JP2007151087A - Communication support system and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To designate portions in contents and link them with various contents, and refer to information linked in a unit of their portions. <P>SOLUTION: A communication support system includes: a data base (DB) 152 for storing a content ID for specifying a content, position/range information for specifying a temporal position/range and spatial position/range in the content, object identification information for specifying objects to be linked corresponding to the content ID and the position/range information; a DB 153 for storing the object identification information and one or more contents linked to the objects to be linked; means 102 for presenting the object identification information and the position/range information corresponding to specific contents on the DB 152 referring to the DB 152; means 101 for receiving input of contents linked to the linked object corresponding to the presented object identification information; and means 151 for registering the received content in the DB 153 together with the corresponding object identification information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a communication support system and program that are assumed to be used on various networks such as the Internet.

  In various networks including the Internet, there is provided a communication service established by associating contents registered by a user with a system on the network. For example, in the bulletin board service on the Internet, a user creates his / her opinion as text content for a subject registered on the system, and each user registers the text content on the system and associates it with the subject. This is a service in which communication is established through a network.

  In addition, not only text, but also various types of content such as voice, video, still image, or composite content combining them are distributed on the network, and the user associates these various types of content as described above. Communication systems have been developed and proposed.

  A typical example is a Weblog (hereinafter referred to as “Blog”) system on the Internet. In the blog system, for an article registered by the user, a user who has viewed the article registers an opinion or association content in a form such as text or voice on the system in which the article is registered. A comment function for associating with is provided. Here, an article registered in the system by the user is called an “entry”. Hereinafter, this article is referred to as “entry”. An entry is often a complex type content normally described in html.

  In addition, as another function, the association contents including the URL of another entry registered on another (which may be the same) related to the entry are used only for information association reception prepared for each entry. A trackback function is provided that associates contents with each other so that they can be registered in a database on the system by being transmitted to a logical address, and can be referred to from the system as the associated contents of the entry (for example, see Non-Patent Document 1) ).

  In addition, with regard to video content, viewers can register textual comments on the system for each scene expressed in terms of time, and support communication between viewers interested in the same scene Has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

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Japanese Patent No. 3622711

  However, with the conventional trackback, even if another content can be associated with one content, a scene (temporal break) of audio content or video content, part of a text sentence, still image It is not considered to select and associate a finer range of content contents such as a certain part of the content. Therefore, conventionally, it is not possible to clearly specify a part of the content that is of interest to the user or a range in which other people's attention is to be drawn, and make a comment or associate it with another content.

  On the other hand, in the technique of Patent Document 1, it is possible to register and associate a comment with a text on the system with respect to a unit of a scene expressed by a time break in the video content registered in the system. However, since content registered on another system on the network is not assumed as a target of association, it cannot be directly associated with content on another system existing on the network. In addition, this technology basically does not take into consideration the correspondence to contents other than video.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-described circumstances. Regardless of the type of content, the user clearly specifies the part of the content that he or she wants to call attention to or the attention of others. And a communication support system and program that can be associated with various contents registered on various systems on the network, and can refer to information associated with each of those parts. The purpose is to provide.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, a communication support system according to the present invention includes content identification information for specifying content and a temporal position, a temporal range, a spatial position, or a spatial range within the content. Associated with the content identification information and the target identification information for specifying the association target corresponding to the position range information, the target identification information, and the association target An association content database for storing at least one content; content presentation means for presenting a certain content; and target identification information and position range information corresponding to the presented content with reference to the association target database. The object identification information presenting means to present and the presented object identification information An input accepting means for accepting an input of the content associated with the association object to respond, the received content, and registering means for registering the association contents database along with the corresponding object identification information, characterized by comprising a.

  In addition, the communication support system of the present invention includes content identification information for specifying content and position range information for designating a temporal position, a temporal range, a spatial position, or a spatial range in the content. A target database for storing the target identification information for specifying the target of association corresponding to the content identification information and the position range information, the target identification information, and one or more contents associated with the target of association, An association content database for storing content, content presentation means for presenting certain content, and object identification information presentation for presenting target identification information and position range information corresponding to the presented content with reference to the association target database And an association target corresponding to the presented target identification information A request receiving means for receiving a request for presentation of the associated content, by referring to the association contents database, characterized in that it comprises a and a content presentation means for presenting the contents corresponding to the presentation request received.

The communication support program of the present invention includes a computer,
Content identification information for specifying content, temporal position, temporal range, spatial position, or position range information for designating a spatial range in the content, the content identification information and the position range Storing target identification information for specifying an association target corresponding to information; first access means for accessing an association target database for storing the target identification information; and one or more contents associated with the association target. Second access means for accessing the associated content database, content presenting means for presenting certain content, and target identification information and position range information corresponding to the presented content with reference to the association target database. Corresponds to the presented object identification information presenting means and the presented object identification information That an input accepting means for accepting an input of the content associated with the association object, the received content is intended to function as a registration means for registering the association contents database along with the corresponding subject identification information.

In addition, the communication support program of the present invention includes a computer,
Content identification information for specifying content, temporal position, temporal range, spatial position, or position range information for designating a spatial range in the content, the content identification information and the position range Storing target identification information for specifying an association target corresponding to information; first access means for accessing an association target database for storing the target identification information; and one or more contents associated with the association target. Second access means for accessing the associated content database, content presenting means for presenting certain content, and target identification information and position range information corresponding to the presented content with reference to the association target database. Corresponds to the presented object identification information presenting means and the presented object identification information A request accepting unit that accepts a request for presentation of content associated with the association target, and a content presenting unit that refers to the association content database and presents content corresponding to the accepted presentation request. .

  According to the communication support system and program of the present invention, regardless of the type of content, the user can clearly specify the object of interest in the content and the part that the other person wants to call attention, and then the comment or network. It is possible to associate with various contents registered on the above various systems, and to refer to information associated with those partial units.

Hereinafter, a communication support system and a program according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
First, some terms used in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
“Association target”: a target (part of content) that associates an ID for identifying content with information determined from a range (temporal or spatial).
“Association target information”: an ID for specifying an association target.
“Associated contents”: Information associated with an association target.
The server device identifies the content by the content ID. The client device designates “association target”, associates information, and transmits “association content” to the server device. The server device stores “association content” in association with “association target information” in the association content database. Further, the server device stores “association target information”, “content ID”, and “range information” in association with each other in the association target database.

Next, the important points of the communication support system of this embodiment will be briefly described.
In the embodiment of the present invention, a user or a service provider associates information based on temporal or spatial position information in content separately from various contents registered on the system or uniquely specified on the system. It is characterized in that the position or range to be performed is specified for each content and the target of association is defined. In addition, it is possible to associate information from an existing open system such as Blog by generating and / or presenting a logical address on the network that accepts registration of information from the outside for each association target defined as described above. it can.

In this way, for each target of association as a part of content, the user registers the association contents in the database on the system, so that the user wants to draw the target of his interest or the part he wants to call attention of others. It becomes possible to clearly associate a comment or information, or to specify a portion of particular interest in the content and refer to the associated content.
Further, a system is provided in which a logical address that can be connected from the network is assigned to each association target, and information to be associated with the association target can be registered in the database by transmitting information to the same address. This enables information association from an external general system.

(First embodiment)
A communication support system according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. This embodiment is an example of information registration. FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of this embodiment. In this system, content ID that uniquely identifies the content itself for content that can express temporal position in content such as audio and video, and content that can express spatial location in content such as text, still image, and video And the target to be associated with the information specified by the time information and / or spatial information specifying the position or range using the temporal or spatial position information in the content. Then, the association contents are registered for the specified association target.

  The communication support system in all the embodiments described below includes a client device on the user side installed on a network such as the Internet and a server device on the service providing side, and a plurality of client devices are connected to the server device. Can be done. It is also assumed that the server device also serves as the client device. In the present embodiment, the client device 100 includes an association content input unit 101 and an association target information selection unit 102, and the server device 150 includes an association content registration unit 151, an association target database 152, and an association content database 153.

The association target database 152 includes a content ID that is identification information for identifying content, range information (temporal information, spatial information) related to a temporal or spatial position or range managed for each content, content ID and range information And association target information that is identification information identified from the above. An example of the content ID will be described later with reference to FIG. The temporal or spatial position information will be described later with reference to FIG. An example of the contents of the association target database 152 will be described later with reference to FIG.
The association content database 153 stores association target information and a set of association contents associated with the corresponding association target. An example of the contents of the association content database 153 will be described later with reference to FIG.
The association content registration unit 151 registers information in the association content database 153 of the association content transmitted by designating the association target from the association content input unit 101 of the client device.

The association target information selection unit 102 presents association target information for specifying an association target with which information is associated and range information corresponding to the association target information. The user specifies desired association target information from the presented association target information. Further, the association target information selection unit 102 may receive content from the server device, reproduce the content, and present the content. Of course, a content reproduction / presentation unit that reproduces and presents content may be provided separately from the association target information selection unit 102.
The association content input unit 101 inputs the content to be associated with the association target information designated by the association target information selection unit 102, transmits it to the association content registration unit 151 of the server device 150, and makes a registration request to the association content database 153. .

Next, an example of the content ID will be described with reference to FIG.
For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the content ID is a channel or frequency information in TV or radio broadcasting, a G code or iEPG information in a TV program, a logical address for connecting to content in content on the Internet, or an ISBN in a book It is determined using such information. Of course, information other than those listed here can be used if there is information that can identify the content, and the service provider may uniquely assign and manage the content.

Next, an example of specifying a position or range in temporal or spatial positional information will be described with reference to FIG.
As examples of designation of the temporal position and range of content that can represent temporal positional information, representation methods such as notation by absolute time, notation by relative time, and notation by scene information are assumed. For example, the notation by absolute time is expressed by the broadcast date and time of TV broadcast, the expression by relative time is by expression, for example, by the playback time from the start of playback of music content, and the notation by scene information is, for example, notation by chapter information of DVD An example is considered. Each notation example is as having described in FIG.

