JP2014239323A - Information processing apparatus and report control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for reporting occurrence of an interruption event in such a manner that importance of the interruption event can be appropriately reported to a user.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus comprises: an event detection section for detecting the occurrence of an interruption event subjected to report; an operation detection section for detecting an operation with respect to report of the interruption event detected by the event detection section; an event management section for managing a report situation and an operation situation with respect to report, respectively, regarding each of interruption events detected by the event detection section; a situation detection section for detecting a situation of movement of the information processing apparatus per se; and a report control section in which, when the situation of movement detected by the situation detection section indicates a predetermined situation of movement, a plurality of interruption events of which the operation situation managed by the event management section indicates no operation are specified as report candidates and among the plurality of specified report candidates, an interruption event with a little number of times of report indicated by the report situation is preferentially reported by a reporting section.

Description

  The present invention relates to a notification technique for a user in an information processing apparatus.

  Information processing devices such as personal computers (PCs), tablet terminals, mobile phones, smartphones, etc. are equipped with various functions, and these functions generate various events randomly or randomly. . For example, when a user operates an input unit such as a touch panel, a hardware key, a keyboard, and a mouse, an event related to user input occurs. Further, an incoming event occurs in an information processing apparatus having a call function. In addition, various events such as a mail reception event, an SNS (Social Networking Service) update event, an application update event, a time alarm event, and a constant voltage alarm event may occur.

  Among such various events, there is an event to be notified to the user. In the above-described example, all events except events related to user input are targeted for notification to the user. Hereinafter, an event to be notified to the user is referred to as an interrupt event. The following patent document proposes a method for notifying the user of such an interrupt event.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2004-228561 proposes a method for notifying that an interrupt event has occurred in a notification mode corresponding to the type of application software that is currently activated when a predetermined interrupt event occurs. The following Patent Document 2 proposes a method of comparing the importance of an interrupt event that has occurred with the importance of a function that is currently in operation, and switching whether to notify the interrupt event according to the comparison result. Has been. In Patent Document 3 below, there is a method of determining the moving state and the stationary state of the own device, and re-notifying the incoming call whenever the determined state changes until the user's confirmation operation for the incoming call is performed. Proposed.

JP 2003-319020 A JP 2008-177810 A JP 2009-206868 A

  However, the above-described proposed method only focuses on how to notify the user of each interrupt event to be notified and notice the user. On the other hand, for the user, the importance (attention level) may be different for each interrupt event. For example, although an interrupt event has been notified, the contents of the interrupt event can be predicted, and therefore the interrupt event may be left without being confirmed. The importance of such an interrupt event is considered low for the user. However, when a new interrupt event occurs in such a situation, the user may want to immediately confirm the new interrupt event. The importance of this new interrupt event is high for the user. In the proposed method described above, the importance of the interrupt event is not properly transmitted to the user.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique for notifying the occurrence of an interrupt event so that the importance of the interrupt event is appropriately transmitted to the user.

  Each aspect of the present invention employs the following configurations in order to solve the above-described problems.

  The first aspect relates to an information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus according to a first aspect includes an event detection unit that detects occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified, an operation detection unit that detects an operation for notification of an interrupt event detected by the event detection unit, and an event detection For each interrupt event detected by the unit, the event management unit that manages the notification status and the operation status for the notification, the status detection unit that detects the movement status of the information processing apparatus, and the movement status detected by the status detection unit Indicates a plurality of interrupt events whose operation status managed by the event management unit indicates no operation as notification candidates, and the notification indicated by the notification status among the plurality of specified notification candidates A notification control unit that preferentially notifies the notification unit of an interrupt event with a small number of times.

  The second aspect relates to a notification control method executed by a computer. The notification control method according to the second aspect detects the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified, manages the notification status and the operation status for the notification for each detected interrupt event, and detects the movement status of the own computer Then, when the detected movement status indicates a predetermined status, a plurality of interrupt events whose operation status indicates no operation are specified as notification candidates, and the number of notifications indicated by the notification status among the plurality of specified notification candidates Including preferential notification of interrupt events with a small number of events.

  As another aspect of the present invention, there may be a program for causing at least one computer to execute the notification control method of the second aspect, or a computer-readable recording medium on which such a program is recorded. It may be. This recording medium includes a non-transitory tangible medium.

  According to each aspect described above, it is possible to provide a technique for notifying the occurrence of an interrupt event so that the importance of the interrupt event is appropriately transmitted to the user.

It is a figure which shows notionally the hardware structural example of the information processing apparatus in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows notionally the process structural example of the information processing apparatus in 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the event management table in 1st Embodiment. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment at an interrupt event detection timing. It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the information processing apparatus of 1st Embodiment in the predetermined movement condition detection timing. It is a figure which shows the example of the event management table in 2nd Embodiment. 14 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the information processing apparatus according to the third embodiment at an interrupt event detection timing. It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the information processing apparatus of 3rd Embodiment in the predetermined movement condition detection timing. It is a figure which shows the example of the event management table in 4th Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the information processing apparatus of 4th Embodiment in the predetermined movement condition detection timing.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. In addition, each embodiment given below is an illustration and this invention is not limited to the structure of each following embodiment.

