INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20170066597A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 03/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: HIROI, Noriyoshi
• Application Number:
  US15/120,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20170066597A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 1/137 with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 15/00 Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration having load-conveying surfaces formed by interconnected longitudinal links B65G17/06
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 2209/04 Indication location means
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 43/08 Control devices operated by article or material being fed, conveyed or discharged and controlling the discharging devices B65G47/42
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric

Abstract

In order to achieve improved work efficiency and reduced work errors, this information processing device is provided with an acquisition unit, a detection unit, and a report control unit. The acquisition unit acquires information used in work to be executed on a work object from a document attached to the work object. The detection unit detects the whereabouts of the work object. On the basis of a rule that is data in which the information used in the work and work contents utilizing the information are associated with each other, the report control unit detects the work contents for the work object. Further, the report control unit reports the work contents by controlling a report device for reporting the work contents.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires information on an operation executed on a processing object from a document associated with the processing object;

a detection unit that detects a position of the processing object; and

a notification control unit that detects an operation content for the processing object based on rules which are data correlated with the information on the operation and the operation content which uses the information, and notifying the operation content by controlling a notification device that notifies the operation content.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

Wherein, based on data correlated with the position of the processing object and the content notified by the notification device, the notification control unit changes the content notified by the notification device according to a change in the position of the processing object detected by the detection unit.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein when a predetermined period has elapsed after the detection unit detects the processing object, the notification control unit changes the content notified by the notification device according to the elapsed time.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the detection unit is configured to detect the position of the processing object in a detection area, and

the notification control unit performs control on the notification device so as to stop a notification operation for the processing object at a time point at which the position of the processing object is not detected by the detection unit or when a predetermined period has elapsed after the time point.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the notification control unit notifies the operation content by allowing a projection device which is the notification device to project the operation content to a surface of the processing object or the vicinity of the processing object.

6. An information processing system comprising:

an information processing device;

an information acquisition device that provides information representing a content of a document to an acquisition unit;

an information providing device that provides information on a position of a processing object to a detection unit; and

a notification device,

the information processing device comprising;

the acquisition unit that acquires information on an operation executed on the processing object from the document associated with the processing object;

the detection unit that detects the position of the processing object; and

a notification control unit that detects an operation content for the processing object based on rules which are data correlated with the information on the operation and the operation content which uses the information, and notifying the operation content by controlling the notification device that notifies the operation content.

7. The information processing system according to claim 6,

wherein the notification device is configured as a projection device, and

the projection device is incorporated into a device mounted on the head of an operator who processes the processing object so as to project an image representing the operation content to the vicinity of the eyes of the operator.

8. A distribution system comprising an information processing system,

the information processing system comprising:

an information processing device;

an information acquisition device that provides information representing a content of a document to an acquisition unit;

an information providing device that provides information on a position of a processing object to a detection unit; and

a notification device,

the information processing device comprising;

the acquisition unit that acquires information on an operation executed on the processing object from the document associated with the processing object;

the detection unit that detects the position of the processing object; and

a notification control unit that detects an operation content for the processing object based on rules which are data correlated with the information on the operation and the operation content which uses the information, and notifying the operation content by controlling the notification device that notifies the operation content,

wherein the notification device notifies a sorting destination to which the processing object is sorted as information representing the operation content for the processing object.

9. The distribution system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a conveying device that conveys the processing object; and

a conveyance control device that controls driving of the conveying device according to one or both of the position and the number of processing objects to be conveyed.

10. The distribution system according to claim 8,

wherein the notification device is a projection device, and

the notification control unit projects an image representing the sorting destination to which the processing object is sorted to the sorting destination as well as the processing object.

11. An information processing method for causing a computer to execute:

acquiring information on an operation executed on a processing object from a document associated with the processing object;

detecting an operation content for the processing object based on rules which are data correlated with the information on the operation and the operation content which uses the information; and

notifying the operation content.

12. A non-transitory program storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to execute:

a process of acquiring information on an operation executed on a processing object from a document associated with the processing object;

a process of detecting a position of the processing object;

a process of detecting an operation content for the processing object based on rules which are data correlated with the information on the operation and the operation content which uses the information; and

a process of notifying the operation content.