JP2007318560A - Multiple information display device, multiple information display method, multiple information display program and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a multiple information display device and a multiple information display program for displaying a portion of multiple pieces of information in a tabular format and allowing a user to easily search information satisfying particular conditions from information of a undisplayed part. <P>SOLUTION: The multiple information display device 1 for displaying a portion of a table as a prescribed range from the table in which multiple pieces of information having a value of a first item and a value of a second item is arranged with the value of the first item and the value of the second item as a value of a row and a value of a column, respectively, is provided with a display information preparing part 12 for displaying optional information as margin information at a position outside the prescribed range and adjacent to the prescribed range, wherein a row or a column of the value of the first item or the value of the second item having the same value as the optional information are extended when certain optional information in the information is not included in the prescribed range and also when the optional information has the value of the first item or the value of the second item which are the same as ones of the prescribed range. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a multiple information display device, a multiple information display method, a display program, and a recording medium on which the program is recorded.

  Conventionally, electronic program guide (EPG) information has been used as guide information for television broadcast programs and radio broadcast programs. EPG data is usually displayed on a television receiver screen or the like with program information arranged in a table format with two items of time and channel as rows and columns. By displaying on the screen or the like in this manner, it is possible to easily display an arbitrary program to be displayed from what time it is scheduled to be broadcast on which channel.

  Furthermore, currently, using this EPG data (program information group) and preference information indicating the user's preference, program information corresponding to the user's preference (for example, broadcast date, broadcast station, genre, title, and , Commentary sentences, etc.) are extracted and recommended to the user.

  For example, a configuration is known in which a keyword included in program information of a broadcast program viewed by a user is used as the preference information, and program information including the keyword is extracted from EPG data. FIG. 9A shows an example of keyword extraction in this configuration, and FIG. 9B shows an example of displaying a list of extracted programs.

  In the example shown in FIG. 9A, keywords are titles, performer names, words, genre names, and the like, and these keywords are stored in a memory or the like together with the number of times a broadcast program including the keywords is viewed. . The extracted broadcast programs are arranged and displayed in a list such as an order of broadcast programs that include more frequently viewed keywords in the program information, an order of early broadcast start date / time of the broadcast program, or a channel order.

  In Patent Document 1, as a technique similar to the above example, the program extracted by the opponent by following the keyword extracted from the user viewing program name and estimating the user's favorite program content, the viewing pattern for each time zone, and the like. Identifies the program of the same performer that the broadcast time zone or the appearance program was changed by changing the name of the sports broadcast, the program reorganization, prioritizing the program name at the time of channel selection or recording, and recommending the user operation A video recording and channel selection method in video equipment that can save the user's trouble of equipment operation by performing automatic control instead is disclosed.

  In Patent Document 2, when a list of programs scheduled to be broadcast is displayed, a program extracted based on the user's preference information is displayed with a recommendation mark to distinguish it from the remaining programs. In this way, the recommended programs are distinguished and all the programs are displayed. Therefore, the recommended programs can be grasped based on the programs broadcast at the current time and the programs scheduled for the day. Therefore, when selecting a program to watch and record, for example, when displaying a list of only recommended programs, it is an error to spend watching or recording a program without watching or recording if the broadcast schedule is known. Is disclosed, and the technology that can improve convenience is disclosed.

If the technique of patent document 2 is used, even if it is not a broadcast program having program information that matches a keyword of a broadcast program viewed in the past or a registered keyword, if the user knows the broadcast schedule of the program, It is possible to prevent an error that a user wants to watch or record a program without watching or recording, and to improve convenience.
JP-A-7-135621 (Publication date: May 23, 1995) JP 2004-157617 A (publication date: June 3, 2004)

  In the technique of displaying only recommended programs as in the technique of Patent Document 1, even if the program is not a broadcast program having program information that matches a keyword of a previously watched broadcast program or a registered keyword, the user can If the broadcast schedule is known, there is a possibility that a program that the user wants to watch or record will be spent without watching or recording.

  In addition, with this method, it is difficult to intuitively know which time zone of a recommended program is on the day only by looking at a list of recommended programs.

  Furthermore, it takes more labor and time for the user to check the contents of the displayed programs one by one and determine whether or not the user's preference is met, as the number of extracted programs increases.

  That is, when the user confirms the broadcast schedule of a program by displaying a list of programs scheduled to be broadcast and wants to know recommended programs, a list of recommended programs must be displayed. It takes time and effort.

  Further, as in the technique of Patent Document 2, in the method of displaying program information scheduled to be broadcast in a table format and marking the extracted recommended program, the recommended program is located in which time zone and in which channel. It is easy to grasp whether or not. However, the program information that can be displayed on the screen is a part of all broadcast programs, and when there is no mark in the currently displayed program information, it is difficult for the user to find a recommended program.

  Since the size of the screen for displaying the program guide is limited, the program information that can be displayed on the screen is at most several channels out of all channels, and is at most several hours out of all broadcast hours.

  If there is no mark in the displayed program, the user does not know which channel has a favorite program in which time zone, so the screen is switched to change the displayed channel or time zone. It is necessary to search.

  The greater the number of channels and the smaller the display screen, the lower the ratio of the number of program information that can be displayed on one screen to the total number of program information, making it difficult for the user to search for recommended programs with marks.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to display a part of a plurality of pieces of information in a tabular form and satisfy a predetermined selection condition from information on a part not displayed by the user. An object is to realize a multiple information display device, a multiple information display method, and a multiple information display program that facilitate searching for information.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the multiple information display device according to the present invention displays a plurality of pieces of information respectively associated with the value of the first item and the value of the second item as the value of the first item. In the multiple information display device that displays a part of the table as a predetermined range among the tables arranged at the intersection positions of the row indicating the value of the second item and the column indicating the value of the second item, Arbitrary information that is not included in the range and has the same value of the first item or the value of the second item as the predetermined range is adjacent to the predetermined range outside the predetermined range. Display information creation means for creating and displaying out-of-line information at a position obtained by extending a row or column of the value of the first item or the value of the second item having the same value as the arbitrary information. It is characterized by having.

  In this configuration, the multiple information display device displays a plurality of information acquired from the outside such as each program information of the electronic program guide on the screen. In the display method, a plurality of pieces of information, for example, two attribute values such as a broadcast time zone and a broadcast channel are arranged in a table format as row and column values, and a part of the row range is displayed. Only a part of the column range is displayed as a predetermined range on the screen. When displaying information within a predetermined range on the screen, the multiple information display device stores predetermined arbitrary information such as recommended program information that has been extracted in advance and matches a keyword registered by the user. It is displayed on the screen with the information in the range. However, instead of displaying all applicable information among arbitrary information, only information having the same attribute value as the partial row range or the partial column range is displayed. . The display position is a position obtained by extending a row or column having the same value as the attribute of the information within a predetermined range of rows or columns displayed on the screen, and is a column for displaying the predetermined range of information. The position is adjacent to.

  For example, in the case of the electronic program guide shown in FIG. 2, a plurality of pieces of program information are displayed on the screen in a tabular format using a broadcast time zone as the first item and a broadcast channel as the second item. When program information corresponding to a predetermined time zone and a predetermined channel is displayed, recommended program information in a position not corresponding to the predetermined time zone and the predetermined channel is also displayed in the predetermined range together with the program information. Is displayed at the position corresponding to the time zone or channel outside the column of the field for displaying.

  In this example, the predetermined range of channels is from 1 channel to 3 channels, and the predetermined range of time zone is from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock. Program information of a total of 7 programs is displayed as program information within a predetermined range. In this case, three display columns of 1 channel, 2 channels, and 3 channels are provided as columns in the channel direction, and three displays of 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, and 9 o'clock as rows in the time zone direction. Rows are provided.

  In FIG. 2, recommended programs after 10 o'clock are displayed in a “future recommendation” row located below the 9 o'clock row. The recommended program information whose channel is the same channel as the display column is displayed in the “future recommendation” row of the display column.

  The drama “criminal drama” is a program after 10:00, and the channel is a 2ch program. In this way, program information other than the 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock range is displayed along the channel row adjacent to the program information from the 7 o'clock range to the 9 o'clock range.

