JP2006260541A - Web content display device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Web content display device and a method therefor allowing Web contents to be displayed switchingly without necessitating such operations as a click and a scroll by users on the Web contents being displayed. <P>SOLUTION: The Web content display device comprises: a URL receiving section 101 for receiving URLs; a degree-of-detail-receiving section 102 for receiving the degree of detail that indicates how many subsequent pages are to be displayed; a Web content acquiring section 103 for acquiring a page of the received URL via the Internet and acquiring a page at a link destination of the page acquired based on the degree of detail; a display page selection section 104 for selecting a page to be displayed among a plurality of pages acquired; and a display control section 105 for switchingly displaying pages selected at the display page selection section 104. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a WEB content display device that displays content that requires interactive operation, such as WEB content.

  In recent years, content browsed using a network such as the Internet has become widespread due to the widening of the network. Also, with regard to the fee for the user browsing the Internet, a shift from a charging method according to the amount of packets to a flat-rate system on a monthly basis is progressing. Also, on televisions and the like, it is possible to display Internet content by connecting to the Internet line, and users can browse Internet content not only on PCs but also on televisions. Along with this, the number of users who view not only broadcasting but also Internet contents is increasing due to digital television in the home.

  In the function of viewing the Internet using a television, a technique related to an apparatus for browsing web content using a television remote control has been developed in order to make content browsing convenient. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technology that enables Internet content to be selected through an interface similar to that of a television program. In this technique, a virtual channel is generated on a television, and Internet content is viewed by allocating Internet content to the channel.

  By the way, in the Internet content, when the user clicks on the displayed page, the next page is displayed. In addition, in the case of a page that does not fit in the screen, the user can browse a portion that the user wants to browse by operating the scroll bar.

On the other hand, a television basically browses broadcast content. Therefore, new contents are displayed one after another simply by selecting a channel. That is, even if the user does not perform any operation, the image content flows and new content can be acquired. Furthermore, even if the user is not browsing, broadcasting continues to flow. When content that is not of interest is displayed, the user selects from at most several tens of channels or waits until content of interest is displayed on the same channel.
JP 2002-281407 A

  However, even if a channel is assigned to Internet content as in the conventional technology, new content is displayed unless an operation such as clicking or scrolling is performed on the screen on which the content is displayed. I can't. That is, when viewing broadcast content on a television, the user can browse the content simply by selecting a channel, and can browse the content passively, while viewing content on the Internet on the television. In some cases, the user cannot browse the content simply by selecting a channel, and cannot perform passive browsing.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the WEB content can be switched and displayed without performing an operation such as clicking or scrolling on the displayed WEB content. An object of the present invention is to provide a WEB content display device and a method thereof.

  In order to achieve the above object, a WEB content display device according to the present invention is a WEB content display device that displays WEB content, and includes an address receiving unit that receives a WEB address and the WEB address received by the address receiving unit. WEB content acquisition means for acquiring the WEB content of the page and the WEB content acquisition means for acquiring the WEB content of the linked page included in the acquired page, and a plurality of pages acquired by the WEB content acquisition means Display page selection means for selecting a display page, display order of each display page selected by the display page selection means, and time for displaying WEB contents of each display page are determined, and the determined time and the display order WEB content of each display page Characterized in that it comprises a display control means for switching the display.

  As is clear from the above description, according to the WEB content display apparatus and method according to the present invention, the WEB content can be displayed even if the user does not perform an operation such as clicking or scrolling on the displayed WEB content. Can be switched efficiently and displayed. Therefore, the user can browse WEB contents such as the Internet as if watching a TV program without any operation, and the practical value is extremely high.

  A WEB content display device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a WEB content display device that displays WEB content, and includes an address receiving unit that receives a WEB address, and a page of the WEB address that is received by the address receiving unit. WEB content acquisition means for acquiring WEB content and acquiring the WEB content of the linked page included in the acquired page; and a display page from among the plurality of pages acquired by the WEB content acquisition means A display page selection means to be selected, a display order of each display page selected by the display page selection means and a time for displaying the WEB content of each display page are determined, and each of the determined time and the display order Switch the web content of the display page Characterized in that it comprises a Shimesuru display control means.

  Accordingly, even when an operation such as clicking or scrolling is not performed on the WEB content displayed by the user, the WEB content can be efficiently switched and displayed. Therefore, the user can browse WEB contents such as the Internet as if watching a TV program without any operation.

  Here, the display page selection unit includes an analysis unit that analyzes a description language of the WEB content acquired by the WEB content acquisition unit, and a link destination extraction unit that extracts a link destination from the description language analyzed by the analysis unit And a selection unit that selects the link destination page as the display page when the link source web address is included in the link destination page extracted by the link destination extraction unit. As a result, a page related to the page of the accepted WEB address can be selected as a display page.

  Further, the WEB content display device further receives a degree of detail reception indicating a level of detail indicating how much of the WEB content of the link destination page of the WEB address is received from the page of the WEB address received by the address reception unit. And the WEB content acquisition unit may acquire the WEB content of the link destination page included in each page up to the level indicated by the level of detail received by the level of detail reception unit. As a result, the web content can be displayed up to the link destination page desired by the user.

  The display control means generates a screen image of the WEB content of the page selected by the display page selection means, and the screen image generated by the screen image generation section does not enter the display screen. A display control information determination unit that determines that the page is to be scrolled and determines the scrolling speed, and the web content of the page is scrolled and displayed according to the scrolling speed determined by the display control information determination unit. And a page scrolling unit. Thereby, even if the screen image of the selected page does not enter the display screen, it can be displayed as a display page.

  The display control means may display the broadcast content in a region different from the region where the WEB content is displayed, and perform display control of the WEB content according to the content of the broadcast content.

  Here, the WEB content display device further includes broadcast viewing history storage means for storing the viewing history of the broadcast content, and program information storage for storing program information including information related to the broadcast date and time of the program of the broadcast content. And a viewing program prediction means for predicting a program that is customarily viewed from the viewing history accumulated in the broadcast viewing history accumulation means and the program information accumulated in the program information accumulation means, The display control means may perform display control of WEB content related to the program predicted by the viewing program prediction means.

  Further, the WEB content display device further obtains a time at which the program predicted by the viewing program prediction unit is broadcast from the broadcast date and time of the program information stored in the program information storage unit, Viewing free time calculating means for calculating the difference time and WEB switching display time calculating means for determining a time for displaying the web content using the time calculated as the viewing free time may be provided.

  In the WEB content display device, the viewing program prediction unit may further include a program that is not in the viewing history stored in the broadcast viewing history storage unit among the previously broadcasted programs related to the predicted program. The display page selecting means may select WEB content related to the program that is not viewed.

  The WEB content display device further includes a WEB content creation date and time acquisition unit that acquires a creation date and time of the WEB content acquired by the WEB content acquisition unit, and a program predicted by the program prediction unit and the broadcast viewing A date and time comparison means for comparing the date and time when the predicted program was broadcasted with the date and time acquired by the WEB content creation date and time acquisition unit when it is not in the viewing history stored in the history storage means; The display page selection unit may select a display page using the result compared by the date and time comparison unit.

  The WEB content display device further includes an address extracting unit that extracts a WEB address related to the displayed program of the broadcast content, and the address receiving unit receives the WEB address extracted by the address extracting unit. May be.

  The WEB content display device further includes broadcast viewing history storage means for storing the viewing history of the broadcast content, and program information storage means for storing program information including information related to the broadcast date and time of the broadcast content program. And the address extracting means includes a plurality of channels from a viewing history accumulated in the broadcast viewing history accumulating means and program information accumulated in the program information accumulating means in a time period from the present to a predetermined time before. When viewing is detected, WEB addresses are extracted from the broadcast contents of the plurality of channels, respectively, the address receiving unit receives the plurality of WEB addresses extracted by the address extracting unit, and the WEB content acquiring unit includes: W of a plurality of pages of the WEB address received by the address receiving means The B content may be acquired, and the WEB content of the linked page included in the acquired page may be acquired, and the display control unit may display the WEB content corresponding to a plurality of the WEB addresses. .

  Further, the browsing history acquisition means for acquiring the browsing history of the WEB content of the page of the WEB address received by the address receiving means, the display page selection means, the browsing history acquired by the browsing history acquisition means The display page may be selected based on the above.

  Here, the display page selection means uses the browsing history acquired by the browsing history acquisition means, calculates a probability of browsing each page indicating the probability of following a link between pages, and the probability A selection unit that selects the display page based on the browsing probability calculated by the calculation unit may be provided.

Thereby, a page with a high browsing probability can be selected as a display page.
The WEB content display device further includes a reproduction time reception unit that receives an instruction of a time for displaying the WEB content, and the display control unit displays the display page at the time received by the reproduction time reception unit. The display page may be controlled so as to end the switching. As a result, the WEB content can be displayed only for the time desired by the user.

