JP2009267474A - Moving image adaptive advertisement device and method associated with tv program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for transmitting object advertisement that appears in a scene on a TV program, to a user who is interested in the program, by merging the amusement nature of television with individual information which provides the power of the Internet and combining various techniques for image processing therewith. <P>SOLUTION: A moving image adaptive advertisement device specifies a partial image that appears in a scene on a TV program, from the information obtained which the user has specified as the partial image with a point and confirms the identity to a partial image which has already been recorded, associated with an advertisement, to transmit the advertisement associated with the partial image that the user has specified to the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a moving image-compatible advertising device and method, and more particularly, to a technique for providing an advertisement in conjunction with a TV program.

  Conventionally, television is used as a powerful advertising medium. On the other hand, in recent years, the provision of advertisements via the Internet has grown, and the two media have become indispensable means for providing information to people's lives. Although these have different information sources and separate housings, the integration of the two has been progressing, such as TVs being connected to the Internet and receiving TV broadcasts with a personal computer by the introduction of information appliances.

  On the other hand, Internet advertisements on personal computers are mainly so-called demand-type advertisements in which advertisements are displayed when a user clicks a link, but television advertisements are unilaterally broadcast from broadcast stations between programs. This is a uniform advertisement.

  Also, a mechanism that allows remote designation of an arbitrary point on a television screen has appeared, such as Wii (registered trademark) which is a recent TV game machine (for example, Patent Document 1). This makes it possible for individual viewers to easily input information on a television that has been conventionally viewed by a plurality of people.

JP 2008-035962 A

  In this way, a new advertising system that fuses huge information media such as TV broadcasting and the Internet is desired in the changing technological environment surrounding homes.

  Therefore, the present invention combines the entertainment of TV with the ability to provide individual information on the Internet, and combines this with various image processing technologies, so that advertisements about objects appearing in TV program scenes are of interest. It is an issue to provide a technique of telling the user.

  The present inventor has found a mechanism in which a user obtains an advertisement for an object appearing in a TV program by confirming the identity on the image of an object appearing in a scene in the moving image and an object associated with information such as an advertisement in advance. The present invention has been completed. Specifically, the present invention provides the following.

(1) user instruction acquisition means for receiving information related to a specific partial image in a specific scene in a video from a user;
Partial image extraction means for extracting a partial image related to the information from the scene based on information related to the specific partial image in a specific scene in the moving image;
A partial image-corresponding advertisement recording means for associating an advertisement with a specific partial image in a specific scene in a video and recording information related to the partial image and information related to the advertisement;
Partial image identity for confirming the identity of the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction unit based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition unit and the partial image related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording unit Confirmation means;
Based on the confirmation result by the partial image identity confirmation unit, an advertisement determination unit that determines an advertisement to be associated with the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction unit based on information received by the user instruction acquisition unit;
An advertisement transmitting means for transmitting the advertisement determined by the advertisement determining means for displaying on the terminal device used by the user;
A video-compatible advertising device.

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, when a user designates an object appearing in an ever-changing moving image with a remote controller or a mouse, the partial image is specified and separately associated with the partial image and stored. Since the advertisement is acquired by confirming the identity of the partial images and transmitted to the user, the advertisement linked with the TV program or the moving image providing service can be provided in accordance with the user's interest.

  Moreover, since the advertisement relevant to the partial image designated by the user is transmitted, effective advertisement transmission can be performed and the advertisement effect can be enhanced.

(2) The moving image is a TV program,
Information received from the user by the user instruction acquisition means includes information for specifying the TV program and information for specifying a scene of the TV program,
The partial image extraction unit determines a scene from which a partial image is extracted based on information specifying the TV program received from the user by the user instruction acquisition unit and information specifying a scene of the TV program. The moving image-compatible advertising device according to (1).

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, an advertisement of an object used in a drama or the like broadcast as a TV program can be transmitted. Therefore, it is possible to convey an image by using a thing that a company wants to actively sell in a TV drama, and to capture a purchase intention with an advertisement linked to the image.

(3) It further comprises partial image continuity determining means for determining the identity between the partial images extracted by the partial image extracting means from two different scenes, respectively.
The partial image identity confirming unit determines a partial image determined to be the same as the partial image extracted by the partial image extracting unit based on the information received by the user instruction acquiring unit by the partial image continuity determining unit. Based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition means by repeatedly extracting a scene between the scene related to the information received by the user instruction acquisition means and the scene related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording means. The identity of the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction means and the partial image related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording means is confirmed. Video-compatible advertising device.

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, since the movement of images in scenes close in time is small, the time interval between scenes is reduced to check the continuity of partial images. Even when the color or shape of the partial image changes, the continuity of the partial image can be reliably confirmed. As a result, if the partial image that appears first in the continuous scene is associated with the advertisement, the same partial image can be specified from any scene in the continuous scene, so the advertisement of the thing that appeared in the scene Can be efficiently realized.

(4) The information related to the partial image recorded in the partial image-corresponding advertisement recording means is characteristic information of the information related to the partial image,
The partial image identity confirmation unit compares the feature information with the feature information of the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction unit based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition unit, thereby obtaining the user instruction The identity of the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction means based on the information received by the means and the partial image related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording means is confirmed (1) Or the moving image corresponding | compatible advertisement apparatus as described in (2).

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, the identity between the partial image recorded in association with the advertisement and the partial image specified by the user is determined by comparing the feature information of the partial image, so that the two partial images are consecutive. Even if the scene appears in different scenes, the identity can be confirmed.

  Many videos such as TV programs are often composed of a plurality of scenes that are not continuous. In such a case, if a partial image and an advertisement are associated with each other, The object of the present invention can be realized in which an advertisement of an object appearing in a scene is transmitted to the user without associating the partial image with the advertisement in the scene.

(5) The information received from the user by the user instruction acquisition unit includes information for specifying a position in a specific scene in the moving image,
The moving image-compatible advertising device according to (1), wherein the partial image extraction unit extracts a partial image including a position specified by information received from a user by the user instruction acquisition unit.

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, a user can specify a partial image having a certain spread (area) by designating a point inside the partial image. A partial image can be designated, and the object of the present invention can be realized in which an advertisement of an object appearing in a scene is transmitted to a user.

  (6) The partial image continuity determining means determines the identity between the partial images based on the overlapping degree of the regions inside the partial images extracted from the two different scenes by the partial image extracting means, respectively. And the moving image-compatible advertising device according to (3).

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, the continuity of the partial images is determined based on the overlapping degree of the changed partial images. Can be increased as much as possible, and the identity of partial images can be reliably confirmed.

  (7) The moving image-compatible advertising device according to (1), wherein the advertisement determined by the advertisement determining unit determines a plurality of related advertisements.

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, various advertisements related to one target can be transmitted, so that the possibility of capturing the user's interest can be increased.

  (8) The moving image-compatible advertising device according to (1), wherein the advertisement determined by the advertisement determining unit determines the advertisement according to the attribute of the user.

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, since an advertisement to be transmitted is determined according to the user's attribute, a detailed advertisement according to the user can be transmitted.

  (9) The moving image-compatible advertising device according to (1), wherein the advertisement transmitting unit determines a transmission timing for displaying an advertisement on a terminal device used by the user according to the progress of the moving image.

  According to such a configuration of the present invention, since the advertisement is transmitted according to the progress of the moving image, the advertisement can be transmitted, for example, at the end of the moving image without disturbing the user's viewing of the moving image. Therefore, if the user designates an object of interest while viewing the moving image, the user can see an advertisement related to the object designated at the end of the moving image or the start of the CM.

(10) A user instruction acquisition step in which the computer receives information related to a specific partial image in a specific scene in the moving image from the user;
A partial image extraction step in which a computer extracts a partial image related to the information from the scene based on information received from the user;
Associating an advertisement with a specific partial image in a specific scene in a video, information related to the partial image and information related to the advertisement are recorded in a storage device,
A partial image identity confirmation step for confirming the identity between the partial image extracted by the computer based on the information received from the user and the partial image related to the information recorded in the storage device;
An advertisement determining step in which the computer determines an advertisement to be associated with the partial image extracted based on the information received from the user based on the confirmed result;
An advertisement transmitting step in which the computer transmits the determined advertisement for display on a terminal device used by the user;
A video-compatible advertising method comprising:

  According to the present invention, the user can view an advertisement related to the target by designating the target of interest while watching a TV program or the like. You can easily get detailed information about the subject.

  In addition, companies can not only advertise their products but also use them in TV dramas etc. to build product images and communicate advertisements linked to them to interested users. As a result, it is possible to build a sales pattern of “show me, increase purchase motivation, and buy”.

  In addition, according to such a method, since the TV program itself becomes an advertising medium, it can be expected to create a new business opportunity by integrating TV broadcasting and the Internet.

  Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This is merely an example, and the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to this.

(First embodiment)
[Overall configuration of video-compatible advertising device and related elements]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an overall configuration of a moving image-compatible advertising device and related elements according to the present embodiment.
The moving image-compatible advertising device 100 includes a moving image-compatible advertising server 20 and a TV program DB 30, and is connected to the user terminal 10 via the Internet 50.

  The user terminal 10 receives a television program broadcast from the broadcast station 40 (hereinafter referred to as a TV program) and displays it on the screen. A user makes various inputs to a scene in a moving image displayed on the screen using a wireless remote controller, a mouse, or the like.

  The moving image-compatible advertisement server 20 executes processing of each unit described later.

  The TV program DB 30 acquires and records TV programs such as dramas broadcast from broadcast stations in advance from the broadcast stations. Since a plurality of TV programs are recorded, a program ID is assigned to each TV program, and each TV program can take out an arbitrary scene by specifying the program ID and the scene time.

[Functional configuration of video-compatible advertising device]
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 according to the present embodiment.
The moving image corresponding advertising device 100 includes a user instruction acquiring unit 120, a moving image recording unit 130, a partial image extracting unit 140, a partial image corresponding advertising recording unit 150, a partial image continuity determining unit 160, a partial image identity checking unit 170, an advertisement determination. Means 180 and advertisement transmission means 190 are provided.

  The user instruction acquisition unit 120 receives, from the user terminal 10, information related to a specific partial image input by a user using a wireless remote controller, a mouse, or the like for a scene in a moving image displayed on the screen of the user terminal 10. . In this embodiment, this moving image is a moving image of a TV program, and information relating to a specific partial image includes a program ID that is information for specifying the TV program and a scene that is information for specifying a scene of the TV program. And information specifying the position designated by the user in the scene.