  As an example of designating the spatial position and range of content that can represent spatial position information, an expression using coordinates is assumed. For example, if text information is considered as a one-dimensional character array, words and sentences in the content can be expressed as a coordinate range of position dimensions such as from what character to what character. By considering a still image as an array of two-dimensional pixels, the position and range can be specified by two-dimensional coordinates. Each notation example is as having described in FIG.

The example of specifying the temporal and spatial ranges described here is merely an example, and other methods are not limited to these methods as long as the position and range can be specified in the system.
In the following description, information specifying a position or range related to time is described as time information, information specifying a position or range related to space is described as spatial information, and these two things are described as range information.

Also, here, for scenes represented by temporal positions or ranges on the moving image content, entry information on the blog (the blog title in which the entry is registered, the entry title, the entry URL, and the entry summary) ) Will be described. In this embodiment, an example of a system that handles moving image content is given. For example, content that can express temporal position information in content, such as audio content, can be used in the embodiment of the present invention. Is not limited to video content. In this system, the information of the Blog entry is given as an example of the contents to be associated with the scene of the content. However, the information is not limited to this example. For example, information that can be handled on the database such as simple text comment information. Any information may be associated as long as it is.
In this description, an example in which both position and range can be specified by time information as an association target specifying method is introduced. However, only one of position information and range information may be used. An example of using spatial information and an example of using time information and spatial information will be described later.

Next, the information registration operation in the communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a sequence chart of system information registration according to the first embodiment of the present invention. For example, information relating to one entry on the blog system (the blog title “Blog title where the article is registered” for the scene represented by the position 30 seconds after the reproduction of the moving image content having the ID “contents1” being viewed by the user. An example of associating “Example Blog”, article name “entry 1”, article URL “http://www.exblog.com/entry1.htm” The association content registration method according to the embodiment will be described.
Step S401: A distribution unit (not shown) in the server device 150 distributes content (represented by content ID: “contents1” from the server device 150 to “contents1”, see FIG. 5).

Step S402: The content reproduction unit (not shown) of the client device 100 reproduces the distributed content (represented by content ID: “contents1”). That is, the content is presented to the user who uses the client device 100.
Step S403: The user sets the association target information as a target (= determined by the temporal position or range of the specific content) for registering the association content with the presented content using the association target information selection unit 102. Select. The method includes, for example, extracting the association target information corresponding to the content ID of the content being viewed by the user from the association target database 152 of the server device, and corresponding time positions or ranges from the registered time information. A method may be considered in which a radio box corresponding to association target information to which information indicating the above is added is displayed on the interface of the client device, and the user selects the association target information by selecting the radio box. An example of an interface related to the association target information selection unit 102 will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Step S404: The association content input unit 101 of the client device inputs the content to be associated with the association target selected in Step S403, and registers the association target information and the input content in the association content database 153. A registration request is transmitted to the server device 150. A specific operation at the time of transmission will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Step S405: The association content registration unit 151 of the server device registers the received information in the association content database 153 based on the association content database 153 registration request transmitted from the client device. In this example, the content newly transmitted in step S405 is registered in the association content database 153 as shown in FIG. 6 to be described later, resulting in a state as shown in FIG. The hatched lines in the items of FIG. 8 indicate newly registered lines.

Next, the association target database 152 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 shows an example of information managed in the association target database 152.
The association target database 152 stores and manages a content ID that identifies content, time information that represents a temporal position or range within the identified content, and association target information that is determined from these two pieces of information. Yes. In the example of FIG. 5, if the association target information is a unique integer value, the content ID is contents x (x is a unique integer), and the time information is x, y, and z are integers in seconds, a numerical value x is obtained. The information expressed as a single numerical value represents the position of the x second after the reproduction of the content, and the value obtained by connecting the numerical value with-like yz represents the range from the y second to the z second after the reproduction of the content. Information is managed / registered in the form of representation.

  This information management method is an example, and as described above, each information can be clearly managed, for example, by assigning a logical address for connecting to content distributed as content ID as a content ID. If it is a method, you may use another management system.

Next, the association content database 153 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 shows an example of information managed by the association content database 153.
The association content database 153 is a set of association target information indicating the temporal position or range in the specific content managed by the association target database 152 and the content associated with the association target information. Information relating to the title, the URL of the entry, and the outline of the entry is stored and managed as blog_name, title, url, and excert (all of which are text information). As described above, the entry information of the Blog is cited as an example of the contents to be associated with each other. In the embodiment of the present invention, any information that can be managed on the database is associated with the contents to be associated. Any information may be assigned.

Next, an input interface in the client device 100 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is an example of the association content input unit 101 (association content input interface) of the client device that provides the association target information selection unit 102 as described above.
The input interface of FIG. 7 extracts the association target information corresponding to the content contents 1 being viewed from the association target database 152 in which the information as shown in FIG. 5 is registered, and adds the time information on the database, respectively. A radio box corresponding to is displayed. Here, the association target information 1 to 4 shown in FIG. 5 is four radio boxes vertically arranged on the upper left side in the interface of FIG. 7, and the association target information 5 to 6 shown in FIG. 5 is the upper right side of FIG. It corresponds to two radio boxes arranged vertically.
In this example, since the scene corresponding to the position of 30 seconds of the contents 1 is selected, by selecting the second radio box from the upper left in the interface of FIG. 7, the association target database 152 of FIG. Among them, “2” is selected as the association target information.
The association target information selection unit 102 is merely an example. For example, if the user of the client device can select the association target information, such as a method of separately acquiring a list of association target information and directly inputting by the user, the method is as follows. Not limited.

  Next, an example of a specific operation in step S404 will be described with reference to FIG. For example, a method is conceivable in which the contents of association are input to each form of the input interface of FIG. 7 and the information input by pressing the “Register” button is transmitted together with the association target information together with a registration request to the database. In this example, the blog title “Example Blog”, the article name “Entry 1”, and the article URL “http://www.exblog.com/entry1.htm” are entered and entered in the form shown in FIG. ”, Information related to the blog entry with the content“ It is an entry for explaining the operation of the invention ”. The client device 100 associates the content ID “contents1” with parameter names of blog_name, title, url, and explain, respectively, and transmits them together with the registration request to the association content database 153. Note that this example is merely an example, and the input method of the content to be associated does not have to be limited to the direct input by the user. For example, the database is referred to a database on the network using information input or selected on the interface by the user as a key. Regardless of the method of inputting information, such as registering the above information.

In the description of the embodiments including the present embodiment, an example in which content viewed on the client device is distributed from the server device and presented on the client device is introduced. However, in all the embodiments of the present invention, the user As long as the content for registering or referring to the related information can be specified on the server device side, the present invention is not limited to this example.
For example, it is also conceivable that the user views content reproduced on a device that has nothing to do with the client device and the server device, or content on media that has nothing to do with books, magazines, movies, plays, and the like. In this case, instead of step S401 and step S402 in the description of the present embodiment, the content played by the user on a device that has nothing to do with the client device 100 and the server device 150, or on media that has nothing to do with it. The content is viewed, and the client device 100 transmits information that can identify the content being viewed to the server device 150. Thereafter, in step S403, association target information corresponding to the content ID of the corresponding content is extracted on the server device 150, and thereafter, the above-described processing is performed.
Specifically, for example, TV programs, DVD contents, and books are managed as contents on the association target database of the server device. The TV program, DVD content, and book content ID are G code or iEPG, DVD product code, and ISBN, respectively. In this case, the user views a TV program or DVD content or reads a book, and designates any of G code or iEPG, DVD product code, and ISBN on the client device, and the client Transmit from the device to the server device. In the server device, the content corresponding to the specified content ID is identified, the association target information is extracted, and, for example, the options of the association target information are presented to the user. At this time, the client device causes the user to specify the TV program name, DVD title, or book title, converts the specified program name or title into a content ID, and transmits the content ID to the server device. Content may be specified.
In addition to the description here, for example, there is an example in which content recorded on a recording medium such as a DVD on a client device or content acquired from another server device on a network is viewed. In this case, the content ID of the content recorded on the recording medium and the content ID of the content acquired from another server device are, for example, product information and URL, respectively.

Up to this point, for content that can express a temporal position in the content, taking an example of a moving image, select the association target of information determined from the temporal position or range in the content and register the association details The method has been explained.
However, for content that can express a spatial position in the content using a system having the same configuration, the association contents determined by selecting the spatial position or range in the content are registered. It is also possible. In addition, information that is determined from both a temporal position or range and a spatial position or range for content that can represent a temporal and spatial position in the content using a system having a similar configuration. It is also possible to register information by selecting an association target.
Examples of content that can express a spatial position in the content here include text content (a (one-dimensional) spatial position or range in the content can be specified using “number of characters”), still image (“ (Two-dimensional) spatial position or range can be specified using “coordinates”). Each example will be described below.

  In the above description, “content to be managed” is changed to “content that can express a spatial position in the content”, and the range information managed in the association target database 152 is changed to “temporal position or range”. By replacing the “specified time information” with “spatial information that specifies a spatial position or range”, the system can be used as it is for the content that can express the spatial position in the content. It is possible to use it for a “system for associating information by designating a spatial position or range in the inside”.

Next, specific text contents will be cited, and designation of an association target and registration in the association target database 152 will be described with reference to FIGS. 9A and 9B. FIGS. 9A and 9B show examples of designation of association targets in text content and registration in the association target database 152.
An example of text content that can be expressed by the content ID “contents1” shown in FIG. 9A is an example of application to text content. Spatial position information can be expressed using the number of characters in the text content. Is a specific example. Now, assume that the word “text content” at the beginning of the content of this content is to be designated as an association target. In this case, as shown in FIG. 9B, the target can be specified by designating the range of the “1-9” character as the content ID “contents1” and the number of characters as the spatial position information.

