JP7297829B2 - Information display control device, method and program - Google Patents

Description

One aspect of the present invention relates to, for example, an information display control device used for controlling display of distributed information on an information site, and an information display control method and program executed by this device.

2. Description of the Related Art As the information society progresses, users can acquire necessary information at any time using information terminals such as smartphones, wearable terminals, tablet terminals, and laptop personal computers.

On the other hand, on the other hand, it is possible to acquire a wide variety of information from an information terminal at all times. necessary. Therefore, the user spends a lot of time and effort to obtain the desired information, which is one of the causes of reduced work efficiency and increased fatigue.

Therefore, for example, for each of a large number of objects captured by a camera, the user's interest value for the object is calculated based on dynamic parameters that reflect the user's behavior and characteristics, and the calculated interest value is A technology has been proposed for determining an object to be displayed based on the object and displaying the object and its corresponding static metadata on a user terminal using augmented reality (AR) technology (see, for example, Patent Document 1. ).

By using such technology, only the information that the user is interested in is automatically selected and displayed, thereby increasing the visibility of the distributed information and improving the usability.

JP 2017-182628 A

However, the technique described in Patent Document 1 calculates the user's interest level for each of a plurality of objects without exception, and determines whether or not the object is to be displayed based on the calculated interest level. I am trying to Therefore, even if the same type of object is repeatedly detected, the process of calculating the interest value and the process of determining the display target based on the calculation result will be repeated, increasing the processing load of the information processing apparatus.

This problem arises when a large amount of information including the same type of information is frequently downloaded, especially when distribution information is obtained from information sites such as news sites, and the processing load on the information processing apparatus increases, resulting in the information being disseminated. display delay, etc., which is very undesirable.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique for efficiently selecting and displaying information of high interest to the user with a small processing load.

A first aspect of an information display control device or method according to the present invention for solving the above problems is to provide a plurality of information contained in the first distribution information when first distribution information is received from an information site. and display the generated original page on the display unit. In this state, interest information reflecting the user's degree of interest in the plurality of displayed contents is acquired, and attribute information representing characteristics of the contents is extracted from the plurality of contents, and the extracted attribute information and Based on the interest information, it is determined whether the user's degree of interest in the attribute information is high or low. Then, when the second distribution information is received from the information site, a plurality of contents included in the second distribution information are combined with the attribute information extracted from the contents and the determination result of the degree of interest. and content to be displayed including the attribute information with a high degree of user interest and content to be hidden including the attribute information with a low degree of user interest, and the classified display objects are classified according to A user-dedicated page composed of contents is generated and displayed on the display unit. Further, the content to be hidden is stored in a storage unit, the content to be hidden is read out from the storage unit according to the user's operation to generate a revival page, and the generated revival page is displayed on the display unit. It is made to be displayed .

According to the first aspect of the present invention, content with a high degree of user interest is selectively displayed among a large number of contents included in distribution information downloaded from an information site. Therefore, the user can efficiently check the content of interest without selecting it by himself/herself.

Also, attribute information representing the characteristics of the content is extracted from the content, it is determined which attribute information the user is interested in, and the determination result is stored. Content is categorized. Therefore, after the determination result of the degree of interest in the attribute information is stored, the information display control device does not need to acquire the user's interest information for all the received contents. The processing load required until classification is reduced, making it possible to reduce the display delay.

Furthermore, the content that the user is interested in is edited and displayed as a user-dedicated page. Therefore, compared to the case where contents are displayed at random, the user can efficiently check a plurality of contents of interest.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, contents classified as hidden objects are stored in a storage unit, and the contents to be hidden are read out from the storage unit according to a user's operation to generate and display a revival page. It is designed to be displayed on the part.

Furthermore, according to the first aspect of the present invention, it is possible to display content, which has a low degree of interest to the user and is set as non-display target content , on the resurrection page by the user's operation. Therefore, the user can fully check contents of low interest as needed.

