Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Omayu

Taro Imagawa

Masafumi Sato

Takeshi Hamasaki

Toshiyuki Nakashima

Hiroyuki Miyahara

Yuka Nakamura

A pet status assessment system includes an area detector, an information generator, and an assessor. The area detector detects, in image data, a specific area representing at least a part of appearance of a pet as a subject. The information generator generates pet information. The pet information includes posture information which is based on a learned model and the image data. The learned model has been generated by learning the posture of the pet to recognize, on an image, the posture of the pet. The assessor assesses, based on the pet information, a pet status concerning at least one of an emotion of the pet or an action of the pet.

Pet status assessment system, pet camera, server, pet status assessment method, and program

An image processing apparatus comprises: a separation unit configured to separate image data into a luminance signal and a color difference signal; a decision unit configured to decide a reference pixel, which is referenced for a pixel of interest included in the image data; a luminance noise reduction unit configured to reduce luminance noise in the luminance signal of the image data; a weight calculation unit configured to calculate a weight of the reference pixel based on similarity of luminance included in the luminance signal having been subjected to noise reduction by the luminance noise reduction unit between a first area containing the pixel of interest and a second area containing the reference pixel; and a color noise reduction unit configured to reduce color noise in the color difference signal for the pixel of interest by using the weight of the reference pixel.

Image processing apparatus

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroaki Omayu