Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11528420-B2
Application number	US-201817269533-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2018
Priority date	Aug 29, 2018
Publication date	Dec 13, 2022
Grant date	Dec 13, 2022

Abstract

[Problem] To achieve presenting surprising information to the user.[Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including a control unit that controls display of visual information performed by a display unit included in a mobile terminal, in which the control unit controls to display, based on a recognized context, one or more images highly related to the context among images captured by a user in past, onto a part of a display area of the display unit. Further provided is an information processing method including controlling, by a processor, display of visual information performed by a display unit included in a mobile terminal, in which the controlling further includes controlling to display, based on a recognized context, one or more images highly related to the context among images captured by a user in past, onto a part of a display area of the display unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
control display of visual information performed by a display included in a mobile terminal,
display, based on a recognized context, one or more images highly related to the context among images captured by a user in past, onto a part of a display area of the display, wherein the context includes position information,
display an image captured in the past by the user in vicinity of a current position, based on the acquired current position,
in a case where the mobile terminal is estimated to be located outside a home based on the acquired current position, restrict an image to be displayed by the display to the image captured in vicinity of the current position, and
control the display to perform ambient display of the one or more images highly related to the context.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to control the display to display one or more images highly related to the context, as a part of a background.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a case where the mobile terminal is estimated to be located at a place of residence of the user based on the acquired current position, the processing circuitry is further configured to control the display to display one or more images selected from a plurality of images captured by the user in the past.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the context includes date and time information, and
the processing circuitry is further configured to control the display to display an image captured by the user at a date and time related to the current date and time, based on the acquired current date and time.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 ,
wherein, in a case where the mobile terminal is estimated to be located at a place of residence of the user based on the acquired current position, the processing circuitry is further configured to control the display to display an image captured by the user at a date and time related to the current date and time.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the context includes a fellow person of a user who uses the mobile terminal, and
the processing circuitry is further configured to control the display to display an image that contains the fellow person as a subject.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the context includes an elapsed time after imaging, and
the processing circuitry is further configured to control the display to display an image for which the elapsed time after imaging is within a predetermined time.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein, in a case where there is a plurality of images for which an elapsed time after imaging is within a predetermined time, the processing circuitry is further configured to suppress simultaneous display of a plurality of images having imaging date and time shorter than a predetermined interval.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to end displaying an image after a lapse of a predetermined time from controlling the display to start the display of the image.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to control the display to display an image and further control the display to suppress display of an image until a predetermined time has elapsed after the end of the display.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to preferentially use position information acquired from another application, for display control.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 ,
in a case where the processing circuitry has difficulty in acquiring the position information from another application, the processing circuitry is further configured to activate a position information acquisition function of the mobile terminal to acquire the position information.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a case where the user selects an image that is presented in the ambient display, the processing circuitry is configured to enlarge and display the image as a whole.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to display one or more registered sample images before confirmation of user's permission regarding image display based on the context.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the apparatus is the mobile terminal including the display.

16. An information processing method, comprising:
controlling, by a processor, display of visual information performed by a display included in a mobile terminal,
displaying, based on a recognized context, one or more images highly related to the context among images captured by a user in past, onto a part of a display area of the display,
displaying an image captured in the past by the user in vicinity of a current position, based on the acquired current position, and
in a case where the mobile terminal is estimated to be located outside a home based on the acquired current position, restricting an image to be displayed by the display to the image captured in vicinity of the current position, and
controlling the display to perform ambient display of the one or more images highly related to the context.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Takahashi Risa
• Hasegawa Takashi
• Naito Masahiko
• Ochi Takayuki
• Yabe Ryo
• Oda Mizuho
• Tokutake Kenji
• Tateishi Chikako

Classifications

• H04N23/63 Primary

  by using electronic viewfinders · CPC title

• H04M1/72454

  according to context-related or environment-related conditions · CPC title

• G06F16/587

  using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location · CPC title

• H04W4/029

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• H04W4/21

  for social networking applications · CPC title