INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20120253674A1
• Filed: 02/23/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Kamiwada, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 8,996,313 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 5/06 by using barometric means

Abstract

An apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of a plurality of electronic devices, the plurality of electronic devices being located at corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors, respectively, a setting unit configured to perform processing, the processing including calculating a frequency of an atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values and, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and a transmission unit configured to transmit information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an obtaining unit, which is connected to a plurality of electronic devices through a network, configured to obtain an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of the plurality of electronic devices, the plurality of electronic devices being located at the corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors, respectively;

a setting unit configured to perform processing, the processing including

calculating a frequency of an atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values and,

classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and

a transmission unit configured to transmit information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission unit transmits information on the floor of the building on the basis of the identification information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the obtaining unit obtains atmospheric-pressure values measured by the plurality of electronic devices together with identification information identifying the electronic devices, respectively,

the setting unit associates the individual electronic devices with the corresponding floors of the building on the basis of the atmospheric-pressure values of the individual electronic devices and identification information of the corresponding electronic devices obtained by the obtaining unit and the association information, and

the transmission unit transmits information on the floor associated with the atmospheric-pressure value to the electronic device associated with the floor of the building.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the setting unit generates the association information for each of a predetermined time period.

5. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a location identification unit;

an obtaining unit configured to obtain location information and atmospheric-pressure values of each of the electronic devices having atmospheric-pressure sensors;

a building-location information storage unit configured to store location information for each building;

a setting unit configured

to calculate a frequency of the atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values for each atmospheric-pressure value associated with a building location stored in the building-location information storage unit,

to classify the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the frequency, and

to generate association information associating a floor of a building to be a target with the classified atmospheric-pressure value; and

a transmission unit configured

to refer to the building-location information storage unit, to identify a building associated with the received location information,

to refer to the association information of the identified building out of the generated association information, and

to transmit the identified information on a floor of the building associated with the received atmospheric-pressure value when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the transmission unit transmits information on the floor of the building on the basis of the identification information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the obtaining unit obtains the atmospheric-pressure values measured by the plurality of electronic devices together with identification information identifying the electronic devices, respectively,

the setting unit refers to the building-location information storage unit, associates the individual electronic devices with a building from the location information obtained from the individual electronic devices, and associates the individual electronic devices with the corresponding floors of the building on the basis of the atmospheric-pressure values of the individual electronic devices, obtained by the obtaining unit, identification information of the corresponding electronic devices, and the association information, and

the transmission unit transmits information on the floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value to the electronic device associated with the identified floor of the building.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the setting unit performs atmospheric-pressure range setting processing for each predetermined time period.

9. A method of processing information by an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus being connected to a plurality of electronic devices located at the corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors through a network, the method comprising:

obtaining an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of the plurality of electronic devices;

calculating a frequency of the atmospheric-pressure value having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and

transmitting, when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices, information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information by using the information apparatus.

10. A method of processing information by a computer accessible to a building-location information storage unit configured to store location information for each building, the method comprising:

obtaining location information and an atmospheric-pressure value of each of the electronic devices from a plurality of electronic devices having a location identification unit and an atmospheric-pressure sensor;

calculating a frequency of the atmospheric-pressure values having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values for each atmospheric-pressure value associated with a building location stored in the building-location information storage unit, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating a floor of a building to be a target with the classified atmospheric-pressure value,

identifying a building associated with the received location information, referring to the association information of the identified building out of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices, referring to the building-location information storage unit; and

transmitting, by a computer, the identified information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value.

11. A recording medium storing an information processing program causing a computer to perform processing, the computer being connected to a plurality of electronic devices located at the corresponding floors in a building and having atmospheric-pressure sensors through a network, the information processing program performing processing comprising:

obtaining an atmospheric-pressure value measured by each of the plurality of electronic devices;

calculating a frequency of the atmospheric-pressure values having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating the classified atmospheric-pressure value with a floor of the building; and

transmitting, by a computer, information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value on the basis of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices.

12. A recording medium configured to store an information processing program causing a computer accessible to a building-location information storage unit configured to store location information for each building, the information processing program causing the computer to perform processing comprising:

obtaining location information and an atmospheric-pressure value of each of the electronic devices from a plurality of electronic devices having a location identification unit and an atmospheric-pressure sensor;

calculating a frequency of the atmospheric-pressure values having a same value on the basis of the obtained plurality of atmospheric-pressure values for each atmospheric-pressure value associated with a building location stored in the building-location information storage unit, classifying the atmospheric-pressure values on the basis of the frequencies, and generating association information associating a floor of a building to be a target with the classified atmospheric-pressure value,

identifying a building associated with the received location information, referring to the association information of the identified building out of the generated association information when an atmospheric-pressure value is received together with identification information identifying the electronic device from any one of the electronic devices, referring to the building-location information storage unit; and

transmitting the identified information on a floor of the building associated with the atmospheric-pressure value.

13. An electronic device comprising:

a display unit;

an atmospheric-pressure sensor;

a communication unit configured to perform communication with an information processing apparatus including

a storage unit configured to obtain and store atmospheric-pressure values from a plurality of electronic devices located at the individual floors in a building with a plurality of stories and having atmospheric-pressure sensors, respectively,

an atmospheric-pressure range storage unit configured to store an atmospheric-pressure range data, and

an atmospheric-pressure range setting unit configured to perform atmospheric-pressure range setting processing storing an atmospheric-pressure range data set on the basis of a high-appearance frequency value out of the atmospheric-pressure value stored in the storage unit in association with a floor of the building into the atmospheric-pressure range storage unit, and

a control unit configured to control the communication unit to obtain the atmospheric-pressure range data stored in the atmospheric-pressure range storage unit of the information processing apparatus, and to display information on an identified floor on the display unit by comparing the obtained atmospheric-pressure range data and the atmospheric-pressure sensor value of the atmospheric-pressure sensor.