Information recommendation system based on biometric information

• US 8,041,801 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2007
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Makino, Kenichi, Takai, Motoyuki, Sano, Akane, Inoue, Makoto, Sako, Yoichiro, Komori, Akihiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Takatsuka, Susumu, Tamori, Hirofumi, Sakai, Yuichi, Sasaki, Toru, Nakamura, Takatoshi, Shirai, Katsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Tina
• Application Number:
  US12/278,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271496A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,721 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/205, 846/12, 846/15, 846/36, 600/412, 600/504, 600/509, 600/520, 600/526, 340/321
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/903 Querying for retrieval from the web G06F16/953
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

State information of a user is detected via a biometric information sensor and is stored, in a nonvolatile memory, in association with a content identifier of content that is being reproduced for the user when the state information is detected. An information request, including the state information of another user at another terminal apparatus, is generated and transmitted. Provided information transmitted in response to the information request is received and provided to the user. When an information request is received by the user, information is extracted from the nonvolatile memory based on the state information of another user. Provided information that is based on the extracted information is transmitted to another user.

Claims

1. A communication terminal apparatus, comprising:

detecting means for detecting state information of a first user, the state information including exercise information that specifies a type and a tempo of exercise being performed by the first user, and biometric data including at least one of a pulse rate, body temperature, heart rate, myoelectrical potential, brain wave activity, perspiration level, and pupil diameter of the first user;

first storage means for storing and holding the state information, detected by the detecting means, in association with predetermined additional information that includes a content identifier of content data being reproduced for the first user when the state information was detected;

request transmitting means for transmitting a music information request including the state information detected by the detecting means to another terminal apparatus;

information receiving means for receiving music information that is transmitted in response to the music information request transmitted by the request transmitting means, the music information corresponding to state information of another user, at the another terminal apparatus that received the transmitted music information request, which matches the state information of the first user;

presenting means for presenting one of the music information received by the information receiving means and content specified by the music information, to the first user;

request receiving means for receiving a music information request, from another terminal apparatus, including state information of another user at the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request;

extracting means for extracting information to be provided to the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request, from the first storage means, based on the state information included in the received music information request, when receiving the music information request by the request receiving means; and

information transmitting means for transmitting music information generated based on the information extracted by the extracting means to the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request.

2. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

another-apparatus information receiving means for receiving another-apparatus information that specifies an association between the state information included in the received music information request and predetermined additional information that includes a content identifier of content data being reproduced for the another user, at the another apparatus that sent the music information request, when the state information, of the another user at the another apparatus that sent the music information request, was detected; and

second storage means for storing and holding the another-apparatus information received by the another-apparatus information receiving means,

wherein the extracting means extracts the information to be provided to the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request from the state information and the predetermined additional information stored in the first storage means and the another-apparatus information stored in the second storage means.

3. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein measurements corresponding to at least one piece of the biometric data are measurable in the body of the first user.

4. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined additional information includes identification information of the communication terminal apparatus.

5. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the request transmitting means further transmits a predetermined extraction condition that specifies a type of the state information of the first user that is to be matched with a corresponding type of the state information of the another user at the another terminal apparatus that received the music information request.

6. The communication terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the music information request is recommendation request for the content.

7. An information providing method used in a communication terminal apparatus, comprising:

a detecting step of detecting state information of a first user, the state information including exercise information that specifies a type and a tempo of exercise being performed by the first user, and biometric data that includes at least one of a pulse rate, body temperature, heart rate, myoelectrical potential, brain wave activity, perspiration level, and pupil diameter of the first user;

a first recording step of recording the state information, in a first storage means, in association with predetermined additional information that includes a content identifier of content data being reproduced for the first user when the state information was detected;

a request transmitting step of transmitting a music information request including the state information detected in the detecting step to another terminal apparatus;

an information receiving step of receiving music information that is transmitted in response to the music information request transmitted in the request transmitting step, the music information corresponding to state information of another user, at the another terminal apparatus that received the transmitted music information request, which matches the state information of the first user;

a presenting step of presenting one of the music information received in the information receiving step and content specified by the music information to the first user;

a request receiving step of receiving a music information request, from another terminal apparatus, including state information of another user at the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request;

an extracting step of extracting information to be music to the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request, from the information stored in the first storage means based on the state information included in the received music information request, when receiving the music information request in the request receiving step; and

an information transmitting step of generating music information based on the information extracted in the extracting step and transmitting the music information to the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request.

8. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program codes embodied in the computer readable storage medium that, when executed, cause a computer in a communication terminal apparatus to execute:

a detecting step of detecting state information of a first user, the state information including exercise information that specifies a type and a tempo of exercise being performed by the first user, and biometric data that includes at least one of a pulse rate, body temperature, heart rate, myoelectrical potential, brain wave activity, perspiration level, and pupil diameter of the first user;

a first recording step of recording the state information, in a first storage means, in association with predetermined additional information that includes a content identifier of content data being reproduced for the first user when the state information was detected;

a request transmitting step of transmitting a music information request including the state information detected in the detecting step to another terminal apparatus;

an information receiving step of receiving music information that is transmitted in response to the music information request transmitted in the request transmitting step, the music information corresponding to state information of another user, at the another terminal apparatus that received the transmitted music information request, which matches the state information of the first user;

a presenting step of presenting one of the music information received in the information receiving step and content specified by the music information to the first user;

a request receiving step of receiving music information request, from another terminal apparatus, including state information of another user at the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request;

an extracting step of extracting information to be provided to the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request, from the information stored in the first storage means based on the state information included in the received music information request, when receiving the music information request in the request receiving step; and

an information transmitting step of generating music information based on the information extracted in the extracting step and transmitting the music information to the another terminal apparatus that sent the music information request.