US 12,249,072 B2
Imaging device
Toshihide Mori, Osaka (JP); Hirofumi Kanai, Osaka (JP); and Yuka Yamada, Nara (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed by PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Nov. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/991,486.
Application 17/991,486 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/001173, filed on Jan. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/030,630, filed on May 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-204230 (JP), filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0085953 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [G06T 7/80 (2017.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capturing device that captures an image of excrement, comprising:
a sensor unit attached to a fringe part of a toilet having a bowl, the fringe part being located at a top of the bowl, the sensor unit including an image capturing sensor, wherein
a view angle and an attachment position of the sensor unit are set so that a detection area presumed to receive dropping excrement in the bowl falls within a view field of the sensor unit, wherein
the fringe part defines an opening section,
a center line of the opening section extending in a front-rear direction bears, in a top view of the opening section,
a first position being a predetermined position between a first intersection of a front intersection of the center line and the opening section and a second intersection of a front intersection of the center line and the detection area, and
a second position being a predetermined position between a third intersection of a rear intersection of the center line and the detection area and a fourth intersection of a rear intersection of the center line and the opening section, and
the view angle and the attachment position of the sensor unit are set so that the first position and the second position fall within the view field.