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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2008
Tetsuo Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsu Sumita, Tokyo, JP;
Kaori Wada, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Plat-Ease Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.