Program reservation/playback judgment system, method, program and program recording medium
First Claim
1. A program reservation and playback judgment system including natural language program information processing means for reading texts written in a natural language and including program information comprising at least date, start time, end time and channel number of any program that the user likes to reserve for recording or playback, for extracting the program information included in the texts and for reserving for recording or playing back the program based on the extracted program information, comprising:
- current date and time acquisition means for acquiring the current date and time; and
date and time judgment means for making a judgment whether the program of the program information is reserved for recording or played back based on the current date and time acquired by the current date and time acquisition means and the program information.
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Abstract
A program reservation/playback judgment system for making an automatic judgment of reservation or playback of a program based on the program information in texts written in a natural language. A natural language program information processing section analyzes texts read-out thereby for extracting the program information in the texts. The extracted program information is displayed as a program information screen for confirming the program information. Upon user'"'"'s operation of a reservation/playback button, the program of the program information is confirmed. Based on a comparison result of the current date and time with the date and start time of the program information by a current date/time acquisition section, a date/time judgment section makes a judgment whether the program of the program information is reserved for recording or played back, thereby instructing a program monitoring device to reserve or playback.
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1. A program reservation and playback judgment system including natural language program information processing means for reading texts written in a natural language and including program information comprising at least date, start time, end time and channel number of any program that the user likes to reserve for recording or playback, for extracting the program information included in the texts and for reserving for recording or playing back the program based on the extracted program information, comprising:
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current date and time acquisition means for acquiring the current date and time; and date and time judgment means for making a judgment whether the program of the program information is reserved for recording or played back based on the current date and time acquired by the current date and time acquisition means and the program information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A program reservation and playback judgment method having a natural language program information processing step for reading texts written in a natural language and including program information comprising at least date, start time, end time and channel number of any program that the user likes to reserve for recording or playback, analyzing the texts and extracting the program information contained in the texts for reserving or playing back the program based on the extracted program information, comprising:
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a current date and time acquisition step for acquiring the current date and time; and a date and time judgment step for making a reservation or playback judgment whether the program of the program information is reserved for recording or played back based on the current date and time acquired in the current date and time acquisition step and the program information, wherein the program reservation and playback judgment steps are performed on a program reservation and playback judgment hardware system. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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