  The moving image recording unit 130 stores a moving image including a scene for receiving information related to the partial image from the user, and corresponds to the TV program DB 30.

  The partial image extraction unit 140 reads a scene from the moving image recorded in the moving image recording unit 130 based on the program ID and the scene time included in the information received by the user instruction acquisition unit 120, and specifies the position in the scene. Based on the information, related partial images are extracted. While the partial image has a certain spread (area), the position information is point information, so the extracted partial image is a partial image including the point.

  Since the partial image can be cut out by edge processing, a plurality of partial images including the aforementioned points may be extracted in a superimposed manner. Specifically, as described later, for example, in a scene in which a person wearing a certain clothes appears, if a place where clothes are specified is specified as the above point, the partial image including that point may include the clothes and the clothes. Two partial images of the person wearing are extracted.

  The partial image corresponding advertisement recording unit 150 associates an advertisement with a specific partial image in a specific scene in the moving image, and records information related to the partial image and information related to the advertisement. The information related to the partial image includes the program ID of the TV program including the partial image, the time of the scene including the partial image, and information for identifying the partial image from other partial images in the scene. It is. As information for identifying a partial image from other partial images, for example, the coordinate value of each side of a rectangle surrounding the partial image, the area of the partial image, the number of colors of the partial image, and the like can be considered. In the present embodiment, the coordinate values of each side of the quadrangle surrounding the partial image are used.

  The partial image continuity determination unit 160 determines the identity between partial images extracted by the partial image extraction unit 140 from two different scenes that are close in time. In scenes that are close in time, pay attention to the fact that the location of the partial images in the scene does not change so much, and based on the degree of overlap of the partial images extracted from each scene, Determine gender or identity.

  The partial image identity confirmation unit 170 includes the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction unit 140 based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition unit 120, and the partial image recorded in association with the advertisement in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording unit 150. Confirm the identity of. Since the scenes including the two partial images are usually different, in the present embodiment, the partial image continuity determination unit 160 confirms the continuity of the partial images in the adjacent scenes, and finally the two parts are included. Make sure the images are identical.

  Specifically, a partial image determined to be the same as the partial image extracted based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition unit 120 is extracted from another scene that is slightly different from the scene including the former partial image. By repeating this operation, finally, the identity of the partial images appearing in the scene separated in time is confirmed.

  Even if the scenes are separated in time, the partial image identity confirmation means 170 can be viewed as a series of scenes that are temporally close by passing through a plurality of scenes between these scenes. The identity between the partial image extracted based on the information received by the instruction acquisition unit 120 and the partial image recorded in association with the advertisement in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording unit 150 can be confirmed.

  When the partial image identity confirmation unit 170 confirms the identity of the two partial images, the advertisement determination unit 180 records the same in the partial image correspondence advertisement recording unit 150 in association with the partial image whose identity is confirmed. The advertisement being made is determined as an advertisement to be associated with the partial image extracted based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition means 120.

  The advertisement transmission unit 190 transmits the advertisement determined by the advertisement determination unit 180 for display on the user terminal 10. In the present embodiment, as will be described later, the display is performed so that the user can appropriately select and view the advertisement he / she wants to see after grasping the presence / absence of the advertisement.

[Hardware configuration diagram of video-compatible advertising device]
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 according to the present embodiment. The server in which the present invention is implemented may be a standard server, and an example of the configuration is shown below.

  The moving image-compatible advertising device 100 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 310 (a plurality of CPUs such as a CPU 320 may be added in a multiprocessor configuration), a bus line 200, a communication I / F (I / F). : Interface) 330, main memory 340, BIOS (Basic Input Output System) 350, display device 360, I / O controller 370, input device 380 such as a keyboard and mouse, hard disk 390, optical disk drive 400, and semiconductor memory 420 . The hard disk 390, the optical disk drive 400, and the semiconductor memory 420 are collectively referred to as a storage device 430.

  The control unit 300 is a part that controls the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 in an integrated manner. By appropriately reading and executing various programs stored in the hard disk 390 (described later), the control unit 300 cooperates with the hardware described above. Various functions according to the invention are realized.

  The communication I / F 330 is a network adapter when the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 transmits / receives information to / from the user terminal 10 (FIG. 1) via the Internet 50 (FIG. 1). The communication I / F 330 may include a modem, a cable modem, and an Ethernet (registered trademark) adapter.

  The BIOS 350 records a boot program executed by the CPU 310 when the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 is started, a program depending on the hardware of the moving image-compatible advertising device 100, and the like.

  The display device 360 includes a display device such as a cathode ray tube display device (CRT) or a liquid crystal display device (LCD).

  A storage device 430 such as a hard disk 390, an optical disk drive 400, and a semiconductor memory 420 can be connected to the I / O controller 370.

  The input device 380 is for accepting input by the administrator of the video-compatible advertising device 100.

  The hard disk 390 stores various programs for causing the hardware to function as the moving image-compatible advertising device 100, programs for executing the functions of the invention, and tables and records to be described later. Note that the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 can also use a hard disk (not shown) separately provided as an external storage device.

