PROGRAM SWITCHING CONTROL DEVICE AND PROGRAM

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APP PUB NO 20140157319A1
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14118143

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A terminal (5) obtains, by communicating with a viewer history presence management server (101) that manages viewing histories of multiple users including the user of said terminal, viewing histories of the different users from the viewer history presence management server (101); generates GUI video data, in which more than one symbols respectively corresponding to more than one program content viewed by the other viewers are listed chronologically, on the basis of the viewing histories of the different users; and outputs the video data for presentation. In this case, upon receiving a specific symbol selected by the user among the one or more symbols contained in the GUI video data, the terminal (5) transmits a command to a receiver so as to switch the program to be reproduced at the receiver to the program content which corresponds to the specific symbol received by an operation reception unit (77).

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JAPAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION2-1 JINNAN 2-CHOME SHIBUYA-KU TOKYO 150-8001

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Baba, Akitsugu Tokyo, JP 12 281
Fujisawa, Hiroshi Tokyo, JP 60 1299
Hamada, Hiroyuki Tokyo, JP 99 1866
Kanatsugu, Yasuaki Tokyo, JP 13 259
Kimura, Toru Tokyo, JP 131 1240
Matsumura, Kinji Tokyo, JP 11 264
Mitsuya, Shigeaki Tokyo, JP 10 254
Takechi, Masaru Tokyo, JP 20 313
Yamamoto, Makoto Tokyo, JP 297 3169

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