Panasonic Corporation

Takahiro Higashimura

Kenji Hisatomi

Yoichi Ikeda

Shigenori Maeda

Shogo Hamasaki

Takashi Nishimori

A communication assistance device () enables smooth and active communication between users, and includes a topic node generation unit () that calculates a topic appropriateness value based on the number of pieces of content from which meta information has been extracted or the number of times each piece of content including the meta information has been viewed, and generates a first topic node including the meta information and the topic appropriateness value, an integrated topic node generation unit () that obtains first topic nodes for a plurality of users, and generates, for every item of meta information, an integrated topic node storing the topic appropriateness value corresponding to each user, a topic node expansion unit () that generates an expanded topic node as a new topic node based on the item of meta information for the integrated topic node, a common-topic-candidate extraction unit () that extracts a common topic candidate between the users from the integrated topic node or the expanded topic node, a display unit () that displays the common topic candidate, and an input unit () that receives input of at least one of the displayed common topic candidates.

Communication assistance device, communication assistance method, and communication assistance program

A relevance ratio adding unit () provides each landmark with a weight value according to the degree of relevancy with a shot still picture, using: the distance between each landmark and the shooting location, received from the landmark distance calculating unit (); and a distance HL between the shooting location and the photographer's residential address, received from the parameter obtaining unit. A landmark identifying unit (): designates one or several landmarks to be added to the still picture out of the landmarks with a weight value provided by the relevance ratio adding unit; and writes the designated landmark in a predetermined position of the picture data of the still pictures.

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Nara, Japan

Takahiro Higashimura