INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130027424A1
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: MOCHIZUKI, Daisuke, Gotoh, Tomohiko, Sato, Tatsuhito, Mochizuki, Shunsuke, Sun, Yun, Yaeda, Takeshi, Okamura, Yuki
• Granted Patent: US 9,703,928 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/620
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a clipping section that clips, from a captured image in which a food is captured as a subject, regions for each food to generate food images, and a grouping section that groups the generated food images for each identical subject.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a clipping section that clips, from a captured image in which a food is captured as a subject, regions for each food to generate food images; and

a grouping section that groups the generated food images for each identical subject.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a selection section that selects a representative food image from each group of the food images grouped for each identical subject;

a nutrition determination section that analyzes the selected representative food image to determine on the basis of analysis results at least one of a number of calories and a nutrient balance of the food captured as the subject of the representative food image; and

a presentation section that presents to a user results of the determination made by the nutrition determination section.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the selection section selects the representative food image, which is suitable for the determination to be made by the nutrition determination section, from each group of the food images grouped for each identical subject.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the selection section selects the representative food image from each group of the food images grouped for each identical subject in accordance with an operation performed by the user.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the grouping section pairs all the generated food images to group the food images for each identical subject on the basis of results of determination as to whether or not two food images forming each pair have an identical subject.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the grouping section pairs all the generated food images, and determines that two food images forming each pair do not have an identical subject in the case where respective dates and times of capture of the two food images or respective locations of capture of the two food images are apart from each other by more than a predetermined threshold.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the clipping section clips from the captured image regions for a piece of tableware on which each food is served to generate the food images.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an image capturing section that captures an image of a food as a subject to generate the captured image.

9. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, comprising:

the information processing apparatus clipping, from a captured image in which a food is captured as a subject, regions for each food to generate food images; and

the information processing apparatus grouping the generated food images for each identical subject.

10. A program that causes a computer to function as:

a clipping section that clips, from a captured image in which a food is captured as a subject, regions for each food to generate food images; and

a grouping section that groups the generated food images for each identical subject.