Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090254537 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An image search apparatus has: | 10-08-2009 |
20100318566 | BEHAVIOR HISTORY RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND BEHAVIOR HISTORY RETRIEVAL METHOD - A meta classification section assigns the degree of accuracy capable of identifying an individual to person feature information containing a face, color, shape, etc., and person passage information and stores the metadata of the person feature information and the person passage information for each degree of accuracy, a discrete retrieval section retrieves the person to be retrieved in the high accuracy metadata stored by the meta classification section, a dependence determination section determines a person having a dependence on the person to be retrieved using a plurality of retrieval results hit in the discrete retrieval and the high accuracy metadata, a query generation section regenerates a retrieval key from the identifier of the person having a dependence and the identifier of the person to be retrieved, and a discrete candidate-to-candidate retrieval section retrieves the person corresponding to the regenerated retrieval key in the low accuracy metadata. | 12-16-2010 |
20110087677 | APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RESULT OF ANALOGOUS IMAGE RETRIEVAL - A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide an analogous image retrieval result display apparatus and a method for displaying a result of retrieval of an analogous image that make it possible to simply, accurately ascertain a behavior history of a person to be retrieved in various camera environments. Person characteristic data (a face, a color, a figure, and the like) extracted from a plurality of cameras ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110320463 | IMAGE SEARCH DEVICE AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide an image search device and an image search method by which search efficiency is improved. The image search device includes a personal characteristic database ( | 12-29-2011 |
20120150876 | IMAGE SEARCH APPARATUS AND IMAGE SEARCH METHOD - An image search apparatus has: a dimension reducing unit for reducing dimensions of multidimensional feature data to be produced as approximate data; an approximate-data storing unit for storing the produced approximate data with corresponding to the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction; a search request receiving unit for receiving an identifier which identifies multidimensional feature data of a person to be searched, at least as a search key; an approximate-space searching unit for calculating distances between approximate data corresponding to the received search key, and plural approximate data stored in the approximate-data storing unit, and for arranging the distances in order of similarity; and a real-space final ranking unit for again performing a distance calculation with using the multidimensional feature data before the dimension reduction, on a group of results in which the similarity is high, and for determining final rankings. | 06-14-2012 |
20130010095 | FACE RECOGNITION DEVICE AND FACE RECOGNITION METHOD - A face recognition device includes: an image capture unit, an area detection unit, a feature amount extraction unit, a distance estimation unit and a feature amount update unit. The image capture unit is configured to capture an image of an object. The area detection unit is configured to detect a given area of the object based on an image obtained as an image capture result of the image capture unit. The feature amount extraction unit is configured to extract a feature amount within the given area detected by the area detection unit. The distance estimation unit is configured to estimate a distance between the image capture unit and the given area. The feature amount update unit is configured to update the feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction unit based on the distance estimated by the distance estimation unit. | 01-10-2013 |
20130039590 | COLLATING DEVICE - A collating device includes a collation list, a collation unit and a comparison unit. The collation list is configured to retain a false alarm list including a registered image, a threshold value serving as a criterion for determining whether to perform alarm activation, and a false alarm person image. The collation unit is configured to collate an input image with the registered image and the false alarm person image managed by the collation list, thereby obtaining a similarity therebetween. The comparison unit is configured to compare: a larger one of a value of the similarity between the input image and the false alarm person image, which is obtained by the collation unit, and the threshold value; and the similarity between the input image and the registered image, which is obtained by the collation unit, thereby determining whether to perform the alarm activation. | 02-14-2013 |
20130129160 | FACE IMAGE REGISTRATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A face image registration device includes an image input unit that inputs face images of a subject person, and an others face retention unit that retains a plurality of others faces. The device further includes: a false alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with the retained others faces, and calculates a false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; a correct alarm characteristic calculation unit that collates the face images of the subject person with each other to calculate a correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person; and a registration face image selection unit that selects a registration face image from the face images of the subject person by using the false alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person and the correct alarm characteristic of the face images of the subject person. | 05-23-2013 |
20130177238 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY ASSESSING WHITELISTS - A white list inside or outside determining apparatus includes: a first feature data extracting unit which extracts first feature data from an image by using a first transformation formula created based on preliminary learning images; a second feature data extracting unit which extracts second feature data from an image by using a second transformation formula created from the preliminary learning images and application learning images; a first matching unit which performs matching between a registration image and a collation image by using the first transformation formula; and a second matching unit which performs matching between a registration image and a collation image by using the second transformation formula. Weights of a matching result of the first matching unit and a matching result of the second matching unit are changed according to the number of preliminary learning images and the number of application learning images. | 07-11-2013 |
20140037147 | NUMBER OF PERSONS MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A person extraction unit extracts a person from an image input into an image input unit. An attribute extraction unit obtains an attribute of the person extracted by the person extraction unit. A motion path creation unit creates a motion path of the person from positional information within the image of the person extracted by the person extraction unit. A measurement reference coordinate setting unit sets a measurement line (a first measurement line to a third measurement line) for the motion path corresponding to the person according to the attribute of the person extracted by the attribute extraction unit. A people number counting unit counts the number of people based on positional relation between the motion path of the person created by the motion path creation unit and the measurement line set within the image. | 02-06-2014 |
20140334718 | HUMAN ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION SYSTEM, HUMAN ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND HUMAN ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION METHOD - To provide a human attribute estimation system capable of improving estimation accuracy irrespective of an environment-dependent attribute is provided. An age/gender estimation system as a human attribute estimation system is provided with: a monitoring camera photographing a human targeted by attribute estimation and generating an image; an age/gender estimating section estimating an attribute of the human shown in the image generated by the monitoring camera using an estimation parameter; and an environment-dependent attribute specifying section specifying an environment-dependent attribute, which is an attribute dependent on an installation environment of the monitoring camera. The age/gender estimating section uses a parameter generated on the basis of learning data having an environment-dependent attribute within a predetermined distance from the environment-dependent attribute acquired by the environment-dependent attribute specifying section in an environment-dependent attribute space, as the estimation parameter. | 11-13-2014 |
20140362215 | OPTIMUM CAMERA SETTING DEVICE AND OPTIMUM CAMERA SETTING METHOD - Provided are a camera that images a subject; a person tracking portion that detects a person from an image which is captured by the camera and tracks the detected person; a person interpretation portion that extracts items including a number of face detections, a movement direction, a facing direction, a focus, a dynamic range and a view angle as store visitor information with respect to the person who is tracked by the person tracking portion; a camera installation condition estimation unit that estimates whether installation conditions including an installation position, a height, the view angle and the focus of the camera are appropriate based on the store visitor information which is extracted by the person interpretation portion; and a user presentation unit that presents a result estimated by the camera installation condition estimation unit. | 12-11-2014 |
20150086110 | PERSON ATTRIBUTE ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND LEARNING-USE DATA GENERATION DEVICE - There is provided a person attribute estimation system capable of accurately estimating an attribute of a person according to an environment in which a person who is the target of attribute estimation is to be captured. The person attribute estimation system includes a camera, an attribute estimation unit for estimating an attribute of a person shown in the image generated by the camera, by using an estimation model, a pseudo-site image generation unit for generating a pseudo-site image by processing data of a standard image which is a person image according to image capturing environment data indicating an image capturing environment of the attribute estimation target person by the camera, and an estimation model relearning unit for performing learning of the estimation model by using the pseudo-site image. | 03-26-2015 |