Sony Corporation

Plat-ease Corporation

Other

Keio University

Sky Perfect Jsat Corporation

Ecd-anr Energy Conversion Company

Tetsuo Maruyama

Kazuhiro Fukuda

Akihiko Ito

Tetsu Sumita

Asako Honjo

Kaori Wada

Hiroaki Nakano

Ippei Tambata

Daisuke Kawamura

Shusuke Eshita

Yasuaki Yamagishi

Takashi Tsurumoto

Masaomi Yamamoto

Der-Jeou Chou

Masahisa Goto

Ichiro Yasukura

Takahi Otobe

Masao Tsuchiya

Yutaka Choji

Tomoki Shirakawa

Masanori Ono

Kiyohiro Takenaka

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a trigger recognition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a trigger and recognize predetermined trigger information included in the captured image, and a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the predetermined trigger information recognized by the trigger recognition unit.

Information processing apparatus, content providing method, and computer 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

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 an information processing apparatus, including: storage configured to store a rarity level of each of a plurality of pieces of content, and access history of a user, the plurality of pieces of content being accessed by the user; and a controller configured to determine, based on the stored access history, rarity levels of a predetermined number or more of pieces of content, the pieces of content being accessed by the user in a predetermined unit time, to calculate a preference level of the user based on the determined rarity level, and to create information showing the calculated preference level.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

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

There is provided a content usage managing apparatus including a memory unit to store the first relation between a POP and one or more contents included in the POP and the second relation between the POPs linked via a content in a package which includes two or more POPs, a selection unit to select the first content out of contents included in the first POP of the package, a specifying unit to specify the first webpage including the first content, and an examination unit to examine whether the first POP and one or more contents included in the first POP satisfy the first relation and to examine whether the first POP and the second POP linked to the first POP via the second content satisfy the second relation on at least any one of the first webpage or one or more webpages linked to the first webpage.

Content usage managing apparatus, content usage managing method and program

This invention relates to a method for isolating smooth muscle stem cells derived from mammalian smooth muscle comprising bringing mammalian smooth muscle cells into contact with a fluorescence-labeled anti-CD45 antibody, anti-CD34 antibody, and anti-CD49f antibody, and isolating cells that would not bind to the anti-CD45 antibody but would bind to the anti-CD34 antibody and the anti-CD49f antibody.

Method for isolating smooth muscle stem cells

An ECG server, which provides program contents-related ECG information to a television terminal and a user terminal, comprises a storage unit that stores the program contents-related ECG information, a configuring unit that configures an ECG module in correspondence to the program contents, made up with a plurality of sets of ECG information including tuning information to be used to allow the television terminal to select the program contents, a setting unit that sets timing information, which will allow the ECG module to be provided to the user terminal by linking with consignment of the program contents and a providing unit that provides, in conformance to the timing information, the ECG module to an user terminal capable of providing the tuning information to the television terminal. By utilizing the ECG server, the ratings of the program contents can be improved and the program contents can be more easily selected.

Information providing apparatus, information acquisition terminal, broadcast reception terminal, information providing system, information providing method and program

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.

Information providing system, receiving device, information providing device, information providing method and program

The information receiving apparatus includes the related information receiving portion to receive content-related information, the mode selecting portion to select a link condition between the content and the related information, the related information request transmitting portion to transmit content designation information when the link condition is switched to the link mode or the content is switched in the link mode, and the display control portion to display the content, related information and link condition. The information providing apparatus includes the related information storage portion to store the related information associating with the content, the related information request receiving portion to receive the content designation information, the related information extracting portion to extract the related information corresponding to the content, and the related information transmitting portion to transmit the related information. This provides the information providing system enabling browsing of the related information with or without a link to the content.

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

An information receiving terminal includes a designation information transmitting portion to transmit designation information designating a program and a related information receiving portion. The information providing apparatus includes a related information storage portion to store related information containing a plurality of information to which each provision period is settable in association with a program, a designation information receiving portion, a related information extracting portion to extract the related information appropriate for a designated program, and a related information transmitting portion to transmit the extracted related information. The information receiving terminal or the information providing apparatus includes an information selecting portion to select information to which a provision period corresponding to a provision time point of the related information is set from a plurality of information constituting the received/extracted related information as information constituting the related information. An information providing system effectively providing program-related information is provided.

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

There is provided an information providing apparatus that can be connected to a broadcast receiving terminal that displays electronic contents guide (ECG) information including attribute information expressing contents of a program, including an ECG information storage part that stores ECG information, a viewer EID processing part that processes viewer emotional identification (EID) information as emotional information expressing a program preference of a viewer, a program EID processing part that creates a program EID as emotional information corresponding to contents of the program; an ECG unit constitution part that constitutes an ECG unit by correlating the ECG information with the program based on the attribute information and correlates the program EID with the ECG unit, an EID conformity determination part that determines the ECG unit provided to the broadcast receiving terminal and an ECG unit providing part that provides the determined ECG unit to the broadcast receiving terminal.

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

An ECG server for providing ECG information about a program to broadcast receiving terminals and user terminals includes an ECG information storage unit for storing the ECG information including attribute information, an emotion information acquisition unit for acquiring emotion information representing emotions of viewers about content of the program displayed by the broadcast receiving terminals via at least one of the information acquisition terminals, an emotion information analysis unit for analyzing at least one piece of the acquired emotion information, and an ECG unit configuration unit for configuring an ECG unit by associating at least one piece of the ECG information with the program and associating at least one piece of the acquired emotion information with the program based on attribute information of the ECG information to suit analysis results of the emotion information. Accordingly, viewers can be lured to view the program by inviting viewers to view the program.

Information providing device, information acquisition terminal, broadcast receiving terminal, information providing system, information providing method, and program

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuo Maruyama