INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CAMERA WITH COMMUNICATION FUNCTION, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently perform distributed processing of tasks without complicating network configuration.SOLUTION: An information processing device 1 comprises: a communication unit 2; an advertisement reception unit 3 which receives messages transmitted by other communication devices; a network information acquisition unit 4 which acquires network information about communication with the other communication devices having transmitted the received messages; a peripheral device information management unit 5 which manages the network information and the received messages; a task reception unit 6 which receives request tasks from the other communication devices; a task assignment unit 7 which assigns tasks to be processed and requests the other communication devices to execute the tasks assigned to the other communication devices via the communication unit; a task processing unit 8 which executes the assigned task; a processing related information generation unit 9 which generates processing related information including at least processing capacity or processing load of the task processing unit; and a message transmission unit 10 which generates a message including the processing related information and transmits the message to the other communication devices via the network.