JP5277184B2 - Choice generation and presentation apparatus and choice generation and presentation program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an option generation and presentation apparatus for generating and presenting comment options on the basis of a live program comment without involvement of a program producer or the like. <P>SOLUTION: An option generation and presentation apparatus 20 is equipped with: an option generating means 21 for generating options of a comment selectable for a viewer, who views a broadcasting program, on the basis of an analysis result of a comment analyzer 10 which analyzes the comment from the viewer while using program information from a broadcast station; an option presenting means 22 for presenting the options of the comment generated by the option generating section 21; a selection means 22a for selecting a desired option from among the options of the comment presented by the option presenting means 22; and a transmission means 23 for transmitting the options of the comment generated by the option presenting means 22 to the comment analyzer. The option selected by the selection means 22a is processed by the comment analyzer as occasion demands, and the analysis result is updated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an option generation and presentation apparatus, and more specifically, generates an option for a comment based on a raw program comment generated by a viewer from a result of collecting and analyzing comments from viewers sent to a broadcast program. The present invention relates to an option generation / presentation device to be presented and a program thereof.

  In recent years, a technology called “social TV” has been generalized, which enables viewers to communicate with each other by sharing opinions and impressions while watching broadcast programs via services such as Twitter that writes on bulletin boards on the Internet. (See Non-Patent Document 1). Program production by associating comments in the form of text data of these opinions and impressions with moving image data and audio in the audio data format (see, for example, Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2) Both viewers and viewers can learn the opinions of various viewers. There is also a method of collecting viewers' opinions and impressions using options provided by a program producer in a telegong or quiz program (see, for example, Patent Document 3).

JP 2008-28312 A JP 2008-283409 A JP 2002-329032 A

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  However, in the methods disclosed in Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, since it is necessary to input a comment as text data, a user who posts a comment can handle a terminal such as a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a “personal computer”). There is a problem that it is limited to some users who are used to. Further, in the method disclosed in Patent Document 3, since the choice is created by the program producer, the collected comments of the viewers do not always reflect the viewer's opinions and impressions on the program.

  Therefore, in order to solve the above problem, the present invention collects and analyzes comments from viewers sent to a broadcast program, and does not involve the participation of service providers such as program producers and Internet providers. Another object is to provide an option generation / presentation apparatus and program for generating and presenting comment options based on a live program comment generated by a user.

  In addition, there are various devices that allow a viewer to input comments, such as a personal computer, a mobile phone, and a digital broadcast receiver. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to a personal computer, and is an option generation and presentation that can process comments from viewers that can be input from various environments such as devices that can be handled by viewers, such as mobile phones and digital broadcast receivers. It is also an object to provide a device and its program.

  The option generation / presentation device according to claim 1 is an option for generating a comment option based on a raw program comment generated by a viewer from a result of collecting and analyzing comments from the viewer sent to the broadcast program. Based on the analysis result of the comment analysis device that generates and presents a comment from a viewer who views a broadcast program using program information from a broadcast station, a comment that can be selected by the viewer Option generating means for generating options, option presenting means for presenting options for the comments generated by the option generating means, and selecting means for selecting a desired option from the comment options presented by the option presenting means Transmitting means for transmitting the comment options generated by the option presenting means to the comment analysis device The provided, the option selected by the selection means, from time to time, the is processed by comments analyzer was configured to analysis results is updated.

  According to such a configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can provide services such as program producers and Internet providers from comments on viewers' programs sent in real time from viewers watching the programs to broadcast stations. Comment options can be adaptively generated and presented without the provider's involvement. Furthermore, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can input a response to a comment option presented by the viewer at any time. As a result, the program producer can easily obtain candid impressions, opinions, popularity degrees, etc. that the service provider is not involved in the program content from the comments from the viewers. Also, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can feed back the obtained comment options to the comment analysis device.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the option generation / presentation device according to the first aspect, the option generation means divides the program into a plurality of segments based on program content or time, and each of the plurality of segments is A plurality of comments, based on the analysis result, a predetermined number of combinations of comment targets and emotion expressions included for each comment are selected in descending order of the number of comments, and comment options are generated It was.
According to this configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can make comments from program comments generated by the viewer based on a combination of “comment target” and “emotion expression” that are frequently commented within a certain program segment. Choices can be generated and presented. As a result, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can present the interest of the viewer's program and its degree.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the option generation / presentation device according to the first aspect, the option generation means includes a representative option term table, and the representative option term table is referred to and the plurality of comments are referred to. Based on the analysis result, comment options that can be selected by the viewer are generated.
According to this configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can convert the expression included in the comment into a representative expression. As a result, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can present comment options to many users in an easily understandable manner.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the option generation / presentation apparatus according to the first aspect, the option generation means corresponds to a configuration of a device for presenting the comment option and a displayable size. It was set as the structure which produces | generates the choice of.
According to this configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can appropriately generate a comment option according to the configuration of the device for presenting the comment option and the displayable size. Accordingly, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can appropriately present the comment option according to various environments in which the viewer views the comment option.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the option generation / presentation device according to the first aspect, the option presenting means is a data format that can be processed by a device for presenting the comment option, and the option of the comment is selected. The configuration is such that data is output.
According to such a configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can output comment option data in a data format that can be processed by a device for presenting comment options. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately present comment options according to various environments in which the viewer views the comment options.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the option generation / presentation device according to the first aspect, the apparatus includes a scene selection unit that selects a scene that satisfies a predetermined condition from program information, and the option generation unit includes the scene selection unit. The comment option corresponding to the scene selected by is generated.
According to such a configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention provides a comment corresponding to a scene selected by the scene selection means from comments on the viewer's program sent in real time from the viewer watching the program to a broadcast station or the like. Can be generated and presented adaptively. Therefore, since it is possible to efficiently generate and present comment options focusing on a scene that is expected to be highly interested by the viewer, the viewer does not get tired of seeing the comment options presented.

The invention according to claim 7 is the option generation / presentation device according to claim 6, further comprising representative image extraction means for extracting a representative image corresponding to the scene selected by the scene selection means, wherein the option presentation means The comment options are presented together with the representative image corresponding to the scene extracted by the representative image extracting means.
According to such a configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can also present a representative image corresponding to the scene when presenting the comment option of the selected scene. Thus, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can present the comment options to the viewer in an easy-to-understand manner.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the option generation / presentation device according to the sixth aspect, the option generation means generates a corresponding representative comment for the generated comment option, and the option presentation means The representative comment is presented together with the comment options.
According to such a configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can present corresponding representative comments together when presenting the comment options of the selected scene. Thus, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention can present the comment options to the viewer in an easy-to-understand manner.

  According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the option generation / presentation device according to the first aspect, the comment input means for inputting a comment from a viewer, and the comment input to the comment input means is input to the comment analysis apparatus. The comment input means includes a personal computer (PC), a mobile phone, data broadcasting, and STB (Set Top Box) based on MHP (Multimedia Home Platform). The configuration allows input.

