US 7,681,221 B2Granted

Content processing apparatus and content processing method for digest information based on input of content user

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsTetsujiro Kondo, Naoki Kobayashi, Tsutomu Ichikawa, Yukihiro Nakamura, Yoshinori Watanabe, Akira Tange

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Abstract

Value-added information is created based on favorite information of a content user. The content is processed according to the generated value-added information. Favorite data indicating operations, such as fast-forward, pause, and rewind operations, performed while the content is being played back, and personal user information, such as the age group, the gender, and the life-style, of the content user are transferred to a server via a network. The server performs statistical processing on the user favorite data to generate value-added information according to the attributes of the user, such as the age group, the gender, and the life-style. Accordingly, the user is able to search for popular titles, play back only popular scenes, and skip uninteresting scenes by using a content playback apparatus.

Claims38

Dependent claims

A communication apparatus comprising:

a receiver for receiving plural sets of operation data obtained by a plurality of users for dynamic data played back by playback apparatuses;
a storage device for storing the plural sets of operation data received by said receiver;
a generator for generating digest information of the dynamic data according to the plural sets of operation data stored in said storage device;
and
a transmitter for transmitting the digest information generated by said generator to at least one playback apparatus,
wherein said receiver receives playback-portion identification information indicating a playback portion of the dynamic data played back by the playback apparatus,
wherein said generator comprises a statistical processor for accumulating playback times of the playback portion based on the playback-portion identification information received by said receiver, and generates the digest information based on an accumulation result obtained by said statistical processor, and
wherein the generated digest information is stored in classified databases corresponding to titles, personal information, and playback-time zones.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/595,428Filed 10 Nov 2006 · continuation
Priority: JP 2000-35061717 Nov 2000
Published: US 2007/0061853 A115 Mar 2007
Granted: 16 Mar 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification28 codes

G11B 27/105
Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers: of operating discs
G06F 16/40
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and…
G06F 16/48
Of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data: retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not…
G11B 27/11
Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel: by using information not detectable on the record carrier

Family

Application09/988,421Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Nov 2001
Application11/439,406Parent of this continuation · filed 22 May 2006
US 2007/0061853 A1Pre-grant publication · published 15 Mar 2007
US 7,127,736 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2002/0083459 A1Published application
US 2006/0242673 A1Published application
US 7,657,911 B2Related patent
US 7,681,221 B2This patent

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