  The present invention can be realized not only as such a WEB content display apparatus, but also as a WEB content display method including steps characteristic of the WEB content display apparatus. It can also be realized as a program for causing a computer to execute steps. Needless to say, such a program can be distributed via a recording medium such as a CD-ROM or a transmission medium such as the Internet.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a WEB content display apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

  The WEB content display apparatus according to the present embodiment accepts a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that is a WEB address from a user and a detail level related to the URL, acquires the WEB content, and scrolls / switches the WEB content without any operation from the user. The URL reception unit 101, the detail level reception unit 102, the WEB content acquisition unit 103, the display page selection unit 104, the display control unit 105, and the display unit as shown in FIG. 106 is provided.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a major flow of the operation of the WEB content display apparatus.
As shown in FIG. 3, the main flow of the operation of the WEB content display device is to first accept the URL of the web content to be displayed (hereinafter referred to as the top URL) (step 301), and how many layers from the top URL page The level of detail indicating whether to acquire the WEB content of the linked page is received (step 302). Next, WEB content is acquired according to the accepted top URL and the level of detail thereof, and the WEB content to be displayed is selected (step 303). Next, the selected WEB content is switched and displayed (step 304), whereby the WEB content such as the Internet is displayed without any user operation.

Next, each component of the WEB content display apparatus shown in FIG. 1 will be described.
The URL accepting unit 101 accepts a URL 203 of WEB content that the user wants to display, which is input by the user with the key of the remote control 202 on the display screen 201 as shown in FIG. The URL receiving unit 101 may receive a URL input using a user interface such as a keyboard or a mouse. Further, a URL included in content received by e-mail or the like may be used.

  Based on the URL received by the URL receiving unit 101, the detail level receiving unit 102 receives a level of detail indicating how far the page is displayed from the page. For example, the user inputs the degree of detail (link depth) 204 using the remote controller 202 or the like as shown in FIG. Note that the detail level receiving unit 102 may directly receive the number of link destinations.

  The WEB content acquisition unit 103 acquires the WEB content of a page to be displayed via the Internet from the URL and the detail level received by the URL reception unit 101 and the detail level reception unit 102. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when “http://www.trip.co.jp/” is received by the URL receiving unit 101 and “2” is received by the detail level receiving unit 102, “http: //WEB.trip.co.jp/ ”page web content is acquired, and the linked web content included in the web content and the linked web content included in the web content are acquired. In this way, the WEB content of the original URL and the WEB content of the link destination are acquired.

  The display page selection unit 104 selects a page to be displayed among the web content pages acquired by the web content acquisition unit 103. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the display page selection unit 104. The display page selection unit 104 has a feature of analyzing the HTML of the WEB content acquired by the WEB content acquisition unit 103 and determining whether or not to display a page depending on the content, as shown in FIG. An HTML analysis unit 301, a link destination extraction unit 302, a display page determination unit 303, and a display page hierarchical structure storage unit 304 are provided.

  First, the display page hierarchical structure accumulation unit 304 sets the hierarchical structure of pages to be displayed as the initial hierarchical structure as shown in FIG. In the present invention, the hierarchical structure of pages displayed as shown in FIG. 5 is called a display page hierarchical structure. In FIG. 5, the top URL received by the URL receiving unit 101 is set as Root. Next, the HTML analysis unit 301 analyzes the HTML text of the WEB content of the top URL acquired by the WEB content acquisition unit 103. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the WEB content is described in HTML text. Further, the link destination extraction unit 302 extracts the link destination URL from the HTML text analyzed by the HTML analysis unit 301. Next, the WEB content acquisition unit 103 acquires the WEB content of the link destination URL extracted by the link destination extraction unit 302, and again analyzes the HTML text in the HTML analysis unit 301. Basically, the page in the first layer in FIG. 5 is selected by this operation, but if all the link destinations included in the HTML text of the top URL are selected, the URL that is not related to the top URL in terms of content. Will also choose. For example, there may be a URL for advertisement on the page of the top URL and a URL of a site of a different domain as a related site. Since these URLs often include contents not directly related to the top URL, they are not suitable as automatic reproduction contents in the present WEB content display apparatus.

  Therefore, the display page determination unit 303 selects only the page with the link to the top URL as the content to be displayed in the link destination URL in the HTML text of the top URL. For example, in FIG. 6, it is assumed that URLs of page B, page C, and page D exist in the HTML text of page A, which is the top URL. At this time, the HTML text of page B, page C, and page D is acquired, and it is checked whether or not there is a link to page A in each page. As a result, as a page for displaying only a page with a link to page A, the page is registered in the hierarchical structure shown in FIG. In the case of FIG. 6, page B and page C are registered, and page D is not selected as a display page as shown in FIG. 7 because there is no link to page A. In this way, the page determined as the page to be displayed by the display page determination unit 303 is registered in the display page hierarchical structure stored in the display page hierarchical structure storage unit 304. The constructed display page hierarchical structure is different from the hierarchical structure between pages of the Internet content.

  For example, when “2” is received as the level of detail in the level of detail receiving unit 102, the second level page is selected. By repeating the same processing as the top URL for the pages B and C selected as the first layer pages, a hierarchical structure for display as shown in FIG. 8 is constructed. For example, the URL of page B1 is described in the HTML text of page B, and conversely, the URL of page B is also described in the HTML text of page B1. In this way, URLs set as link destinations are selected.

  At this time, the display page determination unit 303 determines not to register a page already registered in the display page hierarchical structure. For example, even if the URL of the page C is in the HTML text of the page B1, the page C is not set to the lower layer of the page B1. As a result, there are no duplicate pages registered as display pages.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the display page selection unit 103. The flowchart of FIG. 9 is a subflow of the display page selection process (step 303) of FIG.

  First, the top URL received by the URL receiving unit 101 is set in the root of the hierarchical structure for display (FIG. 5) stored in the display page hierarchical structure storage unit 304 (step 801). Next, the HTML analysis unit 301 analyzes the HTML text of the Root (top URL), and further extracts the link destination URL extracted from the HTML text of the Root by the link destination extraction unit 302 and acquired by the WEB content acquisition unit 103. The HTML text is analyzed (step 802). The display page determination unit 303 determines whether the top URL (link source) is also described in the HTML text of the link destination URL (step 803). If there is a description of the link source (YES in step 803), the display page determination unit 303 further determines whether the link destination page is a page selected in the hierarchical structure for display (step 804). ). In the case of the page selected for the first time (YES in step 804), the display page determination unit 303 registers the page to be displayed stored in the display page hierarchical structure storage unit 304 in the hierarchical structure for display ( Step 805). After registration, it is determined from the HTML text of Root whether there is a next link destination URL (step 806). Also, in the above determination, if there is no description of the link source (NO in step 803) or if the page has already been selected (NO in step 804), the following is similarly determined from the HTML text of Root. It is determined whether there is a link destination URL (step 806). As a result, if there is another link destination (YES in step 806), the URL is selected and the process returns to step 803 (step 807). On the other hand, if there is no other link destination (NO in step 806), the flow ends and the flow returns to the operation flow of FIG. As a result of the above operation, the pages to be displayed are expressed in a hierarchical structure as shown in FIG.

  The display control unit 105 controls the display of pages selected by the display page selection unit 104 and expressed in a hierarchical structure as shown in FIG. FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of the display control unit 105. The display control unit 105 determines the contents of control when displaying the WEB page on the screen, such as the order of pages to be displayed, the screen size, and the screen scrolling speed, from the hierarchical structure of the display pages generated by the display page selection unit 104. As shown in FIG. 10, a display order determination unit 901, a display screen image generation unit 902, a display control information determination unit 903, a time measurement unit 904, a page scroll unit 905, and a page switching unit 906 are provided. ing.

  The display order determination unit 901 determines the display order of the pages selected by the display page selection unit 104. Further, the display screen image generation unit 902 displays the screen size of the page when the page selected by the display page selection unit 104 is displayed on the screen of the display unit 106, and the position of the frame, border, etc. included in the HTML. Calculate the top position. Further, when displaying pages in the order determined by the display order determining unit 901, the display control information determining unit 903 determines and accumulates control information such as the scroll speed and the screen size of each page. The time measuring unit 904 measures the time when controlling the display time and scrolling speed of the screen when displaying the page display control information determined by the display control information determining unit 903. The page scroll unit 905 scrolls the page based on the control information determined by the display control information determination unit 903. The page switching unit 906 uses the time measurement unit 904 based on the page control information determined by the display control information determination unit 903 to switch pages at a page display time and a predetermined switching timing.

  In the display control unit 105, first, the display order determining unit 901 determines the display order of the hierarchical structure in FIG. In the present embodiment, the display page order is determined from the shallowest layer to the deeper layer. In the example of FIG. 8, page A is displayed first, and then page B is displayed. At that time, in order to indicate which part of page A is linked to page B, the display of the link source is displayed. Do. Next, after displaying page B, page B1, which is a link destination from page B, is displayed. When the page B1 is displayed, as in the case where the page B is displayed, which link is followed in the page B is displayed as to the page B1. In this way, the order of pages to be displayed is determined in the order shown in FIG.

  When the display order as shown in FIG. 11 is determined, the display order determination unit 901 determines the contents to display each page as shown in FIG. As described above, when each page is displayed, the linked page is displayed after the linked page is displayed for a predetermined time in order to show the context of the page. This makes it possible to produce a story compared to simply switching and displaying pages. In particular, in broadcast content programs such as television, there is a story, and on a television that is a terminal that displays broadcast content, it is not possible to continuously display content with such a story (consistency). is important. When displaying on the screen, the page order determined by the display order determining unit 901 is accumulated in the display control information determining unit 903, and the time is measured by the time measuring unit 904 while the page switching unit 906 switches pages. To control.

