US 12,465,025 B2
Animal detecting device, system, method and computer program
Salvatore Finatti, Basingstoke (GB); Shaun Lee, Basingstoke (GB); and Antonio Avitabile, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Atsugi (JP); and Sony Europe B.V., Surrey (GB)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/078,947.
Claims priority of application No. 2200223 (GB), filed on Jan. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0217902 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. A01K 29/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01)
CPC A01K 29/005 (2013.01) [G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06T 2207/30242 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An animal detecting device comprising circuitry configured to:
obtain one or more images;
perform image processing on the one or more images, wherein the image processing comprises detecting the presence of an animal in one of the one or more images,
produce, when the presence of an animal is detected, image representation data associated with the one or more images according to a result of the image processing; and
send, in the event of a predetermined condition being met, the image representation data to another device over a communication link,
wherein the image representation data is metadata associated with the one or more images,
wherein the predetermined condition relates to a result of the image processing, and
wherein the image processing further comprises assigning a priority level to a detected animal based on one or more characteristics of the detected animal, and wherein the predetermined condition respectively varies depending on whether at least a first priority or a second priority is assigned to the detected animal.