Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110243392 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION OUTPUTTING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORAGE DEVICE - An apparatus, method and computer program storage device cooperate to acquire an image of at least a part of a meal. An analysis is then done on the image to determine a substance in the image. The analysis also considers caloric intake and exercise data and compares the same with a health management model to arrive at a recommendation for a user who consumed the meal. Various optional features include using wireless communications to receive exercise data from sensors, as well as communication related images such as the menu of a restaurant or the location of the restaurant. | 10-06-2011 |
20110307350 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, ITEM RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An item recommendation system includes: a feedback receiving unit receiving feedbacks with respect to items by users; a feedback history storage unit storing information of feedbacks received at present or in the past by the feedback receiving unit in units of combinations of users and items; a relevance calculation unit calculating relevance between items base on first information indicating the degree in which the same user gives feedbacks to respective items and second information indicating the degree in which many users give feedbacks by using feedback information stored by the feedback history storage unit when receiving the feedback by the feedback receiving unit; and a recommendation unit immediately recommending items having higher relevance with respect to the item to the user who has given the feedback to the item by the feedback receiving unit based on the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. | 12-15-2011 |
20120147170 | IMAGING METHOD AND IMAGING DEVICE - Disclosed herein is an imaging method including: by an imaging device, detecting a user that can be present in a predetermined area; calculating three-dimensional coordinates of an eye and a hand of the detected the user; determining an imaging range on a basis of the calculated the three-dimensional coordinates of the eye and the hand of the user; and imaging the determined the imaging range. | 06-14-2012 |
20120254310 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDED CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a device that generates a first feature based on information of a first type included in first content selected by a target user in past, generates a second feature based on information of a second type included in second content selected by the target user after selecting the first contest, generates a relational feature showing a relationship between the first content and the second content, based on the first feature and the second feature, and searches for content to be recommended to the target user by using the information of the first type included in content newly selected by the target user and the relational feature. | 10-04-2012 |
20120317064 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus may include a processor to acquire information associated with behavior of a user and information associated with satisfaction degree of the user, and to analyze an association between the information associated with behavior and the information associated with satisfaction degree | 12-13-2012 |
20130124536 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a difference applying unit that obtains, according to difference feature information indicating a difference between first feature information characterizing an action of a target user and second feature information characterizing another action performed by the target user after the foregoing action is performed and third feature information characterizing an action newly performed by the target user, fourth feature information; and a target extracting unit that extracts information based on the fourth feature information. | 05-16-2013 |
20130262478 | SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS - Recommending one or more items among a plurality of items to a first user by generating a weighted data set by applying a weight factor to each of a plurality of user event data sets each derived from a previous user event of a second user of the recommendation system. Each of the user event data sets includes a user identifier of the second user, an item identifier of an item involved in the previous user event, and time information regarding a time of the previous user event. The weight factor is derived from the time information of the corresponding previous user event. One or more recommended items are determined based on an algorithm using the weighted data set. | 10-03-2013 |
20140040372 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a user extraction unit extracting, from second users whose information is set to be viewed by a first user in a service where it is possible to view information sent by other users, a presentation target user to present information to the first user, based on at least one of a first evaluation with respect to each second user by the first user, a second evaluation with respect to each second user within a range of the first user and the second users, and a third evaluation with respect to each second user within a predetermined range of users in the service, a first information extraction unit extracting information presented to the first user, from information sent from the presentation target user, and a presentation control unit controlling presentation of information to the first user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140129376 | ITEM RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM, ITEM RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND PROGRAM - An item recommendation system includes: a feedback receiving unit receiving feedbacks with respect to items by users; a feedback history storage unit storing information of feedbacks received at present or in the past by the feedback receiving unit in units of combinations of users and items; a relevance calculation unit calculating relevance between items base on first information indicating the degree in which the same user gives feedbacks to respective items and second information indicating the degree in which many users give feedbacks by using feedback information stored by the feedback history storage unit when receiving the feedback by the feedback receiving unit; and a recommendation unit immediately recommending items having higher relevance with respect to the item to the user who has given the feedback to the item by the feedback receiving unit based on the relevance calculated by the relevance calculation unit. | 05-08-2014 |
20150046417 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a metadata expansion unit. The metadata expansion unit is configured to expand metadata of a target item using metadata of other items to which a responder has shown a response, the responder being a user having shown a response to the target item of which the metadata is to be expanded. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052140 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including an expression extraction unit, a feature extraction unit, a clustering unit, a related expression extraction unit, and an output unit. The expression extraction unit extracts a plurality of expressions from a plurality of documents. The feature extraction unit extracts feature amounts of the extracted respective expressions while distinguishing the expressions having the same notation. The clustering unit clusters the extracted respective expressions together while distinguishing the expressions having the same notation and calculates assignment degree vectors having assignment degrees of the respective expressions to two or more respective clusters as components. The related expression extraction unit extracts related expressions having the assignment degree vectors similar to those of a provided input expression while distinguishing the expressions having the same notation. The output unit outputs the related expressions and identification information for identifying the related expressions. | 02-19-2015 |