Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

• US 9,742,988 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2014
• Issued: 08/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Izumihara, Atsushi, Ikeda, Takuo, Ikeda, Tetsuo, Kimura, Kentaro, Koga, Yasuyuki, Tsukahara, Tsubasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Rahman, Mohammad J
• Application Number:
  US14/519,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20150124101A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,036 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/188 Capturing isolated or intermittent images triggered by the occurrence of a predetermined event, e.g. an object reaching a predetermined position signal generation from motion picture films H04N5/253

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an action recognition unit configured to recognize an action state of a user based on a measurement result obtained by a sensor carried by the user, and a photographing control unit configured to control timing at which a photographing unit carried by the user is allowed to perform photographing based on the recognized action state of the user.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU) configured to;

recognize an action state of a user based on a measurement result obtained by a sensor carried by the user;

set, based on the recognition that the recognized action state is a stationary state, a first frequency with which a photographing unit carried by the user is allowed to perform photographing to be smaller than a second frequency with which the photographing unit is allowed to perform the photographing based on the recognized action state being a moving state, wherein a first power consumption of the information processing apparatus in the stationary state is lesser than a second power consumption of the information processing apparatus in the moving state; and

send view data to an image processing apparatus, wherein the view data is photographed by the photographing unit with one of the first frequency or the second frequency.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the CPU is further configured to control the photographing unit to perform the photographing at a determined time interval based on the user being in motion.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the action state of the user includes a vision-related state of the user, and

wherein the CPU is further configured to change the timing at which the photographing unit is allowed to perform the photographing based on the vision-related state of the user.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the CPU is further configured to control the photographing unit to perform the photographing based on a determination that the user is watching an object.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the CPU is further configured to determine the vision-related state of the user based on a movement of a head of the user measured by the sensor.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the CPU is further configured to determine that the user is watching an object based on a measurement by the sensor that a speed of the movement of the head of the user is less than or equal to a determined value.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the action state of the user includes an voice-related state of the user, and

wherein the CPU is further configured to control the photographing unit to perform the photographing based on the voice-related state of the user.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the sensor is configured to measure information including one or more of an acceleration of the information processing apparatus, an angle of the information processing apparatus, or a voice of the user.

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

a transceiver configured to transmit the view data photographed by the photographing unit to the image processing apparatus.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the image processing apparatus is a network server connected to the transceiver.

9. An information processing method, comprising:

recognizing an action state of a user based on a measurement result obtained by a sensor carried by the user; and

setting, based on the recognition that the recognized action state is a stationary state, a first frequency with which a photographing unit carried by the user is allowed to perform photographing to be smaller than a second frequency with which the photographing unit is allowed to perform the photographing based on the recognized action state being a moving state, wherein a first power consumption of the information processing apparatus in the stationary state is lesser than a second power consumption of the information processing apparatus in the moving state; and

sending view data to an image processing apparatus, wherein the view data is photographed by the photographing unit with one of the first frequency or the second frequency.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions which when executed by an information processing apparatus cause the information processing apparatus to execute operations, the operations comprising:

recognizing an action state of a user based on a measurement result obtained by a sensor carried by the user; and

setting, based on the recognition that the recognized action state is a stationary state, a first frequency with which a photographing unit carried by the user which is allowed to perform photographing to be smaller than a second frequency with which the photographing unit is allowed to perform the photographing based on the recognized action state being a moving state, wherein a first power consumption of the information processing apparatus in the stationary state is lesser than a second power consumption of the information processing apparatus in the moving state; and

sending view data to an image processing apparatus, wherein the view data is photographed by the photographing unit with one of the first frequency or the second frequency.