  In this example, the association target specified in this way is registered in the association target database 152 as association target information “1”. The method for specifying the spatial range of the text content in this description is an example, and is not limited to this method as long as another method can specify the range. For example, “y character in the x-th line of the text content” A method of expressing “the z th character from the eyes” (x, y, z is an integer) as “xyz” is conceivable.

Next, specific still image contents will be cited, and designation of association targets and registration in the association target database 152 will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 (A) and 10 (B). FIGS. 10A and 10B show examples of designation of association targets in still image content and registration in the association target database 152.
For the 800 × 600 still image “contents1” shown in FIG. 10A, in this example, a coordinate point (x, y) as a position on the image is used as the “ x, y ”and the inside of the range indicated by a rectangle or square as the range are specified by coordinates (a, b) close to the origin and coordinates (c, d) diagonally. In this case, since the spatial information designating the entire image is designated by coordinates (0, 0) and coordinates (800, 600), it is expressed as “0, 0-800, 600”. Further, the spatial information of the association target information “1” in FIG. 10A is represented as “20, 30”, and the spatial information of the association target information “2” in FIG. 10A is “400, 300-800, 600 ".

  The method for specifying the spatial range of a still image in this description is an example, and is not limited to this method as long as the method can specify the range by another method. For example, the coordinate (x , Y) + a method for managing the inside of a circle represented by radius (r) by specifying x, y−r, etc., or a range specifying means used in a technology such as a clickable map. It doesn't matter.

  In the description with reference to FIGS. 9A, 9B, 10A, and 10B described above, the association target is specified by specifying the spatial range by specifying the content regarding the text content and the still image. In this embodiment, the management method on the system has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present system can be applied to any content that can express a spatial position in the content. As an example other than the example, 3D image content can be considered.

  In addition, for content that can express both a temporal position and a spatial position, such as moving image content, it is possible to specify an association target by specifying a range from both of them. For example, an object (such as a character) displayed at a certain position (spatial range) on a screen of a scene (temporal range) of a movie is associated with information, and a topic is developed. How to use is considered.

Next, an example of an association target designating both time and space in the moving image content will be given and described with reference to FIGS. 11 (A) and 11 (B). FIG. 11A shows an example of an association target that specifies both time and space in the moving image content, and an example of registration in the association target database 152.
In the example shown in FIG. 11A, the content “contents1” registered in the database is a moving image content having a resolution of 800 × 600 and a total length of 90 seconds. In this example, with respect to time information, as shown in FIG. 5, the temporal position and range are expressed as time information. In addition, coordinates are taken with respect to the screen, and a spatial range is expressed as spatial information as shown in FIG. In the example of FIG. 11A, assuming that the content has a resolution of 800 × 600, the designation of the association target and the association target in the still image content shown in FIGS. 10A and 10B Spatial position and range information is expressed as spatial information by the method used in the registration example in the database 152.

In FIG. 11A, images at the time point of 0 second, 30 seconds, and 60 seconds are extracted and expressed as samples in the temporal flow from the start of playback of “contents1” to the end of playback. For example, each point of (20, 30), (20, 60), (40, 30), and (40, 60) on the screen is set as a vertex in the scene of content ID “contents1” from 0 second to 60 seconds. According to the notation rule described with reference to FIG. 10A and FIG. 10B, the range represented inside the rectangle is the correlation target information “1” on the correlation target database 152 illustrated in FIG. It can be expressed as an association target expressed by “ Since the relative times 0, 30, and 60 at the time of extraction of the sample image are included in the time information range that defines the association target information “1”, (20, 30), (20, 60) of each sample image. ), (40, 30), and the range represented by the inside of the rectangle having each point of (40, 60) as vertices, as shown in FIG. As part of Further, as shown in the example of the association target information “2”, the time information can be specified by a position instead of a range. Similarly, as shown in the example of the association target information “4”, the spatial information can be specified not by the range but by the position. The association target “3” is an example showing the entire “contents1” by designating the range from the reproduction to the end of “contents1” as time information and the entire range of the “contents1” screen as spatial information. .
The method for specifying time information and space information is an example, and is not limited to the above combination.

  Thus, according to the first embodiment, it is determined not from the content itself but from information specifying the content and a certain temporal position or range or spatial position or range in the content or both. Information can be associated with an association target by selecting the association target.

(Second Embodiment)
The communication support system according to the present embodiment is for a user to specify an association target and to refer to the association contents associated with the object and registered in the association content database 153.
A communication support system according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 12 is a system configuration diagram according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the following, the same parts as those already described are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof is omitted. In addition, as in the system of the first embodiment, this system includes a user-side client device installed on a network such as the Internet and a service-providing server device. The server device includes a plurality of client devices. Can be connected. It is also assumed that the server device also serves as the client device.

  The client device 1200 includes an association content presentation unit 1201 and an association target information selection unit 102, and the server device 1250 includes an association content transmission unit 1251, an association target database 152, and an association content database 153.

The association content transmission unit 1251 transmits information from the association content database 153 to the client device 1200 in accordance with a request from the association content presentation unit 1201 of the client device 1200.
The association content presentation unit 1201 requests the server device 1250 to transmit information registered in the association content database 153 with respect to the specified association target information, and presents the content received from the server device 1250 to the user.

Next, a method for referring to association contents in the communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 13 is a sequence chart of referring to association contents in the second embodiment of the present invention.
For example, in the scene represented by the position 30 seconds after the reproduction of the moving image content having the ID “contents1” that the user is viewing immediately after the information registration as used in the description of the first embodiment described above. An association content reference method according to the present embodiment will be described using an example of referring to information associated with each other.

  Step S <b> 1301: The user selects association target information as a target (= determined based on a temporal position or a range of specific content) using the correlation target information selection unit 102 to refer to the associated content. For example, there is the same method as step S403 in FIG. In this method, first, association target information corresponding to the content ID of the content being viewed by the user is extracted from the association target database 152 of the server device. Then, a radio box corresponding to the association target information to which information indicating the corresponding temporal position or range is added from the registered time information is displayed on the interface of the client device (for example, the association target information selection unit 102). Next, the user selects the association target information by selecting a radio box. This interface will be described later with reference to FIG.

  Step S1302: The user transmits an association content presentation request to the server apparatus 1250 together with the association target information selected in Step S1301. For example, in the interface shown in FIG. 14 to be described later, the association target information can be realized by selecting a radio box and then pressing a reference button.

  Step S1303: The association content transmitting unit 1251 of the server device 1250 receives the association target information and the association content presentation request transmitted from the client device 1200, refers to the association content database 153, and registers in association with the received association target information. The acquired information is acquired, and the acquired information is transmitted to the client apparatus 1200.

  Step S1304: The association content presentation unit 1201 of the client device acquires information associated with the association target transmitted from the server device 1250, and presents a list of information associated with the association target designated by the user. For example, it is displayed in the form shown in the lower half of an example of the association content presentation interface in the client apparatus 1200 shown in FIG.

Next, an example of the interface of the client device will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 14 is an example of an association content presentation interface (for example, association target information selection unit 102).
The correlation target information selection unit 102 extracts the correlation target information corresponding to the content contents 1 being viewed from the correlation target database 152 in which information as shown in FIG. 5 is registered, and adds time information on the correlation target database 152. In addition, the corresponding radio box is displayed. Here, the association target information 1 to 4 shown in FIG. 5 is four radio boxes vertically arranged on the upper left side in the interface of FIG. 14, and the association target information 5 and 6 shown in FIG. It corresponds to two radio boxes arranged vertically.
In this example, since the scene corresponding to the position of 30 seconds of the contents 1 is selected, by selecting the second radio box from the upper left in the interface of FIG. 14, the association target database 152 of FIG. Among them, “2” is selected as the association target information.
The interface in FIG. 14 is merely an example, and the method is not limited as long as the user of the client device can select the association target information, such as a method of separately acquiring a list of association target information and directly inputting the user.

By the way, in the above-described step S1302, in the above example, the association content presentation request is transmitted to the server device together with “2” as the association target information.
In step S1303, in the above example, the contents of the association contents database 153 are as shown in FIG. 8 by the information registration performed in the example of the description of the first embodiment. The client apparatus 1200 transmits an association content presentation request together with the association target information “2”, and two entry information represented by the title “test entry 2” and “entry 1” are registered for the association target information. The server apparatus 1250 transmits the entry information to the client apparatus 1200.

  In step S1304, the association content presentation unit 1201 of the client device acquires information associated with the association target “2” transmitted from the server device 1250, and lists information associated with the association target designated by the user. Present. For example, it may be displayed in the form shown in the lower half of an example of the association content presentation interface in the client apparatus 1200 of FIG.

  Up to this point, information that has been associated with a content that can represent a temporal position in content such as video or audio by selecting an association target of information determined from the temporal position or range in the content An example of referring to has been described. However, as in the first embodiment, this embodiment also uses a system having the same configuration, and information that is determined from the spatial position or range in the content for the content that can represent the spatial position in the content. It is determined from both the temporal position or range and the spatial position or range for the content that can be related to by selecting the target of association and referencing information or expressing the temporal and spatial position in the content. It is also possible to refer to information by selecting an association target of information.

  For example, as for the text content, as described in the first embodiment, the association target managed in the form of the association target example in the text content shown in FIGS. 9A and 9B. When the database 152 exists on the system, the association content presentation unit 1201 also displays differently from that in FIG.