  With such a configuration, the option generation / presentation device of the present invention has an environment in which a comment can be posted, not only a personal computer, but also a mobile phone, data broadcasting, STB (Set Top Box) based on MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), and the like. , Can be spread to various environments. As a result, the option generation / presentation device is not limited to a part of users who are used to handling terminals such as personal computers, but also a general viewer such as a user of a mobile phone or a user who is watching a data broadcast. A comment that is a viewer's intention can be input. In addition, the option generation and presentation device displays the intention of the viewer by simply pressing a button on a mobile phone, a digital broadcast receiver, etc., or simply clicking on a comment option that appears on the computer screen. Can be used as an input for comment collection analysis using a public line, the Internet, or the like.

  The option generation / presentation program according to claim 10 is an option for generating a comment option based on a raw program comment generated by a viewer from a result of collecting and analyzing comments from the viewer sent to the broadcast program. A program for generating and presenting a computer based on an analysis result of a comment analysis device that analyzes a plurality of comments from a viewer who views a broadcast program using program information from a broadcasting station; Option generation means for generating selectable comment options, option presentation means for presenting the comment options generated by the option generation means, and desired options from the comment options presented by the option presentation means A selection unit that selects the comment, and the comment option generated by the option generation unit To function as a transmission means for transmitting to the comment analysis unit, wherein the option selected by the selection means, from time to time, the is processed by comments analyzer, the analysis result is a structure which functions to be updated.

  According to such a configuration, the option generation / presentation program of the present invention allows a program producer, an Internet provider, etc., from a comment about a viewer's program sent in real time to a broadcast station or the like from a viewer watching the program on a computer. It is possible to function to adaptively generate and present comment options without involvement of the service provider. Further, the option generation / presentation program can function to input a response to the comment option presented by the viewer as needed. As a result, the program producer can easily obtain candid impressions, opinions, popularity degrees, etc. that the service provider is not involved in the program content from the comments from the viewers. The option generation / presentation program can feed back the obtained comment options to the comment analysis device.

  According to the present invention, a live program generated by a viewer without the involvement of a service provider, such as a program producer or an Internet provider, from the result of collecting and analyzing comments from viewers sent to a broadcast program. Comment options can be generated based on the comments. Further, the present invention can appropriately process and present a comment from a viewer that can be input from various environments.

It is a schematic block diagram of the comment processing system which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram of the comment analysis apparatus which comprises the comment processing system of FIG. It is a block diagram of the choice production | generation presentation apparatus which comprises the comment processing system of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the comment analysis result output from the comment analysis apparatus of FIG. It is a flowchart explaining the comment choice production | generation process which the choice production | generation part of the choice production | generation presentation apparatus of FIG. 3 performs in order to produce | generate the choice of a comment. It is a figure explaining the option presentation part of the selection process production | generation presentation apparatus of FIG. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the screen shown by the option presentation part of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the screen of a digital broadcast receiver by the option presentation part of FIG. It is a block diagram of the choice production | generation presentation apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart explaining the representative comment production | generation process which the choice production | generation part performs in the choice production | generation presentation apparatus which concerns on the 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the screen of a digital broadcast receiver by the representative comment production | generation process of FIG. It is a block diagram of the choice production | generation presentation apparatus which concerns on the 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structural example of the screen shown by the choice presentation part of FIG.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
[Outline of comment processing system]
First, an overview of the comment processing system 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a comment processing system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The comment processing system 1 according to the present embodiment includes a broadcast program distribution device 2, a program distribution server 3, a comment analysis device 10, and a broadcast station that distributes a broadcast program (hereinafter also referred to as “program content”). An option generation / presentation device 20, a Web server 4 and a data storage device 5 on the Internet service provider (ISP) side, and a viewer who views program content via a network (communication line) N This is a system that collects comments (comment data) such as opinions and impressions on the program content from the viewer terminal 30 on the side, analyzes them, and presents comment options.

It is possible to post comments in real time using a service such as Twitter while watching a broadcast program. For this reason, it is not uncommon for a community that exchanges opinions and impressions about a program to swell on the Internet while synchronizing with the progress of the program.
In the present embodiment, the comment analysis device 10 collects comments posted in real time on the communication network N during program broadcast via the Web server 4 as comment data. Further, the comment analysis device 10 analyzes the comment data, classifies the comment data for each combination of the comment target and the emotion expression, and sends the analysis result to the option generation / presentation device 20.

  The option generation and presentation device 20 generates a plurality of comment options that can be selected by the viewer based on the analysis result from the comment analysis device 10, and receives the generated plurality of comment options for the viewer, for example, digital broadcast reception Present through the screen of the machine, through the screen of a personal computer, or through the screen of a mobile phone. Viewers can select multiple comment options via the digital broadcast receiver screen, personal computer screen, or mobile phone screen, and select if appropriate options exist. Just do it. Therefore, since the viewer only needs to select an appropriate option from a plurality of options, simple operations are possible, and complicated character input work is unnecessary. There is no need to be. In this way, various viewers can easily and quickly post their opinions and impressions to the community by selecting an option, thereby further activating the community regarding the program.

  In a sense, a community that allows as many viewers as possible to participate can be realized, so the living rooms of each household watching TV can easily link and participate in each other. It is also possible to realize such a space.

  Furthermore, since the comment options are generated based on the results of collecting and analyzing comments from viewers, the involvement of service providers such as program producers and Internet providers is unnecessary. Also, the option generation / presentation device 20 can adaptively generate and present comment options according to the progress of the program or the excitement of the community, and also reflect the viewer's selection for the comment options. Can do. For this reason, not only the activation of the community but also the program producer can obtain candid opinions and opinions with respect to the program content from the viewer's comments without involvement of the program producer or the service provider. A detailed configuration of the comment analysis device 10 and details of processing executed by the option generation / presentation device 20 will be described later.

  The broadcast program distribution device 2 distributes program content to the viewer terminal 30 on the viewer side via broadcast waves. The broadcast program distribution device 2 may broadcast program content by digital terrestrial broadcasting, or broadcast by satellite broadcasting such as BS (Broadcast Satellite) broadcasting or CS (Communication Satellite) broadcasting. Also good.

The program distribution server 3 stores program contents broadcast by the broadcast program distribution device 2. Further, the program distribution server 3 has a function of distributing program content via the communication network N. Here, it is assumed that the program distribution server 3 distributes the program content via the Web server 4. The program distribution server 3 stores program information such as program title, genre, broadcast date, subtitle data, and the like together with program content.
Thereby, the viewer can view the program content that the broadcast program distribution device 2 distributes in real time by the broadcast wave on the viewer terminal 30, and even if the program content has already been broadcast, the program distribution server 3, the program content can be acquired and viewed via the communication network N.

The Web server 4 collects comment data input by the viewer from the viewer terminal 30 on the viewer side. The Web server 4 acquires the program content from the program distribution server 3 and distributes the program content via the communication network N when the viewer views the program content stored in the program distribution server 3. To do.
Here, the Web server 4 determines whether or not a comment can be input from the viewer terminal 30 based on viewer login information (viewer-specific identifier [viewer ID], password, etc.) determined in advance by a contract. Further, it is determined whether or not a program distribution request is possible.