  As the optical disk drive 400, for example, a DVD-ROM drive, a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-RAM drive, or a CD-RAM drive can be used. In this case, the optical disk 410 corresponding to each drive is used. A program or data may be read from the optical disk 410 by the optical disk drive 400 and provided to the main memory 340 or the hard disk 390 via the I / O controller 370.

  Note that the computer in the present invention refers to an information processing device including a storage device, a control unit, and the like, and the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 includes an information processing device including a storage device 430, a control unit 300, and the like. This information processing apparatus is included in the concept of the computer of the present invention.

  The controller 300 mainly corresponds to the user instruction acquisition unit 120, the partial image extraction unit 140, the partial image continuity determination unit 160, the partial image identity confirmation unit 170, the advertisement determination unit 180, and the advertisement transmission unit 190. The storage device 430 mainly corresponds to the moving image recording unit 130 and the partial image corresponding advertisement recording unit 150.

[Hardware Configuration of User Terminal 10]
The user terminal 10 also has a configuration similar to that of the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 described above. In the above-described example, an example realized by a so-called computer has been described. Furthermore, as long as the principle of the present invention is applicable, it can be realized by various terminals such as a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Data Assistant), and a game machine. It's okay.

[Specify partial image]
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a method for specifying a partial image in a moving image according to the present embodiment.
Various methods for specifying a partial image in a moving image can be considered. FIG. 4A shows a method for specifying a partial image with a wireless remote controller. A set-top box (hereinafter referred to as STB) 500 is connected to a TV receiver 510 and is connected to the Internet 50. The wireless remote controller 520 can send and receive signals to and from the STB 500 using radio waves and infrared rays.

  The wireless remote controller 520 can move the pointer 540 displayed on the screen of the TV receiver up, down, left and right by operating a button. It is also possible to move the pointer 540 without performing the operation. This is a designation method that is convenient when a moving image is viewed by a plurality of people on a television.

  FIG. 4B shows a method of specifying with the mouse. It is the same as FIG. 4A except that the wireless remote controller 520 and the wireless communication 530 are replaced with the mouse 550 and the wired communication 560. This is a convenient designation method when watching a moving image by one person on a personal computer or the like.

  When a specific location in a specific scene of a TV program is specified in this way, the program ID of the TV program, the time of the scene, and the coordinate information of the specified location are determined in the specific scene in the video. Information relating to the specific partial image is transmitted from the STB 500 to the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 via the Internet 50. The STB 500, the TV receiver 510, the wireless remote controller 520, and the mouse 550 are elements that constitute the user terminal 10 (FIG. 1).

[Specify partial image]
FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a partial image specifying method according to the present embodiment.
The moving image-compatible advertising device 100 that has received the information from the user terminal reads the scene from the moving image recording unit 130 based on the program ID of the TV program and the time of the scene, and determines the location of the scene from the received coordinate information. Know if is specified. FIG. 5A shows an example in which a scene 600 is read and a point P on the scene is designated.

  Assume that there is a partial image 610 including a point P in the scene 600. Here, to simplify the description, it is assumed that the partial image 610 is a quadrangle having R, S, T, and U as four vertices. As described above, the partial image is cut out by edge processing. At this time, whether or not P is included in the partial image 610 depends on the sum of the areas of the four triangles generated by connecting the point P and the four vertices R, S, T, and U, and the square of the partial image 610. This can be seen by comparing the area. If they are equal, P is included in the partial image 610.

  When a triangle surrounded by three points of the point P and the vertices R and S is written as ΔPRS, the four triangles are ΔPRS, ΔPST, ΔPTU, and ΔPUR. In FIG. 5B, the sum of the areas of these four triangles matches the area of the quadrangle RSTU. On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 5C, when P is outside the square RSTU, the sum of the areas of these four triangles does not match the area of the square RSTU.

  Here, the partial image 610 has been described as a quadrangle, but any shape of the partial image 610 can be determined by the same method if a point is appropriately assumed and considered as a polygon.

  In this way, a partial image including a designated point can be extracted from a plurality of partial images in the scene. The partial image extracted in this way is a partial image extracted based on a specified point, and corresponds to a partial image extracted based on information related to a specific partial image in a specific scene in a movie To do.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating overlapping of partial images according to the present embodiment.
One scene includes a plurality of partial images. Since they may overlap each other, there may be a plurality of partial images including the designated point P. FIG. 6A shows an example in which both the partial image 620 (displayed by hatching) and the partial image 630 (displayed by a thick frame) include a point P. In this case, two partial images of the partial image 620 and the partial image 630 are extracted based on the point P.

  In FIG. 6B, the partial image 620 (displayed by hatching) includes a point P. On the other hand, the partial image 640 (displayed as blank-rectangular IEGJ) does not include the point P. However, the partial image obtained by synthesizing two of these (displayed with a thick frame—square IFHJ) includes the point P. In this way, since the partial images sharing the boundary line also constitute a partial image obtained by synthesizing them, there are many cases where a plurality of partial images are extracted based on one point.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a specific example of overlapping of partial images according to the present embodiment.
Assume that the point P is designated, and there are two possible partial images extracted from the point P: women's clothes and women themselves.

