Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program

• US 20060015912A1
• Filed: 07/15/2005
• Published: 01/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Itabashi, Tatsuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,170,782 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/75
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1217 on discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1254 for mixed data, i.e. continuous and discontinuous data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62

Abstract

An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed which navigation information conforming to the interest and the liking of a user can be produced readily. The information processing apparatus includes a first reception section for receiving a broadcast program transmitted from a broadcast station and including information relating to the broadcast program, an outputting section for outputting the received broadcast program, a marking instruction section for issuing an instruction to produce marking information corresponding to a scene of the outputted broadcast program, a marking information production section for producing marking information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program being outputted when the instruction is issued, a transmission section for transmitting the marking information to a different information processing apparatus, and a second reception section for receiving navigation information transmitted from the different information processing apparatus based on the marking information.

Claims

1. An information processing system including a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus,

said first information processing apparatus comprising:

first reception means for receiving a broadcast program transmitted from a broadcast station and including information relating to the broadcast program;

outputting means for outputting the broadcast program received by said first reception means;

marking instruction means for issuing an instruction to produce marking information corresponding to a scene of the broadcast program outputted by said outputting means;

marking information production means for producing marking information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program being outputted from said outputting means when the instruction is issued from said marking instruction means;

first transmission means for transmitting the marking information to said second information processing apparatus; and

second reception means for receiving navigation information transmitted from said second information processing apparatus based on the marking information;

said second information processing apparatus comprising;

third reception means for receiving the marking information transmitted from said first information processing apparatus;

navigation information production means for producing navigation information based on the marking information received by said third reception means; and

second transmission means for transmitting the navigation information produced by said navigation information production means to said first information processing apparatus.

2. An information processing apparatus comprising:

first reception means for receiving a broadcast program transmitted from a broadcast station and including information relating to the broadcast program;

outputting means for outputting the broadcast program received by said first reception means;

marking instruction means for issuing an instruction to produce marking information corresponding to a scene of the broadcast program outputted by said outputting means;

marking information production means for producing marking information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program being outputted from said outputting means when the instruction is issued from said marking instruction means;

transmission means for transmitting the marking information to a different information processing apparatus; and

second reception means for receiving navigation information transmitted from the different information processing apparatus based on the marking information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the information relating to the broadcast program is identification information for identification of a supplying source of the information relating to the broadcast program.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said marking information production means produces marking information which includes broadcast date and time and broadcast station information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program being outputted by said outputting means when the instruction is issued from said marking instruction means.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising restriction condition inputting means for inputting a restriction condition to the production of the navigation information,

said transmission means transmitting the marking information to which the restriction condition is added to the different information processing apparatus.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said restriction condition inputting means inputs, as the restriction condition to the production of the navigation information, at least one of a starting place, a destination, starting date and time, arriving date and time, a purpose, and a region.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising navigation information recording means for recording the navigation information on a removable medium.

8. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a first reception section configured to receive a broadcast program transmitted from a broadcast station and including information relating to the broadcast program;

an outputting section configured to output the broadcast program received by said first reception section;

a marking instruction section configured to issue an instruction to produce marking information corresponding to a scene of the broadcast program outputted by said outputting section;

a marking information production section configured to produce marking information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program being outputted from said outputting section when the instruction is issued from said marking instruction section;

a transmission section configured to transmit the marking information to a different information processing apparatus; and

a second reception section configured to receive navigation information transmitted from the different information processing apparatus based on the marking information.

9. An information processing method for an information processing apparatus, comprising the steps of:

first receiving a broadcast program transmitted from a broadcast station and including information relating to the broadcast program;

outputting the broadcast program received by the process at the first reception step;

issuing an instruction to produce marking information corresponding to a scene of the broadcast program outputted by the process at the outputting step;

producing marking information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program being outputted when the marking instruction is issued by the process at the marking instruction step;

transmitting the marking information to a different information processing apparatus; and

second receiving navigation information transmitted from the different information processing apparatus based on the marking information.

10. A recording medium on which a computer-readable program for an information processing apparatus is recorded, the program causing a computer to execute the steps of:

first receiving a broadcast program transmitted from a broadcast station and including information relating to the broadcast program;

outputting the broadcast program received by the process at the first reception step;

issuing an instruction to produce marking information corresponding to a scene of the broadcast program outputted by the process at the outputting step;

producing marking information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program being outputted when the marking instruction is issued by the process at the marking instruction step;

transmitting the marking information to a different information processing apparatus; and

second receiving navigation information transmitted from the different information processing apparatus based on the marking information.

11. An information processing apparatus comprising:

reception means for receiving marking information transmitted from a different information processing apparatus and corresponding to a scene of a broadcast program;

navigation information production means for producing navigation information based on the marking information received by said reception means; and

transmission means for transmitting the navigation information produced by said navigation information production means to the different information processing apparatus.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the marking information is broadcast date and time and broadcast station information corresponding to the scene of the broadcast program.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

program scene information storage means for storing broadcast date and time and broadcast station information corresponding to scenes of a broadcast program and at least identification information for identification of a supplying source of information relating to each of the scenes of the broadcast program in a coordinated relationship;

search means for searching identification information from within said program scene information storage means based on the broadcast date and time and broadcast station information as the marking information received by said reception means;

acquisition means for acquiring information relating to the scene of the broadcast program based on the identification information searched out by said search means; and

position information production means for producing position information based on the information relating to the scene of the broadcast program acquired by said acquisition means;

said navigation information production means producing navigation information based on the position information.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, further comprising storage means for storing basic navigation information coordinated with the broadcast program;

said navigation information production means being operable to select the basic navigation information based on the marking information and produce the navigation information based on the basic navigation information.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said reception means receives a restriction condition to the production of the navigation information together with the making information transmitted from the different information processing apparatus, and

said navigation information production means selects the basic navigation information based on the marking information and filters the basic navigation information in accordance with the restriction condition to produce the navigation information.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said reception means receives, as the restriction condition, at least one of a starting place, a destination, starting date and time, arriving date and time, a purpose, and a region.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising history information storage means for storing navigation information produced in the past by said navigation information production means as history information for each user,

said navigation information production means producing navigation information based on the basic navigation information and the history information.

18. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a reception section configured to receive marking information transmitted from a different information processing apparatus and corresponding to a scene of a broadcast program;

a navigation information production section configured to produce navigation information based on the marking information received by said reception section; and

a transmission section configured to transmit the navigation information produced by said navigation information production section to the different information processing apparatus.

19. An information processing method for an information processing apparatus, comprising the steps of:

receiving marking information transmitted from a different information processing apparatus and corresponding to a scene of a broadcast program;

producing navigation information based on the marking information received by the process at the reception step; and

transmitting the navigation information produced by the process at the navigation information production step to the different information processing apparatus.

20. A recording medium on which a computer-readable program for an information processing apparatus is recorded, the program causing a computer to execute the steps of:

receiving marking information transmitted from a different information processing apparatus and corresponding to a scene of a broadcast program;

producing navigation information based on the marking information received by the process at the reception step; and

transmitting the navigation information produced by the process at the navigation information production step to the different information processing apparatus.