CONTENT OUTPUT DEVICE, CONTENT OUTPUT METHOD, CONTENT OUTPUT PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING CONTENT OUTPUT PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON

• US 20130067513A1
• Filed: 05/23/2011
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Takami, Shinya
• Granted Patent: US 9,530,144 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

An information providing device associates in advance and stores a characteristic element which is a candidate to be specified from an image, with content. Further, the information providing device is configured to specify a difference between characteristic elements by comparing a characteristic element specified from a currently acquired image with a characteristic element specified from an image acquired prior to (in the past) the image, and acquire content associated with the characteristic element related to the difference, and display the content on a display.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A content output device comprising:

an image acquiring means that acquires an image;

a characteristic element specifying means that specifies a characteristic element from the image acquired from the image acquiring means based on characteristic elements stored in a content memory means that associates and stores characteristic elements which are candidates to be specified from the image, with content;

a difference specifying means that specifies a difference between characteristic elements by comparing the characteristic element specified from the image acquired by the image acquiring means, with the characteristic element specified from an image acquired prior to the image and stored in a characteristic element memory means; and

an output means that outputs content associated with the characteristic element related to the specified difference.

11. The content output device according to claim 10,

wherein the characteristic element specifying means specifies a group based on a distance between the specified characteristic elements, and specifies a characteristic element belonging to the specified group, as the characteristic element of the image;

and

the difference specifying means specifies the difference between the characteristic elements by comparing the characteristic element specified from the image, with the characteristic element specified from an image acquired prior to the image.

12. The content output device according to claim 10,

wherein the content memory means stores content which varies per time zone;

and

the content acquiring means acquires content matching a time zone including a current time.

13. The content output device according to claim 11,

wherein the content memory means stores content which varies per time zone;

and

the content acquiring means acquires content matching a time zone including a current time.

14. The content output device according to claim 10,

wherein the content memory means stores content matching a combination of a plurality of different characteristic elements;

and

the content acquiring means acquires content matching a combination of the characteristic elements related to the difference.

15. The content output device according to claim 11,

wherein the content memory means stores content matching a combination of a plurality of different characteristic elements;

and

the content acquiring means acquires content matching a combination of the characteristic elements related to the difference.

16. The content output device according to claim 12,

wherein the content memory means stores content matching a combination of a plurality of different characteristic elements;

and

the content acquiring means acquires content matching a combination of the characteristic elements related to the difference.

17. The content output device according to claim 10,

wherein the image acquiring means acquires an image captured by an imaging device.

18. The content output device according to claim 11,

wherein the image acquiring means acquires an image captured by an imaging device.

19. The content output device according to claim 12,

wherein the image acquiring means acquires an image captured by an imaging device.

20. The content output device according to claim 14,

wherein the image acquiring means acquires an image captured by an imaging device.

21. The content output device according to claim 10,

wherein when the characteristic element cannot be specified from the image by the characteristic specifying means, the characteristic element memory means stores information indicating that the characteristic element cannot be specified;

and

when information indicating a characteristic element which is a comparison target is not stored in the characteristic element memory means, the difference specifying means specifies the characteristic element specified from the image acquired by the image acquiring means as the difference between the characteristic elements.

22. The content output device according to claim 11,

wherein when the characteristic element cannot be specified from the image by the characteristic specifying means, the characteristic element memory means stores information indicating that the characteristic element cannot be specified;

and

when information indicating a characteristic element which is a comparison target is not stored in the characteristic element memory means, the difference specifying means specifies the characteristic element specified from the image acquired by the image acquiring means as the difference between the characteristic elements.

23. The content output device according to claim 12,

wherein when the characteristic element cannot be specified from the image by the characteristic specifying means, the characteristic element memory means stores information indicating that the characteristic element cannot be specified;

and

when information indicating a characteristic element which is a comparison target is not stored in the characteristic element memory means, the difference specifying means specifies the characteristic element specified from the image acquired by the image acquiring means as the difference between the characteristic elements.

24. The content output device according to claim 14,

wherein when the characteristic element cannot be specified from the image by the characteristic specifying means, the characteristic element memory means stores information indicating that the characteristic element cannot be specified;

and

when information indicating a characteristic element which is a comparison target is not stored in the characteristic element memory means, the difference specifying means specifies the characteristic element specified from the image acquired by the image acquiring means as the difference between the characteristic elements.

25. The content output device according to claim 17,

wherein when the characteristic element cannot be specified from the image by the characteristic specifying means, the characteristic element memory means stores information indicating that the characteristic element cannot be specified;

and

when information indicating a characteristic element which is a comparison target is not stored in the characteristic element memory means, the difference specifying means specifies the characteristic element specified from the image acquired by the image acquiring means as the difference between the characteristic elements.

26. A method of outputting content, which is executed by a computer comprising:

an image acquiring step of acquiring an image;

a characteristic element specifying step of specifying a characteristic element from the acquired image based on characteristic elements stored in a content memory means that associates and stores characteristic elements which are candidates to be specified from the image, with content;

a difference specifying step of specifying a difference between characteristic elements by comparing the characteristic element specified from the acquired image, with the characteristic element specified from an image acquired prior to the image and stored; and

an output step of outputting content associated with the characteristic element related to the specified difference.