INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120212404A1
• Filed: 08/15/2011
• Published: 08/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Kazushi
• Application Number:
  US13/209,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20120212404A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/358 Adapting the game course according to the network or server load, e.g. for reducing latency due to different connection speeds between clients
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/204 the platform being a handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/534 for network load management, e.g. bandwidth optimization, latency reduction
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/538 for performing operations on behalf of the game client, e.g. rendering
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/554 by saving game or status data

Abstract

An information processing device includes an input information obtaining unit configured to obtain first input information and second input information among input information items, an input candidate information obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information, based on the first input information, an executing unit configured to carrying out an application, based on the one or more input candidate information items, to produce one or more image candidate information items, an image candidate information storage unit configured to store the one or more image candidate information items so as to be correlated to the one or more input candidate information items respectively, and a transmitting unit configured to send information relating to one or all of the one or more image candidate information items stored in the image candidate information storage unit to a terminal device.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an input information obtaining unit configured to obtain, via a network, at least first input information and second input information among input information items that are inputted to a terminal device, wherein the second input information is input information subsequent to the first input information;

an input candidate information obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information, based on the first input information;

an executing unit configured to carrying out an application, based on the one or more input candidate information items, to produce one or more image candidate information items, wherein the one or more image candidate information items are one or more image information items that correspond to the one or more respective input candidate information items;

an image candidate information storage unit configured to store the one or more image candidate information items so as to be correlated to the one or more input candidate information items respectively; and

a transmitting unit configured to send information relating to one or all of the one or more image candidate information items stored in the image candidate information storage unit to the terminal device via a network.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a search unit configured to search input candidate information corresponding to the second input information among the one or more image candidate information items stored in the image candidate information storage unit,

wherein when the search unit determines that the input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored in the image candidate information storage unit, the transmitting unit sends information relating to image candidate information that is correlated to the input candidate information corresponding to the second input information, to the terminal device.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein, when the search unit determines that no input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored in the image candidate information storage unit,

the executing unit carries out the application based on the second input information to produce image information based on the second input information,

the image candidate information storage unit stores the image information based on the second input information, and

the transmitting unit sends the image information based on the second input information, which is stored in the image candidate information storage unit, to the terminal device.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1 further comprising compressing unit configured to compress the one or more image candidate information items, wherein the transmitting unit sends information relating to one or all of the one or more image candidate information items, which are compressed by the compressing unit, to the terminal device.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein the storage unit stores the one or more image candidate information items compressed by the compressing unit so as to be correlated to the one or more input candidate information items respectively.

13. The information processing device according to claim 3, wherein the executing unit stores a running state of the executing unit, and wherein when the search unit determines that no input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored in the image candidate information storage unit, the executing unit carries out the application based on the running state stored.

6. An information processing terminal device comprising:

an input information transmitting unit configured to send, via a network, at least first input information and second input information among input information items that are inputted to the information processing terminal device, wherein the second input information is input information subsequent to the first input information;

an image candidate information storage unit configured to obtain and store one or more image candidate information items correlated to one or more respective input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information;

a search unit configured to search input candidate information corresponding to the second input information among the one or more image candidate information items that are stored in the image candidate information storage unit; and

an image reproduction unit configured to reproduce an image based on image candidate information that is correlated to the input candidate information corresponding to the second input information, when the search unit determines that the input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored in the image candidate information storage unit.

7. The information processing terminal device according to claim 6, wherein when the search unit determines that no input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored in the image candidate information storage unit, the image reproduction unit obtains image information corresponding to the second input information and reproduces an image based on the image information obtained.

8. An information processing system comprising:

an input information obtaining unit configured to obtain, via a network, at least first input information and second input information among input information items that are inputted to a terminal device, wherein the second input information is input information subsequent to the first input information;

an input candidate information obtaining unit configured to obtain one or more input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information;

an executing unit configured to carry out an application, based on the one or more input candidate information items, to produce one or more image candidate information items, wherein the one or more image candidate information items are one or more image information items that correspond to the one or more input candidate information items respectively;

an image candidate information storage unit configured to store the one or more image candidate information items so as to be correlated to the one or more corresponding input candidate information items respectively;

a search unit configured to searching input candidate information corresponding to the second input information among the one or more image candidate information items stored in the image candidate information storage unit; and

an image reproduction unit configured to reproduce image candidate information that is stored so as to be correlated to the corresponding input candidate information when the search unit determines that the input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored.

9. An information processing method comprising:

obtaining, via a network, at least first input information and second input information among input information items that are input to a terminal device, wherein the second input information is input information subsequent to the first input information;

obtaining one or more input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information, based on the first input information;

carrying out an application, based on the one or more input candidate information items, to produce one or more image candidate information items, wherein the one or more image candidate information items are one or more image information items that correspond to the one or more input candidate information items respectively;

storing the one or more image candidate information items so as to be correlated to the one or more input candidate information items respectively; and

sending information relating to one or all of the one or more image candidate information items stored in an image candidate information storage unit to the terminal device via a network.

10. An information processing method comprising

obtaining, via a network, at least first input information and second input information among input information items that are inputted to a terminal device, wherein the second input information is input information subsequent to the first input information;

obtaining one or more input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information;

carrying out an application, based on the one or more input candidate information items, to produce one or more image candidate information items, wherein the one or more image candidate information items are one or more image information items that correspond to the one or more input candidate information items respectively;

storing the one or more image candidate information items so as to be correlated to the one or more corresponding input candidate information items respectively;

searching input candidate information corresponding to the second input information among the one or more image candidate information items stored in an image candidate information storage unit; and

when no input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored, reproducing image candidate information stored so as to be correlated to the corresponding input candidate information.

11. A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium storing an information processing program for causing a computer to function as:

an input information obtaining unit configured to obtain, via a network, at least first input information and second input information among input information items that are inputted to a terminal device, wherein the second input information is input information subsequent to the first input information;

an input candidate information obtaining unit configured to obtain in one or more input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information, based on the first input information;

an executing unit configured to carry out an application, based on the one or more input candidate information items, to produce one or more image candidate information items, wherein the one or more image candidate information items are one or more image information items that correspond to the one or more input candidate information items respectively;

an image candidate information storage unit configured to store the one or more image candidate information items so as to be correlated to the one or more input candidate information items respectively; and

a transmitting unit configured to send information relating to one or all of the one or more image candidate information items stored in the image candidate information storage unit to the terminal device via a network.

12. A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium storing an information processing program for causing a computer to function as:

an input information transmitting unit configured to send, via a network, at least first input information and second input information among input information items that are input into a terminal device, wherein the second input information is input information subsequent to the first input information;

an image candidate information storage unit configured to obtain and store one or more image candidate information items correlated to one or more respective input candidate information items as a candidate for the second input information;

a search unit configured to search input candidate information corresponding to the second input information among the one or more image candidate information items that are stored in the image candidate information storage unit; and

an image reproduction unit configured to reproduce an image based on image candidate information correlated to the input candidate information corresponding to the second input information when the search unit determines that the input candidate information corresponding to the second input information is stored in the image candidate information storage unit.