  Next, the display screen image generation unit 902 and the display control information determination unit 903 of the display control unit 105 confirm the size that can be displayed on the display unit 106 for the displayed page. For example, as shown in FIG. 13, the screen image 401 of the page to be displayed generated by the display screen image generation unit 902 may not enter the vertical direction with respect to one screen 402 that can be displayed by the display unit 106. At this time, the user can confirm the entire screen by scrolling the screen vertically. In the example of FIG. 13, the page A is confirmed, but the same is performed for other displayed pages. When displaying page A, display control information determining section 903 determines to display page A by scrolling.

In addition, the display control information determination unit 903 also determines the scrolling speed for those determined to scroll and display the page. For example, a method for calculating the time required to display page A will be described. As a result of creating the display image of page A in the display screen image generation unit 902, the vertical direction of page A is 1680 pixels as shown in FIG. Suppose that it is 480 pixels. Furthermore, if the vertical scrolling speed is 10 pixels per second, the time required to display page A is
(1680-480) / 10 = 120 (seconds)
Can be calculated. Furthermore, if you stop for about 5 seconds at the moment when page A is displayed,
120 + 5 = 125 (seconds)
Display time is required. Further, the amount of scrolling per second may be changed according to the amount of characters of the displayed text.

  Further, when the text is read aloud, the display time of the page may be determined according to the voice reading time. For example, as shown in FIG. 14, by adding a reading text extraction unit 1101, a reading voice generation unit 1102, and a voice output unit 1103 to the configuration of the display control unit 105 of FIG. Text information can be read out by voice. Furthermore, it becomes possible to control the amount of screen scrolling according to the speed at which the voice is read out. The reading text extraction unit 1101 extracts the text content displayed by the screen image generation unit 902 from the text information included in the page. The displayed text information can be extracted from HTML tag information.

  Next, the reading voice generation unit 1102 generates a synthesized sound file by using a general voice synthesis technique for the text voice extracted by the reading text extraction unit 1101. Thereby, it is possible to detect the reproduction time when the synthesized voice is reproduced, and it is possible to determine the page scrolling speed according to the reproduction time. In this way, the scroll amount of each page to be displayed is determined.

  When each page is displayed, the text content of the displayed page is output by voice. Further, since the WEB pages are automatically switched and displayed, the relationship between the pages is voice-guided at the time of switching, so that the WEB content that is static content can have a story. For example, when a certain page is displayed and the display moves to the linked page within that page, it is possible to express the link relationship between the pages by expressing the phrase “I will explain the XX part in detail”. It becomes possible to express with. In addition, when returning to the link source page, it is possible to convey by voice that the page is not a new page, “Return to the previous page”. As described above, even if the link destination is from a certain page, the expression of the voice guidance can be changed by switching the hierarchical structure to the lower layer and switching to the upper layer. Thereby, even WEB content can be provided to the user as content with higher story characteristics.

  As a result of determining the control information such as the display speed for each page, the display area of each page is set as shown in FIG. In FIG. 15, when the screen scrolls from the top to the bottom of page A and reaches the bottom of page A, page B is displayed next, so that page B link source 403 enters the screen. Move the display area of. After displaying the link source of page B for a certain period (for example, 2 seconds), the page B is switched to the display of page B. Similarly to page A, the screen is scrolled from the top to the bottom of page B. By repeating such processing, it is possible to browse the web content without any user operation.

  In the example of FIG. 13, it is possible to display the entire selected WEB content simply by scrolling the screen in the vertical direction. However, for example, as shown in FIG. 16, the display area 401 of the WEB content of the screen image generated by the display screen image generation unit 902 may not fit in the size of one screen 402 of the display unit 106 even in the horizontal direction. is there. In such a case, the display control information determination unit 903 first confirms whether the WEB content is structured on the display by a frame or a table tag. For example, as shown in FIG. 17, it is assumed that one page is composed of six frames. In this case, display on one screen is performed for each frame. In the case of the example in FIG. 17, display is performed while scrolling the screen in the order of frame 1 to frame 6. The display order of the frames is basically determined from the top to the bottom, but when there are frames divided into left and right like the frames 2 and 3 in FIG. 17, they are displayed in order from the left. I will do it. Thereby, in the example of the frame in FIG. 17, the frames are displayed in the order of frames 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

  Since the page shown in FIG. 17 has been structured on display, it can be displayed for each part, but there are also pages that are not structured on display. In such a case, the display control information determination unit 903 performs screen display processing such that the image information is reduced or the text font is changed to a smaller font so that the screen can be scrolled vertically. Edit.

  FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing the operation of the display control unit 105. The flowchart of FIG. 18 is a subflow of the display process (step 304) of the selected display page of FIG.

  First, the display order determination unit 901 uses the hierarchical structure of the display pages in FIG. 8 to determine the display order in order from the page with the lowest hierarchy (step 1501). As a result, the display order of the pages shown in FIG. 11 is determined. The display screen image generation unit 902 selects a page to be displayed according to the display order determined by the display order determination unit 901 (step 1502). Then, the display screen image generation unit 902 creates a drawing image of the selected page to be displayed, and sets a frame that can be displayed based on the resolution of the display unit 106 (step 1503). Next, the display control information determination unit 903 determines the screen size and scroll speed for displaying each page to be displayed. First, the display control information determination unit 903 determines whether the drawing image of the display page is within the frame of the display screen of the display unit 106 in the horizontal direction (step 1504). If the result of this determination is that it is within one screen (YES in step 1504), the entire display page is displayed in order by scrolling the screen in the vertical direction (step 1505).

  In step 1505, the display page is displayed while scrolling from top to bottom, and this step is repeated until all parts of the display page are displayed (step 1506). When the display of the entire display page has been completed (YES in step 1506), the display control information determination unit 903 checks whether there is a next display page (step 1507). If there is no display page (NO in step 1507), the flow ends. On the other hand, if there is a next display page (YES in step 1507), the process returns to step 1502.

  If it is determined in step 1504 that the horizontal direction does not fall within one screen (NO in step 1504), the display control information determination unit 903 determines whether the display page is structured on a display such as a frame or a table. Is determined (step 1508). If the result of this determination is that it is structured (YES in step 1508), the display control information determination unit 903 regards each part (frame, table, etc.) as one display page (step 1509), Return to step 1503. Even when a page is displayed for each frame, if the display image is larger than the display screen in the display screen image generation unit 902, the web content is displayed on the screen while scrolling. On the other hand, if the display page is not structured (NO in step 1508), the drawing image is reduced so that the display page enters one screen of the display unit 106 in the horizontal direction, or in the case of text information, the font is used. Is made smaller so that one screen is entered (step 1510), and the process returns to step 1503.

  As a result of the above operation, the hierarchical structure of the display pages set in FIG. 8 can be displayed in order while performing screen scrolling and page switching.

  The display unit 106 displays the content whose display information is controlled by the display control unit 105. The display unit 106 is, for example, a large display such as a plasma display, a small display of a mobile phone, a display of an in-vehicle terminal, or the like. Specifically, the image information controlled by the display control unit 105 is written in the video memory and displayed on a display on which the user browses the contents.

  As described above, only the URL of the home page and the link depth from the URL are accepted from the user, and the WEB content is displayed even if the WEB content displayed by the user is not clicked or scrolled. It can be switched and displayed efficiently.

  In this embodiment, the screen is automatically displayed by scrolling the display page from top to bottom. Further, the display page may include a semantic break such as a frame, a table, or a border line in the page. Therefore, when scrolling in the vertical direction, when it reaches the boundary, it is possible to make a meaningful break by temporarily stopping the scrolling. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 19, the display control unit 105 includes a display boundary detection unit 1601 that detects tags from HTML text such as frames, tables, and borders included in a page to be displayed, and a display boundary detection unit 1601. This can be realized by adding a page scroll pausing unit that pauses the scrolling of the screen when the boundary detected in (1) reaches the upper end of the screen.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 20, page A is composed of several frames. When the display boundary 501 is detected in advance for the page A by the display boundary detection unit 1601 and the screen is automatically scrolled vertically in the page A, the upper portion of the display area 402 overlaps each boundary 501. At the moment, the page scroll pause unit 1602 temporarily stops scrolling, so that it is possible to express a meaningful page break.

  In this embodiment, the display order of pages is determined, and the time required to display the entire page can be calculated by determining the scrolling speed of each page. For example, as shown in FIG. 21, by determining the scroll speed of each page and the time for displaying the link source, the time required to end the display of each page can be calculated. Furthermore, by calculating the sum of the display times for each page, the time required for the entire display can be calculated. In the example of FIG. 21, the automatic display is scheduled to end in 93 seconds. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 22, before the reproduction is started, the time required for the reproduction can be presented to the user.

  Furthermore, when the user wants to perform an operation on the presented time, it is possible to shorten the time by performing processing such as deleting from the display page in advance. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 23, the display control information display unit 1801 that presents the display control information determined by the display control information determination unit 903 to the user, and the user's editing instruction for the displayed display control information are accepted. A user instruction receiving unit 1802 is further added. For example, as shown in FIG. 24, the display control information determined as shown in FIG. 21 can be presented to the user with the time required to display each page. With respect to the schedule displayed in this way, the user can input the necessity of display of each page by remote control operation or the like.