[First Embodiment]
〔Device configuration〕
FIG. 1 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a hardware configuration example of the information processing apparatus 1 in the first embodiment. Hereinafter, the information processing apparatus 1 is also referred to as a computer 1. The computer 1 in the first embodiment is a so-called computer such as a PC (Personal Computer), a mobile phone, a smartphone, or a tablet terminal. For example, the information processing apparatus 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 2, a memory 3, a display unit 4, a touch sensor 5, a communication unit 6, a vibration generation unit 7, a microphone unit 8, a speaker unit 9, a movement status sensor 10, and the like. Have.

  The CPU 2 is connected to other units via a communication line such as a bus. The memory 3 is a RAM (Random Access Memory), a ROM (Read Only Memory), or an auxiliary storage device (such as a hard disk). The display unit 4 includes a monitor such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) display, and performs display processing.

  The touch sensor 5 receives an operation input from the user by detecting a contact from the outside. The touch sensor 5 may be a sensor that can detect a proximity state from the outside even in a non-contact state. Further, the display unit 4 and the touch sensor 5 may be realized as a touch panel unit. Further, the computer 1 may have an input / output interface (not shown) connected to an input device such as a mouse or a keyboard together with the touch sensor 5 or instead of the touch sensor 5.

  The microphone unit 8 is a sound collecting device. The speaker unit 9 is an audio output device. The movement status sensor 10 detects the movement status of the computer 1 itself. The movement status sensor 10 detects various information for determining the movement status of the computer 1 itself. For example, the movement status sensor 10 is realized by at least one of various sensors such as an acceleration sensor, a vibration sensor, a direction sensor, a geomagnetic sensor, and a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver.

  The communication unit 6 performs wireless communication or wired communication, and communicates with other computers via a communication network. The communication network is a cellular phone line network, a Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) line network, an Internet communication network, a dedicated line network, a LAN (Local Area Network), or the like. In the present embodiment, the communication form between the computer 1 and another computer is not limited.

  The vibration generating unit 7 vibrates the computer 1.

  In the present embodiment, a computer 1 having various hardware elements shown in FIG. 1 and capable of moving is illustrated as an embodiment of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to such an apparatus. . The present invention is not limited to a so-called computer as long as it is a device capable of realizing the occurrence of an event to be notified to the user and the notification means to the user. A dedicated device may be used.

[Processing configuration]
FIG. 2 is a diagram conceptually illustrating a processing configuration example of the information processing apparatus 1 in the first embodiment. The computer 1 in the first embodiment includes an event detection unit 12, an operation detection unit 14, an event management unit 16, a situation detection unit 18, a notification control unit 20, an event management table 22, and the like. Each of these processing units is realized, for example, by executing a program stored in the memory 3 by the CPU 2. The program may be installed from a portable recording medium such as a CD (Compact Disc) or a memory card or another computer on the network and stored in the memory 3.

  The event detection unit 12 detects the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified. An interrupt event is a notification to a user among all events that can occur in the computer 1, such as a phone call incoming event, an email incoming event, an SNS update event, an application update event, a time alarm event, a constant voltage alarm event, and the like. The target event. This embodiment does not limit the types of interrupt events. An interrupt event occurs at an arbitrary timing such as waiting (waiting) or being operated.

  The operation detection unit 14 detects an operation for notification of the interrupt event detected by the event detection unit 12. Specifically, the operation detection unit 14 detects the user operation for the notified interrupt event in the user operation on the computer 1. The detected operations may include a telephone response, opening an email, checking SNS update, stopping a time alarm, charging operation, and the like. However, the present embodiment does not limit the content of the operation itself for the notification detected by the operation detection unit 14. When a list of various notifications is displayed in time series, the operation detection unit 14 may detect an operation in which the user selects the notification content in the list.

  The event management unit 16 manages the notification status and the operation status for the notification for each interrupt event detected by the event detection unit 12. Specifically, the event management unit 16 relates to the notification status indicating the number of notifications for the interrupt event detected by the event detection unit 12, and the operation status indicating whether a user operation has been performed in response to the notification. Information is acquired and managed using the event management table 22. Information about the operation status is generated according to the detection result of the operation detection unit 14. The number of notifications is the number of times the notification timing is set for the notification unit by the notification control unit 20.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of the event management table 22 in the first embodiment. The event management table 22 holds event identification data (event ID), the number of notifications as a notification status, and an operation status for each interrupt event. As shown in the example of FIG. 3, the event occurrence date and time may be held for each interrupt event. However, the event management table 22 may not have a field indicating the operation status. In this case, the event management table 22 holds only the record of the interrupt event indicating that the operation status is not operated, so that the event management unit 16 can manage the operation status of the interrupt event depending on the presence or absence of the record.

  The situation detection unit 18 detects the movement situation of the computer 1 itself. The computer 1 is moved according to the activity status of the user who is the owner. For example, when being put in a pocket or bag of clothes and carried by a user, the computer 1 moves and stops together with the user. Further, when the user is working or driving the vehicle, the computer 1 is placed on the desk or in the vehicle and is in a stopped state. The situation detection unit 18 determines the above-described movement situation of the computer 1 itself according to information detected by the movement situation sensor 10 or the like.

