INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20090099785A1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: HAYAKAWA, Tomohiro, SOMA, Haruhiko, NAKAGAWA, Kazuhiro, KISHII, Noriyuki, YAMAMOTO, Takuro
• Application Number:
  US12/240,333
• Publication Number:
  US 20090099785A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a management section configured to manage biological rhythm information about a user, and a display control section configured to display the biological rhythm information so as to be associated with an object corresponding to the user.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

management means for managing biological rhythm information about a user; and

display control means for displaying the biological rhythm information so as to be associated with an object corresponding to the user.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

the object exists in a virtual space, and

said display control means displays the biological rhythm information and the object so as to be associated with each other while the user is present in the virtual space.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

determination means for acquiring and storing biological information about the user transmitted from an external device and/or an internal measurement section, automatically determining a biological rhythm of the user based on the stored biological information, and transmitting a result of the automatic determination to said management means as the biological rhythm information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the biological information is one or more pieces of information selected from the group consisting of heartbeats, a pulse, and blood pressure.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising

determination means for acquiring and storing life rhythm information about the user transmitted from an external device, automatically determining a biological rhythm of the user based on the stored life rhythm information, and transmitting a result of the automatic determination to said management means as the biological rhythm information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to one of claims 3 and 5, further comprising

storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of image information for the object, wherein

said display control means selects and displays one or more of the plurality of pieces of image information stored in said storage means based on the biological rhythm information.

7. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

managing biological rhythm information about a user; and

displaying the biological rhythm information so as to be associated with an object corresponding to the user.

8. A storage medium having stored a computer-readable program for allowing a computer to perform the steps of:

managing biological rhythm information about a user; and

displaying the biological rhythm information so as to be associated with an object corresponding to the user.

9. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a management section configured to manage biological rhythm information about a user; and

a display control section configured to display the biological rhythm information so as to be associated with an object corresponding to the user.