JP2833559B2 - Presentation information organizing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information presenting apparatus for automatically presenting collected information without an explicit request from a user, and in particular, determines the presentation order and configuration of each collected information. The present invention relates to a presentation information organizing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional information presenting apparatus is one that presents information only by a user's explicit instruction, such as a computer system, or a user, such as a television, radio, or electronic bulletin board. In some cases, a pre-programmed information group is automatically presented regardless of this.

[0003] In recent years, with the development of large-scale computer networks, it has become possible for individuals to easily obtain very large and diverse information. Users can get in touch with various cultures and technologies from all over the world by obtaining the desired information from a wide variety of information,
You can use it for your own work and life.

[0004] However, when trying to obtain such information with the conventional information presenting apparatus as described above, the amount and type of information that can be selected is too large in a system in which the user himself / herself explicitly specifies the information to be obtained. This makes it difficult to select information that matches the purpose.

Further, in a device such as a television that automatically provides information, the selection range of each user is limited to a predetermined number of information presenting programs and channels. It has become difficult to select the information to do.

Therefore, in order for a user to easily and widely view such a vast amount of information, useful information is collected without the user's explicit instruction, and the user's intentions are collected. An information presenting apparatus that automatically presents information according to circumstances or circumstances is desired.

[0007] To solve the above-mentioned problem, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 265677 discloses a method of giving information edited according to the knowledge level of a user by giving the computer system the knowledge that the user has in advance. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 04-227380 discloses a method of displaying information input from the outside according to a display schedule specified in advance by a user.

[0008]

In any of the methods proposed in the above-mentioned publications, the presentation information is edited or selected only for the convenience of the user, such as their own knowledge level and display schedule, and is obtained. No planning is performed to adjust the presentation order and the number of presentations for each type in consideration of the amount of information and the type of information. For this reason, there is a problem that even useful information is not displayed unless it is suitable for the user.

[0009] Further, since the selection of information is performed only based on the content of the information, the amount of information to be displayed decreases when the amount of information suitable for the user is small, and the width of the information on the computer network is reduced. There is a problem that cannot be used effectively.

[0010] Further, in the above-mentioned proposed method, the priority level depending on the type of information, such as urgent information for the user, is not considered. For this reason, even if the information has high priority for the user, the display order does not matter at all, and there is a risk that the user may not notice the information having high priority.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional technology, and is considered to be useful not only for information of a type explicitly specified by a user but also for other information. It is an object of the present invention to provide a presentation information organizing apparatus that enables a user to effectively utilize a wide range of information on a computer network by automatically collecting information and presenting the information to the user at appropriate timings and amounts.

[0012]

A presentation information organizing apparatus according to the present invention is a presentation information organizing apparatus connected to a computer network or a broadcast decoder, which organizes the presentation order and configuration of collected information and outputs the information to an output device. Collecting interest information from the computer network or the broadcast decoder based on interest information managed by the interest information management means, and managing the interest information related to the category specified by the user; Information collecting means for also collecting information presumed to be useful to the user above, material information storage means for temporarily storing the information collected by the information collecting means, and by user's designation or by default designation A presentation plan setting means for setting a presentation plan for each information category; And presenting information organization means for organizing the basis of information collected by the multi-address collecting means configured presented plans to the presentation plan setting means, and presentation information storing means for storing the information group configuration is determined by the above means,
Information presenting means for outputting the information group accumulated in the presentation information accumulating means to an output device.

In this case, the information collecting means detects a category on the computer network where the amount of information is remarkably increasing as information presumed to be useful to the user, and collects representative information included in the category. It may be.

In any of the above, when the information collecting means receives information of a category designated as urgent information for a user, the information collecting means, the presentation information organizing means, and the presentation information storing means The information may be sent directly to the information presenting means without going through the means.

[0015] Further, referring to the presentation ratio setting means for setting the presentation ratio of each category and the presentation ratio set in the presentation ratio setting means, the presentation schedule organized by the presentation information organizing means may be set to several times. And a presentation information adjusting means for interrupting information belonging to the category at a fixed ratio.