  The Web server 4 outputs the collected comment data to the data storage device 5 together with the viewer ID and program specifying information for specifying the program content to be commented. The program specifying information is not limited as long as it is information specifying the program content to be commented. For example, the program specifying information is a program name, a viewing time, a channel, and the like.

The data storage device 5 stores comment data transmitted from the Web server 4 and program identification information in association with the viewer ID.
In addition, when there is content data (such as caption data) indicating the content of a program scene, the data storage device 5 acquires the content data from the program distribution server 3 in advance and stores it in association with the time stamp. Shall.
In this way, the data storage device 5 stores the viewer ID, comment data, program identification information, and content data in association with each other as needed (partially omitted in the figure).

  The viewer terminal 30 receives and presents the program content distributed by the broadcast station, receives input of comment data for the program content from the viewer, and transmits it to the broadcast station side. Here, the viewer terminal 30 presents the program content to the viewer by acquiring and playing the program content from the Web server 4 using a general Web browser.

  Furthermore, the viewer terminal 30 displays a comment input screen on the screen based on the layout instructed by the Web server 4 by the Web browser, and accepts selection of comment options. For example, the viewer terminal 30 displays a program content display area 101 for displaying program content and options for comments (in this embodiment, a comment generated by the option generation and presentation device 20) shown in FIG. A viewer terminal display screen 50 including a comment display area 102, an auxiliary information display area 103 for displaying a keyword representing a comment, and a comment input area 104 for inputting a comment is displayed. The viewer can select an appropriate option from the comment options displayed in the comment display area 102 by a predetermined operation using the remote controller and transmit the selected option to the comment analysis device 10. The device for selecting an option may be any device that can transmit information to the comment analysis device 10, and is not limited to a remote controller. If the viewer terminal 30 includes an input device such as a keyboard, a comment may be input via an input device such as a keyboard (not shown). When the viewer terminal 30 does not include an input device such as a keyboard, the comment input area 104 displays comment options selected by the viewer.

  In addition to acquiring program content from the Web server 4, the viewer terminal 30 may be provided with a general TV tuner, and may acquire and present program content distributed via broadcast waves. .

The viewer terminal 30 can have various configurations including an STB (Set Top Box) based on a personal computer, a mobile phone, data broadcasting, MHP (Multimedia Home Platform), and does not include an input device such as a keyboard. In this case, an appropriate option is selected from the comment options.
Here, the Web server 4 and the data storage device 5 are provided on the ISP side, but may be provided in a broadcasting station. Next, the comment analysis apparatus 10 will be specifically described.

[Composition of comment analyzer]
First, the configuration of the comment analysis device 10 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the comment analysis apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the comment analysis device 10 includes a comment analysis unit 110 and an analysis result output unit 120. First, the comment analysis unit 110 will be described in detail.

  The comment analysis means 110 collects and analyzes comments from viewers on the program content via the communication network N as comment data. Although the comment analysis unit 110 can perform various analyses, in this embodiment, the comment analysis unit 110 analyzes the comment data collected from a plurality of viewers, thereby converting the comment data into the comment target and the emotion expression. It shall be classified for each combination. The comment analysis unit 110 includes a reception unit 111, a replacement character storage unit 112, a comment shaping unit 113, a shaping comment storage unit 114, a classification information generation unit 115, and a classification information storage unit 116.

The receiving unit 111 receives the comment data input by the viewer and the program specifying information for specifying the program content being viewed when the comment data is input via the communication network N. Here, the receiving unit 111 receives comment data for each viewer ID from the data storage device 5 with respect to the program content specified by the program specifying information. The comment data received by the receiving unit 111 is output to the comment shaping unit 113 together with the viewer ID.
The receiving unit 111 also receives content data (for example, caption data) indicating the content of the scene associated with the time stamp of the program content as metadata.

  The replacement character storage means 112 stores character strings for normalizing the comment data by partially replacing the comment data, and is configured by a general storage device such as a hard disk. . Here, the replacement character storage means 112 stores name replacement data, symbol replacement data, and emotion expression replacement data.

  The name replacement data is data for replacing a plurality of character strings of different expressions indicating objects to be subjected to the same emotion expression with identification words (object identification words) that are common character strings. Here, a plurality of character strings having different expressions are associated with the same character string (target identification word). For example, when the program content is a drama, the name of the actor and the role played by the actor are usually different but indicate the same person. Therefore, in the name replacement data, the actor's “Mr.”, “Name”, “Name”, or a character string similar to them is associated with the role name in advance.

  The symbol replacement data is data for replacing a symbol string (for example, emoticon) expressing an emotion by combining a plurality of symbols with an identification word indicating the emotion. Here, a combination of a plurality of symbols indicating the same emotion is associated with an emotion identifier for classifying into a predetermined classification. For example, “(^ o ^)”, “(′ ∀ ｀) /”, etc. that express a laughing face are associated with an emotion identification word “affirmation” in advance as positive expressions. Further, for example, “(｀ д ′ #)”, “(｀ · ω · ′)” representing an angry face is associated with an emotion identification word “denial” in advance as a negative expression.

Emotion expression replacement data is data for replacing a plurality of character strings of different expressions indicating the same emotion with identification words (emotion identification words) that are common character strings. Here, a plurality of emotion expressions are associated with emotion identification words for classification into predetermined classifications. For example, a character string indicating an emotion such as “like” or “cute” is associated with an emotion identification word “affirmation” in advance as a positive expression. In addition, for example, a character string indicating emotions such as “scary” and “dislike” is associated with an emotion identification word “negative” in advance as a negative expression.
In this way, the replacement character storage unit 112 stores a replacement character string for normalizing different expressions for each viewer.

  The comment shaping unit 113 normalizes a character string using different expressions among viewers in the comment data received by the receiving unit 111. The normalized comment data is stored in the formatted comment storage unit 114 in association with the viewer ID. Here, the comment shaping unit 113 includes a name substitution unit 113a, a symbol substitution unit 113b, a word string analysis unit 113c, an emotion expression substitution unit 113d, and a subject complementing unit 113e.

  Based on the name replacement data stored in the replacement character storage unit 112, the name replacement unit 113a applies a character string indicating the same person to a character string having a different name for each viewer for the same target in the comment data. Replace with a column. For example, when the same actor name as the name substitution data stored in the substitution character storage unit 112 is included in the comment data, the name substitution unit 113a replaces the actor name with the role name. The replaced character string means the subject in the comment data.

Based on the symbol replacement data stored in the replacement character storage unit 112, the symbol replacement unit 113b is an identification word for classifying a combination of a plurality of symbols indicating the same emotion into a predetermined classification in the comment data. Is to be replaced. For example, when the comment data includes a combination of symbols “(^ o ^)”, the symbol replacement unit 113b replaces the identifier with an identification word “affirmation”.
Note that the comment shaping unit 113 adds an attribute indicating that a character string has been replaced in the name replacing unit 113a and the symbol replacing unit 113b, for each character string.

