Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Information processing apparatus, image display apparatus, control methods therefor, and programs for causing computer to perform the methods
- Patent Title (中): 信息处理装置,图像显示装置及其控制方法,以及使计算机执行方法的程序
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Application No.: US12032053Application Date: 2008-02-15
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Publication No.: US08064633B2Publication Date: 2011-11-22
- Inventor: Takuro Noda , QiHong Wang , Akiko Terayama , Tomohiko Gotoh , Tamaki Kojima , Takuo Ikeda , Hidenori Karasawa
- Applicant: Takuro Noda , QiHong Wang , Akiko Terayama , Tomohiko Gotoh , Tamaki Kojima , Takuo Ikeda , Hidenori Karasawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-042203 20070222
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; H04N5/66

Abstract:
An information processing apparatus includes a content storage unit storing a plurality of pieces of content; a background-image storage unit storing a background image corresponding to the plurality of pieces of content stored in the content storage unit; an attribute-information storage unit storing attribute information for each of the plurality of pieces of content in association with the plurality of pieces of content, the attribute information including a corresponding position in the background image; a classification unit classifying the plurality of pieces of content into one or more clusters on the basis of the attribute information; and a rendering unit rendering images indicating the classified pieces of content in a predetermined order on a cluster-by-cluster basis and rendering an area of the background image, the area including the corresponding position included in the attribute information of content corresponding to at least one of the images rendered.
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