  Since the drama “criminal drama” is displayed in the 2ch column, the user can intuitively understand that it is a 2ch program. Further, the user can intuitively understand that there are recommended programs after 10 o'clock in 2ch, and there are no recommended programs after 10 o'clock in 1ch and 3ch.

  In the “Recommended during same time” column to the right of 3ch, recommended program information for channels other than the range from 1ch to 3ch is displayed in the range from 7am to 9am. . In other words, “10ch Variety Special Number” informs that there is a recommended program on 10ch among programs broadcast at 7 o'clock. Similarly, it is understood that a recommended program is presented as “5ch hobby gardening” at 8 o'clock. Further, since the recommended program is not displayed at 9 o'clock, it can be understood that there is no recommended program in the program broadcast at 9 o'clock.

  When the user wants to know the details of the recommended program information, a predetermined range, that is, a partial range of the table displayed on the screen is displayed in the direction in which the recommended program information is displayed as margin information. Switch.

  Further, when there are a plurality of recommended programs to be displayed outside the field as the out-of-line information, the information is displayed in order from the program information of a time zone or channel close to a predetermined range.

  According to the above configuration, in addition to the information displayed on the screen as information within the predetermined range, the value of the first item within the predetermined range or the second value within the predetermined range among the arbitrary information. Since the presence of information having the same value as at least one of the values of the item is displayed so that the user can intuitively understand, there is an effect that the user can easily access the information.

  That is, the user determines in which direction of the first item or which direction of the second item the extracted information is present on the table with respect to the current predetermined range. Since it is displayed so that it can be easily understood intuitively, the user can intuitively understand in which direction the predetermined range can be moved to display the extracted information on the screen. Play.

  In addition to the above-described configuration, the multiple information display device according to the present invention includes information extraction means for extracting information satisfying a predetermined extraction condition from the plurality of information as the margin information. .

  In this configuration, the predetermined extraction condition used when the information extraction unit extracts information displayed on the screen as out-of-line information from a plurality of information is, for example, the user in the electronic program guide shown in FIG. Whether each program information includes a keyword such as “professional baseball” or “drama” representing the user's preference.

  According to said structure, since the information which satisfy | fills a predetermined extraction condition is extracted as margin information, there exists an effect that the margin information displayed can be changed if a predetermined extraction condition is changed.

  Moreover, in the multiple information display device according to the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, the predetermined extraction condition is an extraction condition based on information extraction information acquired from the outside.

  In this configuration, the information extraction unit uses information extraction information acquired from the outside as a keyword when extracting out-of-line information in advance, and extracts information including the keyword from the plurality of pieces of information. Therefore, for example, if a keyword representing the user's preference is registered in the information extraction information, information including the keyword representing the user's preference is extracted.

  The recommended program information of the screen example shown in FIG. 2 can be displayed in the “future recommendation” row and the “same time zone recommendation” column.

  According to the above configuration, when extracting information from a plurality of pieces of information as extra-margin information, information is extracted based on information extraction information that reflects the user's preferences, so that the user's favorite information is extra-marginal. There is an effect that it can be presented as information.

  In addition to the above configuration, the multiple information display device according to the present invention includes an access history storage unit that creates the information extraction information based on a user's access history to the plurality of information. .

  In this configuration, the access history accumulating unit records and accumulates information accessed by the user, and the information extracting unit extracts a keyword from the accumulated access record and uses it as information extraction information.

  For example, when the information is a content such as a TV program, the access history storage means acquires and stores a content viewing history indicating which content the user has viewed, or an operation history such as reservation. The information extraction unit extracts a keyword from the accumulated content viewing history and the content information, and creates information extraction information including a pair of the extracted keyword and a preference calculated from the content viewing history.

  If content information including a keyword having a high degree of preference is extracted, it becomes possible to extract user-preferred information. Thereby, it is not necessary to register information extraction information in advance, and the user can display the user's favorite content in the recommended program column simply by viewing the content.

  As a method for creating the information extraction information, there is a method of creating from the content information selected by the user on the display screen, in addition to the method of creating from the history.

  For example, in the screen shown in FIG. 2, when selecting program information within the range of 1 to 3 channels and 7 to 9 o'clock with the arrow keys, keywords are extracted from the selected program information each time. Information extraction information may be used. Therefore, each time program information is newly selected, the program information displayed in the recommended program column is switched. Such a method is convenient when searching for a program.

  According to said structure, since the information containing the keyword which the selected information has is extracted and displayed as margin information, there exists an effect that it becomes possible to obtain the information similar to the selected information. .

  Moreover, in the multiple information display device according to the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, the display information creating means extracts and displays partial information from the out-of-line information when displaying the out-of-line information. To do.

  Moreover, in the multiple information display device according to the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, the partial information is the value of the first item or the second item that does not fall within the predetermined range of the margin information. It is the value of.

  In this configuration, for example, when a plurality of pieces of information are electronic program guide data, information as shown in FIG. 4 is given to each program information of the electronic program guide data as data. That is, the program ID, start time, end time, broadcast station, eg drama, etc., genre, eg title A etc., titles eg actor B and actress C etc., performers and program details description are included. .

  When displaying these program information in the “Recommended in the future” row and “Recommended in the same time” column, which are the recommended program columns on the screen shown in FIG. Extract and display.

  The partial information in this case is the time zone when the recommended program information is displayed in the “Recommended in the future” row, and the recommended program information in the “Recommended in same time” column. Is a channel on which the program is broadcast.

  In the state shown in FIG. 2, when the program information of the recommended program is displayed in the recommended program column at 7 o'clock, not only the title “variety special number” but also the channel number “10ch” is simultaneously displayed as additional information. Thus, it is possible to easily display in which channel the program is provided. Since the program information of this recommended program is displayed in the recommended program column of the display line at 7 o'clock, since the broadcast start time is specified, channel information that is not specified depending on the display position is used as partial information. Extract from program information and display.

  In the method of displaying only recommended programs disclosed in Patent Document 1 and the method of displaying programs scheduled to be broadcast in a table format disclosed in Patent Document 2, display as described above The partial information is not extracted from the information to be performed. However, in the multiple information display device according to the present invention, when displaying information outside the predetermined range, the information is extracted in accordance with which display row or display column the information is juxtaposed and displayed. The partial information is extracted from the information in consideration of whether it is the information, and is displayed differently from the display of the information within the predetermined range.

  According to the above configuration, when displaying the margin information, partial information different from the case of displaying information within a predetermined range is extracted and displayed, so that more effective display can be achieved. Play. In addition, since the positional relationship between the margin information and the information displayed as being within the predetermined range and the characteristics of the information can be easily understood, it is possible to easily access and browse the information that satisfies the predetermined extraction condition.

  Moreover, in the multiple information display device according to the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, the margin information is the partial information extracted from the information extraction information by the information extraction means.

  In this configuration, when extracting information satisfying a predetermined extraction condition, when extracting based on information extraction information, the information extraction information is displayed as partial information.

  For example, when a keyword with a high degree of preference is registered as information extraction information, program information including the keyword is extracted as program information to be displayed in the recommended program column. When the extracted program information is displayed in the recommended program column, the keyword used for the extraction may be displayed instead of displaying the program title or the like.

  According to the above configuration, even if the space for displaying the margin information is small, the information can be displayed with a small number of characters, and the keyword is displayed even if the space is displayed with a small number of characters. Therefore, the user can easily determine whether the displayed margin information matches the user's preference. That is, since the partial information is displayed, even when the display space is small, the content of the margin information is easily understood by the user, and an effective display can be achieved.

  Moreover, in the multiple information display device according to the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, the display information creation means changes the display method using information included in the margin information when displaying the margin information. It is characterized by that.

  In this configuration, as an example of changing the display method, changing the color of the display character or changing the character size according to the content of information can be considered.

  For example, when handling an electronic program guide, as shown in FIG. 4, since the program information includes genre information, by changing the display character color for each genre, the program of which genre is recommended Can be displayed in an easy-to-understand manner.

  Further, when displaying program information in the recommended program column, the display character size may be increased as the information having the value of the first item or the second item closer to the predetermined range.

