Abstract: A registree management function receives member (user) registration, carries out a survey upon registration, performs category classification for the registered user, learns the classified categories, and the like. A comment analysis function performs text mining on comments acquired from an SNS posted comment server, determines post origin positions identified by the text mining and the level of credibility thereof, and executes evaluation and the like of a target relating to a theme. An information provision function edits a social heat map generated based on the results of analyzing the comments to be provided to the user, and also performs user category management and the like.

Abstract: An image processing method for sporting events including golf and ski jump, in which an event parameter or variable or the athlete is to reach a predetermined position, wherein electronically processed marker images including lines, drawings, symbols, and colors are overlaid on the original image at a point close to said predetermined position or at multiple points, each distant from said position. This allows TV viewers to see, for example in a golf match, how far the ball is driven and how close the ball is to the cup on the green, as well as the flight of the ball.