INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE OPERATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20110200980A1
• Filed: 10/20/2009
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Camelot Schools LLC
• Original Assignee: Camelot Schools LLC
• Inventors: Takahashi, Hiroyuki, Shimizu, Shuji, Osawa, Norisumi, Sako, Kentaro, Takahashi, Shugo
• Application Number:
  US13/125,002
• Publication Number:
  US 20110200980A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/365
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/56 including a user help function

Abstract

Provided is an information processing device operation control system which records an operation history of a function module; analyzes the operation history; extracts a reserved function module; references tutorial information according to the extracted reserved function module; acquires a tutorial of the reserved function module; adds to schedule information, the type of the plan content based on the position information, the time information, and the use example contained in the tutorial information, as a user plan; and reports the use example of a plurality of function modules according to the schedule information, so as to start a tutorial.

Claims

1. An operation control system for information processing equipments with a plurality of functional modules comprising:

a clock unit for acquiring current time information;

an operation history recording unit for recording operation history of the functional modules;

a tutorial storage unit for memorizing information about an example of how to use the functional modules as tutorial information related with a time information;

an operation history analyzing unit for extracting unused functional modules by analyzing the operation history;

a tutorial receiving unit for acquiring the example of how to use the unused functional modules with referring to the tutorial information based on the unused functional modules extracted by the operation history analyzing unit;

a schedule memory unit for storing the time information, and the type of the user'"'"'s schedule as schedule information;

a tutorial setting unit for adding the time information and the classification of the contents of the schedule according to the example of how to use, are included in the tutorial information acquired by the tutorial receiving unit to the schedule information as the user'"'"'s schedule; and

a guide unit for announcing example of how to use for the functional module based on the schedule information.

2. The operation control system for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 1 comprising further,

a position information acquisition unit which acquires the position information which points the own position,

wherein the tutorial storage unit memorizes information about the example of how to use for each of the functional module as tutorial information with the time information and the position information;

and

wherein the schedule memory unit stores the time information, the position information and the type of the user'"'"'s schedule as schedule information.

3. The operation control system for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 1

wherein the tutorial storage unit and the operation history analyzing unit are provided in the server established on the communication network, and

wherein the tutorial acquisition unit has a communication unit for acquiring examples of how to use for the unused functional module based on the operation history through the communication network.

4. The operation control system for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 1 comprising further,

a display control unit has a calendar display function with showing the current date,

wherein the calendar display function splits the calendar by the current date, displays a list of the image data stored in the image data accumulating unit in the split part of the past from the current date, and displays schedule information stored in the schedule memory unit in the split part of the future from the current date.

5. The operation control system for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 1 comprising further:

a photographing unit for taking pictures as one of the functional modules;

a photographing mode setting unit for setting up photographing modes of photography by the photographing unit;

a photographing condition information receiving unit for acquiring the position information which points the current position, and the current time information as a photographing condition information in an event for taking the pictures;

an additional information processing unit for adding the setting of the photographing mode of the image data, and the photographing condition information to the image data took by the photographing unit as attribution information about the each image data;

an image data accumulating unit for storing the image data with the attribution information added by the additional information processing unit; and

a display control unit for list display of the image data stored in the image data accumulating unit according to the attribution information of each picture,

wherein the operation history recording unit records the history of the operational mode set up by the photographing mode setting unit, with including into the operation history.

6. The operation control system for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 1 comprising further:

a face detection unit for detecting a person'"'"'s face part, and computing the coordinates position in the base images of this detected face part; and

a face seal generating unit for changing the face part detected by the face detection unit, into the image data of specific shape,

wherein the face detection unit and the face seal generating unit are included in the functional modules;

wherein the photographing mode setting unit, it is selectable a photographing mode including the facial recognition processing by the face detection unit and the conversion process of the image data based on the face seal generating unit; and

wherein the operation history recording unit also records an operation history of photographing mode including the detection processing and the conversion process selected by the photographing mode setting unit, with the operation history.

7. An operation control method for information processing equipments with a plurality of functional modules comprising:

a operation history recording step for memorizing information about an example of how to use the functional modules as a tutorial information related with a position information and a time information previously, and for recording operation history of the functional modules;

an operation history analyzing step for extracting unused functional modules by analyzing the operation history;

a tutorial receiving step for acquiring the example of how to use the unused functional modules with referring to the tutorial information based on the unused functional modules extracted by the operation history analyzing step;

a tutorial setting step for adding the time information and the classification of the contents of the schedule according to the example of how to use, are included in the tutorial information acquired by the tutorial receiving step to the schedule information as the user'"'"'s schedule; and

a starting tutorial step for announcing example of how to use for the functional module based on the schedule information.

8. The operation control method for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 7

wherein, in the tutorial storage unit, information about the example of how to use for each of the functional module as tutorial information with the time information and the position information are memorized into the tutorial storage unit, and

wherein, in the tutorial setting step, the time information, the position information and the type of the user'"'"'s schedule as schedule information is added.

9. The operation control method for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 7

wherein the tutorial storage unit is provided in a server established on a communication network, and

wherein, in the operation history analysis step or the tutorial acquisition step, examples of how to use for the unused functional module based on the operation history are acquired through the communication network form the server.

10. The operation control method for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 7 comprising further,

a display control step for displaying a list of the schedule information,

wherein the display control step, the current date included in the calendar is shown, the calendar is split by the current date, a list of the image data stored in the image data accumulating unit is displayed in the split part of the past from the current date, and a schedule information stored in the schedule memory unit are displayed in the split part of the future from the current date.

11. The operation control method for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 7 comprising further:

a photographing mode setting step for setting up photographing modes of photography by a photographing unit a as one of the functional modules;

a photographing condition information receiving step for acquiring the position information which points the current position, and the current time information as a photographing condition information in an event for taking the pictures;

a photographing step for taking pictures;

an additional information processing step for adding the setting of the photographing mode of the image data, and the photographing condition information to the image data took in the photographing step as attribution information about the each image data;

an image data accumulating step for storing the image data with the attribution information added in the additional information processing step; and

a display control step for list display of the image data stored in the image data accumulating unit according to the attribution information of each picture.

12. The operation control method for information processing equipment as claimed in claim 11 comprising further,

a step for detecting a person'"'"'s face part, computing the coordinates position in the base images of this detected face part, and for changing the face part detected by the face detection unit, into the image data of specific shape, before the image data storing step,

wherein, in the photographing mode setting step, it is selectable a photographing mode including the facial recognition processing and the conversion process of the image data, and

wherein, in the operation history recording step, an operation history of photographing mode including the detection processing and the conversion process selected in the photographing mode setting step are recorded with the operation history.