That is, according to each aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide a technology that enables efficient selection and display of information of high interest to the user with a small processing load.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of the entire system when the functions of an information display control device according to one embodiment of the present invention are provided in a user terminal. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the hardware configuration of the user terminal shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of the software configuration of the user terminal shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing a processing procedure and processing contents from distribution information reception processing to operation processing mode determination processing performed thereafter by the user terminal whose configuration is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 . FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing an example of the processing procedure and processing contents of the interest degree setting process executed by the user terminal whose configuration is shown in FIGS. FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing an example of a processing procedure and processing contents of a user-dedicated page display process executed by the user terminal whose configuration is shown in FIGS. FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing an example of the processing procedure and processing contents of the restoration page display processing executed by the user terminal whose configuration is shown in FIGS. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of an original page displayed in the initial processing shown in FIG. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a user-only page generated and displayed by the user-only page display process shown in FIG.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[One embodiment]
(Configuration example)
(1) System FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of the entire system when the functions of an information display control device according to an embodiment of the present invention are provided in a user terminal.

Data can be transmitted between user terminals UT1 to UTm (hereinafter collectively referred to as UT) used by a plurality of users and information sites IS1 to ISn via a network NW. Data can also be transmitted between the UTm and the management server SV via the network NW.

The information sites IS1 to ISn are operated by an information service provider, and are composed of server computers arranged on the Web or cloud, for example. The information sites IS1-ISn provide a service of transmitting delivery information such as news to the user terminals UT1-UTm in response to access from the user terminals UT1-UTn.

The management server SV is operated by a business operator that provides the information display control function according to the present invention, and is composed of, for example, a local server, an edge server, or a cloud server. The management server SV has a function of providing an application for executing the information display control function to the user terminals UT1 to UTm. Further, the management server SV may have a function of executing part of the information display control function within its own server in cooperation with the user terminals UT1 to UTm.

The network NW comprises, for example, a wide area network centered on the Internet and an access network for accessing this wide area network. As the access network, for example, a wired or wireless public communication network, a wired or wireless LAN (Local Area Network), and a CATV (Cable Television) network are used.

(2) User terminals UT1 to UTm
2 and 3 are block diagrams showing the hardware and software configurations of the user terminals UT1-UTm, respectively.

The user terminals UT1 to UTm are, for example, smart glasses, wearable terminals, smart phones, tablet terminals, or general-purpose personal computers. Hereinafter, the user terminals UT1 to UTm will also be collectively referred to as user terminals UT.

The user terminal UT includes a control section 1 using a hardware processor such as a central processing unit (CPU). A storage unit having a program storage section 2 and a data storage section 3, an input/output interface section (hereinafter referred to as an I/F) 4, and a communication I/F are connected to the control section 1 via a bus. 5 and the sensor I/F unit 6 are connected.

A tablet-type input/output device, for example, is connected to the input/output I/F 4 . The tablet-type input/output device has an input device 4b that uses a pressure-sensitive or capacitive touch-type input sheet on the display screen of a display device 4a that uses liquid crystal or organic EL, for example. Used to input operation data and display display data. In addition to the tablet type device, the input device may be one in which an input device including a keyboard and a mouse and a display are independent of each other.

A camera 7 is connected to the sensor I/F 6 . The camera 7 is used in this embodiment to detect the movement of the user's line of sight. The sensor I/F 6 acquires image data of the user's face including eyes from the camera 7 while the user is browsing the information distributed on the information sites IS1 to ISn. In this example, the camera 7 built in the user terminal UT is used as the camera.

Under the control of control unit 1, communication I/F 5 performs data transmission between information sites IS1-ISn and management server SV using a communication protocol defined by network NW.

The program storage unit 2 includes, for example, a non-volatile memory such as a HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or an SSD (Solid State Drive) that can be written and read at any time as a storage medium, and a non-volatile memory such as a ROM (Read Only Memory). and stores middleware such as an OS (Operating System) including a browser, as well as application programs necessary for executing various control processes according to this embodiment.

The data storage unit 3 is, for example, a combination of a non-volatile memory such as an HDD or SSD that can be written and read at any time and a volatile memory such as a RAM (Random Access Memory) as a storage medium. As the main storage units necessary for implementing, a distribution information storage unit 31, an interest information storage unit 32, a determination result storage unit 33, a display content storage unit 34, and a non-display content storage unit 35. there is

The distribution information storage unit 31 is used to store the distribution information received from the information sites IS1-ISn.

The interest information storage unit 32 is used to store information indicating the user's degree of interest in each of the plurality of contents included in the received distribution information in association with content identification information (content ID). .

The judgment result storage unit 33 stores the result of judging the user's level of interest in attribute information (hereinafter also referred to as a tag) representing the characteristics of the content such as keywords and images included in each content of the distribution information. It is used for storage together with the above attribute information as interest level information.

The display content storage unit 34 is used for storing contents classified as display targets from the distribution information for each distribution information.

The non-display content storage unit 35 is used for storing content classified as a non-display target from the distribution information for each distribution information.

Of the storage units 31 to 35, the interest information storage unit 32, the determination result storage unit 33, the display content storage unit 34, and the non-display content storage unit 35 are provided not in the user terminal UT but in the management server SV. may

The control unit 1 includes, as processing functions according to this embodiment, a distribution information reception processing unit 11, an original page generation processing unit 12, an interest information acquisition processing unit 13, an attribute-by-attribute interest level determination processing unit 14, and content classification. A processing unit 15 , a user-dedicated page generation processing unit 16 , and a recovery page generation processing unit 17 are provided. These processing units 11 to 17 are all implemented by causing the hardware processor of the control unit 1 to execute the application programs stored in the program storage unit 2 .

The distribution information reception processing unit 11 accesses the information sites IS1 to ISn from the communication I/F unit 5 according to the user's operation, and transmits the distribution information transmitted from the information sites IS1 to ISn to the communication I/F unit 5. , and stores the received distribution information in the distribution information storage unit 31 .

The original page generation processing unit 12 reads the distribution information from the distribution information storage unit 31 and generates an unedited original page when the user interest level determination information by attribute is not yet stored in the determination result storage unit 33. Then, a process of displaying the generated original page on the display device 4a via the input/output I/F section 4 is performed.

The interest information acquisition processing unit 13 acquires, for example, image data of the user's face including eyes from the camera 7 via the sensor I/F unit 6 during the display period of the original page, and converts the acquired image data into The direction of the user's line of sight and its movement are originally detected. The direction and movement of the user's gaze can be detected, for example, by movement of the eyeball, more specifically by a change in the position of the pupil relative to the bright spot of the eyeball.

The interest information acquisition processing unit 13 calculates the dwell time of the user's line of sight with respect to each content from the direction of the line of sight, the detection result of the movement of the line of sight, and the display position of each content included in the original page. Then, the calculated retention time of the line of sight is converted into a score indicating the user's degree of interest (or degree of interest) in each of the contents, and the interest information storage unit 32 associates the score as interest information with the content ID. process to be stored in the

In addition, the user's interest in content can also be determined by the operation of the input device, such as presence or absence of a click operation on the page, dwell time of the clicked page, scroll speed on the page, dwell time of the cursor or mouse pointer on the content, etc. can also be obtained by detecting Further, the interest information does not necessarily have to be scored, and for example, the retention time of the line of sight, the retention time after the click, or the retention time of the cursor or pointer may be used as it is as the interest information.

The attribute-by-attribute interest level determination processing unit 14 extracts a plurality of representative keywords and images included in titles and articles from each content included in the displayed original page as attribute information representing features of the content. Attribute information can be extracted by recognition based on, for example, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or JavaScript (registered trademark) included in the content.

The attribute-by-attribute interest level determination processing unit 14 selects a plurality of contents with different interest levels based on the interest information stored in the interest information storage unit 32, in this example, the score indicating the user's interest level with respect to the contents. , comparing the plurality of attribute information extracted from each of the selected contents. Based on the comparison result, the user's level of interest in each attribute information is determined, and the determination result is stored in the determination result storage unit 33 as attribute-specific interest level information.

For each content included in the original page and other distribution information received later, the content classification processing unit 15 classifies the attribute information included in these contents into the attribute-by-attribute interest level information stored in the determination result storage unit 33. By collating with , processing is performed to classify each of the above contents into contents including attribute information with a high degree of interest of the user and contents including attribute information with a low degree of interest of the user.

The content classification processing unit 15 causes the display content storage unit 34 to store the content including the attribute information with the high degree of interest of the user as the content to be displayed, and stores the content including the attribute information with the low degree of interest of the user as non-display objects. is stored in the non-display content storage unit 35 as the content of.

Each time distribution information is received, the user-dedicated page generation processing unit 16 reads content to be displayed classified from the distribution information from the display content storage unit 34, and only the read content to be displayed is read. The page information for display is edited, and the edited page information is displayed on the display device 4a via the input/output I/F section 4 as a user-dedicated page.