  The situation detection unit 18 can detect the movement situation of the computer 1 itself such as when the vehicle (bicycle, passenger car, train, airplane, etc.) is moving, stopped, or walking, using a known technique. Furthermore, the situation detection unit 18 is based on only the position information received by the GPS receiver, or a combination of the position information and other sensing information. It is also possible to detect a detailed movement status such as stopping by viewing and stopping by eating and drinking. The present embodiment does not limit the content of the movement situation detected by the situation detection unit 18 and the detection method thereof.

  The notification control unit 20 controls the notification process of the notification unit regarding the interrupt event managed by the event management unit 16. Here, the notification unit is a functional unit that notifies the occurrence of an interrupt event. According to the example of FIG. 1, the notification unit is realized by at least one output unit such as the display unit 4, the vibration generation unit 7, and the speaker unit 9. The manner of notification by the notification unit includes lighting of a light emitting element included in the computer 1, display on the display unit, and the like in addition to sound and vibration. The present embodiment does not limit the implementation form and notification mode of the notification unit.

  Furthermore, the notification control unit 20 determines whether or not the movement status detected by the status detection unit 18 indicates a predetermined movement status. Here, the predetermined movement situation is set to a movement situation that is considered to be easy for the user to perform an operation for notification, or a movement situation that is considered suitable for the user to perform an operation for notification. For example, the predetermined movement situation is set when the vehicle is stopped and the train is moving. The predetermined movement situation is stored in the memory 3 in advance. Further, the computer 1 may display a setting screen for the predetermined movement status on the display unit 4 and set the predetermined movement information by a user operation on the setting screen.

  In the first embodiment, the notification control unit 20 generates an interrupt event at the notification unit at the timing when the event detection unit 12 detects the interrupt event and when the predetermined movement state is detected by the situation detection unit 18. To let you know. The notification control unit 20 may notify the notification unit immediately after each timing, or may notify the notification unit after a predetermined time (about several seconds) has elapsed from each timing. The notification control unit 20 identifies an interrupt event indicating that the operation status managed by the event management unit 16 is not operated as a notification candidate at a predetermined movement status detection timing among the above two timings. The notification unit is preferentially notified of an interrupt event with a small number of notifications indicated by the notification status. In the first embodiment, as described above, the first notification regarding the interrupt event is performed at the interrupt event detection timing. Therefore, at the predetermined movement status detection timing, all the notification statuses of the specified notification candidates are already stored. Indicates a notification. Therefore, in 1st Embodiment, the alerting | reporting control part 20 makes an alerting | reporting part alert | report a interruption event with which alerting | reporting state shows already alerting | reporting and there are few frequency | counts of alerting | reporting.

  When the event management table 22 used by the event management unit 16 has data as in the example of FIG. 3, the notification control unit 20 operates as follows. That is, the notification control unit 20 identifies an interrupt event (ID = 001, 004, and 005) in which the operation status indicates no operation at a predetermined movement status detection timing as a notification candidate. Then, the notification control unit 20 preferentially notifies the notification unit of an interrupt event (ID = 004) with a small number of notifications from among these three notification candidates. However, when the operation status and the number of notifications of a plurality of interrupt events identified as notification candidates are the same, the notification control unit 20 may notify the notification unit in the order of event occurrence date and time.

  Moreover, you may make it the alerting | reporting control part 20 alert | report an interruption event with the alerting | reporting amount which decreases with the increase in the frequency | count of alerting | reporting. That is, the notification control unit 20 acquires the number of notifications of the interrupt event managed by the event management unit 16 after specifying the interrupt event to be notified to the notification unit, and increases the number of notifications based on the number of notifications. A notification amount that decreases with the determination may be determined, and the notification amount may be set in the notification unit. Here, the notification amount is, for example, volume, vibration intensity, light intensity, number of repeated outputs of sound, vibration or light, continuous output time, or the like.

[Operation example]
Hereinafter, the notification control method according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the computer 1 according to the first embodiment at an interrupt event detection timing. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the computer 1 according to the first embodiment at a predetermined movement state detection timing. In the following description, the computer 1 is the execution subject of each process, but in the notification control method in the first embodiment, the above-described processing units included in the computer 1 and at least one other computer are the execution subjects. May be.

  The computer 1 detects the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified (S41). (S41) corresponds to the processing content of the event detection unit 12 described above.

  The computer 1 notifies the user of the occurrence of the detected interrupt event (S42). At this time, the computer 1 may select a notification unit corresponding to the type of the detected interrupt event, and cause the notification unit to notify the occurrence of the interrupt event. (S42) corresponds to the processing content of the notification control unit 20 at the above-described interrupt event detection timing.

  The computer 1 detects an operation for notification of an interrupt event (S43). (S43) corresponds to the processing content of the operation detection unit 14 described above.

