INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, KEYWORD REGISTRATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140324858A1
• Filed: 07/11/2014
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KOBAYASHI, Kenichiro
• Application Number:
  US14/328,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20140324858A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• 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 21/47 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 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• 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 21/8405 represented by keywords
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a reception unit for receiving a predetermined trigger, a keyword estimation unit for estimating a keyword, desired to be registered by a user who transmits the trigger, in a content and metadata corresponding to the content provided in a predetermined period immediately before a time when the trigger is received, and a keyword registration unit for registering the keyword estimated by the keyword estimation unit.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to estimate a keyword desired to be registered by a user based on content within a period of time before when a trigger to register is received and metadata corresponding to the content,

wherein the period of time is changed dynamically based on when the circuitry identifies the keyword, and

the keyword is registered.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to obtain information related to the keyword from an external sever, and

the related information is registered in association with the keyword.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the keyword specifies an attribute including at least one of a location, a person, a product, and an event.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the information processing apparatus includes at least one of mobile phone and a portable navigation device.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the trigger is transmitted by a user of the mobile phone.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to estimate the keyword based on performing at least one of a morphological, a syntactic, and a semantic analysis based on the content.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the keyword is associated with a limitation specified by a combination of date and time.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the circuitry is further configured to receive a reminder related to the limitation.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to estimate the keyword based on electric program guide (EPG) data corresponding to the content.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit the keyword to be registered.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the keyword is registered in association with a temporal position of the keyword with respect to the content.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to connect to a network.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the circuitry is further configured to automatically display the keyword when a current position of the mobile phone is within a predetermined distance of a position associated with the keyword.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the circuitry is further configured to update and transmit the current position of the mobile phone.

16. An information processing method for operating an information processing apparatus, comprising:

estimating, by processing circuitry, a keyword desired to be registered by a user based on content within a period of time before when a trigger to register is received and metadata corresponding to the content,

wherein the period of time is changed dynamically based on when the circuitry identifies the keyword, and

the keyword is registered.

17. The information processing method according to claim 16, wherein the information processing apparatus includes at least one of mobile phone and a portable navigation device.

18. The information processing method according to claim 17, further comprising:

automatically displaying the keyword when a current position of the mobile phone is within a predetermined distance of a position associated with the keyword.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer readable program codes embodied in the computer readable storage medium that, when executed cause a computer to execute an information processing method for operating an information processing apparatus, comprising:

estimating a keyword desired to be registered by a user based on content within a period of time before when a trigger to register is received and metadata corresponding to the content,

wherein the period of time is changed dynamically based on when the circuitry identifies the keyword, and

the keyword is registered.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 19, wherein the information processing apparatus includes at least one of mobile phone and a portable navigation device.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 20, further comprising:

automatically displaying the keyword when a current position of the mobile phone is within a predetermined distance of a position associated with the keyword.