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Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2011
Applicants:

Kazushi Ikeda, Saitama, JP;

Gen Hattori, Saitama, JP;

Kazunori Matsumoto, Saitama, JP;

Chihiro Ono, Saitama, JP;

Inventors:

Kazushi Ikeda, Saitama, JP;

Gen Hattori, Saitama, JP;

Kazunori Matsumoto, Saitama, JP;

Chihiro Ono, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30038 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of selecting a factor for estimating characteristics of viewers who view a same content is disclosed. This method includes: storing a multi-layered hierarchal list of attribute words expressing viewer attributes, each of which is a candidate of the factor; extracting the attribute words from the same content; generating a first vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in the same content; for a successively-selected one of the attribute words, successively generating a second vector indicative of frequencies with which the attribute words occur in ones of sets of learned-text information which contain the successively-selected attribute word; calculating a similarity score between the vectors on a per-attribute-word basis; and selecting one of the attribute words as the factor, which is associated with subordinate attribute words on a lower layer, based on a dispersion level of the similarity scores calculated for the subordinate attribute words.


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