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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2003
Applicants:
Yuko Tsusaka, Osaka, JP;
Hirokazu Tokuda, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiaki Iwata, Moriguchi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A content distribution system according to the present invention accepts content request information from a user terminal, and detects and extracts pieces of stream data of programs and commercial messages based on a keyword contained in the content request information. When splicing an extracted piece of stream data of the program with an extracted piece of stream data of the commercial message, a transition effect is added to a splicing point therebetween. A line of stream data that is generated by splicing the pieces of stream data is distributed to the user terminal.