JP2018182636A - Cooperation device, cooperation system, cooperation method, and cooperation program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooperation device, cooperation system, cooperation method, and cooperation program, capable of making an application capable of starting correspondingly to a program content cooperate automatically.SOLUTION: A cooperation information generator 30 comprises: an entity acquisition unit 31 for acquiring entity information obtained by associating information identifying a scene of a program with a class showing a content of the scene; an application acquisition unit 32 for acquiring application information obtained by associating information identifying an application with a class; a matching processing unit 33 for generating cooperation information obtained by matching the entity information with the application information on the basis of their class; and a cooperation information provision unit 35 for identifying and providing the cooperation information corresponding to the scene.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus, system, method and program for linking a program and an application.

  In recent years, with the development of the Internet network due to the spread of mobile terminals such as smartphones, also in broadcasting stations, service development utilizing not only the broadcast infrastructure but also the Internet has become active. On the other hand, in the situation where various services can be received by the mobile terminal, it is not sufficient to only enjoy the broadcast service that information about the broadcast can be acquired from the broadcast station. For example, it is possible to search for directions to a restaurant, to buy daily necessities, etc., with a portable terminal, and measures to connect the contents of a broadcast program to such application services or user behavior are becoming important. Conventionally, in programs, for example, effects such as prompting a user to search are also performed.

  As cooperation between program contents such as broadcasting or VOD and the like, Patent Document 1 proposes a method of transmitting application control information through a transmission path other than broadcasting in accordance with the progress of a program. Further, Patent Document 2 proposes a method that enables seamless moving image viewing between a home electronic device and a smartphone or the like.

JP, 2016-1908, A JP, 2014-10842, A

  However, since the method of Patent Document 1 is a mechanism controlled by the broadcaster, the broadcaster side is burdened with data generation, and there is no extensibility of usable applications. Further, the method of Patent Document 2 provides a mechanism for finding the same application in the same network, and the content of the service is limited.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a cooperation apparatus, a cooperation system, a cooperation method, and a cooperation program which can automatically cooperate with an application which can be activated according to program contents.

  The cooperation apparatus according to the present invention includes the entity acquiring unit for acquiring entity information in which a class indicating contents of a scene is associated with information for identifying a scene of a program, and information for identifying an application. An application acquisition unit that acquires application information associated with a class, a matching processing unit that generates linkage information matching the entity information and the application information based on the class, and the linkage information corresponding to the scene And a cooperative information providing unit that specifies and provides the information.

  In the entity information, an attribute and an attribute value included in the class are associated with the information specifying the scene, and in the application information, an attribute of a query input to the application is specified. The matching processing unit may obtain an attribute value for an attribute specified by the application information from the entity information, generate the query, and include the query in the cooperation information.

  The matching processing unit may refer to the ontology in which the inclusion relation of the class is defined, and may match the entity information in which the same or lower class is associated with the class of the application information.

  The cooperation apparatus may include a storage unit that stores the generated cooperation information, and an input unit that receives an input of the cooperation information and stores the input in the storage unit.

  A collaboration system according to the present invention is a collaboration system including the collaboration apparatus and a presentation apparatus for presenting the application, wherein the presentation apparatus performs the collaboration information based on information specifying the scene. The system includes: a cooperation information acquisition unit acquired from a cooperation information provision unit; and an application activation unit which activates the application associated with the scene based on the acquired cooperation information.

  The cooperation information acquisition unit may acquire the cooperation information according to trigger information included in a broadcast signal of the program.

  The presentation device may include an actual result notification unit that notifies the cooperation device of an acquisition result of the cooperation information and an execution result of the application.

  The application activation unit may manage an application executable by the presentation device, and activate an alternative application when the application based on the cooperation information can not be activated.

  The cooperation method according to the present invention includes the entity acquiring step of acquiring entity information in which a class indicating contents of a scene is associated with information identifying a scene of a program, and information identifying an application. An application acquisition step of acquiring application information associated with a class; a matching processing step of generating linkage information matching the entity information and the application information based on the class; and the linkage information corresponding to the scene The computer executes the linked information providing step of identifying and providing

  The cooperation program according to the present invention includes the entity acquiring step of acquiring entity information in which a class indicating contents of a scene is associated with information identifying a scene of a program, and information identifying an application. An application acquisition step of acquiring application information associated with a class; a matching processing step of generating linkage information matching the entity information and the application information based on the class; and the linkage information corresponding to the scene And a cooperative information providing step of specifying and providing the information.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically cooperate with an application that can be activated according to the content of a program.

It is a figure showing the functional composition of the cooperation system concerning an embodiment. It is a figure which illustrates the entity information concerning an embodiment. It is a figure which illustrates application information concerning an embodiment. It is a figure which illustrates the cooperation information concerning an embodiment. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for detecting an application of a start candidate in the matching process according to the embodiment. It is a figure which illustrates the procedure which generates a query in the matching processing concerning an embodiment. It is a figure which illustrates the procedure in the case of using an ontology in the matching process which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which illustrates the information provided with respect to a content holder from the cooperation information provision part which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which illustrates the information provided with respect to an application information management business person from the cooperation information provision part which concerns on embodiment.

Hereinafter, an example of the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
In the present embodiment, the broadcaster does not control the application activation information, but only describes the entity information related to the contents of the program scene, and the cooperation system 1 is defined by the entity information and the management company of the application. Linking with application information related to application detection and activation, and linking program scenes with applications.

When describing information (such as "K station" or "You are ○○") that a broadcaster or the like appears in each scene of a program as metadata, a superordinate concept (for example, an entity) of each information (for example, entity) If "station K", "place", and if "you are OO", "book" etc. are defined.
On the other hand, for an application activated in conjunction with a program, detection information and activation information are defined such that, for example, when “location” information is found, “latitude” and “longitude” are specified and activated.

  In the present embodiment, the entity information, the application information, and the cooperation information are described in RDF (Resource Description Framework), which can be flexibly expanded, but the data description format is not limited.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a functional configuration of the cooperation system 1 according to the present embodiment.
The cooperation system 1 includes a content information storage device 10, an application information storage device 20, a cooperation information generation device 30 (cooperation device) for linking an application and an entity, and a terminal device 40 (presentation device).

In the content information storage device 10, entity information based on the contents of a program scene is stored by a content holder A such as a broadcaster.
The entity information is information in which a class indicating contents of a scene is associated with information (for example, broadcast time) specifying the scene of a program. Further, in the entity information, an attribute and an attribute value included in the class are associated with the information specifying the scene.

FIG. 2 is a diagram exemplifying entity information according to the present embodiment.
For example, the entity "E001" is associated with a scene in which information of the "Book" class whose Title is "You are xxx" is introduced in the program, and the broadcast timing is "February 20, 2017 10 It indicates that the time is 13 minutes 00 seconds.
Also, in the entity "E002", information of the "Location" class having a latitude of "35.658611" and a longitude of "139.901111" will be broadcasted at "10:20:00 on February 20, 2017". Is shown.

In the application information storage device 20, application information related to detection and activation of an application is stored by the application information management business operator B who manages application information.
The application information is information in which a class described in entity information is associated with information specifying an application. Further, in the application information, an attribute of a query (parameter) to be input when activating the application is specified.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating application information according to the present embodiment.
For example, the application "A_01" is detected if there is entity information of the "Book" class, and "s" is set to "Key" and "<Title>" is set to "Value" as a query at the time of activation. In the application information, an AppID for specifying an application, a URL, and the like are also described.

  The form of the query is not limited to the illustrated key-value structure. The query may be converted into a format supported by the application or a format compatible with the application, and described as a query URL such as "https: //www.***/? S =% Title%" It may be done.

The cooperation information generation device 30 associates the entity information of the content information storage device 10 with the application information of the application information storage device 20 to generate cooperation information.
The collaboration information generation apparatus 30 includes an entity acquisition unit 31, an application acquisition unit 32, a matching processing unit 33, a collaboration information storage unit 34 (storage unit), a collaboration information provision unit 35, and an input unit 36.

The entity acquisition unit 31 acquires entity information from the content information storage device 10 and provides the entity information to the matching processing unit 33.
The application acquisition unit 32 acquires application information from the application information storage device 20 and provides the application processing unit 33 with the application information.

The matching processing unit 33 collates the class of entity information with the class definition that is the detection condition of the application, and links the both together.
Further, the matching processing unit 33 extracts the corresponding attribute value from the entity based on the attribute (Value) of the query specified as the application start condition, and generates the cooperation information including the query.

  Further, the matching processing unit 33 may refer to the ontology in which the inclusion relation of the class is defined, and match the entity information in which the same or lower class is associated with the class of the application information.

The cooperation information accumulation unit 34 accumulates cooperation information generated as a result of the tying.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating cooperation information according to the present embodiment.
For example, the linkage information "EA001" links the entity "E001" with the application "A_01", and Key and Value are set as a query when activating the application "A_01".
Note that, in the present embodiment, the query is illustrated in a JSON format that is easy to process by the external system, but may be described in another format.

  The collaboration information providing unit 35 identifies collaboration information corresponding to a scene being viewed by the user based on time and the like, and provides the collaboration information to the outside.

  The input unit 36 receives the input of the linkage information generated by the content holder A or the like without the matching processing unit 33, and stores the input in the linkage information storage unit 34.

  The terminal device 40 functions as the cooperation information acquisition unit 41, the application activation unit 42, and the performance notification unit 43 by executing the program cooperation application, and presents the user with the application of the activation candidate according to the program content being viewed. Do.

The cooperation information acquisition unit 41 acquires, from the cooperation information provision unit 35, cooperation information on the scene of the program while the user is viewing the program on the terminal device 40 or another television or the like.
Further, the terminal device 40 may activate a program cooperation application in accordance with trigger information included in a broadcast signal of a program, and the cooperation information acquisition unit 41 may acquire cooperation information.
Note that the collaboration information acquisition unit 41 may automatically acquire collaboration information in response to a trigger, or may receive cooperation input from a user to acquire collaboration information.

The application activation unit 42 activates the application linked to the scene of the program based on the acquired cooperation information.
In addition, the application activation unit 42 manages an application that can be executed by the terminal device 40, and when it is not possible to activate the application selected based on the linkage information (is not installed), an alternative application having the same function is used. Present and start.
Note that the application activation unit 42 may automatically activate the application based on the acquired cooperation information, or may be activated by receiving a user's operation input.

The result notifying unit 43 notifies the cooperation information generation device 30 of the acquisition result of the cooperation information in the terminal device and the execution result of the application. These pieces of information are provided to the content holder A or the application information management business operator B via the cooperation information providing unit 35.
The content holder A receives the combination of the application and the entity and the performance information (for example, the number of times of display on the user screen of the terminal device 40 and the number of times actually activated) from the cooperation information providing unit 35. While the creation of entity information necessary for the start of the application information management business operator B can analyze the class definition and the like that are easy to be used in cooperation with the program.

The program cooperation application operating on the terminal device 40, for example, receives a trigger for acquiring an entity from the broadcast signal while the broadcast station is broadcasting a cooking program, and issues an information acquisition request to the cooperation information providing unit 35. When a food entity is registered for the triggered scene, this entity is matched with a dictionary application for searching for food, an application for a supermarket for buying food, or the like.
The program cooperation application may also acquire the application matched with respect to the food entity from the cooperation information provision unit 35 and display it on the user screen. Further, in the user screen, since parameters (queries) such as food names necessary for starting the application are set, the user does not have to input the parameters by himself.

Next, the details of the matching process by the collaboration information generation device 30 will be shown.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a procedure for detecting an application of a start candidate in the matching process according to the present embodiment.

First, when the latest entity information generated for a program is acquired by the entity acquisition unit 31, the cooperation information generation apparatus 30 acquires an application that can be activated for the entity information by the application acquisition unit.
In this example, the application “A_02” detected in the same class can be acquired for the “Location” class of the entity information “E002”.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a procedure of generating a query in the matching process according to the present embodiment.
The linkage information generation device 30 generates query information required at the start of the application. Specifically, from the application information, the matching processing unit 33 sets an activation condition for setting “geo” as a key, “latitude>, <longitude>” as a value, “q” as a key, and “<Title> It is possible to obtain an activation condition that makes “Value”.

Here, “latitude”, “longitude”, and “Title” set in Value mean that they are variables for reference, and therefore, are enclosed by “<” and “>”. That is, the description of Value indicates that “latitude” and “longitude” properties or “Title” properties are extracted from the entity information of the program.
Although "<" and ">" define that they are reference variables, the description format is not limited to this.
In this example, since "latitude" property and "longitude" property exist in the entity information, these data are extracted, and a query in JSON format set in Key and Value is generated.

  When generating a query, the matching processing unit 33 may use, for example, a conceptual structure such as an ontology because the extensibility is low only by the matching of the class name. The ontology may be provided inside the cooperation information generation device 30, or may be provided outside and referred to.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a procedure in the case of using an ontology in the matching process according to the present embodiment.
In this example, in the entity information "E002" of the program, information on the place is defined by the class name "latitude / longitude", but in the application information, it is defined to detect by the class name "Location". Therefore, even if the matching is performed as it is, the application “A_02” is not a start candidate.

  Therefore, by using the ontology, it can be understood that "latitude / longitude" is a subordinate concept of "Location", so that the matching processing unit 33 sets the start condition for the entity whose class is "latitude / longitude". Can work with applications whose class is "Location".

FIG. 8 is a view exemplifying information provided to the content holder A from the cooperation information providing unit 35 according to the present embodiment.
The content holder A is a "Location" class, and adds entity information "E003" having a "Title" property, in addition to entity information "E002" having a "latitude" and "longitude" property.

