Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 9,405,440 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2013
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tateno, Kei
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Hua
• Application Number:
  US13/859,103
• Publication Number:
  US 20130318460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a statistical amount selecting unit that selects, from a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users, a statistical amount to be used based on distribution of each of the statistical amounts, a priority setting unit that sets priorities of a plurality of users, based on the selected statistical amount, and a display control unit that controls display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

at least one processor including circuitry configured to

calculate a relative standard deviation functioning as an index to compare distribution of each of a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users;

select, from the plurality of statistical amounts, a statistical amount to be used based on the distribution of each of the statistical amounts;

set priorities of a plurality of users, based on a value designated with respect to the selected statistical amount being within a range of the designated value; and

control display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry further performs control in a manner that a user interface for designating the value of the selected statistical amounts is displayed together with the plurality of users or the plurality of pieces of information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry further controls display order of the plurality of users or the plurality of pieces of information, based on the priorities.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to extract a user or information to be displayed, from the plurality of users or the plurality of pieces of information, based on the priorities.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry further performs control in a manner that a value of the selected statistical amount of each user is displayed together with the plurality of users.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry further sets high a priority of a user whose similarity of the selected statistical amount with the plurality of users or users viewing the plurality of pieces of information are high.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the selects circuitry further selects the statistical amount to be used, based on an extent of the distribution of the statistical amounts in the plurality of users with respect to distribution of the statistical amounts in a specific group including the plurality of users.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the features of users include number of friends, number of followers, number of followees, number of content remarks, number of intra-genre content remarks, content reproduction frequency, intra-genre content reproduction frequency, a specialty level, and a property.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry further controls display of a larger icon for a user with a higher priority than for a user with a lower priority.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry further controls display of an icon of a user with a higher priority to be overlapping an icon for a user with a lower priority.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the circuitry further controls display of a slider for selecting a value of the statistical amount.

12. An information processing method, the method being executed by a processor, and comprising:

calculating a relative standard deviation functioning as an index to compare distribution of each of a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users;

selecting, from the plurality of statistical amounts, a statistical amount to be used based on the distribution of each of the statistical amounts;

setting priorities of a plurality of users, based on a value designated with respect to the selected statistical amount being within a range of the designated value; and

controlling display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer having circuitry, causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

calculating a relative standard deviation functioning as an index to compare distribution of each of a plurality of statistical amounts showing features of users;

selecting, from the plurality of statistical amounts, a statistical amount to be used based on the distribution of each of the statistical amounts;

setting priorities of a plurality of users, based on a value designed with respect to the selected statistical amount being within a range of the designated value; and

controlling display of the plurality of users or a plurality of pieces of information from the plurality of users, based on the set priorities.