the data of a content item selected from the content items, the data of which is stored in the data storage unit, a content item different in type from the selected content item, and a display information output unit configured to output display information displaying the content item retrieved by the retrieval unit. | 02-03-2011 |
20120002944 | REPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND REPLAY APPARATUS - A replay control method of controlling reply means for replaying video content executed by a computer, the method includes: accepting one or more keywords; retrieving, from pieces of correspondence information each containing fraction part information specifying a piece of video content and a fraction part in the piece of video content, and a word string expressed in the fraction part, each piece of correspondence information whose word string contains at least one of the accepted one or more keywords; and making the replay means replay the fraction part specified by each retrieved piece of correspondence information. | 01-05-2012 |
20120121235 | MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING THUMBNAIL IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM, AND THUMBNAIL IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - In a moving image processing apparatus, a thumbnail image generation unit acquires moving image data stored in a moving image data storage unit, extracts a thumbnail image from the acquired moving image data based on determination data acquired by a determination data acquisition unit, generates thumbnail image data indicating the extracted thumbnail image, and stores the generated thumbnail image data in a thumbnail image data storage unit. A thumbnail image output unit outputs the thumbnail image data stored in the thumbnail image data storage unit. A determination data acquisition unit acquires determination data for determining a transition of enthusiastic backing of a viewer of a broadcast program during a broadcast time of the broadcast program in which moving image data is broadcast. | 05-17-2012 |
20130179172 | IMAGE REPRODUCING DEVICE, IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD - An image reproducing device connected to a reproducing unit that reproduces image data includes an extraction unit configured to extract first-condition-satisfying-image data that satisfies a first extraction condition from image data stored in a storage unit; a voice keyword extraction unit configured to extract a keyword that matches a voice input to a voice input unit; and a presentation unit configured to determine, while the first-condition-satisfying-image data is being reproduced by the reproducing unit, a second extraction condition based on a relationship between the first extraction condition applied when extracting the first-condition-satisfying-image data being reproduced and the keyword that has been extracted, and present information pertinent to second-condition-satisfying-image data that satisfies the second extraction condition among the image data stored in the storage unit. | 07-11-2013 |