# US 10,769,737 B2 · Information processing device, information processing method, and program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,769,737 B2 - Document ID: US10769737B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/558,601 - Filed: 2016-02-24 - Published: 2018-03-22 - Granted: 2020-09-08 - Earliest claimed: 2015-05-27 - Assignees: Sony Corporation - Applicants: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Yasushi Tsuruta - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10769737B2 ## CPC - G06Q 50/16: Real estate - A61B 5/1118: {Determining activity level} - G06F 16/00: Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor - G06F 16/29: Geographical information databases - G06V 40/174: {Facial expression recognition} - G10L 25/63: for estimating an emotional state - H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - A61B: DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (usefulness limited to only animals A61D) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract [Object] To provide an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of providing property transactions with a higher degree of satisfaction by generating certain property information using a happiness score based on user information. [Solution] The information processing device includes: a computation unit that computes a happiness score on a basis of sensed user information; and a generation unit that generates certain property information using the computed happiness score. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information processing device including a real estate search and presentation system, comprising: a data collection device configured to collect resident input information from a plurality of residents; the resident input information including blood pressure data of a resident and GPS position data of the resident and address location of the resident; a blood pressure sensor configured to sense and provide the blood pressure data of the resident; a Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor configured to sense and provide the GPS position data of the resident; a resident input device configured to receive the address location of the resident; happiness computation circuitry configured to generate a happiness score indicating an emotional happiness assessment associated with the resident in connection with the GPS position data of the resident, and the happiness score generated on the basis of positive emotion data including positive emotion data estimated from biological information including the blood pressure data of the resident; the happiness score memory configured to store the happiness score in association with the GPS position data of the resident and the address location of the resident, for each of the plurality of residents; property information memory configured to store a plurality of real estate property information including address location data for each of the plurality of real estate property information; property information generation circuitry configured to: detect when a search request was submitted, generate one or more resultant real estate property information including the resultant address location data for each of the resultant real estate property information, wherein each of the resultant real estate property information met criteria of the search request, the criteria including a happiness score criteria, and provide a resultant happiness score associated with each resultant address location for each of the resultant real estate property information which met the happiness score criteria of the search request, wherein each of the resultant happiness scores were generated based upon resultant positive emotion data estimated from resultant biological information including the resultant blood pressure data of the resultant resident and the associated resultant retrieved GPS position data; and information presentation circuitry configured to cause a display to present the resultant real estate property information which met the happiness score criteria of the search request; wherein the information presentation circuitry is further configured to arrange the resultant real estate property information in an order based upon each of their associated resultant happiness scores. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the address location of the resident is associated with updated resident input information of the resident or a second resident with the same address location as the resident, and the happiness computation circuitry generates an updated happiness score based upon the updated resident input information. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the display is a terminal device and the information processing device is a server and the blood pressure data was obtained from the blood pressure sensor of a device in physical contact with the resident. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region; wherein the positive emotion data includes additional positive emotion data additionally acquired via the resident input device receiving a selection indication from the resident. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the resident input information includes additional information of positive activity data, and the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive activity data associated with the GPS position data and the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the resident input information includes additional information of positive activity data, and the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive activity data associated with the GPS position data and the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region; wherein the positive activity data is acquired via the resident input device receiving an activity selection indication from the resident. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the resident input information includes additional information of positive health data, and the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive health data associated with the GPS position data and the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the resident input information includes additional information of positive health data, and the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive health data associated with the GPS position data and the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region; wherein the positive health data is acquired via the resident input device receiving a health selection indication from the resident. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the resident input information includes additional information of positive activity data and positive health data, and the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive activity data associated with the GPS position data and the positive health data associated with the GPS position data and the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the resident input information includes additional information of positive activity data and positive health data, and the happiness computation circuitry generates a region happiness score of a region on a basis of accumulated happiness scores, which were individually generated using the positive activity data associated with the GPS position data and the positive health data associated with the GPS position data and the positive emotion data associated with the GPS position data, from a plurality of residents having their address location data determined to be located in the region; wherein the positive activity data is acquired via the resident input device receiving an activity selection indication from the resident and the positive health data is acquired via the resident input device receiving a health selection indication from the resident. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents the resultant real estate property information based upon each resultant address location being located within a map area centered around an input search address which was received via the resident input device as part of the criteria of the search request, and each of the resultant real estate property information also met the happiness score criteria. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents the resultant real estate property information based upon each resultant address location being located within a map area centered around an input search address which was received via the resident input device as part of the criteria of the search request, and each of the resultant real estate property information also met the happiness score criteria; wherein the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents the resultant real estate property information indicating the order as being ordered with a color indication associated with a range of value within which each resultant happiness score falls into. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the information presentation circuitry presents further information for each resultant real estate property information including each of the resultant happiness scores and resultant additional property type information. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents the resultant real estate property information indicating the order as being ordered with a color indication associated with a range of value within which each resultant happiness score falls into, wherein the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents further information of a superimposed heat map of region happiness scores for regions located within a map area, so that the regions are indicated with a color that corresponds to a range of happiness scores, the map area centered around an input search address which was received via the resident input device as part of the criteria of the search request, wherein each of the resultant real estate property information met both the input search address criteria and the happiness score criteria. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents the resultant real estate property information including resultant recommended one or more properties matching the criteria of the search request, and the resultant recommended one or more properties have associated address location data located in a recommended geographical region determined to have an accumulated happiness score similar to the happiness score matching the happiness score criteria of the criteria of the search request. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein for each of the resultant real estate property information which met the criteria of the search request, the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents: a purchase or rental price. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein for each of the resultant real estate property information which met the criteria of the search request, the property information generation circuitry generates, and the information presentation circuitry presents: a purchase or rental price, a distance to a nearest public transportation location, and a property type indication in addition to the presented happiness score. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the happiness computation circuitry is configured to generate the happiness score for each of the GPS position data of the resident on the basis of the positive emotion data including the positive emotion data estimated from the biological information including the blood pressure data of the resident, and from the biological information including at least one of: heart rate or brain waves or perspiration or body temperature obtained from an associated biosensor, and from the biological information including information obtained from audio data or camera data. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the happiness computation circuitry is configured to generate the happiness score for each of the GPS position data of the resident on the basis of the positive emotion data including the positive emotion data estimated from the biological information including the blood pressure data of the resident, and from activity data of at least one of: position or acceleration or angular velocity or altitude, obtained from the GPS sensor, and from health data of at least one of: bodyweight or heart rate or perspiration or body temperature or number of steps or caloric expenditure or sleeping time obtained from an associated device.