Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Abstract

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a position sensor for detecting position information, and a detection times control unit for acquiring detection accuracy information regarding detection accuracy of the position sensor based on a detection result of the position sensor, and controlling the number of detection times of the position sensor based on the acquired detection accuracy information.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute an information processing method, the method comprising:
 acquiring position information from a position detection sensor of a client terminal;   acquiring motion data from a motion sensor of the client terminal;   recognizing an activity of the client terminal based on the acquired motion data; and   controlling the acquisition of the position information based on the recognized activity,   wherein the activity is one of a travel by vehicle, walking, running, and a still state.   
     
     
         2 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 1 , wherein the executed method further comprises:
 controlling a number of detection times of the position detection sensor based on a detection accuracy information.   
     
     
         3 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 2 , wherein the detection accuracy information is determined based the recognized activity. 
     
     
         4 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 2 , wherein the detection accuracy information indicates likelihood of an accurately detected position made by the position detection sensor corresponding to respective detection results of the position detection sensor, and the number of detection times is set to a particular value for each degree of a plurality of degrees of the likelihood indicated by the detection accuracy information. 
     
     
         5 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 4 , wherein the number of detection times is set to the particular value for each degree to reduce a power consumption of the position detection sensor. 
     
     
         6 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 4 , wherein the detection accuracy, whose degrees cover a predetermined range, is divided into each degree, and the number of detection times for each degree obtained by the division is controlled. 
     
     
         7 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 6 , wherein the number of detection times is reduced stepwise for a region for which the degree is high within the predetermined range. 
     
     
         8 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 6 , wherein the number of detection times is reduced stepwise for a region for which the degree is low within the predetermined range. 
     
     
         9 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 6 , wherein, in a case the predetermined range is divided into a small region, a medium region, and a large region according to a level of the degree, the number of detection times for the medium region is controlled to be greater than the number of detection times for the small region and the large region. 
     
     
         10 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 2 , wherein the executed method further comprises:
 receiving position information from a first position sensor and a second position sensor, each of the client terminal; and   selecting, and causing to operate, one of the first position sensor or the second position sensor, based on the detection accuracy information.   
     
     
         11 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 10 , wherein a detection performance of the first position sensor and a detection performance of the second position sensor are each quantified, and the executed method further comprises:
 selecting, and causing to operate, one position sensor with a greater value of quantified detection performance.   
     
     
         12 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 10 , wherein, in a case quantized values of a detection performance of the first position sensor and the second position sensor are below a threshold value, the first position sensor and the second position sensor are suspended for a predetermined period of time. 
     
     
         13 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 1 , wherein, in a case current position information can be predicted from the position information received in past, the position detection sensor is suspended. 
     
     
         14 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 2 , wherein the number of detection times is controlled according to a type of the activity that has been recognized. 
     
     
         15 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to  claim 1 , wherein a continuation time is predicted of one activity of the client terminal that has been recognized, and the position detection sensor is suspended during the predicted continuation time. 
     
     
         16 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
 circuitry configured to
 acquire position information from a position detection sensor of a client terminal, 
 acquire motion data from a motion sensor of the client terminal, 
 recognize an activity of the client terminal based on the acquired motion data, and 
 control the acquisition of the position information based on the recognized activity, 
   wherein the activity is one of a travel by vehicle, walking, running, and a still state.   
     
     
         17 . An information processing method comprising:
 acquiring position information from a position detection sensor of a client terminal;   acquiring motion data from a motion sensor of the client terminal;   recognizing an activity of the client terminal based on the acquired motion data; and   controlling the acquisition of the position information based on the recognized activity,   wherein the activity is one of a travel by vehicle, walking, running, and a still state.