Information processing system, information device and information processing device

• US 6,751,546 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2001
• Issued: 06/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamashita, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Marc-Coleman, Marthe Y.
• Application Number:
  US09/852,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20010055373A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,131 Days
• Field of Search: 701/35, 701/200, 701/201, 701/213, 701/214, 340/993, 340/995.1, 455/73, 455/84, 706/10, 358/462, 714/746
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

The information processing system includes an information device, and an information processing device, wherein the information device further includes a transfer unit which outputs a transfer request of transferring predetermined data processed by the information device, to the information processing device, and transfers the predetermined data to the information processing device when a response is made in reply to the transfer request, and the information processing device further includes receiving unit for receiving the predetermined data in reply to the transfer request, recording unit for recording the predetermined data received by the receiving unit as they are associated with position data indicating a current position, and data processing unit for executing a predetermined process on the basis of the predetermined data and the position data, recorded on the recording unit.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

an information device; and

an information processing device,

wherein the information device comprises;

a position acquiring unit configured to acquire position data indicating a current position from a device separate from the information processing device, and

a transfer unit configured to output a request to transfer predetermined data processed by the information device to the information processing device and, when a response to the transfer request occurs, transfer the predetermined data to the information processing device after adding the position data obtained by the position acquiring unit to the predetermined data;

and wherein the information processing device comprises;

a data receiving unit configured to receive the predetermined data with the position data added thereto, in response to the transfer request from the information device,

a recording unit configured to record the predetermined data and position data received by the data receiving unit while the predetermined data and the position data associated with each other, and

a data processing unit configured to execute a predetermined process on the basis of the predetermined data and the position data, recorded on the recording unit.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the device separate from the information processing device is a mobile phone which receives a position information service from a base station.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein the device separate from the information processing device is a mobile phone equipped with a position measuring device.

4. A system according to claim 1, wherein the transfer unit transfers the predetermined data, after adding the position data, to the external device via a radio communication.

5. An information device having a communication facility of data communications with an external device, comprising:

a position acquiring unit configured to acquire position data indicating a current position from a device separate from the external device;

a transfer unit configured to output a request to transfer predetermined data processed by the information device to the external device and, when a response to the transfer request occurs, transfer the predetermined data to the external device after adding the position data obtained by the position acquiring unit to the predetermined data.

6. The information device according to claim 5, wherein the device separate from the external device is a mobile phone that receives position information service from a base station.

7. The information device according to claim 5, wherein the device separate from the external device is a mobile phone equipped with a position measuring device.

8. The information device according to claim 5, wherein the transfer unit transfers the predetermined data, after adding the position data, to the information processing device via a radio communication.