  Thereby, when displaying information in the recommended program column, it is possible to present information to the user more easily by changing the display method.

  In addition, among the program information displayed in the recommended program column, it is easy to understand intuitively which program broadcast start time is early and which is close to the channel or time zone displayed as a predetermined range It becomes possible to do.

  According to the above configuration, when the margin information is displayed, the display method is changed, so that the information can be presented to the user more easily. In addition, it is possible to intuitively and easily display which out-of-margin information the value of the first item or the second item of the out-of-margin information is close to a predetermined range.

  In addition to the above configuration, the multiple information display device according to the present invention includes selection information receiving means for receiving an operation for selecting the margin information in addition to an operation for selecting the information within the predetermined range. It is characterized by.

  In this configuration, the multiple information display device switches the information to be selected and the predetermined range in the vertical and horizontal directions, for example, by pressing an arrow key on the remote controller shown in FIG. In addition to an operation of selecting information within a predetermined range, an operation for displaying margin information as a predetermined range is also accepted.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 2, in the state where 1ch to 3ch and 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock are within a predetermined range and “professional baseball” broadcast from 7 o'clock on 1ch is selected, “ Operating the right arrow key while holding down the “Recommend” button switches the display range of the electronic program guide from 10ch to 12ch and from 7am to 9am, and the “variety special number” displayed in the recommended program column is selected Is done. The detailed information of the selected program information is displayed at the bottom of the display screen. Through the above-described user operation, the user can obtain detailed information on programs in the recommended program column.

  In addition, when the predetermined range is switched by a user operation, the margin information is also switched.

  For example, in the case of the electronic program guide shown in FIG. 2, when a user operation is performed such that 3ch to 5ch are displayed in the same time zone as the currently displayed time zone, “5ch hobby gardening” is not displayed in the row. This is because 5ch “Hobby Gardening” falls within a predetermined range and is displayed as program information within the predetermined range. If there is another recommended program outside the predetermined range, the program information is displayed in the “Recommended in same time zone” column at 8 o'clock. If there are no other recommended programs, nothing is displayed in that field. In this way, information displayed as out-of-line information is switched by a user operation.

  According to said structure, since a display range can be switched by simple user operation, there exists an effect that the access to the information which satisfy | fills a predetermined extraction condition can be improved.

  Moreover, in the multiple information display device according to the present invention, in addition to the above configuration, the display information creating means displays the margin information based on a display request from a user.

  In this configuration, the margin information is displayed according to a user instruction. In a normal state, only information within a predetermined range is displayed, and when there is a request from the user, one of the display rows or display columns is changed to a field for displaying out-of-line information.

  Instead of changing one of the display rows or display columns, the width of the display row or display column may be narrowed to make a space on the screen, and a column for displaying extra-margin information may be added to display extra-margin information.

  According to said structure, even if it is a multiple information display apparatus with a small display screen, there exists an effect that a wide range information can be displayed in a normal state.

  On the other hand, in the multiple information display method according to the present invention, in order to solve the above-described problem, the plurality of pieces of information respectively associated with the value of the first item and the value of the second item are Among the information, in the multiple information display method of displaying a part of the table as a predetermined range among the tables arranged at the intersection positions of the row indicating the value of the column and the column indicating the value of the second item, Arbitrary information that is not included in the predetermined range and has the same value of the first item or the value of the second item as the predetermined range is outside the predetermined range. Display information created and displayed as out-of-line information at a position where the row or column of the value of the first item or the value of the second item having the same value as the arbitrary information is extended. It is characterized by including steps.

  In this configuration, in the multiple information display method, for example, multiple pieces of information acquired from outside such as each piece of program information in the electronic program guide are displayed on the screen. In the display method, a plurality of pieces of information, for example, two attribute values such as a broadcast time zone and a broadcast channel are arranged in a table format as row and column values, and a part of the row range is displayed. Only a part of the column range is displayed as a predetermined range on the screen. When displaying information within a predetermined range on the screen, the multiple information display device extracts certain arbitrary information such as recommended program information that has been extracted in advance and that matches the keyword registered by the user. It is displayed on the screen together with information within a predetermined range. However, instead of displaying all applicable information among arbitrary information, only information having the same attribute value as the partial row range or the partial column range is displayed. . The display position is a position obtained by extending a row or column having the same value as the attribute of the information within a predetermined range of rows or columns displayed on the screen, and is a column for displaying the predetermined range of information. The position is adjacent to.

  According to the above configuration, in addition to the information displayed on the screen as information within the predetermined range, the value of the first item within the predetermined range or the second value within the predetermined range among the arbitrary information. Since the presence of information having the same value as at least one of the values of the item is displayed so that the user can intuitively understand, there is an effect that the user can easily access the information.

  That is, the user determines in which direction of the first item or which direction of the second item the extracted information is present on the table with respect to the current predetermined range. Since it is displayed so that it can be easily understood intuitively, the user can intuitively understand in which direction the predetermined range can be moved to display the extracted information on the screen. Play.

  By the way, the multiple information display device may be realized by hardware or may be realized by causing a computer to execute a program. Specifically, the program according to the present invention is a multiple information display program that causes a computer to operate as at least the above-described display information creation means, information extraction means, and selection information reception means. Multiple information display programs are recorded.

  When the multiple information display program is executed by a computer, the computer operates as the multiple information display device. Therefore, similarly to the above-described multiple information display device, the user can easily access information.

  Further, the multiple information display device according to the present invention displays in tabular form with items such as channels and times, and on a display screen that displays a predetermined item among the items as a display axis, together with information within a predetermined range In the information outside the predetermined range, information having at least one axis in common with the current display axis is arbitrarily extracted for each axis, and the information within the predetermined range is juxtaposed on the extracted axis. The display may be configured to enable intuitive and easy-to-understand display of the channel direction or the time zone direction with respect to the channel and time zone within a predetermined range.

  The multiple information display device according to the present invention may further include means for acquiring content information extraction information, and may be configured to extract information including a keyword included in the content information extraction information.

  The multiple information display device according to the present invention, as described above, is the value of the first item or the second item that is not included in the predetermined range and is the same as the predetermined range of the information. The information of the first item or the value of the second item is a position outside the predetermined range and adjacent to the predetermined range, and having the same value as the arbitrary information. Display information creating means for creating and displaying as margin information is provided at an extended position of a value row or column.

  Therefore, in addition to the information displayed on the screen as information within the predetermined range, the value of the first item within the predetermined range or the value of the second item within the predetermined range among the above arbitrary information Since the presence of information having the same value as at least one of the information items is displayed so that the user can intuitively understand it, the user can easily access the information.

  That is, on the above table, the user intuitively knows in which direction of the first item or in which direction the second item is present with respect to the current predetermined range. The user can intuitively understand whether the extracted information can be displayed on the screen by moving the predetermined range in any direction. .

  Further, as described above, the multiple information display method device according to the present invention includes the value of the first item or the first value that is not included in the predetermined range and is the same as the predetermined range. Arbitrary information having a value of the second item is a position adjacent to the predetermined range outside the predetermined range, and the value of the first item or the second value having the same value as the arbitrary information And a display information creation step of creating and displaying as margin information at a position where the row or column of the value of the item is extended.

  Therefore, in addition to the information displayed on the screen as the information within the predetermined range, the value of the first item within the predetermined range or the value of the second item within the predetermined range among the above arbitrary information Since the presence of information having the same value as at least one of the information items is displayed so that the user can intuitively understand it, the user can easily access the information.

  That is, on the above table, the user intuitively knows in which direction of the first item or in which direction the second item is present with respect to the current predetermined range. The user can intuitively understand whether the extracted information can be displayed on the screen by moving the predetermined range in any direction. .