In the above case, when the information collection means receives information of a category designated as urgent information for the user, the information collection means, the presentation information organization means, and the presentation information storage means Without means
It may be sent directly to the presentation information adjustment means.

[Operation] In the present invention configured as described above, in addition to the information corresponding to the range of interest of the user, even if the information is outside the range of interest, the category is actively discussed by others. The information to which the user belongs is also automatically collected, and various types of information can be provided to the user based on a user-set or predetermined presentation plan.

When the presentation ratio setting means and the presentation information adjusting means are provided, the user can arbitrarily set the presentation ratio of the information for each category classified in advance, and In a case where the amount of presentation is monotonous due to an excessive amount, it is possible to temporarily stop presenting the information and present information of another category.

When the information collecting means is configured to send the information of the category designated as urgent information for the user to the information presenting means or the presented information adjusting means directly, Emergency information is immediately presented to the user.

[0020]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a presentation information organizing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 1 shows a presentation information organizing device 1, an output device 2,
It comprises a broadcast decoder 3 and a computer network 4.

The broadcast decoder 3 is a radio, a TV tuner, a satellite broadcast decoder, or the like. Designation of a program or a channel for these is performed by the computer network 4 or an interest information in the presentation information organizing device 1 via an input device (not shown). This is performed by the user describing the channel and broadcast time in the management means 101.

The presentation information organizing device 1 includes an interest information management unit 101, an information collection unit 102, and a material information storage unit 10.
3. Presentation plan setting means 104, presentation information organizing means 10
5. Presentation ratio setting means 106, presentation information adjustment means 10
7. Presentation information storage means 108 and information presentation means 109
Is a constituent element.

Each of the means constituting the presentation information organizing apparatus 1 is implemented by software using a control device and a storage device (both not shown) constituting the presentation information organizing apparatus 1. The specific realization method has no particular feature, and can be configured using a very general technology. Therefore, the description of the specific realization method is omitted, and the characteristics of the present embodiment are described below. The operation of each of the above means will be described.

The information collecting means 102 collects information from the computer network 4 based on the interest information managed by the interest information managing means 101. The interest information is information of a category designated by the user in advance. For example, in the case of using a specific newsgroup of NetNews on the Internet, a specific conference room in xxxxxx-Serve of personal computer communication, and also using a television broadcast. In, a user specifies a specific program or channel, and information on the specified newsgroup, conference room, specific program or channel, etc. is managed as interest information.

The information collecting means 102 detects a category in which the amount of information is remarkably increasing on the network separately from the above-mentioned interest information, and collects representative information included in the category. For example, in the case of the Internet, the number of registrations of a predetermined range or all newsgroups is regularly acquired, and a newsgroup whose registration number is increased by a certain number or more from the previous time is picked up and registered in the newsgroup. From the articles, collect the original articles that follow a certain number or more and follow some of them. The predetermined range is a range in which the user specifies a range of the information source other than the category specified as the interest information in the interest information management unit 101. Also, for newsgroups newly established in NetNews, the first few articles are collected so that the user can know the existence and contents of those newsgroups. Furthermore, a reference address to another article included in the article collected by these methods, for example, a URL of the WWW (World Wide Web) is automatically extracted and collected as presentation information attached to the article. I do.

The information collected by the information collecting means 102 is stored in the material information storing means 103 as material information. However, the "emergency information"
The information of the category designated as, for example, a mail from a specific person, is not directly stored in the material information storage unit 103 but is sent directly to the presentation information adjustment unit 107.

The presentation plan setting means 104 is used to set a presentation plan in which a request is described in accordance with designation of a particular category of a user on which day or time the user wants to view information. When there is no designation from the user, a presentation plan based on a preset default designation is set.

