Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and mobile object

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022011152-A1
Application number	US-202117363570-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 30, 2021
Priority date	Jul 7, 2020
Publication date	Jan 13, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes an information acquisition interface configured to acquire a measurement result from one or more weight sensors configured to measure a weight of a user, and a controller configured to detect an increase in the weight of the user based on the measurement result.

First claim

1 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
an information acquisition interface configured to acquire a measurement result from one or more weight sensors configured to measure a weight of a user; and a controller configured to detect an increase in the weight of the user based on the measurement result.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the weight of the user includes a body weight of the user and a weight of luggage of the user.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to detect an increase of a predetermined value or greater in the weight of luggage of the user.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the one or more weight sensors include a first weight sensor and a second weight sensor that are installed at different positions on a road surface, and the controller is configured to extract the measurement result for the weight of the user from respective measurement results of the first weight sensor and the second weight sensor, to detect the increase in the weight of the user.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the information acquisition interface is configured to acquire an image of the user from a camera configured to capture the user, and the controller is configured to extract the measurement result for the weight of the user from measurement results of the one or more weight sensors based on the image of the user.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , further comprising
a memory configured to store the measurement results of the one or more weight sensors, wherein the controller is configured to store, in the memory, the measurement results of the one or more weight sensors in association with users captured by the camera, and extract measurement results of weight sensors that are associated with a common user as the measurement result for the weight of the user.

7 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the one or more weight sensors are configured to measure the weight of the user on a ground surface, on a road, or on a floor surface at an entrance/exit, in an interior, at a product delivery point, or at a cash desk of a facility.

8 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller, upon detecting the increase in the weight of the user, causes a mobile object to travel to a position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected.

9 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein
the information acquisition interface is configured to acquire utterances of the user from an audio input device configured to detect the utterances of the user, and the controller causes the mobile object to travel to the position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected, when an utterance of the user is detected at the position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected.

10 . An information processing system comprising:
the information processing apparatus according to claim 1 ; and a mobile object.

11 . An information processing method comprising:
acquiring a measurement result from one or more weight sensors configured to measure a weight of a user; and detecting an increase in the weight of the user based on the measurement result.

12 . The information processing method according to claim 11 , further comprising
detecting an increase of a predetermined value or greater in a weight of luggage of the user.

13 . The information processing method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
acquiring respective measurement results of a first weight sensor and a second weight sensor that are included in the one or more weight sensors; and extracting the measurement result for the weight of the user from the respective measurement results of the first weight sensor and the second weight sensor, to detect the increase in the weight of the user.

14 . The information processing method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
acquiring an image of the user from a camera configured to capture the user; and extracting the measurement result for the weight of the user from measurement results of the one or more weight sensors based on the image of the user.

15 . The information processing method according to claim 14 , further comprising:
storing, in a memory configured to store the measurement results of the one or more weight sensors, the measurement results of the one or more weight sensors in association with users captured by the camera; and extracting measurement results of weight sensors that are associated with a common user as the measurement result for the weight of the user.

16 . The information processing method according to claim 11 , further comprising,
upon detecting the increase in the weight of the user, causing a mobile object to travel to a position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected.

17 . The information processing method according to claim 16 , further comprising:
acquiring utterances of the user from an audio input device configured to detect the utterances of the user; and causing the mobile object to travel to the position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected, when an utterance of the user is detected at the position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected.

18 . A mobile object that, when an increase in a weight of a user is detected by one or more weight sensors configured to measure the weight of the user, travels to a position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected.

19 . The mobile object according to claim 18 , wherein
the mobile object is Micro-Pallete or a drone.

20 . The mobile object according to claim 19 , wherein
the mobile object travels to the position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected, when an utterance of the user is further detected at the position at which the increase in the weight of the user has been detected.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sakurada Shin
• Nakanishi hirotada
• Inoue Atsushi
• Hasegawa Hideo
• Tanaka Yurika
• Kuno Genshi

Classifications

• B64C39/024

  of the remote controlled vehicle type, i.e. RPV · CPC title

• B64U2101/60

  for transporting passengers; for transporting goods other than weapons · CPC title

• B64U2101/64

  for parcel delivery or retrieval · CPC title

• G01G19/62 Primary

  Over or under weighing apparatus · CPC title

• G01G19/03

  for weighing during motion ({G01G19/022, G01G19/045,} G01G19/04, G01G19/07 take precedence {; weighing a continuous stream material during flow G01G11/00; check weighing of materials dispensed into removable containers G01G15/00}) · CPC title