CONTENT VIEWING DEVICE, AND CONTENT RECOMMENDING METHOD

• Main Authors: MATSUYAMA AKIRA, WATANABE TATSUSUKE, NAKAMURA HIROYUKI, SAKAMOTO KENJI, UEMICHI AKIO, SASAKI JUN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.05.2009
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To dissolve the fault that a conventional contents-viewing device, etc. calculates users' tastes only on the basis of viewing frequencies, so that variety programs that the users are less interested in but that are broadcasted every week are apt to get a higher degree of users' tastes than a soccer game of the Japanese national team that the users are highly interested in but that is broadcasted only several times per year. SOLUTION: The invention proposes a contents-viewing devices, etc. that calculates a taste value by normalizing a viewing index indicative of the number of contents-viewing times or the like for every contents-attribute with an emergent index indicative of the number of contents-viewing chances, acquires an contents-attribute connected with contents to be a subject for viewing recommendation, and has a function to calculate viewing recommendation information by using the taste value of the contents-attribute. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT