ENVIRONMENTAL BURDEN INDICATING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF

• US 20110173036A1
• Filed: 11/09/2010
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: UEDA, Manabu, UENO, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US12/942,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20110173036A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.11
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/00 Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism healthcare informatics G16H

Abstract

An environmental burden indicating apparatus includes a first history acquiring unit that acquires history of positional information which indicates position of at least one user, wherein the history of the positional information corresponds to first time information, and a second history acquiring unit that acquires history of environmental burden information which indicates the amount of burden against an environment produced in a facility where the at least one user is positioned, wherein the history of the environmental burden information corresponds to second time information. The environmental burden indicating apparatus further includes a environmental burden calculation unit that calculates personal environmental burden information of each user after allocating the environmental burden information acquired from the facility into each user based on the positional information; and a environmental burden indicator unit that indicates the personal environmental burden information of the at least one users.

Claims

1. An environmental burden indicating apparatus comprising:

a first history acquiring unit that acquires history of positional information which indicates position of at least one user, wherein the history of the positional information corresponds to first time information;

a second history acquiring unit that acquires history of environmental burden information which indicates the amount of burden against an environment produced in a facility where the at least one user is positioned, wherein the history of the environmental burden information corresponds to second time information;

a environmental burden calculation unit that calculates personal environmental burden information of each user after allocating the environmental burden information acquired from the facility into each user based on one or more of the positional information, the first time information and second time information; and

a environmental burden indicator unit that indicates the personal environmental burden information of the at least one user.

2. The environmental burden indicating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

an attribute information acquiring unit that acquires organization attribute information to which organization the at least one user belongs,

wherein the calculation unit specifies, from the acquired organization attribute information, at least one common attribute that the at least one user and another user have in common and generates organization environmental burden information by acquiring personal environmental burden information of the another user.

3. The environmental burden indicating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the indicating unit indicates combined environmental burden information which is generated based on the personal environmental burden information and the organization environmental burden information.

4. The environmental burden indicating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the calculation unit changes, based on the organization attribute information of the at least one user, an allocated personal environmental burden information of another user who is positioned in the same facility as the at least selected user.

5. The environmental burden indicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the indicating unit indicates information when the personal environmental burden information exceeds one or more designated thresholds.

6. The environmental burden indicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the indicating unit indicates the personal environmental burden information along a time line.

7. The environmental burden indicating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the indicating unit indicates the personal environmental burden by accumulating the personal environmental burden information in the facility of the at least one user.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer readable program executable by a computer for causing a computer to execute a process for indicating environmental burden, the process comprising:

acquiring history of positional information which indicates position of at least one user, wherein the history of the positional information corresponds to first time information;

acquiring history of environmental burden information which indicates the amount of burden against environment produced in a facility where the at least one user is positioned, wherein the history of the environmental burden information corresponds to second time information;

allocating the environmental burden information acquired from the facility into each user based on one or more of the positional information, the first time information and second time information;

calculating personal environmental burden information of each user from the allocated environmental burden information; and

indicating the personal environmental burden information of at least one selected user.