The matching processing unit 33 detects application information in the “Location” class, generates linkage information in the “latitude” and “longitude” properties, and can also generate linkage information in the “Title” property. Therefore, the content holder A can cooperate the applications without describing the program content with a specific attribute.
Also, as a result, since it is possible to acquire both usage records of entity information "E002" defining "latitude" and "longitude" and entity information "E003" defining "Title", the content holder A , Entity information easy to cooperate with the application, and its description can be grasped.

FIG. 9 is a view exemplifying information provided to the application information management business operator B from the cooperation information providing unit 35 according to the present embodiment.
The application information management business operator B can acquire a list of classes used to describe entity information, and can reflect it as a detection condition of application information as needed. In this example, in addition to the "Book" class, the "Appliance" class is additionally defined for the application information "A_01".

According to the present embodiment, the cooperation information generation device 30 matches the class defined in the entity information and the class defined in the application information to generate cooperation information. The cooperation information generation device 30 can automatically cooperate with an application that can be activated according to the program content by specifying and providing the cooperation information corresponding to the scene of the program.
As a result, for example, a food dictionary is presented for a cooking program, an application for shopping is activated, an SNS application for sharing a recipe is activated, and a viewing reservation is made for a program notice. It is possible to realize seamless user behavior from the program to the living space, such as searching for VOD and VOD.

  In addition, the content holder A such as a broadcaster can match the application with the class definition without finely defining the program content, and the application information manager B can also start conditions for each application. By defining the class, it is possible to automatically start an application that matches the program content on the user screen. As a result, the collaboration system 1 can not only seamlessly connect program content and user behavior but also provide a new advertisement model by the content holder A.

Further, the cooperation information generation device 30 acquires, from the entity information, an attribute value of a query (parameter) required for the application to be started. Thereby, the user can omit the input to the started application, and the convenience is improved.
In addition, the collaboration system 1 separately performs screening of candidate applications and passing of queries necessary for activating each candidate application by separately defining classes for detection and queries for activation. Even when the number of applications increases, for example, the user can be presented with only the minimum number of applications even when the number of applications increases, such as when the entity does not have the query information required to launch the detected application.

  The linkage information generation device 30 refers to the ontology in which the inclusion relation of the class is defined, and matches the entity information in which the same or lower class is associated with the class of the application information. Therefore, the linkage information generation apparatus 30 can avoid a situation in which matching between the entity information and the application information can not be performed due to the difference in the hierarchy of the class definition, and at the same time, the class of the application information is widely defined to cooperate with a wide range of entities. Control is easily possible.

  Since the cooperation information generation device 30 can receive and store the input of cooperation information generated in advance, the content holder A or the application information management business person B directly edits the association between the entity and the application without going through the matching process. You can also

  In the cooperation system 1, the terminal device 40 operates the program cooperation application in accordance with trigger information included in a broadcast signal of a program to acquire cooperation information. Therefore, the user can receive, at the terminal device 40, the presentation of the application related to the scene of the program in a timely manner.

  In addition, since the terminal device 40 notifies the cooperation information generation device 30 of the acquisition results of the cooperation information and the execution results of the application, the content holder A and the application information using the cooperation system 1 based on the utilization results of the cooperation information The manager B can edit entity information and application information appropriately.

  Furthermore, the terminal device 40 manages an executable application, and when it can not start an application based on linkage information, it starts a similar alternative application. Therefore, the terminal device 40 can efficiently provide the service linked to the program by using the installed application.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described, this invention is not limited to embodiment mentioned above. Further, the effects described in the present embodiment only list the most preferable effects arising from the present invention, and the effects according to the present invention are not limited to those described in the present embodiment.

  In the present embodiment, the cooperation system 1 in which the content information storage device 10, the application information storage device 20, the cooperation information generation device 30, and the terminal device 40 cooperate is described, but the configuration of the system is not limited to this.

For example, the content information storage device 10, the application information storage device 20, and the linkage information generation device 30 may be configured as a single server device.
The cooperation information generation device 30 may be incorporated in the terminal device 40. In this case, the terminal device 40 may be configured to internally hold at least a part of the application information and periodically update it.

  In addition, the content information storage device 10 and the application information storage device 20 may be provided in a cloud environment, and the cooperation information generation device 30 may also be implemented as a server function of the cloud.

  The terminal device 40 may be various information processing devices such as a personal computer other than a mobile terminal such as a smartphone and a tablet, and these may have a function of receiving and presenting a program. In addition, a broadcast receiver such as a television or a recorder may be configured as the terminal device 40.