Next, as an example of performing this different display, a display example of the association content presentation unit 1201 when the information shown in FIG. 9A is stored in the association target database 152 will be described with reference to FIG.
For example, as shown in the example of FIG. 15 on the client side, an association content presentation interface in the client device 1200 is prepared, and an association target information selection unit 102 for selecting an association target is provided, which is similar to FIG. Information can be referred to in the sequence.
Here, in the interface of FIG. 15, a radio box corresponding to each association target information is displayed, a character string in the contents 1 corresponding to each association target is picked up from the spatial information registered in the association target database 152, and the radio box is displayed. It is also displayed as explanatory text. As described above, the range information managed in the association target database 152 is changed from the time information to the spatial information, and the association target selection interface suitable for the content as described here is used for the selection of the association target in step S1301 so that the text It becomes possible to refer to the contents of the association by selecting the association target specified using the spatial information for the content. The same method can be used for still images (examples of two-dimensional spatial information) and moving images (examples of specifying an association target from both time information and spatial information) described in the first embodiment.

  As described above, according to the invention described using the second embodiment, not the content itself but the information for specifying the content and a certain temporal position or range or spatial position or range in the content. Alternatively, the user can select an association target determined from both, and can refer to information associated with the target.

(Third embodiment)
This embodiment is an example of information registration. In the communication support system according to the third embodiment of the present invention, when the user selects an association target for registering information, the user does not directly specify the association target, but the content ID for identifying the content by the user and the content The temporal or spatial position or range is specified as a condition, and association target information satisfying the condition is searched from the correlation target database 152. In addition, if there is no association target that satisfies the conditions specified at the time of information registration, a new association target information is generated and registered in the association content association database together with the corresponding content ID and range information. Select information.

The communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 16 is a system configuration diagram according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
In order to implement the functions described above, in the system according to the third embodiment of the present invention, the client device 1600 includes the association content input unit 101, the association target information selection unit 102, and the association condition designation unit 1601, and the server device 1650 associates. A target information generation unit 1651, an association target information search unit 1652, an association content registration unit 151, an association target database 152, and an association content database 153 are provided.

The association condition designating unit 1601 performs display for designating content ID information and range information (time information and space information) to the user, and the user designates content ID information and range information from this display.
The association target information search unit 1652 sets conditions using the specified content ID information and range information as parameters, and searches the association target database 152 for association target information that satisfies the conditions.
The association target information generation unit 1651 generates association target information from the content ID information and range information specified by the association condition specification unit 1601.

Hereinafter, as in the first embodiment, a case will be described as an example in which an association target is determined with respect to moving image content by temporal position or range information.
First, the information registration operation in the communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 17 is a sequence chart of association content registration in the third embodiment. Hereinafter, the same steps as those already described are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted.
In selecting the association target information, the user specifies the content on the client device 1600, transmits the time information and the content ID obtained by specifying the temporal position or range to the server device 1650, and then sets the condition. The association target information to be specified and selected is requested (step S1701). Next, the server device 1650 searches the association target database 152 for association target information that satisfies the conditions using the content ID and time information transmitted from the client device 1600 as parameters, and transmits it to the client device 1600 (step S1702). Thereafter, the association target to be selected is determined (step S1703).
In step S1703, the user does not directly specify the association target information from the interface of the client apparatus as in the first embodiment, but selects the association target information transmitted in the process so far, and the subsequent processes Will continue.

In step S1701, the association condition designating unit 1601 designates a content ID for specifying content to be associated by the user and information on a temporal position or range in the content to be associated, and uses these information as conditions as parameters. The server apparatus 1650 is requested to transmit the association target information specified and satisfying the conditions.
At this time, for example, for the content ID, when the content is transmitted from the server device 1650 to the client device 1600, the corresponding content ID is selected when the association range is specified while viewing the content. You may do it. In addition to this, a method of acquiring content ID from a database on another system on the network by using content feature information such as CDDB, or a method of direct input by the user may be used. Any method may be used as long as the content ID for specifying the content managed in the association target database 152 can be selected.

Next, an example of designation of a temporal position or range and designation of conditions will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 18 shows the content shown in the association content input unit 101 of the client device 1600.
For specifying the temporal position or range, as shown in FIG. 18, it is possible to select whether to specify a position or a range with a radio box, and then directly input a value, or position or range. Any symbolic object (representative image or the like) to which time information that prescribes the information is assigned may be presented, and the user may select from these objects, and any method can be used as long as the temporal position or range can be designated.

For the condition, for example, the content ID matches, and the time information matches the specified time information, the specified time information is included as a range, the specified time information is included as a range, and before and after the specified time information is also included Any condition can be used as long as it can be specified based on time information such as being included in a range of X seconds (X is an integer). In the example shown in FIG. 18, the conditions “match with specified time information” and “include specified time as a range” are selected using a radio box on the interface.
These conditions are specified by the user from the client device 1600 in this embodiment, but only the content ID and time information as parameters are acquired from the client device 1600, and certain conditions are specified on the server device 1650 side. It does not matter how you do it.

Next, the processing operation of step S1702 in FIG. 17 will be described with reference to FIG.
In step S1702, the server apparatus 1650 transmits association target information that satisfies the condition transmitted in step S1701 to the client apparatus 1600 through the flow illustrated in FIG. For example, assuming the example introduced in the first embodiment, the case where the content, “contents1”, “30” seconds position is specified as time information, and “when time information matches” is specified as a condition is shown in FIG. Explanation will be made with reference to FIG.

First, the correlation target database 152 shown in FIG. 5 is searched (step S1901). In this case, “2” is obtained as the correlation target information. Since the corresponding association target information exists, the process proceeds to Yes determination (step S1902), and this association target information “2” is transmitted to the client device 1600 (step S1904).
As a next example, a case where a range of “10-20” seconds of content, “contents1” is specified as time information, and “when content ID and time information match” is specified as a condition will be described. In this case, the association target database 152 shown in FIG. 5 is searched (step S1901), and since time information corresponding to “10-20” seconds is not registered, the process proceeds to No determination (step S1902), and a new association is made. “7” not shown in FIG. 5 is generated as the target information, “10-20” is registered in the correlation target database 152 as the “contents1” time information as the content ID, and the correlation target information “7” is registered in the client device 1600. After the transmission, the process is terminated (step S1903).

  Up to this point, in the same way as in the first embodiment and the second embodiment, first, for content that can express a temporal position in content such as video and audio, the user specifies the content, and then the time in the content. A method for specifying a specific position or range and associating information with an association target meeting the condition has been described. However, for a content that can express a spatial position in the content using a system having the same configuration, a spatial position or range in the content is specified, and information is associated with an association target that meets the conditions. For content that can be performed or that can express a temporal or spatial position in the content, specify both the temporal position or range and the spatial position or range, and the association target that meets the conditions It is also possible to associate information.

  As described above, according to the third embodiment, not the content itself but the information for specifying the content by the user and a certain temporal position or range and / or spatial position or range in the content are displayed. Information can be associated with the target that meets the specified conditions. In addition, when there is no target that meets the conditions, a correlation target is generated, so that the user can specify any spatial or temporal position and / or range in the content to perform information correlation. .

(Fourth embodiment)
This embodiment is an example of referring information. In the communication support system according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention, when the user selects an association target to refer to the association content, the user does not directly specify the association target, but the user selects the content as in the third embodiment. A condition is specified using a content ID to be identified and a temporal or spatial position or range in the content as parameters, and the association target information that satisfies the condition is searched from the association target database 152 to determine an association target for referring to the association content. To do.

  In order to realize such a function, the system according to the present embodiment is different from the system according to the second embodiment illustrated in FIG. 12 in that an association condition designation unit 2001 and an association target information search unit 2051 as illustrated in FIG. Is added. The association condition designation unit 2001 is included in the client device 2000, and the association target information search unit 2051 is included in the server device 2050. FIG. 20 is a system configuration diagram according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

The association condition designation unit 2001 designates content ID information and range information (time information, space information).
The correlation target information search unit 2051 sets conditions using the specified content ID information and range information as parameters, and searches the correlation target database 152 for correlation target information that satisfies the conditions.

Hereinafter, as in the above-described embodiments, a case will be described as an example in which an association target is determined based on temporal position or range information for moving image content.
Next, a method for referring to association contents in the communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 21 is a sequence chart for referring to association contents in the fourth embodiment.
In selecting the association target information, the user first specifies the content on the client device 2000, transmits the content ID and time information obtained by specifying the temporal position or range to the server device 2050, Is requested and association target information to be selected is requested (step S1701). Next, the server device 2050 searches the association target database 152 for association target information that satisfies the conditions using the content ID and time information transmitted from the client device 2000 as parameters, and transmits it (step S1702). Then, an association target is selected from the transmitted plurality of association target information (step S1301). Performing step S1701 and step S1702 before step S1301 is different from the sequence chart of association content registration in the second embodiment shown in FIG.

  Step S1701: Similarly to step S1701 described in association content registration in the third embodiment, a content ID for specifying content to be associated by the user, and information on a temporal position or range in the content to be associated are specified. A condition is specified for the server using these pieces of information as parameters, and transmission of association target information that satisfies the condition is requested. The condition designation method and the conditions related to various processes are the same as those in step S1701 of the third embodiment.

Step S1702: The association target information retrieved from the association target database 152 is transmitted to the client device 2000 based on the condition transmitted in step S1701. At this time, if there is no association target information that satisfies the condition, information indicating that the association target information does not exist is transmitted, and the client device displays that there is no information associated with the selected condition. The process ends.
For example, assuming the example introduced in the second embodiment, the case where the position of content, “contents1”, “30” seconds is specified as time information, and “when time information matches” is specified as a condition is described. To do. In this case, the correlation target database 152 shown in FIG. 5 is searched, and “2” is obtained as the result correlation target information, so this correlation target information “2” is transmitted to the client. If the content, “contents1” in the range of “10-20” seconds is specified as time information, and the condition “content ID and time information match” is specified, the association target database 152 shown in FIG. Since the corresponding time information is not registered, information indicating that the association target information does not exist is transmitted, and the client device displays that the associated information does not exist under the selected condition and processes Exit.