The word string analysis unit 113c analyzes a word string that is comment data for each morpheme. Here, the word string analysis unit 113c analyzes the comment data that has undergone the character string replacement by the name replacement unit 113a and the symbol replacement unit 113b as necessary.
The word string analysis unit 113c performs morphological analysis of the comment data, associates parts of speech for each morpheme, and performs parse analysis to obtain a citation relationship between the words. Based on the analysis result, the comment data is classified for each part of speech, and it is possible to determine whether or not the comment data includes a subject word. The comment data and the analysis result are output to the emotion expression replacing unit 113d.
When the word string analyzing unit 113c determines from the attribute that the character string replaced by the name replacing unit 113a and the symbol replacing unit 113b is included in the comment data, the replaced character string is already analyzed. Since the contents are already known, no analysis is performed.

The emotional expression replacing unit 113d predetermines a character string to be an emotional expression in the comment data analyzed by the word string analyzing unit 113c based on the emotional expression replacement data stored in the replacement character storage unit 112. It is replaced with an emotion identifier for classification into different categories. For example, when the character string associated with a certain part of speech is “scary”, the emotion expression replacing unit 113d replaces the character string with an emotion identifier “No” corresponding to the character string.
As described above, the emotion expression replacement unit 113d replaces the comment data with the emotion identification word for each character string corresponding to the part of speech and compares it with the emotion identification word. Even if there is a character string, it is not mistakenly replaced with an identification word.

  The subject complementing means 113e complements the subject when the subject is not included in the comment data. Here, if the subject is not included in the analysis result analyzed by the word string analysis unit 113c, the subject complementing unit 113e acquires caption data from the data storage device 5 via the receiving unit 111, and the caption Supplement the comment data with the speaker in the data as the subject. In this case, the subject complementing means 113e uniquely determines the subject by performing morphological analysis and syntax analysis on the caption data, and comparing the degree of matching in the syntax analysis between each word included in the caption data and the comment data. The comment data is supplemented with the subject. The morphological analysis and syntax analysis of the caption data may be performed by the word string analysis unit 113c.

  In this way, the comment shaping unit 113 can normalize the comment data into a format that can be classified by the classification information generating unit 115 by replacing the subject or emotion expression with the comment data input by the viewer. .

  The shaped comment storage unit 114 stores the comment data shaped by the comment shaping unit 113 in association with the viewer ID, and is a general storage device such as a hard disk.

  The classification information generation unit 115 classifies the viewers into groups having similar emotional expressions with respect to a target object based on the comment data shaped by the comment shaping unit 113 and stored in the shaped comment storage unit 114. . Since the comment data formatted by the comment shaping unit 113 is normalized in terms of expressions representing emotions, the viewers are grouped based on the emotion expressions by obtaining the similarity of the comment data between the viewers. You can also

  The classification information storage means 116 stores a group of comment data with similar emotion expressions classified by the classification information generation means 115, and viewers with similar emotion expressions, if necessary, for each type of emotion expression. It is a general storage device such as a hard disk. In this classification information storage means 116, for example, a preference for a person appearing in program content may be stored in association with a viewer identifier (viewer ID) as a type of emotion expression.

  Next, the analysis result output unit 120 will be described in detail.

  The analysis result output unit 120 outputs an analysis result to the option generation / presentation device 20 based on the classification information classified for each emotion expression analyzed by the comment analysis unit 110. Here, the analysis result output unit 120 includes a program information acquisition unit 121, a program information analysis unit 122, an analysis result generation unit 123, and an analysis result output unit 124.

  The program information acquisition unit 121 acquires information (program information) indicating the content of program content scheduled to be distributed from the outside. This program information is information indicating the start time, characters, etc. of the program content to be distributed. For example, electronic program guide information such as EPG, or metadata in which the content of the program content is associated with time. , Subtitle data, etc. Note that the program information may be obtained from the program distribution server 3 in the broadcast station, or from a metadata generation device (not shown) owned by an external contractor commissioned by the broadcaster to generate metadata. You may make it acquire. The program information acquired by the program information acquisition unit 121 is output to the program information analysis unit 122.

  The program information analysis unit 122 analyzes the program information acquired by the program information acquisition unit 121 and extracts emotional expression targets such as characters for each program content. For example, if the program information describes the contents of the program as text data, the program information analysis means 122 extracts the subject by performing morphological analysis and syntax analysis on the text data.

  The analysis result generation unit 123 includes a group of comment data similar in emotion expression analyzed by the comment analysis unit 110 and stored in the classification information storage unit 116, and an object of the emotion of the program content analyzed by the program information analysis unit 122. Based on the above, the analysis result classified into the combination of the comment object of the comment data and the emotion expression is generated. Note that since the viewers with similar emotions are grouped in the classification information storage unit 116, the analysis result generation unit 123 generates an analysis result for each group.

  For example, the analysis result generation unit 123 includes program identification information (for example, a program name), a start time and an end time at which an emotion target (for example, a character) appears in the program, and the content of the emotion (for example, “affirmation”, "Negation") is also generated as an analysis result that is associated with the program content in the same group and classified into combinations of comment objects and emotion expressions of comment data corresponding to the program content. Specifically, the comment analysis result data includes, as comment classification information of a plurality of comments classified for each combination of comment target and emotion expression, for each comment, the time in the program, the viewer ID of the viewer who made the comment, Comment subject information that indicates what the comment is about, such as the theme of the program, characters, etc., such as information about emotion expressions used by the viewer, etc. Name can be included. As the item name, in addition to the combination of the comment target to which the comment corresponds and the emotion expression, for example, a program theme, a character, or the like may be used.

  The analysis result output unit 124 outputs the analysis result generated by the analysis result generation unit 123 to the option generation / presentation device 20.

  By configuring the comment analysis device 10 in this way, the comment analysis device 10 can collect and analyze comment data for the program content from the viewer terminal 30.

  Here, the analysis result output means 120 of the comment analysis apparatus 10 includes a program information analysis means 122 and an analysis result generation means 123. The comment analysis apparatus 10 analyzes the program information, and comments corresponding to the program content. The analysis result representing the combination of the data comment target and the emotion expression is output to the option generation / presentation device 20, but the analysis result output unit 120 analyzes the analysis result stored in the classification information storage unit 116, for example, Only information of “affirmation” and “deny” for a certain character may be transmitted as an analysis result. In this case, the program information is analyzed by the option generation / presentation device 20.

  Although the configuration of the comment analysis apparatus 10 has been described above, the comment analysis apparatus 10 can be operated by a comment collection analysis program that causes a general computer to function as each unit described above. The comment collection / analysis program can be distributed via a communication line, or can be written on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM for distribution.

  Next, the option generation / presentation device 20 will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the option generation / presentation apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention. As illustrated in FIG. 3, the option generation / presentation device 20 includes a comment analysis result input unit 11 that inputs comment analysis result data from the comment analysis device 10 and a personal computer (referred to as “PC”) via a communication network N. Viewer information input unit 11a that acquires viewer information from external viewer terminals 30a to 30c such as a digital broadcast receiver and a mobile terminal, and each combination of a comment target and an emotion expression based on comment analysis result data The comment counting unit 12 that counts the number of comments, the number of comments for each combination of the comment target and the emotion expression calculated by the comment counting unit 12, the analysis results of other comments described later, and the viewer information input unit 11a An option generation unit 21 that generates comment options selectable by the viewer based on the viewer information acquired from An option presentation unit 22 that generates comment option data generated by the option generation unit 21 based on viewer information acquired from the viewer information input unit 11a into comment option data that can be processed by the viewer's device; And a transmission unit 23 that transmits comment option data generated by the option presentation unit 22 to the external viewer terminals 30a to 30c via the communication network N. The option generation unit 21 constitutes an option generation unit according to the present embodiment, the option presentation unit 22 and the transmission unit 23 constitute an option presentation unit according to the present embodiment, and the transmission unit 23 The transmission means which concerns on a form is comprised.

