INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD

• US 20140016822A1
• Filed: 07/03/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo Japan Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SAKAMOTO, Ryuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,495,592 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/103
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/434 using image data, e.g. images, photos, pictures taken by a user

Abstract

An information providing device according to the exemplary embodiment includes an object recognizing unit, a retrieving unit, an obtaining unit, and a transmitting unit. The object recognizing unit extracts an image of a specific object which appears in an image of a moving image content to be distributed to a terminal device. The retrieving unit requests a retrieval device to retrieve a similar image with the image of the specific object as a retrieval key and obtains a retrieval result from the retrieval device. The obtaining unit obtains recommend information related with an image of the specific object which appears in an image of a moving image content based on the retrieval result. The transmitting unit transmits the recommend information to the terminal device.

Claims

1. An information providing device, comprising:

an object recognizing unit that extracts an image of a specific object which appears in an image of a moving image content to be distributed to a terminal device;

a retrieving unit that requests a retrieval device to retrieve a similar image with the image of the specific object as a retrieval key and obtains a retrieval result from the retrieval device;

an obtaining unit that obtains recommend information related with an image of the specific object based on the retrieval result; and

a transmitting unit that transmits the recommend information.

2. The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the object recognizing unit extracts an image of the specific object from an image of a person after extracting the image of the person who appears in an image of the moving image content.

3. The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit transmits the recommend information to the terminal device so as to be displayed in the terminal device at a timing when the image of the specific object appears in a reproducing image of the moving image content in the terminal device or at a timing when the image of the specific object disappears from the reproducing image.

4. The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining unit includes;

a selection information transmitting unit that transmits selection information of a recommend candidate to the terminal device based on the retrieval result;

a selection result obtaining unit that obtains a selection result with respect to the selection information from the terminal device; and

a recommend information obtaining unit that obtains the recommend information corresponding to the selection result.

5. The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit distributes the moving image content to the terminal device in a streaming manner, and

the object recognizing unit extracts the specific object from an image of the moving image content which is being distributed to the terminal device.

6. The information providing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storing unit that stores the image of the specific object and a reproducing position of the moving image content from which the image of the specific object is extracted, so as to be associated with each other,

wherein the retrieving unit obtains the image of the specific object in accordance with the reproducing position from the storing unit and retrieves a similar image with the obtained image of the specific object as a retrieval key.

7. An information providing method which is executed by a computer, the method comprising:

extracting an image of a specific object which appears in an image of a moving image content to be distributed to a terminal device;

requesting a retrieval device to retrieve a similar image with the extracted image of the specific object as a retrieval key and obtains a retrieval result from the retrieval device;

obtaining recommend information related with an image of the specific object based on the obtained retrieval result; and

transmitting the obtained recommend information to the terminal device.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing program instructions for providing information, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of a computer system causes the one or more processors to perform:

extracting an image of a specific object which appears in an image of a moving image content to be distributed to a terminal device;

requesting a retrieval device to retrieve a similar image with the extracted image of the specific object as a retrieval key and obtains a retrieval result from the retrieval device;

obtaining recommend information related with an image of the specific object based on the obtained retrieval result; and

transmitting the obtained recommend information to the terminal device.