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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2009
Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain program information on programs that are to be broadcast in a predetermined time period; an extraction unit configured to extract keywords indicating the content of the programs from text data contained in the program information; a storage unit configured to prestore theme definition information containing information on the keywords; a theme identifying unit configured to identify which theme a predetermined program belongs to on the basis of the keyword and the theme definition information; and a rate-of-change computation unit configured to compute, for each of the identified themes, a rate of change of the number of times a program belonging to the identified theme is broadcast on a first day in the predetermined time period to the number of times the program is broadcast on a second day.