Information processing system and information processing apparatus

• US 8,758,244 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2011
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tsurumoto, Takashi, Nakano, Masahiro, Omori, Shiro, Kondo, Kazumoto, Banba, Tatsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomson, Bill
• Assistant Examiner(s): SORIANO, BOBBY GILES
• Application Number:
  US13/159,538
• Publication Number:
  US 20110319725A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,106 Days
• Field of Search: 600300-301
• US Class Current: 600/301
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0537 Measuring body composition by impedance, e.g. tissue hydration or fat content
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/112 Gait analysis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/117 Identification of persons methods or arrangements for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints, G06F18/00, G06V40/00; identification of persons by analysing their voice or speech G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4869 Determining body composition
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/04 responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons G08B21/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0453 worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0469 Presence detectors to detect unsafe condition, e.g. infrared sensor, microphone G08B21/0476 takes precedence

Abstract

An information processing system includes: a physical measurement apparatus measuring the body of a user and radio-transmitting measurement data; and an information processing apparatus receiving the measurement data radio-transmitted from the physical measurement apparatus, displaying information on the measurement data of the user on a screen, and displaying a notice prompting the user to conduct measurement when no measurement data is received by a predetermined time for measurement.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a physical measurement apparatus measuring the body of a user and radio-transmitting measurement data; and

an information processing apparatus receiving the measurement data radio-transmitted from the physical measurement apparatus, displaying information on the measurement data of the user on a screen, and displaying a notice prompting the user to conduct measurement when no measurement data is received by a predetermined time for measurement,

said information processing apparatus having a human sensor to detect a presence of the user without use of another user, so that the notice prompting the user to conduct the measurement is displayed on the screen when (i) no measurement data is received by the predetermined time for measurement and (ii) the human sensor detects the presence of the user.

11. An information processing system according to claim 1, in which the human sensor has an infrared light sensor which is utilized to detect the presence of the user.

12. An information processing system according to claim 11, in which during operation the infrared light sensor of the human sensor is able to sense infrared light emitted from a face of the user so as to detect the presence of the user.

2. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display section;

a human sensor to detect a presence of the user without use of another user;

a radio communication section; and

a storage section,

the radio communication section receiving measurement data of the user radio-transmitted from a physical measurement apparatus, the display section displaying information on the measurement data from the user, a notice prompting the user to conduct measurement being displayed when (i) no measurement data is received by a predetermined time for measurement and (ii) the human sensor detects the presence of the user.

3. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising an audio output section to provide audio output of an alarm sound prompting the user to conduct measurement when no measurement data is received by the time for measurement.

4. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

measurement data of each user received from the physical measurement apparatus are stored in the storage section in association with a time and date for measurement for each user, and

changes in the measurement data of the user are displayed at the display section in the form of a graph.

5. An information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the measurement data are transmitted from the physical measurement apparatus, the data being accompanied by identification information of the user, and

a notice is displayed at the display section when the received data are significantly different from past measurement data of the same user which have been stored in the storage section to notify the user of the difference.

6. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, comprising:

a plurality of physical measurement apparatus, wherein

a separate time for measurement is set for each of the physical measurement apparatus when measurement data of the user are received from the plurality of physical measurement apparatus, and

a process of displaying a notice prompting the user to conduct measurement is performed for each of the physical measurement apparatus.

7. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the time for measurement is determined based on the date and time of past measurement data.

8. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an antenna;

a tuner circuit for selecting a desired channel from broadcast waves received by the antenna;

a demultiplexer extracting a video signal and an audio signal from a stream transmitted over the selected channel;

a video signal processing circuit processing the video signal; and

an audio processing circuit processing the audio signal; and

an audio output section,

the apparatus displaying the processed video signal at the display section and providing audio output of the processed audio signal from the audio output section.

9. An information processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

means for recording received content; and

means for reproducing the recorded content.

10. An information processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

means for inputting content from outside; and

means for reproducing the content input from outside.

13. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2, in which the human sensor has an infrared light sensor which is utilized to detect the presence of the user.

14. An information processing apparatus according to claim 13, in which during operation the infrared light sensor of the human sensor is able to sense infrared light emitted from a face of the user so as to detect the presence of the user.