INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20120210361A1
• Filed: 04/23/2012
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: NARAHARA, Tatsuya, WATANABE, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,674,572 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/358 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/434 Disassembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. demultiplexing audio and video streams, extraction of additional data from a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Extraction or processing of SI; Disassembling of packetised elementary stream demultiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4345 Extraction or processing of SI, e.g. extracting service information from an MPEG stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/466 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies services using the results of monitoring in broadcast systems H04H60/61
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8405 represented by keywords
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/50 Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/163 by receiver means only

Abstract

An information processing device includes: extraction means for extracting, from program information, a category feature word being a keyword representing a category feature; identification means for identifying a channel by category based on the category feature word extracted from the program information for a program to be broadcast on the channel; and display control means for exercising control over the channel to be displayed after category classification.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. An information processing device, comprising:

extraction means for extracting, from program information, a category feature word being a keyword representing a category feature;

identification means for identifying a channel by category based on the category feature word extracted from the program information for a program to be broadcast on the channel; and

display control means for categorizing said channels by said category feature word based on said category identification and displaying the categorized channels.

13. The information processing device according to claim 12, wherein the identification means identifies the channel by category based on a counting result of the extracted category feature word for each of a plurality of categories.

14. The information processing device according to claim 12, wherein the identification means identifies the program by category based on the category feature word extracted from the program information for the program, and based on the category of the program to be broadcast on the channel, identifies the channel by category.

15. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein the identification means identifies the channel by category based on a counting result of the program to be broadcast on the channel for each of a plurality of categories.

16. The information processing device according to claim 14, wherein the identification means identifies the channel by category based on a counting result of a broadcast time of the program to be broadcast on the channel for each of a plurality of categories.

17. The information processing device according to claim 12, wherein the identification means identifies the channel by category on a basis of the program based on the extracted category feature word, and the display control means exercises control over the channel to be displayed after classification of a program currently being on the air into any of the categories.

18. The information processing device according to claim 12, wherein the display control means displays a category list, and exercises control over the channel to be displayed in a list for any one of a plurality of categories selected from the category list.

19. The information processing device according to claim 12, further comprising calculation means for calculating a user'"'"'s degree of preference for the channel based on a history of an operation made to the program broadcast on the channel, wherein the display control means exercises control over the channel, when the degree of preference is high, to be displayed as a channel belonging to a group different from a plurality of categories.

20. The information processing device according to claim 12, further comprising preference information processing means for assigning points to the category feature word of a program according to operation details of the program.

21. The information processing device according to claim 20, wherein when the program is subjected to a plurality of operations, all the points corresponding to the operation details are provided to the category feature word.

22. The information processing device according to claim 20, wherein the information processing means assigns greater points to a category feature word extracted from a dubbed program than that of an erased program.

23. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

extracting, from program information, a category feature word being a keyword representing a category feature;

identifying a channel by category based on the category feature word extracted from the program information for a program to be broadcast on the channel; and

categorizing said channels by said category feature word based on said category identification and displaying the categorized channels.

24. A non-transitory computer readable medium having recorded thereon a program operable to instruct a computer to execute a process, comprising the steps of:

extracting, from program information, a category feature word being a keyword representing a category feature;

identifying a channel by category based on the category feature word extracted from the program information for a program to be broadcast on the channel; and

categorizing said channels by said category feature word based on said category identification and displaying the categorized channels.

25. An information processing device, comprising:

an extraction unit configured to extract, from program information, a category feature word being a keyword representing a category feature;

an identification unit configured to identify a channel by category based on the category feature word extracted from the program information for a program to be broadcast on the channel; and

a display control unit configured to categorize said channels by said category feature word based on said category identification and display the categorized channels.