[Partial image time change]
FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a temporal change of the partial image according to the present embodiment.
In FIG. 8A, it is assumed that the point P0 is designated in the scene 660 and there are two partial images X1 and Y1. Among these, the partial image including the point P0 is X1. FIG. 8B shows a point P0, four points P1 to P4 arranged in the vicinity of the point P0, and partial images X2 and Y2 included in the scene 670 in the scene 670 that is temporally close to the scene 660. ing.

  Here, the scene 670 is close to the scene 660 in time, but may be before or after in time. However, in this embodiment, it is assumed that the time is ahead. At this time, as long as the scene changes continuously, the partial images included in the scene 670 are considered to change little in the scene 660.

  Therefore, the partial image included in the scene 670 is extracted from any one of the five points in total including the point P0 designated in the scene 660 and the four points P1 to P4 in the vicinity thereof. Then, it can be seen that the partial image X2 includes the four points P0, P1, P2, and P3, and the partial image Y2 includes the point P4.

  Based on this fact, the partial image X1 of the scene 660 can be considered to be continuous with either the partial image X2 or Y2 of the scene 670. Then, next, it determines which of these is.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating the overlapping state of partial images according to the present embodiment. The continuity of partial images is determined based on the overlapping rate of partial images. FIG. 9A shows the overlapping situation of the partial image X1 of the scene 660 and the partial image X2 of the scene 670, and FIG. 9B shows the overlapping situation of the partial image X1 of the scene 660 and the partial image Y2 of the scene 670. ing.

  The overlap rate can be calculated by calculating and comparing the area of each partial image and the area of the overlap portion. As can be seen at a glance, the overlap rate of the partial image is shown in FIG. Is big. In this way, it is possible to determine that the partial image X1 of the scene 660 is continuous with the partial image X2 of the scene 670.

  When the scene 670 is compared with the previous scene, any one of the points P0, P1, P2, and P3 included in the partial image X2 is selected, and the same process is performed by arranging four points again in the vicinity thereof. . In this way, as long as the scene changes continuously, the identity of the partial images can be determined even for scenes that are separated in time. When there are a plurality of partial images to be extracted first, the same processing may be performed for each partial image.

  Depending on the moving direction of the scene, four or more points may be arranged in the vicinity. What is necessary is just to select suitably the time interval between scenes, and the number of the points arrange | positioned in the vicinity.

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a specific example of a continuously changing scene according to the present embodiment.
A current scene 650 shown on the left side of FIG. 10 is a reproduction of the scene of FIG. 7 and shows a scene in which the user designates a partial image. The diagram shown on the right side of FIG. 10 is a scene that goes back in time with respect to the scene, and shows the first scene 680 among the continuously changing scenes.

  Here, paying attention to the partial images of women, in these two scenes, the partial images of women are different in shape and location, and it is directly determined that the two partial images are partial images having the same identity. It is difficult. However, with the method described above, it is possible to determine that the two partial images are the same by passing through a plurality of scenes between them.

[Association with advertisement]
FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a partial image specifying method according to the present embodiment.
The partial image correspondence advertisement recording unit 150 associates the advertisement with a specific partial image in a specific scene related to the TV program, and specifies the partial image in order to record the information related to the partial image and the information related to the advertisement. There is a need. Various methods for specifying the partial image are conceivable, but the simplest method is shown here.

  In a scene 680 showing a partial image of a woman, an upright rectangle in contact with the partial image is considered, and the partial image is specified by coordinate information of the four sides. Of the four sides, assuming that the coordinate information of the upper side is T, the coordinate information of the lower side is B, the coordinate information of the left side is L, and the coordinate information of the right side is R, the partial image can be specified by T, B, L, and R. it can. In addition to this, for example, the area of the partial image or the number of colors of the partial image may be used.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an advertisement association table according to the present embodiment.
The partial image can be specified by the program ID of the TV program in which the partial image is included, the time of the scene in which the partial image is included, and the coordinate information of the four sides of the rectangle that touch the partial image in the scene. FIG. 12 is a table in which the advertisement URL is associated with the partial image specified as described above and held.

  Here, in a TV program with 100 program IDs, advertisement URLs are respectively associated with three partial images (partial image IDs 1 to 3) of a scene with a time of 12:00:00. Also, an advertisement URL is associated with one partial image (partial image ID is 4) of the scene at 12:00:15. In addition to the advertisement URL, the target name and genre related to the advertisement are held.

[Back to the scene]
FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the retroactive scene according to the present embodiment.
It is assumed that scenes in a TV program always change, but an advertisement URL is associated with a partial image in a specific scene. In the example described with reference to FIG. 12, the advertisement URL is associated with the partial image in the scenes with the time of 12:00 and 12:00:15.

  This will be described with reference to FIG. Now, it is assumed that a user specifies a point related to a partial image in the scene at 12:01:00 of the TV program. Here, assuming that the scene number is 0, and scenes that go back in time every 1 second are sequentially numbered 1, 2, 3,..., 12:00:00 and 12:00:15 associated with the advertisement URL. The two scenes are scene numbers 60 and 45, respectively.

  That is, starting from the current scene, if the process related to the continuity determination of the partial image described above is repeated 45 times, the scene is 12:00:15, and if it is repeated 60 times, the scene is 12:00: Each can be reached.

  In this way, when the identity between the partial image registered in the advertisement association table (FIG. 12) and the partial image initially designated by the user is confirmed, the corresponding advertisement URL can be determined.

