Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method

• US 9,197,922 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2011
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takagi, Tsuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Coulter, Kenneth R
• Application Number:
  US13/110,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20110295971A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,651 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 709/223, 725 39- 55
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/462 Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities

Abstract

Provided is an information processing system including a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes a content recording unit to record a content and to obtain and record a sights keyword related to the recorded content. The second information processing apparatus includes a place-name accumulating unit to obtain and accumulate place-name information corresponding to a current location of the second information processing apparatus, a sights keyword acquisition unit to obtain the sights keyword recorded on the first information processing apparatus, a sights keyword determining unit to narrow down a sights candidate in the place-name information, to thereby extract sights-candidate place-name information, and to determine the sights keyword corresponding to the sights-candidate place-name information, and a content-record informing unit to inform that a content related to the determined sights keyword is recorded on the first information processing apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing system, comprising:

a first information processing apparatus; and

a second information processing apparatus configured to be connectable via a network to the first information processing apparatus,

wherein the first information processing apparatus includes;

a content storage unit configured to obtain and record a sights keyword related to stored content, and

the second information processing apparatus includes;

a place-name accumulating unit configured to obtain and accumulate place-name information corresponding to a current location of the second information processing apparatus,

in which, for each instance the place-name information is obtained, the place-name information is added as a piece of log information to a place-names log with recording time information indicating in time sequence when the place-name information is added to the place-names log,

a sights keyword acquisition unit configured to obtain the sights keyword recorded on the first information processing apparatus,

a sights keyword determining unit configured to narrow down a sights candidate in the place-name information of the place-names log, to thereby extract sights-candidate place-name information, and to determine the sights keyword corresponding to the sights-candidate place-name information, and

a content-record informing unit configured to inform that content related to the determined sights keyword is recorded on the first information processing apparatus;

wherein the narrowing down of the sights candidate in the place-name information includes removing from the place-names log each piece of the log information corresponding to any place-name information appearing on a regular basis in time in the place-names log.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first information processing apparatus further includes an electronic-program-guide acquisition unit configured to obtain electronic program guide data including information about a plurality of contents, and the content storage unit performs at least one of (i) an extraction of the sights keyword from caption data included in the stored content or (ii) an extraction of the sights keyword from the information about content in the electronic program guide data obtained by the electronic-program-guide acquisition unit.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the place-name accumulating unit obtains a global positioning system (GPS) information corresponding to the current location of the second information processing apparatus, and obtains the place-name information based on the obtained GPS information.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the second information processing apparatus further includes a reproduction unit configured to obtain via the network the content stored on the first information processing apparatus and to reproduce the content.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the first information processing apparatus further includes:

a place-name information determining unit configured to extract place-name information from caption data included in the content to be reproduced by the reproduction unit of the second information processing apparatus, as caption place-name information, to thereby determine caption place-name information corresponding to the sights-candidate place-name information, and

a place-name information informing unit configured to inform that the determined caption place-name information is included in the content to be reproduced by the reproduction unit.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first information processing apparatus further includes:

a place-name acquisition unit configured to obtain the sights-candidate place-name information from the second information processing apparatus, and

a programmed-recording unit configured to detect information about the content including the sights-candidate place-name information from electronic program guide data obtained by an electronic-program-guide acquisition unit, and to carry out a programmed recording based on the detected information about the content.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the sights keyword determining unit sets flag information in response to determining the sights keyword corresponding to the sights-candidate place-name information.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein informing that content related to the determined sights keyword is recorded on the first information processing apparatus comprises displaying a pop-up window on the second information processing apparatus.

9. An information processing terminal, comprising:

a content storage unit configured to store content and to obtain and record a sights keyword related to the stored content;

a place-name accumulating unit configured to obtain and accumulate place-name information corresponding to a current location of the information processing terminal,

in which, for each instance the place-name information is obtained, the place-name information is added as a piece of log information to a place-names log with recording time information indicating in time sequence when the place-name information is added to the place-names log; and

a sights keyword determining unit configured to narrow down a sights candidate in the place-name information of the place-names log, to thereby extract sights-candidate place-name information, and to determine the sights keyword corresponding to the sights-candidate place-name information;

wherein narrowing down the sights candidate in the place-name information includes removing from the place-names log each piece of the log information corresponding to any place-name information appearing on a regular basis in time in the place-names log.

10. The information processing terminal according to claim 9, further comprising:

a sights keyword acquisition unit configured to obtain the sights keyword recorded on the content storage unit, and

a content-record informing unit configured to inform that content related to the determined sights keyword is recorded on the first information processing apparatus.

11. The information processing terminal according to claim 9, further comprising:

a programmed-recording unit configured to detect information about content including the sights-candidate place-name information from electronic program guide data obtained by an electronic-program-guide acquisition unit, and to carry out a programmed recording based on the information about the detected content.

12. An information processing method, comprising:

storing a sights keyword related to stored content;

obtaining and accumulating place-name information corresponding to a current location of an information processing apparatus to construct a place-names log,

in which, for each instance the place-name information is obtained, the place-name information is added as a piece of log information to the place-names log with recording time information indicating in time sequence when the place-name information is added to the place-names log;

narrowing down a sights candidate from the place-names log to extract sights candidate place-name information; and

determining a sights keyword corresponding to the sights-candidate place-name information;

wherein narrowing down the sights candidate from the place-names log includes removing from the place-names log each piece of the log information corresponding to any place-name information appearing on a regular basis in time in the place-names log.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

informing a user that content related to the determined sights keyword is stored.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising:

detecting information about content including sights-candidate place-name information from electronic-program-guide data; and

carrying out a programmed recording based on the information about the detected content.