VIEWING PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

Included is a unit configured to calculate feature points of a scene image of a screen acquired from a television program that is currently on air on a given number of broadcast stations, or a simulcast distribution server at predetermined intervals, and save, in a storage unit, feature point data of a predetermined time period on a broadcast station basis; a unit configured to receive feature point data of an image of a television program currently being watched by a user, the feature point data having been transmitted from a mobile terminal of the user; and a unit configured to check the received feature point data against the feature point data saved in the storage unit and identify a scene image that satisfies a predetermined matching condition.

主权项

1. A viewing program identification system configured to shoot a screen showing a television program that is currently on air and being watched by a user with a mobile terminal, acquire a still image from the shot moving image, and identify the television program being watched by the user in substantially real time based on feature point data calculated from the still image, the system comprising:
a broadcast program simultaneous reception unit configured to receive television program data that is currently on air on a given number of broadcast stations; a feature point collection unit configured to calculate feature points of a still image of a screen (hereinafter a “scene image”) acquired from the received television program data at intervals of N seconds in real time, and save, in a storage unit, feature point data of a predetermined time period immediately before the current broadcast on a broadcast station basis; a user viewing data receiving unit configured to receive the feature point data of the still image acquired from the television program being watched by the user, the feature point data having been transmitted from the mobile terminal of the user; and an image search unit configured to check the received feature point data against the saved feature point data and identify a scene image that satisfies a predetermined matching condition (hereinafter the “matching scene image”) to identify the television program currently being watched by the user.