  In this example, the scene associated with the advertisement URL can be reached if it is traced once every second from the current scene, but if there is a time difference of one second or less, the scene is traced once every second. The fraction of less than 1 second may be adjusted. For example, referring to FIG. 13B, when the designated scene time is 12: 00: 59: 15 and the scene time associated with the advertisement URL is 12: 00: 15: 35, It goes back 43 times every second, and after reaching the scene of 12: 00: 16: 15, it may go back 0.4 seconds at the end.

  In addition, when the movement of the image is fast and it is difficult to confirm the continuity of the partial image at an interval of 1 second, the time interval may be further reduced.

[Display advertising information]
FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a method for displaying advertisement information according to the present embodiment.
When it is found by the method described above that there is an advertisement related to the partial image specified by the user while watching the TV program, the number of the advertisements is displayed in the upper corner 700 of the TV program screen. Even when the user designates a certain point in a specific scene, there is a possibility that a plurality of partial images may be extracted as described above, and there may be a plurality of advertisements related thereto.

  For example, referring back to the example in FIG. 7, assuming that a woman is a talent, there are two types of advertisements about clothes that the talent is wearing and the talent itself. In addition, when the user designates another partial image in yet another scene, there may be an advertisement related to the partial image. When the number of cases is displayed, the user can display the contents of the advertisement on the screen at any time by operating the wireless remote controller 520 or the mouse 550.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an advertisement menu according to the present embodiment.
When the user performs an operation for displaying the content of the advertisement, the target name and genre of the advertisement acquired from the advertisement association table (FIG. 12) by the moving image-compatible advertising device 100 are displayed as menu information. The user can try to display an advertisement that he / she wants to see. When transmitting the advertisement information to the user terminal 10, the moving image-compatible advertisement apparatus 100 sends the advertisement URL together with the menu information, so that the user terminal 10 can access the advertisement URL selected by the user.

  According to such a method, even when the colors and shapes of the partial images in different scenes are greatly different, the continuity of the partial images is traced into a plurality of scenes between the scenes. It is possible to confirm the identity of the partial images. Therefore, if advertisement information is associated with a specific partial image in one scene among continuously changing scenes, the advertisement information can be found from a scene different from the scene.

  In the example described above, the scene in which the advertisement information is associated with the partial image is assumed to be temporally before the scene in which the user designates a point related to a partial image, but the temporal order is reversed. May be. This is because if the continuity of the partial images is traced not in the direction in which the scene time returns but in the direction in which the time advances, the identity of the partial images can be confirmed by the above method.

(Second Embodiment)
In the second embodiment, the identity of partial images appearing in different scenes is determined not by determining the continuity of partial images in temporally adjacent scenes but by focusing on the feature information of the partial images. In the second embodiment, not the TV program but the moving image accumulated on the server is transmitted from the server to the user terminal 10.

  Note that, in the following description and drawings, the same reference numerals are given to portions that perform the same functions as those of the first embodiment described above, and repeated descriptions are omitted as appropriate.

[Overall configuration of video-compatible advertising device and related elements]
FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating the overall configuration of the moving image-compatible advertising device and related elements according to the present embodiment.
In the present embodiment, since the moving image is not a TV program but transmitted from the server, there is no broadcasting station 40 shown in FIG. 1, and there is a moving image DB 60 instead of the TV program DB 30.

[Functional configuration of video-compatible advertising device]
FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the moving image-compatible advertising device according to the present embodiment.
A moving image transmission unit 110 for transmitting the moving image recorded in the moving image recording unit 130 to the user terminal 10 is provided. The rest is the same as FIG.

[Association with advertisement]
FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an advertisement association table according to the present embodiment. It has a search tag that records the feature information of a partial image, an advertisement URL, a target name, and a genre associated with the partial image. The feature information includes, for example, the outline of the partial image, the number of colors constituting the partial image, and the like. The advertisement association table is recorded in the storage device 430 (FIG. 3) constituting the partial image correspondence advertisement recording unit 150. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the information related to the partial image recorded in the partial image correspondence advertisement recording unit 150 is the feature information of the information related to the partial image.

  The search of the advertisement association table is performed by comparing the feature information of the partial images extracted by the method described in the first embodiment based on a similar image search technique that has already been put into practical use. At this time, if there is no feature information that completely matches, the one with the highest similarity is selected. In the similar image search, visual information from the image to be searched is indicated by numerical sequence data (image feature amount) of several hundred dimensions, and the degree of similarity (similarity) between the data is determined between the image feature amount vectors. , That is, the difference between the image feature amounts.

  In this way, the identity of the partial image specified by the user in the scene in the moving image and the partial image associated with the advertisement can be confirmed, and the advertisement to be displayed can be determined.

  Further, according to such a method, since continuity of scenes is not assumed, it is possible to cope with a case where a partial image associated with an advertisement appears in a completely different scene in a moving image.

[Ad hierarchy]
FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of a moving image scene according to the present embodiment. Three pyramids are displayed, and the middle pyramid is indicated by the user.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing an advertisement URL hierarchical tree according to the present embodiment.
At the top, URL 800 for advertisement related to overseas travel, URL 810 for advertisement related to Egypt travel under URL 800, URL 820 for advertisement related to China travel, URL 830 for advertisement related to pyramid tourism under URL 810, and URL 840 related to descending the Nile Others constitute a hierarchical structure. This advertisement URL hierarchical structure tree is recorded in the storage device 430 (FIG. 3).

[Advertising decision flow]
FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a processing flow relating to determination of an advertisement according to the present embodiment.
The advertisement for the partial image designated by the user is determined as follows using the above-described advertisement association table (FIG. 18) and advertisement URL hierarchical tree (FIG. 20).

  S1000: The user instruction acquisition unit 120 receives a user instruction from the user terminal 10. The video ID (corresponding to the program ID), the scene time, and the coordinate information of the location specified by the user are included.

  S1010: The partial image extraction unit 140 refers to the moving image recording unit 130 and extracts a partial image in the scene. The above is the same as in the first embodiment. In the present embodiment, the moving image recording unit 130 corresponds to the moving image DB 60 (FIG. 16).

  S1020: The partial image identity confirmation unit 170 extracts feature information from the extracted partial image.

  S1030: The advertisement determining unit 180 searches the advertisement association table (FIG. 18), and acquires an advertisement URL having the same or similar feature information.

  S1040: The advertisement determining unit 180 acquires an advertisement URL in the upper hierarchy of the advertisement URL acquired above from the advertisement URL hierarchical tree (FIG. 20).

  S1050: The advertisement transmission unit 190 transmits the acquired advertisement URL including the upper hierarchy to the user terminal 10.

[Display advertising information]
FIG. 22 is a diagram illustrating a method for displaying advertisement information according to the present embodiment.

  When designated by the user as shown in FIG. 22, three advertisement URLs of pyramid tourism, Egypt travel, and overseas travel are extracted by performing the above-described processing. By extracting the target name and genre information related to the advertisement together with the advertisement URL, the contents as shown in FIG. 22 can be displayed on the user terminal.

  The subsequent processing is the same as in the first embodiment.

(Third embodiment)
The third embodiment is different from the first embodiment in the method of transmitting the advertisement to the user terminal. In the first embodiment, when there is an advertisement to be displayed, the number of advertisements is displayed on the screen while watching the TV program (see FIG. 14). As soon as it is determined, it should be transmitted to the user terminal 10.

  However, in the third embodiment, the advertisement information is transmitted at the same timing when the TV program being viewed ends or when a CM enters. Since the end timing of the TV program and the timing of the CM broadcast can be grasped also by receiving the TV broadcast on the server side, the advertisement information is transmitted to the user terminal 10 when the signal is detected.

  In this method, since a series of processes from receiving a user instruction to a user for the first time and determining an advertisement and a process for transmitting an advertisement are not continuous in time, the determined advertisement is recorded in association with a user ID It is necessary to keep it.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a user ID advertisement URL correspondence table according to the present embodiment.
The advertisement determination unit 180 creates this table when the advertisement is determined, and the advertisement transmission unit 190 refers to this table at the end of the TV program and transmits the advertisement URL to the user terminal 10. Then, the URL is accessed from the user terminal 10 and the advertisement content is displayed.

  Thus, by transmitting the advertisement information when the TV program ends, the user can concentrate on watching the TV program because the advertisement information is not displayed while watching the TV program.

(Fourth embodiment)
The fourth embodiment provides a mechanism for changing advertisements to be transmitted according to user attributes even if the same partial image is specified.

  In order to enable this mechanism, the information received from the user terminal 10 by the user instruction acquisition unit 120 includes a user ID for identifying the user, and the video-compatible advertising device 100 corresponds to the user ID. Holds user attributes.

[User attribute table]
FIG. 24 is a diagram showing a user attribute table according to the present embodiment.
The user attribute table holds a user ID, sex, and age. As for gender, 1 represents male and 2 represents female. The possessed attributes are not limited to this, and may have other attributes.

[Advertising decisions according to user attributes]
FIG. 25 is a diagram showing an advertisement association table according to the present embodiment.
In the above-described embodiment, one piece of advertisement information is associated with one partial image. However, in this embodiment, a plurality of pieces of advertisement information that can be selected according to user attributes are associated.

  When determining an advertisement based on the advertisement association table (FIG. 25), the advertisement determining unit 180 first refers to the user attribute table (FIG. 24) and acquires the user attribute based on the user ID. Then, an advertisement is determined based on the user attribute and partial image information.

  According to the example of FIG. 25, there are three advertisements associated with the partial image having the partial image ID of 1, corresponding to the user attribute, and an advertisement corresponding to the user attribute is determined from among the three advertisements.

  Here, the user attribute is held in the moving image-compatible advertising device 100, but may be held in the user terminal 10. In this case, the user attribute is included in the information received from the user terminal 10 by the user instruction acquisition unit 120.

  Further, the user ID is held in the user terminal 10 and functions as information for identifying the user terminal 10, but in the configuration as shown in FIG. If different users such as family members have the remote controller, a plurality of user IDs corresponding to a plurality of users can be assigned to one user terminal 10. In this case, the user terminal 10 is identified by the parent number, and the user as the operator is identified by the parent number and the branch number.

  According to such a method, it is possible to provide detailed advertisement information reflecting the attributes of the user.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not restricted to embodiment mentioned above. The effects described in the embodiments of the present invention are only the most preferable effects resulting from the present invention, and the effects of the present invention are limited to those described in the embodiments of the present invention. is not.