  The computer 1 manages the notification status and the operation status for the notification for the notified interrupt event (S44). Specifically, the computer 1 acquires the notification status indicating the number of notifications once by the notification in (S42), acquires the detection result in (S43) for the notification as the operation status, and is acquired. The notification information and the operation status are held in the event management table 22 together with the event ID of the notified interrupt event. (S44) corresponds to the processing content of the event management unit 16 described above.

In the first embodiment, each time the computer 1 detects the occurrence of a new interrupt event, the computer 1 performs the processes from (S41) to (S44) for the new interrupt event.
Further, the computer 1 performs the following operations shown in FIG. 5 in addition to the operations described above.

  The computer 1 sequentially detects the movement status of the computer 1 itself (S51). The detection timing of the movement status may be a predetermined cycle or an arbitrary timing. (S51) corresponds to the processing content of the situation detection unit 18 described above.

  The computer 1 determines whether or not the detected movement situation is a predetermined movement situation (S52). When the detected movement situation is not the predetermined movement situation (S52; NO), the computer 1 executes (S51) and subsequent steps again.

  When the detected movement status indicates a predetermined movement status (S52; YES), the computer 1 refers to the event management table 22 and identifies an interrupt event whose operation status indicates no operation as a notification candidate (S53). When there is no notification candidate (S54; NO), the computer 1 executes (S51) and subsequent steps again.

  When the notification candidate exists (S54; YES), the computer 1 preferentially notifies the notification unit of an interrupt event with a small number of notifications among the specified notification candidates (S55). Thereby, the notification unit notifies the occurrence of the interrupt event. At this time, the computer 1 can acquire the notification count of the interrupt event from the event management table 22, determine a notification amount corresponding to the notification count, and set the notification amount in the notification section.

  The computer 1 detects an operation for notification of an interrupt event (S56), and manages the notification status and the operation status for notification regarding the notified interrupt event (S57). (S56) and (S57) are the same as (S43) and (S44) shown in FIG. However, the computer 1 increments the notification count indicated by the notification status of the interrupt event by 1 in (S57).

[Operation and Effect of First Embodiment]
As described above, in the first embodiment, the first notification is performed at the interrupt event detection timing, the notification frequency is held once for the interrupt event, and no user operation is performed for the first notification. However, it becomes the object of the second and subsequent notifications. The second and subsequent notifications are performed at a timing when the movement status of the computer 1 itself indicates a predetermined movement status, and an interrupt event that has not been operated and has a small number of notifications is preferentially notified. And the frequency | count of alerting | reporting regarding an interruption event is managed until operation with respect to alerting | reporting is detected.

  An interrupt event in which an operation for notification is not performed despite the large number of notifications is likely to be less important for the user. This is because the second and subsequent notification timings are set in a situation where the user can easily perform an operation (predetermined movement situation), and thus it is considered that the user intentionally ignores the notification. As a result, it is considered that the interrupt event having a smaller number of notifications is not less important for the user among interrupt events in which no operation is performed for the notification. In other words, an interrupt event with a smaller number of notifications may be more important to the user. According to the first embodiment, since an interrupt event that has not been operated and has a small number of notifications is preferentially notified, the importance of the interrupt event can be appropriately communicated to the user while notifying. In addition, according to the first embodiment, it is possible to prevent frequent notification of an interrupt event with a low importance level that the user intentionally ignores notification, and to make the user feel bothersome. Can be prevented. Furthermore, it is possible to reduce the power consumption of the computer 1 due to such a wasteful notification of an interrupt event of low importance.

  Furthermore, in the first embodiment, the occurrence of an interrupt event is notified with a notification amount that decreases as the number of notifications increases. Therefore, according to the first embodiment, since an interrupt event with a small number of notifications, that is, a high importance level, is notified with a larger notification amount than an interrupt event with a large number of notification times, that is, a low importance level, it is important. The occurrence of a frequent interrupt event can be intuitively recognized by the user. For example, when a notification of a large notification amount is suddenly performed in a state where the notification of an interrupt event that has been ignored is gradually becoming a small notification amount, the user immediately receives a new interrupt event. The occurrence can be recognized. Similarly, according to the first embodiment, the notification amount of an interrupt event with a low importance level is gradually reduced, so that it is possible to reduce the user's annoyance.

[Second Embodiment]
In the first embodiment described above, the notification of the interrupt event is performed at the interrupt event detection timing and the predetermined movement situation detection timing, whereas in the second embodiment, the interrupt event is detected only at the predetermined movement situation detection timing. Is notified. That is, the second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that notification is not performed at the interrupt event detection timing. Hereinafter, the computer 1 according to the second embodiment will be described focusing on the content different from the first embodiment. In the following description, the same contents as in the first embodiment are omitted as appropriate.

  The apparatus configuration (see FIG. 1) and processing configuration (see FIG. 2) of the computer 1 in the second embodiment are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  In the second embodiment, the notification control unit 20 does not notify the interrupt event at the interrupt event detection timing as described above. On the other hand, the process of the notification control unit 20 at the predetermined movement status detection timing is the same as that in the first embodiment. However, in the second embodiment, since notification regarding the interrupt event is not performed at the interrupt event detection timing, an interrupt event indicating that the notification status is not notified is included in the specified notification candidates at the predetermined movement status detection timing. Exists. As a result, in the second embodiment, the notification control unit 20 causes the notification unit to preferentially notify an interrupt event in which the notification status indicates unreported among the specified notification candidates.

