Private information storage device and private information management device

• US 20050138016A1
• Filed: 10/12/2004
• Published: 06/23/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsuyama, Shinako, Akagiri, Kenzo, Suginuma, Koji
• Application Number:
  US10/962,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20050138016A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

The events experienced are stored automatically, so that the information of higher utility for a user may be taken out with responsiveness and efficiency higher than with a technique of keyword retrieval over a network. An information registration unit 10 includes an information acquisition unit 11, for acquiring the experience information, a private information adding unit 12, for adding the private information, a data recognition processing unit 13, for recognizing the acquired information, a data definition processing unit 14, for classifying the recognized data in accordance with the preset definitions, and a data storage unit 15 for storage of the classified data. The information exploitation unit 30 includes an information acquisition unit 31, for acquiring the current state, a retrieval inputting unit 32, supplied with the retrieval conditions, a data recognition processing unit 33, for recognizing the acquired information, a retrieving unit 34, for extracting the information fitted to the retrieval conditions or the analogous information from the data storage unit 15 and an information presenting unit 35 for presenting the extracted information to the user.

Claims

1. A private information management device comprising:

information acquisition means for acquiring experience information pertinent to an event experienced by a user;

private information adding means for adding private information privately required by the user to said experience information; and

storage means for putting the experience information and private information into order and for storing the information thus put into order in a manner which enables retrieval.

2. The private information management device as defined in claim 1 wherein:

said information acquisition means comprises speech data acquisition means for acquiring outside speech data and speech recognition means for recognizing a pronunciation of a specific word from the outside speech data; and

said storage means puts into order and stores a result of recognition by said speech recognition means and the private information in a manner which enables retrieval.

3. The private information management device as defined in claim 1 wherein:

said information acquisition means includes image data acquisition means for acquiring outside image data and image recognition means for extracting a specific image from the outside image data; and

said storage means puts into order and stores a result of recognition by said image recognition means and the private information in a manner which enables retrieval.

4. The private information management device as defined in claim 1 wherein:

said information acquisition means includes sentence data acquisition means for acquiring sentence data and sentence recognition means for extracting a specific word from the sentence data; and

said storage means puts into order and stores a result of recognition by said sentence recognition means and the private information in a manner which enables retrieval.

5. A private information management device comprising:

information acquisition means for acquiring experience information pertinent to an event experienced by a user;

private information adding means for adding private information, privately required by the user to said experience information;

storage means for putting the experience information and the private information into order and for storing the information thus put into order in a manner which enables retrieval;

retrieval inputting means for inputting retrieval a condition by said user; and

information retrieval and presentation controlling means for retrieving matched information from information stored in said storage means based on the retrieval condition, and for presenting the matched information.

6. The private information management device according to claim 5 wherein:

said information acquisition means includes speech data acquisition means for acquiring external speech data and speech recognition means for recognizing a pronunciation of a specific word from the speech data; and

said storage means puts into order and stores a result of recognition by said speech recognition means and the private information in a manner which enables retrieval.

7. The private information management device according to claim 6 wherein:

said information acquisition means includes image data acquisition means for acquiring external image data and image recognition means for recognizing a specific image from the external image data; and

said storage means puts into order and stores a result of recognition by said image recognition means and the private information in a manner which enables retrieval.

8. The private information management device according to claim 5 wherein:

said information acquisition means includes sentence data acquisition means for acquiring sentence data and sentence recognition means for extracting a specific word from the sentence data; and

said storage means puts into order and stores a result of recognition by said sentence recognition means and the private information in a manner which enables retrieval.

9. A method for storing the private information comprising:

acquiring experience information pertinent to an event experienced by a user;

adding private information privately needed by the user to the experience information;

putting the experience information and the private information into order; and

storing the experience information and private information thus put into order in a manner which enables retrieval.

10. A method for storing the private information comprising:

acquiring experience information pertinent to an event experienced by a user;

adding private information privately needed by the user to the experience information;

putting the experience information and the private information into order;

storing the experience information and private information thus put into order in a storage means in a manner which enables retrieval;

retrieving fitting information from the information stored in said storage means based on a retrieval condition as entered by said user; and

presenting the fitting information to the user.