It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the moving image corresponding | compatible advertisement apparatus and related element which concern on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the function structure of the moving image corresponding | compatible advertisement apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the hardware constitutions of the moving image corresponding | compatible advertisement apparatus 100 which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the designation | designated method of the partial image in the moving image which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the identification method of the partial image which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows duplication of the partial image which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of duplication of the partial image which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the time change of the partial image which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the duplication condition of the partial image which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of the scene which changes continuously based on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the identification method of the partial image which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the advertisement correlation table which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the retrogression of the scene which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display method of the advertisement information which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the menu of the advertisement which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the whole structure of the moving image corresponding | compatible advertisement apparatus and related element which concern on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the function structure of the moving image corresponding | compatible advertisement apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the advertisement correlation table which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the scene of the moving image which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the advertisement URL hierarchical structure tree which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the processing flow which concerns on the determination of the advertisement which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the display method of the advertisement information which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the user ID advertisement URL corresponding | compatible table which concerns on the 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the user attribute table which concerns on the 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the advertisement correlation table which concerns on the 4th Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

10 User terminal 20 Advertising server for video 30 TV program DB
40 Broadcasting station 50 Internet 60 Movie DB
100 Video Advertising Device 200 Bus Line 300 Control Unit 430 Storage Device 500 Set Top Box 510 TV Receiver 520 Wireless Remote Control 550 Mouse 600, 650, 660, 670, 680 Scene 610, 620, 630, 640 Partial Image

Claims (10)

User instruction acquisition means for receiving information related to a specific partial image in a specific scene in a video from a user;
Partial image extraction means for extracting a partial image related to the information from the scene based on information related to the specific partial image in a specific scene in the moving image;
A partial image-corresponding advertisement recording means for associating an advertisement with a specific partial image in a specific scene in a video and recording information related to the partial image and information related to the advertisement;
Partial image identity for confirming the identity of the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction unit based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition unit and the partial image related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording unit Confirmation means;
Based on the confirmation result by the partial image identity confirmation unit, an advertisement determination unit that determines an advertisement to be associated with the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction unit based on information received by the user instruction acquisition unit;
An advertisement transmitting means for transmitting the advertisement determined by the advertisement determining means for displaying on the terminal device used by the user;
A video-compatible advertising device. The video is a TV program,
Information received from the user by the user instruction acquisition means includes information for specifying the TV program and information for specifying a scene of the TV program,
The partial image extraction unit determines a scene from which a partial image is extracted based on information specifying the TV program received from the user by the user instruction acquisition unit and information specifying a scene of the TV program. The moving image-compatible advertising device according to claim 1. A partial image continuity determining unit that determines the identity between the partial images extracted from the two different scenes by the partial image extracting unit,
The partial image identity confirming unit determines a partial image determined to be the same as the partial image extracted by the partial image extracting unit based on the information received by the user instruction acquiring unit by the partial image continuity determining unit. Based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition means by repeatedly extracting a scene between the scene related to the information received by the user instruction acquisition means and the scene related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording means. The identity of the partial image extracted by the partial image extracting means and the partial image related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording means is confirmed. Video-compatible advertising device. The information related to the partial image recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording means is characteristic information of the information related to the partial image,
The partial image identity confirmation unit compares the feature information with the feature information of the partial image extracted by the partial image extraction unit based on the information received by the user instruction acquisition unit, thereby obtaining the user instruction 2. The identity of the partial image extracted by the partial image extracting means based on the information received by the means and the partial image related to the information recorded in the partial image corresponding advertisement recording means is confirmed. Or the moving image corresponding | compatible advertisement apparatus of Claim 2. Information received from the user by the user instruction acquisition means includes information for specifying a position in a specific scene in the video,
2. The moving image-compatible advertising device according to claim 1, wherein the partial image extracting unit extracts a partial image including a position specified by information received from a user by the user instruction acquiring unit.   The partial image continuity determining means determines the identity between the partial images based on the overlapping degree of the regions inside the partial images extracted from the two different scenes by the partial image extracting means, respectively. Item 4. The moving image-compatible advertising device according to Item 3.   The moving image-compatible advertising device according to claim 1, wherein the advertisement determined by the advertisement determining means determines a plurality of related advertisements.   The moving image-compatible advertising device according to claim 1, wherein the advertisement determined by the advertisement determining means determines the advertisement according to the attribute of the user.   2. The moving image-compatible advertising device according to claim 1, wherein the advertisement transmitting unit determines a timing for transmitting an advertisement for display on a terminal device used by the user according to the progress of the moving image. A user instruction acquisition step in which a computer receives information related to a specific partial image in a specific scene in a video from a user;
A partial image extraction step in which a computer extracts a partial image related to the information from the scene based on information received from the user;
Associating an advertisement with a specific partial image in a specific scene in a video, information related to the partial image and information related to the advertisement are recorded in a storage device,
A partial image identity confirmation step for confirming the identity between the partial image extracted by the computer based on the information received from the user and the partial image related to the information recorded in the storage device;
An advertisement determining step in which the computer determines an advertisement to be associated with the partial image extracted based on the information received from the user based on the confirmed result;
An advertisement transmitting step in which the computer transmits the determined advertisement for display on a terminal device used by the user;
A video-compatible advertising method comprising:

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