MOBILE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, LOCATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION METHOD, LOCATION INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130102335A1
• Filed: 10/18/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KATAGI, Masanobu, UKITA, Masakazu, MORIAI, Shiho
• Application Number:
  US13/654,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20130102335A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/457
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

There is provided a mobile device including an identification information acquisition section which acquires first identification information from an approaching mobile device, a location information acquisition section which acquires location information of a current point at a time point at which the first identification information is acquired, and a transmission section which transmits the first identification information and the location information in association with each other to an external device.

Claims

1. A mobile device comprising:

an identification information acquisition section which acquires first identification information from an approaching mobile device;

a location information acquisition section which acquires location information of a current point at a time point at which the first identification information is acquired; and

a transmission section which transmits the first identification information and the location information in association with each other to an external device.

2. The mobile device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission section transmits, together with the first identification information and the location information, second identification information which identifies the mobile device that has acquired the location information to the external device.

3. The mobile device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission section transmits the first identification information and the location information to the external device each time the first identification information is acquired.

4. The mobile device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission section collectively transmits a plurality of pieces of the first identification information and a plurality of pieces of the location information to the external device.

5. The mobile device according to claim 1,

wherein the identification information acquisition section acquires the first identification information which is encoded using a key that changes with elapse of time, and

wherein the key is shared with the external device, and the first identification information is decoded by the external device.

6. The mobile device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission section transmits the first identification information and the location information to the external device which is mutually authenticated therewith.

7. The mobile device according to claim 1,

wherein the transmission section transmits the first identification information and the location information to the external device which is connected thereto via an encoded communication path.

8. An information processing device comprising:

a reception section which receives first identification information that is acquired by a second mobile device from an approaching first mobile device and that identifies the first mobile device, and location information of a time point at which the first identification information is acquired by the second mobile device; and

a recording section which records the received first identification information and the received location information.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8,

wherein the reception section further receives second identification information that identifies the second mobile device, and

wherein the recording section further records the second identification information.

10. The information processing device according to claim 9, further comprising

a reliability calculation section which calculates reliability of the location information of the first mobile device based on the second identification information.

11. The information processing device according to claim 10,

wherein the reliability calculation section increases the reliability of the location information that is associated with a plurality of pieces of the second identification information at approximately a same time.

12. The information processing device according to claim 8, further comprising:

an absent area specifying section which specifies an absent area in which the second mobile device is absent based on location information of the second mobile device;

a target determination section which determines the second mobile device to be moved to the absent area based on the location information of the second mobile device; and

a request section which makes a request to the determined second mobile device to move to the absent area.

13. The information processing device according to claim 8, further comprising

a prediction information providing section which provides prediction information that predicts a location information-acquirable area of after elapse of a predetermined time period based on location information of the second mobile device.

14. The information processing device according to claim 8,

wherein the first identification information is encoded by the second mobile device using a key that changes with elapse of time, and

wherein the information processing device further includes a decoding section which decodes the first identification information using the key that is synchronized with the second mobile device.

15. The information processing device according to claim 8, further comprising:

an identification information issuing section which issues the first identification information that is temporary and that is valid for a predetermined period to the first mobile device; and

a matching section which specifies the first mobile device based on the temporary first identification information.

16. The information processing device according to claim 8, further comprising

a location information providing section which provides the recorded location information as location information of the first mobile device.

17. The information processing device according to claim 16,

wherein the location information providing section provides the location information using a map display screen in which the recorded location information is superimposed on a map.

18. A location information acquisition method comprising:

acquiring first identification information from an approaching mobile device;

acquiring location information of a current point at a time point at which the first identification information is acquired; and

transmitting the first identification information and the location information in association with each other to an external device.

19. A location information acquisition system comprising:

a first mobile device;

a second mobile device including

an identification information acquisition section which acquires first identification information from the first mobile device that is approaching,

a location information acquisition section which acquires location information of a current point at a time point at which the first identification information is acquired, and

a transmission section which transmits the first identification information and the location information in association with each other; and

an information processing device including

a reception section which receives the first identification information and the location information transmitted by the second mobile device, and

a recording section which records the first identification information and the location information.

20. A program for causing a computer to function as a mobile device including

an identification information acquisition section which acquires first identification information from an approaching mobile device,

a location information acquisition section which acquires location information of a current point at a time point at which the first identification information is acquired, and

a transmission section which transmits the first identification information and the location information in association with each other to an external device.