Abstract: A scenario generation system, a scenario generation method, and a scenario generation program are provided. A scenario generation system used for video playback synchronized with musical piece playback includes a situation estimating portion for estimating a situation expressed by the musical piece, a video specifying portion for specifying at least one video suited for the estimated situation in the video constituted by scenes each having a time-series order, and a scenario generating portion for generating a scenario associating the scenes constituting the specified video with each section of the musical piece. As a result, a scenario can be generated by the scenes each having the time-series order, and the synchronized video with a natural impression can be reproduced corresponding to the musical piece playback on the basis of the scenario.

Abstract: A scenario generation system, a scenario generation method, and a scenario generation program are provided. A scenario generation system used for video playback synchronized with musical piece playback includes a situation estimating portion for estimating a situation expressed by the musical piece, a video specifying portion for specifying at least one video suited for the estimated situation in the video constituted by scenes each having a time-series order, and a scenario generating portion for generating a scenario associating the scenes constituting the specified video with each section of the musical piece. As a result, a scenario can be generated by the scenes each having the time-series order, and the synchronized video with a natural impression can be reproduced corresponding to the musical piece playback on the basis of the scenario.

Abstract: To provide a contents creating device and a contents creating method capable of distributing contents having an article arrangement with high relativity to a user as distribution destination. A contents creating device 100 to create contents to be distributed within a predetermined group, including a material evaluation unit 130 configured to evaluate relativity of material data of contents to a user as contents distribution destination, and a contents editing unit 140 configured to determine an article arrangement within contents according to an evaluation, wherein contents based on the article arrangement are created. Due to this, it is possible to distribute contents having an article arrangement with high relativity to a user of the distribution destination and it is possible for the user as distribution destination to browse an article in which the user is highly interested.

Abstract: To provide a contents creating device and a contents creating method capable of distributing contents having an article arrangement with high relativity to a user as distribution destination. A contents creating device 100 to create contents to be distributed within a predetermined group, including a material evaluation unit 130 configured to evaluate relativity of material data of contents to a user as contents distribution destination, and a contents editing unit 140 configured to determine an article arrangement within contents according to an evaluation, wherein contents based on the article arrangement are created. Due to this, it is possible to distribute contents having an article arrangement with high relativity to a user of the distribution destination and it is possible for the user as distribution destination to browse an article in which the user is highly interested.

Abstract: A query building module 6 includes a query DB 61 for managing a query vector of a piece of music, which matches a user preference, a similarity calculating unit 62 for calculating a similarity between the query vectors, which are registered in the query DB 61, a query vector integrating unit 63 for integrating a plurality of query vectors similar to each other into one piece of preference information, and a query updating unit 64 for newly registering the integrated new query vector to the query DB 61 and deleting the integrated two similar query vectors from the query DB 61, thereby updating the query DB 61, and builds a query Q in which all of the query vectors having high similarity are integrated and is an aggregation of the query vectors not similar to each other.

Abstract: To provide a query extracting apparatus, query extracting method and query extracting program capable of retrieving an image that is suited to a part of lyrics while also having suitability for the other parts, a query extracting apparatus 100 to retrieve images suited to lyrics divides lyrics targeted for query extraction into a plurality of segments, determines a preferential segment in which a keyword group is preferentially selected from among the segments, and selects a keyword group to retrieve an image suited to lyrics of the preferential segment while also referring to information of one or more segments. By this means, keywords suited to the preferential segment are preferentially selected, while also referring to the other segments to extract an image retrieval query, and it is thus possible to retrieve an image that is suited to a part of the lyrics while also having suitability for the other parts.

Abstract: The present invention provides a terminal apparatus that charges an appropriate amount of money according to the usage of individual users without using a network. A terminal apparatus reproduces content in response to a reproduction request from a user. The terminal apparatus includes a charging management unit that charges for the reproduction of the content and stores charging history as history information; a history information database that stores the history information in association with the reproduced content; and a removal determining unit that determines whether to remove the reproduced content from a charging target on the basis of the magnitude relationship between the standard price of the content charged for the reproduction and the sum of charges based on the history information. In this way, it is possible to charge an appropriate amount of money according to the usage of individual users and achieve a user-oriented charging process.

Abstract: The present invention provides a content distribution system capable of improving user convenience and effectively distributing content for trial listening. A terminal apparatus includes: a content database that stores plural kinds of content data for trial listening received from a content distribution server; a usage history information recording unit that records usage history information of a user; a user preference estimating unit that estimates user preference on the basis of the usage history information of the user recorded in the usage history information recording unit, and generates preference information; a content extracting unit that calculates similarity between the preference information and each of the content data for trial listening stored in the content database, and extracts content data for trial listening having high similarity from the content database; and a content data playing unit that plays the extracted content data for trial listening.

Abstract: Degrees of association between categories of songs (hereinafter, song categories) corresponding to information showing advertisement distribution target categories and distribution object advertisements are determined in advance in an advertisement DB. A song categorization module calculates degrees of association between an acoustic feature amount of a song being played (hereinafter, current song) and feature amounts of the song categories, and a song-related distribution object advertisement candidate group extraction module determines a distribution object advertisement corresponding to a song category with a high degree of association is determined as a distribution object advertisement. An advertisement presentation module provides information on the distribution object advertisement to a user along with current song information.

Abstract: A query building module 6 includes a query DB 61 for managing a query vector of a piece of music, which matches a user preference, a similarity calculating unit 62 for calculating a similarity between the query vectors, which are registered in the query DB 61, a query vector integrating unit 63 for integrating a plurality of query vectors similar to each other into one piece of preference information, and a query updating unit 64 for newly registering the integrated new query vector to the query DB 61 and deleting the integrated two similar query vectors from the query DB 61, thereby updating the query DB 61, and builds a query Q in which all of the query vectors having high similarity are integrated and is an aggregation of the query vectors not similar to each other.