Toilet usage management system and cat toilet
A cat toilet, etc., which specifies precisely one cat who entered a toilet for cat is provided. The present invention relates to a camera for capturing a plurality of images of a cat entering a cat toilet, a cat identifying process for identifying identifiers of one cat appearing in a plurality of images based on a plurality of images captured by the camera section, the cat identification processing section extracts each feature amount from a plurality of images, determines the identifier of one cat as the identification result for each image based on the feature amount, and makes a majority decision of the identification result based on this, identifiers of one cat appearing in a plurality of images are specified.
1. A toilet usage management system for cats, the toilet usage management system including a cat toilet to be used by a plurality of cats, a user terminal, a management server, and reporting information on a use of the cat toilet to the user terminal, wherein the cat toilet includes;
a camera that captures a plurality of images of the cats entering the cat toilet at predetermined time intervals, and
a CPU is configured to identify an identifier of a same cat appearing in the plurality of images based on a plurality of images captured by the camera;
extract feature amounts from the plurality of images, respectively, acquire a verification degrees, each of which indicates a likelihood of the identifier of corresponding one cat, for each image on the basis of the feature amount, respectively, determine, based on the acquired verification degrees, the identifier of one cat as an identification result for each image of the plurality of images, and identify the identifier of the same cat appearing in the plurality of images based on a majority decision of the identification results,
display at least one image out of the plurality of images and the identifier of the same identified cat
when the verification degree is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, and
identify again, when an identifier of a cat, which is different from the identifier of the same identified cat, is inputted from the user terminal by the owner of the plurality of cats, the inputted identifier of the cat as an identifier of the same cat appearing in the plurality of images,
the user terminal is configured to, display at least one image out of the plurality of images and the identifier of the same identified cat with an icon prompting user confirmation when the verification degree is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
2. The toilet usage management system according to claim 1 , the CPU is configured to;
acquire the verification degrees when the identifier of the same cat appearing in the plurality of images cannot be specified based on the majority decision of the identification result, and
identify the identifier of one of the cats having the largest verification degree, among the identifiers of the cats which become the largest number in the majority decision, as the identifier of the same cat appearing in the plurality of images.
3. A cat toilet that is used by a plurality of cats, and notifies a user terminal with information on a use of the cat toilet to the user terminal, wherein the cat toilet includes;
a camera that captures a plurality of images of the cats entering the cat toilet at predetermined time intervals, and
a CPU is configured to identify an identifier of a same cat appearing in the plurality of images based on a plurality of images captured by the camera;
extract feature amounts from the plurality of images, respectively, acquire a verification degrees, each of which indicates a likelihood of the identifier of corresponding one cat, for each image on the basis of the feature amount, respectively, determine, based on the acquired verification degrees, the identifier of one cat as an identification result for each image of the plurality of images, and identify the identifier of the same cat appearing in the plurality of images based on a majority decision of the identification results,
display at least one image out of the plurality of images and the identifier of the same identified cat when the verification degree is smaller than a predetermined threshold value,
identify again, when an identifier of a cat, which is different from the identifier of the same identified cat, is inputted from the user terminal by the owner of the plurality of cats, the inputted identifier of the cat as an identifier of the same cat appearing in the plurality of images, and
the user terminal is configured to display the at least one image out of the plurality of images and the identified identifier of the same cat with an icon for prompting user confirmation when the verification degree is smaller than the predetermined threshold value.