  In the second embodiment, the notification control unit 20 can also change the notification method between notification of an interrupt event whose notification status indicates unreported and notification of an interrupt event whose notification status indicates already-reported. . For notification of an unreported interrupt event, it is desirable to select a notification method that is easier for the user to notice than for notification of a previously reported interrupt event. For example, the notification control unit 20 can change the type of notification according to already notified and unnotified. An unnotified interrupt event may be notified by sound, and an already notified interrupt event may be notified by vibration. In addition, the notification control unit 20 can also change the notification amount in accordance with already notified and unnotified. For example, even with the same sound, the same vibration, and the same emission color, the volume, vibration intensity, luminous intensity, the number of repeated outputs, and the continuous output time can be changed according to the previous notification and the previous notification. In addition, the type of sound, the type of vibration, and the emission color can be changed according to already notified or not notified. Alternatively, the combination of sound, vibration and light can be changed according to already notified and unnotified. These notification methods may be set in advance, or may be appropriately selected and set by the user.

  The event management unit 16 may manage the number of notifications as the notification status, or may manage only the already-notified and unreported statuses as the notification status instead of the number of notifications.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the event management table 22 in the second embodiment. As shown in the example of FIG. 6, the event management table 22 may hold already notified or not notified as the notification state of each interrupt event. According to the example of FIG. 6, the notification control unit 20 identifies interrupt events (ID = 001, 003, 004, and 005) whose operation status indicates no operation at a predetermined movement status detection timing as notification candidates. Among the two notification candidates, the notification unit preferentially notifies the notification unit of an interrupt event with a small number of notifications indicated by the notification status, that is, an unreported interrupt event (ID = 003 and 005). At this time, the notification control unit 20 may cause the notification unit to preferentially notify an interrupt event (ID = 005) with a new event occurrence date and time.

[Operation example]
Hereinafter, the notification control method in the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. In the following description, the computer 1 becomes the execution subject of each process, but in the notification control method in the second embodiment, the above-described processing units included in the computer 1 and at least one other computer become the execution subject. May be.

  In the second embodiment, (S42), (S43), and (S44) are not executed at the interrupt event detection timing shown in FIG.

  In the second embodiment, the computer 1 executes the same steps as in FIG. 5 at the predetermined movement status detection timing. However, the second embodiment differs from the first embodiment in that there is an unreported interrupt event at a predetermined movement status detection timing. Therefore, in (S55), the computer 1 preferentially reports an interrupt event with a small number of notifications, that is, an unreported (notification number = 0) interrupt event. At this time, the computer 1 may change the notification method between notification of an unreported interrupt event and notification of an already-reported interrupt event.

  Further, in the second embodiment, in (S57), the computer 1 may manage already-notified and unnotified as notification statuses.

[Operation and Effect of Second Embodiment]
As described above, in the second embodiment, notification of an interrupt event is performed only when the movement status of the computer 1 itself indicates a predetermined movement status. Then, at a predetermined movement status detection timing, an interrupt event that has already been notified and has not been operated, and an interrupt event that has not been notified yet are mixed. Informed. There is a high possibility that an unreported interrupt event is a target that the user wants to be notified with priority. Therefore, also in the second embodiment, it is possible to appropriately inform the user of the importance of the interrupt event while notifying.

  In the second embodiment, the notification method can be changed between an unreported interrupt event and an already-reported interrupt event. This allows the user to intuitively recognize the occurrence of a new interrupt event.

[Third Embodiment]
The third embodiment is different from the above-described embodiments in that the elapsed time from the notification by the notification unit is measured and the necessity of notification is determined according to the elapsed time. In the third embodiment, a form in which this new process is added to the configuration of the above-described first embodiment is illustrated, but the new process may be added to the configuration of the second embodiment. Hereinafter, the computer 1 in the third embodiment will be described focusing on the contents different from the first embodiment. In the following description, the same contents as in the first embodiment are omitted as appropriate.

  The apparatus configuration (see FIG. 1) and processing configuration (see FIG. 2) of the computer 1 in the third embodiment are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  In the third embodiment, the event management unit 16 further manages the elapsed time from the notification by the notification unit. For example, the event management unit 16 measures the elapsed time from the latest notification. When new notification is performed by the notification unit, the event management unit 16 stops the time measurement that has been performed so far, and newly starts measurement of the elapsed time from the new notification. In addition, the event management unit 16 may measure the elapsed time from the latest notification in the specific type of interrupt event. In this case, the computer 1 may store the specific type in the memory 3 in advance, display the setting screen of the specific type on the display unit 4, and acquire the specific type information by a user operation on the setting screen. , May be held.

  The notification control unit 20 determines whether or not the elapsed time managed by the event management unit 16 exceeds a predetermined time at a predetermined movement status detection timing, and is extracted from notification candidates according to the determination result. Determine whether or not to notify the interrupt event. Specifically, the notification control unit 20 determines not to notify when the elapsed time does not exceed a predetermined time. At the interrupt event detection timing, the notification control unit 20 may not perform the determination regarding the elapsed time, or may determine the same as the predetermined movement situation detection timing.

