Content providing program, content providing method, and content providing apparatus

• US 9,491,507 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2014
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hayashida, Naoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Alcon, Fernando
• Application Number:
  US14/286,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351836A1
• Time in Patent Office: 900 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments

Abstract

A content providing program causing a computer to execute content provision processing including, acquiring a first viewing situation of a first viewer viewing a provided content in association with time when the content is provided; registering, on the basis of the first viewing situation, as feedback desirable content, missed content in a time segment in which the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content; estimating, on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, a state in which the first viewer is enabled to view the content; and providing the first viewer with the feedback desirable content in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in a viewable state.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a content providing program causing a computer to execute content provision processing comprising:

acquiring a first viewing situation of a first viewer viewing a provided content in association with time when the content is provided;

acquiring second viewing situations of a plurality of second viewers viewing the provided content in association with the time when the content is provided;

evaluating, on the basis of the acquired second viewing situations of the plurality of second viewers, content in a time segment, in which the plurality of second viewers are likely to have viewed the content at own wills of the second viewers, to be content of high importance;

registering feedback desirable content in a time segment being overlapped by a first time segment in which the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, and a second time segment in which the plurality of second viewers are likely to have viewed the content at own wills of the second viewers on the basis of the acquired second viewing situations of the plurality of second viewers;

estimating, on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, a state in which the first viewer is enabled to view the content; and

providing the first viewer with the feedback desirable content in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in a viewable state.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing the content providing program according to claim 1, wherein, in the provision of the feedback desirable content, the feedback desirable content is provided to the first viewer in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in the viewable state and also in which the content importance is low.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing the content providing program according to claim 1, wherein

the content provision processing further comprises

generating a composite content by combining, in the time segment where estimation is made that the first viewer is in the viewable state, the feedback desirable content with content being provided in a time segment in which the content being provided is content of low importance, and

in the provision of the feedback desirable content, the composite content is provided to the first viewer in the time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in the viewable state.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing the content providing program according to claim 1, wherein

the viewing situation includes a viewing receptive level indicating at what degree the viewer is enabled to view the content at own wills of the viewer and also indication a viewing controllable level indicating at what degree the viewer is enable to control the viewing situation of the viewer viewing the content,

in the acquisition of the first viewing situation of the first viewer or acquisition of the second viewing situations of the second viewers, in accordance with a length of time in which an actual visual attention of the viewer stays in a content display region of a display screen during the provision of the content, the viewing receptive level is evaluated to be higher as the staying time is longer, and, in accordance to an event for increasing or reducing an amount of information contact with the content during the provision of the content, the viewing controllable level is evaluated to be higher as the amount of information contact increases, and

in the evaluation of the content importance, a time segment, in which both of the viewing receptive level and the viewing controllable level are high, is evaluated as a time segment, in which the plurality of second viewers are likely to have viewed the content at own wills of the second viewers.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing the content providing program according to claim 4, wherein, in the registration of the missed content as the feedback desirable content, a time segment in which the viewing receptive level is low is evaluated as a time when the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing the content providing program according to claim 4, wherein, in the providing the first viewer with the feedback desirable content, the time segment, in which both of the viewing receptive level and the viewing controllable level are high, is estimated as a time segment, in which the first viewer is in a viewable state.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing the content providing program according to claim 3, wherein,

the viewing situation includes a viewing receptive level indicating at what degree the viewer is enabled to view the content at own wills of the viewer and also indication a viewing controllable level indicating at what degree the viewer is enable to control the viewing situation of the viewer viewing the content,

in the acquisition of the first viewing situation of the first viewer or acquisition of the second viewing situations of the second viewers, in accordance with a length of time in which an actual visual attention of the viewer stays in a content display region of a display screen during the provision of the content, the viewing receptive level is evaluated to be higher as the staying time is longer, and, in accordance to an event for increasing or reducing an amount of information contact with the content during the provision of the content, the viewing controllable level is evaluated to be higher as the amount of information contact increases, and

in the generation of composite content, the time segment, in which both of the viewing receptive level and the viewing controllable level are high, is evaluated as the time segment, in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in the viewable state.

8. A content providing method for causing a computer to execute content provision processing for providing a viewer with content, the content provision processing comprising:

acquiring a first viewing situation of a first viewer viewing a provided content in association with time when the content is provided;

acquiring second viewing situations of a plurality of second viewers viewing the provided content in association with the time when the content is provided;

evaluating, on the basis of the acquired second viewing situations of the plurality of second viewers, content in a time segment, in which the plurality of second viewers are likely to have viewed the content at own wills of the second viewers, to be content of high importance;

registering feedback desirable content in a time segment being overlapped by a first time segment in which the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, and a second time segment in which the plurality of second viewers are likely to have viewed the content at own wills of the second viewers on the basis of the acquired second viewing situations of the plurality of second viewers;

estimating, on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, a state in which the first viewer is enabled to view the content; and

providing the first viewer with the feedback desirable content in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in a viewable state.

9. A content providing apparatus that provides a viewer with content, the content providing apparatus comprising:

a first viewing situation acquiring unit configured to acquire a first viewing situation of a first viewer viewing a provided content in association with time when the content is provided;

a second viewing situation acquiring unit configured to acquire second viewing situations of a plurality of second viewers viewing the provided content in association with the time when the content is provided;

an evaluating unit configured to evaluate, on the basis of the acquired second viewing situations of the plurality of second viewers, content in a time segment, in which the plurality of second viewers are likely to have viewed the content at own wills of the second viewers, to be content of high importance;

a feedback desirable content registering unit configured to register feedback desirable content in a time segment being overlapped by a first time segment in which the first viewer is likely to have failed to view the content on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, and a second time segment in which the plurality of second viewers are likely to have viewed the content at own wills of the second viewers on the basis of the acquired second viewing situations of the plurality of second viewers

a viewable state estimating unit configured to estimate, on the basis of the first viewing situation of the first viewer, a state in which the first viewer is enabled to view the content; and

a feedback desirable content providing unit configured to provide the first viewer with the feedback desirable content in a time segment in which estimation is made that the first viewer is in a viewable state.