Step S1301: The user does not directly specify the association target information from the interface of the client apparatus as in the second embodiment, but selects the association target information transmitted in the process so far, and the subsequent processes are performed. To continue.
Next, an example of the information presentation interface of the client device 2000 will be described with reference to FIG. For example, in step S1301, information as shown in the lower half of FIG. 22 is presented.

  Up to this point, in the same way as in the previous embodiments, first, for content that can express a temporal position in the content such as video and audio, the user specifies the content and further the temporal position or range in the content A method of specifying information and referencing information associated with an association target that satisfies the condition has been described. However, for a content that can express a spatial position in the content using a system having the same configuration, a spatial position or range in the content is specified, and information is associated with an association target that meets the conditions. For content that can be performed or that can express a temporal or spatial position in the content, both the temporal position or range and the spatial position or range can be specified and associated with the target to be matched. It is also possible to refer to existing information.

  As described above, according to the fourth embodiment, not the content itself but the information for specifying the content by the user and a certain temporal position or range or spatial position or range in the content, or both. Information can be referred to the target that meets the specified conditions.

(Fifth embodiment)
This embodiment is an example of information registration. The communication support system according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention acquires the content ID and temporal position information of the content that the user is viewing about the content that can express the temporal position information in real time, and the user receives the information. When selecting an association target to be registered, a condition is specified using the acquired content ID and temporal position information as a time information parameter, and association target information satisfying the condition is searched from the association target database 152. As a result, information can be associated with a scene during playback of the content being viewed in synchronization with the playback / operation of the content.

In order to realize such association target generation, as shown in FIG. 23, the system in this embodiment adds a content ID / time information acquisition unit 2301 to the system according to the third embodiment shown in FIG. It is. FIG. 23 is a system configuration diagram according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention.
The content ID / time information acquisition unit 2301 acquires the content ID of the content being viewed and the temporal position information at that time. The content ID can be acquired using, for example, each method shown in step S1701 of the third embodiment. Further, the time information (temporal position information) can be acquired from an API of a video / audio reproduction software, for example.

  In the system of this embodiment, the content ID of the content that the user is viewing and the temporal position information are acquired in real time for the content that can express the temporal position information, and the association target for which the user registers the information is obtained. When selecting, a condition is specified using the acquired content ID and temporal position information as a time information parameter, and association target information satisfying the condition is searched from the association target database 152. As a result, information can be associated with a scene during playback of the content being viewed in synchronization with the playback / operation of the content.

The operation of information registration in the communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 24 is a sequence chart of registration of registration contents in the fifth embodiment.
In selecting the association target information at the time of registering the association content, the content ID and time information of the content being viewed by the user are acquired (step S2401), and the content ID and time information transmitted to the server device 1650 in step S1701 Is specified.

  As for the method for specifying both the temporal position, range and spatial position, and range for the moving image described in the third embodiment, only the temporal position information is used in the fifth embodiment. It is also conceivable to acquire the data by this method and to let the user specify the spatial position and range by another means.

(Sixth embodiment)
This embodiment is an example of referring information. The communication support system according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention acquires the content ID of the content that the user is viewing and the temporal position information in real time for the content that can express the temporal position information, and associates the user with the content ID. In selecting an association target to refer to the contents, a condition is specified using the content ID and the acquired temporal position information as a time information parameter, and association target information satisfying the condition is searched from the association target database 152. As a result, it is possible to present information associated with the scene being played back of the content being viewed to the user in synchronization with the playback / operation of the content.

  In order to realize such association target generation, the system according to the present embodiment, in addition to the system according to the fourth embodiment illustrated in FIG. The content ID / time information acquisition unit 2301 for acquiring the temporal position information in FIG. The method for acquiring the content ID and the time information is as described in the fifth embodiment. FIG. 25 is a system configuration diagram according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention.

Next, a method for referring to association contents in the communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 26 is a sequence chart of referring to association contents in the sixth embodiment.
In selecting the association target information at the time of registering the association content, the content ID / time information acquisition unit 2301 first acquires the content ID and time information of the content being viewed (step S2401), and the content ID to be transmitted to the server device And time information (step S1701). Performing step S2401 before step S1701 is different from the sequence chart of referring to the association content in the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. In addition, by making an association content presentation request whenever the acquired time information is updated (step S1302), the association content associated with the scene can be switched and displayed in synchronization with the content content. .

  Note that when both the temporal position, range and spatial position, and range are specified for the moving image described in the fourth embodiment, only the temporal position information is used in the sixth embodiment. It is also possible to obtain the information by the method of the form and have the user specify the spatial position and range by another means.

(Seventh embodiment)
In the present embodiment, an example of information registration and information reference is shown. The communication support system according to the seventh embodiment of the present invention generates a logical address for accepting an association content registration from the outside for each association target as described above, manages it on the association target database 2753, and associates the association target. A logical address is presented in accordance with a request from a client device with information specification. As a result, as long as this logical address is acquired, the user registers the association contents by transmitting the contents to be associated with the association target to this logical address from other general systems such as the blog system. Will be able to.

Here, the trackback will be briefly described with reference to FIG.
In the track back function of the blog system, this logical address is for accepting content registration from outside dedicated to content association, separately from the URL of the entry. This logical address is called a trackback Ping URL. The trackback ping URL is a logical address for receiving the trackback ping, and is different from the URL of the article itself. The trackback Ping URL is generally assigned to each blog article.

  The track back ping indicates information transmitted to the track back ping URL or a series of exchanges for transmitting the information. Normally, the Trackback Ping transmission side uses the HTTP POST method for the trackback Ping URL of the article that the article of the trackback Ping wants to associate with its own article. (URL of the article to be associated) and excert (summary of the article to be associated) are transmitted (step S1), the received trackback Ping URL information is registered in the database (step S2), and the receiving system Returns information on the success or failure of reception to the sender in XML format (step S3).

In the example of FIG. 42, “the article that the trackback Ping sender wants to associate with its own article” corresponds to “article 1” in FIG. 42, “Blog_name” corresponds to “BlogB” in FIG. 42, and “title” is the figure. 42 corresponds to the URL of the related article 1 in FIG. 42, and “excerpt” corresponds to the outline of the related article 1 in FIG.
Further, the “content ID” corresponds to the URL of the article 1 in FIG. 42, the “association target” corresponds to the entire article 1 (range is the whole) in FIG. 42, and the “association target information” corresponds to the article 1 in FIG. 42, the “association contents” correspond to the contents of the transmitted trackback pings in FIG. 42 (log_name, title, URL, and excert information), and the association contents database corresponds to the trackback pings of the log A in FIG. Corresponds to a database that manages information.

  Generally, the receiving system manages each received information in a database in association with the trackback Ping URL, and when the user refers to the article, the information is transmitted to the trackback Ping URL corresponding to the article. Information is presented to the user as related article (trackback) information.

  The system sends these trackback ping URLs to the database by sending the title of another entry, registration blog title, entry URL, and summary information to be associated with the entry corresponding to the HTTP POST method from the outside. Information can be registered and referenced as the contents of entry association.

  The communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In the system according to this embodiment, the server device 2750 common to the embodiments described so far has an association content database 153 and an association content registration unit 151, and the client device 2700 has an association target information selection unit 102. . Further, in order to realize the presentation of the logical address as described above, the server device 2750 further includes an association content registration logical address transmission unit 2751 and an association content registration logical address generation unit 2752, and the client device 2700 It further has a content registration logical address presentation unit 2701.

The association target database 2753 further manages a set of association content registration logical addresses that can be connected from the outside and accept information input to the table of the associated association content database 153.
The association content registration unit 151 registers association content information transmitted to the association content registration logical address in the association content database 153.

The association content registration logical address generation unit 2752 generates an association content registration logical address on the server device 2750 side, and registers it in the association target database.
The association content registration logical address transmission unit 2751 receives the association content registration logical address from the association target database 2753 in response to the association content registration logical address presentation request specifying the association target information from the client device 2700. Search and send to client.

  The association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701 makes an association content registration logical address presentation request by designating the association target information on the client device 2700 side, and receives the association content registration logical address transmitted from the server device 2750. Present to the user.

In the following description, the extension of the first embodiment will be described as an example, but the same effect can be obtained by performing the same extension for other embodiments.
Next, the contents stored in the association target database 2753 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 28 shows an example of contents stored in the association target database 2753 in the seventh embodiment.
The content of FIG. 28 is different from the content of the association target database 152 in the first embodiment shown in FIG. 5 in that a set of association content registration logical addresses is newly managed. When the association target information and the association content registration logical address correspond completely one-to-one, they may be combined into one association content registration logical address.
In this example, when the association target information is registered, the association content registration logical address is generated by the association content registration logical address generation unit 2752 by using http://hoge.com/trackback/[content ID] / [time information]. ] And is registered on the association target database 2753. “Http://hoge.com” is an http address of a server device connectable from the outside. This rule is an example, and the timing of address generation may be determined separately, and of course, a method using other rules may be used.

Next, an association content registration logical address reference method in the communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 29 is a sequence chart of referring to the association content registration logical address in the seventh embodiment.
Here, it is assumed that information is registered in the association target database 2753 with the content as shown in FIG. 28, and the user is associated with the association target corresponding to the association target information “2” (that is, the content ID specified by the content ID “content1”). An example of acquiring an information registration logical address for associating information with respect to a scene corresponding to a position 30 seconds from the start of playback in FIG.

  Step S403: The user uses the association target information selection unit 102 on the interface of the client device 2700 to select an association target. Association target information is selected using the method described in the description of the first embodiment and the like. Here, “2” is selected as the association target information.

