Information display apparatus, method for controlling information display apparatus, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11335047-B2
Application number	US-202016944226-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2020
Priority date	Aug 9, 2019
Publication date	May 17, 2022
Grant date	May 17, 2022

Abstract

An apparatus comprises a unit that acquires observation data indicating an observation value representing a state of a crop, the observation value being associated with any of a plurality of observation types representing types of observation objects, the observation value being obtained by observing a crop; and a control unit that visualizes and displays the observation value at a position on a map where the observation has been performed, the observation value being indicated by the acquired observation data, wherein when displaying the observation values simultaneously or in a switchable manner, in a case where the control unit visualizes the observation value exceeding or less than a predetermined value specified for each of the plurality of observation types, it visualizes and displays the observation value on the map by using an identical display form for each of the plurality of observation types.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information display apparatus comprising:
a memory configured to store processor-executable instructions; and
a processor configured to execute the processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the information display apparatus to implement:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire observation data indicating an observation value representing a state of a crop, the observation value being associated with any of a plurality of observation types representing types of observation objects, the observation value being obtained by observing a crop; and
a display control unit configured to visualize and display information about the observation value at a position on a map where the observation has been performed, the observation value being indicated by the observation data acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein
when the display control unit displays the information about the observation values respectively associated with the plurality of observation types simultaneously or in a switchable manner, in a case where the display control unit visualizes the information about the observation value exceeding or less than a predetermined value specified for each of the plurality of observation types, the display control unit visualizes and displays the information about the observation value on the map by using an identical display form for each of the plurality of observation types.

2. The information display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the information display apparatus to further implement an attention degree determination unit configured to determine an attention degree of the observation data as the information about the observation value based on the observation type and the observation value, and
wherein the predetermined value is a value at which the attention degree exceeds a predetermined threshold for each of the plurality of observation types.

3. The information display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when the display control unit displays the information about the observation values respectively associated with the plurality of observation types simultaneously or in a switchable manner, in a case where the display control unit visualizes the information about the observation value exceeding or less than a predetermined value specified for each of the plurality of observation types, the display control unit visualizes and displays the information about the observation value on the map by using identical hue, identical saturation, identical color density, an identical size, or an identical shape regardless of the observation type.

4. The information display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined value is specified based on a chronological change in the observation value for each of the plurality of observation types.

5. The information display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when the display control unit displays the information about the observation values respectively associated with the plurality of observation types simultaneously or in a switchable manner, in a case where the display control unit visualizes the information about the observation value of interest for each of the plurality of observation types, the display control unit visualizes and displays the information about the observation value on the map by using an identical display form regardless of the observation type.

6. The information display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the information display apparatus to further implement an attention degree determination unit configured to determine an attention degree of the observation data as the information about the observation value based on the observation type and the observation value,
wherein the display control unit visualizes and displays the information about the observation value on the map by using a display form corresponding to the attention degree regardless of the observation type.

7. The information display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the observation data includes the observation type, the observation value, and an observation position representing a position where the observation has been performed,
wherein the processor is configured to execute the processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the information display apparatus to further implement:
an attention degree determination unit configured to determine an attention degree of the observation data based on the observation type and the observation value; and
a visualization parameter determination unit configured to determine, based on the attention degree, a visualization parameter used for visualizing the observation data, and
wherein the display control unit causes the information about the observation value visualized in accordance with the visualization parameter to be displayed on the map.

8. The information display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the attention degree determination unit determines the attention degree based on a learned model generated by machine learning.

9. The information display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the observation data includes a plurality of pairs of the observation type and the observation value for one observation position,
the processor is configured to execute the processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the information display apparatus to further implement a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of pairs, an observation type and an observation value used as representatives, and
the attention degree determination unit determines the attention degree of the observation data based on the observation type and the observation value selected by the selection unit.

10. The information display apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the selection unit selects the observation type and the observation value used as representatives based on predetermined priority for the observation types.

11. The information display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is configured to execute the processor-executable instructions stored in the memory to cause the information display apparatus to further implement a selection unit configured to select representative observation data used as a representative from a group including a plurality of pieces of observation data, and
wherein the attention degree determination unit determines the attention degree of the representative observation data based on an observation type and an observation value of the representative observation data.

12. The information display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the visualization parameter determination unit determines, based on the attention degree, a visualization parameter used to visualize the representative observation data, and
the display control unit visualizes the representative observation data on the map based on the observation position of the representative observation data and the visualization parameter.

13. The information display apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the selection unit selects the representative observation data based on an observation date of the observation data provided in the group or an observation position provided in the observation data provided in the group.

14. The information display apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is configured to execute th

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Iwabuchi Kohei

Classifications

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