# US 2017/0285582 A1 · Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and recording medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0285582 A1 - Document ID: US20170285582A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/514,001 - Filed: 2015-09-08 - Published: 2017-10-05 - Earliest claimed: 2014-09-29 - Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Kohji KUSUDA; Nobuhisa NAKAGAWA; Shigeru KOBAYASHI; Fumitoshi TANOUE; Tadao ANDO - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170285582A1 ## CPC - G04G 13/021: {Details} - G04G 21/025: {for measuring physiological data} - H04M 1/72451: according to schedules, e.g. using calendar applications - H04W 88/02: Terminal devices - G04G: ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract An object of the present invention is to determine wake-up timing of a user with high accuracy. A terminal apparatus (1) includes an ending operation detection section (142) for detecting that an operation to stop an audio output of an alarm has been made; and a wake-up determination section (143) for determining, as wake-up timing of the user, timing when the operation has been detected. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information processing apparatus, comprising: an operation detection section for detecting that, with respect to a notification apparatus which has been notifying a user of arrival of a preset time, an operation to stop notification by the notification apparatus has been made; and a wake-up determination section for determining, as wake-up timing of the user, timing when the operation detection section detects that the operation has been made. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a process performing section for performing a predetermined process at the wake-up timing of the user which is determined by the wake-up determination section or at timing determined based on the wake-up timing of the user. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein the process performing section obtains related information related to the user, and performs a process corresponding to the related information. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 3, further comprising a normal time determination section for determining a normal wake-up time of the user based on records of times when the operation detection section detected, in a past, the operation to stop the notification by the notification apparatus, the process performing section obtaining, as the related information, the normal wake-up time of the user which is determined by the normal time determination section. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein the normal time determination section classifies, into a plurality of reference times, times when the operation detection section detected, in a past, the operation to stop the notification by the notification apparatus, and the normal time determination section determines, as the normal wake-up time of the user, a reference time into which a largest number of the times have been classified. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein the process performing section performs a process of presenting, to the user, information which varies depending on a difference between the wake-up timing of the user which is determined by the wake-up determination section and the normal wake-up time of the user which is determined by the normal time determination section. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein in a case where the operation detection section has detected plural times a suspending operation to suspend the notification by the notification apparatus before the notification apparatus ends the notification, the wake-up determination section determines, as the wake-up timing of the user, timing when the operation detection section has lastly detected the suspending operation. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a motion detection section for detecting that the user has made a predetermined motion on the notification apparatus, in a case where the operation detection section has not detected the operation to stop the notification by the notification apparatus, the wake-up determination section determines, as the wake-up timing of the user, timing when the motion detection section has detected the predetermined motion. ### Claim 9 A method for controlling an information processing apparatus, said method comprising the steps of: (i) detecting that, with respect to a notification apparatus which has been notifying a user of arrival of a preset time, an operation to stop notification by the notification apparatus has been made; and (ii) determining, as wake-up timing of the user, timing when it is detected in the step (i) that the operation has been made. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a control program for causing a computer to function as an information processing apparatus as set forth in claim 1, the control program causing the computer to function as the sections of the information processing apparatus.