The user-dedicated page generation processing unit 16 also performs a process of supplementing content to be displayed included in other distribution information when the content displayed on the user-dedicated page is less than one page.

When the user performs an operation to display hidden target content on the input device 4b, the revival page generation processing unit 17 reads the hidden target content from the hidden content storage unit 35, and displays the read hidden target content. , and display the edited page information on the display device 4a through the input/output I/F section 4 as a restored page.

(Operation example)
Next, an operation example of the user terminal UT configured as above will be described.

When executing the information display control according to the embodiment of the present invention, the user first downloads an application program for executing the information display control from the management server SV and installs it in the user terminal UT.

(1) Determination of operation processing mode from reception of distribution information FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing a processing procedure and details of processing from reception of distribution information to determination processing of operation processing mode, which is executed by the above application program. is.

In the standby state, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT monitors the user's access operation to the information site and display operation of the non-display content in steps S10 and S11, respectively. In this state, when the user performs an access operation to the desired information site IS1 using the input device 4b, the control section 1 of the user terminal UT, under the control of the distribution information reception processing section 11, activates the browser to display the information. The site IS1 is accessed, the distribution information transmitted from the information site IS1 is received via the communication I/F section 5, and is temporarily stored in the distribution information storage section 31. FIG.

Next, in step S13, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT determines whether or not the attribute-specific interest level information is already stored in the determination result storage unit 33, that is, whether or not the attribute-specific interest level information has been set. . If the attribute-specific interest level information has not yet been set, it is determined that the distribution information received this time is the distribution information received first after downloading the application. Then, in step S14, under the control of the original page generation processing unit 12, an unedited original page is generated based on the distribution information stored in the distribution information storage unit 31, and the generated original page is input. The data is output to the output I/F unit 4 and displayed on the display device 4a.

FIG. 8 shows an example of the display result of the original page. This example shows a case in which four contents N1 to N4 and R1 to R4 are displayed on one page, divided into two categories, newly arrived articles and browsing rankings. In this example, the content is an article containing images and text, but the content may also contain audio data, a URL of a link destination, and the like.

When the original page is displayed, the control section 1 of the user terminal UT then shifts to the interest level setting processing mode.

On the other hand, it is assumed that attribute-specific interest level information has already been set. In this case, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT determines that the distribution information received this time is the information received for the second time or later after the installation of the application program. Then, the display processing mode for the user-dedicated page is entered.

On the other hand, in the standby state, when the user performs an operation requesting display of non-display content and this operation is detected in step S11, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT shifts to the recovery page display processing mode.

(2) Interest level setting processing mode FIG. 5 shows a determination process of the user's interest level for each content included in the distribution information, which is executed in the interest level setting processing mode, and a plurality of attribute information included in each content. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure and processing contents of determination processing of presence/absence of user's interest; FIG.

(2-1) Acquisition of user's degree of interest in content When the original page is displayed, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT, under the control of the interest information acquisition processing unit 13, firstly performs video data of the camera 7 in step S20. to get This video data is obtained by capturing an image of the user's face including the eyes, and in step S21, the interested information acquisition processing unit 13 detects the direction of the user's line of sight and its movement from the video data.

Then, the interest information acquisition processing unit 13 determines the retention time of the user's line of sight for each content based on the direction of the user's line of sight, the detection result of the movement thereof, and the display position of each content of the original page on the display device 4a at this time. to calculate Then, in step S23, the calculated retention time of the line of sight is converted into a score indicating the user's degree of interest in each content, and the score is stored in the interest information storage unit 32 as interest information in association with the content ID. Let

Thus, the user's degree of interest in each content included in the original page is obtained. As described in the configuration example, the score indicating the user's degree of interest in each piece of content includes the presence or absence of click operations on the page, dwell time on the clicked page, scroll speed on the page, cursor or mouse on the content. It can also be obtained by detecting the dwell time of the pointer and converting the detected dwell time. By providing means for acquiring a score indicating the user's degree of interest in the page based on such operation information of the input device, even if the user's line of sight cannot be detected due to, for example, camera malfunction, the user's interest in the page can be detected. It is possible to obtain a score that indicates the degree of

(2-2) Determination of interest level by attribute Next, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT selects one content of the original page in step S24 under the control of the interest level determination processing unit 14 by attribute. . Then, in step S25, a plurality of representative keywords or images included in the title and article are extracted from the article of the selected content as attribute information representing the feature of the content. Similarly, the attribute-by-attribute interest degree determination processing unit 14 repeats the process of extracting attribute information from each content in steps S24 and S25 until it is determined in step S26 that all the contents have been selected.

