Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Toshiroh Mukai

Shinichiro Ota

Masayuki Nakazawa

Hironori Inoue

Sunao Yamaguchi

Yu Matsumoto

A content recommendation apparatus selects an application for executing a content, by referring to a view history corresponding to a prime time, selects, as recommendation contents in the prime time, more contents that are executed by the selected application than contents that are executed by an application other than the selected application, and outputs recommendation-content information about the selected recommendation contents. The content recommendation apparatus recommends a suitable content timely.

Content recommendation apparatus, method of content recommendation, and content recommendation system

In a content display device () of the present invention, a scrolling processing section () causes a scrolling movement of a currently-displayed shelf face () in a lengthwise direction to be displayed in a case where a second input operation instructing display of the currently-displayed shelf face () in a different position in the lengthwise direction is carried out via an input operation section (). A rotation processing section () causes rotation of a bookshelf object () on a central axis of the bookshelf object () to be displayed in a case where a first input operation instructing display of a shelf face () different from the currently-displayed shelf face () is carried out via the input operation section ().

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Sakai, Japan

Toshiroh Mukai