Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Jun Sasaki

Hiroyuki Nakamura

Kenji Sakamoto

Ryuhsuke Watanabe

Satoshi Matsuyama

Ryusuke Watanabe

Akio Uemichi

A program search device is configured to extract a program using search condition attribute information of the program. The device includes a unit storing information concerning the storage condition, and a display control to control display of a list that includes both search condition information and a program list. The display control highlights a search condition as most recently stored in the storing unit.

Content notifying device, notifying method, and program

A conventional contents-watching device, etc. calculate users' tastes of contents only on the basis of watching frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. In order to solve the problem set forth above, the present invention proposes a contents-watching device that calculates a taste value by normalizing a watching index indicative of the number of contents-watching times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-watching chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for watching recommendation, and has a function to calculate watching recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute.

Contents watching device and contents recommending method

There is provided an AV server device in a home network for enabling transmission/reception of an AV content between digital AV apparatuses connected with communication interfaces of different standards while protecting copyright. The AV server device includes an HDD () for recording a content and its attribute information; a format conversion portion () for converting the format of the content; and a plurality of communication interfaces () for transmitting/receiving a content to/from an external apparatus through the HDD (). When receiving a reproduction and output request of a content from the external apparatus, a CPU () judges whether the content can be reproduced or not based on the standard information and copyright protection information of the communication interface of a recording source included in the attribute information of the content, existence of authentication of copyright protection, and the standard information of the communication interface of reproduction output destination, and then delivers a content which can be reproduced and output after performing data conversion thereof to a format which can be received by the external apparatus of a request source.

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Osaka, Japan

Jun Sasaki