INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20140244155A1
• Filed: 01/13/2014
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: ABE, MAKOTO
• Application Number:
  US14/153,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20140244155A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/410
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a link information acquisition unit which acquires link information obtained by associating a reproduction location of contents with geographic information regarding geography associated with a story of the contents at the reproduction location; and a display control unit which performs control for displaying a geographic image based on the geographic information associated with the story of the contents being reproduced, based on the acquired link information and a reproduction location of the contents being reproduced.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a link information acquisition unit which acquires link information obtained by associating a reproduction location of contents with geographic information regarding geography associated with a story of the contents at the reproduction location; and

a display control unit which performs control for displaying a geographic image based on the geographic information associated with the story of the contents being reproduced, based on the acquired link information and the reproduction location of the contents being reproduced.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the geographic information includes the latitude and the longitude, and

the display control unit performs control for displaying a map to which a reproduction location mark which is a mark showing a location on a map specified in the geographic information associated with the reproduction location being reproduced is attached, as the geographic image.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the link information further includes a date and time associated with the geographic information, and

the display control unit performs control for displaying the date and time associated with the geographic information corresponding to a selected reproduction location mark, if any of the reproduction location mark is selected.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit performs control for displaying the map to which an apparatus location mark which is a mark showing a location on a map at which the information processing apparatus exists is further attached.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit performs control for displaying the map to which associated location information which is associated with the story of the contents and is regarding a feature on the map is further attached.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the associated location information is point-of-interest (POI) information, and

the display control unit performs control for displaying the map to which the associated location information is further attached, in a case where the display of the POI information is allowed.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the display control unit performs control for displaying the map to which an associated information mark which is a mark showing a location on a map at which the associated location information exists is further attached, and displaying associated location information at a location of the associated information mark, in a case where a distance between the reproduction location mark and the associated information mark is shorter than a set distance.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

a reproduction history information acquisition unit which acquires reproduction history information showing whether or not the contents are reproduced; and

a setting unit which sets a predetermined value to the set distance in a case where the reproduction history information shows that the contents are not reproduced, and sets a value greater than the predetermined value to the set distance in a case where the reproduction history information shows that the contents are reproduced.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit attaches and displays a mark for specifying a reproduction location being reproduced, on a contents image based on the contents.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit attaches and displays a mark for specifying a reproduction location associated with the geographic information in the link information, on a contents image based on the contents.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the contents are data configured to have, one or a plurality of text contents, image contents, and audio contents.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the geographic information includes the latitude and the longitude and information associated with a feature at a location specified in the latitude and the longitude.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit performs control for displaying a virtual map to which the reproduction location mark showing a location on a virtual map specified in the geographic information associated with the reproduction location being reproduced and a mark showing that it is the virtual map are attached, as the geographic image.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the link information includes two geographic information items, and

the display control unit performs control for displaying the geographic image including one of the two geographic information items, and displaying the geographic image including the other one of the two geographic information items after displaying the geographic image including both of the two geographic information items.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the link information includes two geographic information items, and

the display control unit performs control for displaying the geographic image including one of the two geographic information items and the geographic image including the other one of the two geographic information items at the same time.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the link information includes two geographic information items, and

the display control unit performs control for selecting and displaying any of the geographic image including one of the two geographic information items and the geographic image including the other one of the two geographic information items based on the user manipulation.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the geographic image is an image obtained by combining a map image and a photograph image.

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

a reproduction history information acquisition unit which acquires reproduction history information showing whether or not the contents are reproduced,

wherein the display control unit performs control for displaying the geographic image which is different from that of a case in which the reproduction history information shows that the contents are not reproduced, in a case in which the reproduction history information shows that the contents are reproduced.

19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the link information further includes a date and time associated with the geographic information, and

the display control unit performs control for selecting and displaying the geographic information based on a length of a period between a specified reference date and time and a date and time associated with the geographic information.

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

a cost acquisition unit which acquires individual cost which is cost necessary for movement from a specified reference location to a location shown by each of the geographic information items, for each geographic information item,

wherein the display control unit performs control for selecting and displaying the geographic information based on the individual cost.

21. The information processing apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the display control unit performs control for selecting and displaying the geographic information with the minimum individual cost.

22. The information processing apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the link information further includes locations at apexes of a region having a predetermined shape surrounding each of the geographic information items corresponding to the contents as representative locations for each contents, and

the cost acquisition unit acquires representative cost which is cost necessary for movement from the reference location to the representative location for each contents, to acquire the individual cost of each of the geographic information items corresponding to the contents selected based on the representative cost.

23. The information processing apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the cost acquisition unit acquires the individual cost obtained by performing weighting for each of the geographic information items using a preset weight coefficient.

24. The information processing apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the link information further includes a date and time associated with the geographic information, and

the cost acquisition unit acquires the individual cost obtained by performing weighting using a weight coefficient which is a value based on a length of a period between a specific reference date and time and the date and time associated with the geographic information.

25. The information processing apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the display control unit performs control for executing a selection process which is a process of selecting and displaying each of the geographic information items having the individual cost smaller than a given value.

26. The information processing apparatus according to claim 25, further comprising:

a location acquisition unit which acquires the reference location a plurality of times,

wherein the display control unit executes the selection process again based on a new reference location, in a case where the new reference location which is different from the predetermined location is acquired after executing the selection process based on the reference location of the predetermined location.

27. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring link information obtained by associating a reproduction location of contents with geographic information regarding geography associated with a story of the contents at the reproduction location; and

performing control for displaying a geographic image based on the geographic information associated with the story of the contents being reproduced, based on the acquired link information and the reproduction location of the contents being reproduced.

28. A program which causes a computer to execute:

acquiring link information obtained by associating a reproduction location of contents with geographic information regarding geography associated with a story of the contents at the reproduction location; and

performing control for displaying a geographic image based on the geographic information associated with the story of the contents being reproduced, based on the acquired link information and a reproduction location of the contents being reproduced.