Information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 8,659,649 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2010
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsurumi, Shingo, Noda, Takuro, Terayama, Akiko, Mori, Eijiro, Okada, Kenichi, Koshiyama, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): SERRAO, RANODHI N
• Application Number:
  US12/698,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20100208051A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• Field of Search: 348/77, 382/189, 382/190, 705/7.32
• US Class Current: 348/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/173 face re-identification, e.g. recognising unknown faces across different face tracks

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image pickup part; a display part; a position detecting part for detecting a position of a target relative to the display part; a face detecting part for detecting a face from a taken image; an attribute obtaining part for obtaining attribute information of the target; a group determining part for determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the detected target; a content determining part for determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information of the target and the attribute information of the target; and a display processing part for displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an image pickup part which takes an image;

a display part which displays the image;

a position detecting part which detects a position of a target relative to the display part;

a face detecting part which detects a face from the image taken by the image pickup part;

an attribute obtaining part which obtains attribute information of the target based on a detection result detected by the face detecting part;

a group determining part which determines a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the target detected by the face detecting part;

a content determining part which determines one or more contents to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information indicating the group to which the target belongs and the attribute information of the target;

a display processing part which displays content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target

wherein when a distance between the target and the display part is a first distance or less, the display processing part displays an item set containing a plurality of pieces of the content information on the display part based on the attribute information of the target of which the face is recognized and when the distance between the target and the display part is a second distance or less and the second distance is less than the first distance, the group determining part determines the group of the target face-recognized, and the content determining part determines the content to be provided to the target based on the group information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the distance between the target and the display part is a third distance or less and the third distance is less than the second distance, the display processing part displays the content information on the display part in such a manner that the target can operate the content information.

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

when the distance between the target and the display part is the first distance or less and greater than the third distance, the display processing part displays the content information on the display part in such a manner that the content information is moving,

when the distance between the target and the display part is the third distance or less, the display processing part displays the content information as stopped in movement.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display processing part clips a facial image of the face detected by the face detecting part and displays the facial image on the display part.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display processing part displays a face frame around the facial image and the face frame shows at leas one of the attribute information of the target and the group information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display processing part displays the clipped facial image as enlarged within an area between predetermined maximum size and minimum size of the facial image.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display processing part displays the facial image at an upper part of the display part and the content information at a lower part of the display part.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the group determining part determines the group to which the target belongs, based on a gender and an age class of the target obtained from the attribute information of the target detected by the face detecting part and a number of targets detected when the target comprises a plurality of targets.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the group determining part determines the group to which the targets belong based on a distance between the targets detected by the position detecting part.

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

a mode switching part which switches between a first mode of presenting one or more pieces of content information and a second mode of presenting a content corresponding to one selected piece of the content information presented,

the mode switching part determines an operation of the target from information of the position of the target detected by the position detecting part to switch from the first mode to the second mode,

and the mode switching part switches from the second mode to the first mode based on preset termination conditions of the second mode.

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

taking an image;

displaying the image on a display part;

detecting a position of a target relative to the display part by a position detecting part;

detecting a face from the image taken;

obtaining attribute information of the target based on information of the face detected;

determining a group to which the target belongs, at least based on the attribute information of the target face-detected;

determining a content to be provided to the target based on at least one of group information indicating the group to which the target belongs and the attribute information of the target; and

displaying content information of the content to be provided to the target, on the display part in a display style in accordance with the position of the target;

wherein when a distance between the target and the display part is a first distance or less, an item set containing a plurality of pieces of the content information on the display part based on the attribute information of the target of which the face is recognized is displayed and when the distance between the target and the display part is a second distance or less and the second distance is less than the first distance, the group of the target face-recognized is determined, and the content to be provided to the target based on the group information is determined.