  However, as shown in FIG. 24, when the time to be displayed for each page is presented, if a large number of pages must be displayed, the listability is deteriorated and it is difficult to input the user's instruction. is there. On the other hand, since the display control information is held in a display page hierarchical structure in the present WEB content display device, it is possible to present a display required time in which a plurality of pages are collected. For example, as shown in FIG. 25, by presenting the time required to display pages B, B1, and B2, the contents of the displayed WEB content can be easily grasped, and the display control instruction of the user can be given. It becomes easy to input.

  In FIG. 25, the display schedule is expressed by three titles. However, “Shikoku Travel” is composed of four pages C, C1, C2, and C3, and the total display time and switching time of each page is 43 seconds. In this case, select the one that takes the longest display time among 11 seconds, 25 seconds, and 43 seconds, and display the contents in detail for the items that take a long time to display. It is possible to confirm. In the case of FIG. 25, the display times for the six display items (page A), (page B, B1, B2), (page C), (page C1), (page C2), and (page C3) are set. It will be presented to the user. Thus, by changing the level of detail of the page that presents the display time according to the display time, display according to the screen size becomes possible. Furthermore, the user can easily select a display page. Control of these display contents is based on the time information measured by the time measurement unit 904 in the display control information display unit 1801 in FIG. 23 and the hierarchical structure of the pages used for determining the display order by the display order determination unit 901. It is determined using.

  In the present embodiment, the case where there is no operation from the user when the page is displayed has been described. Furthermore, it is also possible to control the reproduction of WEB content using a remote control 202 as shown in FIG. 26, for example, similar to when the user browses content stored on a DVD or the like. In this case, the page scroll unit 905 or the page switching unit 906 controls the reproduction of the web content by the accepted operation of the remote controller 202. For example, during playback, if the fast forward button is pressed, the content of the next page can be displayed, and if the pause button is pressed, the screen switching and scrolling can be stopped. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 27, since the displayed page is expressed in a hierarchical structure, when the “fast forward” button is pressed by the user during playback of page B, page B1 is displayed. Instead of switching, it is possible to switch to page C and resume playback. In this way, by managing the display page in a hierarchical structure, a skip operation considering the hierarchical structure of the WEB content can be performed.

  In this embodiment, an example in which WEB content is displayed on the entire screen has been described. Furthermore, on the screen of a television or the like, the received broadcast content and WEB content can be displayed simultaneously as shown in FIG. At this time, when the user is viewing program content other than TV commercials, the user is often viewing the program in a concentrated manner. Therefore, when the CM is broadcast, automatic reproduction of the WEB content may be started, and automatic reproduction of the WEB content may be terminated when the program starts. FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a system configuration in this case. 29, a broadcast content receiving unit 1901, a URL extracting unit 1902, a program information detecting unit 1903, and a broadcast content display unit 1904 are further added to the system configuration shown in FIG.

  The broadcast content receiving unit 1901 is a stream obtained by multiplexing not only the contents of the program but also tag information given to the program, information on the program guide, and information on the URL of the WEB content related to the program by broadcast waves. Receive from and decode.

  The URL extraction unit 1902 acquires URL information related to the program being broadcast from the broadcast content acquired by the broadcast content reception unit 1901 and outputs the URL information to the URL reception unit 101.

  The program information detection unit 1903 determines whether the content currently displayed on the screen in the broadcast content acquired by the broadcast content reception unit 1901 is broadcast or CM. For example, the determination is made based on whether the broadcast is stereo. Further, it is determined using the program guide information whether a new program has started. For example, it is judged from the information of the received program guide that the program ends at 9:55 and the next program starts from 10:00. Furthermore, the display control of the web content of the display control unit 105 is performed using this program information. For example, the web content is automatically reproduced during the CM, but when a new program is started, the automatic reproduction of the WEB content can be terminated.

  The broadcast content display unit 1904 displays the broadcast content received by the broadcast content reception unit 1901. As a result, as shown in FIG. 28, both the display of broadcast content and the automatic display of WEB content can be performed simultaneously.

  Furthermore, only when the user presses the WEB content viewing button with the remote control 202 or the like, automatic playback is started. When the channel change button is pressed for the program displayed on the broadcast content display unit 1904, automatic playback of the WEB content is performed. May be stopped. This makes it possible to select and display the content (program or WEB) that the user intends to view.

  Further, in the present embodiment, an example has been described in which WEB content that can be currently acquired is automatically played back. Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 30, it is also possible to display a frame or the like so that the user can know the updated location of the WEB content. Unlike broadcast content, WEB content is partially updated every moment. Therefore, it is possible to store the WEB content at the time of the previous display and compare it with the WEB content acquired this time so that the user can be notified of which part has been updated compared to the previous display. Become. Thereby, the part which a user should confirm with caution is known. Further, when an update location is displayed, it is possible to alert the user by slowing down the scrolling speed, temporarily stopping the scrolling, or blinking.

  In this embodiment, the page link source page is displayed before the page is displayed so that the user can understand the context of the displayed page. However, the present invention is not limited to this. It is not something that can be done. For example, as shown in FIG. 31, a part of the link source page may always be displayed on a part of the screen. In FIG. 31, by displaying a part of page A, which is the link source of page B, at the top of the screen, the user can grasp the context of page B.

  Furthermore, for example, as shown in FIG. 32, by displaying the page hierarchical structure that is automatically switched simultaneously with the WEB content of the page, it is possible to grasp the link relationship of the currently viewed page. In particular, the screen can be effectively used by changing the display layout of the WEB content according to the hierarchical structure of the page. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 32, the display page hierarchical structure as shown in FIG. 8 constructed by the display page selection unit 104 is displayed on a part of the screen, and the color of the currently viewed page part 505 is displayed. By changing, it becomes possible to grasp the relationship of the display page to the whole. Furthermore, it is possible to present the user with the time required to finish displaying all the pages. Further, when the degree of depth of the display page hierarchical structure is smaller than a predetermined value (when there is only a shallow hierarchy), as shown in FIG. On the other hand, when the value is larger than the predetermined value, it is possible to use the screen in the horizontal direction for displaying the hierarchical structure as shown in FIG. This is possible by constructing the display page structure in a hierarchical structure. Conversely, it is determined first whether the page should be used vertically (FIG. 32 (a)) or horizontally (FIG. 32 (b)) according to the contents of the display page, and the hierarchy is accordingly determined. The display part of the structure may be changed. Because the display page is constructed in a hierarchical structure, the horizontal direction (depth direction) of the screen is dynamically changed by displaying only the upper hierarchy without displaying the entire hierarchical structure of the page. It becomes possible. Further, as shown in FIGS. 33A and 33B, it is possible to change the topology of the display page in the hierarchical structure of the display page.

  In this embodiment, the example in which the WEB content is automatically displayed by displaying on a display such as a television set in the home is described, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, by applying the present invention to an in-vehicle terminal or the like, it is useful because it is possible to perform automatic confirmation of WEB content in a situation where it is necessary to concentrate on driving the vehicle. In addition, since automatic browsing while driving is a safety issue, processing such as reading out content by voice is necessary while driving a vehicle. In addition, by setting the automatic reproduction of web content only when the vehicle side brake is applied, the driver can browse the content without performing an operation such as clicking on the internet content. It becomes possible.

  In addition, by applying the present invention to a mobile phone or the like, it is possible to view WEB content without performing an operation input such as clicking on the content even when walking or the like is being performed outdoors. Become useful. In a mobile phone, it is also useful to select a WEB page to be displayed in consideration of the remaining battery level.

(Embodiment 2)
In the first embodiment, the web content is automatically reproduced by accepting the URL and the link depth from the URL as the degree of detail. In particular, when browsing web content on a television where the user browses broadcast content, the web content can be confirmed without a click or scroll operation from the user, as in broadcasting.

  Furthermore, when browsing broadcast content, there is no favorite program, and when trying to browse WEB content between programs, the content can be confirmed simply by entering the URL and the time available for WEB browsing. And convenient. Therefore, in this embodiment, a case will be described in which appropriate WEB content is automatically displayed by accepting a URL and a browsing time.

  FIG. 34 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the WEB content display apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected about the component similar to Embodiment 1, and description is abbreviate | omitted.

  The WEB content display apparatus according to the present embodiment is characterized in that it receives a WEB address URL and a browsing time from a user, acquires the WEB content, and displays the WEB content by scrolling / switching without the user's operation. As shown in FIG. 34, the apparatus has a URL reception unit 101, a WEB content acquisition unit 2001, a playback time reception unit 2002, a display page selection unit 2003, a display control unit 2004, a browsing history acquisition unit 2005, and a display unit 106. I have.

  FIG. 35 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 35, the user uses a device such as the remote control 202 to input a URL and a reproduction time for automatically reproducing a page with a link from the URL. The WEB content display device is connected to a network 2103 such as the Internet, and is connected to the WEB server 2101 via the network 2103. The browsing history storage unit 2102 of the WEB server 2101 stores browsing history of WEB content. In this embodiment, by using the browsing history of the web content stored in the web server 2101, the time for reproducing the web content is controlled.

Next, the operation of each component of the WEB content display apparatus shown in FIG. 34 will be described.
The reproduction time receiving unit 2002 receives a time (viewing target time) for automatically reproducing the WEB content. FIG. 35 shows an example in which the user inputs 3 minutes (180 seconds) using the remote control 202 or the like. The browsing target time may be set by the system. For example, the time between programs may be set, or when there is an uninteresting scene in the program being watched, the time may be set in anticipation of the time. In addition, after the program ends, when the user presses the WEB browsing button and there is an instruction to browse the web, the time when the next program is started is acquired from the program table, and the web content is automatically browsed according to the time. You may go.

