Sony Corporation

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Saturn Licensing LLC

Nobuyuki Fujiwara

Tatsuya Narahara

Toshiharu Yabe

Motoki Tsunokawa

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Hideaki Okamura

Tsutomu Seki

Yasushi Miyajima

Hideo Nagasaka

Steven Friedlander

Kenichiro Kobayashi

Mamoru Tokashiki

Shigeru Inoue

Tadaaki Kimijima

Takashi Tominaga

Toshimasa Miyoshi

Hideki Asazu

Dipendu Saha

Yasufumi Shinagawa

Kazuhito Sumiyoshi

Prem Aanand Venkatesan

Paul Douglas Heavener, Jr

Mari Saito

Shunji Yoshimura

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Noboru Murabayashi

Hiroshige Okamoto

Taro Suito

Mitsuhiro Miyazaki

Hiroyuki Koike

Ryo Takaoka

Tomoyuki Yamamoto

Yasushi Tsuruta

Junya Ohde

Daisuke Negi

Kazuhiro Yanase

Takashi Karimoto

Yukihiro Isono

Yoshiaki Arishima

Rui Sugiuchi

Takashi Murayama

Yasuaki Yorikane

Toyohiko Shibata

A consumer electronics (CE) device includes at least one processor and at least one computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor. The medium is programmed with instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute logic including detecting the position of the CE device and sending a command to at least one apparatus at a location distanced from the CE device to establish at least one configuration of the apparatus. The command is sent responsive to a determination that the CE device is passing a predefined distance from a location.

System and method for sending messages and commands to a device at a location distanced from the sending device

An information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring means for acquiring focused content information that is information relating to a predetermined content and includes at least any one of descriptions of the predetermined content having information displayed on a display means, a word related to the descriptions, a genre, a title, and cast of the predetermined content; a retrieving means for using content information about the other content that includes at least any one of descriptions of the other content different from the predetermined content, a genre, a title, and cast of the other content and the acquired focused content information to retrieve a content having a high degree of relation to focused content information in the other contents; and a specification information generating means for generating specification information that specifies the resulted content of retrieval based on the result of retrieval done by the retrieving means.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

Disclosed is a content-view supporting system to recommend to a user a clear result of searched contents, based on a group of similar users' favorite programs, through a user-basis collaborative filtering process. The system selects similar users whose program view history is similar to that of a recommended user, maps the program view history in a collaborative filtering matrix registers, in the collaborative filtering matrix, a virtual user whose program view history includes a group of hit programs obtained based on a search condition served for realizing a predetermined search topic. The system also counts the numbers of reservations or views achieved by each user according to program content based on the program view history, in the collaborative filtering matrix, which counted numbers are set as matching numbers, and outputs a search result representing a recommendation list of the contents arrayed in the descending order of matching number.

Information processor, information processing method and computer program

System method for sending messages and commands to a device at a location distanced from the sending device

An information processing system includes a terminal device and a server device. When recommending subsidiary contents, recommended contents are extracted at the server, and recommended content information is returned to the terminal device. At the terminal device, a recommendation order is set regarding the recommended contents which the recommended content information indicates, upon which the recommended contents are presented, such that recommended content extracting processing and recommendation order setting processing is dispersed among the server device and terminal device.

Information processing system and information processing method

An information processing device includes: a storage management unit configured to store and manage content files; a metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain metadata of a recommendation source content; a content selecting unit configured to select, from content files managed by the storage management unit, recommended contents to be recommended to a recommendation-receiving user, based on metadata obtained by the metadata obtaining unit; an information obtaining unit configured to obtain held content information, which is information regarding held content files which a recommendation-receiving user is deemed to hold; and a recommendation order setting unit configured to set a recommendation order, regarding recommended contents selected by the content selecting unit, based on metadata added to held content files indicated by the held content information obtained by the information obtaining unit.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An information processing apparatus includes: a content-list creating unit for selecting, on the basis of a predetermined subject, contents out of recorded program contents, information contents concerning receivable program contents, contents acquired from an outside, and contents stored in the information processing apparatus in advance to thereby create a content list; a content-list selecting unit for selecting out of plural content lists created by the content-list creating unit, on the basis of at least one of contents of the content lists and a situation during user operation, plural content lists to be displayed; and a display control unit for causing a predetermined display unit to display the plural content lists selected by the content-list selecting unit.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program for generating content lists

An information processing apparatus which allows a user to select programs that are interesting to the user and are current topics of conversation. The information processing apparatus includes: a first setting section for extracting a keyword from article information described in an RSS format and being delivered to the user, and giving a ranking to the extracted keyword; and a second setting section for acquiring at least one of program information on a program being received and program information on a recorded program, and giving a ranking to the program including, in the program information, the same keyword as a keyword having as far as a predetermined ranking among the keywords having rankings given by the first setting section.

Information processing apparatus, method and program

The present invention concerns an information processing apparatus, a method thereof, and a program for allowing the audience to easily search for intended television programs. A server stores characteristic words extracted from television program information in a characteristic word file. The server also stores the extracted characteristic words associated with IDs for identifying television programs in an association file. When the audience selects a characteristic word as an interested word from the characteristic word file, the server reads the ID of a television program corresponding to the selected characteristic word from the association file. The server reads television program information corresponding to the read ID from a television program information file. The server then provides the read television program information to the audience. The present invention can be applied to a recording/reproducing apparatus and a television receiver to provide intended television programs.

Information processing apparatus and method as well as software program

An interface receives a file containing information about a plurality of characteristic words representing characteristics of television programs. A display section of an information processing apparatus displays one of the plurality of characteristic words in a different color than an other of the plurality of characteristic words. A communication section allows a selection of the one of the plurality of characteristic words. The interface transmits information about the one of the plurality of characteristic words to a recording and playback apparatus upon the selection. Further, the interface receives television program information about one of the television programs from the recording and playback apparatus in response to the information about the one of the plurality of characteristic words.

Information processing apparatus and method, and program

An information processing apparatus and an information processing method for providing the results of searches of broadcast content. A search space processing section acquires a search keyword based on search information coming from a user terminal, and searches a search keyword dictionary database for search-related keyword data related to the search keyword. On the basis of the search keyword and search-related keyword data, the search space processing section generates a search keyword space and submits the generated space to a correction process. A search processing section compares the corrected search keyword space, EPG data, and an EPG keyword space for a match. A search display processing section prepares a list of display-ready information from the result of the matching and sends the list to the user terminal.

Information processing apparatus and method

An image processing apparatus includes: a generation unit configured to generate image signals for displaying a plurality of screens on one display surface; an operation signal acquisition unit configured to acquire an operation signal from a user; and a control unit configured to scale a focused one of the plurality of screens, when the operation signal common to the plurality of screens to scale the screen is acquired from the user.

Image processing apparatus, method and recording medium

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Kanagawa, Japan

Nobuyuki Fujiwara