US 12,236,679 B2
Information processing device and information processing method
Nobuhiro Tsunashima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/775,686
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/040521
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 10, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/100429, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-208266 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0398841 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06Q 50/02 (2012.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/188 (2022.01) [G06Q 50/02 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device, comprising
a row determination unit configured to:
detect a crop-like region in image data of an image of a farm field,
wherein the farm field includes a plurality of crops;
detect, as a plurality of row candidates, a first plurality of lines that passes through a plurality of pixels in the image data, wherein
the detection of the first plurality of lines is based on the detected crop-like region, and
the plurality of pixels corresponds to the plurality of crops;
calculate a crop size for each row candidate of the plurality of row candidates based on a size of the crop-like region,
wherein the crop size is associated with the plurality of crops;
detect, based on the calculated crop size, crop candidates in each row candidate of the plurality of row candidates;
calculate, based on an interval between the crop candidates, a crop interval associated with the plurality of crops in the image data;
determine a value of certainty of each row candidate of the plurality of row candidates based on the calculated crop interval;
determine an erroneously detected row candidate from the plurality of row candidates based on the determined value of certainty of each row candidate of the plurality of row candidates;
exclude the erroneously detected row candidate from the plurality of row candidates; and
determine a correct row from the plurality of row candidates that excludes the erroneously detected row candidate,
wherein the correct row is a line of the first plurality of lines that includes a first set of crops of the plurality of crops.