US 12,217,451 B2
Target object detection apparatus, target object detection method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Jun Uchimura, Tokyo (JP); Yuji Tahara, Tokyo (JP); Rina Tomita, Tokyo (JP); and Yasuyo Kazo, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/770,364
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/040594
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/090755, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-2000868 (JP), filed on Nov. 5, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0391826 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/70 (2017.01) [G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30232 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management apparatus comprising:
at least one memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
receive a captured image of a display shelf including a displayable region in which products are to be displayed;
detect the products in the displayable region;
determine, in the displayable region of the display shelf, a non-display region of the display shelf in which no products have been detected, a plurality of shapes of notification target region in the displayable region being stored with a priority order;
determine a shape of the non-display region;
compare the shape of the non-display region to shapes of a plurality of notification target regions in order of priority of the notification target regions until a matching notification target region is identified for which the shape has a degree of coincidence with the shape of the non-display region greater than a predetermined threshold,
wherein once the matching notification target region is identified, comparison of the shape of the non-display region to the shapes of other of the notification target regions that are lower in priority than the matching notification target region is bypassed; and
output a notification when the matching notification target region has been identified.