CONTENT OUTPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20170372500A1
• Filed: 06/14/2017
• Published: 12/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: HASHIMOTO, Masayuki
• Granted Patent: US 10,580,168 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/40 in video content extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An information output system is provided which allows a user to recognize information appropriately while reducing or eliminating inconvenience given to the user. A content output system includes a content output controller 213 which selects output candidate content on the basis of the movement mode of the user and the content position, causes an output unit 25 to output supplementary information on the output candidate content when the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined first condition, and causes the output unit 25 to output the output candidate content when the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined second condition.

Claims

1. A content output system, comprising:

an output unit configured to output information;

a user state recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of a user;

a content recognizing unit configured to recognize a content, a content position which is a position associated with the content, and supplementary information which contains at least one of a title of the content, an image contained in the content, a distance between the position of the user and the content position, and an evaluation for the content, for each content; and

a content output controller configured to

select output candidate content which is a candidate of content to be output, based on a movement mode of the user and the content position,

output the supplementary information on the output candidate content, in a case where a relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined first condition, and

cause the output unit to output the output candidate content, in a case where the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies the first condition and subsequently the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined second condition.

2. The content output system according to claim 1,

wherein the supplementary information further contains information extracted from the content.

3. The content output system according to claim 1,

wherein the content output controller estimates a movement direction of the user, based on time-series positions of the user, and selects the output candidate content which is the candidate of content to be output, based on the movement direction of the user and the content position.

4. The content output system according to claim 3,

wherein in a case where an area in a predetermined direction with respect to the movement direction of the user contains the content position, the content output controller selects content corresponding to the content position as the output candidate content.

9. The content output system according to claim 1,

wherein the first condition is a condition that the content position is included in a first area within a predetermined distance from the position of the user.

10. The content output system according to claim 1,

wherein the second condition is a condition that the content position is included in a second area in an orientation defined by a traveling direction of the user.

5. A content output system, comprising:

an output unit configured to output information;

a user state recognizing unit configured to recognize a position of a user;

a content recognizing unit configured to recognize a content, a content position which is a position associated with the content, and an evaluation by the user for the content; and

a content output controller configured to select content to be output, based on a positional relationship between the user and the content, and an evaluation of a user different from the user for each piece of content.

6. The content output system according to claim 5,

wherein the content output controller selects a content to be output, among one or a plurality of contents having not been output to the user, based on a similarity between an evaluation tendency by the user and an evaluation tendency by another user, and the evaluation by the other user for the pieces of content having not been output.

7. The content output system according to claim 5,

wherein the content output controller outputs a content having a high evaluation by a related user having a designated relationship with the user, among one or the plurality of contents having not been output to the user, with a higher priority than a content of which the evaluation is low.

8. The content output system according to claim 5,

the content recognizing unit recognizes a position where the content is obtained, as the content position, and

wherein the content output controller outputs a content where the position of the user and the content position are near to each other, with a higher priority than a piece of content where the position of the user and the content position are far from each other.

11. A method executed by a system comprising an output unit configured to output information, the method comprising:

a user state recognizing step of recognizing a position of a user;

a content recognizing step of recognizing a content, a content position which is a position associated with the content, and supplementary information which contains at least one of a title of the content, an image contained in the content, a distance between the position of the user and the content position, and an evaluation for the content, for each content;

an output candidate content selection step of selecting output candidate content which is a candidate of the content to be output, based on a movement mode of the user and the content position;

a supplementary information output step of outputting the supplementary information on the output candidate content, in a case where a relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined first condition; and

content output step of causing the output unit to output the output candidate content, in a case where the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies the first condition and subsequently the relative positional relationship between the user and the output candidate content satisfies a predetermined second condition.