US 9,317,806 B2Granted

Information processing device and method, attention level-calculating device, and computer readable medium

AssigneeOMRON Corporation

InventorsTatsuya Adachi, Ryosuke Kono, Mitsunori Sugiura

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Abstract

A DB registration-updating unit registers, in a patron management DB, the behavior history of each player in association with camera IDs that identify the cameras that have captured images of the player. On the basis of information in the patron management DB, a potential player-determining unit considers a player, whose length of stay in a specific corner is longer than a prescribed period and who is not playing, to be a potential player who wants to play but is unable to play. An attention level DB management unit registers, in an attention level DB, the points proportional to the lengths of stay of potential players in said corner as the attention level by cumulatively storing the points for each game console. An attention level display control unit displays the information on the players' attention level that is registered in the attention level DB.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An information processing device comprising:

a game console image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a player who plays with a game console at each game console installed in an amusement shop;
an area image capturing unit configured to capture the image of the player who enters or exits an area where a plurality of game consoles is provided or an island facility in units of areas or island facilities;
a matching unit configured to match the player with a registrant, the player being captured in the images by the game console image capturing unit and the area image capturing unit;
an entry management unit configured to manage an entry clock time of each area for each player who is matched by the matching unit;
an exit management unit configured to manage an exit clock time of each area for each player who is matched by the matching unit;
a play starting management unit configured to manage a play starting clock time of each game console for each player matched by the matching unit;
a potential player determining unit configured to determine whether the player whose entry is managed by the entry management unit and who is matched by the matching unit is a potential player who wants to play with a model of a game console installed in the area but cannot play, based on the play starting clock time of the player which is managed by the play starting management unit;
and
an attention level calculator configured to calculate an attention level of the game console which is a predetermined model of the game console installed in the amusement shop based on information about the entry clock time and the exit clock time of the player determined as the potential player by the potential player determining unit for the predetermined model.

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An information processing method comprising:

a game console image capturing step of capturing an image of a player who plays with a game console at each game console installed in an amusement shop using a game console image capturing unit configured to capture the image of the player who plays with the game console at each game console installed in the amusement shop;
an area image capturing step of capturing the image of the player who enters or exits an area where a plurality of game consoles is provided or an island facility in units of areas or island facilities using an area image capturing unit configured to capture the image of the player who enters or exits the area where the plurality of game consoles is provided or the island facility in units of areas or island facilities;
a matching step of matching the player with a registrant, the player being captured in the images through processing of the game console image capturing step and processing of the area image capturing step using a matching unit configured to match the player with the registrant, the player being captured in the images by the game console image capturing unit and the area image capturing unit;
an entry management step of managing an entry clock time of each area for each player who is matched through processing of the matching step using an entry management unit configured to manage the entry clock time of each area for each player who is matched by the matching unit;
an exit management step of managing an exit clock time of each area for each player who is matched by processing of the matching step using an exit management unit configured to manage the exit clock time of each area for each player who is matched by the matching unit;
a play starting management step of managing a play starting clock time of each game console for each player matched by processing of the matching step using a play starting management unit configured to manage the play starting clock time of each game console for each player who is matched by the matching unit;
a potential player determination step of determining whether the player whose entry is managed by processing of the entry management step and who is matched by processing of the matching step is a potential player who wants to play with a model of a game console installed in the area but cannot play, based on the play starting clock time of the player which is managed by processing of the play starting management step using a potential player determining unit configured to determine whether the player whose entry is managed by the entry management unit and who is matched by the matching unit is the potential player who wants to play with the model of the game console installed in the area but cannot play, based on the play starting clock time of the player which is managed by the play starting management unit;
and
an attention level calculation step of calculating an attention level of the game console which is a predetermined model of the game console installed in the amusement shop based on information about the entry clock time and the exit clock time of the player determined as the potential player by processing of the potential player determination step for the predetermined model using an attention level calculator configured to calculate the attention level of the game console which is the predetermined model of the game console installed in the amusement shop based on the information about the entry clock time and the exit clock time of the player determined as the potential player by the potential player determining unit for the predetermined model.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/128,978Filed 14 Mar 2012
Priority: JP 2011-15703615 Jul 2011
Published: US 2014/0129487 A18 May 2014
Granted: 19 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06N 5/02
Computing arrangements using knowledge-based models: knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
G07F 17/3206
Player-machine interfaces: player sensing means, e.g. presence detection, biometrics
G07F 17/3234
Wherein the operator is informed: about the performance of a gaming system, e.g. revenue, diagnosis of the gaming system
G07F 17/3239
About the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players: tracking of individual players