Contents presenting system and method

• US 20020188455A1
• Filed: 06/10/2002
• Published: 12/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Shioda, Takehiko, Toyama, Soichi, Shibasaki, Hiroaki, Amano, Hideki, Yamauchi, Keiichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,177,809 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/275
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/26 Recognition of special voice characteristics, e.g. for use in lie detectors; Recognition of animal voices

Abstract

A contents presenting system includes: an analyzing unit which collects and analyzes user'"'"'s conversation to output an analysis result; a contents acquiring unit which acquires contents from a contents database based on the analysis result; and a contents presenting unit which presents the acquired contents to the user. Since the analysis result of user'"'"'s conversation includes a factor representing the environment where the user is talking, by determining contents based on the analysis result, it is possible to provide the contents which is suited for the environment where the user is present.

Claims

1. A contents presenting system comprising:

an analyzing unit which collects and analyzes user'"'"'s conversation to output an analysis result;

a contents acquiring unit which acquires contents from a contents database based on the analysis result; and

a contents presenting unit which presents the acquired contents to the user.

2. The contents presenting system according to claim 1, wherein the analyzing unit analyzes at least one of a sound volume and a frequency of the user'"'"'s conversation to output the analysis result.

3. The contents presenting system according to claim 2, wherein the analyzing unit analyzes at least one of the sound volume and the frequency of the user'"'"'s conversation to judge an atmosphere of an environment where the user is talking, and outputs the atmosphere as the analysis result.

4. The contents presenting system according to claim 3, wherein the analyzing unit further analyzes contents of the user'"'"'s conversation to judge the atmosphere of the environment where the user is talking.

5. The contents presenting system according to claim 1, wherein the analyzing unit analyzes contents of the user'"'"'s conversation to output the analysis result.

6. The contents presenting system according to claim 5, wherein the analyzing unit comprises:

a word database which stores correspondences between words and genres corresponding to the words;

an accumulating unit Which acquires genres of words in the user'"'"'s conversation by looking up the word database, and accumulates the words and the genres; and

an analysis result outputting unit which outputs, as the analysis result, at least one of the word and the genre which are large in number of accumulation among the words and the genres accumulated by the accumulating unit.

7. The contents presenting system according to claim 6, wherein the analysis result outputting unit outputs, as the analysis result, a word and/or a genre which are/is the largest in number of accumulation among the words and the genres accumulated by the accumulating unit.

8. The contents presenting system according to claim 1, further comprising an environment controlling unit which controls an external factor that influences on the environment where the user is talking.

9. The contents presenting system according to claim 8, wherein the environment controlling unit reduces or eliminates external sounds getting into the environment where the user is talking.

10. The contents presenting system according to claim 1, wherein the contents acquiring unit acquires the contents from the contents database in the contents presenting system.

11. The contents presenting system according to claim 1, wherein the contents acquiring unit acquires the contents by way of communication from the contents database in an external server.

12. The contents presenting system according to claim 1, wherein the contents includes at least one of music information, video information, electronic text information and browsing information published at a Web site on the Internet.

13. A contents presenting method comprising the steps of:

collecting and analyzing user'"'"'s conversation to output an analysis result;

acquiring contents from a contents database based on the analysis result; and

presenting the acquired contents to the user.

14. A program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to control the computer to function as a contents presenting system comprising:

an analyzing unit which collects and analyzes user'"'"'s conversation to output an analysis result;

a contents acquiring unit which acquires contents from a contents database based on the analysis result; and

a contents presenting unit which presents the acquired contents to the user.

15. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave and representing a series of instructions which cause a computer to function as a contents presenting system comprising;

an analyzing unit which collects and analyzes user'"'"'s conversation to output an analysis result;

a contents acquiring unit which acquires contents from a contents database based on the analysis result; and

a contents presenting unit which presents the acquired contents to the user.