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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeyuki Mitani, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention aims to encourage the input of comment on content requiring the viewing user's input and prevent the comment from failing to be input in a case where the content is displayed and the viewing user inputs the comment on the content. Therefore, according to the present invention, when the content is displayed on a display apparatus, the viewing user of the content is photographed to capture photographed image data. A face image included in the displayed content and the face image of the viewing user included in the photographed image data are compared, and, if they are similar, a comment input area is displayed to encourage the viewing user to input a comment.