Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program executed in information processing apparatus

• US 6,980,098 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2002
• Issued: 12/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Makoto, Shinada, Akira, Nunokawa, Katsuhiko, Okajima, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phung T.
• Application Number:
  US10/059,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20020109602A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,428 Days
• Field of Search: 340/439, 340/575, 340/576, 340/573.1, 340/995.1, 340/460, 701/29, 701/213, 705/400, 705/402, 705/4
• US Class Current: 340/439
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26

Abstract

An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program executed in the information processing apparatus. The invention is applied to the calculation of a premium and includes judging of driving of a driver on the basis of a detection result of an emotional state of the driver to enable a more objective judgment of the driving and the acquirement of a suitable judgment result. Another aspect relates to supplying the driver with various pieces of information obtained by a navigation system or the like. The driver is supplied with a prescribed piece of information while changing a transmission method according to an emotional state of the driver for enabling a suitable transmission of the various pieces of information to the driver.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

information acquiring means installed in a vehicle for acquiring a state detection result of an emotion of a driver of a vehicle;

judging means for judging a degree of impatience of the driver based on the state detection result of the emotion of the driver;

navigation means for providing the driver with road directions using voice messages, wherein the voice messages are changed in response to the judged degree of impatience of the driver; and

communication means for transmitting the state detection result to a service center located outside the vehicle, the service center including;

judging means for judging a driving skill of the driver of the vehicle based on the state detection result acquired by the information acquiring means, and

contact premium calculation means for calculating a contact premium based on the judged driving skill of the driver.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising informing means for informing the driver of the vehicle of a judgment result by the judging means.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the judging means obtains an added value indicating a change of the emotion of the driver by digitizing a magnitude of the change of the emotion of the driver to add the digitized magnitude at each change of the emotion; and

the judging means generates a judgment result of the driving by judging the added value.

4. An information processing method, comprising the steps of:

acquiring in a vehicle a state detection result of an emotion of a driver of the vehicle; and

judging a degree of impatience of the driver based on the state detection result of the emotion of the driver;

providing the driver with road directions using voice messages, wherein the voice messages are changed in response to the judged degree of impatience of the driver;

transmitting the state detection result to a service center located outside the vehicle, the service center performing the steps of;

judging a driving skill of the driver of the vehicle based on the state detection result acquired at the acquiring step; and

calculating a contact premium based on the judged driving skill of the driver.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising the step of informing the driver of the vehicle of a judgment result at the judging step.

6. A program executed in an information processing apparatus, the program comprising the steps of:

acquiring in a vehicle a state detection result of an emotion of a driver of the vehicle; and

judging a degree of impatience of the driver based on the state detection result of the emotion of the driver;

providing the driver with road directions using voice messages, wherein the voice messages are changed in response to the judged degree of impatience of the driver;

transmitting the state detection result to a service center located outside the vehicle, the service center performing the steps of;

judging a driving skill of the driver of the vehicle based on the state detection result acquired at the acquiring step, and

calculating a contact premium based on the judged driving skill of the driver.

7. The program executed in a information processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising the step of informing the driver of the vehicle of a judgment result at the judging step.