  The comment analysis result input unit 11 inputs comment analysis result data from the comment analysis device 10. The comment analysis result data includes information such as the time in the program in which the comment is transmitted, the viewer ID of the viewer who made the comment, the program theme, and the like for each comment, and these pieces of information identify individual comments. Used as information. Further, the comment analysis result data includes comment target information that indicates what the comment is, an item into which the comment is classified, and comment content information that is a clue to search for an outline of the comment. The name of a character can be used as comment target information. The item only needs to specify a combination of a comment target and an emotional expression into which the comment is classified, and may be, for example, a program theme or a character. As the comment content information, for example, the emotional expression used by the viewer can be used.

  When the comment analysis device 10 and the option generation / presentation device 20 are configured separately, the comment analysis result input unit 11 directly receives the comment analysis result from the comment analysis device 10 via various communication means such as wired or wireless. Data may be received, or comment analysis result data analyzed by the comment analysis device 10 may be input via a storage device such as a hard disk that stores the data in advance.

  The viewer information input unit 11a acquires viewer information from the external viewer terminals 30a to 30c via the communication network N. Specifically, information regarding the devices of the viewer terminals 30a to 30c operated by the viewer is acquired. The viewer information input unit 11a constitutes a comment input unit according to the present embodiment for inputting a comment from the viewer.

  The comment counting unit 12 counts the number of comments or the number of viewers who commented for each classification of combinations of comment targets and emotion expressions based on the comment analysis result input by the comment analysis result input unit 11. Further, the comment counting unit 12 counts the number of comments or the number of viewers of comments, the time in the program, the viewer ID, the comment target, the comment content, the item name included in the data of the comment analysis result Based on the above, the comment analysis result data is divided every (total program time (seconds)) / m (seconds), and the number of comments or the number of viewers is counted for each comment analysis result within each time.

  The option generation unit 21 generates comment options that can be selected by the viewer based on the analysis result of the comment generated by the comment analysis device 10 from a plurality of comments about the program collected from the viewer. Specifically, the option generation unit 21 includes the time in the program, the theme for each scene of the program, the comment target such as a character, the emotional expression used by the viewer, for example, an affirmative expression included in the comment analysis result Divide the program into multiple segments based on the program content (scene) or time based on the comment content including information such as negative expression, marvelous expression, grief expression, jealous expression, fixed expression, etc. For each, a predetermined number of combinations of comment targets and emotion expressions included for each comment are selected in the order of the number of comments, and a comment option is generated for each segment. Further, the option generation unit 21 includes a viewer ID included in the comment analysis result data input from the comment analysis result input unit 11 and a viewer terminal operated by the viewer input from the viewer information input unit 11a. Based on the information about the devices 30a to 30c, comment options are generated as appropriate image data according to the individual devices of the viewer terminals 30a to 30c. Moreover, in this Embodiment, the choice production | generation part 21 transmits the comment input from the viewer information input part 11a to the comment analysis apparatus 10 via the transmission part 23 directly as a viewer's raw comment.

An example of a comment analysis result output from the comment analysis device 10 used when the option generation unit 21 generates a comment option is shown in FIG. As an example, we will show the trend of comments from viewers expected when we talked with Prime Minister Hatoyama when President Obama visited Japan.
As already explained, the comment analysis result is the comment content, the time within the program, the theme of each program scene, the subject of comment such as the characters, the emotional expression used by the viewer, for example, positive expression, negative expression, marvel Information such as expression, grief expression, ecstasy expression, and fixed expression can be included. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 4, based on the information included in the comment content, the comment analysis result is divided into a plurality of segments based on the program content (scene) or time, for example, T ₁ , T ₂ , T _3. Divide into For each segment, the option generation unit 21 expresses emotion expressions included in the comment analysis result for each comment target (indicated by “A”, “H”, and “O” in FIG. 4), for example, positive expression, negative expression The number of comment contents information and comments including expressions, marvelous expressions, grief expressions, jealous expressions, and fixed expressions is calculated, and for each segment, a large number of combinations of comment objects and emotion expressions are calculated. In addition, when the option generation unit 21 divides a program, for example, it detects a point where the scene changes from a change in physical feature amount included in the program data, and divides the program into a plurality of divisions based on the point. Also good.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, when the moderator in the first delimiter T ₁ (A) is to introduce President Obama (O), viewer comments, "positive" to the moderator, the "joy". When the Prime Minister Hatoyama in the next separator T ₂ (H) is ask the impression of Japan to President Obama, "positive" is the most. Furthermore, the following break T ₃ , President Obama said, “When you say you have experience in Japan, comments on President Obama are overwhelmingly increasing, and emotional expressions are“ surprise ”,“ joy ”,“ surprise And “surprise”.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining comment option generation processing executed by the option generation unit 21 to generate a comment option. The following processing is executed under the control of a CPU (not shown) included in the option generation / presentation device 20.

  As shown in FIG. 5, first, the number m of comment options to be presented is determined (step S1). Specifically, the number of optimum comment options that can be displayed differs depending on the device used by the user. When the device used by the user is a personal computer, the number of comment options to be displayed can be handled relatively flexibly. For example, in the case of a mobile phone, a digital broadcast receiver, etc. The number may be limited to about 4 to 5, for example. Here, from the viewer information input from the viewer information input unit 11a, the device that displays the comment options is specified, and the number of corresponding comment options is determined. In order to facilitate understanding, a process that assumes the case of a general mobile phone or digital broadcast receiving apparatus in which the number of comment options that can be displayed is five or less and the case of more than five personal computers, etc. Continue to explain.

  Next, from the comment analysis result, m combinations of comment targets and emotion expressions are selected from those having a large number of comments (step S2), and it is determined whether or not the number m of comments is 5 or less (step S3). ). If it is determined in step S3 that the number m of selected comments is 5 or less (YES), the number of comments that make the comment target the same for the combination of the selected comment target and emotion expression is three. It is determined whether or not this is the case (step S4).

  In step S4, when it is determined that the number of comments with the same comment target is three or more (YES), the top three of the combinations of m comment targets and emotion expressions are listed in descending order. With respect to the remaining (m−3) items, a combination of a large number of comment targets and emotion expressions is determined as a comment option from the different combinations of comment targets (step S5). On the other hand, if it is determined in step S4 that the number of comments having the same comment target is not three or more (NO), m comment target and emotion expression combinations are determined as comment options (step). S6).

  If it is determined in step S3 that the number m of selected comments is not 5 or less (NO), it is determined whether or not the number of comments having the same comment target is 3 or less (step S7). . When it is determined that the number of comments with the same comment target is three or less (YES), a combination of m comment targets and emotion expressions is determined as a comment option (step S8).

