US 12,223,726 B2
Electronic device and related methods for monitoring objects
Peter Exner, Basingstoke (GB); Hannes Bergkvist, Basingstoke (GB); Anders Isberg, Basingstoke (GB); and Peter Blomqvist, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/693,642.
Claims priority of application No. 2150390-9 (SE), filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0319180 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06T 7/40 (2017.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/52 (2022.01) [G06T 7/40 (2013.01); G06V 10/225 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G08B 21/18 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30232 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device configured to monitor an object, the electronic device comprising:
memory circuitry comprising association data indicative of a predetermined association between an interactor object and an interacted object;
interface circuitry; and
processor circuitry, wherein the processor circuitry is configured to:
generate, based on image data comprising one or more frames indicative of a person and/or the interactor object, a first area indicative of the person;
generate, based on the image data, a second area indicative of the interactor object;
determine, based on the first area, the second area, and the association data, an interaction parameter indicative of an indirect interaction between the person and the interacted object, wherein the interacted object is not directly interacted with by the person;
determine, based on the interaction parameter, a status indicator of the interacted object;
generate a maintenance indicator based on the status indicator; and
output the maintenance indicator.