Information processing device, information processing system, and program

• US 10,460,157 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2013
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsunaga, Hideyuki, Yamashita, Kosei
• Primary Examiner(s): Duffy, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Doshi, Ankit B
• Application Number:
  US14/383,714
• Publication Number:
  US 20150016685A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,430 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/21 Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques; Extraction of features in feature space; Blind source separation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including a control unit to generate play event information based on a determination whether detected behavior of a user is a predetermined play event.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a communication device configured to wirelessly receive sensor information from a sensor device; and

a processor configured

to generate play event information using the sensor information,

to determine from the play event information whether a detected behavior of a user is a predetermined play event,

to control an imaging device to capture play images based on the predetermined play event, and

identify a type of play event based on the play event information and a sport associated with a play event.

2. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the processor controls the imaging device based on the play event information so as to not capture images associated with ineffective play events, ineffective play events comprising one or more events that are designated as not part of the sport.

3. The information processing device of claim 2, wherein the imaging device includes an information processing unit.

4. The information processing device of claim 1 further comprising the imaging device.

5. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined play event includes an effective play event and an ineffective play event, the effective play event comprising an event that is designated as part of the sport and the ineffective play event comprising an event that is designated as not part of the sport.

6. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the processor determines at least one of imaging start or imaging end of a play image which is a moving image based on the play event information.

7. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the processor selects a play image imaged by each of a plurality of imaging devices based on the play event information.

8. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the processor generates notification information for the user based on the play event information.

9. The information processing device of claim 8, wherein the notification information is information registered in association with the predetermined play event by the user.

10. The information processing device of claim 8, wherein the notification information is generated based on the sensor information indicating the detected behavior of the user.

11. The information processing device of claim 8, wherein the processor controls transmission of the notification information to an external device.

12. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the processor generates play event information for each of a plurality of users based on a determination whether detected behavior of each of the plurality of users is the predetermined play event.

13. The information processing device of claim 12, wherein a respective play event corresponds to each of the users.

14. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the sensor device is mounted on the user or a sports implement which the user uses.

15. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the predetermined play event includes an effective play event and the processor is further configured to exclude one or more ineffective play events from images associated with the predetermined play event, the effective play event comprising an event that is designated as part of the sport and the one or more ineffective play events comprising one or more events that are designated as not part of the sport.

16. A system comprising:

a sensor device to acquire sensor information indicating behavior of a user and to wirelessly transmit the sensor information;

a communication device to wirelessly receive the sensor information transmitted by the sensor device;

a camera that captures images of the user; and

a processor configured to generate play event information based on the sensor information received by the communication device and to identify a type of play event based on the play event information and a sport associated with a play event,

in which the processor is configured to control capturing of play images by the camera in a time interval of a predetermined play event and based on the generated play event information to exclude one or more play events.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor is configured to distinguish an effective play event from an ineffective play event based on the play event information and to control the images captured by the camera to exclude one or more ineffective play events, the effective play event comprising an event that is designated as part of the sport and the one or more ineffective play events comprising one or more events that are designated as not part of the sport.

18. An information processing method comprising:

wirelessly receiving sensor information from a sensor device configured to detect movement associated with a user;

generating, by a processor, play event information based on the sensor information;

determining whether a detected user movement is a predetermined play event based on the play event information;

identifying a type of play event based on the play event information and a sport associated with a play event; and

controlling an imaging device to capture play images based on the predetermined play event.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

determining whether a detected user movement is the predetermined play event based on the play event information,

analyzing the play event information to distinguish between different types of play events and to exclude one or more ineffective play events from images associated with the predetermined play event, the one or more ineffective play events comprising one or more events that are designated as not part of the sport.

20. A non-transitory recording medium recorded with a program executable by a computer, the program comprising:

enabling sensor information from a sensor device to be wirelessly received;

generating play event information based on the sensor information received by a communication device to determine whether detected behavior of a user is a predetermined play event;

identifying a type of play event based on the play event information and a sport associated with a play event; and

controlling an imaging device to capture play images based on the predetermined play event.

21. The non-transitory recording medium of claim 20, further comprising:

analyzing the play event information to distinguish between different types of play events; and

analyzing the play event information to distinguish an effective play event from an ineffective play event based on the play event information, the effective play event comprising an event that is designated as part of the sport and the ineffective play event comprising an event that is designated as not part of the sport.