Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11675360-B2
Application number	US-201816758597-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 24, 2018
Priority date	Oct 30, 2017
Publication date	Jun 13, 2023
Grant date	Jun 13, 2023

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that can provide more useful information for an action plan of an autonomous mobile body, the information processing apparatus including an action recommendation unit configured to present a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation. The action recommendation unit determines the recommended action on the basis of an action history collected from a plurality of the autonomous mobile bodies, and on the basis of a situation summary received from a target autonomous mobile body that is a target of recommendation. The information processing method includes presenting, by a processor, a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
an action recommendation unit configured to
present a recommended action recommended to a target autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation, and
determine the recommended action based on an action history collected from a plurality of autonomous mobile bodies, and based on a situation summary received from the target autonomous mobile body,

wherein the collected action history is stored as a movement of each respective autonomous mobile body of the plurality of autonomous mobile bodies in association with a situation of the respective autonomous mobile body and a user's reaction to the movement of the respective autonomous mobile body,
wherein each user's reaction is stored in the collected action history as a quantified amount, and
wherein the action recommendation unit is implemented via at least one processor.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit is further configured to provide the target autonomous mobile body with control sequence data for realizing the movement corresponding to the recommended action.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit is further configured to collect the control sequence data corresponding to a movement for which a user has shown positive feedback, from the plurality of autonomous mobile bodies.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit provides the target autonomous mobile body with the control sequence data collected from another autonomous mobile body of the plurality of autonomous mobile bodies.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the action history collected from each respective autonomous mobile body includes information regarding the situation summary, a movement performed by the respective autonomous mobile body based on the situation summary, and user's feedback for the movement.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit presents the recommended action based on a degree of enthusiasm of a user for the target autonomous mobile body.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit presents the recommended action based on detection of a decrease in the degree of enthusiasm.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit presents the recommended action based on a request from the target autonomous mobile body.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit is further configured to register new data into a voice recognition dictionary included in the target autonomous mobile body, based on a recognition failure log collected from the target autonomous mobile body.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit further registers the new data into the voice recognition dictionary, based on a recognition result of a plurality of recognition engines for user's utterance voice included in the recognition failure log.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit is further configured to collect data registered in an object recognition dictionary included in the target autonomous mobile body.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 11 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit is further configured to
collect data registered in an object recognition dictionary included in another autonomous mobile body of the plurality of autonomous mobile bodies, and
register the data into the object recognition dictionary included in the target autonomous mobile body.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit is further configured to transmit a notification for recommending maintenance to a user, based on an analysis result of an operation state related to the target autonomous mobile body.

14. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13 ,
wherein the action recommendation unit transmits the notification for recommending maintenance to the user, based on the analysis result of the operation state estimated from an action failure log.

15. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an analysis unit configured to perform analysis based on the action history collected from each autonomous mobile body,
wherein the analysis unit is implemented via at least one processor.

16. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15 ,
wherein the analysis unit is further configured to analyze user's feedback on a movement performed by each autonomous mobile body.

17. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15 ,
wherein the analysis unit is further configured to analyze a degree of enthusiasm of a user for the target autonomous mobile body.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 15 ,
wherein the analysis unit is further configured to analyze an operation state related to each autonomous mobile body.

19. An information processing method comprising:
presenting, by a processor, a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation; and
determining the recommended action based on an action history collected from a plurality of autonomous mobile bodies, and based on a situation summary received from a target autonomous mobile body that is a target of recommendation,
wherein the collected action history is stored as a movement of each respective autonomous mobile body of the plurality of autonomous mobile bodies in association with a situation of the respective autonomous mobile body and a user's reaction to the movement of the respective autonomous mobile body, and
wherein each user's reaction is stored in the collected action history as a quantified amount.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to function as execute a method, the method comprising:
presenting a recommended action recommended to an autonomous mobile body, to the autonomous mobile body that performs an action plan based on situation estimation; and
determining the recommended action based on an action history collected from a plurality of autonomous mobile bodies, and based on a situation summary received from a target autonomous mobile body that is a target of recommendation,
wherein the collected action history is stored as a movement of each respective autonomous mobile body of the plurality of autonomous mobile bodies in association with a situation of the respective autonomous mobile body and a user's reaction to the movement of the respective autonomous mobile body, and
wherein each user's reaction is stored in the collected action history as a quantified amount.

21. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the quantified amount corresponding to each user's reaction stored in the collected action history is determined based on at least one of a facial expression or an utterance of the user.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Mizukami Tomoo
• Fujiwara Naoki
• Morita Takuma

Classifications

• B25J19/023

  including video camera means · CPC title

• A63H11/00

  Self-movable toy figures · CPC title

• B25J11/001

  with emotions simulating means · CPC title

• B25J13/003

  by means of an audio-responsive input (audible safety signals B25J19/061) · CPC title

• A63H13/005

  with self-moving head or facial features (with a choice of features A63H3/365; movable eyes A63H3/40) · CPC title