The presentation information organizing means 105 acquires material information other than emergency information from the material information storage means 103 based on the presentation plan set in the presentation plan setting means 104, and categorizes the information into each category included in the presentation plan. A presentation schedule in which the information to which the information belongs belongs is allocated by the approximate number of times set in the presentation plan. The number of pieces of information to be actually presented depends on the amount of each piece of presented information and the media, and is presented only for the time allocated to the category on the presented plan.

The presentation ratio setting means 106 converts information belonging to a category not specified by the user as interest information from information which can be collected by the information collecting means 102 into information belonging to a category specified as interest information. It specifies how much each is interrupted.

The presentation information adjusting means 107 refers to the presentation ratio setting means 106 and applies information belonging to several categories to the presentation schedule organized by the presentation information organizing means 105 at a fixed ratio in the same manner as a CM in a television program. To interrupt.

The series of presentation information having undergone the above processing is immediately sent to the information presentation means 109 or stored in the presentation information storage means 108 until the presentation of the information already sent to the information presentation means 109 is completed. And is put into a standby state. However, when the emergency information is sent directly from the information collecting means 102 to the presentation information adjusting means 107, the emergency information is sent to the information presenting means 109 with the highest priority.

When the category specified as the interest information includes a TV or radio broadcast program or channel, the broadcast or program of the corresponding channel is received from the broadcast decoder 3 and, if necessary, the presentation information storage means. 1
At 08, video recording or audio data is held.

The information presenting means 109 provided as information presenting means together with the presented information adjusting means 107 presents the information sent from the presented information adjusting means 107 to the user using the output device 2.

In the presentation information organizing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1, the user sets the interest information management unit 101, the presentation plan setting unit 104, and the presentation ratio setting unit 106 in advance.
An input for designating interest information, a presentation plan, and a presentation ratio of each category is performed through an input device (not shown). These designation inputs are not compulsory. Unless an interest category is designated, in addition to e-mail, each category on the network, for example, each newsgroup of NetNews or xxxxxx.
-Articles in the category where the number of registrations is rapidly increasing and articles in the newly opened category are automatically collected and presented to the user among the conference rooms of the server. If no presentation plan is specified, the information is similarly presented in any time zone without distinction to the category of the collected information. Further, when the presentation ratio is not specified, the information of the category not specified by the user as the interest information is displayed in the presentation plan setting unit 10.
It is presented only in the vacant hours of the schedule not specified in 4.

FIG. 2 shows examples of types and categories of presentation information described in the interest information management means 101. The “latest topic” in FIG. 2 is information other than the above-mentioned information specified by the user as interest information, and the range can be specified for such information. In the example of FIG. 2, [NetNew
s "fj. rec. * By specifying the range "Net"
It is specified that information corresponding to the “latest topic” is collected only from newsgroups related to recreation in Japan among Newsgroups of News.

Further, in FIG. 2, [E-mai
l] From: By designating as AAAAAAAAAAA, a mail with a user ID of AAAAAAAAAAA is presented with the highest priority.

Further, as the interest information, [xxxxxx-Serv] fgraphic / M shown in I002
Designated as ES15, xxxxxx-1 in the Graphic forum (fgraphic) of Serve
Collect the newly registered articles in the fifth conference room. Other I00
1, I003 to I007 are the same as above. For example, in I005 and I006, the computer A,
Articles about computer B are collected.

E001 and the like added to the head of each category in FIG. 2 are identifiers for each type of information.
It is used by the presentation plan setting means 104 for associating the presentation time zone with the presentation information.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a presentation plan set in the presentation plan setting means 104. In FIG. 3, the items of the presentation information correspond to the identifiers at the head of each category in FIG. In the time zone, Mon and -Sun on the day of the week designate information presentation times other than Monday and Sunday, respectively. By adding "-" before the specified value, a time other than the specified time is specified. The first 9: 30-10: 00 of the time section is the presentation information I001.
Indicates that information belonging to the category indicated by is presented from 9:30 to 10:00. The same time zone as I001 is designated for the next presentation information I002. In this case, after the information designated by I001 is presented, I002
The information specified in is presented in the same time frame. When all the designated time zones are used up with only the information belonging to I001, the information belonging to I002 is not presented.

