JP5680986B2 - Program viewing information processing apparatus, program viewing information processing method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus that detects information indicating that a program is being viewed from one or more server apparatuses on the Web, acquires program information, performs aggregation processing, and outputs an aggregation result.

  Conventionally, a system for investigating the audience rating of a television program has been developed (see Patent Document 1).

JP 2010-257278 A

  However, in the conventional television program audience rating survey system, in order to investigate the audience rating of a television program, it is necessary to install a dedicated device for investigating the audience rating for the television device. In addition, only viewers who have installed the device are targeted, and the survey is only for audience ratings, and viewers' impressions on TV programs cannot be acquired.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention is a program viewing information processing apparatus in an information processing system including one or more server devices and a program viewing information processing apparatus. A program viewing information storage unit that can store program viewing information that is information related to viewing, a server program viewing information receiving unit that receives two or more program viewing information from two or more terminal devices, and a server program viewing information receiving unit In response to an instruction from the program viewing information processing unit and the server viewing information storage unit that accumulates the two or more program viewing information in the program viewing information storage unit, the two or more program viewing information items are received from the program viewing information storage unit. A server program viewing information transmitting unit that transmits to the program viewing information processing apparatus, and the program viewing information processing apparatus includes two or more having a program identifier, a program title, and a broadcast time zone An electronic program guide storage unit that can store an electronic program guide having group information, and a program viewing information receiving unit that instructs the server device to transmit two or more program viewing information items and receives the two or more program viewing information items from the server device And two or more pieces of program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit are information obtained as a result of applying the information to one or more electronic program guides. A program specifying unit for identifying the program, and for each program specified by the program specifying unit, one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program is statistically processed to obtain program viewing statistical information that is statistical information related to program viewing A program viewing information processing apparatus constituting an information processing system comprising: a viewing statistics information acquisition unit; and a program viewing statistics information output unit that outputs program viewing statistics information acquired by the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit. That.

  With such a configuration, program viewing statistical information can be acquired.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus according to the second aspect of the invention is an electronic device that can store an electronic program guide having two or more program information having a program identifier, a program title, and a broadcast time zone, as compared with the first aspect. A program guide storage unit is further provided, and the program specifying unit applies the two or more pieces of program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit to the electronic program guide and specifies the program viewing information for identifying each program viewing information. It is a processing device.

  With such a configuration, program viewing statistical information can be acquired.

  In the program viewing information processing apparatus according to the third aspect of the present invention, in contrast to the first or second aspect of the invention, the electronic program guide storage unit includes region specifying position information that is position information for specifying a region, an electronic program guide, Two or more regional electronic program guides are stored, and the program viewing information includes a program comment that is a comment related to the user's program, and user position information that is position information transmitted from the program viewing information. The program specifying unit acquires position information included in the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit, applies the position information to the region specifying position information, and displays an electronic program guide corresponding to the position where the program viewing information is transmitted. The electronic program guide specifying means to be specified and each of the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit are applied to the electronic program guide specified by the electronic program guide specifying means to correspond to the program information of the electronic program guide Do you want to show A program viewing information processing apparatus and a program specifying means for specifying a program of each program viewing information.

  With such a configuration, program viewing statistical information can be acquired for each region.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus according to the fourth aspect of the present invention is the program viewing information processing apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the program specifying unit is the time when the program viewing information receiving unit receives the program viewing information, or Broadcasting time corresponding to the time acquired by applying the time acquisition means for acquiring the time when the information was transmitted and the two or more pieces of program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit to the electronic program guide. A program viewing information processing apparatus comprising program identifying means for identifying a program of each program viewing information from programs corresponding to program information having a band.

  With such a configuration, the program viewing statistical information can be acquired for each time.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus according to the fifth aspect of the present invention is different from the fourth aspect of the invention in that the program information includes broadcast time information for specifying the time in the broadcast time zone of the program and broadcast time information. It has program detail information including a performer identifier for identifying a performer performing at the time shown or a program part identifier indicating a part of the program, and the program specifying means receives each of two or more received by the program viewing information receiving unit This is a program viewing information processing apparatus that applies program viewing information to an electronic program guide and obtains a program part identifier corresponding to the time from program information having a broadcast time zone corresponding to the time acquired by the time acquisition means.

  With such a configuration, program viewing statistics information can be acquired for each corner in the program.

  In the program viewing information processing apparatus of the sixth invention, the program viewing information identifies at least a program comment, which is a comment related to the user's program, and the user with respect to any one of the first to fifth inventions. The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit includes a user attribute value acquiring unit that acquires a user attribute value corresponding to the user identifier included in the program viewing information, each program specified by the program specifying unit, and a user attribute A program viewing information processing apparatus comprising: a program viewing statistical information acquisition unit that statistically processes one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program for each value and acquires program viewing statistical information that is statistical information related to program viewing It is.

  With such a configuration, program viewing statistical information can be acquired for each user attribute.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus according to the seventh aspect of the present invention provides the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit, at least for each program identified by the program identifying unit, or for program identification, according to any one of the first to sixth inventions. This is a program viewing information processing apparatus that acquires the number of viewers for each program detailed information specified by the department.

  With such a configuration, the number of viewers of the program can be calculated.

  In the program viewing information processing apparatus according to the eighth aspect of the present invention, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit is at least for each program identified by the program identifying unit or the program, according to any one of the first to sixth inventions. This is a program viewing information processing apparatus that acquires the audience rating for each program detailed information identified by the identifying unit.

  With such a configuration, the audience rating of the program can be calculated.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus of the ninth aspect of the invention is a term indicating that the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit is positive for at least the program with respect to any of the first to eighth aspects of the invention. For each program specified by the program specifying unit and emotion term storage means that can store one or more positive terms that are or one or more negative terms that are negative to the program Emotion term acquisition means for acquiring an affirmative term or negative term from one or more program viewing information corresponding to, and each program or program part specified by the program specifying unit from the positive term or negative term acquired by the emotion term acquisition means Emotion determination means for determining whether it is positive or negative for each identifier, and for each program or for each program detailed information, and at least including positive or negative For each information, a program viewing information processing apparatus and a program viewing statistics information acquisition means for acquiring the program viewing statistics.

  With such a configuration, positive opinions and negative opinions about the program can be collected.

  According to the program viewing information processing apparatus and the like according to the present invention, it is not necessary to install a dedicated apparatus, and the audience rating can be investigated in a wide range. Also, information other than the audience rating (numerical value) can be acquired and various statistical processes can be performed.

Conceptual diagram of information processing system 1 according to Embodiment 1 Block diagram of the server device 11 Block diagram of the program viewing information processing apparatus 12 A flowchart for explaining the overall operation of the server device 11 A flowchart for explaining the overall operation of the program viewing information processing apparatus 12 Flow chart explaining the specific process of the program The flowchart explaining the acquisition process of the relevance with the program title Flow chart for explaining the process of acquiring the degree of association with the broadcasting station A flowchart for explaining the process of acquiring the degree of association with the broadcast time Flowchart explaining determination process of same emotion The flowchart explaining the acquisition process of the program viewing statistics information The figure which shows the example of the same user management information The figure which shows the example of the same area management information The figure which shows the example of the electronic program guide according to the same region The figure which shows the example of the emotion term management information The figure which shows the example of the program viewing information The figure which shows the example of the program viewing information The figure which shows the example of the same program specific result The figure which shows the example of the same program specific result The figure which shows the example of the program viewing statistics information The figure which shows the output example of the program viewing statistics information The figure which shows the example of the electronic program guide according to area in Embodiment 2 The figure which shows the example of the same program part specific result The figure which shows the example of the program viewing statistics information Overview of the computer system Block diagram of the computer system

  Hereinafter, embodiments of an information processing system and the like according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, since the component which attached | subjected the same code | symbol in embodiment performs the same operation | movement, description may be abbreviate | omitted again. In addition, in a storage unit or the like in which predetermined information or the like can be stored, the process in which information or the like is stored in the storage unit is not limited. For example, information or the like may be stored in a storage unit or the like via a recording medium. Information transmitted via a communication line or the like may be stored in a storage unit or the like. Further, information input via an input device may be stored in a storage unit or the like. Further, in the present embodiment, the search is to detect information matching the search key, to acquire the detected information, from the information to be searched based on the search key, to detect the detected It means obtaining information associated with information, and is widely understood. In addition, the format, content, and the like of each information described in this embodiment are merely examples, and the format, content, and the like are not limited as long as the meaning of each information can be indicated.

(Embodiment 1)
In the present embodiment, an information processing system 1 that identifies a program viewed by a user from CGM (Consumer Generated Media) data posted by the user and performs statistical processing will be described. The CGM is, for example, information posted on a blog, miniblog, SNS (Social Network Service), and other information transmitted by each user, and is widely understood.

  FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of an information processing system 1 in the present embodiment. In FIG. 1, one or more server apparatuses 11 and a program viewing information processing apparatus 12 are connected via a network 13. The network 13 is a wired or wireless communication line, such as the Internet, an intranet, a LAN (Local Area Network), a public telephone line network, or the like. The server device 11 is usually connected to a terminal device via the network 13. The terminal device usually includes a receiving unit that receives an operation and an instruction from the user, a transmission unit that transmits the instruction received from the user, a receiving unit that receives the instruction and information, and the like.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the server apparatus 11 in the present embodiment. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the program viewing information processing apparatus 12 in the present embodiment.

  The server device 11 includes a program viewing information storage unit 111, a server program viewing information reception unit 112, a server program viewing information storage unit 113, and a server program viewing information transmission unit 114.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus 12 includes an electronic program guide storage unit 121, a program viewing information receiving unit 122, a program specifying unit 123, a program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124, and a program viewing statistical information output unit 125. The program specifying unit 123 includes an electronic program guide specifying unit 1231, a time acquisition unit 1232, and a program specifying unit 1233. The program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 124 includes emotion term storage means 1241, user attribute information acquisition means 1242, emotion term acquisition means 1243, emotion determination means 1244, and program viewing statistics information acquisition means 1245.

  The program viewing information storage unit 111 can store program viewing information. Here, the program viewing information is information relating to the program viewed by the user. The program viewing information includes, for example, a user identifier, a program comment, user position information, time information, and the like. The program is, for example, a television program or a radio program. The program may be broadcast in any form, such as terrestrial, satellite broadcast, and internet broadcast. The program is not limited to these programs and is widely understood.

  The user identifier is information for identifying the user and is information for uniquely identifying the user. The user identifier is, for example, a user ID, a user name, a name, or the like. The user ID is, for example, “1”, “21”, “009”, or the like. The user name is “account”, “taro”, “Hanako”, or the like, for example. The names are, for example, “Nisaki Jun”, “Tsunase Hiroki”, “Taro”, “Hanako”, and the like.

  The program comment is information indicating a comment regarding the program. The program comments are, for example, “quiz program is difficult”, “variety is interesting”, “news is boring”, and the like.

  The user position information is information indicating a position where the user has transmitted the program viewing information. The user position information is usually longitude and latitude information. The longitude and latitude information is information indicating latitude and longitude. The longitude / latitude information includes latitude information indicating latitude and longitude information indicating longitude. The latitude information may have a character indicating north latitude or a character indicating south latitude. In addition, the longitude information may have a character indicating east longitude or a character indicating west longitude. The longitude and latitude information is usually in a format indicating coordinates. The longitude and latitude information may be either decimal notation or 60 notation. When the longitude and latitude information is in decimal notation, for example, “(N35.46.57, E135.24.68)” or “(North 35.46.57.69, East 135.24.68. 80) ”,“ (35 degrees 46 minutes 57 seconds 269 north latitude, 135 degrees 24 minutes 68 seconds 480 east longitude) ”and the like. Further, when the longitude and latitude information is expressed in 60-decimal notation, for example, “(S35.78250,000, W135.4188888)”, “(South 35.78269166, West 135.4191111)”, “(South latitude 35.78257472). , West longitude 135.41902222) ".

