Content and Posted-Information Time-Series Link Method, and Information Processing Terminal

• US 20150128168A1
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC CASIO Mobile Communications Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Itamoto, Shinichi, Tanaka, Hideaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,609,398 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/18 Arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/40 for identifying broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• 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 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

An information processing terminal includes an operation part to receive a user'"'"'s operation, an output part to play back an arbitrarily input content while outputting posted information which is posted on the WEB in connection with the content, and a controller to output a content at a playback time, correlated to a posted time of posted information selected via the user'"'"'s operation, to the output part with reference to a time table which stores the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information relating to the content. The controller aligns a plurality of posted information, correlated to a desired content, in an order of posted times on the screen. Upon receiving a user'"'"'s scroll operation, it is possible to scroll and display a plurality of posted information at the predetermined position on the screen.

Claims

1. An information processing terminal comprising:

an operation part which receives a user'"'"'s operation;

an output part which plays back an arbitrarily input content while outputting posted information posted on a WEB in connection with the content; and

a controller which sends a content at a playback position, correlated to a posted time of posted information specified via a user'"'"'s operation, to the output part with reference to a time table which stores the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information correlated to the content.

2. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, wherein the output part has a display screen to concurrently display the content and the posted time, wherein the controller aligns a plurality of posted information, correlated to a desired content, in a time-series manner according to an order of posted times so as to display the plurality of posted information on the display screen, and wherein, when the operation part receives a user'"'"'s scroll operation to scroll the plurality of posted information in a time-series direction, the controller sends to the output part the content at the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information which is scrolled and displayed at a predetermined position on the display screen.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, when the operation part receives a user'"'"'s operation to select desired posted information from among a plurality of posted information displayed on the output part, the controller sends to the output part the content beginning from a previous playback position preceding the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information, selected via the user'"'"'s operation, by a predetermined time.

4. The information processing terminal according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined time is determined depending on a number of posted information being posted on the WEB for each unit time.

5. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, wherein the time table stores a playback position of a recorded content corresponding to a broadcast content in connection with a broadcast time of the broadcast content, and wherein the controller sends the posted information, being posted on the WEB at the broadcast time of the broadcast content, to the output part while sending the recorded content, beginning from the playback position correlated to the broadcast time of the broadcast content, to the output part.

6. An information processing method comprising:

receiving a user'"'"'s operation;

playing back an arbitrarily input content;

outputting posted information which is posted on a WEB in connection with the content; and

outputting a content at a playback position, correlated to a posted time of posted information specified via a user'"'"'s operation with reference to a time table which stores the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information correlated to the content.

7. An information processing terminal connectible to an external server via an information sharing system, the information processing terminal installing a content and posted-information time-series link method comprising:

receiving a desired content;

acquiring a plurality of posted information, which is posted on the information sharing system in connection with the content, from the external server;

displaying the plurality of posted information in a time-series manner according to an order of posted times;

determining a playback position of a content, correlated to a posted time of desired posted information selected via a user'"'"'s operation among the plurality of posted information with reference to a time table which stores the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information; and

playing back the content at the playback position.

8. The information processing terminal according to claim 7, wherein the content and the posted information are concurrently displayed on a display screen;

and wherein, upon receiving a user'"'"'s scroll operation to scroll the plurality of posted information correlated to the content in a time-series direction, the content is played back at the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information which is scrolled and displayed at a predetermined position on the display screen.

9. The information processing terminal according to claim 7, wherein due to a user'"'"'s operation to select desired posted information from among the plurality of posted information displayed on a display screen, the content is played back from a previous playback position preceding the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information selected via the user'"'"'s operation by a predetermined time.

10. The information processing terminal according to claim 9, wherein the predetermined time is determined depending on a number of posted information which is posted on the information sharing system for each unit time.