  Similar to the first embodiment, the WEB content acquisition unit 2001 acquires the WEB content of the page of the URL received by the URL reception unit 101, and acquires the WEB content of the link destination included therein. In the first embodiment, the WEB content is acquired according to the level of detail received by the level of detail receiving unit 102. However, in this embodiment, the WEB becomes longer than the playback time received by the playback time receiving unit 2002. Get content.

  The browsing history acquisition unit 2005 acquires a browsing history of WEB content from the browsing history storage unit 2102 of the WEB server 2101 that manages the page of the URL received by the URL receiving unit 101. Here, the browsing history storage unit 2102 of the WEB server 2101 stores the browsing history of the WEB content, the content, its access time, and the IP address that performed the access. For example, a browsing history as shown in FIG. 36 is accumulated. In the browsing history, it is possible to detect the transition of the user's page based on the IP address as the user ID. For example, in FIG. 36, if the user ID of the user with the IP address “133.144.121.118” is “0001”, the table in FIG. 36 is accessed three times. It can be seen that page B1 was accessed at 21: 3: 12, page B11 was accessed at 21: 3: 14, and page B1 was accessed again at 21: 4: 38.

  A display page selection unit 2003 selects a page to be displayed when automatic reproduction is performed from WEB content acquired in the same manner as in the first embodiment. In the first embodiment, the page is selected based on the link depth received by the detail level receiving unit. However, in the present embodiment, the playback time receiving unit 2002 receives the time required for playback. Therefore, the page to be displayed is further selected using the time information.

  A specific operation of the display page selection unit 2003 will be described. First, as shown in FIG. 37, the page A of the input URL is set as Root, and the page in the first layer is acquired using the URL included in the HTML text of the page A. In the acquisition of the page here, as in the first embodiment, it is possible to select a more relevant page by selecting ones that have links to each other. As a result of acquiring the first layer page, for example, as shown in FIG. 37, page B, page C, page D, and page E can be acquired. In addition, from the amount of text on each page, the time required to display each page can be calculated. In the example shown in FIG. 37, it is assumed that page B is calculated as 15 seconds, page C as 4 seconds, page D as 15 seconds, and page E as 10 seconds. Since the time required to display page A is 11 seconds, it takes 55 seconds to display all these pages.

  Here, it is assumed that the time received by the playback time receiving unit 2002 is 180 seconds as shown in FIG. The current first level link only takes 55 seconds. Therefore, a link to the next layer (second layer) is newly traced. As a result, for example, as shown in FIG. 38, pages up to the second level are selected. The description of <80 seconds> below page B indicates that the time required to display pages after page B is 15 + 32 + 33 = 80 (seconds). Similarly, pages C, D, and E are calculated, and as a result, it is shown that it takes 285 seconds in total to display up to the second layer. Since the target playback time is 180 seconds, when 285 seconds are reached, the playback time is too long.

Therefore, the pages are reduced by selecting frequently accessed pages from the browsing history of the user's pages acquired by the browsing history acquisition unit 2005. Specifically, the probability of following a page (browsing probability) is calculated from the user's browsing history, and the link whose value is small is deleted. The probability of following a page is calculated using the table in FIG. 36 as to which link on page B the user who has accessed page B accessed within a predetermined time (for example, 3 minutes). For example, assume that there are 100 users who have accessed page B. Of these users, if there are 10 users who have accessed page B1 within 3 minutes, the browsing probability from page B to page B1 is “0.1”. In this way, the probability of following the link between pages is calculated from the browsing histories of many users. In FIG. 38, the probability of following the link of each page is described on the link. For example, the browsing probability from page A to page B is “0.0013”. This high browsing probability means that many users who have displayed the original page have next browsed a predetermined linked page. On the contrary, being small indicates that the user who displayed the original page is accessing another page. For example, the probability PX (B → B1) that a user X has followed the link from page B to page B1 is
PX (B → B1)
= (Frequency of user B displaying page B1 within 3 minutes after displaying page B) / (Frequency of user X displaying page B)
It is expressed by In addition, the average value Pave (B → B1) of the probabilities of a plurality of users, not the probability of one user, is
Pave (B → B1) = (Σx PX (B → B1)) / N
It is expressed by Here, N is the number of people whose probability has been calculated. Furthermore, by using the probability of a user having a preference (profile) similar to the user browsing the WEB, the probability of following the link can be calculated with higher accuracy. In addition, by using the browsing history of the user's family or the like, it is effective for browsing the WEB by a television set in the living room browsed by the family. The user's preference and profile can use a keyword acquired from a “favorite” homepage registered by the user or a web browsing history.

  Next, the display page selection unit 2003 extracts the one having the minimum probability of following the link, and deletes the link. In the example of FIG. 39, the browsing probability from page A to page D is the smallest, which is “0.0001”. Therefore, most users who have accessed page A consider that they are accessing pages other than page D, and determine that page D is a page that is not very related to page A. By deleting page D, page D1 and page D2 are also simultaneously deleted from the playback content. As a result, as shown in FIG. 40, the time required to display the whole is 193 seconds. However, in FIG. 40, it is still longer than the target of 180 seconds. Therefore, the one having the smallest probability of following the link is selected again. In the example of FIG. 40, the link is from page C to page C3. Therefore, the link is deleted. As a result, as shown in FIG. 41, the total display time is 185 seconds. Since the target of 180 seconds has not yet been reached, the link from page E to page E2 with a low probability is deleted again. As a result, as shown in FIG. 42, the entire display time is 154 seconds, which is shorter than 180 seconds.

  Therefore, 154 seconds is the time required to scroll the entire page, but it is necessary to insert the time to display the link source before displaying the page. In the example of FIG. 42, it is necessary to display eight pages except for page A. Therefore, by setting (180−154) /8=1.875 (seconds) as the time required when displaying the link source, the time required to display the whole is 180 seconds. FIG. 43 is a diagram illustrating the display time of a page that is time-adjusted to 180 seconds. By determining the display order based on the display page hierarchical structure shown in FIG. 42, the display schedule of FIG. 43 can be determined.

  The above operation will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. FIG. 44 is a flowchart showing the overall flow of acquiring and automatically displaying WEB content from URL reception and playback time reception. Furthermore, FIG. 45 shows the display time of a page by calculating the relevance between pages from the probability of following the user's link between pages using the browsing history of WEB content, and deleting the page with less relevance. It is a flowchart to control.

  First, the URL receiving unit 101 receives a top URL (step 3001). Furthermore, the reproduction time reception unit 2002 receives a time (for example, 180 seconds) required for browsing (step 3002). The display page selection unit 2003 sets “1” as the hierarchy of links to be displayed (step 3003). Then, the display page selection unit 2003 selects a display page by setting the hierarchy to “1” (step 3004). In step 3004, processing similar to that described in FIG. 9 of the first embodiment is performed. Since the hierarchical structure for displaying is constructed, the display time for each page is calculated as shown in FIG. 37, and the estimated browsing time (55 seconds) for displaying the entire page is calculated (step 3005). Next, it is determined whether or not the estimated browsing time is shorter than the browsing target time (step 3006). If the estimated browsing time is short as a result of this determination (YES in step 3006), the link hierarchy is increased by "1" and the process returns to step 3004 (step 3007). Here, since the target time of browsing is 180 seconds, it is as short as 55 seconds, so the process proceeds to step 3007.

  On the other hand, if the estimated browsing time exceeds the target browsing time (NO in step 3006), the playback display time is adjusted by reducing the number of display pages (step 3008). In the above example, the link depth is set to “2”, and the WEB content is acquired again. As a result, as shown in FIG. 38, the display time is 285 seconds, which exceeds the target 180 seconds.

  Next, the number of display pages is reduced, and when an appropriate display time is reached, WEB content is displayed (step 3009). Note that the operation in step 3009 controls display by performing the same processing as in FIG. 18 of the first embodiment.

Next, an operation for reducing display pages will be described with reference to FIG.
First, a browsing target time is set (step 3101). In this embodiment, it is 180 seconds. The browsing probability for each link is calculated from the browsing history table as shown in FIG. 43 acquired by the browsing history acquisition unit 2005 (step 3102). The link with the smallest browsing probability is deleted (step 3103). By deleting the link, the display page ahead is deleted (step 3104). As a result, the entire reproduction time is recalculated, and it is determined whether or not the estimated browsing time is shorter than the browsing target time (step 3105). As a result of this determination, if the estimated browsing time is still long (NO in step 3105), the link having the next smallest browsing probability of the link destination is deleted (step 3106), and the process proceeds to step 3104. In this way, the link is deleted until the browsing time becomes smaller than the target time, and when the time becomes smaller than the target time (YES in step 3105), the time for displaying the link source is calculated (step 3107).

  Through the above operation, the WEB content can be displayed by selecting the WEB content according to the accepted URL and the reproduction time thereof, scrolling and switching pages. Therefore, the user can browse as if watching a TV program without any operation.

