IP Library Granted Patent US 12,437,582
Granted Patent B2
US 12,437,582 · App. 17/921,224 · Granted Oct 7, 2025

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

Inventors: Sota Matsuzawa (Tokyo, JP); Ayaka Nishi (Kanagawa, JP); Masatomo Kurata (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
G06V40/25G01P15/18G06F21/32G06Q20/4014G06T7/20G06T7/50G06T7/70G06T2207/30196G06T2207/30241G06T2207/30244
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Patent No.
US 12,437,582
App. No.
17/921,224
Granted
Oct 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of accurately identifying a person imaged in a captured image. The information processing device includes a control unit configured to perform control for associating a person imaged in a captured image with a user of an information processing terminal based on a check between movement information acquired from information detected by the information processing terminal carried by the user and movement information of one or more persons acquired from the captured image and a check between state information of the user acquired from the information processing terminal and state information of the one or more persons acquired from the captured image.

Claims (65)

1. An information processing device comprising:

circuitry configured to

acquire movement information from information detected by an information processing terminal carried by a user, and

perform control for associating a person imaged in a captured image with the user of the information processing terminal based on

a check between the movement information acquired from the information detected by the information processing terminal carried by the user and movement information of one or more persons acquired from the captured image, and

a check between state information of the user acquired from the information processing terminal and state information of the one or more persons acquired from the captured image,

wherein the state information includes a switching time between a first activity and a second activity indicated by the acquired movement information.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information further includes information that can be recognized from outside.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information of the user is extracted from sensing data acquired by a sensor provided in the information processing terminal.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein

the state information of the persons is extracted from the captured image through image analysis.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information further includes feature information relating to walking.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information further includes information relating to a position.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information further includes information relating to a distance.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information further includes

a positional relationship between the user and another user present near the user, and

a positional relationship between the user and a camera configured to acquire the captured image.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information further includes activity information.

10. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the state information further includes a movement pattern estimated according to a preset rule.

11. The information processing device according to claim 10 ,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to perform a check of the movement pattern based on movement information of the information processing terminal and an appearance feature of each person obtained from captured images obtained from a plurality of cameras.

12. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to perform control for storing

a character string for identifying the user that has been registered in advance, and

authentication information of the associated person extracted from a captured image of the associated person in a storage unit according to the association.

13. The information processing device according to claim 12 ,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to perform control for notifying the information processing terminal that the authentication information has been stored.

14. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to

calculate check confidence scores for each person imaged in the captured image in the check of the movement information and the check of the state information, and

associate a person for whom a sum of the check confidence scores obtained for each person is a maximum with the user.

15. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the movement information of the information processing terminal includes indoor positioning information.

16. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to

perform control for storing movement trajectory information which is movement information of the information processing terminal in a storage unit as a route history of the user, and

perform control for updating the route history of the user based on movement trajectory information acquired from the captured image of the associated person when the person has been associated with the user.

17. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein

the circuitry is further configured to perform control for

notifying the information processing terminal of appropriate information according to an activity of the user with whom the person has been associated.

18. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to

identify a person who is at a predetermined place where payment is performed based on a route history of each user stored in a storage unit and

perform a check of authentication information acquired from a captured image of the person who is at the predetermined place where payment is performed by using authentication information of the identified user

so as to perform personal authentication for payment approval.

19. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring movement information from information detected by an information processing terminal carried by a user; and

performing control, by a processor, for associating a person imaged in a captured image with the user of the information processing terminal based on

a check between the movement information acquired from the information detected by the information processing terminal carried by the user and movement information of one or more persons acquired from the captured image, and

a check between state information of the user acquired from the information processing terminal and state information of the one or more persons acquired from the captured image,

wherein the state information includes a switching time between a first activity and a second activity indicated by the acquired movement information.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

acquiring movement information from information detected by an information processing terminal carried by a user; and

associating a person imaged in a captured image with the user of the information processing terminal based on

a check between the movement information acquired from the information detected by the information processing terminal carried by the user and movement information of one or more persons acquired from the captured image, and

a check between state information of the user acquired from the information processing terminal and state information of the one or more persons acquired from the captured image,

wherein the state information includes a switching time between a first activity and a second activity indicated by the acquired movement information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 25, 2022
From: MATSUZAWA, SOTA; NISHI, AYAKA; KURATA, MASATOMO
To: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061528/0826 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-092805 · May 28, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230162533A1 · May 25, 2023
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