  The predetermined time is preferably set to a notification interval that does not cause the user to feel bothered. The predetermined time is stored in the memory 3 in advance. The computer 1 may display the setting screen for the predetermined time on the display unit 4 and set the predetermined time by a user operation on the setting screen. Further, the notification control unit 20 may switch the value of the predetermined time between the interrupt event detection timing and the predetermined movement status detection timing. In this case, the predetermined time used at the interrupt event detection timing is preferably set to be shorter than the predetermined time used at the predetermined movement status detection timing. This is because the newly detected interrupt event is considered to be more important for the user than the interrupt event already notified.

[Operation example]
Hereinafter, the notification control method in the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8. FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the computer 1 according to the third embodiment at the interrupt event detection timing. FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the computer 1 according to the third embodiment at a predetermined movement state detection timing. In the following description, the computer 1 becomes the execution subject of each process, but in the notification control method in the third embodiment, the above-described processing units included in the computer 1 and at least one other computer become the execution subject. May be.

  7, steps having the same contents as those in the method of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 4 are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG. That is, in the third embodiment, (S71) and (S72) are further executed at the interrupt event detection timing in addition to the steps executed in the first embodiment. In (S71), the computer 1 determines whether or not the measured elapsed time exceeds a predetermined time. When the elapsed time does not exceed the predetermined time (S71; NO), the computer 1 does not notify the interrupt event detected in (S41) at this timing. On the other hand, when the elapsed time exceeds the predetermined time (S71; YES), the computer 1 executes (S42) and subsequent steps.

  When notifying the occurrence of the interrupt event in (S42), the computer 1 starts measuring the elapsed time from the notification (S72).

  8, steps having the same contents as those in the method of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 5 are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG. That is, in the third embodiment, (S81) and (S82) are further executed in addition to the steps executed in the first embodiment at the predetermined movement status detection timing. In (S81), the computer 1 determines whether or not the measured elapsed time exceeds a predetermined time. When the elapsed time does not exceed the predetermined time (S81; NO), the computer 1 executes (S51) and subsequent steps again. On the other hand, when the elapsed time exceeds the predetermined time (S81; YES), the computer 1 executes (S53) and subsequent steps.

  When notifying the occurrence of the interrupt event in (S55), the computer 1 starts measuring the elapsed time since the notification (S82).

  In the example shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the determination regarding the elapsed time is executed at both the interrupt event detection timing and the predetermined movement state detection timing, but may be executed only at the predetermined movement state detection timing. Further, the predetermined time used in the determination regarding the elapsed time may be set to a different value between the interrupt event detection timing and the predetermined movement state detection timing.

[Operations and effects in the third embodiment]
Even if the movement situation of the computer 1 itself indicates a predetermined movement situation such as when the computer 1 is stopped, there may be a special situation where the user does not want to be notified. As this special situation, for example, when the user stops and moves, such as the situation of window shopping, the situation of walking in a crowded crowd, the situation of waiting in line, etc. There may be a situation where the process is repeated in a short time. In such a special situation, if the notification is made every time the movement situation of the computer 1 shows a predetermined movement situation, the user is likely to feel troublesome.

  Therefore, in the third embodiment, as described above, the elapsed time from the notification by the notification unit is measured, and the notification of the interrupt event at least at the predetermined movement status detection timing is performed by setting the elapsed time from the previous notification to the predetermined time. It is not executed until it exceeds. Therefore, according to the third embodiment, even in a special situation where the user repeats stopping and moving in a short time, the notification is executed with a predetermined time interval as short as possible. Thereby, it is possible to prevent the notification from being repeated unnecessarily even under special circumstances, and as a result, it is possible to prevent the user from feeling troublesome. Furthermore, the power consumption of the computer 1 can be reduced by repeating such useless notification.

  In the third embodiment, the determination regarding the elapsed time may be performed at both the interrupt event detection timing and the predetermined movement status detection timing. In this case, the predetermined time is determined as the interrupt event detection timing and the interrupt event detection timing. It may be set to a different value depending on the predetermined movement status detection timing. In this way, it is possible to suppress notification that makes the user feel bothersome and to make the user recognize the importance of the interrupt event by notification.

[Fourth Embodiment]
4th Embodiment measures the elapsed time from the alerting | reporting part by every alerting | reporting part for every interrupt event, and determines the necessity of alerting | reporting according to the measured elapsed time for every interrupt event in the above point. Different from the third embodiment. Hereinafter, the computer 1 in the fourth embodiment will be described focusing on the contents different from the third embodiment. In the following description, the same contents as in the third embodiment are omitted as appropriate.

  The apparatus configuration (see FIG. 1) and processing configuration (see FIG. 2) of the computer 1 in the fourth embodiment are the same as those in the third embodiment.