  If it is determined in step S7 that the number of comments with the same comment target is not three or less (NO), the comment target is the same among the number m of comments because the number m of comments is large. It is determined whether or not the comment is 2/3 or less of the comment (step S9). When it is determined that the number of comments with the same comment target is 2/3 or less of the number m of comments (YES), a combination of m comment targets and emotion expressions is determined as a comment option (step) S10).

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S9 that the number of comments with the same comment target is not less than 2/3 of the number of comments m, that is, more than 2/3 of the number of comments m (NO), The number of remaining comments excluding m comments included in the analysis result is calculated (step S12), and it is determined whether the number of remaining comments is greater than or equal to m × 1/3 (step S13). If it is determined that there are m × 1/3 or more (YES), out of the number m of comments, 2/3 of the combination of comment target and emotion expression, and the remaining comments, the comment target and emotion expression M × 1/3 is selected from a large number of combinations and determined as a comment option (step S14). On the other hand, in the comment S13, when it is determined that the number of remaining comments is not more than m × 1/3 (NO), the comment object that is different from the m comments and the comment object is different from the comment object. Of all the combinations of emotion expressions and m combinations of comment objects and emotion expressions, the number of combinations of comment objects and emotion expressions remaining in the comment analysis result is subtracted from m. Are selected as comment options in descending order (step S15).

For example, in the example shown in FIG. 4, the top of the viewer's comment is “Affirmation” and “Pleasure” for the moderator in the first segment T _{1 where} the presenter introduced President Obama, and in the next segment T ₂ , "positive", "positive", Obama for President "surprise" for the moderator to the Prime Minister Hatoyama, "joy", "positive", "positive", in the subsequent separator T _3, "surprise" for President Obama, "positive", " Denial ".

In this case, the option of the comment generated by the option generation unit 21 is, for example, to the viewer operating the mobile phone, because the number m of comment options to be presented is 5 or less, and the delimiter T ₁ two comments, delimited T _2, and three comments on President Obama, one by one comment on the comments and the moderator for Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, in T _3, and three comments on President Obama, left in the comment analysis result comment From the top, the two are determined as comment options.

  As described above, the option generation unit 21 generates the viewer without the involvement of the service provider such as the program producer or the Internet provider, based on the result of collecting and analyzing the comments from the viewer sent to the broadcast program. Comment options can be generated based on the live program comments. In addition, in step S1, the option generation unit 21 determines the number m of comment options to be presented in accordance with the device that displays the comment options, so that an appropriate number of comments can be set according to the device used by the user. Options can be provided.

  In addition, the option generation unit 21 generates image data that displays comment options for each individual device of the viewer terminals 30a to 30c from the viewer information input from the viewer information input unit 11a.

The option presentation unit 22 generates option data that can be processed for each device of the viewer based on the viewer information acquired from the viewer information input unit 11a from the comment options generated by the option generation unit 21. A generation unit 22a is included to generate comment options as data that can be processed and presented by various devices such as a personal computer, a mobile phone, and a digital broadcast receiver.
The transmitting unit 23 transmits the comment option data generated by the option presenting unit 22 to the external viewer terminals 30 a to 30 c via the communication network N. The option presentation unit 22 may be in a form of distributing via broadcast waves as individual information (EMM: Entity Management Message) unique to the listener.

  The option presenting unit 22 presents comment options generated by the option generating unit 21 by generating comment option data that can be processed and displayed by the viewer's device, or the viewer's device. It can be presented on the display part. As shown in FIG. 6, the option presentation unit 22 of the option generation / presentation device 20 according to the present embodiment receives a personal computer screen server 31, a mobile screen server 32, data from the transmission unit 23 via a broadcast or communication line. The comment data of options is transmitted as image data of an appropriate format to various screen servers such as the broadcast station screen server 33. Each of the personal computer screen server 31, the mobile screen server 32, and the data broadcasting station screen server 33 receives the option comment data sent from the option presentation unit 22 via a broadcast or communication line, a personal computer, a mobile phone, a digital It is provided as image data for various screens to a broadcast receiver.

  Based on the information from the viewer information input unit 11a, the option data generation unit 22a of the option presentation unit 22 generates and transmits image data of the option comment screen for each request from the viewer side device. FIG. 7 shows a basic configuration example of a screen displayed based on the image data provided by the option presenting unit 22. As shown in FIG. 7, the screen 50 displayed on the viewer side basically includes a program content display area 101, a comment display area 102, an auxiliary information display area 103, a comment input area 104, and the like. The comment display area 102 displays comment options, the auxiliary information display area 103 displays auxiliary information related to comment options, and the comment input area 104 displays an area for accepting input of comments. The comment input area 104 may be, for example, a GUI (Graphical User Interface) button that responds to the operation of the remote controller. However, other than the detection area of the touch panel that responds when the viewer directly touches the comment input area 104, Various configurations are possible depending on the function. If the viewer's device does not have a function for accepting input from the user on the screen, at least the comment display area 102 is displayed, and the other display areas are arbitrary. In this case, the viewer inputs a comment using another device such as a mobile phone or a personal computer. The comment input area 104 displayed on the viewer side device by the option data generation unit 22a or the option data generation unit 22a constitutes a selection unit according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 8 shows an example of a screen displayed on the screen of the digital broadcast receiving device 30b by the option presenting unit 22. The same components as those in FIG.
The comment display area 102 displays comment options, the auxiliary information display area 103 displays a graph indicating the number of comments corresponding to the options, and the comment input area 104 displays an area for accepting input of comments.

As shown in FIG. 8, in the screen 60 displayed on the digital broadcast receiving device 30 b, comments and keywords are displayed for each target in the comment display area 102 and the auxiliary information display area 103 independently of the program content display area 101. Or, each emotion expression is displayed in different colors. Here, the graph representing the number of comments by the combination of the comment target and the emotion expression is represented as a bar graph, but the present invention is not limited to this, and various configurations such as a pie graph and a line graph are provided depending on the implementation. Is possible. When the option presentation unit 22 generates screen image data, an item corresponding to a comment option or comment content information can be used as a keyword. Emotional expressions are pre-determined corresponding colors such as “affirmation” is green, “laughter” is red, and “tension” is blue. The same applies to the comment target. The number of comments can be acquired from the number of comments calculated by the comment counting unit 12.
Further, the comment display area 102 may be configured as a touch panel, and when the user feels appropriate, the comment may be selected by directly touching the comment. Alternatively, in the comment input area 104, for example, a comment that has not been selected as an option may be displayed with a telop. As described above, various modifications such as functions and settings of the digital broadcast receiving apparatus can be conceived depending on various environments in which the viewer is placed.

  As described above, the option generation unit 21 adjusts the number m of comments in the flowchart of FIG. 5, so that the option generation unit 21 is appropriate according to the device used by the user, such as a personal computer, a mobile phone, or a digital broadcast receiver. Generate data for a large number of comment choices. When the option presentation unit 22 provides the option data of the comment for each device generated by the option generation unit 21 to various screen servers such as a personal computer screen server, a mobile screen server, and a data broadcasting station screen server, Depending on the device used by the user, a graph representing the number of comments can be arbitrarily selected from a bar graph, a pie chart, or a line graph.

