Information processing apparatus and method, electronic device and computer readable medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12518342-B2
Application number	US-202318331953-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 9, 2023
Priority date	Sep 29, 2017
Publication date	Jan 6, 2026
Grant date	Jan 6, 2026

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus and method, an electronic device and computer readable medium. According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to compare environment data acquired by a user equipment with reference data; determine, based on the comparison, an adjustment for an acquisition manner of the environment data; and perform a control to notify the user equipment of indication information related to the adjustment.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . An information processing apparatus, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to: recognize scenario environment data associated with a same scenario from environment data acquired by one or more user equipments, wherein the environment data comprises one or more of smell data or RF data; compare the environment data acquired with reference data corresponding to a same or similar scenario or object as the environment data acquired by the one or more user equipments; determine, based on the comparison, an adjustment for an acquisition manner of the environment data to acquire other scenario environment data associated with the same scenario from the one or more user equipments; and perform control to notify indication information related to the adjustment to the one or more user equipments.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
acquire a time of acquiring the environment data; and acquire a position of the user equipment when acquiring the environment data.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the reference data comprises historical data stored in advance and/or environment data acquired by another user equipment different from the one or more user equipments.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the adjustment comprises: changing a position, an angle and/or a parameter setting of the one or more user equipments acquiring the environment data.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the adjustment comprises: changing a data acquisition parameter for acquiring the environment data.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the determination of the adjustment comprises: determining a data acquisition parameter corresponding to environment data obtaining a high appraisal as a target parameter, based on user appraisals obtained by previous environment data.

7 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the recognition comprises:
performing clustering on the environment data acquired by the one or more user equipments, and recognizing environment data clustered into a same group as being associated with a same scenario.

8 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the recognition comprises:
recognizing environment data associated with a same scenario based on acquisition time and/or acquisition position of environment data.

9 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to: perform a fusion on the scenario environment data recognized as being associated with the same scenario.

10 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:
select, based on data quality, candidate data from the scenario environment data associated with the same scenario; and perform the fusion using the selected candidate data.

11 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the fusion comprises:
generating, based on image data recognized as being associated with a same scenario, a three-dimensional image or a panoramic image of the scenario; generating, based on video data recognized as being associated with a same scenario, panoramic video or stereoscopic video of the scenario; or generating, based on environment data recognized as being associated with a same scenario, virtual reality data or augmented reality data of the scenario.

12 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , the processing circuitry is further configured to: perform control to give a reward to a user who has provided the environment data for the fusion.

13 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the reward comprises virtual currency.

14 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to: perform control to provide a user equipment with an access to the fused environment data.

15 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform control to receive environment data collaboratively transmitted by two or more user equipments,
in the collaborative transmission, one user equipment forwarding environment data received from another user equipment using a proximity-based service communication.

16 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform control to give a reward to a user who has performed the forwarding.

17 . An information processing method, comprising:
recognizing scenario environment data associated with a same scenario from environment data acquired by one or more user equipments, wherein the environment data comprises one or more of smell data or RF data; comparing the environment data acquired with reference data corresponding to a same or similar scenario or object as the environment data acquired by the one or more user equipments; determining, based on the comparison, an adjustment for an acquisition manner of the environment data to acquire other scenario environment data associated with the same scenario from the one or more user equipments; and performing control to notify indication information related to the adjustment to the one or more user equipments.

18 . An electronic device for user equipment side, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to perform control to acquire environment data, wherein the environment data comprises one or more of smell data or RF data; transmit the acquired environment data to a control node, wherein the environment data may be recognized by the control node as being associated with a same scenario; and receive, from the control node, indication information related to an adjustment of an acquisition manner of the environment data to acquire other environment data associated with a same scenario, wherein the adjustment being determined based on a comparison of the environment data with reference data corresponding to the same or similar scenario or object as the environment data.

19 . The electronic device according to claim 18 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform control to present the indication information.

20 . The electronic device according to claim 18 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform control to indicate, to the control node, whether the environment data is to participate in a fusion.

21 . The electronic device according to claim 18 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform control to collaboratively transmit environment data with another user equipment,
in the collaborative transmission, one user equipment forwarding environment data received from another user equipment using a proximity-based service communication.

22 . The electronic device according to claim 18 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform control to report to the control node, or to broadcast to another user equipment, a message indicating a predetermined event.

23 . An information processing method for user equipment side, comprising:
acquiring environment data, wherein th

Assignees

• Sony Group Corp

Inventors

• Sun Chen
• Guo Xin
• Kong Lingming

Classifications

• G06V10/17

  using hand-held instruments · CPC title

• G06F18/251

  of input or preprocessed data · CPC title

• G06F18/23

  Clustering techniques · CPC title

• G06V20/13

  Satellite images · CPC title

• G06Q20/3224

  Transactions dependent on location of M-devices · CPC title