INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20120254167A1
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kamada, Yasunori, Kawashima, Hiroshi, Noma, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US13/404,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20120254167A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires personal identification information for identifying a person, a control unit that generates correlation information by correlating the personal identification information acquired by the acquisition unit with an environmental impact which is an impact exerted on the environment by the person, and a storage unit that stores the correlation information generated by the control unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires personal identification information for identifying a person;

a control unit that generates correlation information by correlating the personal identification information acquired by the acquisition unit with an environmental impact which is an impact exerted on the environment by the person; and

a storage unit that stores the correlation information generated by the control unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit correlates a power consumption amount which is a power amount consumed by the use of the information processing apparatus as the environmental impact with the personal identification information.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the acquisition unit detects a working operation of the information processing apparatus performed by the person, and

wherein the control unit correlates the power consumption amount with the personal identification information if the working operation is detected by the acquisition unit.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the personal identification information by receiving the personal identification information transmitted from a portable terminal of the person.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires detection information which is detected by a detection device, from the detection device, and acquires the personal identification information by analyzing the detection information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires the personal identification information by receiving the personal identification information which has been acquired by analyzing detection information detected by a detection device.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit further acquires history information regarding actions of the person, and

wherein the control unit correlates the environmental impact acquired by analyzing the history information with the personal identification information.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the acquisition unit acquires movement history of the person as the history information, and

wherein the control unit acquires a transportation of the person by analyzing the movement history and correlates the environmental impact corresponding to the transportation with the personal identification information.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the acquisition unit acquires purchase history of the person as the history information, and

wherein the control unit acquires the environmental impact by analyzing the purchase history, and correlates the acquired environmental impact with the personal identification information.

10. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring personal identification information for identifying a person;

generating correlation information by correlating the acquired personal identification information with an environmental impact which is an impact exerted on the environment by the person; and

storing the generated correlation information.

11. A program enabling a computer to function as an information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires personal identification information for identifying a person;

a control unit that generates correlation information by correlating the personal identification information acquired by the acquisition unit with an environmental impact which is an impact exerted on the environment by the person; and

a storage unit that stores the correlation information generated by the control unit.

12. An information processing system comprising:

an information processing apparatus; and

a server,

wherein the image processing apparatus includes

an acquisition unit that acquires personal identification information for identifying a person;

a control unit that generates correlation information by correlating the personal identification information acquired by the acquisition unit with an environmental impact which is an impact exerted on the environment by the person;

a storage unit that stores the correlation information generated by the control unit; and

a transmission unit that transmits the correlation information stored in the storage unit, and

wherein the server includes

a reception unit that receives the correlation information from the information processing apparatus; and

a storage unit that stores the correlation information received by the reception unit.

13. An information processing system comprising:

a data accumulation apparatus; and

a server,

wherein the data accumulation apparatus includes

a storage unit that stores personal identification information for identifying a person and history information regarding actions of the person; and

a transmission unit that transmits the personal identification information and the history information stored in the storage unit, and

wherein the server includes

an acquisition unit that acquires the personal identification information and the history information from the data accumulation apparatus;

a control unit that generates correlation information by correlating the personal identification information acquired by the acquisition unit with an environmental impact obtained by analyzing the history information acquired by the acquisition unit; and

a storage unit that stores the correlation information generated by the control unit.