Sony patents smart rooms that track health habits and adjust lighting
Sony describes a system where sensors in a room detect what people are doing and calculate 'health points' for healthy behaviors. The system then uses this data to automatically change lighting, sounds, or visual displays in the space to match the user's activity.
In the filing’s own words
Provided are an information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of promoting a better life by detecting and feeding back an action of a user. An information processing apparatus including a control unit that performs a process of recognizing a user existing in a space on the basis of a detection result of a sensor disposed in the space and calculating health points indicating that a healthy behavior has been performed from an action of the user, and a process of giving notification of the health points.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method, comprising: in an information processing apparatus that implements a space production function: detecting, by a plurality of sensors, data associated with one or more users existing in a specific space, wherein the plurality of sensors is in the specific space; determining, by a controller, a context of the specific space based on the detected data, wherein the controller is communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors, and the context includes a specific situation of the one or more users; and controlling, by the controller, a plurality of output devices to: produce a specific effect; and update at least one of a visual content, an auditory environment, or a projection of a lighting condition into the specific space, wherein the plurality of output devices is in the specific space, the production of the specific effect is based on the determined context, and the update is responsive to a change in the determined context.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
- Publication number
- US20260290615A1
- Application number
- 19685755
- Filed
- May 22, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G16H 50/30 Physics & computingA63B 24/0003 Human necessitiesA63B 24/0075 Human necessitiesG06T 7/70 Physics & computingG06V 40/20 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30242 Physics & computingMore from Sony in AI & software
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