US 12,271,203 B2
Search system, search method, and storage medium
Sachiko Yamamoto, Wako (JP); Shinichiro Kobashi, Wako (JP); Makoto Hasegawa, Wako (JP); and Marika Mochizuki, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/951,141.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-161620 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0102926 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G06V 20/58 (2022.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/0231 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0287 (2013.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A search system including boarding-type mobile objects moving within a predetermined area and a mobile object management server managing the boarding-type mobile objects, the search system comprising:
a receiver configured to receive registration of information on a search target;
an imaging controller configured to, in response to receipt of the registration by the receiver, activate an imager mounted on a boarding-type mobile object, of the boarding-type mobile objects, existing within an area in which the search target is estimated to exist;
an acquirer configured to acquire an image of surroundings of the boarding-type mobile object captured by the imager; and
a determiner configured to determine whether the search target is included in the image acquired by the acquirer,
wherein
in response to a determination that a predetermined time or more has passed since the search target was lost, the imaging controller activates the imager of all of the boarding-type mobile objects present within the predetermined area.