INFORMATION SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SERVICE PROVIDING DEVICE, AND METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20110191056A1
• Filed: 03/05/2009
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Glitter Technology LLP, Precision Point Devices LLC
• Original Assignee: Keeper-Smith LLP
• Inventors: Takano, Kosuke, Yoshida, Naofumi, Kurabayashi, Shuichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,566,060 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

The information service providing device of the disclosure of the present application selects sensors which may be used for the implementation of an information service to be provided within a plurality of sensors which the device can make use of, and in addition, selects the most appropriate one within the sensors which may be used and selects an appropriate parameter for the sensors and processing programs in order for the information service to be provided appropriately, and set to these in response to the environment in which the information service is implemented. Furthermore, the information service providing device of the disclosure of the present application provides, with only the receipt of the designation of desired information service by a user, various information services are provided by appropriately combining various kinds of sensors and a plurality of processing programs.

Claims

1. An information service providing system comprising:

a module-parameter providing device; and

an information service providing device which is connected to this module-parameter providing device and may have a plurality of sensor driving program modules, a plurality of processing program modules and a plurality of output program modules, wherein

the module-parameter providing device provides to the information service providing device, upon request from the information service providing device, components of one or more modules to be selected, the components containing, as a component, one or more of;

one or more sensor driving program modules,

one or more processing program modules,

one or more output program modules,

one or more sensor setting parameters which are set to each of the adapted sensor driving program modules and used for its process,

one or more process setting parameters which are set to each of the adapted processing program modules and used for its process, and

one or more output setting parameters which are set to each of the adapted output program modules and used for its process,

the information service providing device has

an input device for accepting external input specifying one or more of a plurality of information services,

a selector for selecting a component of the modules to be selected which is needed to implement one or more of the specified information services on the basis of associating information associating each of the plurality of information services and one or more of each of the components of the modules to be selected which are needed for the its implementation,

a receiver, needed to implement one or more of the specified information services, for requesting a component of the modules to be selected which is not present in the information service providing device to the module-parameter providing device, i.e., requesting this component to the module-parameter providing device in response to this request and receiving a provided component,

a plurality of kinds of sensors each of which is adapted to one of the sensor driving program modules,

a setupper for setting each of the sensor setting parameter, the process setting parameters and the output setting parameter to each of the sensor driving program module, the processing program modules and the output program modules which are adapted to these,

an execution device for responding to the specified information service, executing the set sensor driving program modules, processing program modules and output program modules, and delivering information input-output among these so as to be adapted to the implementation of the specified information service, thereby implementing the specified information service, and

an output device for outputting the result of the implemented one or more information services,

the executed sensor driving program modules drive the adapted sensors, detect information according to the kind of this sensor, and output the information as the information of sensor,

each of the executed processing program modules processes the information of sensor which is output from the executed sensor driving program, and outputs a processing result to the output program modules, and

the executed output program modules create a result of the information service in a predetermined format from the processing result output from the processing program modules, and output the result to the output device.

2. An information service providing device comprising:

one or more sensor driving program modules;

one or more processing program modules;

an input device for accepting external input specifying one or more of a plurality of information services;

a selector for selecting, on the basis of associating information associating each of the plurality of information services, and the one or more sensor driving program modules and one or more processing program modules which are needed for its implementation, the one or more sensor driving program modules and the one or more processing program modules which are needed to implement one or more of the specified information services;

an execution device for executing a plurality of kinds of sensors each of which is adapted to one of the sensor driving program modules and the selected sensor driving program module and processing program modules, and delivering information input-output between these so as to be adapted to the implementation of the specified information service, thereby implementing the specified information service; and

an output device for outputting the result of one or more of the implemented information services, wherein

the executed sensor driving program modules drive the adapted sensors, detect information according to the kind of this sensor, and output the information as the information of sensor, and

each of the executed processing program modules processes the information of sensor which is output from the executed sensor driving programs, and outputs a processing result to the output device as the result of the specified information service.

3. The service providing device according to claim 2, further comprising:

one or more output program modules for processing a processing result output by each of the processing program modules, creating a result of the specified information service in a predetermined format, and outputting the created result of the information service to the output device, wherein

the output device outputs the result of the information service which is output by the output program modules.

4. The service providing device according to claim 2, further comprising:

one or more sensor setting parameters which are set to each of the adapted sensor driving program modules and used for its process;

one or more process setting parameters which are set to each of the adapted processing program modules and used for its process; and

a setupper for setting each of the sensor setting parameters and the process setting parameters to each of the sensor driving program modules and the processing program modules which are adapted to these, wherein

the selector further selects, on the basis of the associating information further associating each of a plurality of information services and one or more of the sensor setting parameters and one or more of the process setting parameters which are needed for its implementation, one or more of the sensor setting parameters and one or more of the process setting parameters which are needed to implement one or more of the specified information services, and

the execution device executes the set sensor driving program modules and processing program modules.