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

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FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of the multiple information display device 1 of the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, the multiple information display device 1 displays program information to the user using program information (electronic program guide: EPG) of a television program, for example. In addition, a plurality of pieces of content information to which text data describing the content content is externally acquired may be acquired, and the acquired content information may be displayed. Alternatively, text information such as a schedule may be used. In this description, the information to be handled will be described as content information or program information.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the multiple information display device 1 of this embodiment includes an input unit 2, a content information acquisition unit 11, a selection information reception unit 19 (access history storage unit, selection information reception unit), and content information extraction unit. Information reception unit 5, viewing information reception unit 6, display request reception unit 20, keyword extraction unit 7, content information extraction information storage unit 8, content information storage unit 9, content information extraction unit 10 (information extraction means), display information A creation unit 12 (display information creation means) and a display unit 13 are provided.

  The input unit 2 receives content information, content information selection information, content information extraction information, viewing information, or display request information from the outside, and the content information acquisition unit 11, selection information reception unit 19, and content information extraction information, respectively. The data is transferred to the reception unit 5, the viewing information reception unit 6, and the display request reception unit 20.

  The content information selection information is content information selected by the user operating on the display screen. The content information selection information is input to the input unit 2 every time the user operates the remote control on the display screen.

  The content information extraction information is information such as keywords and genre information. Favorite keywords and genre information are registered in advance by the user or the like. Input to the input unit 2 during registration. You may register with not only keyword information but the preference degree showing the preference degree with respect to the keyword.

  The viewing information is viewing information indicating which content the user has viewed. The multi-information display device 1 may include content reproduction means. When content reproduction means is provided, the information of the reproduced content is input as viewing information. Further, the multiple information display device 1 may include a content recording unit. When the content recording unit 1 includes the content recording unit, the information of the recorded content is input as viewing information.

  When the multi-information display device 1 does not include a content reproduction unit such as a server, viewing information is acquired from a device including the content reproduction unit via a network or the like. Even when the reproduction means is not provided, when the viewing reservation accepting means, the recording reservation accepting means and the like are provided, the information of the content reserved at the time of accepting the reservation may be input as the viewing information.

  The viewing information may be input to the input unit 2 every time the user reproduces or records the content, or viewing information for a certain period may be input to the input unit 2 collectively. The input unit 2 accepts not only viewing information but also used information or access information when the user uses or accesses target information in the multiple information display device 1.

  The display request information is a request for displaying content information by the user or the system, and is input to the input unit 2 every time a request is issued.

  The content information acquisition unit 11 acquires content information. The content information is, for example, program information (electronic program guide: EPG) of a television program, content information such as content provided on the Internet, or program information.

  The content information is acquired through a broadcast wave, a transmission means such as a network, or acquired from a recording medium. In addition, the content information is acquired by periodically acquiring content information provided from the service side or by acquiring the content information from the multiple information display device 1 side. In this specification, the content information is described as program information of a television program. When the content information acquisition unit 11 acquires the content information, the content information acquisition unit 11 stores the content information in the content information storage unit 9.

  An example of content information stored in the content information storage unit 9 is shown in FIG. In this description, since the target content is a television program, a program ID, a start time, an end time, and a broadcasting station are stored. In addition to drama as a genre, title A as a title, actor B and actress C as performers, and detailed program description are stored. When storing, the program ID for identifying the program is stored, but the information for identifying the program is not limited to this and may be a G code or the like.

  The display unit 13 displays a list of content information on the display unit 13 in accordance with the display information created by the display information creation unit 12.

  When receiving the display request information, the input unit 2 passes the display request information to the display request receiving unit 20, and the display information creating unit 12 creates display information for displaying the content information. The display information creation unit 12 refers to the content information storage unit 9 and creates display information for displaying a content list according to the item of interest and a display range determined from a predetermined table position of the item.

  When displaying the content information, necessary information is used from the content information according to the item of interest. For example, when the item is a time zone and a broadcasting station, display is performed using the start time, end time, and broadcasting station information in the content information. In addition, when the item is a genre and a time zone, display is performed using information on a start time, an end time, and a genre.

  In this description, since the content information is program information of a television program, the time zone and the broadcasting station are displayed as items. A time zone and a broadcasting station within a displayable range (predetermined range) are selected, and display information as shown in FIG. 2 is created. In this case, program information from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, 1ch to 3ch is displayed.

  At this time, the predetermined range is a frame from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock and 1ch to 3ch, and the outside of the predetermined range refers to other frames. The display rows and display columns include three display columns of 1 channel, 2 channels and 3 channels as columns in the channel direction, and three display rows at 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock as rows in the time direction. Suppose there is.

  The display information creation unit 12 further determines content information to be displayed in the recommended program column according to the display row and display column.

<About the display of programs in the recommended program column>
The display of the program in the recommended program column is performed by the display information creation unit 12 from the programs extracted by the content information extraction unit 10 as satisfying the recommended conditions. This is done by selecting and determining a program that matches the channel.

  In the example of FIG. 2, the program information of the program corresponding to the time zone from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock and the channel from 1ch to 3ch is displayed. Therefore, the display information creation unit 12 is (1) a program in which the channel is 1ch to 3ch and the time zone is after 10:00, or (2) a program in which the time zone is from 7:00 to 9:00. In addition, it is determined whether or not a program that matches the condition that the channel is a channel other than 1ch to 3ch is among the programs extracted as satisfying the recommended condition.

  If there is a program that matches the conditions, the program information is displayed in the recommended program column. If there is no program that matches the conditions, nothing is displayed in the recommended program column.

  The program information displayed in the recommended program column is one for each time zone and each channel within a predetermined range. That is, the display information creation unit 12 assumes that the program information to be displayed in the recommended program column in the 7 o'clock time zone is a channel other than 1ch to 3ch, and the 7 o'clock program satisfies the recommended condition. Check if it is in the extracted program.

  In the example shown in FIG. 2, “variety special number” of “10ch” is displayed in the recommended program column (“Recommended for same time zone”) at 7 o'clock. Since “5ch” “Hobby Gardening” is displayed in the “Recommended Same Time” column at 8 o'clock, the user knows that the recommended program at 8 o'clock is this program. . Since nothing is displayed in the “Recommended for same time zone” column at 9 o'clock, it can be seen that there are no recommended programs on other channels at 9 o'clock.

  Similarly, the display information creation unit 12 extracts the program information to be displayed in the “recommended future” column of 1ch as being in the time zone after 10:00 and satisfying the recommended conditions. Check if it is in the show.

  In the example shown in FIG. 2, nothing is displayed in the “future recommendation” column of 1ch, so that it is understood that there is no recommended program after 10:00. In addition, since “11:00” “drama criminal drama” is displayed in the “recommended future” column of 2ch, the user can know that there is a recommended program after 10:00.

  When there are a plurality of extracted programs in one channel or time zone, the programs are displayed preferentially in order from the displayed channel or time. In this case, a program of an earlier time zone is preferentially displayed among programs after 10:00, and a program having a channel number close to 3ch is preferentially displayed for programs other than 1ch to 3ch.

  When a program is displayed in the recommended program column, the program start time or the broadcast channel of the program may be displayed. When displaying in the recommended program column at the same time, since the time zone is clearly indicated by the time zone of the display axis, it is displayed so that the channel number can be seen. When displayed in the recommended program column in the future, the channel number is clearly indicated by the channel number of the display axis, so that the start time is displayed.

<About content information selection>
When receiving the content information selection information, the input unit 2 passes it to the selection information receiving unit 19. The selection information receiving unit 19 refers to the content information storage unit 9, acquires the content information of the selected content, and passes the acquired content information to the keyword extraction unit 7 or the display information creation unit 12. The content information selection information is information such as “the ↓ key on the remote control is pressed and a drama historical drama is selected”.

  When creating content information extraction information from content information selection information, the selection information receiving unit 19 passes the content information selected by the content information selection information to the keyword extraction unit 7. When content information extraction information is not created from the content information selection information 14, the selection information receiving unit 19 passes the content information selected by the content information selection information to the display information creation unit 12. A method of creating content information extraction information will be described later.

  The content information selection information is input as content information selection information when the user performs an operation on the display screen with a remote controller or the like and the selected content information is switched.

  On the display of FIG. 2, the “Pro Baseball” program of 1ch from 7:00 to 9:00 is selected. Detailed information on the selected program is displayed at the bottom of the program guide. By operating with the arrow (←) key of the remote controller as shown in FIG. 3, the selected program is switched. When the selected program is switched, the display range is also changed. For example, when the arrow key (↓ key) of the remote controller is pressed once in the state shown in FIG. 2, a program at 9 o'clock on the same channel is selected, and the information is input as the content information selection information 14. The From the input information, the selection information receiving unit 19 refers to the content information storage unit 9 and extracts program information of the selected program.

