INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20130091472A1
• Filed: 06/27/2011
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Terai, Takao
• Granted Patent: US 9,235,339 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/856
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser

Abstract

An information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium which acquire movement trace information and automatically determine a division point for dividing the movement trace information based on an analysis result of the movement trace information. Optionally a movement trace track is generated from the movement trace. Various criteria used for how the division points are generated include using distance and time; altitudes; repeated track; mode of transportation; and lapse of data, for example.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium that has movement trace information stored therein; and

a computer processing unit that automatically divides the movement trace information at a division point into a first movement trace segment and a second movement trace segment.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit is configured to generate a movement trace track from the movement trace information.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

an interface through which the computer processing unit outputs a display signal that causes a display device to display the movement trace track that includes the first movement trace segment, the second movement trace segment, and a visual indication of the division point.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on position information of a stay part.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein

said stay part includes a plurality of stay positions within a predetermined geographic area over a predetermined time period.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein

one of the plurality of stay positions is set when position information of a movement trace track is continuously contained within the predetermined area for an hour or more.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on altitude information.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein

the altitude information includes time-series altitude changes of the movement trace information, and the computer processing unit determines the division point at a peak altitude within a predetermined time period.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein

the computer processing unit does not set the division point at a peak altitude when inclination angle information just before and just after the peak altitude is less than a predetermined threshold.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on detection of an orbiting movement in the movement trace information.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on a change in transportation mode.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the computer processing unit detects a change in speed of the movement trace information and determines that the transportation mode has changed when the change in speed is above a predetermined level.

13. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on content data associated in time with a position in the movement trace information.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein

the content data includes at least one of a photograph, a video recording, and an audio recording.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on a lapse of position data.

16. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on at least one of time of day and day of week.

17. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein

the display signal provides the movement trace track information for display on a playback screen of the display device.

18. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the computer processing unit automatically determines the division point based on predefined user settable track segments.

19. An information processing method comprising:

retrieving from a non-transitory computer readable medium movement trace information; and

automatically dividing with a computer processing unit the movement trace

information at a division point into a first movement trace segment and a second movement trace segment.

20. A non-transitory computer readable storage device having instructions that when executed by a computer processing unit performs an information processing method comprising:

retrieving from the non-transitory computer readable medium movement trace information; and

automatically dividing with the computer processing unit the movement trace information into a first movement trace segment and a second movement trace segment at a division point.