Step S2901: The association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701 of the client device 2700 transmits the association target information “2” selected in step S403, and makes a corresponding association content registration logical address presentation request.
Step S2902: The association content registration logical address transmission unit 2751 of the server device 2750 selects the association content registration logical address corresponding to the association target information transmitted in step S2901, from the association target database 2753. In this example, “http://hoge.com/trackback/contents1/30” is retrieved and transmitted to the client apparatus 2700.

Step S2903: The association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701 of the client device 2700 presents “http://hoge.com/trackback/contents1/30” to the user.
In this way, the user transmits an association content registration logical address that can be referred to as information related to the portion to the association content database 153 by transmitting information to be associated with the association target corresponding to the portion of the content. Obtainable.

  The association content registration logical address presentation request may be intentionally made by the user through the interface, or the request timing may be determined on the system. For example, a request for presenting an association content registration logical address is made to a system such as the third embodiment, the fourth embodiment, the fifth embodiment, and the sixth embodiment for the expansion as this time. In this case, if a temporal address and / or spatial position or range in the content is selected and a logical address presentation request for association content registration is always made at the specified timing, the user can change the position and range in the content. The logical address for registering the associated contents can be always presented to the user in synchronization with the designated timing or content reproduction.

In this embodiment, the association content registration unit 151 has an extended function, and registers association content information transmitted to the association content registration logical address in the association content database 153.
For example, in the example of registering blog entry information for a scene of content as in the example given in the description of the first embodiment, the entry information of blog (for the association content registration logical address using the HTTP POST method) ( By transmitting the blog title in which the entry is registered, the entry title, the entry URL, and the entry summary), the association content registration unit 151 registers the entry information in the association content database 153 as the association content information. A system is conceivable.

  In the above example, it is assumed that the registered content of the information in the association content database 153 is in a state as shown in FIG. The logical address for information registration “http://hoge.com/trackback/ corresponding to the association target information“ 2 ”acquired in the form of the above-described example of the method for referring to the logical address for registering the association contents described above from some system. “ExampleBlog”, “Entry 1”, “http://www.exblog.com/entry1.htm” for each parameter of blog_name, title, url, excerpt with HTTP POST method for “contents1 / 30” , It is assumed that information “It is an entry for explaining the operation of the invention” is transmitted. In this case, each piece of information is registered as information related to the association target 2 in the association content database 153, resulting in a state as shown in FIG. A line including orchids with diagonal lines indicates a newly registered line.

  In the blog system, a function of transmitting information of a blog entry registered with the same parameters as described above by the HTTP POST method to a logical address called a trackback ping URL input or specified by a user is implemented. In the above example, by specifying the logical address for registering the association contents as the trackback Ping URL, the contents of the entry can be easily set from the existing blog system to the content part (specified by the association target information) on the system. Can be associated.

In this description, an example in which the entry information of the blog is transmitted by using the HTTP POST method and the information is associated has been described. However, the protocol to be used and the content to be associated are not limited thereto.
In addition, without specifying the association target information, the association content registration logical address transmission unit 2751 on the server device side receives the content ID and range information (time information, space information) from the association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701 of the client device. (Or both of them) and a request for generating an association content registration logical address, and a method of transmitting the association content registration address generated by the association content registration logical address generation unit 2752 to the client device side in accordance with a rule. . At this time, if there is no association target information corresponding to the content ID and the range information in the association target database 2753, the range information is obtained from the association content registration address generation rule at the time of actual information registration, and the association target is newly obtained. An address for registering information and association contents may be generated and registered in the association target database 2753.

  On the client device side, the association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701 determines the request timing of the user or the request on the system, and the logical address is determined from the content ID and range information at that timing according to the generation rule. It is also possible to take a method of generating and presenting to the user. For example, with respect to systems such as the fifth embodiment and the sixth embodiment, the current playback time is set at regular intervals (for example, 1 second) in synchronization with content playback or content playback / slider operation. Each time the reproduction time divided into two is reached, the content on which the association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701 is viewing the association content registration logical address for which the reproduction time at that time of the content is to be associated is viewed on the client device side It is conceivable that a logical address is generated from the ID and current playback time information and presented.

(Eighth embodiment)
In the present embodiment, an example of information registration and information reference is shown. In the eighth embodiment of the present invention, the association content registration logical address in the seventh embodiment is converted into a code that can be mechanically acquired from the outside, such as a two-dimensional code, and combined with the presentation of content. Present on the client device. The external device acquires this code, and when the external device registers the association contents in the server device, the following effects can be expected. (External devices here are assumed to be personal use terminals including mobile devices such as mobile phones, PDAs (personal data assistants), small personal computers (PCs), wristwatch-type terminals, and stationary PCs, for example. )
-It becomes possible to easily register the contents of association of the video and audio content with respect to the temporal and spatial ranges from a device having a processing capacity inferior for reproducing audio / video content such as a mobile phone.
・ Registration contents can be registered using a terminal that you are familiar with other than the client device.
・ It is possible to present content on a client device installed in a public space, etc., and to allow an unspecified number of users to register the content of the content related to the temporal and spatial range from a mobile phone etc. .

The communication support system of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The server device 3050 of the communication support system according to the eighth exemplary embodiment of the present invention further includes an association content registration logical address corresponding code conversion unit 3051 in addition to the configuration of the server device of the seventh exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. Have. Further, the present embodiment is different in that an association content registration logical address corresponding code transmission unit 3052 is provided instead of the association content registration logical address transmission unit 2751.
The client device 3000 is different in that it includes an association content registration logical address corresponding code presentation unit 3001 instead of the association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701. Furthermore, the communication support system newly includes an external device 3070, and the external device 3070 includes an association content registration logical address corresponding code acquisition unit 3071 and an association content transmission unit 3072.

The association content registration logical address correspondence code conversion unit 3051 converts the association content registration logical address generated by the association content registration logical address generation unit 2752 into a code that can be acquired from the external device 3070 via the network 120.
The association content registration logical address correspondence code transmission unit 3052 transmits the code output from the association content registration logical address correspondence code conversion unit 3051 to the client device 3000.
The association content registration logical address corresponding code presenting unit 3001 obtains the above code from the server device 3050 from the server device 3050 and presents it in a format that the external device 3070 can obtain.

The association content registration logical address correspondence code acquisition unit 3071 obtains the association content registration logical address correspondence code from the client device 3000.
The association content transmitting unit 3072 interprets the association content registration logical address correspondence code, and transmits the association content registered by the user to the server device 3050 with respect to the association content registration logical address.

The “code” referred to here may be, for example, a form using a two-dimensional code or barcode that can be presented on a display and that an external device can optically acquire with a camera or the like. In addition, the “code” can be obtained by the client device using radio waves, magnetism, voice, etc. in a form that can be obtained by an external device from a device other than the display, or from a device other than the display. Any method that can convert / present the logical address for registering the contents of association into a code that can be mechanically acquired from the outside, such as a method that can return the code acquired on the external device to the original address. It doesn't matter.
Thereafter, as in the example of the fifth embodiment of the present invention, assuming a system in which the client device 3000 can acquire the playback time of content for which a time range can be specified, the content playback / synchronization with the slider scanning is assumed. Each time the current playback time reaches the playback time obtained by dividing the entire playback time at regular intervals (in this example, 5 seconds), the client device 3000 presents the code, and the external device 3070 Description will be made based on a case where a comment registered by a user is used as an association content with the reproduction time as an association target.

Next, the contents of the association target database 2753 and the association content database 153 in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 31A and 31B, respectively.
Examples of information managed in the association target database 2753 and information managed in the association content database 153 in this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 31A and 31B, respectively.
FIG. 31A is an example of the contents of the association target database 2753 in this example. In this example, the association target is determined from the content ID and the reproduction time. FIG. 31B is an example of the contents of the association content database 153 in this example. In this example, the registrant information of the comment and the comment content are registered as the association content. In addition, instead of the association target information included in the association content database 153, the content ID for identifying the target and the time information are managed on the association content database 153, and both databases are in a format as shown in FIG. 31C. (If such management is possible, the same information management may be performed in the other embodiments described so far).

Next, an example of an operation for registering association contents by the communication support system of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 32 is a sequence chart for registering association contents in the eighth embodiment.
In the description here, it is assumed that the association target and the association contents are managed with the contents as shown in FIGS. 31A and 31B, and the video content distributed from the server device 3050 to the client device 3000 and the playback / user of the content 1 Each time the current playback time reaches the playback time divided into a certain interval (5 seconds in this example) in synchronization with the content scanning by the server device 3050, the server device 3050 converts the logical address for associating content registration into a two-dimensional code. Then, an example in which the client apparatus 3000 presents the data to the client apparatus 3000 will be described. Also, in this example, by connecting from the Web browser to the association content registration logical address, a comment registrant and a comment registration form that can send the comment content to the same address can be displayed. It is assumed that a two-dimensional code can be obtained from the mobile phone, the two-dimensional code is converted into a URL, and a mobile phone that can be connected from a web browser.

  Step S403: At a necessary timing, an association target corresponding to the association content registration logical address correspondence code for which presentation is requested is determined on the client device 3000. In the example here, the operation from S401 to S403 in FIG. 24 showing the operation sequence in the fifth embodiment is performed at each timing when the current reproduction time reaches the time when the entire reproduction time is divided every 5 seconds. Possible ways to do this. In addition to this, the target is selected at the necessary timing according to the purpose, such as taking the form of generating and selecting the association target at the same time on the client device 3000 from the content ID and the reproduction time at the same timing. Any method may be used if possible.

