Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that controls a representation of a user object in a virtual space

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10969924-B2
Application number	US-201414763603-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 8, 2014
Priority date	Mar 8, 2013
Publication date	Apr 6, 2021
Grant date	Apr 6, 2021

Abstract

Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a first information acquisition unit configured to acquire first information indicating behavior of at least one user; a second information acquisition unit configured to acquire second information on the at least one user, the second information being different from the first information; and a display control unit configured to display, in a display unit, a user object which is configured based on the first information and represents the corresponding at least one user and a virtual space which is configured based on the second information and in which the user object are arranged.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising
circuitry configured to:
acquire behavior information of each user of a group of users based on recognition of a detection result of acceleration;
configure a virtual space corresponding to the group of users based on profile information of each user of the group of users;

determine behavior patterns for each user of the group of users by performing statistical processing on the behavior information of each user of the group of users;
extract highly correlated behavior among the group of users based on the behavior patterns of each user of the group of users, wherein highly correlated behavior indicates a same behavior in a same period of time or a same behavior having a same length of time;
update the virtual space based on the extracted highly correlated behavior; and
display user objects representing each user of the group of users in the virtual space.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the virtual space to which a user of the group of users belongs is configured based on information regarding the user on a time axis.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the behavior information further indicates attributes of the group of users.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the profile information comprises an age, an occupation, or a product purchase history of at least one user of the group of users.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein, regarding a user who does not belong to the group of users, the circuitry controls display of text or an image showing another group to which the user is recommended to belong.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein, regarding a user who is not classified in the group of users, by displaying, as a preview, a change in a corresponding virtual space in which the user is arranged in the corresponding virtual space, the circuitry indicates whether or not a second group corresponding to the corresponding virtual space is a group to which the user who is not classified in the group is recommended to be classified.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the circuitry controls display of the user object with a behavior status obtained by classifying the behavior of each user on the basis of a predetermined reference.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein the circuitry controls a display of a behavior status of each user by using a shape or a motion of the user object.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 ,
wherein the circuitry shows the behavior status of each user by displaying the user object in a corresponding container object.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein the circuitry controls a display of the container object on the basis of the behavior pattern of each user of the group of users.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 10 ,
wherein the circuitry controls a display of the container object, regardless of whether or not each user of the group of users performs a behavior in accordance with a behavior pattern.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein the circuitry changes a number of container objects or a size of the container object in accordance with a number of users having behavior statuses corresponding to the container object.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein the circuitry changes the predetermined reference for classifying a behavior of each user.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is further configured to provide a sharing list of the users who are logged into the information processing apparatus.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the circuitry is further configured to control a display of a behavior log of a target user upon selection of the target user.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein
the behavior log is expressed by a graph showing a ratio of behavior information performed by the target user that day or a behavior pattern of the behavior information in the past.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein a display of the sharing list includes the user object, a thumbnail image, or user name.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the behavior information is set to be open to another user or is set to be closed to the another user.

19. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to configure the virtual space via clustering of second information.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, performs an information processing method, the method comprising:
acquiring behavior information of each user of a group of users based on recognition of a detection result of acceleration;
configuring a virtual space corresponding to the group of users based on profile information of each user of the group of users;
determining behavior patterns for each user of the group of users by performing statistical processing on the behavior information of each user of the group of users;
extracting highly correlated behavior among the group of users based on the behavior patterns of each user of the group of users, wherein highly correlated behavior indicates a same behavior in a same period of time or a same behavior having a same length of time;
updating the virtual space based on the extracted highly correlated behavior; and
displaying user objects representing each user of the group of users in the virtual space.

21. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 20 ,
wherein the circuitry is configured to obtain the statistical information via statistical processing on the behavior information of the multiple users.

22. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 20 ,
wherein the virtual space to which a user of the group of users belongs is configured based on information regarding the user on a time axis.

23. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 21 ,
wherein the behavior information further indicates attributes of the group of users.

24. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 23 ,
wherein the profile information comprises an age, an occupation, or a product purchase history of at least one user of the group of users.

25. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 20 ,
wherein, regarding a user who does not belong to the group of users, the method further comprises controlling display of text or an image showing another group to which the user is recommended to belong.

26. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 20 ,
wherein, regarding a user who is not classified in the group of users, by displaying, as a preview, a change in a corresponding virtual space in which the user is arranged in the corresponding virtual space, the method comprises indicating whether or not a second group corresponding to the corresponding

Assignees

• Sony Corp
• So Net Corp

Inventors

• Kurata Masatomo
• Ono Hideyuki
• Matsuzawa Sota
• Takeuchi Akikazu
• Muramatsu Takayoshi

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

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