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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2012
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Ryuji Inoue, Osaka, JP;
Minehisa Nagata, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrence, CA (US);
Abstract
A content selection apparatus selects a target content item which is a content item to be presented to a user, from a plurality of content items. The plurality of content items are sorted into a plurality of management units according to a creation date and time of each content item. The content selection apparatus includes a selection unit that selects a predetermined number of management units in ascending order of the number of sorted content items, and selects a content item that belongs to the selected management units as the target content item.