Step S3201: The association content registration logical address corresponding code presentation unit 3001 of the client device 3000 transmits the association target information selected in Step S403 to the server device 3050, and makes a corresponding code presentation request to the server device 3050.
Step S3202: The association content registration logical address generation unit 2752 of the server device 3050 generates an association content registration logical address corresponding to the association target information transmitted in step S3201. Note that, as in the seventh embodiment, the association content registration logical address may be managed in advance in the database, the corresponding address may be searched, and the address may be generated only when it does not exist. An example of the association content registration logical address will be described later with reference to FIG.

Step S3203: The association content registration logical address corresponding code conversion unit 3051 converts the association content registration logical address into a code. An example of the converted code is shown in FIG. The code shown in FIG. 35 is obtained by converting the address shown in FIG. 33 into a two-dimensional code.
After the conversion, the association content registration logical address corresponding code transmission unit 3052 transmits the code to the client device 3000. For example, a format in which the converted code is converted into an image file such as jpeg can be considered. In addition, any transmission form may be used as long as it can be presented on the client device 3000 side, such as a form in which a code is expressed using an HTML table.

Step S3204: The acquired code is presented on the client device 3000 side. In this example, as shown in FIG. 36, display is performed together with the content being reproduced on the display.
In this example, steps S403 to S3204 are repeated every time the current playback time reaches the time point when the entire playback time is divided every 5 seconds as the content is played back / scanned.
In this way, the client device transmits the information to be associated with the association target corresponding to a part of the content, so that it can be referred to as the information related to the part to the association content database. The logical address can be presented to the user as a code that can be acquired by the external device.
In this example, the selection target and the selection content are selected by the system in synchronization with the reproduction of the content in this example, but the timing and the selection content are designated from an external script. Another rule such as a method may be applied, or the user of the client device may intentionally perform it from the interface.
In this embodiment, the association target is specified from the content ID and the temporal position information, but naturally, a temporal range, a spatial position / range, or a combination thereof may be used.

  Step S3205: The user of the external device 3070 can obtain a code from the device client device 3000 at an arbitrary timing. In this example, as shown in FIG. 36, the two-dimensional code displayed on the same display as the content is acquired by the camera of the mobile phone. As described above, the code form and acquisition method can convert / present the logical address for registering the contents of association into a code that can be mechanically acquired from the outside, and can return the code acquired on the external device to the original address. Is not limited to the format of this example.

Step S3206: The acquired code is converted into a logical address. In this example, at the timing when the playback time of the content 1 is 0 second, the two-dimensional code as shown in FIG. 35 is displayed on the client device. You can get a URL like http://hoge.com/contents1/comment.php?t=0.
Step S3207: The external device 3070 transmits the contents of association to the server device 3050 with respect to the logical address acquired in step S3206. In this example, a connection process is performed by connecting to the form shown in FIG. 34 from the acquired address, inputting a comment registrant and comment contents, and pressing a comment registration button.
Thereby, in the server device 3050, the information transmitted from the external device 3070 is registered in the association content database 153 in association with the reproduction time 0 seconds of the content 1. Here, information is registered using a form, but a mechanism such as a track back may be used as in the seventh embodiment.
In this manner, the external device 3070 can connect to the form screen as shown in FIG. 34 by converting the acquired code to the original logical address, and transmits the association contents to the logical address through this form. Thus, the contents of association can be registered.

Next, an example of the association content registration logical address will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 33 is an example of the association content registration logical address in the eighth embodiment. In this example, the same logical address is generated according to a rule such as http://hoge.com/[content ID] /comment.php?,t= [reproduction time]. Of course, this rule is only an example, and any format may be used as long as an association target can be specified. The address shown in FIG. 33 indicates a logical address for associating content registration at the playback time of content 1 at 0 second.
Also, from the form displayed at the association content registration address shown in FIG. 34, the comment registrant and the comment content can be input, and these pieces of information can be transmitted to the same address. Similar to the seventh embodiment, the association content registration unit 151 of the server device 3050 associates these pieces of information with the association target corresponding to the same address as the association content and registers them in the database. When there is no relevant association target on the database, the association target is generated from the same address and registered.

  In this embodiment, it is generally necessary to perform steps S403, S3201, and S3202. However, for example, when using content in a streaming format that can be controlled on the server side, for the purpose of presenting on the client device an association target that can be specified by the content and the playback time at a certain interval (5 seconds) of the playback time. On the other hand, it is different in special cases such as when the playback time information can be acquired on the server side. As in such a special case, an association target to be presented is generated on the server device side every time the current playback time reaches a certain section (5 seconds) divided, and the request is processed as if there is a request from the client device Any procedure may be used as long as a logical address to be distributed to the client device can be prepared at a necessary timing.

  The detailed operation of an example in which the method of the seventh embodiment is combined with the case of generating the association target from the content ID and the temporal position information in the sixth embodiment will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG. 37 is a system configuration diagram in an example in which the method of the seventh embodiment is combined with the case of using the content ID and temporal position information as the association target in the sixth embodiment.

  The communication support system shown in FIG. 37 includes, in addition to the configuration shown in FIG. 25 described in the sixth embodiment, an association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701, an association content registration logical address transmission unit 2751, and an association content registration logical address generation. Unit 2752, an association content registration unit 3751, and an association target database 3752.

In addition to the function of the association content registration unit 151, the association content registration unit 3751 has a function of receiving information transmitted to the association content registration logical address and registering corresponding information in the association content database 153.
In addition to the information managed by the association target database 152, the association target database 3752 manages association content registration logical addresses.

Next, the contents of the association target database 3752 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 38 shows an example of registration information in the association target database 3752.
In this example, a logical address at which the content is published on the Web is used as the content ID of the moving image content. In the example of FIG. 38, “http://hoge.com/contents1” and “http://hoge.com/contents2” are registered as content IDs. In this case, assuming that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the association content registration logical address and the association target, the association target database 3752 manages both together as described above. Note that the association content registration logical address generation unit 2752 generates the association content registration logical address generation rule in “time information” of “http://hoge.com/trackback/contents1/time information”. Apply location information.

Next, the contents of the association content database 153 in the example of FIG. 37 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 39 shows an example of registration information in the association content database 153.
In this example, information on a blog entry is registered as the association content, and the blog title of the associated blog entry, the entry title, the URL of the entry, and the information about the summary of the entry are respectively associated as blog_name, title, url, and excerpt. Registered on the database 153.

  The association content registration unit 3751 has a function of receiving information transmitted to the association content registration logical address and registering corresponding information in the association content database 153. In the example of FIG. 37, information transmitted using blog_name, title, url, excelt as parameters in the HTTP POST method for the same address is registered in the association content database 153 in association with the association target corresponding to the address.

  In this example, “http://hoge.com/contents1”, “http://hoge.com/contents2”, etc. are assumed to be the addresses at which the content is disclosed. When connecting to each address, each content is published in a format as shown in FIG. FIG. 40 shows an example of an interface in the client device 3700.

  As shown in FIG. 40, the portion where “video” is written and the slider bar immediately below the plug-in display an application for video playback embedded in a web page, and each connected destination is displayed. Another content can be played and the player can scan the content on the web.

  The content ID / time information acquisition unit 2301 acquires the URL of the content currently displayed on the Web browser as the content ID. Further, the content ID / time information acquisition unit 2301 acquires information from the API of the plug-in application from the start of playback of the current content playback whenever the information changes. After that, the content ID / time information acquisition unit 2301 sends information to the association condition designation unit 1601, and from there, the same information is sent to the association target information search unit 1652, and the association target information selection unit 102 determines the time at that timing. Select the association target corresponding to the position.

  In this example, thereafter, the association content registration logical address presentation unit 2701 requests the association content registration logical address transmission unit 2751 of the server device 3750 to transmit the association content registration logical address for each association target, and receives it. The logical address is displayed on the display portion of the interface of FIG. 40, “Click here for the trackback PingURL for registering information for this scene!”. At the display timing shown in FIG. 37, the user is watching contents1, and since the time from playback is the first second, the logical content for association content registration http://hoge.com/trackback/contents1 through the above processing. / 2 is acquired and displayed.

  In parallel with this, the association content presentation unit 1201 requests transmission of an association target that satisfies the association target acquired for each selection of the association target as part of the condition. For example, in the example of FIG. 40, it is assumed that the association target is selected by default with “having a range of 2 seconds before and after the selected time information of the association target as time information”. 39. Since information is registered in the association content database 153 in this example as shown in FIG. 39, “http://hoge.com/trackback/contents1/0”, “http: // hoge.com/trackback/contents1/1 "and" http://hoge.com/trackback/contents1/2 "are selected, and the information registered in the association content database 153 for each of them is shown in FIG. It will be displayed in the associated Blog entry list! ”. Further, a hyperlink to the URL of the entry acquired at this time may be presented together.

  As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the logical address for registering information for the scene at that time and the scene ( A list of blog entries associated with a nearby scene) can be displayed. In addition, since the information registration method adopted by the association content registration unit 3751 in the above description is used in a general blog system, the user can use the obtained logical address for registration of association content as a general trackback ping. It can be handled as a URL, and an entry can be associated with an association target from a general blog system.

  According to the embodiment described above, regardless of the type of content, the user can select a finer portion specified by a temporal or spatial position or range in the content as a target of information association. You can clearly specify the part of your interest that you want to attract and the attention of others, and associate it with comments or other content on the network.

In addition to the information to be associated with the information, the user can freely set the temporal or spatial position or range as the information association target in addition to the one specified by the service provider.
For content having temporal position information such as video and audio, information associated with the scene can be presented in synchronization with the reproduction and scanning of the content.