  In the present embodiment, the result of following links of a plurality of other users is calculated from the browsing history and the probability of following the link between pages is calculated. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, you may calculate the probability which follows the link between pages using the browsing history of a user's WEB page. In this case, it is desirable that the user accesses the page a plurality of times, and even when the page is automatically switched and displayed, the automatic browsing function of the page that the user has visited before is provided. For example, it is assumed that when a user goes on a ski trip, there is a history of investigating accommodation facilities near a certain ski resort. In the next year, when trying to go to the same ski resort, it is possible to automatically browse the summary of the accommodations surveyed last year using the previous WEB browsing history. As described above, when the previous browsing information is confirmed again using the history of the WEB page accessed by the user before, the present WEB content display device is effective.

  In this embodiment, the relevance between pages is calculated using the probability of following a link by another user (or the user himself / herself). However, the frequency of words common to the pages, URL The relationship between pages may be calculated using the domain information in the URL or the directory structure of the page obtained from the URL.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the page is selected using the browsing history, but the present invention is not limited to this, and it is also possible to select the page using the user's usual viewing history. . For example, the user's interest can be estimated from the viewing history of the user's program or WEB content from the text information of the program guide or the text information of the WEB content. Therefore, it is possible to select a page by preferentially selecting a page that the user is interested in and deleting a page that does not include the keyword that the user is interested in. This makes it possible to select a WEB page without referring to the browsing history of another user's WEB. In addition, there is a high possibility that a page in which the user is interested is preferentially selected.

(Embodiment 3)
In the first and second embodiments, the method of automatically switching and displaying the WEB content linked with the broadcast content has been described. In general, if the broadcast content is not viewed at the broadcast time, the content broadcast at that time cannot be viewed unless it is recorded. However, in WEB content, there is a case where an outline of the content of the content broadcast in the past is disclosed. Therefore, in the present embodiment, by accumulating the viewing history of the broadcast content of the user, a program to be viewed by the user in the future is predicted, and a past program related to the program has not been viewed. WEB content related to the program is acquired, and the display is automatically switched to the user. For example, it is assumed that there is “drama A” that the user watched without missing every week from the past viewing history. This can be determined from the viewing history of the user and the information in the program guide of the past broadcasted content. However, if you happen to be unable to watch “Drama A” from 10 pm on October 2, to watch “Drama A” at 9:50 pm on October 9 Suppose the channels are matched. At this time, since it can be determined from the viewing history that the user did not watch “Drama A” last week, information on the outline of “Drama A” broadcast from 10:00 on October 2nd, It is acquired from the WEB content, and is displayed while the automatic display switching of the WEB content is performed for 10 minutes until 10:00 when the broadcast is started. As a result, the user can understand the outline of browsing the WEB content even when he / she fails to view the program that he / she watches on a daily basis. In particular, when browsing WEB content on a display device such as a TV, the related content is automatically switched and displayed, thereby browsing the WEB content in a style of viewing conventional passive content (broadcast content and the like). It becomes possible. FIG. 46 shows a system configuration diagram for realizing the above operation.

  FIG. 46 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a WEB content display apparatus according to Embodiment 3 of the present invention. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected about the component similar to Embodiment 1, 2, and description is abbreviate | omitted. The WEB content display device according to the present embodiment stores a viewing history of broadcast content and program information, and automatically switches and displays WEB content related to a program that the user is interested in within a predetermined time. 29, in addition to the configuration of the WEB content display device shown in FIG. 29, as shown in FIG. 46, a broadcast viewing history accumulation unit 4601, a program information accumulation unit 4602, a viewing program prediction unit 4603, a viewing idle time calculation unit 4604, And a WEB switching display time calculation unit 4605.

  The operation of each component will be described. In the broadcast viewing history accumulation unit 4601, for example, a viewing history as shown in FIG. 47 is accumulated. This viewing history is accumulated from the history of power ON / OFF and channel switching operations by a terminal such as a television that displays broadcast content.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 48, the program information storage unit 4602 stores program information of programs broadcast in the past and program information of programs scheduled to be broadcast in the future. These pieces of program information are information that is multiplexed with broadcast content and distributed via a network such as the Internet. For example, it is stored for each channel about the date and time when it was broadcast or broadcast, the start time and end time of the program, the category of the program, the title of the program, the content of the program, and the like.

  The viewing program prediction unit 4603 predicts a program to be viewed by the user using the viewing history accumulated in the broadcast viewing history accumulation unit 4601 and the program information accumulated in the program information accumulation unit 4602. Here, the program to be viewed is a program that has not been viewed even though the user's viewing is predicted in a previously broadcasted program, or a program that is predicted to be viewed by the user in a future broadcasted program. . Specifically, for example, for each program in which program information is stored in the program information storage unit 4602 from the user's viewing history, the ratio of how long the user has watched with respect to the broadcast time is calculated. . For example, if a 48 minute user views a program with a broadcast time of 55 minutes, it is calculated that the viewing ratio is 48/55 = 87%. Using this value, it is determined which program the user has viewed among the programs whose program information is stored in the program information storage unit 4602. Next, a series of programs and related programs are collected for each channel, and it is determined which program the user has watched. As for how to organize programs, in the case of dramas, etc., it is possible to combine programs with the same title, or to combine programs with the same channel and broadcast time (day of broadcast) as a single program It is. In this way, it is determined whether or not the user regularly views the compiled program. For example, if a drama program broadcast every week is a series of 10 dramas, it has already been broadcast 8 times, and if the user has watched at a viewing ratio of 90% or more in all 8 times, It is determined that there is a high possibility of viewing. On the other hand, if the program is broadcast eight times and viewed seven times with a viewing ratio of 90% or more, it can be determined that the remaining one has been missed. In this way, using the viewing history, the user's viewing habits are extracted, and in the program broadcast in the past, if there was no viewing history, whether the program was missed or did not watch because it was not interested It is possible to make a judgment. For example, as shown in FIG. 49, on October 7th, 14th, 21st, and so on, the drama called “Ace Star” was broadcast on November 4th, “Ace Star”. Only viewing history was not accumulated. Currently, in the case of November 11, the “ace star” on November 4 is a program predicted to be viewed by the user, but it can be determined that the user missed for some reason. Similarly, regarding “document” in FIG. 49, it is possible to determine that “document (2)” has been missed.

  The viewing program prediction unit 4603 predicts a program that the user has missed or a program that is about to be viewed in the future for programs that are not stored in the broadcast viewing history storage unit 4601. For example, as described above, when a program customarily viewed from a past viewing history is extracted and a program related to the program is broadcast in the future, the possibility that the user will view it is increased.

  The viewing idle time calculation unit 4604 calculates the difference from the current time for the program predicted to be viewed by the user in the viewing program prediction unit 4603 from the current time to the program with high possibility of viewing. Calculate free time. For example, when a program broadcast on a predetermined channel from 10:00 every week is predicted by the viewing program prediction unit 4603, the current time is 9:50. At this time, 10 minutes from 10:00 to 9:50 is calculated as an idle time.

  The WEB switching display time calculation unit 4605 uses the idle time calculated by the viewing idle time calculation unit 4604 to calculate the time for automatically switching and displaying the WEB. For example, when a program that a user is watching is started, information in WEB content related to the program is selected and automatically displayed.

  FIG. 50 is a flowchart showing the flow of operation of the third embodiment. The viewing program prediction unit 4603 selects a program that has already been broadcast from the programs in which the program information is stored in the program information storage unit 4602, and views the programs stored in the broadcast viewing history storage unit 4601 for each program. From the history, a program having a viewing history of 80% or more with respect to the broadcast time of the program is regarded as a program viewed by the user (step 5001). The viewing program prediction unit 4603 acquires the program information stored in the program information storage unit 4602 for the program set as the program viewed by the user in step 5001 (step 5002). For example, information on whether or not the program being watched is a series drama program or a baseball night broadcast program, in particular, whether or not the program is broadcast in a series is extracted. Whether or not it is a series is determined from information on whether or not the program name has the same name every week. Next, the viewing program prediction unit 4603 determines whether there is a viewing program in the same channel and the same time zone among the programs that the user has viewed (step 5003). If the program is in the same channel and in the same time zone (YES in step 5003), it is determined that the program is a habitual viewing by the user, and the sequel program is predicted to be viewed in the future. Then, the viewing program prediction unit 4603 determines whether or not there is a viewing history of the previous program for the program predicted to be viewed (step 5004). If there is a previous viewing history (YES in step 5004), display page selection unit 104 selects a WEB page related to a program to be broadcast in the future (step 5005). If there is no viewing history of the previous program (NO in step 5004), the display page selection unit 104 selects a WEB page related to the previous program (step 5006). The viewing available time calculation unit 4604 obtains the current time, and calculates a time (viewing available time) until broadcasting of a program that is regularly viewed is started (step 5007). The WEB switching display time calculation unit 4605 uses the time calculated by the viewing idle time calculation unit 4604 as the automatic switching time of the WEB page, and the display page selection unit 104 determines the display time of each page (step 5008).

  As a result of the above operation, a program that is predicted to be viewed by the user is predicted from the viewing history, and further, information related to the previous program is presented using the viewing history, or information related to the program to be broadcast is displayed. It is possible to determine whether to present and automatically switch and display a WEB page related to a program that the user is interested in. As a result, when the user has not watched the previous program, the user can check the previous program information on the WEB page. The information regarding the program to be played can be confirmed. In particular, the WEB content related to the program can be viewed without the user's operation.