5. The service providing device according to claim 3, further comprising:

one or more sensor setting parameters which are set to each of the adapted sensor driving program modules and used for its process;

one or more process setting parameters which are set to each of the adapted processing program modules and used for its process; and

one output setting parameter which is set to each of the adapted output program modules and used for its process; and

a setupper for setting each of the sensor setting parameter, the process setting parameters and the output program modules to each of the sensor driving program modules, the processing program modules and the output program modules which are adapted to these, wherein

the selector further selects, on the basis of the associating information further associating each of a plurality of information services and one or more of the sensor setting parameters and one or more of the process setting parameters and the output program modules which are needed for its implementation, one or more of the sensor setting parameters, one or more of the process setting parameters and one or more of the output program modules which are needed to implement one or more of the specified information services, and

the execution device executes the set sensor driving program modules, the processing program modules and the output modules, delivers information input-output between these so as to be adapted to the implementation of the specified information service, thereby implementing the specified information service.

6. The service providing device according to claim 2, wherein,

to each of the plurality of sensors, priorities in the information service in which this sensor is used are assigned, and

the execution device supplies, when the plurality of sensors are used in the specified information service, in accordance with the priorities assigned to these sensors, information of sensor which is output from these sensors, to one or more of the processing program modules which are used in this information service.

7. The service providing device according to claim 2, wherein,

to each of the one or more information services, priorities for its implementation are assigned, and

the execution device implements only the information service which is implementable in accordance with the priority assigned to the specified information service.

8. The information service providing device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a module providing device for providing, in response to a request, one or more of;

the one or more sensor driving program modules,

the one or more processing program modules,

the one or more sensor setting parameters, and

the one or more process setting parameters; and

a receiver for requesting to the module providing device for one or more of;

the one or more sensor driving program modules,

the one or more processing program modules,

the one or more sensor setting parameters, and

the one or more process setting parameters

which are needed to implement one or more of the specified information service and cannot be selected by the selector,

requesting this component for the module-parameter providing device, and receiving a component provided in response to this request, wherein

the selector further handles, as the objects to be selected, one or more of;

the one or more sensor driving program modules,

the one or more processing program modules,

the one or more sensor setting parameters, and

the one or more process setting parameters

which are provided from the module-parameter providing device.

9. The information service providing device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a module providing device for providing, in response to a request, one or more of;

the one or more sensor driving program modules,

the one or more processing program modules,

the one or more output program modules,

the one or more sensor setting parameters,

the one or more process setting parameters, and

the one or more output setting parameters

which are needed to implement one or more of the specified information services and cannot be selected by the selector; and

a receiver for requesting to the module providing device for one or more of;

the one or more sensor driving program modules,

the one or more processing program modules,

the one or more output program modules,

the one or more sensor setting parameters,

the one or more process setting parameters, and

the one or more output setting parameters

which are needed to implement one or more of the specified information service and cannot be selected by the selector,

requesting this component for the module-parameter providing device, and receiving a component provided in response to this request, wherein

the one or more selectors further handle, as the objects to be selected, one or more of;

the one or more sensor driving program modules,

the one or more processing program modules,

the one or more output program modules,

the one or more sensor setting parameters,

the one or more process setting parameters, and

the one or more output setting parameters

which are provided from the module-parameter providing device.

10. A method for providing an information service, comprising:

accepting external input specifying one or more of a plurality of information services;

selecting the one or more sensor driving program modules needed to implement one or more of the specified information services, and

the one or more processing program modules,

on the basis of associating information associating each of the plurality of information services, and one or more sensor driving program modules and one or more processing program modules which are needed for its implementation;

executing the selected sensor driving program module and processing program modules and delivering information input-output between these so as to be adapted to the implementation of the specified information service, thereby implementing the specified information service; and

outputting one or more result of the implemented information service, wherein

each of the executed sensor driving program modules drives one of a plurality of kinds of sensors adapted to this sensor driving program module, detects the information according to the kind of this sensor, and outputs the information as the information of sensor,

each of the executed processing program modules processes the information of sensor which is output from the executed sensor driving program, and outputs a processing result as the result of the specified information service.

11. A program for causing a computer to execute the steps of:

accepting external input specifying one or more of a plurality of information services;

selecting, on the basis of associating information associating each of the plurality of information services, and the one or more sensor driving program modules and one or more processing program modules which are needed for its implementation, the one or more sensor driving program modules and the one or more processing program modules which are needed to implement one or more of the specified information services;

executing the selected sensor driving program modules and processing program modules and delivering information input-output between these so as to be adapted to the implementation of the specified information service, thereby implementing the specified information service; and

outputting one or more results of the implemented information service, wherein

each of the executed sensor driving program modules drives one of a plurality of kinds of sensors adapted to this sensor driving program module, detects the information according to the kind of this sensor, and outputs as information of sensor, and

each of the executed processing program modules processes the information of sensor which is output from the executed sensor driving program, and outputs a processing result as the result of the specified information service.