  Further, the user position information may include address information. Address information is information indicating an address. The address information includes a postal code, a prefecture name, a city name, a street address, and the like. The address information is, for example, “102-0072 Iidabashi 1-2, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo”, “35 Ogimachi 1-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka”, “4-5-6 Aoyama, Nara”.

  The time information is information indicating the time when the user transmits the program viewing information. The time information may be information indicating the time when the program viewing information from the user is received. The time information usually includes date information indicating a date (year / month / day) and time information indicating time. The time information is, for example, “2010/12/31 12:34:56”, “2011/01/11 11:22:33”, “201012311234”, “201101111122”, and the like.

  Moreover, the program viewing information may have user attribute information. The user attribute information is information indicating user attributes. The user attribute information is, for example, sex information or age information. The sex information is information indicating sex. The sex information is, for example, “male”, “female”, “male”, “female”, and the like. The age information is information indicating the age. The age information is, for example, “18”, “20 years old”, “22 years old”, and the like.

  Moreover, the program viewing information may have a program comment keyword. The program comment keyword is information indicating a keyword in the program comment. When the program comment is “quiz program difficult”, for example, the program comment keyword is “quiz”, “program”, or “difficult”. When the program comment is “news is boring”, the program comment keywords are, for example, “news” and “not boring”. Note that the extraction of program comment keywords from program comments is usually performed by the server program viewing information storage unit 113 described later. In addition, each information which program viewing information has is normally matched on a one-to-one basis.

  The program viewing information storage unit 111 is preferably a non-volatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium.

  The server program viewing information receiving unit 112 receives two or more program viewing information. The program viewing information here is usually program viewing information transmitted from two or more terminal devices. The server program viewing information receiving unit 112 is usually realized by a wireless or wired communication means, but may be realized by a means for receiving a broadcast.

  The server program viewing information storage unit 113 stores two or more program viewing information in the program viewing information storage unit 111. The program viewing information here is the program viewing information received by the server program viewing information receiving unit 112. The server program viewing information storage unit 113 normally stores the program viewing information in ascending order of time information included in the program viewing information. In addition, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 may store the program viewing information in the order received by the server program viewing information receiving unit 112, or may store each program identifier included in the program viewing information. .

  For example, when the program viewing information received by the server program viewing information receiving unit 112 does not have time information, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 may add the time information to the program viewing information. In this case, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 normally gives the time when the server program viewing information receiving unit 112 receives the program viewing information. In this case, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 may add the time of the moment when the program viewing information is stored to the program viewing information.

  Further, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 may add, for example, user attribute information when storing the program viewing information. When the user attribute information is added to the program viewing information, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 holds, for example, user management information having a user identifier and user attribute information. In the user management information, one user identifier is usually associated with one or more user attribute information. The user management information may be stored in an arbitrary storage area. Then, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 searches the user management information for one or more user identifiers corresponding to the user identifier using the user identifier of the program viewing information as a key. Then, the server program viewing information accumulation unit 113 gives the user attribute information acquired as a result of the search to the program viewing information having the corresponding user identifier. Note that the user management information may be stored in an arbitrary storage area.

  Further, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 may assign a program comment keyword, for example, when storing the program viewing information. When assigning a program comment keyword to the program viewing information, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 divides the program comment included in the program viewing information into morphemes by, for example, morphological analysis. Then, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 extracts the morphemes determined as “nouns” or “adjectives” as program comment keywords. Then, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 assigns the extracted program comment keyword to the program viewing information having the corresponding program comment.

  The server program viewing information storage unit 113 can usually be realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the server program viewing information storage unit 113 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The server program viewing information transmission unit 114 transmits the program viewing information to the program viewing information processing apparatus 12. The program viewing information here is program viewing information stored in the program viewing information storage unit 111. The server program viewing information transmission unit 114 normally receives a program viewing information transmission instruction from the program viewing information processing apparatus 12. Then, the server program viewing information transmission unit 114 retrieves program information from the program viewing information storage unit 111 based on a search key included in the program viewing information transmission instruction. Then, the server program viewing information transmission unit 114 transmits the program viewing information acquired as a result of the search to the program viewing information processing apparatus 12.

  The program viewing information transmission instruction is an instruction to transmit program viewing information. The program viewing information transmission instruction usually has a URL indicating the location of the server device 11 and a search key for retrieving program viewing information from the program viewing information storage unit 111. The URL is, for example, “http://www.tvtvtv.com”, “http://www.comment-station.co.jp”, “http://www.realtimemovie.net”, or the like. The search key is, for example, a program comment keyword, a user identifier, time information, or the like. When transmitting program viewing information having a program comment including the program comment keyword “interesting”, the program viewing information transmission instruction is, for example, “http://www.tvtvtv.com/key1/interesting”. When transmitting program viewing information having time information “January 6, 2011”, the program viewing information transmission instruction is, for example, “http://www.comment-station.co.jp/date/20110106”. become. Further, the server program viewing information transmission unit 114 normally holds a URL indicating the location of the server device 11, deletes the URL included in the program viewing information transmission instruction using the URL, and acquires a search key. To do.

  The server program viewing information transmission unit 114 is normally realized by a wireless or wired communication unit, but may be realized by a broadcasting unit.

  The electronic program guide storage unit 121 can store one or more electronic program guides. The electronic program guide storage unit 121 may store one or more regional electronic program guides. The regional electronic program guide is information having region specifying position information and one or more electronic program guides.

  The electronic program guide is an electronic program guide. The program guide is information related to a broadcast program. The electronic program guide is, for example, a so-called EPG (Electronic Program Guide), IPG (Interactive Program Guide), a program guide on a website, or the like. The electronic program guide is widely understood as long as it is an electronic program guide, regardless of its format and contents.

  The electronic program guide has two or more pieces of program information. The program information is information indicating a program. The program information includes, for example, a program identifier, a program title, channel information, a broadcast time zone, and the like. The program identifier is information for identifying a program and is information for uniquely identifying the program. The program identifier is, for example, a program ID or a program code. The program ID and program code are, for example, “01-001”, “201110128-12”, “68225617”, and the like. The program title is information indicating the title of the program. The program title is, for example, “Friday Midnight Drama”, “Soccer Tournament Asian Second Preliminary”, “Pro League Baseball Relay”, “Music Paradise”, and the like. Channel information is information indicating a channel on which a program is broadcast. The channel information is, for example, “12 channels”, “8ch”, “6”, and the like. The broadcast time zone is information indicating the broadcast time zone of the program. The broadcast time zone is usually composed of start time information indicating the start time of broadcast and end time information indicating the end time of broadcast. Since the format of the start time information and the end time information is the same as that of the above time information, the description thereof is omitted. The broadcast time zone is, for example, “12: 0 to 13:00”, “12: 30-13: 30”, “23:30 to 25:00”, and the like. In addition, the broadcast time zone usually does not have date information, but may have it. When the broadcast time zone does not have date information, the program information has date information.

  The program information may have program-related keywords. The program related keyword is a keyword related to the program. The program-related keyword is, for example, a noun or a noun phrase that can be acquired by dividing a program title into morphemes by morphological analysis. Further, the program keyword may be determined as “noun” or “adjective” among the morphemes of the program title. Further, the program-related keyword may be arbitrarily determined by the user.

  The area specifying position information is information for specifying an area. The area specifying position information includes, for example, a place identifier, place position information, place range information, and the like. The place identifier is information for identifying the place. The place identifier is, for example, address information, area name, prefecture name, municipality name, and the like. The area name is, for example, “Tohoku”, “Hokuriku”, “Kanto”, “Kansai”, or the like. Prefecture names are, for example, “Tokyo”, “Osaka”, “Kyoto”, “Hyogo”, “Fukuoka”, and the like. The names of municipalities are, for example, “Kawasaki”, “Yokohama”, “Nagoya”, “Kobe”. The location position information is information indicating the location of the location indicated by the location identifier. The location position information is, for example, longitude and latitude information. The location range information is information indicating the range of the location indicated by the location identifier. The location range information may be, for example, two or more longitude and latitude information, or longitude and latitude information indicating the center of the location and radius information indicating the range (radius) of the location.

  The electronic program guide may have a broadcast station identifier, broadcast station position information, and the like. The broadcast station identifier is information for identifying a broadcast station. The broadcast station identifier is, for example, a broadcast station ID or a broadcast station name. The broadcast station ID is, for example, “1”, “002”, “ST108”, or the like. Broadcast station names are, for example, “Tokyo TV”, “Chiba Broadcasting”, “Kyoto Channel”, “Kinki Television”, and the like. The broadcast station position information is information indicating the position of the broadcast station. Broadcast station position information is usually longitude and latitude information. The broadcast station position information may be two or more longitude and latitude information, information indicating the position of the broadcast station, and radius information indicating a range (radius) within which a radio wave transmitted from the broadcast station reaches. You may have.

  In addition, each information which program information has is normally matched on a one-to-one basis. In addition, in the regional electronic program guide, one region specifying position information is usually associated with one or more electronic program guides.

  The electronic program guide storage unit 121 is preferably a non-volatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium.

  The program viewing information receiving unit 122 transmits a program viewing information transmission instruction to the server device 11. Then, the program viewing information receiving unit 122 receives two or more program viewing information corresponding to the transmission instruction from the server device 11. Normally, the program viewing information receiving unit 122 does not receive the program viewing information without transmitting the program viewing information transmission instruction, but may receive the program viewing information without transmitting the program viewing information transmission instruction.

  The transmission timing of the program viewing information transmission instruction is normally determined in advance, but this need not be the case. When predetermined, the transmission timing of the program viewing information transmission instruction is, for example, “every hour”, “daily”, “weekly”, or the like. When the timing is “every hour”, the program viewing information receiving unit 122 transmits a program viewing information transmission instruction to the server apparatus 11 at “every hour 0 minutes”, for example. When the timing is “daily”, the program viewing information receiving unit 122 transmits a program viewing information transmission instruction to the server device 11 at “every day at 0:00”, for example. When the timing is “weekly”, the program viewing information receiving unit 122 transmits a program viewing information transmission instruction to the server device 11 at “every Monday 06:00”, for example. In addition, when predetermined, the program viewing information transmission instruction transmission timing is normally held by the program viewing information receiving unit 122, but may be stored in an arbitrary storage area.

  If not determined in advance, the timing of transmitting the program viewing information transmission instruction is, for example, when there is an instruction from the user or when the user transmits the program viewing information.

  The program viewing information transmission instruction usually has a URL indicating the location of the server device 11 and a search key for retrieving program viewing information. Then, the program viewing information receiving unit 122 transmits the program viewing information transmission instruction to the server device 11 as an HTTP request. The URL indicating the location of the server device 11 is normally held by the program viewing information receiving unit 122, but may be stored in an arbitrary storage area.

  The program viewing information receiving unit 122 is usually realized by wireless or wired communication means, but may be realized by broadcasting means and means for receiving broadcasting.

