APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING CONTENTS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a content presentation technique, capable of visualizing relevance in response to the change of content that is variable in accompaniment to the passage of time. SOLUTION: A target content selection unit 101 selects content as a current processing target. A target content update unit 105 updates the processing target content, based on the temporal information managed by a time management unit 104. A target content history information management unit 106 manages a history of past processing target content. A related content computation unit 107 identifies the related content related to the current processing target content and past processing target content. A layout unit 108 arranges the related content together with the current processing target content in a virtual space, based on the relevance, performs visualization processing and allows the virtual space after the processing to be displayed on a display unit 109. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT