# US 2014/0157149 A1 · Information processing device and information processing method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0157149 A1 - Document ID: US20140157149A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/128,085 - Filed: 2012-04-06 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2011-06-29 - Assignees: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. - Inventors: Manabu Nishizawa; Takashi Hayasaka; Kensaku Ishizuka; Hiroyuki Yamamoto - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140157149A1 ## CPC - H04L 51/52: for supporting social networking services - G06F 3/0485: Scrolling or panning - H04N 21/4312: {involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations} - H04N 21/4316: {for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window} - H04N 21/4334: {Recording operations (recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27)} - H04N 21/44226: {on social networks} - H04N 21/4788: 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)} - H04N 21/488: Data services, e.g. news ticker {(systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71)} - H04N 21/4882: {for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders (arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895)} - H04N 21/4886: {for displaying a ticker, e.g. scrolling banner for news, stock exchange, weather data} - H04N 21/6582: {Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number (arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38)} - H04N 21/8456: {by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments} - H04N 21/8126: {involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts} - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract An information processing apparatus according to embodiments includes: a comment acquisition unit for acquiring a comment of a viewer for a program from an external posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the content of a program, is instantly posted; and a comment displaying unit for displaying the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in a live information display area located below an image display screen for displaying an image of the program. The comment displaying unit scroll-displays, in a horizontal direction, a comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in either a first lane or a second lane of the live information display area. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information processing apparatus comprising: an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of image content from an external device; an image displaying unit configured to display an image of the image content on a predetermined display device in accordance with the acquired image information; a comment acquisition unit configured to acquire a comment of a viewer for image content from a posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the image content of the moment of a viewer viewing the image content, is instantly posted; a comment displaying unit configured to display the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit on the display device displaying the image of the image content; and a comment storage unit configured to store the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit until the comment is displayed on the display device, wherein, when a first comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit at a certain point in time is stored in the comment storage unit in an undisplayed state and the comment acquisition unit acquires a second comment, which is posted after the first comment, at a time point later than the certain point, the comment displaying unit displays the second comment before the first comment. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a comment management unit configured to delete a comment that is stored in the comment storage unit and that has passed a predetermined time after the posting of the comment to the posting site without displaying the comment on the display device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the comment displaying unit displays a comment on a screen of the display device while scrolling the comment and the comment is longer than a predetermined number of characters, the comment displaying unit starts displaying a subsequent comment in the middle of displaying the comment. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the comment displaying unit displays a comment on the screen of the display device while scrolling the comment and increases the scroll speed of the comment as the number of the characters of the comment stored in the comment storage unit becomes larger. ### Claim 5 An information processing apparatus comprising: an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of image content from an external device; an image displaying unit configured to display an image of the image content on a predetermined display device in accordance with the acquired image information; a comment acquisition unit configured to acquire a comment of a viewer for image content from a posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the image content of the moment of a viewer viewing the image content, is instantly posted; and a comment displaying unit configured to display the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit while scrolling the comment in a comment display area of the display device displaying the image of the image content, wherein, when the comment to be displayed in the comment display area is longer than a predetermined number of characters, the comment displaying unit starts displaying a subsequent comment in the middle of displaying the comment. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the comment display area includes a plurality of lanes for scrolling and displaying a comment, and wherein the comment displaying unit displays the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in any one of the plurality of lanes in the comment display area. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein, when there are a first comment and a second comment to be displayed sequentially in a single specific lane in the comment display area and the first comment is longer than a predetermined number of characters, the comment displaying unit starts displaying the second comment in the single lane in the middle of displaying the first comment in the single lane. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the comment displaying unit displays the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in a comment display area, which is an area located above or below a display area for the image content, on the screen of the display device displaying the image of the image content. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image information acquisition unit acquires image information of a program being broadcast from a tuner. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the posting site includes a search interface for searching for a comment from an external device and a streaming interface for autonomously providing a comment from the posting site, wherein the comment acquisition unit acquires a comment via the search interface and a comment via the streaming interface, and wherein the comment displaying unit displays a comment acquired via at least one of the search interface and the streaming interface. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein, when a single comment posted to the posting site is acquired via the search interface and the same comment is acquired via the streaming interface, the comment displaying unit displays the single comment acquired via either one of the interfaces and hides the single comment acquired via the other interface. ### Claim 12 An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising: acquiring image information of image content from an external device; displaying an image of the image content on a predetermined display device in accordance with the acquired image information; acquiring a comment of a viewer for image content from a posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the image content of the moment of a viewer viewing the image content, is instantly posted; and displaying the acquired comment on the display device displaying the image of the image content, wherein the comment acquired in the acquiring of the comment is stored in a predetermined storage area until the comment is displayed on the display device, and wherein, in the displaying of the comment, when a first comment acquired at a certain point in time is stored in the storage area in an undisplayed state and a second comment, which is posted after the first comment, is acquired at a time point later than the certain point, the second comment is displayed before the first comment. ### Claim 13 An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising: acquiring image information of image content from an external device; displaying an image of the image content on a predetermined display device in accordance with the acquired image information; acquiring a comment of a viewer for image content from a posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the image content of the moment of a viewer viewing the image content, is instantly posted; and displaying the acquired comment while scrolling the acquired comment in a comment display area of the display device displaying the image of the image content, wherein, in the displaying of the comment, when the comment to be displayed in the comment display area is longer than a predetermined number of characters, the display of a subsequent comment is started in the middle of displaying the comment. ### Claim 14 A computer program embedded in a non-transitory computer readable recording medium, comprising: a module configured to acquire image information of image content from an external device; a module configured to display an image of the image content on a predetermined display device in accordance with the acquired image information; a module configured to acquire a comment of a viewer for image content from a posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the image content of the moment of a viewer viewing the image content, is instantly posted; and a module configured to display the acquired comment on the display device displaying the image of the image content, wherein the comment acquired by the module configured to acquire the comment is stored in a predetermined storage area until the comment is displayed on the display device, and wherein, when a first comment acquired at a certain point in time is stored in the storage area in an undisplayed state and a second comment, which is posted after the first comment, is acquired at a time point later than the certain point, the module configured to display the comment displays the second comment before the first comment. ### Claim 15 A computer program embedded in a non-transitory computer readable recording medium, comprising: a module configured to acquire image information of image content from an external device; a module configured to display an image of the image content on a predetermined display device in accordance with the acquired image information; a module configured to acquire a comment of a viewer for image content from a posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the image content of the moment of a viewer viewing the image content, is instantly posted; and a module configured to display the acquired comment while scrolling the acquired comment in a comment display area of the display device displaying the image of the image content, wherein, when the comment to be displayed in the comment display area is longer than a predetermined number of characters, the module configured to display the comment starts the display of a subsequent comment in the middle of displaying the comment.