Sony Corporation

Plat-ease Corporation

Saturn Licensing LLC

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Sky Perfect Jsat Corporation

Kazuhiro Fukuda

Tetsuo Maruyama

Akihiko Ito

Daisuke Kawamura

Ippei Tambata

Tetsu Sumita

Asako Honjo

Hiroaki Nakano

Shusuke Eshita

Naohisa Kitazato

Yasuaki Yamagishi

Kazuto Mugura

Takashi Tsurumoto

Nariaki Satoh

Goro Takaki

Rui Yamagami

Kiyohiro Takenaka

There is provided an information processing device including a score calculation unit that calculates, for one or more events for which a plan is set by one or more of users in a user group composed of the plurality of users capable of sharing information by satisfying a predetermined condition and for which the information is capable of being shared in the user group, a score on a predetermined calculation basis using event information which is information related to the events.

Information processing device, information processing method and terminal device

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a control section that provides, to a terminal of a user, a relationship among a plurality of keywords each as an element constituting a facet that is used as an index for searching for a content, as a facet map, and a facet selection environment that is based on at least one keyword addable to the facet map as a new element of the facet, calculates a usage frequency of each of the keywords in the terminal, and adds a keyword whose calculated usage frequency satisfies a predetermined condition to the facet map as the new element of the facet.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A handheld terminal includes a device communication unit which communicates with at least one or more broadcasting reception apparatus receiving contents and content information about the contents from a content provider and receives the content information from the broadcasting reception apparatus, a content display unit which displays the content information received from the broadcasting reception apparatus, a server communication unit which communicates with an information providing server which manages related information relating to the contents and receives the related information relating to the content information received from the broadcasting reception apparatus from the information providing server, and a related information display unit which displays the related information received from the information providing server.

Handheld terminal, information providing method, information processing program, information providing server, broadcasting reception apparatus, and information providing system

A content list including contents processable by a designated processing device, among the contents to be processed including a specific content managed with respect to each user, is received by a portable terminal from an ECG server, and a content is selected by a user. Then, a processing request for the selected content is transmitted from the portable terminal to the designated device via the ECG server and a device control server, and unit information of the selected content is acquired by the portable terminal and displayed or reproduced. A user can thereby use the content and the unit information by selecting the content using the portable terminal without depending on the content and the processing device.

Information providing apparatus, portable information terminal, content processing device, device control apparatus, content processing system and program

Provided are providing an ECG unit which is formed of content information and related information related thereto, and is linked to another ECG unit through the related information, calculating an association-degree score between the pieces of content information based on a degree of association of an attribute between the pieces of content information, collecting a history of operation performed for making a transition from a link-source-ECG unit to a link-destination-ECG unit, as a usage log of the ECG unit, calculating a transition score between the ECG units in a manner that a weight of a larger correction coefficient is assigned to a number of usage logs, as there are more attributes of content information having low degree of association with each other between the link-source-ECG unit and the link-destination-ECG unit, and generating an ECG unit linked to another ECG unit, based on the association-degree score and the transition score.

Information providing system, information providing method, and program

[Object] To lead a user to various types of information easily with an electronic book as a starting point. [Solving Means] A server apparatus includes a storage, a communication section, and a controller. The storage stores an electronic book obtained by digitizing a book having at least one page in which at least one information item is represented, and associated information that is associated with the information item. The communication section communicates with an external electronic apparatus. The controller generates, when the electronic book is displayed by the external electronic apparatus and the information item of the electronic book is designated, an electronic book unit by adding first metadata to the information item so that display processing of the associated information is executed on the external electronic apparatus, and controls the communication section to transmit the generated electronic book unit to the external electronic apparatus.

Within an electronic book environment, retrieving and displaying content associated with images or text in the electronic book

A screen display apparatus for controlling the size each display area to appropriately display content information of each display area into one display screen. The screen display apparatus includes a selection accept block for accepting selection of first content information displayed in a first display area, a content information acquisition block for acquiring the content information associated with the selected first content information, this content information being second content information located on a layer below the first content information, and, in order to allocate a second display area for displaying the second content information to the display screen, a display area control block for controlling either or both of the first display area and the second display area.

Apparatus, program, and method for displaying content information while controlling display area sizes

Provided is a display control device including a display control unit that, when display information of one content among a plurality of contents is selected on a display screen, creates a next display screen containing display information of at least any of a plurality of contents relevant to the one content, wherein the display information contained in the next display screen is display information of contents according to a selection sequence of a plurality of display information having been selected before among the plurality of contents relevant to the one content.

Display control system, display control device, and display control method

There is provided an information providing apparatus including an ECG scenario storage portion to store an ECG scenario related to a program in association with reference ID, an ECG package storage portion to store reference IDs of ECG scenarios related to programs in association with discrimination ID of an ECG channel allocated to an ECG package in order to provide a collection of information related to programs having a relationship as an ECG package, an ECG package providing portion to acquire discrimination ID of a particular channel from a receiving terminal, extract an ECG package corresponding to the acquired discrimination ID and provide it to the receiving terminal, and an ECG scenario providing portion to acquire reference ID of a particular ECG scenario included in the ECG package from the receiving terminal, extract an ECG scenario corresponding to the acquired reference ID and provide it to the receiving terminal.

Information providing apparatus, information receiving terminal, information providing system, information providing method and program

A video playback apparatus for playing back a recorded program video which is connected with an ECG server for providing information related to a program through a communication network includes a designation information transmitting portion to transmit designation information designating a program containing a specific recorded program video to the ECG server, a related information receiving portion to receive a related information associated with the designated program, which is selected from related information each containing an ECG scenario related to each program video constituting a program and a scheduled time of each program video and stored in association with the program, from the ECG server, and a display/playback control portion to control display of the ECG scenario related to the specific program video in synchronization with playback of the specific program video based on the scheduled time of the program video.

Video playback apparatus, information providing apparatus, information providing system, information providing method and program

A receiving apparatus and method for display of final superimposed scenes from a receiver adapted to receive shared object control information used for forming final superimposed scenes and display final superimposed scenes. The final superimposed scenes are formed by superimposing two or more shared scenes each comprising one or more shared objects. The shared object comprises user-selectable command objects that are separately controllable independent of the shared scenes.

Receiving apparatus and method for display of separately controllable command objects,to create superimposed final scenes

An interactive privilege supply system in which a user terminal device, a privilege supply device, and a product supply device are connected via a network, wherein the product supply device generates privilege data in which a privilege is interlocked with time; the user terminal device generates entry data within a predetermined period of time in accordance with the privilege data and with contingency data, which is contained in program data transmitted from the privilege supply device; and the privilege supply device generates result data, which contains validity period information about product privilege purchase, in accordance with the relationship between the contingency data and the entry data.

Interactive privilege supply system

The information providing device includes the program listing information transmitting portion to transmit program listing information indicating a plurality of currently viewable programs to the receiving device, the related information storage portion to store related information including a plurality of pieces of information concerning a program edited to be sequentially displayed in association with the program, the program designation information receiving portion to receive program designation information designating a selected channel or a program selected or determined based on the program listing information from the receiving device, the related information extracting portion to extract related information corresponding to a program designated by the program designation information from the related information storage portion, and the related information transmitting portion to transmit the extracted related information to the receiving device. The information providing device which effectively provides the information concerning the currently viewable programs with simple operation is thereby provided.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhiro Fukuda