Next, in step S27, the attribute-by-attribute interest degree determination processing unit 14 selects content with a high score based on the interest information of each content stored in the interest information storage unit 32, that is, the score indicating the user's degree of interest in the content. Select low-scoring content. Then, the attribute information extracted from the selected contents is compared, and the user's level of interest in the attribute information is determined in step S28.

For example, "#corona, #no spectators, #soccer" is extracted as attribute information from content with a high score, while "#corona, #no spectators, #baseball" is extracted as attribute information from content with a low score. do. In this case, when the attribute-based interest level determination processing unit 14 compares both, "#corona" and "#no spectators" match, and "#soccer" and "#baseball" are different. It is determined that the user has a high degree of interest in "#baseball" and a low degree of interest in "#baseball". Then, the determination result is stored in the determination result storage unit 33 as attribute-by-attribute interest level information.

The attribute-by-attribute interest degree determination processing unit 14 performs the above-described comparison and determination processing among all the contents having different interest degree scores, determines whether the interest degree for each attribute information is high or low, and converts the determination result into an attribute-by-attribute interest level determination process. The information is stored in the determination result storage unit 33 as degree information.

When selecting the content to be compared and determined, a pair of contents whose score difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined value is selected, or the attribute information included in the content whose score is equal to or greater than a threshold value, for example, in the above example, " #corona” and “#no spectators” may be determined to have a high degree of user interest.

Further, instead of storing the obtained attribute-by-attribute interest level information in the determination result storage unit 33, the information may be transmitted to the management server SV and stored in the management server SV.

Furthermore, in the above description, the case where the attribute information extraction processing is performed by the user terminal UT has been described as an example. However, for example, when the distribution information of the information sites IS1 to ISn is distributed to the user terminal UT via the management server SV, or when the management server SV has a function as an information site, the information from the management server SV to the user terminal UT is transmitted to the user terminal UT. , the attribute information may be extracted from the contents of the distribution information in the management server SV, and the extracted attribute information may be transmitted to the user terminal UT together with the distribution information.

(3) User-dedicated page display processing mode The user-dedicated page display processing mode includes a first processing mode in which a user-dedicated page is generated from an original page and displayed, and an information site that is the same or different after receiving the original page. and a second processing mode in which a user-specific page is generated and displayed from other distribution information received from.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing a series of processing procedures and processing details executed in the display processing mode of the user-dedicated page.

(3-1) First Processing Mode Under the control of the content classification processing section 15, the control section 1 of the user terminal UT first creates a copy of the original page from the distribution information storage section 31 in step S30. Subsequently, in step S31, attribute information is extracted from each content included in the copy of the original page. However, with regard to the original page, since the attribute information has already been extracted in the above-described attribute-based interest level determination process, the extraction process is omitted here.

Next, in step S32, the content classification processing unit 15 reads the attribute-specific interest level information from the determination result storage unit 33, and in step S33, compares the extracted attribute information with the attribute-specific interest level information to obtain the above A user's level of interest in the extracted attribute information is determined. Subsequently, in step S34, the content classification processing unit 15 classifies each content included in the original page as content including attribute information with a high degree of interest of the user, based on the result of determining whether the degree of interest in the attribute information is high or low. , and content containing attribute information with a low degree of user interest. Then, in step S35, the classified contents including attribute information with a high degree of user interest are stored in the display content storage unit 34 as content to be displayed, while the content including attribute information with a low degree of user interest is stored as non-display content. The content to be displayed is stored in the non-display content storage unit 35 .

When the content classification process is finished, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT next reads the content to be displayed from the display content storage unit 34 in step S36 under the control of the user-dedicated page generation processing unit 16, and reads the content. A user-dedicated page composed of the issued content to be displayed is generated. Then, in step S37, the user-dedicated page generation processing section 16 outputs the generated user-dedicated page to the input/output I/F section 4 to display it on the display device 4a.

Thus, for the original page as well, a user-dedicated page containing only the content of which the user is highly interested is generated and displayed. Therefore, when the user tries to check the content of the original page again, for example, the user can efficiently check only the content of high interest from the user-dedicated page.

