INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, BEHAVIOR PREDICTION DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR

• US 20110246059A1
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tokashiki, Mamoru
• Granted Patent: US 8,918,284 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/393 Trajectory determination or predictive tracking, e.g. Kalman filtering

Abstract

A method, system, device, and computer readable medium for a displaying a predicted route of a user. It can be determined whether a predicted route is within a displayed range of the map. If the predicted route is not within the displayed range of the map, the displayed range of the map can be automatically changed such that the predicted route is within the displayed range of the map.

Claims

1. A method of displaying predicted information of a user, comprising:

generating display information of a map having within a displayed range first predicted information of the user;

acquiring second predicted information of the user;

determining whether the second predicted information is within a displayed range of the map; and

if the second predicted information is not within the displayed range of the map, automatically changing the displayed range of the map such that the second predicted information is within the displayed range of the map.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predicted information comprises information related to a predicted route.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, using the display unit, the map and the second information within the displayed range.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining reflects whether a change in predicted behavior of the user has occurred.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating the second predicted information based on a change in predicted behavior of the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the map, the first predicted information and the second predicted information are displayed using a mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second predicted information is received from a server that generates the second predicted information when a change in predicted behavior of the user has occurred.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a location of the user.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising sending the location of the user to a server that generates the second predicted information based on the location of the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second predicted information comprises a plurality of predicted routes of the user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of determining is performed based at least partially on calculated probabilities that individual routes of the plurality of predicted routes will be taken by the user.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of determining is performed by weighting differences in levels of magnification associated with the displayed range and the routes according to the calculated probabilities to obtain a weighted value, and determining whether the weighted value exceeds a threshold.

13. A device, comprising:

a display control unit that controls a display unit to display a map having within a displayed range at least one first predicted route of the user; and

a processing unit that receives at least one second predicted route of the user, determines whether the at least one second predicted route is within a displayed range of the map, and, if the at least one second predicted route is not within the displayed range of the map, automatically changes the displayed range of the map such that the at least one second predicted route is within the displayed range of the map.

14. The device of claim 13, further comprising a location acquiring unit that determines a location of the user.

15. The device of claim 14, wherein the mobile device sends the location of the user to a server that generates the at least one second predicted route based on the location of the user.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein the at least one second predicted route comprises a plurality of predicted routes of the user.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the determination as to whether the at least one second predicted route is within a displayed range of the map is performed at least partially based upon calculated probabilities that individual routes of the plurality of predicted routes will be taken by the user.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the determination as to whether the at least one second predicted route is within a displayed range of the map is performed by weighting differences in levels of magnification associated with the displayed range and the routes according to the calculated probabilities to obtain a weighted value, and determining whether the weighted value exceeds a threshold.

19. A method of generating and displaying predicted information of a user, the method comprising:

generating display information of a map having within a displayed range first predicted information of the user;

generating second predicted information of the user based on a change in the user'"'"'s behavior;

determining whether the second predicted information is within a displayed range of the map; and

if the second predicted information is not within the displayed range of the map, automatically changing the displayed range of the map such that the second predicted information is within the displayed range of the map.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the display information is displayed using a mobile device, and the method further comprises:

determining the location of the user;

sending the location of the user from the mobile device to a server; and

sending the second predicted information from the server to the mobile device,

wherein the step of generating the second predicted information is performed based on the user'"'"'s location.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the location of the user and the second predicted information are sent using a wireless network.

22. A system for generating and displaying a predicted route of a user, the system comprising:

a mobile device, comprising;

a display unit that displays a map having within a displayed range at least one first predicted route of the user; and

a processing unit that receives at least one second predicted route of the user, determines whether the at least one second predicted route is within a displayed range of the map, and, if the at least one second predicted route is not within the displayed range of the map, automatically changes the displayed range of the map such that the at least one second predicted route is within the displayed range of the map;

a server that generates the at least one first and at least one second predicted routes and sends the at least one first and at least one second predicted routes to the mobile device.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the mobile device further comprises a location acquiring unit that determines the location of the user, wherein the mobile device sends the location of the user to the server, and wherein the server generates the at least one first and at least one second predicted routes based on the user'"'"'s location.

24. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed, perform a method of displaying predicted information of a user, the method comprising:

generating display information of a map having within a displayed range at least one first predicted route of the user;

receiving at least one second predicted route of the user;

determining whether the at least one second predicted route is within a displayed range of the map; and

if the at least one second predicted route is not within the displayed range of the map, automatically changing the displayed range of the map such that the at least one second predicted route is within the displayed range of the map.

25. The computer readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the method further comprises:

displaying, using the display unit, the map and the at least one second predicted route within the displayed range.

26. The computer readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the step of determining reflects whether a change in predicted behavior of the user has occurred.

27. The computer readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the method further comprises generating the at least one second predicted route based on a change in predicted behavior of the user.

28. The computer readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the map, the at least one first predicted route, and the at least one second predicted route are displayed using a mobile device.

29. The computer readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the at least one second predicted route is received from a server that generates the at least one second predicted route when a change in predicted behavior of the user has occurred.

30. The computer readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the method further comprises determining a location of the user.

31. The computer readable storage medium of claim 30, wherein the method further comprises sending the location of the user to a server that generates the at least one second predicted route based on the location of the user.

32. The computer readable storage medium of claim 24, wherein the at least one second predicted route comprises a plurality of predicted routes of the user.

33. The computer readable storage medium of claim 32, wherein the step of determining is performed based at least partially on calculated probabilities that individual routes of the plurality of predicted routes will be taken by the user.

34. The computer readable storage medium of claim 33, wherein the step of determining is performed by weighting differences in levels of magnification associated with the displayed range and the routes according to the calculated probabilities to obtain a weighted value, and determining whether the weighted value exceeds a threshold.