摘要 |
A program information display device that displays, with good accuracy and little noise, the names of performers in a program by associating them with the faces on the screen. Device (100) is equipped with a program acquisition unit (101) that acquires information comprising a moving-image program, and the names of performers, a related image-acquisition unit (107) that acquires related images from a network (200), a feature-value calculation unit (108) that calculates feature values for images of persons extracted from the related images, a representative feature value determination unit (109) that determines a representative feature value and reliability thereof from the feature values and the source from which the related images were obtained, a performer information management unit (104) that associates the determined values with the names of performers and manages the same, a display image acquisition unit (102) that acquires a display image, a feature value calculation unit (111) that calculates feature values for images of persons extracted from the display image, a lookup unit (105) that retrieves the name of the performer for whom the degree of similarity of the representative feature value is the greatest, a display information generation unit (106) that generates display information based on the reliability or the degree of similarity with the area of a second extracted image of a performer, and a display unit (103) that displays the display image as well as the display information. |