Electronic device and information processing program

• US 10,038,870 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2011
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sugiue, Yuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bruckart, Benjamin R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huang, Jen-Shi
• Application Number:
  US12/932,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20110239247A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,708 Days
• Field of Search: 725 37- 61
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44227 Monitoring of local network, e.g. connection or bandwidth variations; Detecting new devices in the local network configuring of peripheral devices in general G06F9/4411; monitoring connectivity in data switched networks H04L43/0811
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71

Abstract

There is provided an electronic device and an information processing program, which may improve user'"'"'s convenience in operation using an electronic manual. The electronic device includes: a first determination section selecting one operation mode from one or more kinds of operation modes which are provided to operate the electronic device, and determining the selected operation mode as an operation mode to be executed; and a second determination section determining, in response to an input signal from a user, manual data of operation procedure for the determined operation mode in execution, as transmission information to be transmitted to a user terminal device.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a first display section;

a first determination section to select one operation mode from one or more kinds of operation modes which are provided to operate the electronic device, and determine the selected operation mode as an operation mode to be executed, the selected operation mode has a respective plurality of kinds of manual data associated therewith in which each kind thereof (i) pertains to a same operation procedure of the selected operation mode and (ii) has a presentation format associated therewith which is different from that of the other kind or kinds of the respective plurality of kinds of manual data;

a display controller to cause a first screen to be displayed on the first display section corresponding to the determined operation mode when the determined operation mode is executed;

a second determination section to perform priority calculations and to select, based on a result of the priority calculations, one kind of manual data from among the respective plurality of kinds of manual data as transmission information to be transmitted to a terminal device having a second display section; and

a transmission section to transmit the transmission information, selected by the second determination section, for receipt by the terminal device to enable a second screen corresponding to the selected one kind of manual data to be displayed on the second display section,

the second determination section is configured to perform the priority calculations by calculating a respective priority value for each kind of manual data based on the determined operation mode and data pertaining to a current user, and the second determination section is configured to select the respective kind of manual data having a highest priority value as the selected one kind of manual data, and

during operation the electronic device causes the determined operation mode to be executed on the electronic device simultaneously with the transmitting of the selected one kind of manual data as the transmission information for reception by the terminal device, such that the first screen is displayed on the first display section simultaneously with the second screen being displayed on the second display section, in which the first screen which corresponds to the determined operation mode is different from the second screen which corresponds to the selected one kind of manual data.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein in the case that the transmission section detects user operation after transmitting the transmission information to the terminal device, the transmission section transmits records of operation condition to the terminal device.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the data pertaining to the current user is picture data obtained by taking a picture of the current user.

4. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein face picture data of the current user is the picture data.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein sex of the current user, age of the current user and expression data of the current user which are obtained from the face picture data are th data pertaining to the current user.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1 further comprising, a holding section holding the manual data for the one or more kinds of operation modes.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the one kind of manual data includes at least one of (a) the operation procedure used in executing the determined operation mode or (b) information showing a site having the operation procedure used in executing the determined operation mode.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1, in which the respective plurality of kinds of manual data includes a first kind of manual data wherein letters are presented on the second screen in a first size and a second kind of manual data wherein letters are presented on the second screen in a second size which is different than the first size.

9. A computer readable non-transitory medium on which an information processing program is recorded, the information processing program causes an apparatus to execute:

a step, performed by a first determination unit in the apparatus, of selecting one operation mode from one or more kinds of operation modes which are provided to operate the apparatus having a computer, and determining the selected operation mode as an operation mode to be executed, the selected operation mode having a respective plurality of kinds of manual data associated therewith in which each kind thereof (i) pertains to a same operation procedure of the selected operation mode and (ii) has a presentation format associated therewith which is different from that of the other kind or kinds of the respective plurality of kinds of manual data,

a step of causing a first screen to be displayed on a first display section of the apparatus corresponding to the determined operation mode when the determined operation mode is executed;

a step, performed by a second determination unit in the apparatus, of performing priority calculations and selecting, based on a result of the priority calculations, one kind of manual data from among the respective plurality of kinds of manual data as transmission information to be transmitted to a terminal device to enable a second screen corresponding to the determined manual data to be displayed on a second display section of the terminal device, and

a step of transmitting the transmission information to the terminal device,

the step performed by the second determination unit includes performing the priority calculations by calculating a respective priority value for each kind of manual data based on the determined operation mode and data pertaining to a current user, and selecting the respective kind of manual data having a highest priority value as the selected one kind of manual data, and

the determined operation mode is executed on the apparatus simultaneously with the transmitting of the selected one kind of manual data as the transmission information for reception by the terminal device, such that the first screen is displayed on the first display section simultaneously with the second screen being displayed on the second display section, in which the first screen which corresponds to the determined operation mode is different from the second screen which corresponds to the selected one kind of manual data.

10. The computer readable non-transitory medium according to claim 9, wherein the information processing program further allows the computer to execute:

a step of transmitting records of operation condition to the terminal device in the case that the user operation is detected after the transmission information is transmitted to the terminal device.

11. The computer readable non-transitory medium according to claim 9, wherein the data pertaining to the current user is picture data obtained by taking a picture of the current user.

12. The computer readable non-transitory medium according to claim 9, wherein the one kind of manual data includes at least one of (a) the operation procedure used in executing the determined operation mode or (b) information showing a site having the operation procedure used in executing the determined operation mode.

13. The computer readable non-transitory medium according to claim 9, in which the respective plurality of kinds of manual data includes a first kind of manual data wherein letters are presented on the second screen in a first size and a second kind of manual data wherein letters are presented on the second screen in a second size which is different than the first size.