Content display method, a content display apparatus, and a recording medium on which a content display program is recorded

• US 7,761,322 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2007
• Issued: 07/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sako, Yoichiro, Nakamura, Takatoshi, Kawakami, Itaru
• Primary Examiner(s): LEON MUNOZ, EDWIN A
• Application Number:
  US12/002,563
• Publication Number:
  US 20080175103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 368 28- 30, 705 8- 9, 715/764, 715/963, 707/104.1, 345/418, 708/112
• US Class Current: 705/7.12
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 715/963 Calendar or scheduling

Abstract

A content display method is disclosed. The content display method includes the steps of: accepting an instruction input to create a target calendar; extracting a content that indication information has to be displayed in an elapsed period having already passed and a content that indication information has to be displayed in a non-elapsed period to pass from now on in the target calendar based on the instruction input accepted through the accepting step; and arranging the indication information of each of the contents extracted in the extracting step in a corresponding date in a target calendar and displaying the target calendar on a display device.

Claims

1. A content display method comprising:

accepting an instruction input to create a target calendar;

extracting a first content that indicates first information has to be displayed in an elapsed period having already passed and a second content that indicates second information has to be displayed in a non-elapsed period in the target calendar based on the instruction input accepted through the accepting step; and

arranging the information of each of the first and second contents in a corresponding date in a target calendar and displaying the target calendar on a display device.

2. The content display method according to claim 1,

wherein when indication information of a plurality of contents is allocated on the same date in a calendar to be displayed, the method comprises an act of controlling display in which the contents are in turn switched and displayed.

3. The content display method according to claim 1,

wherein when indication information of a plurality of contents is allocated on the same date in a calendar to be displayed, the method comprises an act of controlling display in which the contents are displayed in a list.

4. The content display method according to claim 1,

wherein in the act of accepting,

in order to create a calendar for a target period, an input of information to specify the period is accepted as the instruction input,

in the act of extracting,

for each of a plurality of contents stored and held, when a predetermined item of date information owned by one of the plurality of content belongs within the calendar for the target period, the date information is identified as display date information, whereas when the predetermined item of date information does not belong within the calendar for the target period, a predetermined computation, using the date information, generates the display date information, and

based on the display date information, a selected content having display date information belonging within the calendar for the target period is extracted, and

in the act of displaying,

based on the display date information about each of the first and second contents extracted in the extracting step, indication information of each of the contents is arranged in the calendar for the target period.

5. The content display method according to claim 4,

wherein in the act of extracting, when the predetermined item of date information owned by a content does not belong within the calendar for the target period, a first date after a first predetermined period with reference to the date information or a second date before a second predetermined period with reference to the date information is identified as the display date information.

6. The content display method according to claim 4,

wherein in the act of extracting, when the predetermined item of date information owned by a content does not belong within the calendar for the target period, a first date after a predetermined period with reference to the date information or a second date that is near that date and on the same day of the week as the date indicated by the date information is the display date information, or a third date before a predetermined period with reference to the date information or a fourth date that is near that date and on the same day of the week as the date indicated by the date information is the display date information.

7. The content display method according to claim 4,

wherein in the act of displaying, display forms are varied at least in indication information of a content using the predetermined item of date information owned by a particular content as the display date information and in indication information of a particular content using date information as the display date information generated by computation.

8. The content display method according to claim 1,

wherein in the act of accepting, an input of identification information to identify a content that indication information has to be displayed in a calendar is accepted as the instruction input,

in the act of extracting,

a selected content having the identification information accepted in the accepting step is extracted from contents stored and held, and

in the act of displaying,

based on a predetermined item of date information about each of the contents extracted in the extracting step, a calendar for a target period is identified,

for each of the contents extracted in the extracting step, when the predetermined item of date information owned by the selected content belongs within the calendar for the target period, the date information is identified as display date information, whereas when the predetermined item of date information owned by the selected content does not belong within the calendar for the target period, a predetermined computation, using the date information, generates the display date information, and

based on the identified display date information about each of the extracted contents, indication information of each of the first and second contents is arranged in the calendar for the target period.

9. The content display method according to claim 8,

wherein in the act of displaying, when the predetermined item of date information owned by a particular content does not belong within the calendar for the target period, a first date after a predetermined period with reference to the date information or a second date before the predetermined period with reference to the date information is identified as the display date information.

10. The content display method according to claim 8,

wherein in the act of displaying, when the predetermined item of date information owned by a particular content does not belong within the calendar for the target period, a first date after a predetermined period with reference to the date information or a second date that is near that date and on the same day of the week as the date indicated by the date information is the display date information, or a third date before the predetermined period with reference to the date information or a fourth date that is near that date and on the same day of the week as the date indicated by the date information is the display date information.