INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130166559A1
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKAOKA, Tomohisa
• Granted Patent: US 9,185,512 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/42 Determining position
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission section which transmits, to an external device that has collected an index pertaining to a feature of an output of a sensor for each classification, classification information for specifying the classification, and a reception section which receives information about the index corresponding to the classification information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a transmission section which transmits, to an external device that has collected an index pertaining to a feature of an output of a sensor for each classification, classification information for specifying the classification; and

a reception section which receives information about the index corresponding to the classification information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the classification information includes information for identifying a model of the information processing apparatus.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the classification information includes information for identifying a type of the sensor.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the classification information includes information indicating a version of an operating system of the information processing apparatus.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the classification information includes information indicating a version of software for calculating the index.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the reception section receives information about appearance frequency distribution of the indices.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the reception section receives a threshold based on the appearance frequency distribution of the indices.

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

an updating section which transmits the classification information and the index to the external device.

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

a processing section which processes the output of the sensor based on the information about the index.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the reception section receives appearance frequency distribution of the indices, and

wherein the processing section processes the output of the sensor based on the appearance frequency distribution.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the sensor is a sensor used for measuring positions.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the index is an accuracy index indicating accuracy of the output of the sensor.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the index is an accuracy index indicating an error of the output of the sensor.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13,

wherein the sensor is a positioning sensor which measures positions based on environmental information, and

wherein the index is an accuracy index indicating a positional error.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the index is information indicating whether the sensor has been calibrated.

16. An information processing method comprising:

transmitting, to an external device that has collected an index pertaining to a feature of an output of a sensor for each classification, classification information for specifying the classification; and

receiving information about the index corresponding to the classification information.

17. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus including

a transmission section which transmits, to an external device that has collected an index pertaining to a feature of an output of a sensor for each classification, classification information for specifying the classification, and

a reception section which receives information about the index corresponding to the classification information.