  The program specifying unit 123 specifies a program corresponding to the program viewing information. “Specify a program” refers to, for example, a program indicated by information included in the electronic program guide by searching program information corresponding to the program viewing information from the electronic program guide using information included in the program watching information. Is determined to be a program corresponding to the program viewing information. For example, the program specifying unit 123 applies the program viewing information to the electronic program guide, and specifies the program corresponding to the program viewing information. Here, the program viewing information is two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. Further, the electronic program guide here may be an electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121 or an electronic program guide stored in an external device. When the electronic program guide is an electronic program guide stored in an external device (for example, an electronic program guide management device (not shown)), the program specifying unit 123 has two or more programs received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. By obtaining information related to programs corresponding to each program viewing information (for example, information that can identify a program, such as a program identifier and a program title), which is the result of applying viewing information to one or more electronic program guides Identify the program. That is, when the electronic program guide is an electronic program guide stored in an external device, the program specifying unit 123 transmits the program viewing information or a part of the program viewing information to the external device, and Information on the program is received from the device.

  “Applying program viewing information to an electronic program guide” refers to searching program information corresponding to the program viewing information from the electronic program guide. For example, the program specifying unit 123 divides program comments included in the program viewing information into morphemes by morphological analysis. And the program specific | specification part 123 acquires a noun or a noun phrase from the said division | segmentation result. And the program specific | specification part 123 searches the program information which has the program title containing the said noun or a noun phrase from an electronic program guide. And the program specific | specification part 123 specifies the program shown by the program information acquired as a result of search as a program corresponding to program viewing information.

  Moreover, the program specific | specification part 123 divides | segments the program title which program information has into morpheme, for example by morphological analysis. And the program specific | specification part 123 acquires a noun or a noun phrase from the said division | segmentation result. And the program specific | specification part 123 searches the program viewing information which has the said noun or the program comment containing a noun phrase from the program viewing information which the program viewing information receiving part 122 received. Then, the program specifying unit 123 selects a program indicated by the program information from which the noun or the noun phrase is acquired from the program comment included in the program viewing information acquired as a result of the search, as a program corresponding to the viewing information. May be specified.

  Further, the program specifying unit 123 may specify a program only for the program viewing information that the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 seems to have actually viewed. Good. For example, the program specifying unit 123 may specify a program only for program viewing information having a program comment including a program viewing term. The program viewing term is a term indicating that the program has been viewed. Program viewing terms include, for example, “TV”, “TV”, “TV”, “viewing”, “program”, “channel”, “watched”, and the like. The program specifying unit 123 may specify a program only for program viewing information having a program comment that does not include a program non-viewing term, for example. The program non-viewing term is a term indicating that the program is not viewed. The program non-viewing terms are, for example, “missed”, “forgotten to see”, “not seen”, and the like.

  For example, when program viewing terms are used, the program specifying unit 123 determines whether or not program viewing information included in each program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 includes program viewing information. And the program specific | specification part 123 acquires the program viewing-and-listening information judged to include the said. And the program specific | specification part 123 specifies a program only for the acquired program viewing information. For example, when program non-viewing terms are used, the program specifying unit 123 determines whether or not the program comment included in each program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 does not include program non-viewing information. To do. And the program specific | specification part 123 acquires the program viewing / listening information judged not to be included. And the program specific | specification part 123 specifies a program only for the acquired program viewing information. For example, when using program viewing terms and program non-viewing terms, the program specifying unit 123 does not first include program non-viewing terms in the program comments from each program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. Get program viewing information. And the program specific | specification part 123 acquires the program viewing information which contains a program viewing term in a program comment from the acquired program viewing information. And the program specific | specification part 123 specifies a program only for the acquired program viewing information.

  Further, when acquiring the electronic program guide or program information from the electronic program guide storage unit 121, the program specifying unit 123 normally uses a search key included in the program viewing information transmission instruction transmitted by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. . For example, when the search key is date information “2011/01/02”, the program specifying unit 123 searches the electronic program guide storage unit 121 for an electronic program guide or program information having the date information. For example, when the search key is time information “2011/01/01 00:00:00 to 2011/01/01 24:00:00”, the program specifying unit 123 corresponds to the range of the date information. The electronic program guide or program information to be searched is searched from the electronic program guide storage unit 121.

  In addition, the program specifying unit 123 may specify a program by, for example, an area specifying process, an area program guide acquisition process, a program relevance calculation process, a program specifying process, or the like. Further, the program specifying unit 123 may specify a program by, for example, a broadcast station specifying process, a broadcast station program guide obtaining process, a program relevance calculation process, a program specifying process, or the like. Here, the area specifying process is a process of specifying the area where the program viewing information is transmitted using the user position information included in the program viewing information. The regional program guide acquisition process is a process of acquiring an electronic program guide corresponding to the region specified by the region specifying process from the electronic program guide storage unit 121. The broadcast station specifying process is a process of specifying the broadcast station closest to the position where the program viewing information is transmitted, using the user position information included in the program viewing information. The broadcast station program guide acquisition process is a process of acquiring the electronic program guide corresponding to the area specified by the broadcast station specifying process from the electronic program guide storage unit 121. The program relevance calculation process calculates a program relevance that is a relevance between each program information included in the electronic program guide acquired by the regional program guide acquisition process or the broadcast station program guide acquisition process and the program viewing information. It is processing. The program specifying process is a process of specifying the program indicated by the program information having the maximum relevance calculated by the program relevance calculating process as a program corresponding to the program viewing information.

  The program relevance level is usually calculated from the program title relevance level, the broadcast station relevance level, and the broadcast time relevance level. The program title relevance level is a relevance level between a program title included in each program information and a program comment included in the program viewing information. The broadcast station relevance level is a relevance level between broadcast station position information included in each program information and user position information included in the program viewing information. The broadcast time relevance is the relevance between the broadcast time zone of each program information and the time information of the program viewing information. The program title relevance level is normally calculated by a program title relevance level calculation process. Also, the broadcast station relevance calculation process is normally calculated by the broadcast station relevance calculation process. Also, the broadcast time relevance is normally calculated by a broadcast time relevance calculation process.

  Note that the program specification in the program specification unit 123 is normally performed by an electronic program guide specification unit 1231, a time acquisition unit 1232, and a program specification unit 1233 described later. In addition, the program specifying unit 123 selects a program corresponding to the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 from the programs indicated by the program information stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121. What is necessary is just to be able to identify based on each information which information has, and the method, procedure, etc. are not ask | required.

  The program specifying unit 123 can usually be realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the program specifying unit 123 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 performs a region specifying process and a region program guide acquiring process. Further, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 may perform broadcast station specifying processing and broadcast station program guide acquiring processing. The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 performs a region program guide acquisition process after the region specifying process. Further, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 performs a broadcast station program guide acquisition process after the broadcast station specifying process.

  In the area specifying process, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 normally uses user position information included in the program viewing information. For example, it is assumed that each electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121 has longitude and latitude information and a prefecture name as area specifying position information. In this case, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 first calculates the distance between the user position information and each longitude and latitude information as the area specifying process. For the distance, for example, the position information is regarded as coordinates, and the distance of the coordinates is calculated. And the electronic program guide specific | specification means 1231 acquires the shortest thing among the calculated each distance. And the electronic program guide specific | specification means 1231 acquires the prefecture name corresponding to the said shortest distance. Thereby, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 specifies the area.

  Further, for example, it is assumed that each electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121 has two or more longitude and latitude information and a prefecture name as the region specifying position information. In this case, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 first determines whether the user position information is within the polygonal range indicated by the two or more longitude and latitude information as the region specifying unit. And the electronic program guide specific | specification means 1231 acquires the prefecture name corresponding to the 2 or more longitude and latitude information judged to be in the range as a result of the said judgment. Thereby, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 may specify a region.

  Further, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 may use area management information instead of the area specifying position information included in the electronic program guide in the area specifying process. The area management information is information for managing information indicating the area. The area management information includes, for example, location information and location position information. The area management information is normally held by the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231, but may be stored in an arbitrary storage area.

  In the area program guide acquisition process, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 normally uses the location identifier acquired in the area specifying process. For example, it is assumed that each electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121 has prefecture information as a place identifier included in the area specifying position information. In this case, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 searches the electronic program guide having the prefecture name by using the prefecture name as a search key as the local program guide acquisition process. Thereby, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 acquires the electronic program guide.

  In the broadcast station specifying process, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 normally uses user position information included in the program viewing information. For example, it is assumed that each electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121 has a broadcast station name that is a broadcast station identifier and longitude and latitude information that is broadcast station position information. In this case, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 first calculates the distance between the user position information and each longitude and latitude information as the broadcast station specifying process. For the distance, for example, the position information is regarded as coordinates, and the distance between the coordinates is calculated. And the electronic program guide specific | specification means 1231 acquires the shortest thing among the calculated each distance. And the electronic program guide specific | specification means 1231 acquires the broadcasting station name corresponding to the said shortest distance. Thereby, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 may specify a broadcasting station.

  For example, each electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121 has a broadcast station name that is a broadcast station identifier and two or more longitude and latitude information that is broadcast station position information. . In this case, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 first determines whether or not the user position information is within a polygonal range indicated by the two or more longitude and latitude information as the broadcasting station specifying process. Then, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 acquires broadcast station names corresponding to two or more longitude and latitude information determined to be within the range as a result of the determination. Thereby, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 may specify a broadcasting station.

  The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 may use broadcast station management information instead of the broadcast station position information included in the electronic program guide in the area specifying process. The area management information is information for managing information indicating broadcasting stations. The broadcast station management information includes, for example, a broadcast station identifier and broadcast station position information. The broadcast station management information is normally held by the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231, but may be stored in an arbitrary storage area.

  In the regional program guide acquisition process, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 normally uses the broadcast station name acquired in the broadcast station specifying process. For example, it is assumed that each electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121 has a broadcast station name as a broadcast station identifier. In this case, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 searches the electronic program guide having the broadcast station name by using the broadcast station name as a search key as the broadcast station program guide acquisition process. As a result, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 acquires the broadcast station program guide.

  The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 may specify the electronic program guide based on the information included in the program viewing information, and the method and procedure thereof are not limited.

  The electronic program guide specifying means 1231 can usually be realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the electronic program guide specifying means 1231 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The time acquisition unit 1232 acquires a reception time that is a time when the program viewing information receiving unit 122 receives the program viewing information. Further, the time acquisition unit 1232 may acquire a transmission time that is a time when the user transmits the program viewing information.

  When acquiring the reception time, the time acquisition means 1232 usually has a clock. For example, the time acquisition unit 1232 always monitors whether the program viewing information receiving unit 122 has received the program viewing information. When the program viewing information receiving unit 122 determines that the program viewing information has been received, the time acquisition unit 1232 acquires the time of the moment from the clock. Then, the time acquisition unit 1232 sets the acquired time as the reception time.

  When acquiring the transmission time, the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 is usually included in the time. Therefore, in this case, the time acquisition unit 1232 acquires the time information included in the program viewing information as the transmission time.

  The time acquisition unit 1232 may correct the reception time or the transmission time according to the content of the program comment included in the program viewing information. Normally, when a user transmits program viewing information, it takes time to input a program comment. Therefore, the reception time or the transmission time is corrected in order to accurately specify the time during which the program is actually viewed. For example, the time acquisition unit 1232 counts the number of characters of the program comment included in the program viewing information, and multiplies the number of characters by the number of correction seconds to calculate the correction time. Then, the time acquisition unit 1232 subtracts the correction time from the acquired reception time or transmission time.

  For example, if the program comment is “Variety is interesting” and the corrected number of seconds is “0.5 seconds / character”, the number of characters in the program comment is “12”, so the correction time is “12 × 0.5. "6 seconds". For example, when the reception time is “23:15:24”, the corrected reception time is “23:15:18”.

  In addition, the time acquisition unit 1232, for example, whether the user has transmitted the program viewing information while viewing the program, whether the user has transmitted the program viewing information after viewing the program, or before viewing the program It may be determined whether or not the program viewing information has been transmitted, and the correction time may be calculated according to the determination result. The determination is performed using, for example, time correction term management information. The time correction term management information is information for managing a time correction term that is a term for determining whether or not to correct the time. The time correction term management information includes, for example, the time correction term and correction information. The time correction term and the correction information are usually associated one to one. The correction information is information indicating the content of correction performed on the calculated correction time. The time correction term is, for example, “Nau”, “Wil”, “Ago”, “Ago” or the like. The correction information includes, for example, “+0 seconds”, “+10 seconds”, “−20 seconds”, “× 1.2”, “÷ 1.5”, and the like.

  For example, the time acquisition unit 1232 first calculates the correction time according to the procedure described above. Then, the time acquisition unit 1232 determines whether or not a time correction term is included in the program comment. When it is determined that the time acquisition unit 1232 includes the time correction unit 1232, the time acquisition unit 1232 acquires correction information corresponding to the time correction term determined to be included. Then, the time acquisition unit 1232 performs correction indicated by the correction information on the acquired correction time. For example, when the correction time calculated from the number of characters in the program comment is “20 seconds” and the correction information is “+20 seconds”, the time acquisition unit 1232 sets “20 + 20” and “40 seconds” as the new correction time. To do.

  Further, the time acquisition unit 1232 may perform correction indicated by the correction information on the reception time or the transmission time instead of the correction time calculated from the number of characters of the program comment, for example.

  Further, when the time acquisition unit 1232 corrects the acquired reception time or transmission time, the correction method and procedure are not limited as long as the correction can be performed.

  The time acquisition unit 1232 can usually be realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the time acquisition unit 1232 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The program specifying means 1233 normally specifies a program corresponding to the program viewing information by performing a program relevance calculation process and a program specifying process. First, the program specifying unit 1233 sequentially performs a program title relevance calculation process, a broadcast station relevance calculation process, and a broadcast time relevance calculation process as program relevance calculation processes.

  In the program title relevance calculation process, for example, the program specifying unit 1233 first divides a program comment included in the program viewing information into morphemes by morphological analysis. Then, the program specifying unit 1233 extracts the morpheme that is determined as “noun” or “adjective” as a program comment keyword. Next, the program specifying unit 1233 extracts keywords from the program titles included in each piece of program information in the same manner as described above. Next, the program specifying unit 1233 calculates the degree of association between the keyword group extracted from the program viewing information and the keyword group extracted from each program information. The relevance is calculated using, for example, a Jaccard coefficient. The Jaccard coefficient is a numerical value representing the degree of co-occurrence of two sets, the degree of association, and the degree of similarity. Here, when there are two sets of S1 and S2, the Jaccard coefficient is “| S1∩S2 | / (| S1 | + | S2 | + | S1∩S2 |)”. “||” is a symbol indicating the norm of a vector. Usually, the keyword extracted from the program viewing information is a character string, not a numerical value. Therefore, the norm cannot be calculated. Therefore, normally, an index value (arbitrary numerical value) is assigned to the keyword, and the norm is calculated using the numerical value. For the assignment of the index value, for example, keyword index management information having a keyword and an index value corresponding to the keyword is prepared in advance, such as “TV | 1” and “TV | 2”, and the keyword index management information. Is used to assign an index value. The keyword index value is normally held by the program specifying unit 1233, but may be stored in an arbitrary storage area.

  When calculating the Jaccard coefficient, the program specifying unit 1233 reduces the contribution to the program title relevance to keywords that tend to appear in the program title, such as “news” and “drama”, for example. A smaller weight (coefficient) may be applied.

  In the program title relevance calculation process, the program specifying unit 1233 may calculate the program title relevance using, for example, a program related keyword included in the program information.

  In the broadcast station relevance calculation processing, for example, the program specifying unit 1233 regards the user position information included in the program viewing information and the broadcast station position information included in each program information as coordinates, calculates the distance between the coordinates, The broadcast station relevance is calculated from the distance. For example, the distance between coordinates is expressed as “dist (P1, P2)”. Here, P1 and P2 are symbols indicating longitude and latitude information. P1 and P2 have, for example, (X1, Y1) and (X2, Y2) indicating coordinates in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction. In this case, the distance between the coordinates can be calculated by “√ {(X1-X2) ^ 2 × (Y1-Y2) ^ 2}”. Here, “^ 2” means square. In this case, the broadcast station relevance can be calculated by, for example, “log (dist (user position information, broadcast station position information) +1)”.

  In the broadcast time relevance calculation process, for example, the program specifying unit 1233 first acquires the time (acquisition time) acquired by the time acquisition unit 1232 and the broadcast time zone included in each program information. Next, the program specifying unit 1233 determines whether or not the acquisition time is included in the time range indicated by the broadcast time zone. If included, the program specifying unit 1233 sets the broadcast time relevance to “0”. If not included, the program specifying unit 1233 determines whether or not the acquisition time is a time before the start time of the broadcast time zone. When the time is before the start time, the program specifying unit 1233 sets a value that can be calculated using a value obtained by subtracting the acquisition time from the start time as the broadcast time relevance. This value can be calculated, for example, by “log (T−Ts + 0.1)”. Here, T is a symbol indicating acquisition time, and Ts is a symbol indicating start time. When the time is later than the start time, that is, when the time is later than the end time, the program specifying unit 1233 calculates a value that can be calculated using a value obtained by subtracting the end time from the acquisition time. Relevance. This value can be calculated by, for example, “log (Te−T + 0.1)”. Here, Te is a symbol indicating the end time.

  Finally, the program specifying unit 1233 calculates the program relevance from the program title relevance, the broadcast station relevance, and the broadcast time relevance as the program relevance calculation processing. If the program relevance level is R, the program title relevance level is α, the broadcast station relevance level is β, and the broadcast time relevance level is γ, the program relevance level R is calculated by, for example, “α / (β + 1) × (γ + 1)”. can do.

  Next, the program specifying unit 1233 performs a program specifying process. For example, the program specifying unit 1233 first sorts the calculated program relevance level for each piece of program information in descending order of relevance level. At this time, for example, sorting is performed so that program information corresponding to the calculated program relevance degree can be specified together with the program identifier and the like. And the program specific | specification means 1233 acquires the program information corresponding to the largest degree of program relevance as a result of the said sort. Then, the program specifying unit 1233 specifies that the program indicated by the program information is a program corresponding to the program viewing information.

  The program specifying unit 1233 uses the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 from the program information included in the electronic program guide specified by the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 based on the information included in the program viewing information. Any method and procedure may be used as long as it is possible to specify a program corresponding to the above.

  The program specifying unit 1233 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the program specifying means 1233 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 performs statistical processing on the program viewing information. Then, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 acquires the program viewing statistical information as a result of the statistical processing. Here, the statistical processing includes, for example, calculating the number of viewers and calculating the audience rating. Further, the statistical processing is usually performed for each program specified by the program specifying unit 123. The program viewing statistical information is statistical information relating to program viewing. The program audience rating statistical information includes, for example, the number of viewers and audience rating. The number of viewers is, for example, “100 people” or “52 people”. The audience rating is, for example, “90%”, “56.2%”, “23.4”, and the like.

  When calculating the number of viewers and the audience rating, the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 124 normally performs unique processing of program viewing information. The unique processing is to delete duplicate information in any two or more pieces of information and make one information unique. For example, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 performs a unique process using a user identifier included in each program viewing information and a program corresponding to the program viewing information. Further, for example, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 performs a unique process using a user identifier included in each program viewing information, a program corresponding to the program viewing information, and a feeling of a program comment for the program.

  Further, the program viewing statistical information may be, for example, a table format, a graph format, or an image format. In the case of a table format, the program viewing statistical information includes, for example, two or more pieces of time information indicating a program identifier, the number of viewers, a viewing rate, and a period during which the statistical processing is performed. In the case of a graph format, for example, the program viewing statistical information takes time on the horizontal axis, the number of viewers, and the audience rating on the vertical axis. In the case of the image format, the program viewing statistical information is, for example, an image of the program viewing statistical information in the graph format or an image of the program viewing statistical information in the graph format. The program viewing statistics information is, for example, “(Hyogo News | Men | 10 people), (Hyogo News | Women | 3 people)”, “(Laughter Contest | Men | Teen | 30%)”, (Laughter Contest | Men | 20's | 20%) ". The program viewing statistical information may be statistical information relating to program viewing, and the format and content thereof are not limited.

  In addition, the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 124 normally acquires emotion term storage means 1241, user attribute information acquisition means 1242, emotion term acquisition means 1243, emotion determination means 1244, program viewing statistics, which will be described later, when program viewing statistics information is acquired. This is performed by the information acquisition unit 1245.

  The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The emotion term storage means 1241 can store one or more emotion terms. The emotion term is a term indicating emotion. The emotion term is, for example, an affirmative term or a negative term. An affirmative term is a term that indicates affirmative. The positive terms are, for example, “good”, “good”, “great”, “great”, “cool”, “interesting”, and the like. The negative term is a term indicating negative. Negative terms include, for example, “bad”, “no good”, “feeling”, “dull”, “not good”, and the like. Moreover, the negative term may have a semi-negative term and a connection negative term. A semi-negative term is a term according to a negative term. The semi-negative terms include, for example, “interesting”, “interesting”, “good”, “good”, and the like. A connection negative term is a term for making a semi-negative term a negative term by being connected to a semi-negative term. The connection negation term is, for example, “no”.

  Moreover, the emotion term storage means 1241 may store type information. The type information is information indicating the type of emotion indicated by the emotion term. The type information includes, for example, “positive”, “positive”, “negative”, “negative”, “neutral”, “neutral”, and the like.

  Moreover, the emotion term and the type information are usually associated one-to-one. Information having emotion terms and type information may be used as emotion term management information.

  The emotion term storage means 1241 is preferably a nonvolatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium.

  The user attribute information acquisition unit 1242 acquires user attribute information. The user attribute information here is user attribute information corresponding to a user identifier included in the program viewing information. The user attribute information may be user attribute information included in the program viewing information.

  For example, when the user attribute information included in the program viewing information is gender information, the user attribute information acquisition unit 1242 acquires the gender information as user attribute information. When the user attribute information included in the program viewing information is age information, the user attribute information acquisition unit 1242 acquires the age information as user attribute information. When the user attribute information included in the program viewing information is age information, the user attribute information acquisition unit 1242 acquires the age information, acquires the age group indicated by the age information, and sets the age group. The information shown may be acquired as user attribute information. For example, the age group is acquired by setting the first digit of the age indicated by the age information to “0”.

  The user attribute information acquisition unit 1242 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the user attribute information acquisition unit 1242 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  Emotion term acquisition means 1243 acquires emotion terms from one or more program viewing information. The program viewing information here is program viewing information corresponding to each program identified by the program identifying unit 123.

  For example, the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 acquires an emotion term from a program comment included in the program viewing information. For example, the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 divides a program comment into morphemes by morphological analysis. Then, the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 extracts those morphemes that are determined as “nouns” or “adjectives”. Then, the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 searches the emotion term storage unit 1241 for the extracted morpheme. Thereby, the emotion term acquisition means 1243 acquires an emotion term. In addition, the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 normally acquires the associated type information when acquiring the emotion term.

  In addition, the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 determines, for example, whether or not the emotion term stored in the emotion term storage unit 1241 is included in the program comment. You may acquire from the term storage means 1241.

