US 12,446,554 B2
Pet status assessment system, pet camera, server, pet status assessment method, and program
Yuka Nakamura, Osaka (JP); Hiroaki Omayu, Osaka (JP); Yasushi Uesaka, Hyogo (JP); and Masafumi Sato, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/022,074
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 20, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/030654
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 17, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/050093, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-147129 (JP), filed on Sep. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0320328 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); A01K 29/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01)
CPC A01K 29/005 (2013.01) [G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/774 (2022.01); G06V 20/50 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pet status assessment system comprising:
an area detector configured to detect, in image data, a specific area representing at least a part of appearance of a pet as a subject;
an information generator configured to generate pet information including posture information about at least a posture of the pet, the posture information being based on a learned model and the image data, the learned model having been generated by learning the posture of the pet to recognize, on an image, the posture of the pet;
an assessor configured to assess, based on the pet information, a pet status concerning at least one of an emotion of the pet presented in the specific area or an action of the pet presented in the specific area; and
an object detector configured to detect an object area representing, in the image data, a particular object other than the pet, wherein:
the information generator includes a distance determiner configured to determine a relative distance of the pet with respect to the object area based on:
information about the specific area detected by the area detector;
information about the object area detected by the object detector; and
the posture information,
the pet information further includes a result of determination made by the distance determiner,
the assessor is configured to assess the pet status based on the pet information and condition information about at least one of a particular action of the pet or a particular emotion of the pet,
the condition information includes information in which multiple types of particular objects and a plurality of threshold values about distances between the pet and the multiple types of particular objects are associated with each other, and
the assessor is configured to assess the pet status by comparing a result of determination made by the distance determiner with the plurality of threshold values.