  In the present embodiment, when there is a program that has not been viewed in the past even though it is a program that the user is regularly watching, WEB content related to the program is automatically switched and displayed. Went. On the other hand, even if a program has not been viewed in the past, when the story may be continuous in a drama, etc., if the previous program was viewed without viewing the previous program, There is a high possibility that the story can be grasped at the stage of watching the program. Therefore, even if the previous broadcast was not viewed, if the previous program was viewed, it is assumed that the user can grasp the previous story. Therefore, in that case, it is assumed that automatic switching display of WEB content related to a program to be broadcast in the future is performed. Specifically, as shown in “Document” in FIG. 49, when the broadcast of “Document (4)” is started, even if there is no viewing history of “Document (2)”, “ If there is a viewing history of “document (3)”, WEB content related to the program of “document (4)” is provided to the user.

(Embodiment 4)
In the third embodiment, using the viewing history of broadcast content, a program that a user is regularly watching is extracted, and a program that the user may watch in the future is predicted from the program information. . By automatically switching and displaying the relevant WEB content before the predicted program starts, the user can watch the WEB content at the same time only by watching the TV screen without any operation on the screen. Is possible. Further, in the present embodiment, up to which WEB content is automatically displayed by using the information on the date and time when the program that the user is habitually watching was broadcast and the information on the date and time when the WEB content was created. By determining whether to do so, it is possible to present only the WEB content to be presented to the user. For example, in the case where a WEB page related to a quiz program exists, before the quiz program is broadcast, the content related to the problem of the quiz may be disclosed on the WEB page. However, after the broadcast is over, the content related to the answer to the quiz broadcast in the program may be published as WEB content. In such a case, if the user is not watching the broadcast, only the WEB page published before the program is broadcast is automatically switched and displayed, and the user who is watching the broadcast In order to remind the previous broadcast, the post-broadcast WEB page should be automatically switched and displayed. As a result, when the program is a quiz program, the user before viewing the program does not browse the answer, and can enjoy viewing the program. In the case of a program such as a drama, the user can view the drama without checking the end of the program. On the other hand, for the user who has already watched the program, it is possible to check the end of the previous drama by automatically displaying the WEB content, and the introduction of this drama becomes easy.

  In particular, in the automatic switching display of WEB content, the WEB content is displayed regardless of the user's intention. Therefore, the user may browse to a page that the user does not want to browse. In particular, in the case of broadcast content, if the user intends to record and watch it carefully at a later date, even if the content and the end of the content have been released as WEB content, the user will not be able to watch the program. I don't want to browse. Therefore, in the present embodiment, when automatic switching display of WEB content related to the broadcast content of the user is performed, the WEB content to be displayed and the WEB content that should not be displayed using the viewing history of the broadcast content by the user. It is necessary to distinguish content.

  FIG. 51 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a WEB content display apparatus according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected about the component similar to Embodiment 3, and description is abbreviate | omitted.

  The WEB content display device according to the present embodiment stores a viewing history of broadcast content and program information, and automatically switches and displays WEB content related to a program that the user is interested in within a predetermined time. 46, instead of the WEB switching display time calculation unit 4605 of the configuration of the WEB content display device of the third embodiment shown in FIG. 46, as shown in FIG. 51, a WEB content creation date acquisition unit 5101 and a date comparison unit 5102 It has.

  The operation of each component will be described. The web content creation date acquisition unit 5101 acquires the date and time when each page of the web content acquired by the web content acquisition unit 103 was created. The creation date and time can be acquired by referring to the time stamp when the file is created, and a meta tag of HTML content may be used.

  A date and time comparison unit 5102 compares the date and time when the WEB content was created with the date and time when the program was broadcast. If the user has not browsed the content of the broadcast date and time, the display page selection unit 104 does not select the WEB content generated thereafter. For example, it is assumed that the date and time when each page was created is acquired by the web content creation date and time acquisition unit 5101 as shown in FIG. At this time, it is assumed that the user has not watched the broadcast content whose broadcast date is October 14. At this time, the web contents of pages D, D1, D2, and D3 are not selected as pages for automatic switching display. This enables automatic switching display without displaying the WEB content for the user who has watched the October 14 broadcast.

  FIG. 53 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of the WEB content display apparatus according to the present embodiment. Steps 5301 to 5304 in the flowchart of FIG. 53 are the same as steps 5001 to 5004 of FIG. If the previous broadcast is being browsed in step 5304 (YES in step 5304), all the related WEB pages are automatically switched and displayed (step 5305). In step 5304, if the previous broadcast has not been browsed (NO in step 5304), the WEB page created after the broadcast date is deleted from the display page targets among the related WEB pages (step 5305). ).

  As a result, for users who are not viewing broadcast content, only the WEB pages that were released before the broadcast date can be automatically switched and displayed, and pages that the user does not want to view are not displayed. It is possible to do so.

  In addition, when viewing of the broadcast content of the user is predicted in advance, the WEB content before the broadcast may be stored. When the user only records the program and does not view the program, when automatically displaying the WEB content related to the program, the automatic switching display of the WEB page acquired in advance before the broadcast is performed. I do. This makes it possible to distinguish and display the pre-broadcast WEB page and the post-broadcast WEB page without comparing the broadcast date and the date and time of the WEB creation page. In particular, when a broadcast content is recorded, when the summary is confirmed using the automatic switching function of the WEB content, or when the recorded content has been viewed, the automatic switching of the WEB content released after the broadcasting is performed. If the recorded content has not been viewed, automatic switching display of the WEB content released before broadcasting is performed. As a result, it is possible to check the content of the broadcast content without displaying the ending of the program that is not viewed or the answer to the quiz.

  In the present embodiment, automatic switching display of WEB content for one program is described. However, the user may watch the program while zapping the broadcast content. For example, when there are a plurality of favorite channels, the two channels may be viewed while being switched. In such a case, WEB content of each channel may be acquired, and WEB content may be automatically switched in conjunction with program switching. For example, as shown in FIG. 54, on the screen for displaying broadcast content, the user switches and displays channels (program A and program B), and the WEB display screen is divided into a plurality of areas and switched to each window by the user. It is possible to perform automatic switching display of the WEB page related to the channel. In FIG. 51, when browsing of a plurality of channels is detected in the history accumulated in the broadcast viewing history accumulation unit 4601 in the time from the present to a predetermined time before, This can be realized by inputting a plurality of URLs and acquiring a plurality of types of WEB contents. Further, the display control unit 105 can divide the information display screen into a plurality of screens, and display the web contents corresponding to the plurality of URLs received by the URL receiving unit 101 on each screen.

  In addition, when it is found that the user is browsing a plurality of channels as described above, the automatic switching display of each WEB content further relates to the channel displayed in the broadcast content display area. Only the contents of the WEB page are automatically switched, and the automatic switching of the WEB page of another channel is stopped. For example, while the program A is viewed in the broadcast content display area, the WEB content of the program A is automatically switched and the automatic display of the WEB content of the program B is stopped. On the other hand, while the program B is being viewed in the broadcast content display area, the WEB content of the program B is automatically switched and the automatic display of the WEB content of the program A is stopped. As a result, each time the channel is switched, automatic switching of the WEB page from the first page is not started, and automatic switching of the WEB page from the middle becomes possible, and it becomes unnecessary to repeatedly browse the same WEB content. . This can be realized by switching and displaying only the WEB content related to the program detected by the program information detecting unit 1903 and stopping the automatic display of other WEB content in the display control unit 105 of FIG. .

  In each embodiment, the URL receiving unit 101 is an address receiving unit, the detail level receiving unit 102 is a detail level receiving unit, the WEB content acquisition unit 103 is a WEB content acquisition unit, and the display page selection units 104 and 2003 are Display page selection means, display control sections 105 and 2004, display control means, HTML analysis section 301, analysis section, link destination extraction section 302, link destination extraction section, display page determination section 303, display section The page hierarchical structure storage unit 304 is a display page hierarchical structure storage unit, the display order determination unit 901 is a display control unit, the display screen image generation unit 902 is a screen image generation unit, and the display control information determination unit 903 is a display control information determination unit. The page scroll unit 905 is a page scroll unit, and the user instruction receiving unit 1802 is a URL receiving unit. Reference numeral 1902 denotes an address extraction unit, a reproduction time reception unit 2002 to a reproduction time reception unit, a browsing history acquisition unit 2005 to a browsing history acquisition unit, a broadcast viewing history storage unit 4601 to a broadcast viewing history storage unit, and a program information storage unit 4602. Is a program information storage unit, a viewing program prediction unit 4603 is a viewing program prediction unit, a viewing idle time calculation unit 4604 is a viewing idle time calculation unit, and a WEB switching display time calculation unit 4605 is a WEB switching display time calculation unit. The content creation date acquisition unit 5101 corresponds to a WEB content creation date acquisition unit, and the date comparison unit 5102 corresponds to a date comparison unit.

