Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium

• US 20080082921A1
• Filed: 09/20/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Negi, Daisuke
• Granted Patent: US 8,448,068 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/704
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4143 embedded in a Personal Computer [PC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44224 Monitoring of user activity on external systems, e.g. Internet browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/445 for displaying additional information H04N5/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes recording means for recording content, playback controlling means for controlling playback of the recorded content, and viewing history generating means for generating viewing history data used for displaying a viewing history of the content that is played back. Information concerning the content, a title identifying the content, and an image relating to the content are displayed in the viewing history.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

recording means for recording content;

playback controlling means for controlling playback of the recorded content; and

viewing history generating means for generating viewing history data used for displaying a viewing history of the content that is played back, information concerning the content, a title identifying the content, and an image relating to the content being displayed in the viewing history.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving means for retrieving at least one viewing history meeting a predetermined condition, among viewing histories displayed on the basis of other pieces of viewing history data that have been generated, as another viewing history relating to the viewing history,

wherein the viewing history generating means generates the viewing history data so that information concerning the retrieved other viewing history is displayed in the viewing history.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving means for retrieving at least one viewing history meeting a predetermined condition, among viewing histories displayed on the basis of other pieces of viewing history data that have been generated, as another viewing history relating to the viewing history; and

updating means for updating the other pieces of viewing history data so that information concerning the viewing history is displayed in the other viewing history retrieved by the retrieving means.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

digest moving image generating means for recompressing moving image data used for playing back a predetermined segment of the content to generate a digest moving image of the content,

wherein an image that is displayed in the viewing history and that relates to the content is a thumbnail image indicating the content of the digest moving image.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the predetermined segment is a segment that starts at the beginning of a certain scene included in the content and that has a predetermined length.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

comment creating means for creating a comment of a user about the content by combining a word associated with the content with a word representing an impression about the content, the words being selected by the user,

wherein the viewing history generating means generates the viewing history data so as to display the comment in the viewing history.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

uploading means for uploading the generated viewing history data to another apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a communication network as data used for displaying the viewing history at a predetermined position in a Web page.

8. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

controlling recording of content;

controlling playback of the recorded content; and

generating viewing history data used for displaying a viewing history of the content that is played back, information concerning the content, a title identifying the content, and an image relating to the content being displayed in the viewing history.

9. A program causing a computer to execute the steps of:

controlling recording of content;

controlling playback of the recorded content; and

generating viewing history data used for displaying a viewing history of the content that is played back, information concerning the content, a title identifying the content, and an image relating to the content being displayed in the viewing history.

10. A storage medium having the program according to claim 9.

11. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a recording unit that records content;

a playback controlling unit that controls playback of the recorded content; and

a viewing history generating unit that generates viewing history data used for displaying a viewing history of the content that is played back, information concerning the content, a title identifying the content, and an image relating to the content being displayed in the viewing history.