FIG. 9 shows an example of a user-dedicated page generated from the original page shown in FIG. In this example, the contents N4, N2, and N1 are extracted and displayed as newly arrived articles, and the contents R2 and R3 are extracted and displayed as contents of high interest to the user as browsing rankings.

Note that the example shown in FIG. 9 is a user-dedicated page generated from the originally received original page, so the empty space is not filled with other content. However, when the user-dedicated page is generated from the distribution information received for the second and subsequent times, the empty space of the user-dedicated page is filled with the contents of other distribution information. An example of this content replenishment processing will be described later.

(3-2) Second processing mode Assume that the user re-accesses the same information site from which the original page was received, or accesses another information site and receives new distribution information. . In this case, since the attribute information interest level information extracted from the original page is already stored in the determination result storage unit 33, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT directly shifts to the user-dedicated page display processing mode.

That is, under the control of the content classification processing unit 15, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT creates a copy of the new distribution information received in step S30, and then, in step S31, copies the content included in the copy of the distribution information. extracts attribute information from each piece of content.

Next, in step S32, the content classification processing unit 15 reads the attribute-specific interest level information from the determination result storage unit 33, and in step S33, compares the extracted attribute information with the attribute-specific interest level information to obtain the above A user's level of interest in the extracted attribute information is determined.

Subsequently, in step S34, the content classification processing unit 15 classifies each content included in the new distribution information into attribute information with a high degree of interest of the user based on the determination result of the degree of interest in the attribute information. The content is classified into content and content including attribute information with a low degree of user interest. Then, in step S35, the classified contents including attribute information with a high degree of user interest are stored in the display content storage unit 34 as content to be displayed, while the content including attribute information with a low degree of user interest is stored as non-display content. The content to be displayed is stored in the non-display content storage unit 35 .

When the classification process is completed, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT subsequently reads out the content to be displayed from the display content storage unit 34 in step S36 under the control of the user-dedicated page generation processing unit 16. A user-dedicated page composed of the content to be displayed is generated.

Further, the user-dedicated page generation processing unit 16 determines whether or not there is an empty space in the generated user-dedicated page. Then, if there is an empty space, the display target content of the other received distribution information is selected from the display content storage unit 34, and the selected content is added to the empty space. At this time, the content to be selected may be, for example, content determined to have the highest degree of interest, or content including attribute information that is the same as or similar to the content to be displayed on the user-dedicated page.

Then, in step S37, the user-dedicated page generation processing section 16 outputs the generated user-dedicated page to the input/output I/F section 4 to display it on the display device 4a.

That is, when new distribution information is received after the distribution information of the original page is received, the process of acquiring the user's degree of interest in the contents of the new distribution information is omitted, and the previously received distribution information is used. A user-dedicated page is immediately generated and displayed using the obtained attribute information interest level information. Therefore, when a user receives new distribution information from an information site, the user can check only the content of high interest without searching for the content of high interest among the contents included in this distribution information. This greatly reduces the efficiency of information confirmation work.

(3-3) Updating attribute information interest level information The newly received distribution information may include new contents. Therefore, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT determines the user's degree of interest in the attribute information extracted from the content included in the new distribution information, and executes processing for adding the determination result to the determination result storage unit 33. do.

That is, in accordance with the processing procedure shown in FIG. 5, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT, under the control of the information-of-interest acquisition processing unit 13, first, in step S20, detects the face including the eyes of the user who is checking the user-dedicated page. is acquired from the camera 7. Then, in step S21, the information-of-interest acquisition processing unit 13 detects the direction of the user's line of sight and its movement from the acquired image data. In step S22, the retention time of the user's line of sight for each content is calculated from the display position of each content. Then, the calculated retention time of the line of sight is converted into a score indicating the user's degree of interest in each content in step S23, and this score is stored as interest information in the interest information storage unit 32 in association with the content ID. .

Next, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT first selects one content of the original page in step S24 under the control of the attribute-based interest degree determination processing unit 14 . Then, in step S25, attribute information is extracted from the selected content. In this case, since the attribute information has already been extracted in step S31 in the course of the above-described user-dedicated page generation process, the extraction process here is omitted. The same applies to other contents included in the user-dedicated page.

