A portable electronic device with a touch screen display for photo management is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which the portable electronic device displays an array of thumbnail images corresponding to a set of photographic images. The device replaces the displayed array of thumbnail images with a user-selected photographic image upon detecting a user contact with a corresponding thumbnail image in the array. The user-selected photographic image is displayed at a larger scale than the corresponding thumbnail image. The portable device displays a different photographic image in replacement of the user-selected photographic image in accordance with a scrolling gesture. The scrolling gesture comprises a substantially horizontal movement of user contact with the touch screen display.

Portable electronic device for photo management

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

Methods and apparatus for a new approach to the problem of finding communities in complex networks relating to a social definition of communities and percolation are disclosed. Instead of partitioning the graph into separate subgraphs from top to bottom a local algorithm (communities of each vertex) allows overlapping of communities. The performance of an algorithm on synthetic, randomly-generated graphs and real-world networks is used to benchmark this method against others. An heuristic is provided to generate a list of communities for networks using a local community finding algorithm. Unlike diffusion based algorithms, The provided algorithm finds overlapping communities and provides a means to measure confidence in community structure. It features locality and low complexity for exploring the communities for a subset of network nodes, without the need for exploring the whole graph.

Method and apparatus for distributed community finding

A network-enabled audio device that provides a display device that allows the user to select playlists of music much like a jukebox is disclosed. The user can compose playlists from disk files, CD's, Internet streaming audio broadcasts, online music sites, and other audio sources. The user can also select a desired Web broadcast from a list of available Web broadcasts. In addition, the user can play standard audio CD's and MP3 encoded CD's and have access to local AM/FM stations. Further, the software, the user controls, and the display in the network-enabled audio device are operably configured and connected such that the user can listen to playlists that include CD's and other audio sources just as the user would choose a playlist in a jukebox. The user accesses a server site via a PC and the Internet. From the server site, the user obtains a list of the devices in his or her Internet Personal Audio Network (IPAN) and what songs are on those devices. The IPAN includes an IPAN server, an IPAN client, and IPAN software stored on the network-enabled audio device. Thus, the network-enabled audio device provides people who are or are not comfortable with computers a way of taking music from various sources and putting it into one place for listening pleasure. In one embodiment, the Personal Computer (PC) is used to compose the playlists, but the user is able to listen to playlists and other audio sources without using the PC.

Network-enabled audio device

A display apparatus includes an image processor which processes an image to display an image content; a display unit which displays thereon an image content that is processed by the image processor; and a controller which displays a user interface (UI) menu including a plurality of UI items to search the image content, as one of a two-dimensional (2D) layout by which the plurality of UI items are arranged in a 2D manner, and a three-dimensional (3D) layout by which the plurality of UI items are arranged in a 3D manner , and changes displaying the one of the layouts to display the other of the layouts according to a user's command while maintaining a continuity of the arrangement of the plurality of UI items. Accordingly, search for an image content can be efficiently performed by using a UI menu.

Display apparatus and control method thereof

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 apparatus selects a proper content that well matches preference of a user and recommends it. A matrix calculator acquires M (one or more) feature vectors CCV whose elements are given by weight values assigned to a total of N (two or more) pieces of content meta information and context information. The matrix calculator produces a matrix CCM whose columns are given by the M feature vectors CCV and converts it into an approximate matrix CCM* by modifying the weight values of the respective elements of the M feature vectors CCV such that correlations of elements among the M feature vectors CCV are emphasized. Based on the approximate matrix CCM*, a user preference vector (UPV) generator produces a user preference vector UPV*. A matching unit calculates similarity between the user preference vector UPV* and a feature vector CCV produced from new content meta information or context information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program for implementing information processing method, information processing system, and method for information processing system

The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a computer-readable storage medium storing a program for selecting a content by classifying content included in a group into one of a plurality of clusters included in layers arranged based on metadata of the contents, the layers being assigned priority levels including a high priority level and low priority level, retaining a database indicating a correspondence between the classified content, the clusters corresponding to the classified content, and the layers, managing history information corresponding to contents of the user, identifying a cluster on a basis of the history information, and selecting a content classified into a layer of the identified cluster based on a priority level of the layer, and presenting the selected content and description information, the description indicating a reason for selection of the selected content.

Information processing device and method, and program

An information processing apparatus is disclosed that presents related information about existing document information and about specific document information The apparatus includes: an extracting element for extracting first and second characteristic words from respective existing and specific document information; a weight calculating element for calculating first and second weights of respective first and second characteristic words following the extraction by the extracting element; a weight modifying element for modifying the first weight based on a specific condition following the calculation by the weight calculating element; an acquiring element for acquiring the related information corresponding to the existing document information, based on the first characteristic word extracted by the extracting element and based on the first weight modified by the weight modifying element; a searching element for searching for the existing document information related to the specific document information, based on the second characteristic word; and a display controlling element for controlling display of the related information corresponding to the existing document information searched for by the searching element

Noriyuki Yamamoto

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