Patent ID: 8798170
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04N

Abstract:
1. A program recommendation apparatus comprising: a playback unit configured to playback or distribute audio-video content; a metadata obtaining unit configured to obtain metadata of audio-video content when the audio-video content is played back or distributed by the playback unit; a frequency distribution obtaining unit configured to detect scene changes in the audio-video content, and extract scene attributes from the metadata of each scene, the attribute of each scene being obtained from metadata of video content of each scene, said each scene comprised of images between successive scene changes, said frequency distribution obtaining unit counting occurrences of each of the scene attributes, thereby obtaining an occurrence frequency of each attribute over a plurality of items of audio-video content having been played back or distributed; and a recommended program selection configured to recommending audio-video content to be recorded or played back based on a frequency distribution obtained by the frequency distribution obtaining unit.