In a time zone not specified in the presentation plan, a range is specified as interest information (such as I005 in FIG. 2) not described as presentation information in the presentation plan or as “the latest topic” shown in FIG. Automatically collected information other than the interest information that has been collected is incorporated. Based on such a presentation plan, a presentation schedule as shown in FIG. 4 is determined by the presentation information organizing means.

With respect to the determined presentation schedule, the presentation information adjustment means 107 performs adjustment for matching the presentation ratio of the information belonging to each category based on the presentation ratio set in the presentation ratio setting means 106. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, a presentation ratio is designated for each of the types and categories in FIG. The sum of the respective ratios is set to 1 and the adjustment is made so that the ratio of the previously described item (the ratio of “latest topic” to I001 in the example shown in FIG. 5) is preferentially satisfied. Specifically, priority is given to information specified as interest information for information to be presented during time periods not specified in the presentation plan, but information outside the interest range is presented as far as the presentation ratio is satisfied. . In the example shown in FIG. 5, the “latest topic” is set such that the ratio of the information designated as the interest information and the “latest topic” is 8: 2 regardless of whether it is described in the presentation plan. Incorporate in the presentation schedule.

[0044]

As described above, by using the presentation information organizing apparatus of the present invention, a user automatically collects information of a predetermined range of interest and views the information according to his / her own life rhythm. Not only can you do this, but you can know the topics that are being actively discussed in each category and newly created categories even if the information is out of your interest range, without any operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a presentation information organizing apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing examples of types and categories of presentation information according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a presentation plan according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a presentation schedule according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a presentation ratio.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 presentation information organization device 2 output device 3 broadcast decoder 4 computer network 101 interest information management means 102 information collection means 103 material information storage means 104 presentation plan setting means 105 presentation information organization means 106 presentation ratio setting means 107 presentation information adjustment means 108 presentation Information storage means 109 Information presentation means

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Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A presentation information organizing device connected to a computer network or a broadcast decoder for organizing the presentation order and configuration of collected information and outputting the information to an output device, wherein interest information relating to a category designated by a user is provided. Interest information management means for managing, collecting information from the computer network or the broadcast decoder based on the interest information managed by the interest information management means, and further collecting information which is presumed to be useful to a user on the computer network. Information collection means to be collected; material information storage means to temporarily store information collected by the information collection means; and a presentation plan in which a presentation plan for each information category is set by a user's designation or by default designation Setting means, and the information collected by the information collecting means. Presentation information organizing means for organizing based on the presentation plan set in the plan setting means; presentation information accumulating means for accumulating an information group whose configuration is determined by each of the above means; information group accumulating in the presentation information accumulating means Information presenting means for outputting the information to an output device. 2. The presentation information organizing device according to claim 1, wherein the information collecting means detects a category on the computer network where the amount of information is remarkably increased as the information presumed to be useful to the user, and A presentation information organizing device for collecting representative information included in a presentation information. 3. The presentation information organizing device according to claim 1, wherein a presentation ratio setting unit for setting a presentation ratio of each category, and a presentation ratio set in the presentation ratio setting unit. ,
A presentation information organizing device, further comprising presentation information adjusting means for interrupting information belonging to several categories at a fixed ratio with respect to the presentation schedule organized by the presentation information organizing means. 4. The presentation information organizing device according to claim 1, wherein said information collecting means stores said material information when receiving information of a category designated as urgent information for a user. A presentation information organizing device, wherein the information is sent directly to the information presenting means without passing through the means, the presentation information organizing means, and the presentation information accumulating means. 5. The presentation information organizing device according to claim 3, wherein the information collecting means receives the information of the category designated as urgent information for the user, and stores the material information accumulating means and the presentation. A presentation information organizing apparatus characterized in that the information is sent directly to the presentation information adjusting means without passing through the information organizing means and the presentation information accumulating means.