Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 8,332,157 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2011
• Issued: 12/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Asakawa, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Brusca, John S
• Application Number:
  US13/082,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20110282638A1
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 702/19
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 25/00 ICT specially adapted for hybridisation; ICT specially adapted for gene or protein expression
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 25/10 Gene or protein expression profiling; Expression-ratio estimation or normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G16B 5/00 ICT specially adapted for modelling or simulations in systems biology, e.g. gene-regulatory networks, protein interaction networks or metabolic networks

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition mechanism acquiring information on biological time of a user and information on a time difference between a movement source of the user and a movement destination; a storage mechanism storing model information produced by modeling a sunshine pattern, an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a ventrolateral area of a suprachiasmatic nucleus, and an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a dorsomedial area; and when a sunshine pattern of the movement source is changed in accordance with the time difference so as to become a sunshine pattern of the movement destination, a simulation mechanism simulating the expression pattern of the ventrolateral area and the expression pattern of the dorsomedial area on the basis of the model information using a state identified by the biological time as a starting state.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition means for acquiring information on biological time of a user and information on a time difference between a movement source of the user and a movement destination;

a storage means for storing model information produced by modeling a sunshine pattern, an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a ventrolateral area of a suprachiasmatic nucleus, and an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a dorsomedial area; and

when a sunshine pattern of the movement source is changed in accordance with the time difference so as to become a sunshine pattern of the movement destination of the user, a simulation means for simulating the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the ventrolateral area and the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the dorsomedial area on the basis of the model information using a state identified by the biological time of the user as a starting state.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

an output means for outputting information on a predicted jet-lag syndrome occurring on the user on the basis of a simulation result by the simulation means.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the output means displays a time period during which desynchronization occurs between the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the ventrolateral area and the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the dorsomedial area.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the output means displays an image indicating the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the ventrolateral area and the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the dorsomedial area from time when desynchronization occurs to time when re-synchronization is established.

5. A method of processing information, comprising the steps of:

acquiring information on biological time of a user and information on a time difference of a movement destination of the user; and

when a sunshine pattern of a movement source of the user is changed in accordance with the time difference so as to become a sunshine pattern of the movement destination of the user, simulating an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a ventrolateral area of a suprachiasmatic nucleus and an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a dorsomedial area on the basis of model information stored in a storage means and produced by modeling a sunshine pattern, an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a ventrolateral area of the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a dorsomedial area using a state identified by the biological time of the user as a starting state.

6. A program for causing a computer to perform processing comprising the steps of:

acquiring information on biological time of a user and information on a time difference of a movement destination of the user; and

when a sunshine pattern of a movement source of the user is changed in accordance with the time difference so as to become a sunshine pattern of the movement destination of the user, simulating an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a ventrolateral area of a suprachiasmatic nucleus and an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a dorsomedial area on the basis of model information stored in a storage means and produced by modeling a sunshine pattern, an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a ventrolateral area of the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a dorsomedial area using a state identified by the biological time of the user as a starting state.

7. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an acquisition mechanism acquiring information on biological time of a user and information on a time difference between a movement source of the user and a movement destination;

a storage mechanism storing model information produced by modeling a sunshine pattern, an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a ventrolateral area of a suprachiasmatic nucleus, and an expression pattern of a clock gene of a neuron of a dorsomedial area; and

when a sunshine pattern of the movement source is changed in accordance with the time difference so as to become a sunshine pattern of the movement destination of the user, a simulation mechanism simulating the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the ventrolateral area and the expression pattern of the clock gene of the neuron of the dorsomedial area on the basis of the model information using a state identified by the biological time of the user as a starting state.