IP Library Granted Patent US 12682682
Granted Patent B2
US 12682682 · App. 18/692,336 · Granted Jul 14, 2026

Interest degree measurement system and simulation system

Inventors: Ryu Makabe (Tokyo, JP); Masami Aikawa (Tokyo, JP); Kei Gomita (Tokyo, JP); Atsushi Hori (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
G06V40/20G06V10/70G06Q30/0283G06Q50/16
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Patent No.
US 12682682
App. No.
18/692,336
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

In an interest degree measurement system included in a simulation system, a behavior information acquisition unit acquires behavior information on an arrival floor of a user on the basis of an image or images captured by a camera. An interest information acquisition unit acquires interest information representing degrees of interest of users for each attribute on a basis of arrangement and attributes of areas on the arrival floor and the behavior information. An interest information storage unit stores the interest information for each user, including information on a time point and a location. A visualization processing unit generates an interest degree map by visualizing distribution of degrees of interest of users of a building using the information stored in the interest information storage unit.

Claims (90)

1 . An interest degree measurement system comprising:

processing circuitry

to store attributes for each area for each of a plurality of floors of a building;

to specify a user in the building on a basis of an image or images captured by at least one of a plurality of cameras provided in the building;

to, when the user specified by the processing circuitry moves from a departure floor to an arrival floor among the plurality of floors by utilizing one of one or more ascending/descending facilities provided in the building, judge the arrival floor of the user on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras;

to acquire behavior information representing behavior of the user on the arrival floor judged by the processing circuitry on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras for the user specified by the processing circuitry;

to acquire interest information representing a degree of interest of the user for each attribute on a basis of a relationship between layout and attributes of areas on the arrival floor judged by the processing circuitry and the behavior information acquired by the processing circuitry for the user specified by the processing circuitry;

to store the interest information acquired by the processing circuitry for each user, including information on a time point and a location; and

to generate an interest degree map by visualizing distribution of degrees of interest of users of the building on at least one of the plurality of floors using the information stored in the processing circuitry.

2 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein a tenant fee in the building is automatically calculated on a basis of the interest degree map.

3 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry generates the interest degree map for each of the users of the building.

4 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry stores pieces of classification information regarding the users of the building, the classification information includes one or more of a gender of the user, an age of the user, an age group of the user, a utilization frequency by the user of the building, utilization hours of the building by the user, utilization days of the building by the user, weather upon utilization of the building by the user, and

the processing circuitry generates the interest degree map for each piece of classification information of the users of the building.

5 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry generates the interest degree map by integrating interest information for each of the users of the building.

6 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry generates the interest degree map including behavior information for each of the users of the building.

7 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein, when the processing circuitry specifies the user who starts utilization of one of the one or more ascending/descending facilities, the processing circuitry presents an area having an attribute with the highest degree of interest for the user from among the areas for each of the plurality of floors of the building to the user as a destination on a basis of the interest information stored in the processing circuitry for the user and information on the attributes stored in the processing circuitry; and

the processing circuitry generates the interest degree map including information of the destination actually presented by the processing circuitry.

8 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 , wherein,

in a case where the one or more ascending/descending facilities include a plurality of ascending/descending facilities,

when the user specified by the processing circuitry starts utilization of one of the plurality of ascending/descending facilities, the processing circuitry judges an ascending/descending facility to be utilized by the user on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras; and

in a case where the processing circuitry judges two or more ascending/descending facilities as facilities to be utilized by the user specified by the processing circuitry as the same user, the processing circuitry specifies the user who utilizes the two or more ascending/descending facilities as users different from each other after extracting a difference in a feature amount or feature amounts.

9 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 , wherein,

in a case where a user of the building is a person who engages in working on a working floor that is one of the plurality of floors,

the processing circuitry performs attendance management of the person who engages in working on a basis of the behavior information; and

the processing circuitry judges a date on which the person who engages in working utilizes one of the at least one or more ascending/descending facilities as a work day of the person who engages in working, judges a first time point at which the person who engages in working arrives at the working floor on the work day as a start time point of the person who engages in working, and judges a last time point at which the person who engages in working departs from the working floor on the work day as a finish time point of the person who engages in working.

10 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry acquires interest information of the user every time the processing circuitry completes acquisition of the behavior information on the arrival floor of the user.

11 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processing circuitry learns a model that derives behavior information from the image or images of captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras using a machine learning method and acquires behavior information of the user from the image or images on a basis of the learned model.

12 . A simulation system comprising:

the interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuitry sets simulation conditions on a basis of existing conditions stored in the processing circuitry and simulates change of the interest information using new conditions obtained by changing the existing conditions acquired by the processing circuitry.

13 . The simulation system according to claim 12 ,

wherein a tenant fee in the new conditions is automatically calculated on a basis of a result of the simulation under the new conditions.

14 . A simulation system comprising:

the interest degree measurement system according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuitry sets simulation conditions on a basis of existing conditions stored in the processing circuitry and simulates change of interest information under new conditions obtained by changing the existing conditions acquired by the processing circuitry:

the processing circuitry calculates a difference between behavior information and interest information under the existing conditions stored in the processing circuitry and behavior information and interest information simulated under the new conditions; and

the processing circuitry visualizes a result of the difference of the simulation in a superimposed manner on at least one of an interest degree map under the existing conditions or an interest degree map under the new conditions.

