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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2010
Kotaro Sakata, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuya Nomura, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiro Konuma, Osaka, JP;
Maki Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigenori Maeda, Kyoto, JP;
Kotaro Sakata, Hyogo, JP;
Kazuya Nomura, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiro Konuma, Osaka, JP;
Maki Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigenori Maeda, Kyoto, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a lifestyle collecting apparatus that collects information for determining a lifestyle of a user, and includes: an object information detecting unit configured to detect object information representing an object around the user; a relevance degree calculating unit configured to calculate a relevance degree of the user to the object, using the object information; an appearance information extracting unit configured to extract appearance information from the object information, and add the relevance degree to the extracted appearance information, the appearance information representing an appearance of the object; and a lifestyle database which stores the appearance information to which the relevance degree has been added, as the information for determining the lifestyle of the user.