A method is provided for modifying an image. The method comprises displaying an image, the image comprising a portion of an object; and determining if an edge of the object is in a location within the portion. The method further comprises detecting movement, in a member direction, of an operating member with respect to the edge. The method still further comprises moving, if the edge is not in the location, the object in an object direction corresponding to the detected movement; and modifying, if the edge is in the location, the image in response to the detected movement, the modified image comprising the edge in the location.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program

A mobile terminal including a display configured to display information; a short range communication module configured to exchange a signal with an external control device; and a controller configured to receive the signal from the external control device, determine a context at a timing point of receiving the signal, and control an operation corresponding to the signal to be performed in the determined context. Further, the operation includes at least one of activation/deactivation of the display, an activation/deactivation of a lock mode of the mobile terminal, a volume operation and a camera operation.

Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof

Starting with the people in and around enterprises, the expertise and work patterns stored in people's brains as exhibited in their daily behavior is detected and captured. A behavioral based knowledge index is thus created that is used to produce expert-guided, personalized information.

Method and Apparatus for Context-Based Content Recommendation

Semantically linked pages are queried based on a user supplied interest vector. The interest vector provides a weight for presenting results from the query of pages. The interest vectors are used to calculate the importance of pages of a query based on the weight of semantic links associated with the page known as page rank indicators. Optionally, the calculation is augmented by other page ranking algorithms. An indication of the resulting pages is displayed according to the calculated importance. Preferably the calculation utilizes a dot product of page rank and user interest vectors.

Page rank for the semantic web query

A system is provided with a conversation support means. A conversation support means creates a conversation response, and outputs it in a sound, a character, etc. A conversation response is created in a manner that combines words by inserting a reference keyword as a leading keyword in the response sentence model prepared separately. A conversation support means retrieves the reference keyword beforehand provided in conversation support by dictionary collation from the conversation entry content made by a sound, a manual entry, etc. by a user. Furthermore, the retrieved reference keyword themselves or another reference keyword associated with the retrieved reference keyword are handled as a leading keyword. A series of user conversation contents inputted by the conversation support are accumulated as a base data for determining a user interest. The base data is analyzed to determine a user interest for providing suitable information service.

Apparatus for providing information for vehicle

An information processing device and method, a recording medium, and a program for appropriately generating taste information based on programs viewed continuously and programs viewed discontinuously and recommending a program corresponding to a user taste. A taste information extraction section (101) extracts program taste information based on meta data on the program and records a program viewing history. The taste information on the program viewed firstly is recorded as special program taste information. Moreover, user taste information is generated according to program taste information on a program whose viewing count exceeds a threshold value. A control section (103) sets reservation for automatic recording of a program whose viewing count exceeds the threshold value. When the reservation of automatic recording is released, a taste information update section (102) modifies the user taste information according to the meta data on the program of the time whose reservation has been released.

Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program

Disclosed herein are an information processing apparatus and method, a program, and a recording medium, in which a content is recommended to each user on the basis of even the metadata that is assigned with no classification. A metadata analysis block resolves metadata acquired by a metadata acquisition block into components. A dictionary data generation block generates dictionary data in which genre is correlated with keyword and each component. An associated-information database generation block references the dictionary data to assign genre to the metadata which are assigned with no genre, thereby generating an associated-information database of content. An associated-information search block references the dictionary data to identify a genre from a keyword of interest data to search for associated information, thereby recommending content to the user. The present invention is applicable to personal computers or HDD recorders.

Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium

An information processing device and an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program for generating a positive history vector and a negative history vector. A negative history vector is generated from initially registered contents in step S71. If it is judged in step S72 that the initially registered contents are not changed and judged in step S73 that an operation log is supplied, a check is made in step S74 to see if the supplied operation log is a positive history. If the supplied operation log is a positive history, the broadcast program vector corresponding to the operation log is additionally stored as a positive history in step S75, and a positive history vector is generated from the total of broadcast program vectors in step S76. If the supplied operation log is a negative history, the program vector corresponding to the operation log is additionally stored as a negative history in step S77 and a negative history vector is generated from the total of the broadcast program vectors in step S78. The present invention is applicable to a broadcast program recommendation processing device.

Information processing device and information processing method, recording medium, and computer program

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate a positive history vector and a negative history vector. SOLUTION: In a step S71, the negative history vector is generated from initial registration contents, in a step S72, it is determined that the initial registration contents are not changed. When it is determined in a step S73 that an operation log is supplied, whether the supplied operation log is the positive history or not is determined in a step S74. When the supplied operation log is the positive log, in a step S75, a program vector corresponding to the operation log of the positive history is additionally stored as the positive history, and in a step S76, the positive history vector is generated from the sum of the program vectors of the positive history. When the supplied operation log is the negative history, in a step S77, the program vector corresponding to the operation log of the negative history is additionally stored as the negative history, and in a step S78, the negative history vector is generated from the sum of the program vectors of the negative history. The present invention is applied to a program recommendation processor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Information processor and information processing method, recording medium, and program

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for automatically embedding information of an object in a video picked up by a camera device. A camera device generates imaging position information relating to an imaging position of the video, and view point information relating to the direction and range of the video taken from the imaging position. An object contained in the video taken by the camera device is searched in an object location managing server, based on object position information relating to the position of the predetermined object, and the imaging position information and the view point information generated by the camera device. The object information of the object hit in the object location managing server is searched in the object information managing server. The display presents an image corresponding to the video picked up by the camera device and an image corresponding to the object information of the object contained in the video.

Hiroyuki Koike

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Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program

Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium

Information processing device and information processing method, recording medium, and computer program

Information processor and information processing method, recording medium, and program

Method and apparatus for processing information of an object