Next, in step S<b>27 , the attribute-by-attribute interest degree determination processing unit 14 selects content with a high interest degree score and content with a low score based on the interest information of each content stored in the interest information storage unit 32 . Then, the attribute information extracted from the content is compared between the selected contents, and in step S28, the user's level of interest in the attribute information is determined, and the determination result is newly classified by attribute. It is added to the determination result storage unit 33 as interest level information.

(4) Restoration page display processing mode Assume that the user performs a hidden content display operation in the standby state in order to check the content that was not displayed on the user-dedicated page. In this case, the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT executes the recovery page display process as follows.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing an example of the processing procedure and processing contents of the restoration page display processing executed by the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT.

When the control unit 1 of the user terminal UT detects the display request operation for the content to be hidden in step S11, first, under the control of the restoration page generation processing unit 17, the content to be hidden is hidden in step S40. Read out from the content storage unit 35 . Then, a predetermined number of the read contents to be hidden are selected to generate a revival page, and the generated revival page is output to the input/output I/F section 4 in step S42 and displayed on the display device 4a. .

Note that, for example, a page selection button is displayed on the revival page, and each time the user operates this button, the revival page generation processing unit 17 sequentially selects a predetermined number of unselected non-display target contents and creates the revival page. generated and displayed on the display device.

Therefore, the user can check the content that has not been displayed on the user-dedicated page as necessary.

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As described above, in one embodiment, while the user is viewing the original page of the distribution information distributed from the information sites IS1 to ISn, Obtaining a score indicating a user's degree of interest in each piece of content, extracting attribute information representing each feature from each piece of content on the original page, and determining a user's degree of interest for each of the extracted attribute information, The determination result is stored as attribute-by-attribute interest level information. Then, every time new distribution information is received thereafter, the attribute information included in each content of the distribution information is collated with the interest level information by attribute, thereby determining the content including the attribute information that the user is highly interested in. , and content containing attribute information with a low degree of interest of the user, and stored, and a user-dedicated page composed of the content containing the attribute information with a high degree of interest of the user is generated and displayed.

Therefore, among a large number of contents included in the distribution information distributed from the information sites IS1 to ISn, contents with a high degree of user interest are selectively displayed. Therefore, the user can efficiently check the content of interest without selecting it by himself/herself.

Further, attribute information representing the characteristics of the content is extracted from the content, it is determined which of the attribute information the user is interested in, and the result of this determination is stored as attribute-specific interest level information. The degree information is used to classify the content to be displayed. Therefore, after the attribute-specific interest level information is stored, the user terminal UT does not need to detect the user's interest level for all received contents. It is possible to reduce the processing load required for processing and reduce the display delay.

Furthermore, when there is an empty space in the user-dedicated page, content to be displayed included in other distribution information is added to the empty space and displayed. Therefore, the user can efficiently check the content of which the user has a high degree of interest within one page without performing a scrolling operation or a page selection operation. In addition, on the user-dedicated page, the contents to be displayed are sorted and displayed in descending order of the user's degree of interest. Therefore, it is possible for the user to efficiently check the content in order of the degree of interest of the user.

Furthermore, contents including attribute information that the user is less interested in are stored, read out in response to user operations, and a revival page is generated and displayed. Therefore, the user can check, as necessary, content of low interest that could not be checked on the user-dedicated page.

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In the above embodiment, the attribute-specific interest level information stored in the determination result storage unit 33 is used for distribution information acquired from all information sites IS1 to ISn to generate a user-dedicated page. . However, not limited to this, the attribute-specific interest level information is generated and stored for each of the information sites IS1 to ISn, and the attribute information interest level information corresponding to the information sites IS1 to ISn to be accessed is selectively used. You may make it generate|occur|produce a user-only page. In this way, even if the categories and features of the distributed information are different for each information site and the user's degree of interest changes accordingly, it is possible to generate a user-dedicated page suitable for each information site.

Also, in the above embodiment, the case where all the processing functions according to the present invention are provided in the user terminal UT has been described as an example. However, without being limited to this, some or all of the processing functions according to the present invention may be provided in an information processing apparatus other than the user terminal such as the management server SV.

In addition, the functional configuration, processing procedure and processing details of the information display control device, means for detecting the degree of user interest, types of content and attribute information included in distribution information, configuration and layout of original pages and user-dedicated pages, etc. Various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, the above description is merely illustrative of the present invention in every respect. It goes without saying that various modifications and variations can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. That is, in carrying out the present invention, a specific configuration according to the embodiment may be adopted as appropriate.

