MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SORTING/ARRANGING DEVICE AND SORTING/ARRANGING METHOD

摘要

An information sorting/arranging device contributing to reduction of the amount of data transferred, and ensuring the brief graspability of information contents at a glance and the grasp easiness when information is displayed on a client device. An information set acquiring unit (10) acquires an information set. An information visualizing unit (30) creates an information set icon. The information set is a group of media information concerning the same object and selected from a variety of media information subsets. The information set icon is an icon visually representing the contents of the information set and created by combining icons allocated to the media information subsets and visually representing the contents of the media information subsets. An axis setting unit (40) allocates a feature to a sorting/arranging space axis. A feature extracting unit (20) extracts a feature from each media information subset. A sorting/arranging unit (50) arranges the information set icons in a sorting/arranging space according to the respective features. An information display unit (60) displays them.