Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program executed in information processing apparatus

• US 20020109602A1
• Filed: 01/29/2002
• Published: 08/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Makoto, Shinada, Akira, Nunokawa, Katsuhiko, Okajima, Hiroaki
• Granted Patent: US 6,980,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/576
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and a program executed in an information processing apparatus. The invention is applied to, for example, the calculation of a premium. The invention judges the driving of a driver on the basis of a detection result of an emotional state of the driver for enabling the more objective judgment of the driving than that by prior art and the acquirement of a suitable judgment result. Moreover, another aspect of the present invention is applied to a case of supplying the driver with various pieces of information obtained by a navigation system or the like. The aspect supplies the driver with a prescribed piece of information while changing a transmission method according to an emotional state of the driver for enabling the suitable transmission of the various pieces of information to the driver.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

information acquiring means for acquiring a state detection result of an emotion of a driver of a vehicle; and

judging means for judging driving of the driver of the vehicle on a basis of the state detection result acquired by said information acquiring means.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, said apparatus further comprising informing means for informing the driver of the vehicle of a judgment result by said judging means.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, said apparatus further comprising setting means for setting a premium of the vehicle according to the judgment result by said judging means.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said judging means obtains an added value indicating a change of an emotion of the driver by digitizing magnitude of the change of the emotion of the driver to add the digitized magnitude at every change of the emotion, and

said judging means generates a judgment result of the driving by judging the added value.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said information acquiring means is communication means for acquiring the state detection result from state detecting means installed in the vehicle for generating the state detection result.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said information acquiring means and said judging means are installed in the vehicle.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said information acquiring means and said judging means are installed in the vehicle, and

said information processing apparatus includes informing means for informing setting means of a judgment result by said judging means, said setting means being for setting a premium of the vehicle according to the judgment result by said judging means.

8. An information processing apparatus comprising:

state detecting means for detecting an emotional state of a driver and/or a passenger of a vehicle; and

controlling means for supplying the driver and/or the passenger with a predetermined piece of information while changing a transmission method according to a detection result detected by said state detecting means.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said apparatus supplies the information by a sound.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the information is a piece of information for guiding the driver.

11. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

acquiring a piece of information of a state detection result of an emotion of a driver of a vehicle; and

judging driving of the driver of the vehicle on a basis of the state detection result acquired at the step of acquiring the information.

12. The method according to claim 11, said method further comprising the step of informing the driver of the vehicle of a judgment result at the step of the judging.

13. The method according to claim 11, said method further comprising the step of setting a premium of the vehicle according to the judgment result at the step of the judging.

16. The program executed in an information processing apparatus according to claim 15, said program further comprising the step of informing the driver of the vehicle of a judgment result at the step of the judging.

17. The program executed in an information processing apparatus according to claim 15, said program further comprising the step of setting a premium of the vehicle according to the judgment result at the step of the judging.

14. An information processing method comprising the steps of:

detecting an emotional state of a driver and/or a passenger by predetermined detecting means; and

supplying the driver and/or the passenger with a predetermined piece of information while changing a transmission method according to a detection result detected at the step of the detecting of the emotional state.

15. A program executed in an information processing apparatus, said program comprising the steps of:

acquiring a piece of information of a state detection result of an emotion of a driver in a vehicle; and

judging driving of the driver of the vehicle on a basis of the state detection result acquired at the step of acquiring the information.

18. A program executed in an information processing apparatus, said program comprising the steps of:

detecting an emotional state of a driver and/or a passenger by predetermined detecting means; and

supplying the driver and/or the passenger with a predetermined piece of information while changing a transmission method according to a detection result detected at the step of the detecting of the emotional state.