  As described above, the WEB content browsing apparatus according to the present invention browses the WEB content as if watching the television receiving the broadcast only by specifying the URL and the depth of the link or the browsing time. For example, it is useful in a television set or a mobile terminal connected to the Internet.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the web content display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the instruction | indication reception screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the big flow of operation | movement of the WEB content display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the detailed structure of the display page selection part in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display page hierarchical structure in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure for demonstrating the display page hierarchical structure in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display page hierarchical structure in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display page hierarchical structure in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the display page selection part in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the detailed structure of the display control part in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display order of the display page hierarchical structure in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen image of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the modification in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen image of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen image of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen image of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the display control part in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the modification in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen image of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the reception screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the modification in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen of presentation of the display time and instruction | indication reception in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen of presentation of the display time and instruction | indication reception in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the remote control in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display order of the display page hierarchical structure in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the modification in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen image of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen image of the display page in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the web content display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the example of the instruction | indication reception screen in Embodiment 2 of this invention, and a hardware configuration. It is a figure which shows the example of the browsing history accumulate | stored in the WEB server in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the hierarchical structure of the acquired page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the hierarchical structure of the acquired page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the hierarchical structure of the acquired page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the hierarchical structure of the acquired page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the hierarchical structure of the acquired page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the hierarchical structure of the selected page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the display page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the whole flow in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the deletion process of the display page in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the web content display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the viewing history accumulate | stored in the broadcast viewing history accumulation | storage part in Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the program information accumulate | stored in the program information storage part in Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the viewing-and-listening rate which the viewing-and-listening program estimation part in Embodiment 3 of this invention calculates. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of operation | movement in Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the web content display apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the acquisition display page hierarchical structure containing the creation date of each page in Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of operation | movement in Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the screen of the modification in Embodiment 4 of this invention.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 101 URL reception part 102 Detail reception part 103, 2001 WEB content acquisition part 104, 2003 Display page selection part 105, 2004 Display control part 106 Display part 301 HTML analysis part 302 Link destination extraction part 303 Display page determination part 304 Display page hierarchy Structure storage unit 901 Display order determination unit 902 Display screen image generation unit 903 Display control information determination unit 904 Time measurement unit 905 Page scroll unit 906 Page switching unit 2002 Playback time reception unit 2005 Browsing history acquisition unit 2101 Web server 2102 Browsing history storage unit 4601 Broadcast viewing history accumulation unit 4602 Program information accumulation unit 4603 Viewing program prediction unit 4603 Viewing idle time calculation unit 4604 WEB switching display time calculation unit 5101 Web content creation date acquisition unit 5102較部

Claims (22)

A web content display device for displaying web content,
Address receiving means for receiving a WEB address;
WEB content acquisition means for acquiring WEB content of the page of the WEB address received by the address reception means, and acquiring WEB content of the linked page included in the acquired page;
Display page selection means for selecting a display page from a plurality of pages acquired by the WEB content acquisition means;
The display order of each display page selected by the display page selection means and the time for displaying the WEB content of each display page are determined, and the WEB content of each display page is switched at the determined time and the display order. And a display control means for displaying the WEB content display device. The display page selection means includes
An analysis unit for analyzing a description language of the WEB content acquired by the WEB content acquisition unit;
A link destination extraction unit that extracts a link destination from the description language analyzed by the analysis unit;
And a selection unit that selects the link destination page as the display page when a link source web address is included in the link destination page extracted by the link destination extraction unit. Item 4. The WEB content display device according to Item 1. The display page selection means further includes:
A display page hierarchical structure storage unit that stores the pages selected by the selection unit using a hierarchical structure;
The WEB content display device according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit determines a display order of the display pages using the hierarchical structure. The display control means determines the display order of the display pages by returning to the link source page and advancing to the next link destination when there is no page link destination page using the hierarchical structure. 4. The WEB content display device according to claim 3. The WEB content display device further includes:
Comprising a switching receiving means for receiving a display page switching instruction;
4. The WEB according to claim 3, wherein the display control unit determines a switching destination page to a page in the same hierarchy using the hierarchical structure in response to the switching instruction received by the switching reception unit. 5. Content display device. The WEB content display device further includes:
A level of detail receiving means for receiving a level of detail indicating how many levels of linked web pages are acquired from the page of the WEB address received by the address receiving means;
The WEB content acquisition unit acquires the WEB content of a linked page included in each page up to a level indicated by the level of detail received by the level of detail reception unit. WEB content display apparatus of description. The display control means includes
A screen image generation unit that generates a screen image of the web content of the page selected by the display page selection unit;
A display control information determination unit that determines to scroll the page when the screen image generated by the screen image generation unit does not enter the display screen, and determines the scrolling speed;
The WEB content display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a page scroll unit that scrolls and displays the WEB content of the page at the scroll speed determined by the display control information determination unit. The WEB content display device according to claim 7, wherein the page scroll unit controls scrolling using tag information included in the WEB content of the page. The display control means includes
A screen image generation unit that generates a screen image of the web content of the page selected by the display page selection unit;
The WEB content display according to claim 1, further comprising: a display control information determination unit that determines that the page is reduced and displayed when the screen image generated by the screen image generation unit does not enter the display screen. apparatus. The display control means displays broadcast content in a region different from a region where the WEB content is displayed, and performs display control of the WEB content according to the content of the broadcast content. WEB content display device. The WEB content display device further includes:
Broadcast viewing history storage means for storing the viewing history of the broadcast content;
Program information storage means for storing program information including information related to the broadcast date and time of the broadcast content program;
A viewing program prediction unit for predicting a program that is customarily viewed from the viewing history stored in the broadcast viewing history storage unit and the program information stored in the program information storage unit,
The WEB content display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the display control unit performs display control of WEB content related to the program predicted by the viewing program prediction unit. The WEB content display device further includes:
Viewing free time calculating means for obtaining a time at which the program predicted by the viewing program predicting means is broadcast from the broadcast date and time of the program information stored in the program information storing means, and calculating a time difference from the current time. When,
The WEB content display device according to claim 11, further comprising: a WEB switching display time calculation unit that determines a time for displaying the WEB content using the time calculated as the viewing idle time. The WEB content display device further includes:
The viewing program prediction means is a program that does not view a program that is not in the viewing history stored in the broadcast viewing history storage means among the previously broadcasted programs related to the predicted program,
The WEB content display device according to claim 11, wherein the display page selection unit selects WEB content related to the program not being viewed. The WEB content display device further includes:
WEB content creation date and time acquisition means for acquiring the creation date and time of the WEB content acquired by the WEB content acquisition means;
When the program predicted by the program prediction unit is not in the viewing history stored in the broadcast viewing history storage unit, the date and time when the predicted program was broadcast and the web content creation date and time acquisition unit A date and time comparison means for comparing the date and time
The WEB content display device according to claim 11, wherein the display page selection unit selects a display page using a result of comparison by the date and time comparison unit. The WEB content display device further includes:
An address extracting means for extracting a WEB address related to the broadcast content program being displayed;
The WEB content display device according to claim 10, wherein the address receiving unit receives the WEB address extracted by the address extracting unit. The WEB content display device further includes:
Broadcast viewing history storage means for storing the viewing history of the broadcast content;
Program information storage means for storing program information including information related to the broadcast date and time of the broadcast content program;
The address extracting unit is configured to view a plurality of channels from a viewing history accumulated in the broadcast viewing history accumulating unit and a program information accumulated in the program information accumulating unit during a period from a present time to a predetermined time. When detected, a web address is extracted from each of the broadcast contents of the plurality of channels,
The address receiving means receives a plurality of WEB addresses extracted by the address extracting means,
The WEB content acquisition unit acquires WEB content of a plurality of pages of the WEB address received by the address reception unit, and acquires WEB content of a link destination page included in the acquired page. ,
The WEB content display device according to claim 15, wherein the display control means displays WEB content corresponding to a plurality of the WEB addresses. The WEB content display device further includes:
Browsing history acquisition means for acquiring browsing history of WEB content of the page of the WEB address received by the address reception means;
The WEB content display device according to claim 1, wherein the display page selection unit selects the display page based on the browsing history acquired by the browsing history acquisition unit. The display page selection means includes
Using the browsing history acquired by the browsing history acquisition means, a probability calculating unit that calculates the browsing probability of each page indicating the probability of following a link between pages;
The WEB content display device according to claim 17, further comprising: a selection unit that selects the display page based on the browsing probability calculated by the probability calculation unit. The WEB content display device further includes:
Replay time accepting means for accepting an instruction of a time for displaying the WEB content;
The WEB content display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit controls the display page so that the switching of the display page is completed at the time received by the reproduction time receiving unit. Browsing history acquisition means for acquiring browsing history of WEB content of the page of the WEB address received by the address reception means;
The display page selection unit selects the display page based on the browsing history acquired by the browsing history acquisition unit and the time received by the reproduction time reception unit,
The WEB content display device according to claim 19, wherein the display control unit controls the display page so that the switching of the display page is completed at the time received by the reproduction time receiving unit. A web content display method for displaying web content,
An address receiving step for receiving a WEB address;
Acquiring the WEB content of the page of the WEB address received in the address reception step, and acquiring the WEB content of the linked page included in the acquired page;
A display page selection step of selecting a display page from a plurality of pages acquired in the WEB content acquisition step;
The display order of each display page selected in the display page selection step and the time for displaying the WEB content of each display page are determined, and the WEB content of each display page is switched at the determined time and the display order. A WEB content display method, comprising: a display control step of displaying. A program for displaying WEB content,
An address receiving step for receiving a WEB address;
Acquiring the WEB content of the page of the WEB address received in the address reception step, and acquiring the WEB content of the linked page included in the acquired page;
A display page selection step of selecting a display page from a plurality of pages acquired in the WEB content acquisition step;
The display order of each display page selected in the display page selection step and the time for displaying the WEB content of each display page are determined, and the WEB content of each display page is switched at the determined time and the display order. A program for causing a computer to execute a display control step for display.

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