Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 9,185,512 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Takaoka, Tomohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Hosain
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCQUITERY, DIEDRA M
• Application Number:
  US13/672,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20130166559A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,097 Days
• Field of Search: 707711-769, 707/705, 707/E17.046, 307/104, 702/150, 702/189, 702/104, 702/5, 702/89, 702/179, 705/13, 705/14.58, 705/14.66, 342/464, 455/405, 455/41.2, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/550.1, 463/31, 700/224, 701/2, 701/23, 701/400, 701/409, 709/224, 710/315, 73/14.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/42 Determining position
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including a transmission section which transmits, to an external device that has collected an index pertaining to a feature of an output of a sensor for each classification, classification information for specifying the classification, and a reception section which receives information about the index corresponding to the classification information.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a sensor;

a memory; and

processing circuitry configured to

determining whether the memory stores threshold information for the information processing apparatus;

transmit, when the memory does not store the threshold information, a request to an external device for the threshold information;

receive, from the external device when the external device does not possess a sufficient number of threshold samples, a default apparatus threshold and a request for index information;

transmit, in response to the request received from the external device, classification information and an index of an output of the sensor to the external device that collects indices of an output feature of sensors, the classification information including model identification information of the sensor and information that indicates a version of an operating system of the information processing apparatus, and

receive, from the external device when the external device does possess the sufficient number of threshold samples, information about the index corresponding to the classification information, the information including an appearance frequency distribution of the index and a threshold based on the appearance frequency distribution of the index, wherein

the appearance frequency distribution includes distribution information that compares indices, measured by devices with the same classification information, to an appearance frequency of each of the indices, and

the threshold indicates an accuracy of the output of the sensor.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the classification information further includes information that indicates a version of software for calculating the index.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to process the output of the sensor based on the information about the index.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to

receive the appearance frequency distribution of the indices, and

process the output of the sensor based on the appearance frequency distribution.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is configured to measure a position of the information processing apparatus.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the index is an accuracy index that indicates an error of the output of the sensor.

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

the sensor is a positioning sensor which measures positions based on environmental information, and

the index is an accuracy index that indicates a positional error.

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

the index includes information that indicates whether the sensor has been calibrated.

9. An information processing method comprising:

determining, by processing circuitry, whether a memory stores threshold information of an information processing apparatus;

transmitting, when the memory does not store the threshold information, a request to an external device for the threshold information;

receiving, from the external device when the external device does not possess a sufficient number of threshold samples, a default apparatus threshold and a request for index information;

transmitting, by the processing circuitry in response to the request received from the external device, classification information and an index of an output of a sensor to the external device that collects indices of an output feature of sensors, the classification information including model identification information of the sensor and information that indicates a version of an operating system of the information processing apparatus; and

receiving, by the processing circuitry from the external device when the external device does possess the sufficient number of threshold samples, information about the index corresponding to the classification information, the information including an appearance frequency distribution of the index and a threshold based on the appearance frequency distribution of the index, wherein

the appearance frequency distribution includes distribution information that compares indices, measured by devices with the same classification information, to an appearance frequency of each of the indices, and

the threshold indicates an accuracy of the output of the sensor.

11. The information processing method according to the claim 9, further comprising processing the output of the sensor based on the information about the index.

12. The information processing method according to claim 11, further comprising:

receiving the appearance frequency distribution of the indices, and

processing the output of the sensor based on the appearance frequency distribution.

13. The information processing method according to claim 9, further comprising measuring, with the sensor, a position.

14. The information processing method according to claim 9, wherein the index is an accuracy index that indicates an error of the output of the sensor.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions that, when executed by an information processing apparatus including processing circuitry, cause the computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

determining, by the processing circuitry, whether a memory stores threshold information of the information processing apparatus;

transmitting, when the memory does not store the threshold information, a request to an external device for the threshold information;

receiving, from the external device when the external device does not possess a sufficient number the threshold samples, a default apparatus threshold ad a request for index information;

transmitting, by the processing circuitry in response to the request received from the external device, classification information and an index of an output of a sensor to the external device that collects indices of an output feature of the sensors, the classification information including model identification information of the sensor and information that indicates a version of an operating system of the information processing apparatus; and

receiving, by the processing circuitry from the external device when the external device does possess the sufficient number the threshold samples, information about the index corresponding to the classification information, the information including an appearance frequency distribution of the index and a threshold based on the appearance frequency distribution of the index, wherein

the appearance frequency distribution includes distribution information that compares indices, measured by devices with the same classification information, to an appearance frequency of each of the indices, and

the threshold indicates an accuracy of the output of the sensor.