CONTENT PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20180173796A1
• Filed: 12/12/2017
• Published: 06/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Murata, Satoshi
• Granted Patent: US 10,360,259 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/636 by using biological or physiological data
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/597 Recognising the driver's state or behaviour, e.g. attention or drowsiness
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/168 Feature extraction; Face representation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/02 Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816

Abstract

A content providing apparatus, including a biometric information acquiring unit acquiring a biometric information of a passenger, a feeling estimating unit estimating a passenger feeling based on the biometric information acquired, a content instructing unit instructing to acquire a content based on the passenger feeling estimated, a content acquiring unit acquiring the content instructed to be acquired, and a content output unit outputting the content acquired to the passenger. The content instructing unit instructs to change the content to be acquired from a first content to a second content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output.

Claims

1. A content providing apparatus, comprising:

a biometric information acquiring unit configured to acquire a biometric information of a passenger; and

a CPU and a memory coupled to the CPU, wherein the CPU and the memory are configured to perform;

estimating a passenger feeling based on the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit;

instructing to acquire a content based on the passenger feeling estimated;

acquiring the content instructed to be acquired;

outputting the content acquired by the content acquiring unit to the passenger; and

the instructing comprising instructing to change the content to be acquired from a first content to a second content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output.

2. The content providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the CPU and the memory are further configured to perform:

the instructing comprising when the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output is worse, instructing to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content.

3. The content providing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a manual instructing unit configured to instruct to acquire the content in accordance with a manual operation, wherein the CPU and the memory are further configured to perform;

determining whether the passenger looks toward the manual instructing unit, based on the biometric information acquired; and

the instructing comprising when the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output is worse and it is determined that the passenger looks toward the manual instructing unit, instructing to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content.

4. The content providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the CPU and the memory are further configured to perform:

the instructing comprising instructing to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content, in accordance with a change of the passenger feeling estimated after a predetermined time passes from an output of the first content.

5. The content providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the CPU and the memory are further configured to perform:

the instructing comprising instructing to stop acquiring the content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output; and

the outputting comprising stopping outputting the content to the passenger when it is instructed to stop acquiring the content.

6. The content providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the content instructed is a music content, wherein the CPU and the memory are further configured to perform:

the instructing comprising instructing to acquire the second content of a genre identical with the first content or the second content of a genre different from the first content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output.

7. A content providing apparatus, comprising:

a biometric information acquiring unit configured to acquire a biometric information of a passenger;

a feeling estimating unit configured to estimate a passenger feeling based on the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit;

a content instructing unit configured to instruct to acquire a content based on the passenger feeling estimated by the feeling estimating unit;

a content acquiring unit configured to acquire the content instructed to be acquired by the content instructing unit; and

a content output unit configured to output the content acquired by the content acquiring unit to the passenger,

wherein the content instructing unit is further configured to instruct to change the content to be acquired from a first content to a second content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated by the feeling estimating unit after the first content is output by the content output unit.

8. The content providing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein when the passenger feeling estimated by the feeling estimating unit after the first content is output by the content output unit is worse, the content instructing unit is further configured to instruct to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content.

9. The content providing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a manual instructing unit configured to instruct to acquire the content in accordance with a manual operation; and

a line-of-sight determining unit configure to determine whether the passenger looks toward the manual instructing unit, based on the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit,

wherein when the passenger feeling estimated by the feeling estimating unit after the first content is output by the content output unit is worse and it is determined by the line-of-sight determining unit that the passenger looks toward the manual instructing unit, the content instructing unit is further configured to instruct to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content.

10. The content providing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the content instructing unit is further configured to instruct to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content, in accordance with a change of the passenger feeling estimated by the feeling estimating unit after a predetermined time passes from an output of the first content by the content output unit.

11. The content providing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the content instructing unit is further configured to instruct to stop acquiring the content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated by the feeling estimating unit after the first content is output by the content output unit, and

the content output unit is further configured to stop outputting the content to the passenger when it is instructed by the content instructing unit to stop acquiring the content.

12. The content providing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the content instructed by the content instructing unit is a music content, and

the content instructing unit is further configured to instruct to acquire the second content of a genre identical with the first content or the second content of a genre different from the first content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated by the feeling estimating unit after the first content is output by the content output unit.

13. A content providing method, comprising:

acquiring a biometric information of a passenger;

estimating a passenger feeling based on the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring unit;

instructing to acquire a content based on the passenger feeling estimated;

acquiring the content instructed to be acquired;

outputting the content acquired by the content acquiring unit to the passenger; and

the instructing comprising instructing to change the content to be acquired from a first content to a second content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output.

14. The content providing method according to claim 13, further comprising:

the instructing comprising when the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output is worse, instructing to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content.

15. The content providing method according to claim 14, further comprising:

determining whether the passenger looks toward a manual instructing unit for instructing to acquire the content in accordance with a manual operation, based on the biometric information acquired; and

the instructing comprising when the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output is worse and it is determined that the passenger looks toward the manual instructing unit, instructing to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content.

16. The content providing method according to claim 13, further comprising:

the instructing comprising instructing to change the content to be acquired from the first content to the second content, in accordance with a change of the passenger feeling estimated after a predetermined time passes from an output of the first content.

17. The content providing method according to claim 13, further comprising:

the instructing comprising instructing to stop acquiring the content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output; and

the outputting comprising stopping outputting the content to the passenger when it is instructed to stop acquiring the content.

18. The content providing method according to claim 13, wherein

the content instructed is a music content, wherein the method further comprising:

the instructing comprising instructing to acquire the second content of a genre identical with the first content or the second content of a genre different from the first content, in accordance with the passenger feeling estimated after the first content is output.