Presenting contents in accordance with user preferences
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYoshiyuki Kobayashi, Ryo Mukaiyama, Hiroshi Ogino, Soichi Fukasawa
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Abstract
In an information processing apparatus adapted to determine information, to be presented to a user, as to one or more contents, a calculation unit calculates the similarity between a first search axis, produced on the basis of information associated with the user, for use as a reference on the basis of which to present contents and a second search axis, produced on the basis of information associated with one of other users, for use as a reference on the basis of which to present contents, and a display control unit controls displaying of information associated with contents with reference to first and second search axes detected as being similar to each other.
Claims13
An information processing method of determining information, to be presented to a user, as to one or more contents, comprising the steps of:
- calculating the similarity between a first search axis, produced on the basis of information associated with the user, for use as a reference on the basis of which to present contents and a second search axis, produced on the basis of information associated with one of other users, for use as a reference on the basis of which to present contents,
- wherein the first search axis is produced on the basis of feature values of contents and a history of playback of the contents performed by the user or evaluations on the contents given by the user, and the second search axis is produced on the basis of feature values of contents and a history of playback of the contents performed by the one of the other users or evaluations on the contents given by the-one of the other users;
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- controlling displaying of information associated with contents with reference to first and second search axes detected as being similar to each other.
An information processing apparatus adapted to determine information, to be presented to a user, as to one or more contents, comprising:
- calculation means for calculating the similarity between a first search axis, produced on the basis of information associated with the user, for use as a reference on the basis of which to present contents and a second search axis, produced on the basis of information associated with one of other users, for use as a reference on the basis of which to present contents,
- wherein the calculation means calculates the similarity between values of contents indicated by the first search axis and values of the contents indicated by the second search axis, and the calculation means employs the resultant similarity as the similarity between the first search axis and the second search axis;
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- displaying control means for controlling displaying of information associated with contents with reference to first and second search axes detected as being similar to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.