  Furthermore, when the arrow key (↓ key) of the remote control is pressed once, a 10 o'clock program is selected, and the predetermined range is 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock. In the detailed information, program information of a 1ch 10 o'clock program is displayed. At this time, the display axis is switched by inputting the content information selection information. The time axis is from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, and the display line is changed from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock or 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock by inputting the content information selection information.

  The content information selection information may be information for selecting content information displayed in the recommended program column separately from information for selecting content information within a predetermined range. In FIG. 2, when “Professional Baseball” from 7 o'clock of 1ch is currently selected, pressing the “→” arrow key while pressing the “Recommend” button will display it in the recommended program column at 7 o'clock. The program “variety special number” is selected. Therefore, “variety special number” is input as the content information selection information.

  When a program displayed in the recommended program column is selected, the display column is switched to a column in which the recommended program exists, and the selected recommended program is selected. Accordingly, when the previous operation is performed, “variety special number” is selected, and detailed information of “variety special number” is displayed in the detailed information display field at the bottom of the program guide.

  In this way, it is possible to improve access to the content information of the recommended content even when the list is displayed. The operation to select the content information displayed in the recommended program column does not have to be the arrow “→” key while pressing the “Recommend” button, but directly selects the content information displayed in the recommended program column. Any operation that can be performed.

<About the display information creation unit 12>
The display information creation unit 12 refers to the content information storage unit 9 and creates display information according to display request information and selection information. The content information within a predetermined range is changed, the display of detailed information is changed, and the display of the recommended program column is changed.

  When the display request information is input, display information is created with the current time and a certain arbitrary channel as a predetermined range. When selection information is input, display information is created according to the selection information.

  Referring to FIG. 2, when the selected program is switched within the range of 1ch to 3ch and 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, it is only necessary to switch the display of detailed information to the detailed information of the newly selected program. Assume that the predetermined range becomes a range of 2ch to 4ch, 3ch to 5ch, for example, by switching the selected program in the channel direction while the time zone remains at 7:00 to 9:00. When the predetermined range is switched, the program information is displayed so that the program information of the time zone and channel within the predetermined range is displayed.

  When the predetermined range is switched and the program displayed in the recommended program column before the predetermined range is switched is within the predetermined range, it is also necessary to switch the display of the recommended program column. Referring to FIG. 2, when 5ch in the 8 o'clock range is newly within a predetermined range, when 1ch to 4ch are within the predetermined range, they are displayed in the “Recommended program column in the same time zone”. In addition, since the 5ch “hobby gardening” at 8 o'clock falls within a predetermined range, the display at 8 o'clock in the “recommended program column at the same time” is changed. This is because the recommended program column is displayed from programs outside the predetermined range.

  For example, when the predetermined range is switched from 3ch to 5ch when the user further operates with the right arrow key when 2ch to 4ch are within the predetermined range, the channel is out of the predetermined range and the program is in the 8 o'clock range. The recommended program is searched for in the program extracted by the content information extraction unit 10. If there is a corresponding program, it is extracted preferentially in the order of the channel numbers within a predetermined range and displayed as a program in the “same time recommended program column”. If there is no corresponding program, nothing is displayed in the “recommended program column at the same time”.

  Similarly, when the predetermined range of the time zone from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock is switched and the program displayed in the “recommended program column in the future” falls within the predetermined range, the channel of the same channel will be displayed at a later time zone. Whether or not the program is in the extracted program is searched, and if there is, it is displayed in the program in the “recommended program column in the future”. At this time, programs close to a time zone within a predetermined range are preferentially extracted.

  As described above, when the program displayed in the recommended program column is within the predetermined range, the user can browse the content information by newly extracting the recommended program from the program outside the predetermined range and displaying it. In the middle of this, it is possible to inform the user intuitively and easily in which direction the recommended program is in the channel direction or the time direction.

  When extracting recommended programs, programs close to a predetermined range of channel numbers and time zones are preferentially displayed.

  Another method of assigning priorities is to prioritize programs that have been displayed as being within the specified range even once during a series of operations for selecting content information. But you can. For example, in the previous example, the predetermined range is switched from 3ch to 5ch, and after the recommendation of 8 o'clock is changed from 5ch "Hobby Gardening", the predetermined range is further switched from 6ch to 8ch, When the display of the recommended program column is also switched, the 5ch “hobby gardening” already displayed in the program within the predetermined range may not be selected from the extracted programs.

  That is, when 1ch to 3ch are in the predetermined range in the state of FIG. 2 at first, 5ch "Hobby gardening" is selected as the recommended program from the extracted program, but the predetermined range is switched and the recommended program column is displayed. After the displayed program falls within the predetermined range and is displayed as a program within the predetermined range, the extracted program is already notified to the user even if the predetermined range is switched and goes out of the predetermined range. 5ch “Hobby gardening” should not be selected.

  Accordingly, it is possible to eliminate notification of redundant information and always notify the user of new program information. In this case, the history of the program information displayed in the recommended program column is stored, and the priority is given by referring to the history when the priority is given.

  As another display method for assigning priorities, priority information is included in program information to give priority to programs, and program information with high priority is displayed among program information extracted as recommended programs. You may take the method to do.

  As described above, the display information creating unit 12 first displays display information for displaying program information that falls within a predetermined range and display information for displaying detailed information in the detailed information column in accordance with the content selection information. create. Furthermore, when switching the recommended program to be displayed in the recommended program column, the display information creating unit 12 determines, from the program information extracted by the content information extracting unit 10, according to the display row or display column and the priority order. Program information to be displayed is selected, and display information for displaying the program information of the recommended program in the recommended program column is created. Next, the display information creation unit 12 displays the created display information on the screen via the display unit 13.

<About content information extraction information>
The content information extraction information is information such as titles, names of persons, keywords such as words, and genre information, and is stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8. At this time, you may store with the preference degree showing the preference degree with respect to each keyword. An example of content information extraction information to be stored is shown in FIG. In the table of FIG. 5, a keyword is stored for each genre, and a preference level is stored for each. A higher degree of preference indicates a preference.

  Content information extraction information as shown in FIG. 5 is input as content information extraction information from the input unit 2 and stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8. There are various data formats for the content information extraction information to be input. There may be a case of a keyword format such as “Actor B” or “Word D”, text data including a long sentence, or information including information other than the keyword such as TV program information shown in FIG. In the case of inputting in the keyword format, it is conceivable to use keyword registration for registering a favorite keyword by the user. At that time, when the keyword preference degree is registered at the same time as the keyword, both are acquired as content information extraction information.

  In addition to being input by the input unit 2, the content information extraction information may be stored as content information extraction information by learning user preferences from viewing information. If the viewing information includes content information, the content information is passed to the keyword extraction unit 7. When content information is not included in the viewing information, the viewed content is specified, and the content information is acquired from the content information storage unit 9. In order to specify the content that has been viewed, the viewing information includes at least an ID for identifying the content such as a program ID, a broadcasting station, a start time, and the like.

  The keyword extraction unit 7 extracts information effective as a user's preference as a keyword from the acquired information, and stores it in the content information extraction information storage unit 8. When entered in the keyword format, the keyword and its preference are stored as they are. When program information as shown in FIG. 4 is delivered, titles, performers, genres, words, and the like are extracted and stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8. When a long sentence such as a detailed program description is included, the sentence is morphologically analyzed, an independent word or noun is extracted, and stored as a keyword.

  When storing, the viewing frequency may be stored as the preference level. When a keyword already stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 is extracted, the preference level is incremented by one. Thereby, the preference degree of the keyword with high viewing frequency becomes higher, and it becomes possible to create content information extraction information that matches the user's preference.

  The content information extraction information may be obtained from the content information selection information. A keyword is extracted from the currently selected content information and stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 as content information extraction information. Thus, content information similar to the currently selected content information can be extracted and displayed as recommended content. Since the keyword extraction unit 7 replaces all keywords stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 with new keywords every time the selection is switched, content information similar to the selected content information is recommended. It can be displayed as content.