  In the fourth embodiment, the event management unit 16 further manages the elapsed time from the previous notification for each interrupt event. For example, the event management unit 16 holds the previous notification time for each interrupt event in the event management table 22, and calculates the time difference between the previous notification time stored in the event management table 22 and the determination time as the elapsed time. . As another method, the event management unit 16 may have a timer for each interrupt event, and the time measured by each timer may be the elapsed time for each interrupt event.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of the event management table 22 in the fourth embodiment. As shown in FIG. 9, the event management table 22 in the fourth embodiment further includes a notification date / time field in addition to the configuration of the first embodiment shown in FIG. When the event management table 22 is used, the event management unit 16 holds the date and time when the notification unit is notified in the notification date and time field of the record corresponding to the notified interrupt event. In addition, when a second or later notification is made regarding a certain interrupt event, the event management unit 16 overwrites the latest notification time of the interrupt event in the notification date / time field.

  The notification control unit 20 specifies a plurality of notification candidates at a predetermined movement status detection timing, and then the elapsed time from the previous notification managed by the event management unit 16 exceeds a predetermined time, as in the first embodiment. Uninterrupted interrupt events are excluded from the notification candidates. This predetermined time is as described in the third embodiment. However, in the fourth embodiment, the notification control unit 20 may dynamically determine the predetermined time according to the number of notifications of each interrupt event. For example, the notification control unit 20 may determine the predetermined time so as to increase as the number of notifications increases.

  At the interrupt event detection timing, the interrupt event to be notified has not been notified yet, and the elapsed time has not been measured. Therefore, the notification control unit 20 does not make a determination regarding the elapsed time at the interrupt event detection timing. However, the notification control unit 20 may determine whether or not the elapsed time of the most recently notified interrupt event exceeds a predetermined time among all the interrupt events at the interrupt event detection timing. When the determination regarding the elapsed time is performed even at the interrupt event detection timing, the predetermined time used at the interrupt event detection timing is preferably set to a time interval shorter than the predetermined time used at the predetermined movement situation detection timing.

[Operation example]
Hereinafter, the notification control method in the fourth embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 and 10. FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the computer 1 according to the fourth embodiment at a predetermined movement state detection timing. In the following description, the computer 1 is the execution subject of each process, but in the notification control method in the fourth embodiment, the above-described processing units included in the computer 1 and at least one other computer are the execution subject. May be.

  In the fourth embodiment, at the interrupt event detection timing, the computer 1 executes the same processes as those in the third embodiment shown in FIG. In this case, in (S71), the computer 1 determines whether or not the elapsed time of the most recently notified interrupt event exceeds a predetermined time among all the interrupt events.

  10, steps having the same contents as those of the method of the third embodiment shown in FIG. 8 are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG. That is, in the fourth embodiment, at the predetermined movement status detection timing, the computer 1 executes (S101) instead of (S81) in the third embodiment. In (S101), the computer 1 excludes interrupt events whose elapsed time does not exceed a predetermined time from the notification candidates specified in (S53).

  In the example shown in FIGS. 7 and 10, the determination regarding the elapsed time is performed at both the interrupt event detection timing and the predetermined movement state detection timing, but may be performed only at the predetermined movement state detection timing. In addition, the computer 1 may dynamically determine the predetermined time used in the determination relating to the elapsed time so that the predetermined time becomes longer as the number of interrupt event notifications increases.

[Operations and effects in the fourth embodiment]
As described above, in the fourth embodiment, the elapsed time from the previous notification is measured for each notified interrupt event, and this elapsed time is determined from the specified notification candidates at the predetermined movement status detection timing. Interrupt events that do not exceed the predetermined time are excluded. For example, even if the interval from the previous notification timing to the current notification timing is short, other interrupt events that are not interrupt events ignored in the previous notification may be highly important to the user. According to the fourth embodiment, since the elapsed time from the notification is managed for each interrupt event as described above, it is possible to prevent the user from feeling annoying by the notification. The user can be notified immediately.

  In addition, in the several flowchart used by the above-mentioned description, although several process (process) is described in order, the execution order of each process is not restrict | limited to the order of the description. The order of the steps shown in the figure can be changed within a range that does not hinder the contents. Moreover, each above-mentioned embodiment can be combined in the range in which the content does not conflict.

  Part or all of the above embodiments can be specified as in the following supplementary notes. However, each embodiment is not limited to the following description.

(Appendix 1)
An event detector for detecting the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified;
An operation detection unit for detecting an operation for notification of an interrupt event detected by the event detection unit;
For each interrupt event detected by the event detection unit, an event management unit for managing the number of notifications and the operation status for the notification, and
A status detection unit for detecting the movement status of the information processing apparatus;
A notification amount that reduces an interrupt event indicating that the operation status managed by the event management unit indicates no operation when the movement status detected by the status detection unit indicates a predetermined movement status as the number of notifications increases. A notification control unit for informing the notification unit at,
An information processing apparatus comprising:

(Appendix 2)
In a notification control method executed by a computer,
Detect the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified,
For each detected interrupt event, manage the notification status and the operation status for the notification respectively,
Detect the movement status of your computer,
When the detected movement status indicates a predetermined movement status, an interrupt event indicating that the operation status is not operated is notified with a notification amount that decreases as the notification count increases.
A notification control method including the above.