  The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  Emotion determination means 1244 determines an emotion for a program comment program included in the program viewing information. The emotion determination unit 1244 determines the emotion based on the emotion indicated by the type information corresponding to the emotion term acquired by the emotion term acquisition unit 1243, for example. Moreover, the emotion determination means 1244 determines an emotion for every program which the program specific | specification part 123 specified, for example.

  For example, when the emotion term “interesting” and the type information “positive” are associated as emotion term management information, and the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 acquires the emotion term “interesting” from the program comment, the emotion determination unit 1244 The program comment is determined to be “positive”. In addition, for example, when the emotion term “no boring” and the type information “negative” are associated as the emotion term management information, and the emotion term acquiring unit 1243 acquires the emotion term “no boring” from the program comment, the emotion determining unit 1244 determines that the program comment is “negative”. Further, for example, when the emotion acquisition unit cannot acquire an emotion term from the program comment, the emotion determination unit 1244 may determine that the program comment is “neutral”.

  The emotion determination unit 1244 can be realized usually by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the emotion determination means 1244 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 statistically processes one or more pieces of program viewing information. Then, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 acquires the program viewing statistical information as a result of the statistical processing. At this time, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 normally performs statistical processing for each program specified by the program specifying unit 123. Further, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 may perform statistical processing for each user attribute information acquired by the user attribute information acquisition unit 1242. The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 may perform statistical processing for each emotion determined by the emotion determination unit 1244.

  For example, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 first acquires program viewing information for each program specified by the program specifying unit 123. Then, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 classifies the program viewing information for each user attribute information included in the program viewing information. Then, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 performs statistical processing for each classified program viewing information.

  When calculating the number of viewers as statistical processing, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 counts, for example, the number of users indicated by the user identifier of the program viewing information for each classified program viewing information. . For example, when the user identifiers included in the program viewing information are “User01” and “User02”, the number of viewers is “2”. When the user identifiers included in the program viewing information are “User01”, “User02”, and “User01”, the number of viewers is “2” as a result of the unique process.

  When calculating the audience rating as the statistical processing, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 first counts the number of users indicated by the user identifier included in the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122, for example. The total number of viewers is calculated. The total number of viewers may be calculated for each region. Then, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 classifies the program viewing information for each program, user attribute information, and emotion in the same procedure as described above. Then, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 counts the number of users indicated by the user identifier for each classified program viewing information, and calculates the number of viewers for each program. Here, for example, assuming that the total number of viewers is “Ua” and the number of viewers for each program is “Ue”, the program viewing statistics information acquisition means 1245 is, for example, “(Ue / Ua) × 100”. Calculate the rate. For example, when “Ua = 100” and “Ue = 40”, the audience rating is “(40/100) × 100” and “40%”. Moreover, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 may calculate the popularity as statistical processing. For example, if the number of program viewing information having a program comment that is a comment on an arbitrary program is “C” and the number of viewers for each program is “U”, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 may, for example, “√ ( C) × U ”to calculate the popularity. For example, when “C = 100” and “U = 81”, the popularity is “810” with “√ (100) × 81”. The popularity may be converted to a value of “0 to 100” by normalization. The normalization processing is, for example, “popularity after normalization = (popularity before normalization−minimum popularity) / (maximum popularity−minimum popularity)”.

  Note that the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 1245 only needs to be able to acquire the program viewing statistics information, and the method and procedure thereof are not limited.

  The program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 1245 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The program viewing statistical information output unit 125 outputs program viewing statistical information. Here, the program viewing statistical information is the program viewing statistical information acquired by the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124.

  Output refers to display on a display, projection using a projector, printing on a printer, sound output, transmission to an external device, storage on a recording medium, processing results to other processing devices or other programs, etc. It is a concept that includes delivery. In addition, regarding transmission, accumulation, and delivery of processing results, an output target is finally presented to the user.

  The program viewing statistical information output unit 125 may or may not include an output device such as a display or a speaker. The program viewing statistical information output unit 125 can be realized by driver software of an output device or driver software and an output device of an output device.

  Next, the operation of the information processing system 1 will be described. Note that the i-th information in the predetermined information is described as “information [i]”.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the overall operation of the server device 11.

  (Step S401) The server program viewing information receiving unit 112 determines whether program viewing information has been received. If received, the process proceeds to step S402, and if not, the process proceeds to step S403.

  (Step S402) The server program viewing information accumulation unit 113 accumulates the program viewing information received by the server program viewing information reception unit 112 in the program viewing information storage unit 111.

  (Step S403) The server program viewing information transmission unit 114 determines whether a program viewing information transmission instruction has been received. If received, the process proceeds to step S404; otherwise, the process returns to step S401.

  (Step S404) The server program viewing information transmission unit 114 obtains the program viewing information corresponding to the search key included in the program viewing information transmission instruction received in Step S403 from the program viewing information storage unit 111, and the obtained program viewing information Send information.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 4, the process may be terminated by powering off or a process termination interrupt.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the overall operation of the program viewing information processing apparatus 12.

  (Step S501) The program viewing information receiving unit 122 determines whether it is the transmission timing of the program viewing information transmission instruction. If it is timing, the process proceeds to step S502, and if not, the process returns to step S501.

  (Step S502) The program viewing information receiving unit 122 transmits a program viewing information transmission instruction.

  (Step S503) The program viewing information receiving unit 122 determines whether or not the program viewing information corresponding to the transmitted program viewing information transmission instruction has been received. If received, the process proceeds to step S504, and if not, the process returns to step S503.

  (Step S504) The program specifying unit 123 specifies a program corresponding to the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. Details of this processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S505) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 determines an emotion for the program of the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. Details of this processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S506) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124 acquires program viewing statistical information. Details of this processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S507) The program viewing statistical information output unit 125 outputs the program viewing statistical information acquired by the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 5, the process may be terminated by turning off the power or by interrupting the process.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 5, after the program specifying process in step S504, a unique process of program viewing information in which the same user identifier and the specified program are the same may be performed.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the program specifying process in step S504 of the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S601) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 acquires the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. Here, it is assumed that m pieces of program viewing information have been acquired.

  (Step S <b> 602) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 acquires the regional electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121.

  (Step S603) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 sets 1 to the counter i.

  (Step S604) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 searches the area management information for the area name corresponding to the user position information included in the program viewing information [i], and specifies the area.

  (Step S605) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 searches the electronic program guide corresponding to the specified region from the acquired electronic program guide for each region, and acquires the electronic program guide. Here, it is assumed that an electronic program guide having n pieces of program information has been acquired.

  (Step S606) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 sets 1 to the counter j.

  (Step S607) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires the degree of association α between the program viewing information [i] and the program title of the program information [j]. Details of this processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S608) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires the degree of association β between the program viewing information [i] and the broadcast station of the program information [j]. Details of this processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S609) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires the degree of association γ between the program viewing information [i] and the broadcast time of the program information [j]. Details of this processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S610) The program specifying unit 1233 calculates the degree of association R between the program viewing information [i] and the program indicated by the program information [j]. For example, the program specifying unit 1233 calculates a value of “α / (β + 1) × (γ + 1)” and sets the value in the degree of association R [j].

  (Step S611) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 determines whether j is n. When it is n, it progresses to step S613, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S612.

  (Step S612) The electronic program guide identifying unit 1231 increments j by 1, and returns to step S607.

  (Step S613) The program specifying unit 1233 sorts the relevance R in descending order.

  (Step S614) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires the degree of association R [1] as program information indicating a program corresponding to the program viewing information [i].

  (Step S615) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 determines whether i is m. If m, the process returns to the upper process, and if not, the process proceeds to step S616.

  (Step S616) The electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 increments i by 1, and returns to step S604.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the degree-of-association acquisition processing in step S607 in the flowchart of FIG. Note that the program viewing information in the flowchart of FIG. 7 is the program viewing information [i] in the flowchart of FIG. The program information in the flowchart of FIG. 7 is the program information [j] in the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S701) The program specifying unit 1233 extracts the keyword KW1 from the program comment included in the program viewing information.

  (Step S702) The program identifying unit 1233 sets 0 to the degree of association α with the program title.

  (Step S703) The program specifying unit 1233 determines whether any of KW1 is included in the program title included in the program information. If included, the process proceeds to step S704, and if not, the process returns to the upper process.

  (Step S704) The program specifying unit 1233 extracts the keyword KW2 from the program title included in the program information.

  (Step S705) The program specifying unit 1233 calculates the Jaccard coefficient of KW1 and KW2, and sets the value to the degree of association α with the program title. Then, the process returns to the upper process.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the degree-of-association acquisition processing in step S608 of the flowchart of FIG. Note that the program viewing information in the flowchart of FIG. 8 is the program viewing information [i] in the flowchart of FIG. The program information in the flowchart of FIG. 7 is the program information [j] in the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S801) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires user position information P1 included in the information from the program viewing information.

  (Step S802) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires broadcast station position information P2 included in the information from the program information.

  (Step S803) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires the distance x between P1 and P2.

  (Step S804) The program specifying unit 1233 calculates the value of “log (x + 1)” and sets the value to the degree of association β with the broadcasting station. Then, the process returns to the upper process.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the degree-of-association acquisition processing in step S609 of the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S901) The time acquisition unit 1232 acquires time information T included in the information from the program viewing information.

  (Step S902) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires start time information Ts included in the information from the program information.

  (Step S903) The program specifying unit 1233 acquires end time information Te included in the information from the program information.

  (Step S904) The program specifying unit 1233 determines whether T is greater than or equal to Ts and less than or equal to Te. If it is equal to or greater than Ts and equal to or less than Te, the process proceeds to step S905. Otherwise, the process proceeds to step S906.

  (Step S905) The program specifying unit 1233 sets 0 to the degree of association γ with the broadcast time. Then, the process returns to the upper process.

  (Step S906) The program specifying unit 1233 determines whether T is smaller than Ts. If it is smaller than Ts, the process proceeds to step S907; otherwise, the process proceeds to step S908.

  (Step S907) The program specifying unit 1233 calculates the value of “log (Ts−T + 0.11)” and sets the value to the degree of association γ with the broadcast time. Then, the process returns to the upper process.

  (Step S908) The program specifying unit 1233 calculates the value of “log (T−Te + 0.1)” and sets the value to the degree of association γ with the broadcast time. Then, the process returns to the upper process.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the emotion determination process in step S505 of the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S1001) The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 acquires the program viewing information specified by the program specifying unit 123. Here, it is assumed that m pieces of program viewing information have been acquired.

  (Step S1002) The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 acquires emotion term management information stored in the emotion term storage unit 1241. Here, it is assumed that n emotion term management information has been acquired.

  (Step S1003) Emotion term acquisition means 1243 sets 1 to counter i.

  (Step S1004) The emotion term acquisition means 1243 sets 1 to the counter j.

  (Step S1005) The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 determines whether or not an emotion term included in the emotion term management information [j] is included in the program comment included in the program viewing information [i]. If included, the process proceeds to step S1006, and if not, the process proceeds to step S1007.

  (Step S1006) The emotion determination means 1244 acquires type information corresponding to the emotion term determined to be included in Step S1005, and sets the information as an emotion corresponding to the program viewing information [i].

  (Step S1007) Emotion determination means 1244 sets “none” as an emotion corresponding to program viewing information [i].

  (Step S1008) The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 determines whether j is n. When it is n, it progresses to step S1010, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S1009.

  (Step S1009) The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 increments j by 1, and returns to Step S1005.

  (Step S1010) The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 determines whether i is m. When it is m, it returns to a high-order process, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S1011.

  (Step S1011) The emotion term acquisition unit 1243 increments i by 1, and returns to step S1004.

  FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the program viewing statistical information acquisition processing in step S506 of the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S1101) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 acquires the program viewing information acquired by the program specifying unit 123. Here, it is assumed that m pieces of program viewing information have been acquired.

  (Step S1102) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 acquires the electronic program guide acquired by the program specifying unit 123. Here, it is assumed that an electronic program guide having n pieces of program information has been acquired.

  (Step S1103) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 sets 1 to the counter i.

  (Step S1104) The user attribute information acquisition unit 1242 acquires user attribute information from the program viewing information [i] acquired in step S1101. Here, it is assumed that a type of user attribute information has been acquired.

  (Step S1105) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 sets 1 to the counter j.

  (Step S1106) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 sets the program information [j] as the program information of the program viewing statistical information [j].

  (Step S1107) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 determines whether or not the program information [j] is the same as the program information included in the program information [i]. If they are the same, the process proceeds to step S1108; otherwise, the process proceeds to step S1116.

  (Step S1108) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 increments the number of viewers of the program viewing statistical information [j] by one.

  (Step S1109) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 acquires the emotion of the program viewing information [i].

  (Step S1110) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 increments the counter of the program viewing statistical information [j] corresponding to the emotion acquired in step S1109 by 1.

  (Step S1111) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 sets 1 to the counter k.

  (Step S1112) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 acquires the user attribute [k].

  (Step S1113) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 increments the counter of the program viewing statistical information [j] corresponding to the user attribute acquired in Step S1112 by 1.

  (Step S1114) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 determines whether k is a. When it is a, it progresses to step S1116, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S1115.

  (Step S1115) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 increments k by 1, and returns to step S1112.

  (Step S1116) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 determines whether j is n. When it is n, it progresses to step S1118, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S1117.

  (Step S1117) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 increments j by 1.

  (Step S1118) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 determines whether i is m. If it is m, the process returns to the upper process, and if not, the process proceeds to step S1119.

  (Step S1119) The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 increments i by 1, and returns to step S1104.

  In addition, although the example which acquires the number of viewers as program viewing statistics information was shown in the flowchart of FIG. 11, you may acquire an audience rating and popularity.

  Next, a specific example of the operation of the information processing system 1 will be described. In this specific example, the server device 11 is a server that operates, for example, a blog that posts opinions about a television program, a miniblog, or an SNS. Further, it is assumed that user management information shown in FIG. 12 is stored in an arbitrary storage area in the server apparatus 11. The user management information has a user identifier, sex, and age. Further, it is assumed that the area management information shown in FIG. 13 is stored in an arbitrary storage area in the program viewing information processing apparatus 12. The area management information includes an area name and area position information. Further, it is assumed that the electronic program guide storage unit 121 stores the regional electronic program guide shown in FIG. The region-specific electronic program guide includes a region name, a broadcasting station name, broadcasting station position information, and program information. The program information includes date information, start time information, end time information, and a program name. Further, it is assumed that emotion term management information shown in FIG. 15 is stored in the emotion term storage means 1241. The emotion term management information has an emotion term and a type.

  First, it is assumed that some users watch a television program and transmit program viewing information via the terminal device. At this time, the user transmits the program viewing information via, for example, an application provided in the terminal device or a website. Then, the server program viewing information receiving unit 112 receives the program viewing information transmitted by the user. At this time, it is assumed that the server program viewing information receiving unit 112 has received the program viewing information shown in FIG. 16 shows an example of the program viewing information transmitted by the user within a certain period, the server program viewing information receiving unit 112 may receive the program viewing information every time the user transmits. .

  Next, the server program viewing information accumulating unit 113 acquires the user management information of FIG. 12 stored in an arbitrary storage area, and the user management information is received for the program viewing information received by the server program viewing information receiving unit 112. Gender and age of information are given. As a result, the server program viewing information storage unit 113 generates the program viewing information shown in FIG. 17 and stores the program viewing information in the program viewing information storage unit 111.

  Next, it is assumed that the program viewing information receiving unit 122 transmits a program viewing information transmission instruction having a search key of “date = 2011/01/06” to the server device 11 in accordance with a predetermined timing. Then, the server program viewing information transmission unit 114 receives the program viewing information transmission instruction having the search key, searches for the program viewing information stored in the program viewing information storage unit 111 using the search key, and FIG. It is assumed that the program viewing information “ID = 98” to “ID = 107” is transmitted. Then, the program viewing information receiving unit 122 receives the program viewing information of “ID = 98” to “ID = 107” in FIG.

  Next, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 acquires the area management information of FIG. 13 stored in an arbitrary storage area. Then, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 calculates the distance between the user position information included in each program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 and the position information included in the area management information, and corresponds to each program viewing information. Suppose that the area to be identified is “Hyogo”. Then, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 uses the electronic program of “ID = 88” to “ID = 117” whose area is “Hyogo” from the regional program guide of FIG. 14 stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 121. Get the program guide.

  Next, the program specifying unit 1233 performs program relevance calculation processing for each program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 and each program information included in the electronic program guide acquired by the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231. Then, a program specifying process is performed, and a program name indicating a program corresponding to each program information is acquired. Note that the time acquisition unit 1232 acquires time information of each program viewing information used in the program relevance calculation process. Moreover, the emotion term acquisition means 1243 and the emotion determination means 1244 acquire the emotion term management information of FIG. 15 stored in the emotion term storage means 1241, and determine the emotion indicated by the program comment included in each program viewing information. . As a result, it is assumed that the program name indicating the program corresponding to each program viewing information and the emotion indicated by the program comment are as shown in FIG. Here, “None” in the “program name” indicates that the program could not be identified from the program relevance calculated by the program relevance calculation processing.

  Next, it is assumed that the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 performs unique processing on the information in FIG. 18 and acquires the information in FIG. At this time, the program viewing statistics information acquisition means 1245 searches the information (record) in FIG. 19 for information having the same user identifier, gender, age, program name, and emotion, leaving the one with a small ID, Shall be deleted. It is also assumed that program viewing information (program viewing information whose “program name” is “none”) for which a program could not be identified is also deleted. Then, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 counts the number of genders, emotions, and the like included in each piece of information in FIG. 19 and the number of users indicated by the user identifier for each program name. At this time, the user attribute information acquisition means 1242 acquires user attribute information from each piece of information in FIG. Then, the audience rating and popularity are calculated from these pieces of information, and the program viewing statistics information shown in FIG. 20 is acquired.

  Finally, the program viewing statistical information output unit 125 processes the data into a graph format as shown in FIG. 21, for example, and outputs the program viewing statistical information.

  In the specific example, an example is shown in which program viewing statistical information is acquired from program viewing information by batch processing, but program viewing statistical information may be acquired by real-time processing.

  Further, in this specific example, when the program corresponding to each program viewing information is specified, the emotion indicated by the program comment included in each program viewing information is shown. However, the program viewing statistical information is obtained from the program viewing information. When acquiring, the emotion may be determined.

  Further, in this specific example, an example is shown in which the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245 performs a unique process on the program corresponding to each program viewing information and the information whose emotion is determined. 1233 may do.

  As described above, according to the information processing system 1 according to the present embodiment, from the program viewing information transmitted by the user, the number of viewers of the program indicated by the program viewing information, the audience rating, the popularity, the viewer's impression on the program, etc. Can be obtained.

(Embodiment 2)
In this embodiment, an information processing system 2 that identifies a program viewed by a user from a CGM data posted by the user, identifies a corner in the program, and performs statistical processing will be described.

  The conceptual diagram of the information processing system 2 in the present embodiment is the same as that in FIG. 1, and the program viewing information processing device 12 is replaced with the program viewing information processing device 22. Further, the block diagram of the server device 11 in the present embodiment is the same as FIG. Further, the block diagram of the program viewing information processing apparatus 22 in the present embodiment is the same as that in FIG. 3, and the electronic program guide storage unit 121 and the program specification unit 123 in FIG. Unit 223, program specifying unit 1233, program specifying unit 2233, program viewing statistical information acquiring unit 124, program viewing statistical information acquiring unit 224, emotion term acquiring unit 1243, emotion term acquiring unit 2243, and emotion determining unit 1244 The emotion determination means 2244 and the program viewing statistics information acquisition means 1245 are replaced with the program viewing statistics information acquisition means 2245.

  The server device 11 includes a program viewing information storage unit 111, a server program viewing information reception unit 112, a server program viewing information storage unit 113, and a server program viewing information transmission unit 114.

  The program viewing information processing apparatus 22 includes an electronic program guide storage unit 221, a program viewing information receiving unit 122, a program specifying unit 223, a program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 224, and a program viewing statistical information output unit 125. The program specifying unit 223 includes an electronic program guide specifying unit 1231, a time acquisition unit 1232, and a program specifying unit 2233. The program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 224 includes emotion term storage means 1241, user attribute information acquisition means 1242, emotion term acquisition means 2243, emotion determination means 2244, and program viewing statistics information acquisition means 2245.

  The electronic program guide storage unit 221 can store one or more electronic program guides. The electronic program guide storage unit 221 may store one or more regional electronic program guides. The electronic program guide has one or more pieces of program information. The program information may have one or more pieces of detailed program information.

  The program detailed information is information indicating details of a program or information indicating partial details of a program. The detailed program information is, for example, broadcast time information, performer identifiers, program part identifiers, and the like. The program detailed information may be a combination of these pieces of information.

  The in-broadcast time information is information for specifying a time during a broadcast time of a program. The format of in-broadcast time information and the like are the same as in the above-described broadcast time zone, and thus description thereof is omitted.

  The performer identifier is information for identifying the performer of the program. The performer identifier is, for example, a performer ID or a performer name. The performer ID is, for example, “1”, “21”, “009”, or the like. The names of the performers are, for example, “Jun Niizaki” and “Hiroshi Tsukase”.

  The program part identifier is information for identifying a part of a program. The program part identifier is, for example, a program corner name, a program break, a program content, a program part ID, or the like. The name of the program corner is, for example, “talk corner” or “quiz corner”. The program breaks are, for example, “opening”, “ending”, “first half”, “second half”, and the like. The contents of the program include, for example, “politics”, “economy”, “weather”, and the like.

  Moreover, the program detailed information may have a program part related keyword. The program part related keyword is a keyword related to a program part. The program-related keyword is, for example, a noun or a noun phrase that can be acquired by dividing a program title into morphemes by morphological analysis. Further, the program keyword may be determined as “noun” or “adjective” among the morphemes of the program title. Further, the program-related keyword may be arbitrarily determined by the user.

  The electronic program guide storage unit 221 is preferably a nonvolatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium.

  The program specifying unit 223 specifies the part of the program corresponding to the program viewing information. “Identify a program part” has the same meaning as the above-mentioned “identify a program”. For example, the program specifying unit 223 applies the program viewing information to the electronic program guide, and specifies the part of the program corresponding to the program viewing information. Here, the program viewing information is two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. Further, the electronic program guide here may be an electronic program guide stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 221 or an electronic program guide stored in an external device. When the electronic program guide is an electronic program guide stored in an external device (for example, an electronic program guide management device (not shown)), the program specifying unit 223 has two or more programs received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122. Viewing information is information obtained as a result of application to one or more electronic program guides, and information relating to program parts corresponding to each program viewing information (for example, information that can identify program parts such as program part identifiers and program titles) The program part is specified by acquiring. That is, when the electronic program guide is an electronic program guide stored in an external device, the program specifying unit 223 transmits the program viewing information or a part of the program viewing information to the external device, and Information about the program part is received from the device.