Information can be associated from an existing open system such as Blog by generating / presenting a logical address on the network that accepts information registration for the information association target.
Presentation of heavy processing content by presenting a logical address on the network that accepts information registration to the information association target in a form that can be acquired from an external device, and further enabling information registration from the external device This makes it easy to register the contents of the association of the video and audio content with respect to the temporal and spatial ranges from a device such as a mobile phone that has inferior processing capability for reproducing audio and video content. At the same time, it is now possible to easily register the contents of associations from terminals that are familiar to you other than the client device. Also, the content can be presented on a client device installed in a public space, and unspecified from a mobile phone. A large number of users can register the contents of association with respect to the content in terms of time and space.
The instructions shown in the processing procedure shown in the above embodiment can be executed based on a program that is software. A general-purpose computer system stores this program in advance and reads this program, so that it is possible to obtain the same effect as that of the communication support system of the above-described embodiment. The instructions described in the above-described embodiments are, as programs that can be executed by a computer, magnetic disks (flexible disks, hard disks, etc.), optical disks (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD). ± R, DVD ± RW, etc.), semiconductor memory, or a similar recording medium. As long as the computer or embedded system can read the storage medium, the storage format may be any form. If the computer reads the program from the recording medium and causes the CPU to execute instructions described in the program based on the program, the same operation as the communication support system of the above-described embodiment can be realized. Of course, when the computer acquires or reads the program, it may be acquired or read through a network.
In addition, an OS (operation system), database management software, MW (middleware) such as a network, etc. running on a computer based on instructions from a program installed in a computer or an embedded system from a storage medium realize this embodiment. A part of each process for performing may be executed.
Furthermore, the storage medium in the present invention is not limited to a medium independent of a computer or an embedded system, but also includes a storage medium in which a program transmitted via a LAN or the Internet is downloaded and stored or temporarily stored.
In addition, the number of storage media is not limited to one, and the processing in the present embodiment is executed from a plurality of media, and the configuration of the media may be any configuration included in the storage media in the present invention.

The computer or the embedded system in the present invention is for executing each process in the present embodiment based on a program stored in a storage medium, and includes a single device such as a personal computer or a microcomputer, Any configuration such as a system in which apparatuses are connected to a network may be used.
Further, the computer in the embodiment of the present invention is not limited to a personal computer, but includes an arithmetic processing device, a microcomputer, and the like included in an information processing device, and a device capable of realizing the functions in the embodiment of the present invention by a program, The device is a general term.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the components without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiments may be appropriately combined.

1 is a block diagram of a communication support system according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The figure which showed the example of content ID. The figure which showed the example of designation | designated of the position or the range in temporal or spatial positional information. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the information registration by the communication assistance system of FIG. The figure which showed the example of the information managed by the correlation object database of FIG. The figure which showed the example of the information managed by the correlation content database of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the input interface in the client apparatus of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the content of the correlation content database of FIG. 1 by which information registration was carried out. (A) is a figure which shows an example of a text content, (B) is a figure which shows an example of the content of the correlation content database in the case of FIG. 9 (A). (A) is a figure which shows an example of the correlation object information and correlation object in a still image content, (B) is a figure which shows an example of the content of the correlation content database in the case of FIG. 10 (A). (A) is a figure which shows an example of the correlation object information and correlation object in a moving image content, (B) is a figure which shows an example of the content of the correlation content database in the case of FIG. 11 (A). The block diagram of the communication assistance system in the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the information reference by the communication assistance system of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the interface in the client apparatus of FIG. The figure which shows another example of the interface of FIG. The block diagram of the communication assistance system in the 3rd Embodiment of this invention. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the information registration by the communication assistance system of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the input interface in the client apparatus of FIG. The flowchart which shows the operation | movement which searches the correlation object information of step S1702 of FIG. The block diagram of the communication assistance system in the 4th Embodiment of this invention. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the information reference by the communication assistance system of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the interface in the client apparatus of FIG. The block diagram of the communication assistance system in the 5th Embodiment of this invention. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the information registration by the communication assistance system of FIG. The block diagram of the communication assistance system in the 6th Embodiment of this invention. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the information reference by the communication assistance system of FIG. The block diagram of the communication assistance system in the 7th Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the content of the correlation object database of FIG. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the logical address reference for related content registration by the communication assistance system of FIG. The block diagram of the communication assistance system in the 8th Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the content of the correlation object database of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the content of the correlation content database of FIG. The figure which shows the case where the information of FIG. 31A and the information of FIG. 31B are match | combined. The sequence chart which shows the operation | movement of the information registration by the communication assistance system of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the logical address for an association content registration. The figure which shows an example of the interface for transmitting the comment content and the information of a registrant. The figure which shows an example of the code | cord | chord after conversion. The figure which shows an example which shows the code | symbol in a client apparatus. The detailed block diagram of the communication assistance system which combined the 6th Embodiment and 7th Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the registration information of the correlation object database of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the registration information of the correlation content database of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the interface in the client apparatus of FIG. The figure for demonstrating some terms used by embodiment. The figure for demonstrating the track back in the 7th Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

100, 1200, 1600, 2000, 2700, 3000, 3700 ... client device, 101 ... association content input unit, 102 ... association target information selection unit, 150, 1250, 1650, 2050, 2750, 3050, 3750 ... server device, 151 ... Association content registration unit, 152, 2753, 3752 ... Association target database, 153 ... Association content database, 1201 ... Association content presentation unit, 1251, 3072 ... Association content transmission unit, 1601, 2001 ... Association condition designation unit, 1651 ... Association Target information generation unit, 1652, 2051 ... Association target information search unit, 2301 ... Content ID / time information acquisition unit Time information acquisition unit, 2701 ... Association content registration logical address presentation unit, 2751 ... Association content registration logic Address transmission unit, 2752 ... association content registration logical address generation unit, 3001 ... association content registration logical address corresponding code presentation unit, 3051 ... association content registration logical address corresponding code conversion unit, 3052 ... association content registration logical address correspondence Code transmitting unit, 3070... External device, 3071... Association address registration logical address corresponding code acquisition unit, 3751.

Claims (11)

Content identification information for specifying content, temporal position, temporal range, spatial position, or position range information for designating a spatial range in the content, the content identification information and the position range A target database that stores target identification information that identifies a target to be associated with the information,
An association content database for storing the target identification information and one or more contents associated with the association target;
Target identification information presenting means for presenting target identification information and position range information corresponding to specific content on the correlation target database with reference to the correlation target database;
Input accepting means for accepting input of contents associated with the association target corresponding to the presented target identification information;
A communication support system comprising: registration means for registering the received content together with corresponding target identification information in the association content database. Designating means for designating content identification information and position range information of the specific content;
Target information search means for searching for target identification information corresponding to the specified content identification information and the specified position range information from an association target database;
Target identification information generating means for generating target identification information corresponding to the target identification information of the specified content and the specified position range information when the target information search means does not have the corresponding target identification information; Further comprising
The association target by associating the searched target identification information or the generated target identification information, content identification information corresponding to the target identification information, and position range information corresponding to the target identification information The communication support system according to claim 1, wherein the communication support system is stored in a database.   The input receiving unit, when there is the searched target identification information or the generated target identification information, receives an input of contents associated with an association target corresponding to the identification information. Item 3. The communication support system according to item 2. Content identification information for specifying content, temporal position, temporal range, spatial position, or position range information for designating a spatial range in the content, the content identification information and the position range A target database that stores target identification information that identifies a target to be associated with the information,
An association content database for storing the target identification information and one or more contents associated with the association target;
Target identification information presenting means for presenting target identification information and position range information corresponding to specific content on the correlation target database with reference to the correlation target database;
Request accepting means for accepting a request for presenting the content associated with the association target corresponding to the presented object identification information;
A communication support system comprising: content presentation means for referring to the association content database and presenting content corresponding to the accepted presentation request. Designating means for designating content identification information and position range information of the specific content;
Further comprising target information search means for searching for target identification information corresponding to the specified content identification information and the specified position range information from an association target database,
5. The request receiving unit, when there is the searched target identification information, receives a presentation request for contents associated with an association target corresponding to the searched target identification information. The communication support system described. Further comprising content identification information of content capable of designating a temporal position in the specific content, and acquisition means for acquiring the temporal position information;
The specifying means specifies the acquired temporal position information as position range information of the specific content, and specifies the acquired content identification information as content identification information of the specific content. The communication support system according to claim 2 or 5.   It further comprises a logical address presenting means for presenting to the user an association content registration logical address that can be associated with the association target and registered in the association content database by transmitting the content to be associated with the association target. The communication support system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the communication support system is characterized by that. Computer
Content identification information for specifying content, temporal position, temporal range, spatial position, or position range information for designating a spatial range in the content, the content identification information and the position range First access means for accessing an association target database storing target identification information for specifying an association target corresponding to the information;
A second access means for accessing an association content database storing the object identification information and one or more contents associated with the association object;
Target identification information presenting means for presenting target identification information and position range information corresponding to specific content on the correlation target database with reference to the correlation target database;
Input accepting means for accepting input of contents associated with the association target corresponding to the presented target identification information;
A communication support program for causing the received content to function as registration means for registering in the association content database together with corresponding target identification information. Computer
Content identification information for specifying content, temporal position, temporal range, spatial position, or position range information for designating a spatial range in the content, the content identification information and the position range First access means for accessing an association target database storing target identification information for specifying an association target corresponding to the information;
A second access means for accessing an association content database storing the object identification information and one or more contents associated with the association object;
Target identification information presenting means for presenting target identification information and position range information corresponding to specific content on the correlation target database with reference to the correlation target database;
Request accepting means for accepting a request for presenting the content associated with the association target corresponding to the presented object identification information;
A communication support program for functioning as a content presentation unit that refers to the association content database and presents content corresponding to the accepted presentation request. Conversion means for converting the logical address for the association content registration into a format readable by an external device;
The communication support system according to claim 7, further comprising: a presenting unit that presents the logical address for registering the association content converted in the format to the external device.   The communication support system according to claim 10, wherein the conversion unit converts the association content registration logical address into a format optically readable by the external device.

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