<About the content information extraction unit 10>
The content information extraction unit 10 refers to the content information storage unit 9 and the content information extraction information storage unit 8 and extracts recommended content. Specifically, content information including keywords stored in the content information extraction information is extracted. In the case of the content information extraction information as shown in FIG. 5, the title of the content is “title A”, the performer is “actor B”, or “word D” is included in the title or the detailed program description. If you do, etc., extract. The content information extracted here is the target of the content information displayed in the recommended program column.

  Further, content information including many stored keywords may be preferentially extracted, or content information including many keywords with high preference may be preferentially extracted.

  The preference level of keywords included in the content information may be calculated as a priority by taking the total or average, and the extracted content information may be ranked. In this case, content information with a low rank may not be selected.

  When selecting the content information to be displayed in the recommended program column, the display information creating unit 12 currently selects the content information extracted from the content information stored in the content information storage unit 9 by the content information extraction unit 10. The content information that does not fall within the predetermined range and has the same value as either the display row or the display column is selected.

  When the priority is calculated, the content information extraction unit 10 passes the extracted content information together with the priority information to the display information creation unit 12.

<About the effect in this embodiment>
In the display screen of FIG. 2, the current display range and at least one row of recommended content outside the predetermined range, together with content information within a predetermined range from 1ch to 3ch and from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, or By extracting and displaying content information with common columns for each row or column, it is possible to display intuitively easy-to-understand which channel of which channel is recommended for a given range. To do.

  For example, since a 10-ch program is displayed in the recommendation at 7 o'clock, it is understood that there is no recommended program from 4ch to 9ch. Accordingly, it is not necessary to check the program information of the programs from 4ch to 9ch in detail at 7 o'clock, and it is possible to shorten the program search time. If the recommendation for the same time period is not displayed in the recommended program column, it is found that there is no recommended program in that time period, and the search is not wasted.

  In the conventional example, if there is a recommended program in the program on the display screen, it is displayed with a mark, but since it is not known where the recommended program is in the program outside the specified range, check the program table for checkout If you don't, you won't be able to know if there are any recommended programs or time zones. However, according to the present invention, it is possible to intuitively indicate in which row or column direction there is a recommended program with respect to a predetermined range, and thus it is necessary to scroll and display the screen one by one. In addition, there is no recommended program as a result of displaying all of them, and it is possible to eliminate useless operations such as being unable to find a favorite program. In the display method of the present invention, the effect increases as the number of channels increases.

  On the display screen of the present invention, when the user displays the program guide by displaying recommended programs close to a predetermined range, the designated time zone, together with the program information of the channel, the designated time zone, and You can check recommended programs around the channel at the same time. As shown in FIG. 9, in the method of displaying a list of recommended programs, the recommended program list must be checked separately from the check of the program table, which is a double labor for the user. In the display method of the present invention, a recommended program can be easily searched from a time zone and a channel designated by the user.

  When displaying information in the recommended program column, partial information is extracted from the information and displayed, thereby enabling a display in which the positional relationship between the predetermined range and the recommended information is easy to understand.

  When information with a common time zone is displayed in the recommended program column in the display row or column, it is easy to see which channel exists by adding and displaying channel information that is not common information. .

  When information with a common channel in the display row or column is displayed in the recommended program column, the time information, which is not common information, is added and displayed, so that the time is present and the time. It will be easier to understand if there is no recommended information.

  In this way, effective display is possible by changing the items of information displayed when displaying information within a predetermined range and when displaying information outside the predetermined range in the recommended program column. It is. In the methods of Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2, it is not necessary to extract partial information from information to be displayed as described above, and information relating to a predetermined item may be displayed.

  However, in the present invention, which item is displayed is determined by which position is displayed, and information is extracted and displayed according to the result.

<About the processing procedure of the multiple information display device 1>
The processing flow of the multiple information display device of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The information is described as content information.

  First, the input unit 2 determines whether or not there is an input (step 1, hereinafter abbreviated as S1).

  Next, the input unit 2 determines whether or not the input is the content information 17 (S2).

  If the input is content information, the content information acquisition unit 11 acquires the content information and stores it in the content information storage unit 9 (S3).

  If the input is not content information, the input unit 2 determines whether or not the input is viewing information (S4).

  When the input is viewing information, the viewing information receiving unit 6 acquires viewing information (S5).

  If the input is not viewing information, the input unit 2 determines whether the input is content information extraction information (S6).

  If the input is content information extraction information, the content information extraction information receiving unit 5 acquires the content information extraction information (S7).

  When viewing information is acquired in S5, or when content information extraction information is acquired in S7, the keyword extraction unit 7 extracts keywords from the respective information (S8).

  Next, the keyword extraction unit 7 extracts information effective as a user preference from the acquired information as a keyword, and updates the information stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 (S9).

  When the content information extraction information stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 is updated, the content information extraction unit 10 selects the recommended content target from the content information stored in the content information storage unit 9. Content information is extracted (S10).

  If the input is not content information extraction information in S6, the input unit 2 determines whether or not the input is display request information (S11).

  When the input is display request information, the display information creation unit 12 sets a display range within a predetermined range (S12). The display range may be the same as the display range at the time of the previous display, the display range to be displayed when the display request information is input in advance, or the user may further set the display range. Good. If the content information is program information and the item to be displayed is a time zone, the current time zone may be set in the display line. When the display range is set, the content information to be displayed is determined.

  If the input is not display request information in S11, since the input is content information selection information, the selection information receiving unit 19 acquires content information selection information (S16).

  The selection information receiving unit 19 acquires corresponding content information from the acquired content information selection information, and determines whether or not to extract a keyword from the acquired content information (S17). Whether or not to extract a keyword from the acquired content information is set in advance in the multiple information display device 1.

  When extracting a keyword from the acquired content information, the keyword extracting unit 7 extracts a keyword from the selected content information (S18).

  Next, the keyword extraction unit 7 replaces the keyword stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 with the newly extracted keyword (S19).

  Next, the content information extraction unit 10 refers to the content information extraction information storage unit 8 and extracts content information to be recommended content from the content information stored in the content information storage unit 9 (S20). ).

  By replacing with a new keyword in S19, the keyword stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 is switched every time content information selection information is input. Content information similar to the content information can be extracted as a recommended content target.

  In S12, when content information selection information is input, the display information creation unit 12 sets a display range according to the content information selection information.

  Depending on the content information selection information, the current display range may or may not be changed. When content information within a predetermined range is selected, the display range need not be changed, and when content information outside the predetermined range is selected, the display range needs to be changed.

  In S17, when a keyword is not extracted from the content information selection information, it is determined whether or not the display range needs to be changed based on the content information selection information (S21). The case where no keyword is extracted from the content information selection information is a case where the multiple information display device 1 is set in advance as such.

  If the display range needs to be changed, the display information creation unit 12 sets the display range in accordance with the content information selection information in S12.

  If it is not necessary to change the display range, the process proceeds to S14.

  The display information creation unit 12 selects content information to be displayed in the recommended program column as recommended content from the content information extracted by the content information extraction unit 10 based on the set display range (S13). The display information creation unit 12 extracts content information to be displayed in the recommended program column from the content information extracted by the content information extraction unit 10. When display request information is input, content information to be displayed in the recommended program column is newly extracted.

  If it is not necessary to change the display range in the processing of S21, the display information creation unit 12 creates display information (S14). The fact that there is no change in the display range means that the content information within the predetermined range has been selected, so there is no change in the display of the content information in the predetermined range, and there is no change in the display of the recommended program column. Only the display of the detailed information display column is changed, and the display of the detailed information display column is changed to the detailed information of the selected content information.

  In addition, when performing the process of S14 after the process of S3 or S10, the display other than the detail display column may be changed.

  When the content information selection information is input, the content information displayed in the recommended program column may or may not be changed.

  When the content information extraction information is changed in the process of S19, the content to be displayed in the recommended program column is newly extracted.

