US 12,469,299 B2
Determination apparatus, determination method, and program
Ken Ishii, Tokyo (JP); Jun Takahashi, Tokyo (JP); Hiroki Takenouchi, Tokyo (JP); Hitoshi Kobayashi, Tokyo (JP); Takashi Kusakabe, Tokyo (JP); and Yuto Akimoto, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP); and TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION, Kawasaki (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP); and Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation, Kawasaki (JP)
Filed on Jan. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/151,636.
Application 18/151,636 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/024912, filed on Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-122362 (JP), filed on Jul. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0162506 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/53 (2022.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A determination apparatus for determining congestion of persons in each area in a monitoring target region, the determination apparatus comprising:
a position sensor or image sensor configured to acquire a position of each of one or more of the persons;
a first database configured to receive from the position sensor or the image sensor the position of each of the one or more persons and to store position information indicative of each of the one or more persons in the monitoring target region together with time information, in association with identification information of each of the one or more persons;
a stay information acquisition processor configured to acquire, for said each area, information on the each of the one or more persons who have made a stay and to acquire, for each of the one or more persons who have made a stay, information on a time slot during which the stay was made, based on the position information and the time information stored in the first database in association with the identification information of the each of the one or more persons;
a first determination processor configured to determine, based on a result acquired by the stay information acquisition processor, that an area in which multiple people have stayed for a predetermined continuous time length or more is a congested area; and
a display control processor configured to display a map of the monitoring target region and to display within the monitoring target region an indication of total values of time that the each of the one or more persons has stayed within a proximity of each other within each area in the monitoring target region.