IP Library Granted Patent US 10,242,271
Granted Patent B2
US 10,242,271 · App. 15/535,230 · Granted Mar 26, 2019

Facility use measuring device and facility use measuring system

Inventors: Kunio Hirakawa (Kanagawa, JP); Yuichi Nakahata (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
G06K9/00771G06K9/6212G06K9/6215G06K9/6267G06K9/78G06Q50/10G06Q30/0205
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Patent No.
US 10,242,271
App. No.
15/535,230
Granted
Mar 26, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A facility use measuring device includes a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor is configured to set a plurality of staying areas for determining the presence or absence of stay of users on images, to generate stay information relating to the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on a change situation, to compare pieces of stay information for every at least two staying areas and determine a group configuration regarding the users who respectively stay in the staying areas based on similarity of the pieces of stay information, to generate use information relating a use situation of a facility according to the group configuration, based on the pieces of stay information for each of the staying areas and a determination result of the group configuration, and to generate display information displaying the use information and output the display information.

Claims (70)

1. A facility use measuring device that determines a group configuration of users based on images obtained by photographing inside a facility and measures a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, the device comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing an instruction,

wherein the processor is configured to, as instructions stored in the memory,

set a plurality of staying areas for determining the presence or absence of stay of users on each of the images,

generate stay information relating to the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on a change situation of each of the images in the staying areas,

compare the pieces of stay information for every at least two staying areas and determine the group configuration regarding the users who respectively stay in the staying areas based on similarity of the pieces of stay information,

generate use information relating to a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, based on the stay information for each of the staying areas and a determination result of the group configuration, and

generate display information displaying the use information and output the display information,

wherein the processor is further configured to

acquire stay periods of the users for each of the staying areas,

compare the stay periods for each of the staying areas and determine the group configuration of the users based on an overlap rate of the stay periods, and

acquire an image change rate of an image at each time having a predetermined sampling interval with respect to the image at the time of the immediately preceding sampling interval, determine the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on continuity of the image change rate, and acquire the stay period for each of the staying areas.

2. The facility use measuring device of claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to

separately determine groups of a single person, a pair, and three persons or more as the group configuration, and

generate information relating to a quantity for each group configuration, as the use information.

3. The facility use measuring device of claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to

set a combination of two staying areas in an adjacency relationship, in which the users belonging to the same group stay adjacently, and

compare the pieces of stay information between the two staying areas in the adjacency relationship, perform a pair relationship determination of whether there is a pair relationship between the users who stay in the two staying areas or not, and sequentially conduct the pair relationship determination for all combinations of the two staying areas in the adjacency relationship.

4. The facility use measuring device of claim 3 ,

wherein in a case where there is a chain of pair relationships, which becomes a state where three or more staying areas are connected by the pair relationship, the processor is configured to determine the group configuration as a group of three or more persons.

5. A facility use measuring device that determines a group configuration of users based on images obtained by photographing inside a facility and measures a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, the device comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing an instruction,

wherein the processor is configured to, as instructions stored in the memory,

set a plurality of staying areas for determining the presence or absence of stay of users on each of the images,

generate stay information relating to the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on a change situation of each of the images in the staying areas,

compare the pieces of stay information for every at least two staying areas and determine the group configuration regarding the users who respectively stay in the staying areas based on similarity of the pieces of stay information,

generate use information relating to a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, based on the stay information for each of the staying areas and a determination result of the group configuration, and

generate display information displaying the use information and output the display information,

wherein the processor is further configured to

aggregate the stay information for each of the staying areas and the determination result of the group configuration for each predetermined unit period to generate statistical information relating to at least any one of a quantity and a ratio for each group configuration for each unit period, as the use information, and

generate display information displaying at least any one of statistical information for each unit period by a table and a graph and output the display information.

6. A facility use measuring system that determines a group configuration of users based on images obtained by photographing inside a facility and measures a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, the system comprising:

a camera for photographing inside the facility; and

a plurality of information processing devices each of which includes a processor and a memory storing instructions,

wherein in any one of the plurality of information processing devices, the processor is configured to, as instructions stored in the memory,

set a plurality of staying areas for determining the presence or absence of stay of the users on each of the images,

generate stay information relating to the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on a change situation of each of the images in the staying areas,

compare the pieces of stay information for every at least two staying areas and determine the group configuration regarding the users who respectively stay in staying areas based on similarity of the pieces of stay information,

generate use information relating to a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, based on the pieces of stay information for each of the staying areas and a determination result of the group configuration, and

generate display information displaying the use information and output the display information,

wherein the processor is further configured to

acquire stay periods of the users for each of the staying areas,

compare the stay periods for each of the staying areas and determine the group configuration of the users based on an overlap rate of the stay periods, and

acquire an image change rate of an image at each time having a predetermined sampling interval with respect to the image at the time of the immediately preceding sampling interval, determine the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on continuity of the image change rate, and acquire the stay period for each of the staying areas.

7. A facility use measuring system that determines a group configuration of users based on images obtained by photographing inside a facility and measures a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, the system comprising:

a camera for photographing inside the facility; and

a plurality of information processing devices each of which includes a processor and a memory storing instructions,

wherein in any one of the plurality of information processing devices, the processor is configured to, as instructions stored in the memory,

set a plurality of staying areas for determining the presence or absence of stay of the users on each of the images,

generate stay information relating to the presence or absence of stay of the users for each of the staying areas based on a change situation of each of the images in the staying areas,

compare the pieces of stay information for every at least two staying areas and determine the group configuration regarding the users who respectively stay in staying areas based on similarity of the pieces of stay information,

generate use information relating to a use situation of the facility according to the group configuration, based on the pieces of stay information for each of the staying areas and a determination result of the group configuration, and

generate display information displaying the use information and output the display information,

wherein the processor is further configured to

aggregate the stay information for each of the staying areas and the determination result of the group configuration for each predetermined unit period to generate statistical information relating to at least any one of a quantity and a ratio for each group configuration for each unit period, as the use information, and

generate display information displaying at least any one of statistical information for each unit period by a table and a graph and output the display information.

8. The facility use measuring device of claim 5 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to

separately determine groups of a single person, a pair, and three persons or more as the group configuration, and

generate information relating to a quantity for each group configuration, as the use information.

9. The facility use measuring device of claim 5 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to

set a combination of two staying areas in an adjacency relationship, in which the users belonging to the same group stay adjacently, and

compare the pieces of stay information between the two staying areas in the adjacency relationship, perform a pair relationship determination of whether there is a pair relationship between the users who stay in the two staying areas or not, and sequentially conduct the pair relationship determination for all combinations of the two staying areas in the adjacency relationship.

10. The facility use measuring device of claim 9 ,

wherein in a case where there is a chain of pair relationships, which becomes a state where three or more staying areas are connected by the pair relationship, the processor is configured to determine the group configuration as a group of three or more persons.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 9, 2017
From: HIRAKAWA, KUNIO; NAKAHATA, YUICHI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 043236/0289 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-262638 · Dec 25, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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