Content-exhibition control apparatus and method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHidetoshi Ichioka
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Abstract
A hard-disk recorder receives a broadcasting content distributed from a satellite broadcasting service system and records it. The satellite broadcasting service system generates degree-of-exposure control data for the broadcasting content, and sends it to the hard-disk recorder through a server system. The hard-disk recorder receives the degree-of-exposure control data, and controls the degree of exposure of the recorded content according to degree-of-exposure designation included in the received degree-of-exposure control data.
Claims3
A content-exhibition control apparatus for exhibiting content in another apparatus, comprising:
- generating means for generating degree-of-exposure control data used to control the degree of exposure of the content;
- scheduling means for scheduling the exhibition of the content;
- exhibition control means for controlling the exhibition of the content recorded in the another apparatus, according to the degree-of-exposure control data generated by the generating means and the scheduling means;
- obtaining means for obtaining the state data of the content sent from the another apparatus,
- wherein the state data includes information on viewed content and not viewed content, and
- wherein the generating means generates the degree-of-exposure control data according to the state data of the content, obtained by the obtaining means;
- storing means for storing user information which includes user preferences with the state data of the content collected from a hard-disk recorder in a customer database;
- and
- feedback means for feeding back said degree of exposure of the content,
- wherein an audience rating and an advertisement effect are calculated as a function of the feedback data;
- and
- rescheduling means for rescheduling the exhibition of not viewed content, independently of the user's operation,
- wherein the not viewed content is rescheduled repeatedly until it is viewed, and
- wherein a number of times reproduction is to be performed is specified in a degree of exposure designation and the degree of exposure designation is updated when rescheduling is performed.
A content-exhibition control method for a content-exhibition control apparatus for exhibiting content in another apparatus, comprising:
- a generating step of generating degree-of-exposure control data used to control the degree of exposure of the content;
- a scheduling step for scheduling the exhibition of the content;
- an exhibition control step of controlling the exhibition of the content recorded in the another apparatus, according to the degree-of-exposure control data generated in the generating step and the scheduling step;
- an obtaining step of obtaining the state data of the content sent from the another apparatus,
- wherein the state data includes information on viewed content and not viewed content, and
- wherein the degree-of-exposure control data is generated in the generating step according to the state data of the content, obtained in the obtaining step;
- a storing step for storing user information which includes user preferences with the state data of the content collected from a hard-disk recorder in a customer database;
- and
- a feedback step for feeding back said degree of exposure of the content,
- wherein an audience rating and an advertisement effect are calculated as a function of the feedback data;
- and
- a rescheduling step for rescheduling the exhibition of not viewed content, independently of the user's operation,
- wherein the not viewed content is rescheduled repeatedly until it is viewed, and
- wherein a number of times reproduction is to be performed is specified in a degree of exposure designation and the degree of exposure designation is updated when rescheduling is performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.