IP Library Granted Patent US 9,924,231
Granted Patent B2
US 9,924,231 · App. 14/782,678 · Granted Mar 20, 2018

Information presentation method, operation program, and information presentation system

Inventors: Hiroshi Amano (Osaka, JP); Toshihisa Nakano (Osaka, JP); Motoji Ohmori (Osaka, JP); Takako Hirose (Kyoto, JP); Shunji Harada (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
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Patent No.
US 9,924,231
App. No.
14/782,678
Granted
Mar 20, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information presenting device ( 100 ) presents image information; an operative device ( 200 ) accepts a predetermined input operation during the presentation of the image information; a guide information managing device ( 300 ) stores date and time information indicating a date and a time at which the input operation is accepted, image specifying information specifying image information presented when the input operation is accepted, and guide destination information indicating a guide destination to which the user is guided is stored in a database in association with one another, the guide destination information being specified by the date and time information, and the image specifying information; and a guide device ( 400 ) presents the guide destination information in response to a request from the user.

Claims (54)

1. A method for presenting information, comprising:

an image information presenting step of presenting image information;

an operative step of accepting a first input operation representing one of a pushing down of a predetermined button by a user and an input of a predetermined voice uttered by the user, and a second input operation representing an input of sight line information indicating a position of a sight line of the user over a screen during the presenting of the image information;

an output step of outputting date and time information indicating a current date and time by a first trigger that the first input operation is accepted;

a coordinate recognizing step of specifying a positional coordinate on the screen from the position of the sight line of the user over the screen input via the second input operation by a second trigger that the first input operation is accepted;

a guide destination acquiring step of: specifying one scene in the image information by the date and time information output in the output step, and specifying image specifying information specifying the image information presented in the image information presenting step when the first input operation is accepted; and acquiring guide destination information associated with the positional coordinate in the specified one scene and indicating a guide destination to which the user is guided;

a storing step of storing the date and time information, the image specifying information, and the guide destination information in one database in association with one another;

a counting step of counting a number of storage incidences that a plurality of other users stores in other databases the same guide destination information as that stored in the one database; and

a guide destination presenting step of, when a plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented in response to a request from the user, presenting the plurality of pieces of guide destination information in a descending order of the number of storage incidences in the other databases.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

the guide destination information includes information indicating a place which is specified by the date and time information and the image specifying information, and is introduced in the image information.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein

the guide destination information includes information indicating a network address which is specified by the date and time information and the image specifying information, and is in connection with a selling of a commodity introduced in the image information.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein,

in the storing step, user information identifying the user is further stored in association with other information.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein,

in the storing step, information presenting device identifying information is stored in association with other information, the information presenting device identifying information being adapted for identifying an information presenting device which presents the image information in the image information presenting step.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein,

in the storing step, guide device identifying information is stored in association with other information, the guide device identifying information being adapted for identifying a guide device which presents the guide destination information in the guide destination presenting step.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a generating step of judging whether or not images taken by an other user at a plurality of places include one similar to an image included in the image information presented when the first input operation by the user is accepted, and, when a similar image is judged to be included, generating locational information given to the image taken by the other user as the guide destination information.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein,

in the generating step, when the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is generated, a priority order of the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is determined in response to the first input operation accepted in the operative step, and

in the guide destination presenting step, the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented in accordance with the determined priority order.

9. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a storage completion presenting step of presenting information indicating that the guide destination information is stored in the one database, after the guide destination information is stored in the one database in the storing step.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein,

in the guide destination presenting step, a presentation is made as to whether or not the guide destination information is stored in the one database in response to the request from the user.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein,

in the guide destination presenting step, when the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented, the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented in an order of presentations of the image information.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein,

in the guide destination presenting step, when the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented, the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented in an order of a locational nearness of each of the plurality of pieces of guide destination information to a current location of a presenting device which presents the plurality of pieces of guide destination information.

13. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing an operative program for accepting an operation by a user, the program causing a computer to function as:

an operative unit which accepts a first input operation representing one of a pushing down of a predetermined button by the user and an input of a predetermined voice uttered by the user, and a second input operation representing an input of sight line information indicating a position of a sight line of the user over a screen during a presentation of image information;

an output unit which outputs date and time information indicating a current date and time by a first trigger that the first input operation is accepted;

a coordinate recognizing unit which specifies a positional coordinate on the screen from the position of the sight line of the user over the screen input via the second input operation by a second trigger that the first input operation is accepted; and

a transmitting unit which transmits the date and time information output by the output unit, and the positional coordinate specified by the coordinate recognizing unit, wherein

the date and time information and the positional coordinate are used, in association with image specifying information specifying the image information presented when the first input operation is accepted, to specify guide destination information associated with the positional coordinate in one scene specified by the date and time information and the image specifying information, and indicating a guide destination to which the user is guided,

the date and time information, the image specifying information, and the guide destination information are stored in one database in association with one another,

a number of storage incidences that a plurality of other users stores in other databases the same guide destination information as that stored in the one data base is counted, and

when a plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented in response to a request from the user, the plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented in a descending order of the number of storage incidences in the other databases.

14. A system comprising:

an information presenting device which presents image information;

an operative device which accepts a first input operation representing one of a pushing down of a predetermined button by a user and an input of a predetermined voice uttered by the user, and a second input operation representing an input of sight line information indicating a position of a sight line of the user over a screen during the presentation of the image information;

an output unit which outputs date and time information indicating a current date and time by a first trigger that the first input operation is accepted;

a coordinate recognizing unit which specifies a positional coordinate on the screen from the position of the sight line of the user over the screen input via the second input operation by a second trigger that the first input operation is accepted;

a guide information managing device which stores the date and time information output by the output unit, image specifying information specifying the image information presented by the information presenting device when the first input operation is accepted, and guide destination information indicating a guide destination to which the user is guided in one database in association with one another, the guide destination information being associated with the positional coordinate in one scene specified by the date and time information, and the image specifying information; and

a presenting device which presents the guide destination information stored in the guide information managing device, wherein

the guide destination information managing device counts a number of storage incidences that a plurality of other users stores in other databases the same guide destination information as that stored in the one data base, and

when a plurality of pieces of guide destination information is presented in response to a request from the user, the presenting device presents the plurality of pieces of guide destination information in a descending order of the number of storage incidences in the other databases.

15. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a generating step, wherein

in the generating step, a voice included in the image information presented when the first input operation by the user is accepted is recognized, and locational information included in the voice is generated as the guide destination information.

16. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a generating step, wherein

in the generating step, input of information indicating a place by the other user having viewed the same image information is accepted, and the accepted information indicating the place is generated as the guide destination information.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2018
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: SOVEREIGN PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 047914/0784 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 25, 2015
From: AMANO, HIROSHI; NAKANO, TOSHIHISA; OHMORI, MOTOJI; HIROSE, TAKAKO; HARADA, SHUNJI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 037144/0820 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61860639 · Jul 31, 2013
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