  As described above, the comment processing system 1 according to the present embodiment has no involvement of a service provider such as a program producer or an Internet provider from a comment on a viewer's program sent to a broadcast station or the like. In this way, comment options can be selected adaptively. As a result, the program producer can also obtain candid opinions and opinions regarding the program content from the viewer's comments without the involvement of the program producer or service provider.

(Second Embodiment)
FIG. 9 is a schematic configuration diagram of a comment processing system 2A according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The same components as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.

  The comment processing system 2A according to the present embodiment has a first point that the option processing device 25 is provided with a comment shaping unit 24 that further normalizes the comment analysis result data from the comment analysis device 10. It is different from the comment processing system 2A according to the embodiment.

  The comment shaping unit 24 includes a representative option term storage unit 24a that stores an option term table in which representative option terms are compared with corresponding expressions, and the option term table stored in the representative option term storage unit 24a Based on this, the comment included in the analysis result from the comment analysis device 10 is replaced and shaped as necessary.

  For example, it corrects difficult-to-understand expressions such as “Language words” and deletes expressions that violate broadcast codes. Specifically, the comment shaping unit 24 includes a term storage unit that stores a term table that collects terms that violate broadcasting codes, terms that are grammatically incorrect such as “unspecified words”, and the analysis results The included comments are referred to the term table stored in the term storage unit, and the expression that violates the broadcast code is deleted, and the grammatically incorrect term is corrected. The comment formatting performed by the comment formatting unit 24 is limited to the correction on the expression, so that it does not reflect the intention of the service provider such as the program producer or the Internet provider. consider. The comment shaped by the comment shaping unit 24 is input to the option generation unit 21, and the option generation unit 21 generates comment options by the comment option generation process described with reference to FIG.

As a matter of course, the replacement character storage unit 112 of the comment analysis device 10, the word string analysis unit 113c of the comment shaping unit 113, and the emotion expression replacement unit 113d can have the same function as the comment shaping unit 24. In the present embodiment, the comment shaping unit 24 is provided in the option processing device, so that it can deal with a unique broadcast code for each broadcasting station independently of the comment analysis device 10 that performs many various processes. There is an advantage that can be. Furthermore, by applying to comment data finally classified into combinations of comment objects and emotional expressions, more detailed and accurate shaping can be performed.
(Third embodiment)

In the comment processing system according to the third embodiment, the option generation unit generates a representative comment after generating the comment option, and the option presentation unit displays the representative comment together with the comment option. Is the same as the comment processing system 1 according to the first embodiment.
Hereinafter, the configuration is the same as that of the option generation / presentation device 20 according to the first embodiment, the same reference numerals are given, and the description thereof is omitted. Only the differences will be described.
FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining representative comment generation processing for generating a representative comment corresponding to a comment option executed by the option generation unit 21 in the third embodiment of the present invention. The following processing is assumed to be executed following the representative comment generation processing described with reference to FIG. 5 under the control of a CPU (not shown) included in the option generation / presentation device 20.

The option generation unit 21 generates a representative comment corresponding to the generated comment option immediately after generating the comment option, using the analysis result data used to generate the comment option.
Specifically, as shown in FIG. 10, first, the number n of representative comments to be displayed is set (step S31). The number of typical comments that can be displayed together with comment options varies depending on the device used by the user. When the device used by the user is a personal computer, the number of comment options to be displayed and the number of representative comments can be handled relatively flexibly. However, for example, in the case of a mobile phone, a digital broadcast receiving apparatus, etc., the number of representative comments that can be displayed together with comment options varies depending on the function of the viewer terminal, the display method, and the like.
In the present embodiment, assuming that the message is displayed on a telop on the screen of the digital broadcast receiver 30b in FIG. 8, the description will be continued assuming that the number of representative comments that can be displayed is the number n that can be displayed on the telop.

  Next, using the analysis result data used to generate the comment options, for each comment option, the “combination of comment target and emotional expression” with a large number of comments is displayed as a representative comment in order. Choose to be n. (Step S32). Here, the “combination of comment target and emotion expression” already selected as a comment option is excluded.

  Subsequently, the option presenting unit 22 selects, based on the viewer information acquired from the viewer information input unit 11a from the comment options generated by the option generating unit 21 and the representative comments, for each viewer device. Comment options and representative comments are generated as data that can be processed and presented by various devices such as a personal computer, a mobile phone, and a digital broadcast receiver, and sent to the viewer terminal 30 via the transmitter 23.

FIG. 11 shows a screen 70 as an example displayed on the screen of the digital broadcast receiving device 30 b by the option presenting unit 22. The same components as those in FIG. 8 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.
In addition to the comment display area 102 and the auxiliary information display area 103, a representative comment display area 105 is displayed on the screen 70. In the comment display area 102, comment options are displayed. In the auxiliary information display area 103, a graph indicating the number of comments corresponding to the options is displayed. Further, the representative comment display area 105 displays a representative comment corresponding to a comment option.

  In the screen 70 displayed by the digital broadcast receiving device 30b, in the comment display area 102 and the auxiliary information display area 103, the comment and the keyword are set for each target or for each emotion expression independently of the program content display area 101. Displayed by color. In addition, a representative comment corresponding to the comment option generated by the option generation unit 21 is streamed as a telop in the representative comment display area 106.

In the example of FIG. 11, the comment “Dragon: I support you” is selected as a representative comment as a comment corresponding to the comment “Dragon: Finally the final. I will be excited!”. The color of the representative comment and the color of the option of the comment may be the same, and the corresponding relationship may be displayed clearly. The number n of representative comments to be streamed as a telop can be set in advance according to the functions and settings of the viewer's equipment, such as the size of the screen and the speed at which the telop is streamed. Further, for example, the representative comment display area 105 may be changed to a comment input area 104 shown in FIG.
In this way, various modifications can be conceived in the manner of displaying on the screen of the viewer terminal 30 according to the environment in which the viewer is placed, such as the function and setting of the screen of the device on the viewer side.

  As described above, the option generation unit 21 adjusts the number m of representative comments to be displayed in step S31 of the flowchart of FIG. 10, so that the user such as a personal computer, a mobile phone, or a digital broadcast receiver can use it. An appropriate number of representative comment data is generated according to the device to be used.

Thus, the comment processing system according to the present embodiment can adaptively present comment options to the viewer in an easy-to-understand manner.
(Fourth embodiment)

  FIG. 12 is a schematic configuration diagram of an option generation / presentation device 20A according to the fourth embodiment of the present invention. The same components as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted.

  In addition to the configuration of the option generation / presentation device 20 according to the first embodiment, the option generation / presentation device 20A according to the present embodiment selects a scene that satisfies a predetermined condition from program information. According to the comment analysis result data input by the comment analysis result input unit 11, the number of comments counted by the comment counting unit 12, the scene selected by the scene selection unit 13, and an instruction from the option generation unit 21 to be described later And the representative image extraction unit 14 that extracts image data from the comment analysis result data, and the option generation unit 21A analyzes the comment generated by the comment analysis device 10 from a plurality of comments about the program collected from the viewer. Based on the above, for each scene selected by the scene selection unit 13, a comment option that can be selected by the viewer is generated. Different from the choice generator providing device 20 according to the embodiment.

