Content and posted-information time-series link method, and information processing terminal

• US 9,609,398 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2013
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Itamoto, Shinichi, Tanaka, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Flynn, Nathan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Castro, Alfonso
• Application Number:
  US14/381,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20150128168A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,489 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/18 Arrangements for synchronising broadcast or distribution via plural systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/37 for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/40 for identifying broadcast time
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

An information processing terminal includes an operation part to receive a user'"'"'s operation, an output part to play back an arbitrarily input content while outputting posted information which is posted on the WEB in connection with the content, and a controller to output a content at a playback time, correlated to a posted time of posted information selected via the user'"'"'s operation, to the output part with reference to a time table which stores the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information relating to the content. The controller aligns a plurality of posted information, correlated to a desired content, in an order of posted times on the screen. Upon receiving a user'"'"'s scroll operation, it is possible to scroll and display a plurality of posted information at the predetermined position on the screen.

Claims

1. An information processing terminal configured to receive and store at least one content in association with a server configured to store a plurality of posted information along with a plurality of posted times, comprising:

a touch panel comprising an operation part and

an output part configured to play back the content along with the plurality of posted information stored in the server, wherein the output part allows a user to output user'"'"'s posted information correlated to the content to the server; and

a controller configured to determine a playback position of the content, correlated to the posted time of the posted information selected from among the plurality of posted information by the user with reference to a time table stored in a storage unit of the information processing terminal,

wherein the storage unit is configured to store the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information correlated to the content, wherein the controller determines the playback position of the content by subtracting a retrogressive time value from the posted time of the posted information, and

wherein the controller increases the retrogressive time value based on a number of posted information being posted for each content.

2. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, wherein the output part has a display screen including a content display area configured to display the content and a posted information display area configured to display the plurality of posted information, wherein the controller arranges the plurality of posted information in the posted information display area in a time-series manner according to an order of the plurality of posted times and wherein, when the operation part receives a user'"'"'s scroll operation to scroll the plurality of posted information in a time-series direction, the controller sends to the output part the content at the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information being displayed at a predetermined position in the posted information display area of the display screen.

3. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when the operation part receives a user'"'"'s operation to select the posted information from among the plurality of posted information displayed on the output part, the controller sends to the output part the content beginning from a previous playback position preceding the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information by a predetermined time depending on the number of posted information being posted for each unit time.

4. The information processing terminal according to claim 1, wherein the time table stores a playback position of a recorded content corresponding to a broadcast content in connection with a broadcast time of the broadcast content, and wherein the controller sends the posted information, being posted at the broadcast time of the broadcast content, to the output part while sending the recorded content, beginning from the playback position correlated to the broadcast time of the broadcast content, to the output part.

5. An information processing method adapted to an information processing terminal, the information processing terminal including a touch panel, a controller, and a storage unit, the information processing terminal being configured to receive and store at least one content in connection with a server configured to store a plurality of posted information along with a plurality of posted times, comprising:

playing back the content along with the plurality of posted information stored in the server;

outputting, to the server, user'"'"'s posted information being posted by a user in connection with the content; and

determining a playback position of the content, correlated to the posted time of the posted information selected from among the plurality of posted information by the user with reference to a time table, stored in the storage unit of the information processing terminal, configured to store the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information correlated to the content, wherein the playback position is determined by subtracting a retrogressive time value from the posted time of the posted information,

wherein the controller increases the retrogressive time value based on a number of posted information being posted for each content.

6. A content and posted information linking method adapted to an information processing terminal, the information processing terminal comprising a touch panel, a controller, and a storage unit, the information processing terminal in connection with a server configured to store a plurality of posted information along with a plurality of posted times, the content and posted information linking method comprising:

acquiring the plurality of posted information in connection with the content from the server;

displaying the plurality of posted information in a time-series manner according to an order of the plurality of posted times;

determining a playback position of the content, correlated to the posted time of the posted information selected from among the plurality of posted information by a user with reference to a time table, stored in the storage unit, configured to store the playback position of the content in connection with the posted time of the posted information, wherein the playback position is determined by subtracting a retrogressive time value from the posted time of the posted information, and wherein the controller increases the retrogressive time value based on a number of posted information being posted for each content; and

playing back the content at the playback position.

7. The content and posted information linking method according to claim 6, wherein the touch panel has a display screen including a content display area configured to display the content and a posted information display area configured to display the plurality of posted information and wherein, upon receiving a user'"'"'s scroll operation to scroll the plurality of posted information correlated to the content in a time-series direction, the content is played back at the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information being displayed at a predetermined position in the content display area of the display screen.

8. The content and posted information linking method according to claim 6, wherein due to a user'"'"'s operation to select the posted information from among the plurality of posted information being displayed on a display screen, the content is played back from a previous playback position preceding the playback position correlated to the posted time of the posted information by a predetermined time depending on the number of posted information being posted for each unit time.