Content display control apparatus and content display control method
First Claim
1. A content display control apparatus comprising:
- a user interface unit, which, during a current content being displayed on a display, receives an instruction from a user viewing the current content with reference information specifying a target content that is to be switched from the current content;
a sequence creation unit that dynamically creates, while the user is viewing the current content, a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content;
a storage, which stores the reference information and metadata related to the contents; and
a display control unit, which displays content in accordance with the created content sequence starting with the current content, proceeding through the one or more intermediate contents, which are dynamically inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content, whereinthe one or more intermediate contents are linked like a chain via the metadata that characterizes the contents, the insertion of the intermediate contents dynamically increasing a length of the chain, andthe metadata characterizing the one or more intermediate contents matches the metadata characterizing at least one of the current content and the target content.
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Abstract
A interface unit, which while displaying a current content, receives input of reference information specifying a target content that will be switched to and viewed from the current content. A content sequence creation unit creates a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content. A display control unit controls content display by passing data to a display apparatus so that a content display is made in accordance with the created content sequence starting from the current content, proceeding through the intermediate contents which are inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content.
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14 Claims
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1. A content display control apparatus comprising:
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a user interface unit, which, during a current content being displayed on a display, receives an instruction from a user viewing the current content with reference information specifying a target content that is to be switched from the current content; a sequence creation unit that dynamically creates, while the user is viewing the current content, a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content; a storage, which stores the reference information and metadata related to the contents; and a display control unit, which displays content in accordance with the created content sequence starting with the current content, proceeding through the one or more intermediate contents, which are dynamically inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content, wherein the one or more intermediate contents are linked like a chain via the metadata that characterizes the contents, the insertion of the intermediate contents dynamically increasing a length of the chain, and the metadata characterizing the one or more intermediate contents matches the metadata characterizing at least one of the current content and the target content. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A content display control apparatus comprising:
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a user interface unit, which, during a current content being displayed on a display, receives an instruction from a user viewing the current content with reference information specifying a target content that is to be switched from the current content; a sequence creation unit that dynamically creates, while the user is viewing the current content, a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content; a storage, which stores the reference information and metadata related to the contents; and a display control unit, which displays content in accordance with the created content sequence starting with the current content, proceeding through the one or more intermediate contents, which are dynamically inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content, wherein when the user interface unit receives a discontinue instruction from the user during the intermediate content display process, the display control unit discontinues the content display progression in accordance with the content sequence and maintains a display state of the intermediate content displayed on a screen at the time the discontinue instruction was received, the one or more intermediate contents are linked like a chain via the metadata that characterizes the contents, the insertion of the intermediate contents dynamically increasing a length of the chain, and the metadata characterizing the one or more intermediate contents matches the metadata characterizing at least one of the current content and the target content.
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13. A content display control method comprising:
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receiving input of reference information from a user specifying a target content that is to be switched from a current content, while the current content is being displayed; creating a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content; and displaying content in accordance with the created content sequence starting with the current content, proceeding through the one or more intermediate contents which are dynamically inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content, wherein the one or more intermediate contents are linked like a chain via metadata that characterizes the contents, the insertion of the intermediate contents dynamically increasing a length of the chain, and the metadata characterizing the one or more intermediate contents matches the metadata characterizing at least one of the current content and the target content.
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14. A computer program stored in a computer-readable storage medium comprising:
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a user interface module, which, during a current content being displayed on a display, receives an instruction from a user viewing the current content with reference information specifying a target content that is to be switched from the current content; a creating module that dynamically creates, while the user is viewing the current content a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content; and a display control module, which displays content in accordance with the created content sequence starting with the current content, proceeding through the one of more intermediate contents, which are dynamically inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content, wherein the one or more intermediate contents are linked like a chain via metadata that characterizes the contents, the insertion of the intermediate contents dynamically increasing a length of the chain, and the metadata characterizing the one or more intermediate contents matches the metadata characterizing at least one of the current content and the target content.
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