INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND AN INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140331157A1
• Filed: 10/25/2012
• Published: 11/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshigahara, Takayuki, Shimomura, Hideki, Kobayashi, Seiji, Wakita, Yoshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,760,265 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An information processing device, and method use an attribute control unit to change an association between a detected object and an attribute stored in association with the detected object in response to a detected physical action between the detected object and another detected object. By changing an association of an attribute between detected objects allows for an autonomous tracking of substances that are moved between objects.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an attribute control unit that changes an association between a detected object and an attribute stored in association with the detected object in response to a detected physical action between the detected object and another detected object.

2. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising:

an object identification unit configured to determine the detected physical action via image analysis.

3. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising:

a control unit that changes the association from the attribute that is previously associated with the detected object to being subsequently associated with the another detected object.

4. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising an event detection unit that detects the detected physical action as a first event that occurs between the detected object and another detected object, and also detects a second event between the first physical object and a third physical object.

5. The information processing device of claim 4, wherein the first event involves changing the association of the attribute from being stored in association with the detected object to being stored in association with the third physical object.

6. The information processing device of claim 5, wherein the attribute is medicine, and the association of the medicine with a first storage unit is changed to being associated with a second storage unit.

7. The information processing device of claim 4, wherein the event detection unit detects

a third event between the first physical object and the third physical object and changes the association of the attribute to be stored in association with the third physical object, and

a fourth event between the third physical object and a fourth physical object and further changes the association of the attribute to be stored in association with the fourth physical object, and

a fifth event of analyzing a physical feature of the attribute.

8. The information processing device of claim 7, wherein

the attribute is a medicine, and the fifth event is a weighing of the medicine.

9. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising:

an event detection unit that detects the detected physical action as a first event that occurs between the detected object and the another detected object, said first detected object being a human, and the second detected object being an object containing medicine, and the detected physical action is the human ingesting the medicine.

10. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising

an event detection unit that detects the detected physical action as a first event that occurs between the detected object and the another detected object,

a second event between the detected object and a third object and associates another attribute with the detected object,

a third event of moving the detected object to a fourth object, and

11. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising a user interface including a display that displays said detected object.

12. The information processing device of claim 11, further comprising:

a data acquisition unit that acquires attribute data, and

an event detection unit that uses the attribute data to determine a characteristic of the detected physical action.

13. The information processing device of claim 11, further comprising:

a display control unit that overlays attribute data adjacent to said detected object on the user interface.

14. The information processing device of claim 13, wherein

said user interface includes a display of at least one of a smartphone, a tablet computer and a head mount display.

15. The information processing device of claim 4, wherein

said event detection unit is configured to detect the first event as at least one of

a distance between two objects being lowering than a predetermined threshold,

a time duration when two objects are located within the predetermined threshold, and

a predetermined gesture.

16. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein:

said detected object is one of a source, a transporter and a destination, and said another detected object is one of the source, the transporter and the destination,

said change in association occurs when the source is the detected object and the transporter is the another detected object or when the transporter is the detected object and the destination is the another detected object.

17. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein

the association of the attribute is moved from being stored in association with the detected object to being stored in association with the another detected object.

18. The information processing device of claim 16, wherein

said detected object may also include one of a second transporter, and a scale, and the another detected object may include the second transporter and the scale.

19. An information processing method comprising:

storing in memory an attribute in an association with a detected object; and

changing with an attribute control unit the association between the detected object and the attribute in response to a detected physical action between the detected object and another detected object.

20. An information processing device comprising:

an interface that exchanges data with an attribute control unit that changes an association between a detected object and an attribute stored in association with the detected object in response to a detected physical action between the detected object and another detected object; and

a display control unit that overlays attribute data adjacent to said detected object on a user interface unit.