Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

• US 10,783,788 B2
• Filed: 04/27/2018
• Issued: 09/22/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuno, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Schneider, Paula L
• Application Number:
  US15/964,941
• Publication Number:
  US 20180247539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 701 45
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/597 Recognising the driver's state or behaviour, e.g. attention or drowsiness
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes

Abstract

An advice target location at which a user had a predetermined emotion, for example, is determined based on location information, user biological information, and user transportation means information, which have been acquired by a terminal device (20) being used by the user. Advice information containing information indicating an advice presentation region set by a server device (50) is generated based on the advice target location. This advice information is supplied from the server device (50) to the terminal device (20), so that the terminal device (20) presents advice. With this, advice as to locations pedestrians find dangerous can be presented to drivers, and advice as to locations drivers find dangerous can be presented to pedestrians. Accordingly, accidents and the like can be prevented.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

receive location informatics from a first terminal device and biological information from a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device is attached to a vehicle and the second terminal device is attached to a driver of the vehicle,

determine an advice target location of plurality of advice target locations at which advice is to be presented, wherein each one of the plurality of advice target locations is determined based on associated loo information including the location information received from the first terminal device and the biological information received from the second terminal device,

set an advice presentation region where advice is to be presented based on the determined advice target location, and

provide the advice to the driver based on the set advice presentation region.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the circuitry is further configured to

estimate an emotion based on the biological information, and

determine the advice target location to be a location of acquirement of the biological information received from the second terminal device when a predetermined emotion is estimated.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is configured to determine the advice target location based on a geographical condition.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, the circuitry is configured to

perform statistical processing on a result of the determination on the advice target location in an advice presentation candidate region, and

set the advice presentation candidate region as the advice presentation region based on a result of the statistical processing.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the circuitry is configured to set the advice presentation region in accordance with a location on a street.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the circuitry is configured to provide the advice to the driver in order to follow a route to avoid the location on the street corresponding to the set advice presentation region.

7. An information processing method comprising:

receiving location information from a first terminal device and biological information from a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device is attached to a vehicle and the second terminal device is attached to a driver of the vehicle;

determining an advice target location of a plurality of advice target locations at which advice is to be presented, wherein each one of the plurality of advice target locations is determined based on associated log information including the location information received from the first terminal device and the biological information received from the second terminal device;

setting an advice presentation region where advice is to be presented based on the determined advice target location; and

providing the advice to the driver based on the set advice presentation region.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the compute to execute a method, the method comprising:

receiving location information from a first terminal device and biological information from a second terminal device, wherein the first terminal device is attached to a vehicle and the second terminal device is attached to a driver of the vehicle;

determining an advice target location of a plurality of advice target locations at which advice is to be presented, wherein each one of the plurality of advice target locations is determined based on associated log information including the location information received from the first terminal device and the biological information received from the second terminal device;

setting an advice presentation region where advice is to be presented based on the determined advice target location; and

providing the advice to the driver based on the set advice presentation region.