(Appendix 3)
An event detector for detecting the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified;
An operation detection unit for detecting an operation for notification of an interrupt event detected by the event detection unit;
For each interrupt event detected by the event detection unit, an event management unit that manages an operation status for notification, and
It is determined whether or not an elapsed time from the previous notification exceeds a predetermined time, and the notification unit is notified of an interrupt event indicating that the operation status managed by the event management unit is not operated according to the determination result. A notification control unit for determining whether or not,
An information processing apparatus comprising:

(Appendix 4)
In a notification control method executed by a computer,
Detect the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified,
For each detected interrupt event, manage the operation status for the notification respectively,
Determine whether the elapsed time since the previous notification exceeds a predetermined time,
In accordance with the determination result, it is determined whether to notify an interrupt event indicating that the operation status is not operated.
A notification control method including the above.

(Appendix 5)
An event detector for detecting the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified;
An operation detection unit for detecting an operation for notification of an interrupt event detected by the event detection unit;
For each interrupt event detected by the event detection unit, an operation status for notification, and an event management unit that manages the elapsed time from the previous notification, and
A status detection unit for detecting the movement status of the information processing apparatus;
When the movement status detected by the status detection unit indicates a predetermined movement status, the elapsed time exceeds a predetermined time from among interrupt events in which the operation status managed by the event management unit indicates no operation. A notification control unit that identifies the remainder excluding no interrupt events as a notification candidate, and causes the notification unit to notify an interrupt event extracted from the specified notification candidate;
An information processing apparatus comprising:

(Appendix 6)
In a notification control method executed by a computer,
Detect the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified,
For each detected interrupt event, the operation status for the notification, and the elapsed time from the previous notification, respectively,
Detect the movement status of your information processing device,
When the detected movement status indicates a predetermined movement status, the remaining interrupt events that do not exceed the predetermined time are identified as notification candidates from among the interrupt events indicating that the operation status is not operated. And notifying the interrupt event extracted from the specified notification candidate,
A notification control method including the above.

(Appendix 7)
A program that causes a computer to execute the notification control method according to any one of Supplementary Notes 2, 4, and 6.

1 Information processing device (computer)
2 CPU
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 3 Memory 4 Display unit 5 Touch sensor 6 Communication unit 7 Vibration generating unit 8 Microphone unit 9 Speaker unit 10 Movement state sensor 12 Event detection part 14 Operation detection part 16 Event management part 18 Situation detection part 20 Notification control part 22 Event management table

Claims (9)

An event detector for detecting the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified;
An operation detection unit for detecting an operation for notification of an interrupt event detected by the event detection unit;
For each interrupt event detected by the event detection unit, an event management unit that manages the notification status and the operation status for the notification, and
A status detection unit for detecting the movement status of the information processing apparatus;
When the movement status detected by the status detection unit indicates a predetermined movement status, a plurality of interrupt events in which the operation status managed by the event management unit indicates no operation are specified as notification candidates, and the specified A notification control unit that preferentially notifies the notification unit of an interrupt event with a small number of notifications indicated by the notification status among a plurality of notification candidates;
An information processing apparatus comprising: The notification control unit changes a notification method between notification of an interrupt event in which the notification status indicates unreported and notification of an interrupt event in which the notification status indicates already-reported,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. The event management unit manages the number of notifications as the notification status for each interrupt event,
The notification control unit, when all the notification status of the plurality of notification candidates indicates a previous notification, the notification status indicates the previous notification and causes the notification unit to preferentially notify an interrupt event with a small number of notifications,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. The event management unit manages the number of notifications as the notification status for each interrupt event,
The notification control unit causes the notification unit to notify the interrupt event with a notification amount that decreases as the number of notifications increases.
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3. The event management unit further manages the elapsed time from the notification by the notification unit,
The notification control unit determines whether to notify the interrupt event to the notification unit according to whether or not the elapsed time exceeds a predetermined time.
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4. The event management unit further manages the elapsed time from the previous notification for each interrupt event,
The notification control unit excludes an interrupt event whose elapsed time does not exceed a predetermined time from the plurality of notification candidates,
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4. The notification control unit determines the predetermined time so as to become longer according to an increase in the number of notifications indicated by the notification status of the interrupt event.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 6. In a notification control method executed by a computer,
Detect the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified,
For each detected interrupt event, manage the notification status and the operation status for the notification respectively,
Detect the movement status of your computer,
When the detected movement status indicates a predetermined status, a plurality of interrupt events in which the operation status indicates no operation is specified as notification candidates,
Of the plurality of identified notification candidates, preferentially notify an interrupt event with a small number of notifications indicated by the notification status,
A notification control method including the above. In a program for causing a computer to execute the notification control method,
The notification control method includes:
Detect the occurrence of an interrupt event to be notified,
For each detected interrupt event, manage the notification status and the operation status for the notification respectively,
Detect the movement status of your computer,
When the detected movement status indicates a predetermined status, a plurality of interrupt events in which the operation status indicates no operation is specified as notification candidates,
Of the plurality of identified notification candidates, preferentially notify an interrupt event with a small number of notifications indicated by the notification status,
A program that includes that.

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