  If it is determined in step S21 that the content information extraction information is not changed and the display range is changed, the display range of the content information displayed in the recommended program column before the input is changed. As a result, it is determined whether or not a predetermined range has been reached. If all the content information displayed in the recommended program column does not fall within the predetermined range, the display information creation unit 12 does not newly select content information.

  If there is content information that falls within the specified range among the content information displayed in the recommended program column, check whether there is content information to be displayed in the recommended program column in the same row or column as the content information. Search is performed from the extracted content information, and if there is, it is selected as content information to be displayed in the recommended program column.

  Next, the display information creation unit 12 changes the display of the detailed information display field to the detailed information of the selected content information (S14). When the display range is newly set, the content information within the predetermined range is changed. When the content information to be displayed in the recommended program column is newly selected, the display of the recommended program column is changed to the selected content information.

  Next, the display unit 13 performs display according to the display information created by the display information creation unit 12 (S15).

<How to display the recommended program column>
When displaying content information in the recommended program column, it is easier for the user to understand by adding more items than the items for displaying the information within the predetermined information display or changing the display method according to the information. It is possible to present. As described above, the method of displaying information by increasing the number of items includes a method of adding and displaying time information and channel information.

  In the example shown in FIG. 2, when program information is displayed in the recommended program column at 7 o'clock, not only the title “variety special number” but also the channel number “10ch” is displayed as additional information at the same time. It is possible to display clearly whether it is provided on the channel.

  Similarly, when displaying program information in the 2ch recommended program column, not only the title “Drama“ Criminal Drama ”” but also the broadcast time “11 o'clock” is displayed as additional information at the same time. The time when the recommended program starts can be displayed in an easy-to-understand manner.

  As other additional information, a title of another program that includes a recording reservation or a viewing reservation may be displayed in the recommended program column.

  In addition, when the content information extraction unit 10 extracts content information to be recommended, content information including keywords stored in the content information extraction information storage unit 8 is extracted. When displaying such content information, it may be displayed together with a keyword used for extraction. As a result, the reason for recommendation can be explicitly presented, and the user can easily determine whether the content information matches the preference.

  In the state shown in FIG. 2, when displaying program information titled “Variety Special Number” in the recommended program column at 7 o'clock, the program information describes the keyword of content information extraction information whose program information is “Cooking”. If it is extracted by including it, the keyword “cooking” is displayed together with the title “variety special number”. Thus, the user can recognize that the program is recommended because it is a program related to “cooking”. When the information is displayed in the recommended program column, the keyword “dish” included in the information is extracted and displayed.

  Conversely, only the keyword “cooking” may be displayed without displaying the title. By displaying the keyword, you can see that there is a program related to the keyword, and if the keyword matches the preference, you can access the information to know more details, If they do not match, you can ignore them. In this way, displaying the keyword makes it easy to determine whether the recommended information matches the preference.

  Information in a predetermined range can be displayed by displaying a title so that the information of the program itself can be understood, and information outside the predetermined range can be presented as a keyword, not a title, to present information contents that cannot be imagined from the title There is sex. In addition, even if the display space is small, there is a possibility that it can be displayed with a small number of characters, and even if it is displayed with a small number of characters, the keywords are displayed, so the reason for recommendation is easy to understand, and the user meets the preference It will be easier to judge whether you are doing it.

  When selecting content information to be displayed in the recommended program column from the content information extracted by the content information extraction unit 10, if there are a plurality of candidates for the same display row or display column, the content information having a value close to the display range Is preferentially displayed, but a plurality of may be displayed. When a plurality of programs are displayed, the recommended programs may be displayed in a plurality of rows or columns by increasing the number of rows or columns in the recommended program column.

  In the example shown in FIG. 7, the display range is 1ch and from 7:00 to 9:00, the recommended program column in the same time zone is increased, and recommended programs from 7:00 to 9:00 are displayed for each channel. ing. That is, only recommended programs are displayed in the time zone row and channel column.

  For example, if the “Recommend” button is pressed and the right arrow button “→” is pressed in the state shown in FIG. 2, the recommended program column increases, and the recommended programs from 5ch to 10ch that are outside the predetermined range are displayed. Is displayed to show that exists.

  In the state shown in FIG. 2, since there is no recommended program in 4ch, it is displayed from 5ch. In the state shown in FIG. 7, it can be seen that recommended programs exist from 7 o'clock to 10 ch and from 8 o'clock to 5 ch and 8 ch. It can be seen that there is no recommended program in a frame where nothing is displayed.

  When the recommended program column display instruction is received from the user and the recommended program column is displayed by a plurality of time zone rows and channel columns as shown in FIG. 7, an arrow is displayed in the recommended program column. It is possible to move with the key.

  At present, since a variety program of 10ch at 7 o'clock is selected, detailed information of the program is displayed as detailed information at the bottom of the program table. The user can obtain detailed information of recommended programs by operating the arrow keys.

  In the state shown in FIG. 2, only 5ch “hobby gardening” can be informed as a recommended program at 8 o'clock, but the user receives an instruction to display a recommended program and displays a display column of recommended programs. By increasing and displaying recommended programs according to a column, even if there are a plurality of recommended programs, it is possible to inform the time zone and channel intuitively and easily.

  When displaying information within the display range, not only title information but also genre information may be displayed, or a user's favorite keyword used during content extraction may be displayed. Thus, by increasing the number of display rows or display columns, it becomes possible for the user to easily determine whether or not the user matches the preference even if the number of characters that can be displayed is limited.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the recommended program column may be arranged in one row or column, only one recommended program may be displayed, and the number of candidates may be displayed as additional information. As a result, it is possible to easily display that there are a plurality of recommended contents.

  For example, in the state shown in FIG. 2, if not only “10 ch variety special number” but also “12 ch sports special number” are extracted as candidates in the recommendation of 7 o'clock, both program titles are displayed. Alternatively, the number of candidates may be displayed, such as “10 ch variety special number (2)”. At this time, if the “recommend” button and the right arrow key (→) are operated with the remote controller, a list of all candidate program information may be displayed.

  In the example of FIG. 2, the recommended program column is arranged on the right side and the lower side of the display column, but may be arranged on the left side and the upper side. When arranged on the left side, a program having a channel number smaller than that of the display column is displayed, and when arranged on the upper side, a program whose start time is earlier than the display row is displayed.

  In the example of FIG. 2, recommended information that is not common to any display row or display column may be displayed at the intersection of recommended program columns. You may display the information of the program of the start time after 7-9 o'clock in channels other than 1-3ch at the intersection of the column "Recommended in the same time" and the row of "Recommended in the future".

  That is, the recommended information that exists in the right direction and the lower direction of the predetermined range may be displayed. The user can see that the recommended information exists in the lower right direction when viewed from the predetermined range.

  As an example of changing the display method, it is conceivable to change the display character color according to the content information, or to change the character size or character type (font).

  For example, since genre information is given to program information, it is possible to easily display which genre is recommended program information by changing the color of display characters for each genre.

  When the content information extraction unit 10 extracts content information, if a recommendation level is calculated for each piece of content information extracted using the degree of preference of content information extraction information, The color of the display character or the character size may be changed. As a result, it is possible to display the degree of recommendation of the content information displayed in the recommended program column in an easy-to-understand manner.

  When displaying the content information in the recommended program column, the display character size may be increased as the content information has a value closer to the display range.

  For example, in FIG. 2, “drama“ criminal drama ”” is displayed in the recommended program column of 2ch, and the start time of this program is 11:00. At this time, when a program with a start time of 12:00 exists as a candidate as program information to be displayed in the 3ch recommended program column, the program information starts more than the program displayed in the 2ch recommended program column. Since the time is slow, the display character size is set smaller than that.

  In other words, the display line in the current time direction is from 7 o'clock to 9 o'clock, and the program information starting at 11 o'clock is farther from the display line than the program information starting at 10 o'clock, so the display character size is reduced and displayed. This makes it possible to intuitively and easily display which program has the earlier start time or near the display range.