  In the present embodiment, the configuration in which the content holder A creates and stores entity information has been described. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and another entity is an external server (content information storage device 10) on the Internet. May be published. In this case, for example, the cooperation information generation device 30 acquires entity information from an external server based on program information acquired by the terminal device 40 from the broadcast signal.

  Further, the manager of the entity information and the application information is not limited thereto. For example, the same enterprise may register both the entity information and the application information, and may link the application as an advertisement. In this case, the range of matching can be appropriately designed by adopting a unique ontology.

  In the present embodiment, the cooperation of the application to the broadcast program has been described, but the program may be distributed in real time or VOD via communication. In the case of VOD distribution, the reproduction position is used instead of the broadcast time as the information specifying the program scene.

  Classes in entity information may be automatically assigned. The class name may be extracted by, for example, language processing of program information such as subtitles or speech analysis, or may be acquired from an external database. By standardizing class names in an external database, more general class definition can be realized, and an improvement in matching accuracy can be expected.

  In the present embodiment, the configuration and operation of the collaboration system 1 have been mainly described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and each component may be provided and configured as a method or program for recommending a program.

  Furthermore, the program for realizing the function of the cooperation system 1 may be recorded in a computer-readable recording medium, and the program recorded in the recording medium may be read and executed by the computer system. .

  The “computer system” mentioned here includes an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices. The term "computer-readable recording medium" means a portable medium such as a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM, a CD-ROM, or a storage device such as a hard disk built in a computer system.

  Furthermore, "a computer-readable recording medium" holds a program dynamically for a short time, like a communication line when transmitting a program via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. In this case, it may also include one that holds a program at a fixed time, such as volatile memory in a computer system that becomes a server or a client in that case. Further, the program may be for realizing a part of the functions described above, and may be capable of realizing the functions described above in combination with a program already recorded in the computer system. .

1 cooperation system 10 content information storage device 20 application information storage device 30 cooperation information generation device (cooperation device)
31 entity acquisition unit 32 application acquisition unit 33 matching processing unit 34 cooperation information storage unit 35 cooperation information provision unit 36 input unit 40 terminal device (presentation device)
41 cooperation information acquisition unit 42 application activation unit 43 performance notification unit

Claims (10)

An entity acquisition unit for acquiring entity information in which a class indicating contents of a scene is associated with information specifying a scene of a program;
An application acquisition unit for acquiring application information in which the class is associated with information specifying an application;
A matching processing unit that generates linkage information matching the entity information and the application information based on the class;
A collaboration information providing unit that identifies and provides the collaboration information corresponding to the scene. In the entity information, an attribute and an attribute value included in the class are associated with information identifying the scene.
In the application information, an attribute of a query input to the application is specified.
The collaboration apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the matching processing unit acquires an attribute value for an attribute designated by the application information from the entity information, generates the query, and includes the query in the collaboration information.   The matching processing unit refers to the ontology in which the inclusion relation of the class is defined, and matches the entity information in which the same or lower class is associated with the class of the application information. The cooperation apparatus according to claim 2. A storage unit that stores the generated linkage information;
The cooperation apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising: an input unit that receives an input of the cooperation information and stores the input in the storage unit. A collaboration system comprising the collaboration apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4 and a presentation apparatus for presenting the application,
The presentation device is
A cooperation information acquisition unit that acquires the cooperation information from the cooperation information providing unit based on the information specifying the scene;
A collaboration system comprising: an application activation unit that activates the application associated with the scene based on the acquired collaboration information.   The collaboration system according to claim 5, wherein the collaboration information acquisition unit acquires the collaboration information according to trigger information included in a broadcast signal of the program.   The collaboration system according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the presentation device includes a performance notification unit that notifies the collaboration device of an acquisition history of the collaboration information and an execution history of the application.   The cooperation according to any one of claims 5 to 7, wherein the application activation unit manages an application executable on the presentation device, and activates an alternative application when the application based on the cooperation information can not be activated. system. An entity acquiring step of acquiring entity information in which a class indicating contents of a scene is associated with information specifying a scene of a program;
An application acquisition step of acquiring application information in which the class is associated with information specifying an application;
A matching processing step of generating linkage information matching the entity information and the application information based on the class;
A cooperation information providing step of specifying and providing the cooperation information corresponding to the scene, the computer executing the cooperation method. An entity acquiring step of acquiring entity information in which a class indicating contents of a scene is associated with information specifying a scene of a program;
An application acquisition step of acquiring application information in which the class is associated with information specifying an application;
A matching processing step of generating linkage information matching the entity information and the application information based on the class;
A cooperation program for causing a computer to execute a cooperation information provision step of specifying and providing the cooperation information corresponding to the scene.

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