Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10075544-B2
Application number	US-201414785276-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2014
Priority date	Apr 30, 2013
Publication date	Sep 11, 2018
Grant date	Sep 11, 2018

Abstract

[Object] To associate information generated on the basis of an activity that is carried out by a user with respect to a content with the content, thereby effectively using the information.
[Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an activity detection unit configured to detect an activity of a user who currently plays back a content; a tag generation unit configured to generate tag information on the basis of information on the activity; and a tag association unit configured to associate the tag information with one or more positions in the content, the one or more positions corresponding to the activity.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
an activity detection circuitry configured to detect an activity of a user who currently plays back a video content;
a tag generation circuitry configured to generate tag information on the basis of information on the activity;
a tag association circuitry configured to associate the tag information with one or more positions on a screen in the video content, the one or more positions corresponding to the activity,
wherein the tag association circuitry associates the tag information with information on a region corresponding to the positions on the screen, wherein the region includes a display region recognized as a subject and associates the tag information with information on the subject;
a tag information display control circuitry configured to display the information on the subject as rewritable information which indicates that the subject has not been identified, and
rewrite, by the user, the rewritable information as a name for the subject and input a comment,
wherein the tag association circuitry determines information to be associated with the tag information on the basis of the name, wherein the name is determined to be not sufficient,
corrects the name of the subject with which the tag information is associated, and displays the corrected name,
wherein the tag association circuitry generates the tag information on the basis of the inputted comment and corrected name and associates the tag information with the subject,
a communication service provision circuitry configured to provide a communication service to a plurality of users who have executed activities corresponding to a plurality of pieces of tag information associated with a common position in the content.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the activity detection circuitry detects that the user has submitted a comment, and wherein the tag generation circuitry generates the tag information on the basis of text included in the comment.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , the activity detection circuitry detects that the user has submitted a comment to social media.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the activity detection circuitry detects that the user has accessed information other than the content, and wherein the tag generation circuitry generates the tag information on the basis of the accessed information.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the tag generation circuitry generates the tag information including a link to the accessed information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tag association circuitry associates the plurality of pieces of tag information with one or more playback positions in the content that progresses with time, and wherein the information processing apparatus further includes a playback control circuitry configured to play back the content in a manner that a range including the one or more playback positions is repeated while the user uses the communication service.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the activity detection circuitry detects statement of the user in the communication service, and wherein the tag generation circuitry further generates the tag information on the basis of text included in the statement.

8. The information processing apparatus according to the activity detection circuitry detects the activity including specification of the position on the screen.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tag information display control circuitry determines the information on the subject with which the tag information is associated on the basis of information on the subject associated with another tag information associated with a position close to the one or more positions in the content, the one or more positions corresponding to the activity.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tag information display control circuitry determines the information on the subject with which the tag information is associated on the basis of information extracted from an image of the region.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tag association circuitry associates the tag information with one or more playback positions in a video content that progresses with time, and wherein the information processing apparatus further includes a tag information display control circuitry configured to display the tag information on a playback screen of the video content by using one or more capture images of the video content in the one or more playback positions.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the tag information display control circuitry further displays the tag information on the playback screen by using an icon indicating a type of information included in the tag information.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 , further comprising: a playback control circuitry configured to, in a case where the tag information displayed on the playback screen is selected, cause playback of the video content to jump to a playback position corresponding to the selected tag information.

14. An information processing method comprising:
detecting an activity of a user who currently plays back a content;
generating tag information on the basis of information on the activity; and
associating the tag information with one or more positions on a screen in the content, the one or more positions corresponding to the activity;
associating the tag information with information on a region corresponding to the positions on the screen, wherein the region includes a display region recognized as a subject;
associating the tag information with information on the subject;
displaying the information on the subject as rewritable information which indicates that the subject has not been identified;
rewriting, by the user, the rewritable information as a name for the subject and inputting a comment;
determining information to be associated with the tag information on the basis of the name, wherein the name is determined to be not sufficient;
correcting the name of the subject with which the tag information is associated;
displaying the corrected name; and
generating the tag information on the basis of the inputted comment and corrected name and
associating the tag information with the subject; and
providing a communication service to a plurality of users who have executed activities corresponding to a plurality of pieces of tag information associated with a common position in the content.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the tag association circuitry displays the corrected name as a rewritable name with an indication that the corrected name is unreliable, wherein the tag information display control circuitry is configured to rewrite, by the user, the rewritable name as a reliable name for the subject, and wherein the tag information display control circuitry displays information indicating that the reliable name of the subject is reliable.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Sutou Yasuhiro
• Kitano Hiroaki
• Hori Shotaro
• Ito Taiji
• Natsume Tetsu
• Oshima Koichi
• Mizumura Hironari
• Takagi Yoshihiro
• Sakuma Yasuo

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N21/84

  Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73)} · CPC title

• H04N21/4316

  for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window · CPC title

• H04N21/4788

  communicating with other users, e.g. chatting {(arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)} · CPC title