METHOD FOR SPECIFYING BEHAVIOR TENDENCY AND SYSTEM FOR SPECIFYING BEHAVIOR TENDENCY

• US 20150134369A1
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakata, Kotaro, Maruyama, Tomoaki, Kondo, Kenji, Tojima, Masayoshi, Yamamoto, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US14/394,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20150134369A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/4
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14507 specially adapted for measuring characteristics of body fluids other than blood devices for taking samples of body liquids A61B10/0045
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0076 Body hygiene; Dressing; Knot tying
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0084 Dental hygiene
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2823 Reporting information sensed by appliance or service execution status of appliance services in a home automation network device-related reporting H04L43/065; arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00

Abstract

There are included: a step for receiving, through communication, pieces of operation information each including (a) operating state information of a device and (b) user information for identifying a user, in association with each other; a step storing the pieces of the operation information received in the receiving into a first storage unit; a step for reading, from a second storage unit, behavior tendency information including, in association with each other, (c) operating state information of at least one device and (d) a predetermined user behavior tendency of the user; and a step for specifying the predetermined user behavior tendency which corresponds to the operating state information of at least one device, by searching the pieces of the operation information for the operating state information of at least one device which is included in the behavior tendency information.

Claims

1. A method for specifying a behavior tendency, the method comprising:

receiving, through communication, pieces of operation information each including (a) operating state information of a corresponding one of devices and (b) user information for identifying a user using the devices, in association with each other;

storing the pieces of the operation information received in the receiving into a first storage unit;

reading at least one piece of behavior tendency information from a second storage unit, the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information each including, in association with each other, (c) operating state information of at least one of the devices and (d) a predetermined user behavior tendency of the user; and

specifying, based on the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information read in the reading and the pieces of the operation information stored in the first storage unit, the predetermined user behavior tendency which corresponds to the operating state information of the at least one of the devices, by searching the pieces of the operation information for the operating state information of the at least one of the devices which is included in the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information,

wherein the operating state information includes at least one of (e) state information related to a user'"'"'s operation of the corresponding one of the devices associated with the user and (f) state information related to a result of detection performed by a sensor included in the corresponding one of the devices.

2. The method according to claim 1,

wherein each of the pieces of the operation information includes the operating state information that is generated at a corresponding time for the corresponding one of the devices, and

in the specifying, the pieces of the operation information stored in the first storage unit are compared to the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information to determine whether or not behavior of the user is performed at an appropriate time, and the predetermined user behavior tendency is specified based on a result of the determining.

3. The method according to claim 1,

wherein each of the pieces of the operation information includes the operating state information that is generated at a corresponding time for the corresponding one of the devices, and

in the specifying, the pieces of the operation information stored in the first storage unit are compared to the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information to determine whether or not behavior of the user is performed regularly, and the predetermined user behavior tendency is specified based on a result of the determining.

4. The method according to claim 1,

wherein in the reading, the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information includes an index that indicates the predetermined user behavior tendency and that is associated with each kind of the operating state information to increase or decrease an assessment value related to the user, and

in the specifying, the predetermined user behavior tendency is specified, by comparing the pieces of the operation information stored in the first storage unit to the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information to calculate the assessment value.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising

adjusting the assessment value based on at least one of (a) a total number of the devices providing the pieces of the operation information associated with the user information and (b) types of the devices.

6. The method according to claim 5,

wherein in the adjusting, the assessment value of the user which is calculated in the specifying is adjusted to be lower as the total number of the devices providing the pieces of the operation information associated with the user information is greater.

7. The method according to claim 5,

wherein in the adjusting, the assessment value of the user which is calculated in the specifying is adjusted to be lower as the pieces of the operation information associated with the user information include more pieces of information having a high importance level.

8. The method according to claim 7,

wherein a kind of the information having the high importance level is urine data.

9. The method according to claim 7,

wherein a kind of the information having the high importance level is blood sugar level data.

10. The method according to claim 4,

wherein the index in the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information is for calculating a risk of a disease of the user, and

in the specifying, the predetermined user behavior tendency is specified, by comparing the pieces of the operation information stored in the first storage unit to the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information to calculate the risk.

11. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the disease is a lifestyle-related disease.

12. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the devices include a refrigerator, and

the index in the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information is for calculating the risk of the user to be higher as the refrigerator is opened and closed at a higher frequency at night or before a bedtime.

13. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the devices include a cleaner, and

the index in the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information is for calculating the risk of the user to be higher as the cleaner is operated at least one of at a lower frequency and in a shorter time period.

14. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the devices include an electric toothbrush, and

the index in the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information is for calculating the risk of the user to be higher as the electric toothbrush is used at least one of at a lower frequency and in a shorter time period.

15. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the devices include an air cleaner, and

the index in the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information is for calculating the risk of the user to be higher as a dust sensor in the air cleaner shows a greater value.

16. The method according to claim 4, further comprising

calculating an economic compensation for the assessment value calculated in the specifying, based on the assessment value.

17. The method according to claim 16,

wherein in the calculating of the economic compensation, a point to be given to the user is calculated as the economic compensation.

18. The method according to claim 16,

wherein in the calculating of the economic compensation, an insurance fee of insurance for the user is calculated as the economic compensation.

19. A system for specifying a behavior tendency, the system comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive pieces of operation information each including (a) operating state information of a corresponding one of devices including a home appliance and (b) user information for identifying a user using the devices, in association with each other;

a first storage unit configured to hold the pieces of the operation information received by the communication unit;

a second storage unit configured to hold at least one piece of behavior tendency information, the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information each including, in association with each other, (c) operating state information of at least one of the devices and (d) a predetermined user behavior tendency of the user; and

a specification unit configured to specify the predetermined user behavior tendency which corresponds to the operating state information of the at least one of the devices, by (i) reading the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information from the second storage unit and the pieces of the operation information from the first storage unit, and (ii) searching the pieces of the operation information in the first storage unit for the operating state information of the at least one of the devices which is included in the at least one piece of the behavior tendency information,

wherein the operating state information includes at least one of (e) state information related to a user'"'"'s operation of the corresponding one of the devices associated with the user and (f) state information related to a result of detection performed by a sensor included in the corresponding one of the devices.