In short, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying constituent elements without departing from the scope of the present invention at the implementation stage. Also, various inventions can be formed by appropriate combinations of the plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the above embodiments. For example, some components may be omitted from all components shown in the embodiments. Furthermore, constituent elements of different embodiments may be combined as appropriate.

UT1 to UTm... User terminal SV... Management server IS1 to ISn... Information site NW... Network 1... Control unit 2... Program storage unit 3... Data storage unit 4... Input/output I/F unit 4a... Display device 4b... Input device 5 Communication I/F unit 6 Sensor I/F unit 7 Camera 11 Delivery information reception processing unit 12 Original page generation processing unit 13 Interest information acquisition processing unit 14 Interest level determination processing unit by attribute 15 Content classification Processing unit 16 User-dedicated page generation processing unit 17 Revival page generation processing unit 31 Distribution information storage unit 32 Interest information storage unit 33 Determination result storage unit 34 Display content storage unit 35 Non-display content storage unit

Claims (7)

generating an original page composed of a plurality of contents included in the first distribution information when first distribution information is received from an information site, and displaying the generated original page on a display unit; 1 display processing unit;
an acquisition processing unit that acquires interest information that reflects a user's degree of interest in the plurality of displayed contents;
extracting attribute information representing characteristics of the content from each of the plurality of contents, determining whether the user's degree of interest in the attribute information is high or low based on the extracted attribute information and the interest information; a determination processing unit that stores determination results;
When the second distribution information is received from the information site, a plurality of contents included in the second distribution information are determined by the user based on the attribute information representing the characteristics of the contents and the determination result. a classification processing unit that classifies display target content including the attribute information with a high degree of interest and non-display target content including the attribute information with a low user interest;
a second display processing unit that generates a user-dedicated page configured by the content to be displayed and displays the generated user-dedicated page on the display unit ;
storing the content to be hidden in a storage unit, reading the content to be hidden from the storage unit according to the user's operation to generate a revival page, and displaying the generated revival page on the display unit. a third display control unit;
An information display control device comprising: After the determination result is saved by the determination processing unit, the classification processing unit classifies the plurality of contents constituting the original page based on the attribute information extracted from the content and the determination result. further performing a process of classifying the content to be displayed and the content to be hidden;
The second display processing unit further performs a process of generating the user-dedicated page based on the display target content included in the original page and displaying the generated user-dedicated page on the display unit. The information display control device according to claim 1. The acquisition processing unit acquires information representing a dwell time of the user's line of sight or a dwell time of an operation by an input device for each of the plurality of contents, and converts from the acquired dwell time or the dwell time 2. The information display control device according to claim 1, wherein a score is the interest information reflecting the degree of interest. 2. The information display control device according to claim 1, wherein said determination processing unit extracts, from each of said plurality of contents, a text or an image representing a feature of said content as said attribute information. The second display processing unit separates the content to be displayed separated from the second distribution information from other distribution information when the content to be displayed is less than the upper limit number of contents that can be displayed on the user-dedicated page. 2. The information display control device according to claim 1, wherein said user-dedicated page is generated including said content to be displayed. An information display control method executed by an information processing device,
A process of generating an original page composed of a plurality of contents included in the first distribution information when the first distribution information is received from the information site, and displaying the generated original page on the display unit. and,
obtaining interest information reflecting a user's degree of interest in the plurality of displayed contents;
extracting attribute information representing characteristics of the content from each of the plurality of contents, determining whether the user's degree of interest in the attribute information is high or low based on the extracted attribute information and the interest information; a process of storing the judgment result;
When the second distribution information is received from the information site, a plurality of contents included in the second distribution information are determined by the user based on the attribute information representing the characteristics of the contents and the determination result. a process of classifying display target content including the attribute information with a high degree of interest and non-display target content including the attribute information with a low user interest;
a process of generating a user-dedicated page composed of the content to be displayed, and displaying the generated user-dedicated page on the display unit ;
storing the content to be hidden in a storage unit, reading the content to be hidden from the storage unit according to the user's operation to generate a revival page, and displaying the generated revival page on the display unit. process and
An information display control method comprising: A program that causes a processor of the information display control device to execute processing by each of the processing units of the information display control device according to any one of claims 1 to 5 .

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