15 . An interest degree measurement system comprising:

first processing circuitry

to store attributes for each area for each of a plurality of floors of a first building,

to specify a user in the first building on a basis of an image or images captured by at least one of a plurality of first cameras provided in the first building,

to, when the user specified by the first processing circuitry moves from a departure floor to an arrival floor among the plurality of floors of the first building by utilizing one of one or more ascending/descending facilities provided in the first building, judge the arrival floor of the user on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of first cameras,

to acquire behavior information representing behavior of the user on the arrival floor judged by the first processing circuitry on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of first cameras for the user specified by the first processing circuitry, and

to acquire interest information representing a degree of interest of the user for each attribute on a basis of a relationship between arrangement and attributes of areas on the arrival floor judged by the first processing circuitry and the behavior information acquired by the first processing circuitry for the user specified by the first processing circuitry;

second processing circuitry

to store attributes for each area for each of a plurality of floors of a second building; and

central management processing circuitry.

16 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 15 ,

wherein the central management processing circuitry uses both of the interest information acquired in the first building and the interest information acquired in the second building to generate the interest degree map in the second building.

17 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 15 ,

wherein the central management processing circuitry generates the interest degree map for each of the users of the second building.

18 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 15 , wherein

the second processing circuitry specifies a user in the second building on a basis of an image or images captured by at least one of a plurality of second cameras provided in the second building;

when the second processing circuitry specifies a user who starts utilization of one of one or more ascending/descending facilities provided in the second building, the second processing circuitry presents an area having an attribute with the highest degree of interest for the user from among the areas for each of the plurality of floors of the building to the user as a destination by utilizing one or both of the interest information acquired in the first building and the interest information acquired in the second building, on a basis of the interest information stored in the central management processing circuitry for the user and information on the attributes stored in the second processing circuitry; and

the central management processing circuitry generates the interest degree map in the second building, including information on the destination actually presented by the second processing circuitry.

19 . The interest degree measurement system according to claim 15 , wherein

the second processing circuitry configured to specify a user in the second building on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of a plurality of second cameras provided in the second building; and

in a case where the user specified by the first processing circuitry and the user specified by the second processing circuitry are the same, the central management processing circuitry causes the first processing circuitry and the second processing circuitry to specify the specified users as users different from each other after extracting a difference in feature amounts.

20 . An interest degree measurement system comprising:

first processing circuitry

to store attributes for each area for each of a plurality of floors of a first building,

to specify a user in the first building on a basis of an image or images captured by at least one of a plurality of cameras provided in the first building,

to, when the user specified by the first processing circuitry moves from a departure floor to an arrival floor among the plurality of floors of the first building by utilizing one of one or more ascending/descending facilities provided in the first building, judge the arrival floor of the user on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras,

to acquire behavior information representing behavior of the user on the arrival floor judged by the first processing circuitry on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras for the user specified by the first processing circuitry, and

to acquire interest information representing a degree of interest of the user for each attribute on a basis of a relationship between arrangement and attributes of areas on the arrival floor judged by the first processing circuitry and the behavior information acquired by the first processing circuitry for the user specified by the first processing circuitry; and

central management processing circuitry

to store the interest information acquired by the first processing circuitry for each user, including information on a time point and a location,

to receive an image or images of users of a third building from an external system applied to the third building,

to specify a user on the basis of the image or images received by the central management processing circuitry, and

to generate an interest degree map by visualizing distribution of degrees of interest of the users of the third building on a floor for which information on attributes is judged among a plurality of floors of the third building using the information stored in the central management processing circuitry as interest information for the user specified by the central management processing circuitry, and information on attributes for each area of at least one of the plurality of floors of the third building judged on the basis of the image or images received by the central management processing circuitry.

21 . An interest degree measurement system comprising:

first processing circuitry

to store attributes for each area for each of a plurality of floors of a first building,

to specify a user in the first building on a basis of an image or images captured by at least one of a plurality of cameras provided in the first building,

to, when the user specified by the first processing circuitry moves from a departure floor to an arrival floor among the plurality of floors of the first building by utilizing one of one or more ascending/descending facilities provided in the first building, judge the arrival floor of the user on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras,

to acquire behavior information representing behavior of the user on the arrival floor judged by the first processing circuitry on the basis of the image or images captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras for the user specified by the first processing circuitry, and

to acquire interest information representing a degree of interest of the user for each attribute on a basis of a relationship between arrangement and attributes of areas on the arrival floor judged by the first processing circuitry and the behavior information acquired by the first processing circuitry; and

central management processing circuitry

to store the interest information acquired by the first processing circuitry for each user, including information on a time point and a location,

to receive, from an external system, an image or images of a user who starts utilization of one or more ascending/descending facilities provided in a third building,

to specify a user on the basis of the image or images received by the central management processing circuitry, and

to transmit, to the external system, information on candidates for a destination with a high degree of interest of the user stored in the central management processing circuitry for the user specified by the central management processing circuitry.