Recording medium, recording device, recording method, data search device, data search method, and data generating device

• US 8,195,677 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2005
• Issued: 06/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sako, Yoichiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Yamashita, Kosei, Takai, Motoyuki, Miyajima, Yasushi, Sasaki, Toru, Sakai, Yuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lie, Angela
• Assistant Examiner(s): MINA, FATIMA P
• Application Number:
  US11/264,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20060112071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,408 Days
• Field of Search: 707/1, 707/607, 707/726, 707/758, 707/707
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

A data search device includes a playback unit playing back subjective data representing a subjectivity for predetermined content data from a recording medium on which the subjective data is recorded in association with the content data; a receiving unit receiving subjective data input by a user; and a searching unit searching for the content data in accordance with the subjective data played back by the playback unit and the subjective data received by the receiving unit.

Claims

1. A data search device comprising:

playback means for displaying to a user a plurality of first subjective data and second subjective data, each of the first subjective data being language representing a user input feeling of a predetermined content data and the second subjective data being language representing a scene at which the user listens to the predetermined content data, wherein each of the first subjective data and the second subjective data is stored in a storage in association with a tag that associates the first subjective data and the second subjective data with the predetermined content data;

receiving means for receiving user input comprising a first word or phrase and a second word or phrase, the first word or phrase being first subjective data and the second word or phrase being second subjective data; and

searching means for;

determining whether the storage includes content data described by the received first word or phrase and the received second word or phrase by comparing the received first word or phrase and the received second word or phrase input by a user to entries of first subjective data and second subjective data in a subjective data table,

when an exact match between the received first word or phrase and the received second word or phrase and an entry in the subjective data table is not identified, utilizing at least one synonym for at least one of the received first word or phrase and the received second word or phrase and comparing the at least one synonym to the entries,

when a match between the received first word or phrase and the received second word or phrase or at least one synonym and an entry from the entries has been identified, extracting a tag associated with the entry, and

identifying the content data using the tag associated with the entry.

2. A data search method comprising the steps of:

receiving a user input comprising a first subjective data being language representing a user impression of a predetermined content data and a second subjective data being language describing an atmosphere at which a user listens to the predetermined content data;

searching a plurality of content data stored on a recording medium for the predetermined content data based on the received first subjective data and the received second subjective data;

when an exact match between the received first subjective data and the received second subjective data and data in the plurality of content data is not identified, utilizing at least one synonym for at least one of the received first subjective data and the received second subjective data and searching the plurality of content data for the predetermined content data based on the at least one synonym; and

when the predetermined content data is identified in the plurality of content data based on the received first subjective data and the received second subjective data or based on the at least one synonym, playing back the predetermined content data from the recording medium on which the predetermined content data, the first subjective data and the second subjective data are recorded with a tag associating the first subjective data and the second subjective data with the predetermined content data.

3. A data search device comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving a user input comprising a first subjective word or phrase representing an impression of a predetermined content data and a second subjective word or phrase representing a scene at which a user listens to or views the predetermined content data;

a searching unit for searching a plurality of content data for the predetermined content data based on the received first subjective word or phrase and the received second subjective word or phrase received by the receiving unit, wherein, when an exact match between the received first subjective data and the received second subjective data and data in the plurality of content data is not identified, the searching unit utilizes at least one synonym for at least one of the received first subjective data and the received second subjective data and searches the plurality of content data for the predetermined content data based on the at least one synonym; and

playback unit for playing back the predetermined content data from a recording medium on which the predetermined content data, the first subjective data and the second subjective data are recorded with a tag associating the first subjective word or phrase and the second subjective word or phrase with the predetermined content data when the searching unit identifies the predetermined content data in the plurality of content data based on the received first subjective word or phrase and the received second subjective word or phrase or based on the at least one synonym.

4. The data search device according to claim 3, wherein the searching unit converts a subjective word or phrase received by the receiving unit into a default language in accordance with a synonym dictionary.