  The recommended program column may be displayed in accordance with a user instruction. Normally, only the content information in a predetermined range is displayed, and when requested by the user, one of the display rows or display columns is changed to the recommended program column, or the frame of each display row or each display column is displayed. The recommended program column may be added by reducing the size of the content and the recommended content information may be displayed. This is convenient for a device with a small display screen because it can usually display content information as widely as possible.

<How to use other than program information>
Although the display of the program guide on the TV screen has been described with reference to FIG. 2, the present invention is not limited to the TV, and a plurality of information is acquired and displayed by a device having a display screen such as a PC or a mobile phone. Is also available.

  In addition to the display of the program guide, the present invention can also be used for displaying a part of all information such as a calendar-type schedule display and a map display.

  FIG. 8 shows a display example of a calendar-type schedule on a mobile screen and a display example of a map on a display screen such as a car navigation system.

  Since both display screens are small, only a part of the information is displayed, and the recommended information outside the predetermined range is displayed in the recommended information display column.

  In the example shown in FIG. 8A, the schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday in March is displayed, and schedules or recommended information other than Tuesday and Wednesday are displayed in the columns on both sides. In the recommended information display column for the third week, “Movie (Sat)” is displayed, and it can be seen that there is a “Movie” schedule on Saturday of the week. Information may be displayed by an icon. In the recommended information display column for the first week, “★ (Friday)” is displayed, indicating that there is information that can be provided such as recommended information on Friday of the week.

  In FIG. 8B, “Italian cuisine” is displayed at the top of the display screen, which indicates that there is a recommended “Italian cuisine” store above the display screen. Thus, it can be seen that the location of the store can be known by scrolling the screen upward. Similarly, “Japanese food” is displayed at the bottom of the display screen, and it is shown that there is a “Japanese food” store in the downward direction of the map.

  In this way, it is possible to intuitively grasp the positional relationship between the current position on the screen and the recommended store.

  The recommended information is recommended information including information such as a keyword registered in advance by the user or a keyword learned from the user's preference, or information provided as recommended information in advance by the content information provider. It may be recommended information.

  Thus, when information outside the predetermined range is displayed in association with the display range, it is possible to intuitively know in which direction the display screen should be scrolled in order to obtain desired information. . When only a part of the information is displayed, only the information of the displayed part can be obtained, and the display must be switched to obtain the desired information, but the information outside the predetermined range is displayed. By displaying based on the information, it is possible to efficiently browse and acquire information.

<Supplementary items>
The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope shown in the claims. That is, embodiments obtained by combining technical means appropriately modified within the scope of the claims are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

  Finally, each block of the multiple information display device 1, particularly the keyword extraction unit 7, the content information extraction unit 10, and the display information creation unit 12, may be configured by hardware logic, and uses a CPU as follows. May be realized by software.

  That is, the multiple information display device 1 includes a CPU (central processing unit) that executes instructions of a control program that realizes each function, a ROM (read only memory) that stores the program, and a RAM (random access memory) that expands the program. ), A storage device (recording medium) such as a memory for storing the program and various data. An object of the present invention is a recording medium in which a program code (execution format program, intermediate code program, source program) of a control program of the multiple information display device 1 which is software for realizing the functions described above is recorded so as to be readable by a computer. Can also be achieved by reading the program code recorded on the recording medium and executing it by the computer (or CPU or MPU).

  Examples of the recording medium include a tape system such as a magnetic tape and a cassette tape, a magnetic disk such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk / hard disk, and an optical disk such as a CD-ROM / MO / MD / DVD / CD-R. Card system such as IC card, IC card (including memory card) / optical card, or semiconductor memory system such as mask ROM / EPROM / EEPROM / flash ROM.

  The multiple information display device 1 may be configured to be connectable to a communication network, and the program code may be supplied via the communication network. The communication network is not particularly limited. For example, the Internet, intranet, extranet, LAN, ISDN, VAN, CATV communication network, virtual private network, telephone line network, mobile communication network, satellite communication. A net or the like is available. Also, the transmission medium constituting the communication network is not particularly limited. For example, even in the case of wired such as IEEE 1394, USB, power line carrier, cable TV line, telephone line, ADSL line, etc., infrared rays such as IrDA and remote control, Bluetooth ( (Registered trademark), 802.11 wireless, HDR, mobile phone network, satellite line, terrestrial digital network, and the like can also be used. The present invention can also be realized in the form of a computer data signal embedded in a carrier wave in which the program code is embodied by electronic transmission.

  The multiple information display device according to the present invention acquires information, and displays information that satisfies a predetermined condition out of the acquired information, so that information that satisfies a predetermined condition is outside the display range to the user. Since the presence can be notified, it can be suitably used for a device that displays information in a limited range, such as a recording device, a television receiver, a personal computer, or a mobile phone.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the structure of the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of the remote control of the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the data example of the content information handled with the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of data managed in the information storage part 8 for content information extraction of the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence of the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows another example of a display of the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the multiple information display apparatus 1 which concerns on this invention, (a) is an example which displays a schedule, (b) is an example which displays a map. It is an example of a display of an electronic program guide by a prior art, (a) is a figure which shows the example of a keyword and viewing frequency, (b) is a figure which shows the example of a recommended program display.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Multiple information display apparatus 2 Input part 5 Information reception part for content information extraction 6 Viewing information reception part 7 Keyword extraction part 8 Information storage part for content information extraction 9 Content information storage part 10 Content information extraction part (information extraction means)
11 Content Information Acquisition Unit 12 Display Information Creation Unit (Display Information Creation Unit)
13 Display unit 19 Selection information reception unit (access history storage unit, selection information reception unit)
20 Display request reception part

Claims (15)

A plurality of pieces of information each associated with the value of the first item and the value of the second item are arranged at the intersection position between the row indicating the value of the first item and the column indicating the value of the second item In the multiple information display device that displays a part of the table as a predetermined range,
Of the information,
Not included in the predetermined range,
And any information having the same value of the first item or the value of the second item as the predetermined range,
A position outside the predetermined range and adjacent to the predetermined range;
In the position where the row or column of the value of the first item or the value of the second item having the same value as the arbitrary information is extended,
A multiple information display device comprising display information creating means for creating and displaying as margin information.   The multiple information display device according to claim 1, further comprising information extraction means for extracting information satisfying a predetermined extraction condition from the plurality of information as the margin information.   The multi-information display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined extraction condition is an extraction condition based on information extraction information acquired from the outside.   4. The multiple information display device according to claim 3, further comprising an access history accumulating unit that creates the information extraction information based on a user's access history to the plurality of information. The display information creating means includes
When displaying the margin information,
3. The multiple information display device according to claim 2, wherein partial information is extracted from the margin information and displayed. The partial information is
6. The multiple information display device according to claim 5, wherein the value of the first item or the value of the second item that does not fall within the predetermined range of the margin information. The margin information is
6. The multiple information display device according to claim 5, wherein the information extraction means is the partial information extracted from the information extraction information. The display information creating means includes
When displaying the margin information,
The multiple information display device according to claim 1, wherein the display method is changed using information included in the margin information. In addition to the operation of selecting the information within the predetermined range,
The multi-information display device according to claim 1, further comprising selection information receiving means for receiving an operation for selecting the margin information. The display information creating means includes
Based on the display request by the user,
The multi-information display device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the margin information is displayed.   The multi-information display device according to claim 1, wherein the table is an electronic program guide. The information extraction information is
12. The multiple information display device according to claim 11, wherein the multiple information display device is created based on an operation history for a program such as a program viewing history or a program recording reservation history. A plurality of pieces of information each associated with the value of the first item and the value of the second item are arranged at the intersection position between the row indicating the value of the first item and the column indicating the value of the second item In the multiple information display method for displaying a part of the table as a predetermined range,
Of the information,
Not included in the predetermined range,
And any information having the same value of the first item or the value of the second item as the predetermined range,
A position outside the predetermined range and adjacent to the predetermined range;
In the position where the row or column of the value of the first item or the value of the second item having the same value as the arbitrary information is extended,
A multiple information display method characterized by including a display information creation step of creating and displaying as margin information.   The multiple information display program for functioning a computer as each means of the multiple information display apparatus as described in any one of Claims 1-12. A computer-readable recording medium on which the plural information display program according to claim 14 is recorded.

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