  “Applying program viewing information to the electronic program guide” means searching for detailed program information corresponding to the program viewing information from the electronic program guide. The program specifying unit 223 divides program comments included in the program viewing information into morphemes, for example, by morphological analysis. And the program specific | specification part 223 acquires a noun or a noun phrase from the said division | segmentation result. And the program specific | specification part 223 searches the program detailed information which has the program title containing the said noun or a noun phrase, and a program part identifier from an electronic program guide. And the program specific | specification part 223 specifies the part of the program shown by the detailed program information acquired as a result of the search as the part of the program corresponding to the program viewing information.

  Moreover, the program specific | specification part 223 divides | segments the program part identifier of the program title which program information has, and the program detailed information which the said program information has into morpheme, for example by morphological analysis. At this time, the program specifying unit 223 may perform morphological analysis on only the program title or only the program part identifier. And the program specific | specification part 223 acquires a noun or a noun phrase from the said division | segmentation result. The program specifying unit 223 searches the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 for program viewing information having a program comment including the noun or noun phrase. Then, the program identification unit 223 obtains the part of the program indicated by the detailed program information that is the acquisition source of the noun or the noun phrase included in the program comment included in the program viewing information acquired as a result of the search as the viewing information. You may specify that it is a part of a corresponding program.

  In addition, the program specifying unit 223 specifies a program part only for program viewing information that the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 is supposed to have actually watched. May be. For example, the program specifying unit 223 may specify a program portion only for program viewing information having a program comment including a program viewing term. The program specifying unit 223 may specify a program portion only for program viewing information having a program comment that does not include a program non-viewing term, for example.

  The determination as to whether or not the program comment included in the program viewing information includes a program viewing term and the determination as to whether or not the program viewing term includes a program non-viewing term are the same as those of the program specifying unit 123 described above. Is omitted. Further, the method for acquiring the electronic program guide or the detailed program information from the electronic program guide storage unit 221 is the same as that of the program specifying unit 123 described above, and thus the description thereof is omitted.

  In addition, the program specifying unit 223 may specify a program portion by, for example, a region specifying process, a region program guide obtaining process, a program part relevance calculation process, a program part specifying process, or the like. The program specifying unit 223 may specify a program by, for example, a broadcast station specifying process, a broadcast station program guide obtaining process, a program part relevance calculation process, a program part specifying process, or the like. Here, the program relevance calculation process is a program part which is the relevance between each program detailed information included in the electronic program guide acquired by the regional program guide acquisition process or the broadcast station program guide acquisition process and the program viewing information. This is a process of calculating the degree of association. The program part specifying process is a process of specifying the part of the program indicated by the program detail information having the maximum degree of association calculated by the program part relevance degree calculating process as the part of the program corresponding to the program viewing information. .

  Also, the program part relevance is usually calculated from the program part identifier relevance, the broadcast station partial relevance, and the broadcast time partial relevance. The program part identifier relevance degree is a relevance degree between a program part identifier included in each program detailed information, a program title of the program information including the program detailed information, and a program comment included in the program viewing information. The broadcast station partial relevance level is a relevance level between broadcast station position information included in each program detailed information and user position information included in the program viewing information. The broadcast time partial relevance level is a relevance level between the broadcast time zone included in each program detail information and the time information included in the program viewing information. The program part identifier relevance degree is normally calculated by a program part identifier relevance degree calculation process. Also, the broadcast station partial relevance calculation process is normally calculated by the broadcast station partial relevance calculation process. Also, the broadcast time partial relevance is normally calculated by a broadcast time partial relevance calculation process.

  Note that the program portion in the program specifying unit 223 is normally specified by an electronic program guide specifying unit 1231, a time acquisition unit 1232, and a program specifying unit 2233 described later. In addition, the program specifying unit 223 selects a program portion corresponding to the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 from the programs indicated by the program detailed information stored in the electronic program guide storage unit 221. Any method or procedure may be used as long as it can be specified based on each information included in the program viewing information.

  The program specifying unit 223 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the program specifying unit 123 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded in a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The program specifying means 2233 normally specifies the part of the program corresponding to the program viewing information by performing the program part relevance calculation process and the program part specifying process. First, the program specifying unit 2233 sequentially performs a program partial identifier relevance calculation process, a broadcast station partial relevance calculation process, and a broadcast time partial relevance calculation process as program partial relevance calculation processes.

  In the program part identifier relevance calculation process, for example, the program specifying unit 2233 first divides a program comment included in the program viewing information into morphemes by morphological analysis. Then, the program specifying means 2233 extracts those morphemes determined as “nouns” or “adjectives” as program comment keywords. Next, the program specifying means 2233 extracts a keyword from the program part identifier included in each program detailed information and the program title of the program information including the program detailed information in the same manner as described above. Next, the program specifying means 2233 calculates the degree of association between the keyword group extracted from the program viewing information and the keyword group extracted from each program detailed information. The relevance is calculated using, for example, a Jaccard coefficient.

  Further, when calculating the Jaccard coefficient, the program specifying unit 2233 reduces the degree of contribution to the program title relevance to a keyword that tends to appear in the program title, such as “news” or “drama”, for example. A smaller weight (coefficient) may be applied.

  In the program part identifier relevance calculation process, the program specifying unit 1233 may calculate the program part identifier relevance using, for example, a program part related keyword included in the program detailed information. Moreover, in the program part identifier relevance degree, the program specifying means 2233 may calculate the program part identifier relevance degree using the performer identifier included in the program detailed information.

  As for the broadcast station partial relevance calculation process and the broadcast time partial relevance calculation process, the processing target is replaced from the program information to the program detailed information in the broadcast station relevance calculation process and the broadcast time relevance calculation process described above. Therefore, detailed description is omitted.

  Finally, the program specifying means 2233 calculates the program partial relevance from the program partial identifier relevance, the broadcast station partial relevance, and the broadcast time partial relevance as the program partial relevance calculation processing. When the program part relevance level is R, the program part identifier relevance level is α, the broadcast station partial relevance level is β, and the broadcast time partial relevance level is γ, the program part relevance level R is, for example, “α / (β + 1) × ( γ + 1) ”.

  Next, the program specifying unit 2233 performs a program part specifying process. For example, the program identification unit 2233 first sorts the calculated program part relevance levels for each piece of program information in descending order of relevance levels. At this time, for example, it sorts so that the program detailed information corresponding to the calculated program part relevance degree can be specified together with the program identifier and the program part identifier. And the program specific | specification means 2233 acquires the program detailed information corresponding to the largest program part relevance degree as a result of the said sort. Then, the program specifying means 2233 specifies the program indicated by the detailed program information as a program corresponding to the program viewing information.

  Note that the program specifying unit 2233 uses the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 from the detailed program information of the electronic program guide specified by the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 based on the information included in the program viewing information. Any method and procedure may be used as long as the program portion corresponding to the information can be specified.

  The program specifying unit 2233 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the program specifying means 2233 is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 224 normally performs statistical processing on the program viewing information for each part of the program specified by the program specifying unit 223, similarly to the above-described program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 124. Similarly to the emotion term acquisition unit 1243 described above, the emotion term acquisition unit 2243 normally acquires an emotion term from a program comment included in the program viewing information for each part of the program specified by the program specifying unit 223. Similarly to the emotion determination unit 1244 described above, the emotion determination unit 2244 normally determines an emotion for the program portion indicated by the comment for the program comment having the emotion term acquired by the emotion term acquisition unit 2243. . Further, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 2245 is usually similar to the above-described program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 1245, for each part of the program specified by the program specifying unit 223, or the user attribute acquired by the user attribute information acquisition unit 1242. Statistical processing of program viewing information is performed for each information and for each emotion determined by the emotion determination means 2244.

  Note that the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 224 and the processing in each means included in the acquisition unit are the same as the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit 124 and the processing in each means included in the acquisition unit. It is the same as that replaced with information. Therefore, detailed descriptions of the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 224 and the processing in each unit included in the acquisition unit are omitted.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the overall operation of the server device 11. Further, the flowchart showing the overall operation of the program viewing information processing apparatus 22 is the same as that shown in FIG. 5, and is obtained by replacing “specify program” in step S104 with “specify program part”. The details of the processing of the program viewing information processing apparatus 22 are the same as those in FIGS. 6 to 11, and “program information” is replaced with “program detailed information” in FIGS. 6 to 11. Accordingly, the details of the overall operation of the server device 11 and the overall operation of the program viewing information processing device 22 will be omitted.

  Next, a specific example of the operation of the information processing system 2 will be described. In this specific example, it is assumed that user management information shown in FIG. 12 is stored in an arbitrary storage area in the server device 11. Further, it is assumed that the area management information shown in FIG. 13 is stored in an arbitrary storage area in the program viewing information processing apparatus 22. Further, it is assumed that the electronic program guide storage unit 221 stores the regional electronic program guide shown in FIG. The region-specific electronic program guide includes a region name, a broadcasting station name, broadcasting station position information, and program detailed information. The detailed program information includes date information, start time information, end time information, a program name, and a program part identifier (“details”). Further, it is assumed that emotion term management information shown in FIG. 15 is stored in the emotion term storage means 1241.

  First, it is assumed that some users transmit program viewing information via the terminal device, and the program viewing information receiving unit 122 receives the program viewing information stored in the program viewing information storage unit 111. At this time, it is assumed that the program viewing information receiving unit 122 has received the program viewing information of “ID = 98” to “ID = 107” in FIG.

  Next, the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231 uses the region management information in FIG. 13 to specify the region indicated by each program viewing information, and the electronic program guide from “ID = 88” to “ID = 102” in FIG. Is obtained.

  Since the above-described transmission of the program viewing information of the user to acquisition of the electronic program guide is the same as in the first embodiment, detailed description thereof is omitted.

  Next, the program specifying unit 2233 determines the degree of relevance of the program for each program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit 122 and each program detailed information included in the electronic program guide acquired by the electronic program guide specifying unit 1231. A calculation process and a program part specifying process are performed, and a program name indicating a program corresponding to each program detailed information and a program part identifier indicating a program part are obtained. Note that the time acquisition unit 1232 acquires time information of each program viewing information used in the program partial relevance calculation process. Moreover, the emotion term acquisition means 2243 and the emotion determination means 2244 acquire the emotion term management information of FIG. 15 stored in the emotion term storage means 1241, and determine the emotion indicated by the program comment included in each program viewing information. . As a result, the program name indicating the program corresponding to each program viewing information, the program identifier indicating the program portion, and the emotion indicated by the program comment are as shown in FIG. Here, “details” is an item name indicating a program part identifier. Further, the program and the information (record) for which the program part could not be specified by the program part relevance calculation process are deleted. The same user identifier, gender, age, program name, details, and emotion are also deleted by the unique process.

  Next, the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit 2245 counts the number of genders, emotions, and the like included in each piece of information in FIG. 23 and the number of users indicated by the user identifier for each program name and program identifier. At this time, the user attribute information acquisition means 1242 acquires user attribute information from each piece of information in FIG. Then, the audience rating and popularity are calculated from these pieces of information, and the program viewing statistics information shown in FIG. 24 is acquired.

  Finally, the program viewing statistical information output unit 125 outputs the program viewing statistical information in a table format as shown in FIG. 24, for example.

  In the specific example, an example is shown in which program viewing statistical information is acquired from program viewing information by batch processing, but program viewing statistical information may be acquired by real-time processing.

  Further, in this specific example, when specifying a program portion corresponding to each program viewing information, an example is shown in which an emotion indicated by a program comment included in each program viewing information is determined. When acquiring information, emotions may be determined.

  Further, in this specific example, an example is shown in which the program specifying unit 2233 performs a unique process on the program corresponding to each program viewing information and information on which emotions have been determined. 2245 may do.