  More specifically, the scene selection unit 13 selects a scene that satisfies a predetermined condition from the program information. Here, the “scene” means a break obtained by dividing the program according to the content of the composition. For example, in the case of a news program, it is a combination of scenes or cuts constituting the program, such as “Obama ’s visit to Japan”. In the present embodiment, the program information includes program prediction information obtained by quantifying the prediction of the interest level of the viewer, which is estimated from the past audience rating, in the comment analysis result data for each program content (scene). Shall be included.

  The representative image extraction unit 14 performs comment analysis according to the comment analysis result data input by the comment analysis result input unit 11, the result of the number of comments counted by the comment counting unit 12, and an instruction from the option generation unit 21 described later. Image data is extracted for each scene from the result data. In the present embodiment, the representative image extraction unit 14 extracts a representative image for each scene from the broadcast station program information included in the comment analysis result data.

  The option generation unit 21 generates comment options that can be selected by the viewer for each scene based on the analysis result of the comment generated by the comment analysis device 10 from a plurality of comments regarding the program collected from the viewer. Specifically, for each scene selected by the scene selection unit 13, the option generation unit 21 includes the time within the program, the theme for each scene of the program, the subject of comment such as a character, viewing, etc. Combinations of comment objects and emotion expressions included in each comment based on the comment content including information such as positive expressions, negative expressions, marvelous expressions, grief expressions, ecstatic expressions, fixed expressions, etc. Are selected in a descending order of the number of comments, and comment options are generated for each selected scene. Further, the option generation unit 21 includes a viewer ID included in the comment analysis result data input from the comment analysis result input unit 11 and a viewer terminal operated by the viewer input from the viewer information input unit 11a. Based on the information about the devices 30a to 30c, comment options are generated as appropriate image data according to the individual devices of the viewer terminals 30a to 30c. Moreover, in this Embodiment, the choice production | generation part 21 transmits the comment input from the viewer information input part 11a to the comment analysis apparatus 10 via the transmission part 23 directly as a viewer's raw comment.

  FIG. 13 shows a basic configuration example of a screen displayed based on the image data provided by the option presenting unit 22. As shown in FIG. 13, a screen 80 displayed on the viewer side basically includes a program content display area 101, a comment display area 102, an auxiliary information display area 103, a comment input area 104, and representative image display areas 106a and 106b. , 106c and the like. In the representative image display areas 106a, 106b, and 106c, representative images corresponding to the comment options extracted by the representative image extracting unit 14 are displayed. Here, three image display areas are provided, but the number of areas for displaying representative images may be arbitrary.

  Thus, the comment processing system according to the present embodiment can adaptively present comment options to the viewer in an easy-to-understand manner.

  In the above-described embodiment, the comment analysis device 10 and the option generation / presentation device 20 have been described as independent configurations. However, the comment analysis device 10 and the option generation / presentation device 20 may be configured integrally. Moreover, although comment analysis apparatus 10 classify | categorized comment data into the combination of comment object and emotion expression, and demonstrated as what is sent to the choice production | generation presentation apparatus 20 as comment analysis result data, this invention is limited to this. First, the comment analysis device 10 does not perform the process of classifying the comment data into the combination of the comment object and the emotion expression, but the option generation and presentation apparatus 20 performs the process of classifying the comment data into the combination of the comment object and the emotion expression. It may be.

  The preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, but the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiment, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the present invention described in the claims.・ Change is possible.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Comment processing system 10 Comment analysis apparatus 13 Scene selection part 14 Representative image extraction part 20 Choice production | generation presentation apparatus 21 Choice production | generation part 22 Choice presentation part 23 Transmission part 24 Comment shaping part 31 Server for personal computer screens 32 Server for portable screens 33 Data broadcasting Station screen server 50, 60, 80 screen 101 Program content display area 102 Comment display area 103 Auxiliary information display area 104 Comment input area 105 Representative comment display area 106a, 106b, 106c Representative image display area

Claims (10)

An option generation / presentation device that generates comment options based on raw program comments generated by viewers from the results of collecting and analyzing comments from viewers sent to broadcast programs,
An option for generating comment options that can be selected by the viewer based on the analysis result of a comment analysis device that analyzes a plurality of comments from viewers who watch the program being broadcast using program information from the broadcast station Generating means;
Option presenting means for presenting options of the comment generated by the option generating means;
Selecting means for selecting a desired option from the options of the comment presented by the option presenting means;
Transmission means for transmitting the comment options generated by the option generation means to the comment analysis device,
The option generation / presentation device in which the option selected by the selection means is processed by the comment analysis device and the analysis result is updated as needed.   The option generation means divides the program into a plurality of segments based on program content or time, and for each of the plurality of segments, a comment target included for each comment based on the analysis result from the plurality of comments The option generation / presentation device according to claim 1, wherein a predetermined number of combinations of a comment and an emotion expression are selected in descending order of the number of comments to generate a comment option. The option generation means has a representative option term table,
The option generation / presentation device according to claim 1, wherein the option selection / presentation device generates a comment option selectable by a viewer based on the analysis result from the plurality of comments with reference to the representative option term table.   The option generation / presentation device according to claim 1, wherein the option generation means generates the comment options corresponding to a configuration of a device for presenting the comment options and a displayable size.   The option generation / presentation device according to claim 1, wherein the option presenting means outputs the comment option data corresponding to a data format that can be processed by a device for presenting the comment option. Scene selection means for selecting a scene satisfying a predetermined condition from program information;
The option generation / presentation device according to claim 1, wherein the option generation unit generates a comment option corresponding to the scene selected by the scene selection unit. Representative image extraction means for extracting a representative image corresponding to the scene selected by the scene selection means,
The option generation / presentation device according to claim 6, wherein the option presenting unit presents the comment option together with a representative image corresponding to the scene extracted by the representative image extracting unit. The option generation means generates a corresponding representative comment for the generated comment option,
The option generation / presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the option presenting means presents the representative comment together with the comment option. Comment input means for inputting comments from viewers, and transmission means for transmitting the comments input to the comment input means to the comment analysis device,
The comment input means is capable of inputting a comment from various environments including a personal computer (PC), a mobile phone, data broadcasting, STB (Set Top Box) based on MHP (Multimedia Home Platform). The option generation / presentation device according to 1. An option generation and presentation program for generating a comment option based on a raw program comment generated by a viewer from a result of collecting and analyzing comments from a viewer sent to a broadcast program,
An option for generating comment options that can be selected by the viewer based on the analysis result of a comment analysis device that analyzes a plurality of comments from viewers who watch the program being broadcast using program information from the broadcast station Generating means;
Option presenting means for presenting options of the comment generated by the option generating means;
Selecting means for selecting a desired option from the options of the comment presented by the option presenting means;
The comment options generated by the option generation means function as transmission means for transmitting to the comment analysis device,
An option generation / presentation program for causing the option selected by the selection means to be processed by the comment analysis apparatus as needed and to have the analysis result updated.

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