Information processing apparatus, method for processing information, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKen-ichi Abe
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Abstract
There is provided a method including acquiring content distribution information with respect to a criterion denoted by an attribute of metadata supplied to the content, determining as an option, of a plurality of options, a candidate of a search condition to be added as a query related to the attribute, based on the distribution information, displaying a screen including the attribute and the option, and retrieving content from the candidate displayed in the displaying step based on an attribute value corresponding to an option of the plurality of options selected by a user.
Claims11
An information processing apparatus which retrieves a target content from a storage apparatus storing a plurality of contents, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire content distribution information with respect to a criterion denoted by an attribute value of metadata supplied to the content, wherein the content distribution information includes peaks where a distribution of the plurality of contents is greatest;
- a determination unit configured to determine one or more candidates of a search condition, among a plurality of search conditions that divide the criterion denoted by the attribute value of metadata that was divided so that boundaries were different respectively, based on the distribution information, wherein the one or more candidates of the search condition has boundaries not overlapping with any peak of the content distribution information;
- a display unit configured to display a screen which includes the attribute value and the one or more candidates of the search condition, as an option of a plurality of options, determined by the determination unit;
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- a retrieval unit configured to retrieve content from the plurality of options based on the search condition corresponding to the option of the plurality of options selected by a user.
A method for controlling an information processing apparatus which retrieves a target content from a storage apparatus storing a plurality of contents, the method comprising:
- acquiring content distribution information with respect to a criterion denoted by an attribute value of metadata supplied to a content, wherein the content distribution information includes peaks where a distribution of the plurality of contents is greatest;
- determining one or more candidates of a search condition, among a plurality of search conditions that divide the criterion denoted by the attribute value of metadata that was divided so that boundaries were different respectively, based on the distribution information, wherein the one or more candidates of the search condition has boundaries not overlapping with any peak of the content distribution information;
- displaying a screen including the attribute value and the one or more candidates of the search condition, as an option of a plurality of options;
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- retrieving content from the plurality of options based on the search condition corresponding to an option of the option of the plurality of options selected by a user.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing a program causing a computer to serve as an information processing apparatus which retrieves a target content from a storage apparatus storing a plurality of contents, the computer-executable instructions causing the computer to perform a method comprising:
- acquiring content distribution information with respect to a criterion denoted by an attribute value of metadata supplied to a content, wherein the content distribution information includes peaks where a distribution of the plurality of contents is greatest;
- determining one or more candidates of a search condition, among a plurality of search conditions that divide the criterion denoted by the attribute value of metadata that was divided so that boundaries were different respectively, based on the distribution information, wherein the one or more candidates of the search condition has boundaries not overlapping with any peak of the content distribution information;
- displaying a screen including the attribute value and the one or more candidates of the search condition, as an option of a plurality of options;
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- retrieving content from the plurality of options based on the search condition corresponding to an option of the option of the plurality of options selected by a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.