Information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 20110055281A1
• Filed: 08/18/2010
• Published: 03/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hirotaka, Kuroiwa, Tatsuo, Tanaka, Keisuke, Sugiura, Shunichi, Uemura, Takuya
• Application Number:
  US12/806,663
• Publication Number:
  US 20110055281A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9032 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus which includes a content collection unit which collects content, an output control unit which simultaneously provides main content and sub-content, and a content group creation control unit which sets a creation logic and an algorithm by using the algorithm based on the creation logic, a content group in which content to be recommended for the user is assembled from a plurality of content collected by the content collection unit. The content group creation control unit creates a plurality of content groups. The plurality of content groups include a content group created based on a creation logic related to the main content and a content group created based on a creation logic related to the sub content. The output control unit causes the plurality of content groups to be displayed to the user.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a content collection unit which collects content that can be provided for a user;

an output control unit which simultaneously provides, among the content collected by the content collection unit, main content which the user mainly views and/or listens to and sub-content which is a different type of content from the main content; and

a content group creation control unit which sets an algorithm as well as a creation logic related to either of the main content and the sub-content and which creates, by using the algorithm based on the creation logic, a content group in which content to be recommended for the user is assembled from a plurality of content collected by the content collection unit;

wherein the content group creation control unit creates a plurality of content groups,

wherein the plurality of content groups include a content group created based on a creation logic related to the main content and a content group created based on a creation logic related to the sub-content, and

wherein the output control unit causes the plurality of content groups to be displayed to the user.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the content group creation control unit, when the sub-content being provided is changed, sets a creation logic related to the changed sub-content being provided and re-creates a content group based on the creation logic set after the change, and

wherein the output control unit causes the content group created after the change to be displayed.

3. The information processing apparatus according to either of claims 1 and 2, further comprising:

a basic data acquisition unit which obtains basic data used for setting the creation logic,

wherein the basic data includes metadata of content on play.

4. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3,

wherein the content is at least any of photo content, video content, music content, news content and production information content.

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

a content storage unit which stores content; and

a communication unit which communicates with a home server and an external content providing server which store content,

wherein the content collection unit collects the content from at least any one of the content storage unit, the home server and the content providing server.

6. An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus including a content collection unit which collects content, a content group creation control unit which creates a content group in which content to be recommended for a user is assembled, and an output control unit which provides the content group for the user, comprising the steps of:

the content collection unit collecting the content that can be provided for the user; and

the content group creation control unit setting an algorithm as well as a creation logic related to either of main content which the user mainly views and/or listens to and sub-content which is a different type of content from the main content; and

the content group creation control unit further creating, by using the algorithm based on the creation logic, the content group in which content to be recommended for the user is assembled from a plurality of content collected by the content collection unit,

wherein the content group creation control unit creates a plurality of content groups, and

wherein the plurality of content groups include a content group created based on a creation logic related to the main content and a content group created based on a creation logic related to the sub-content.