DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20160307253A1
• Filed: 06/29/2016
• Published: 10/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Homma, Shunichi, Iwai, Yoshiaki, Wu, Jianing
• Granted Patent: US 9,886,709 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0625 Directed, with specific intent or strategy
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0643 Graphical representation of items or shoppers

Abstract

An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control display of parts information of a plurality of items, to generate search information according to feedback from a user for the parts information, and to control display of a search result according to the search information.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A search apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to;

receive feedback information to a portion of a first product from a user input, wherein a plurality of portions including the portion of the first product is displayed on a display ordered by fit order; and

search information of a second product based on the feedback information to the portion of the first product.

3. The search apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first product includes clothes.

4. The search apparatus of claim 2, wherein the portion of the first product includes a part image of the product.

5. The search apparatus of claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to cause display of portions information of the information of the second product on a basis of a first axis, respective second portions to which the portions information correspond and a second axis, the second axis intersecting the first axis.

6. The search apparatus of claim 5, wherein at least one of the portions information includes a text character.

7. The search apparatus of claim 5, wherein at least one of the portions information includes an image.

8. The search apparatus of claim 5,

wherein the portions information are displayed on a basis of the respective second portions to which the portions information correspond ordered by another fit order.

9. The search apparatus of claim 5,

wherein names of the portions information are displayed in a priority order determined based on portion preference information from the feedback information to the portion of the first product.

10. The search apparatus of claim 2, wherein the search uses a classifier generated based on the feedback information to the portion of the first product.

11. The search apparatus of claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to calculate:

first level information of whether the portions are fit for a user preference based on the feedback information to the portion of the first product, and

second level information of whether the portions are fit for the user preference based on the first level information; and

wherein a search result of the search is based on the second level information.

12. The search apparatus of claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to control the search of second portions of the second product based on the feedback information to the portion of the first product, the feedback information to the portion of the first product indicating whether a given portion of the plurality of portions is fit for a user preference, and

wherein, for each of the plurality of portions, portion information thereof is displayed at a client terminal from which the feedback information to the portion of the first product is received in an order based on second feedback information.

13. The search apparatus of claim 12, wherein at least one of the displayed portions information includes a text character.

14. The search apparatus of claim 12, wherein at least one of the displayed portions information includes an image.

15. A method of searching comprising:

receiving, by circuitry, feedback information to a portion of a first product from a user input, wherein a plurality of portions including the portion of the first product is displayed on a display ordered by fit order; and

searching, by the circuitry, information of a second product based on the feedback information to the portion of the first product.

16. A non-transitory recording medium recorded with a computer readable program executable by a computer, the program comprising:

receiving feedback information to a portion of a first product from a user input, wherein a plurality of portions including the portion of the first product is displayed on a display ordered by fit order; and

searching, by the circuitry, information of a second product based on the feedback information to the portion of the first product.