US 12,118,761 B2
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Tomoe Ushiro, Tokyo (JP); Naoki Kameyama, Tokyo (JP); Yuichiro Segawa, Tokyo (JP); and Yasuhiro Kitamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/617,705
Filed by NTT DOCOMO, INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 25, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/025010
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/262529, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-120213 (JP), filed on Jun. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0234731 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B64C 39/02 (2023.01); A01K 29/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 101/31 (2023.01)
CPC G06V 20/17 (2022.01) [A01K 29/005 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B64U 2101/31 (2023.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
estimate a movement route of an animal group and specify a checking area and a timing that satisfies a predetermined condition based on an estimated density of animals in the animal group and on a movement history of the animal group;
perform control such that an aerial vehicle that captures images of the animal group is caused to fly to the checking area at the timing specified by the processor;
specify the checking area in which the animals of the animal group of a threshold number or more are facing in the same direction based on a movement direction specified from the movement history of the animal group; and
cause the aerial vehicle to fly in a direction directly facing the animal group in the checking area specified by the processor so as to capture faces of the animals.