  As described above, according to the information processing system 2 according to the present embodiment, from the program viewing information transmitted by the user, the number of viewers, the viewing rate, the popularity, and the viewing of the program portion indicated by the program viewing information. The impressions of the person can be acquired.

  In each of the above embodiments, the electronic program guide may be stored in an external device (for example, an electronic program guide management device not shown). In this case, normally, the program specifying unit 123 of the program viewing information processing apparatus 12 uses the program viewing information to inquire the electronic program guide management apparatus and receives information for specifying the program from the electronic program guide management apparatus.

  In each of the above embodiments, it goes without saying that two or more communication means existing in one apparatus may be physically realized by one medium.

  In each of the above embodiments, each process or each function may be realized by centralized processing by a single device or a single system, or distributed by a plurality of devices or a plurality of systems. It may be realized by being processed.

  In each of the above embodiments, each component may be configured by dedicated hardware, or a component that can be realized by software may be realized by executing a program. For example, each component can be realized by a program execution unit such as a CPU reading and executing a software program recorded on a recording medium such as a hard disk or a semiconductor memory.

  Moreover, the software which implement | achieves the viewing-and-listening information processing apparatus in each said embodiment is the following programs. That is, this program instructs the computer to transmit two or more program viewing information, receives a program viewing information receiving unit that receives the two or more program viewing information, and each of the two or more received by the program viewing information receiving unit. Program viewing information is information obtained as a result of application to one or more electronic program guides. The program identifying unit that identifies a program by acquiring information related to the program corresponding to each program viewing information; and the program identifying unit For each identified program, one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program is statistically processed, and a program viewing statistical information acquisition unit that acquires program viewing statistical information that is statistical information related to program viewing; and the program viewing statistical information It is a program for functioning as a program viewing statistical information output unit that outputs the program viewing statistical information acquired by the acquisition unit.

  In the above program, the transmission step for transmitting information, the reception step for receiving information, etc. include at least processing performed only by hardware, for example, processing performed by a modem or an interface card in the transmission step. Absent.

  The program may be executed by being downloaded from a server or the like, or a program recorded on a predetermined recording medium (for example, an optical disk such as a CD-ROM, a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like) is read out. May be executed. Further, this program may be used as a program constituting a program product.

  Moreover, the computer which performs the said program may be single, and plural may be sufficient as it. That is, centralized processing may be performed, or distributed processing may be performed.

  FIG. 25 is an overview of the computer system 9 that executes the above-described program to realize the information processing system and the like of the above-described embodiment. The above-described embodiments can be realized by computer hardware and a computer program executed thereon.

  25, a computer system 9 includes a computer 901 including a CD-ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory) drive 9011, an FD (Flexible Disk) drive 9012, a keyboard 902, a mouse 903, and a monitor 904.

  FIG. 26 is a block diagram of the computer system 9. 26, in addition to the CD-ROM drive 9011 and the FD drive 9012, a computer 901 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 9013 and a ROM (Read-Only Memory) 9014 for storing a program such as a bootup program. A random access memory (RAM) 9015 connected to the CPU 9013 for temporarily storing application program instructions and providing a temporary storage space; and a hard disk 9016 for storing application programs, system programs, and data , A CD-ROM drive 9011, an FD drive 9012, a CPU 9013, and the like. Although not shown here, the computer 901 may further include a network card that provides connection to a LAN.

  A program that causes the computer system 9 to execute functions such as the information processing system of the above-described embodiment is stored in the CD-ROM 9101 or the FD 9102, inserted into the CD-ROM drive 9011 or the FD drive 9012, and further the hard disk 9016. May be forwarded to. Alternatively, the program may be transmitted to the computer 901 via a network (not shown) and stored in the hard disk 9016. The program is loaded into the RAM 9015 when executed. The program may be loaded directly from the CD-ROM 9101, the FD 9102, or the network.

  The program does not necessarily include an operating system (OS) or a third-party program that causes the computer 901 to execute functions such as the information processing system of the above-described embodiment. The program only needs to include an instruction portion that calls an appropriate function (module) in a controlled manner and obtains a desired result. How the computer system 9 operates is well known and will not be described in detail.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications are possible, and it goes without saying that these are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  As described above, the program viewing information processing apparatus according to the present invention does not need to install a dedicated apparatus, and can survey the audience rating over a wide range. Further, it has an effect that it can acquire information other than audience rating (numerical value) and perform various statistical processes, and is useful as a new audience rating survey system.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 2 Information processing system 11 Server apparatus 12, 22 Program viewing information processing apparatus 111 Program viewing information storage part 112 Server program viewing information receiving part 113 Server program viewing information storage part 114 Server program viewing information transmission part 121,221 Electronic program guide Storage unit 122 Program viewing information receiving unit 123, 223 Program identifying unit 124, 224 Program viewing statistical information acquiring unit 125 Program viewing statistical information output unit 1231 Electronic program guide identifying unit 1232 Time acquiring unit 1233, 2233 Program identifying unit 1241 Emotion term storage Means 1242 User attribute information acquisition means 1243, 2243 Emotion term acquisition means 1244, 2244 Emotion determination means 1245, 2245 Program viewing statistical information acquisition means

Claims (11)

An electronic program guide storage unit for storing one or more electronic program guides having two or more program information that is information indicating programs and information having program titles that are program titles;
A program viewing information receiving unit that receives, from a server device, two or more program viewing information that is information relating to viewing of a user's program and that includes program comments that are comments relating to the user's program that viewed the program ;
2 corresponding to the program information included in the electronic program guide using the two or more program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the one or more electronic program guides. A program specifying unit for specifying a program corresponding to each of the two or more program viewing information from the above programs ;
For each program specified by the program specifying unit, one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program is statistically processed, and a program viewing statistical information acquiring unit that acquires program viewing statistical information that is statistical information related to program viewing;
Program viewing information processing apparatus and a program viewing statistics information output unit that outputs the program viewing statistics the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit has acquired. The program viewing information includes user position information which is information indicating a position where the user has transmitted the program viewing information.
The electronic program guide is an area-specific location information that is location information for specifying a region and an electronic program guide for two or more regions having an electronic program guide ,
The program specifying unit
The two or more pieces of program viewing information are transmitted using the two or more pieces of location information included in the two or more pieces of program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the two or more regional electronic program guides. An electronic program guide specifying means for specifying an electronic program guide corresponding to each of the two or more pieces of program viewing information ,
The program included in the electronic program guide using the two or more program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the electronic program guide specified by the electronic program guide specifying means. from the corresponding 2 or more pieces of program information, program viewing information processing apparatus according to claim 1 and a program specifying means for specifying a program corresponding to the two or more respective program viewing information. The program information has a broadcast time zone that is information indicating a broadcast time zone of the program,
The program specifying unit
Time acquisition means for acquiring a reception time that is a time when the program viewing information receiving unit receives the program viewing information , or a transmission time that is a time when the program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit is transmitted ;
Broadcast corresponding to the time acquired by the time acquisition means using the two or more program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the one or more electronic program guides 3. The program viewing information according to claim 1 , further comprising: a program identifying unit that identifies a program corresponding to each of the two or more program viewing information from the two or more programs corresponding to the program information having a time zone. Processing equipment. The time acquisition means includes
According to the content of the program comment included in each of the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit, the acquired reception time or transmission time is corrected, and the corrected time is acquired,
The program specifying means includes:
Using the two or more program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the one or more electronic program guides, at the corrected time acquired by the time acquisition unit 4. The program viewing information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a program corresponding to each of the two or more program viewing information is specified from two or more programs corresponding to the program information having a corresponding broadcast time zone. The time acquisition means includes
Counts the number of characters of program comments included in each of the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit, corrects the acquired reception time or transmission time according to the number of characters, and acquires the corrected time The program viewing information processing apparatus according to claim 4. The time acquisition means includes
Whether the user has transmitted the program viewing information while viewing the program using the program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit, or after viewing the program, the program viewing information Or the program viewing information is transmitted before viewing the program, the received time or transmission time is corrected according to the determination result, and the corrected time is acquired. The program viewing information processing apparatus according to claim 4 or 5. The program information includes one or more program details information that is information indicating partial details of the program,
The program specifying unit
Using the two or more program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the one or more electronic program guides, it corresponds to the program detailed information included in the electronic program guide. From the two or more program parts, specify the program part corresponding to each of the two or more program viewing information,
The program viewing statistics information acquisition unit,
7. The program viewing statistical information is acquired by statistically processing one or more pieces of program viewing information corresponding to each program portion for each program portion identified by the program identifying unit. program viewing information processing apparatus according to. The program viewing information has a user identifier for identifying a user ,
The program viewing statistics information acquisition unit,
User attribute information acquisition means for acquiring user attribute information corresponding to a user identifier included in the program viewing information;
Each program the program specifying unit has identified, and for each said user attribute information that the user attribute information acquisition means has acquired, and statistical processing of one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program, acquiring the program viewing statistics The program viewing information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising: The program viewing statistics information acquisition unit,
One or more terms that are emotional terms, including positive terms that are positive for the program, or negative terms that are negative for the program Emotion term storage means for storing emotion terms;
Using the one or more emotional terms, for each program the program specifying unit has identified, and emotional terms acquiring means for acquiring emotion terms from the program comments in which one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program have,
Emotion determination means for determining an emotion for a program comment program included in one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program for each program specified by the program specifying unit using the emotion term acquired by the emotion term acquisition means When,
One or more program viewing information corresponding to each program is statistically processed for each program identified by the program identifying unit and each emotion determined by the emotion determining means, and the program viewing statistics are acquired. The program viewing information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising an information acquisition unit. An electronic program guide storage unit for storing one or more electronic program guides having two or more program information that is information indicating programs and information having program titles that are program titles;
A program viewing information processing method performed using a program viewing information receiving unit, a program specifying unit, a program viewing statistical information acquiring unit, and a program viewing statistical information output unit,
The program viewing information receiving unit,
A program viewing information receiving step for receiving, from a server device, two or more pieces of program viewing information, which is information relating to viewing of the user's program and information having a program comment that is a comment regarding the program of the user who viewed the program ;
The program specifying unit
2 corresponding to the program information included in the electronic program guide using the two or more program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the one or more electronic program guides. A program specifying step for specifying a program corresponding to each of the two or more program viewing information from the above programs ;
The program viewing statistics information acquisition unit,
For each program specified by the program specifying unit , statistical processing is performed on one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program, and program viewing statistical information acquisition step for acquiring program viewing statistical information that is statistical information related to program viewing;
The program viewing statistics information output unit,
A program viewing information processing method comprising: a program viewing statistics information output step for outputting the program viewing statistics information acquired by the program viewing statistics information acquisition unit . A computer capable of accessing an electronic program guide storage unit storing one or more electronic program guides having two or more pieces of program information, which is information indicating programs and information having program titles that are program titles ;
A program viewing information receiving unit that receives , from a server device, two or more pieces of program viewing information that is information related to viewing of a user's program and that has a program comment that is a comment regarding a user's program that viewed the program ;
2 corresponding to the program information included in the electronic program guide using the two or more program comments included in the two or more program viewing information received by the program viewing information receiving unit and the one or more electronic program guides. Among the above programs, a program specifying unit for specifying a program corresponding to each of the two or more pieces of program viewing information ,
For each program specified by the program specifying unit, one or more program viewing information corresponding to each program is statistically processed, and a program viewing statistical information acquisition unit that acquires program viewing statistical information that is statistical information related to program viewing ;
A program for functioning as a program viewing statistical information output unit that outputs the program viewing statistical information acquired by the program viewing statistical information acquisition unit.

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