Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, system, and imaging object generation device

• US 8,462,232 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2010
• Issued: 06/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Masahiko, Murakoshi, Sho
• Primary Examiner(s): Henn, Timothy J
• Application Number:
  US12/691,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20100188514A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,237 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.1, 348/231.99, 348/231.2, 348/231.6
• US Class Current: 348/231.6
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/242 by image rotation, e.g. by 90 degrees
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00127 Connection or combination of a still picture apparatus with another apparatus, e.g. for storage, processing or transmission of still picture signals or of information associated with a still picture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0084 Digital still camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

An information processing apparatus is provided which includes an imaging data acquisition unit for obtaining imaging data obtained by imaging an imaging object which is asymmetric in at least one of vertical direction and horizontal direction, an orientation detection unit for detecting the orientation of the imaging object with respect to the top, bottom, left, and right of the imaging data obtained by the imaging data acquisition unit, and a related information selection unit for selecting one or more related information, from among a plurality of related information prepared in advance, according to the orientation of the imaging object detected by the orientation detection unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an imaging data acquisition unit for obtaining imaging data obtained by imaging an imaging object which is asymmetric in at least one of vertical direction and horizontal direction;

an image data storage unit in which image data including at least a part of the imaging object is recorded in advance;

an orientation detection unit for detecting the orientation of the imaging object with respect to the top, bottom, left, and right of the imaging data obtained by the imaging data acquisition unit by comparing the imaging object included in the imaging data obtained by the imaging data acquisition unit and at least the part of the imaging object included in the image data recorded in the image data storage unit; and

a related information selection unit for selecting one or more related information, from among a plurality of related information prepared in advance, according to the orientation of the imaging object detected by the orientation detection unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the orientation detection unit detects, as the orientation of the imaging object, at least an angle of the top, bottom, left, and right of the imaging object with respect to the top, bottom, left, and right of the imaging data obtained by the imaging data acquisition unit, and

the related information selection unit selects the related information according to the angle of the imaging object detected by the orientation detection unit.

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

the imaging data acquisition unit obtains the imaging object imaged by an external terminal including an imaging device and transmitted from the terminal, and

the information processing apparatus further includes a selection history storage unit for accumulating a selection history of the related information by the related information selection unit.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the imaging data acquisition unit is an imaging device for imaging the imaging object, and

the information processing apparatus further includes a communication unit for transmitting to an external storage device a selection result of the related information by the related information selection unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a related information transmission unit for transmitting to the terminal the related information selected by the related information selection unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the image is a one-dimensional or two-dimensional code in which predetermined code information is recorded,

the information processing apparatus includes an information extraction unit for extracting, from the code included in the imaging data obtained by the imaging data acquisition unit, the predetermined code information recorded in the code, and

the related information selection unit selects the related information allotted to the orientation of the imaging object, based on the predetermined code information extracted by the information extraction unit and the orientation of the imaging object detected by the orientation detection unit, from among the plurality of related information related with the predetermined code information.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the imaging object includes instruction information indicating a relationship between an orientation of the imaging object to be photographed and related information to be selected by the related information selection unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of related information prepared in advance are a plurality of evaluation information each of which indicates a user satisfaction level with a product or a service related with the imaging object, and

the related information selection unit selects one of the evaluation information according to the orientation of the imaging object.

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

recording in advance image data including at least a part of the imaging object in an image data storage unit;

obtaining imaging data obtained by imaging an imaging object which is asymmetric in at least one of vertical direction and horizontal direction;

detecting the orientation of the imaging object with respect to the top, bottom, left, and right of the imaging data obtained at the imaging data obtaining step by comparing the imaging object included in the imaging data and at least the part of the imaging object included in the image data recorded in the recording step; and

selecting one or more related information, from among a plurality of related information prepared in advance, according to the orientation of the imaging object detected at the orientation detecting step.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for causing a computer to perform the functions of:

recording image data including at least a part of the imaging object;

obtaining imaging data obtained by imaging an imaging object which is asymmetric in at least one of vertical direction and horizontal direction;

detecting the orientation of the imaging object with respect to the top, bottom, left, and right of the imaging data obtained by the imaging data obtaining function step by comparing the imaging object included in the imaging data and at least the part of the imaging object included in the image data recorded in the recording function; and

selecting one or more related information, from among a plurality of related information prepared in advance, according to the orientation of the imaging object detected by the orientation detecting function.

11. A system comprising:

a terminal for imaging an imaging object which is asymmetric in at least one of vertical direction and horizontal direction; and

a server for obtaining imaging data obtained by imaging the imaging object from the terminal, wherein

at least one of the terminal and the server includes an imaging data acquisition unit for obtaining the imaging data obtained by imaging the imaging object,

an image data storage unit for storing in advance image data including at least a part of the imaging object,

an orientation detection unit for detecting the orientation of the imaging object with respect to the top, bottom, left, and right of the imaging data obtained by the imaging data acquisition unit by comparing the imaging object included in the imaging data obtained by the imaging data acquisition unit and at least the part of the imaging object included in the image data recorded in the image data storage unit, and

a related information selection unit for selecting one or more related information, from among a plurality of related information prepared in advance, according to the orientation of the imaging object detected by the orientation detection unit.