US 12,229,980 B2
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Kohei Urushido, Tokyo (JP); Takuto Motoyama, Tokyo (JP); Masahiko Toyoshi, Tokyo (JP); and Shun Lee, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/753,793
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jul. 17, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/027951
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/059695, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-173588 (JP), filed on Sep. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0351400 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G01C 3/08 (2006.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 13/239 (2018.01); H04N 13/00 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 7/593 (2017.01) [G01C 3/085 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 13/239 (2018.05); G06T 2207/20076 (2013.01); H04N 2013/0081 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a plurality of stereo cameras configured to capture images, wherein
the plurality of stereo cameras includes a first stereo camera and a second stereo camera,
the first stereo camera includes a first camera and a second camera,
the second stereo camera includes the second camera and a third camera, and
a first direction of a baseline length of the first stereo camera intersects a second direction of a baseline length of the second stereo camera;
a depth estimation unit configured to estimate, from the captured images, a depth of an object in the captured images; and
an object detection unit configured to detect the object based on the depth and reliability of the depth, wherein the reliability of the depth is based on an angle of a direction of an edge line of the object with respect to the first direction of the baseline length of the first stereo camera and the second direction of the baseline length of the second stereo camera.