Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Kazuhiko Iwai

Tetsurou Kakizawa

Kazuma Yoshida

Tateaki Nogami

Hirofumi Fujii

Kyoko Kawaguchi

Shin Yamada

Hiroyuki Kubotani

Yuki Waki

Mitsuko Fujita

Marie Kuwahara

Yoshifumi Sakata

Yuichiro Takemoto

Kosuke Hosoi

Yuji Sato

Takeshi Watanabe

Makoto Mochizuki

Masamoto Tanabiki

Koji Arata

Shinji Takenaka

Toshihiro Sota

Masashi Oozono

Provided is a monitoring system configured such that, even when there is a deviation of a shooting region of a camera, if the deviation is within an acceptable level, an accurate vehicle detection using a recognition model can be performed without readjusting parameters or re-training the model. Based on an image of a no-entry zone and a platform zone, a processor performs a first operation for detecting a person in the no-entry zone and a second operation for detecting a vehicle in the no-entry zone; and based on detection results, determines whether an alert needs to be issued. When there is a deviation of the shooting region of a camera, the processor performs a conversion operation for converting an image of a current shooting region to an image that would be captured by the camera with an original shooting region and uses the converted image for the two detection operations.

Monitoring device and monitoring system

A surveillance device of the present disclosure includes an image analysis server that generates an alarm when detecting an alarm generation target that has entered an intrusion detection area, based on a camera image captured by a camera. The image analysis server acquires the camera image (basic image) to set a fixed object area (basic area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the basic image, acquires a camera image (live image) to extract a fixed object area (reference area) corresponding to a fixed object included in the live image, calculates a deviation amount of an angle of view based on a result of a comparison in standard position between the basic area and the reference area, and generates a surveillance screen including an adjustment screen for guidance on an operation for cancelling the deviation amount of the angle of view to display the surveillance screen.

Surveillance device, surveillance system, and surveillance method

A server collects measurement data of a camera to efficiently generate statistical data relating to the number of entering and exiting persons, and present the data to a user. The camera includes image capture unit capturing an image of a doorway of a facility, processor detecting persons entering and exiting from the doorway based on captured images sequentially output from the image capture unit and generating measurement data relating to the number of entering and exiting persons for each predetermined period, and communication unit transmitting the measurement data output from the processor for each predetermined period to store server, and store server includes communication unit receiving measurement data for each predetermined period transmitted from camera, storage unit accumulating measurement data for each predetermined period received by the communication unit, and processor statistically processing measurement data for each predetermined period to generate statistical data for targeting one or more facilities.

Facility operation assistance system, facility image capture device, and facility operation assistance method

A facility management assistance device includes an image extractor that extracts an image of a target area from an image of the interior of the facility, an image presenter that presents the image of the target area to a first user, an individual evaluation information acquirer that acquires individual evaluation information on an evaluation result of the target area, in response to an input by the first user, an evaluation aggregation information generator that aggregates the individual evaluation information in a designated period, and generates evaluation aggregation information for listing an evaluation result for the designated period, an evaluation aggregation information presenter that presents the evaluation aggregation information to a second user, an improvement implementation information acquirer that acquires improvement implementation information on the implementation situation of an improvement measure, in response to an input by a second user, and an improvement implementation information presenter that presents the improvement implementation information to the first user.

Facility management assistance device, facility management assistance system, and facility management assistance method for performance analysis based on review of captured images

A commodity monitoring device includes a visitor number acquirer that acquires the number of visitors, a purchasing customer number acquirer that acquires the number of purchasing customers who purchase a commodity, a statistical information generator that generates statistical information, based on the number of visitors and the number of purchasing customers, a commodity detector that detects commodity, based on a captured image of a display area, a sales opportunity loss analyzer that analyzes a cause of the sales opportunity loss from a commodity detection result, and a display screen generator that generates a monitoring screen in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss is superimposed on the image of the display area.

Retail sales opportunity loss cause analysis based on image analysis of shelf display

A monitoring device includes a fixed area setter that sets an area of a part of a display shelf to be monitored as a fixed area, based on a captured image of the display shelf in a store, a shelf detector that detects the display shelf, by determining a similarity between an image of the fixed area set by the fixed area setter and an image at the same position as the fixed area, from the captured image of the store, and an alert notifier that notifies a user that the display shelf to be monitored is not detected, when it is determined that there is no similarity.

Monitoring device, monitoring system, and monitoring method

The number of entering customers and number of paying customers in a store are obtained, statistical information indicating temporal change in status of the number of entering customers and the number of paying customers in a store is generated, the statistical information is displayed along a time axis, the number of a timeslot which is a selection point is displayed on the time axis, and the video of the inside of the store corresponding to the selected timeslot is displayed in response to the user's operation to select the timeslot.

Facility management support apparatus, facility management support system, and facility management support method

To enable a notification instructing a goods management work to be made at an appropriate and effective timing, a goods monitoring device for monitoring a display state of goods based on captured images of a display area in a store includes: a goods detection unit that detects goods in the display area based on captured images of the display area; a goods state detection unit that detects a goods display state in the display area; a person detection unit that detects persons staying in the store; a person state detection unit that detects a person staying state in the store; a notification determination unit that determines propriety of a notification instructing a store staff member to perform a goods management work; and a notification unit that makes the notification based on a result of determination by the notification determination unit.

Product monitoring device, product monitoring system, and product monitoring method

A positional information acquirer acquires positional information for every person from a video, an attribute information acquirer acquires attribute information for every person from the video, and an activity information acquirer restricts activity information to an attribute designated by a user based on the attribute information and the positional information, and acquires the activity information of which the attribute is restricted. An activity map generator generates an activity map of which an attribute is restricted based on the activity information, and a video output outputs a video acquired by superimposing the activity map. A controller determines appropriateness indicating whether or not the video output from the imager is appropriate, enables a function of outputting the activity map of which the attribute is restricted, and disables the function of outputting the activity map of which the attribute is restricted where the video output from the imager does not have the appropriateness.

Image-capturing device, recording device, and video output control device

A monitoring apparatus includes a processor, wherein the monitoring apparatus images a monitoring area and outputs a moving image of the monitoring area, and the processor detects all persons appearing in the moving image, performs mask processing of changing inner portions of outlines of all persons into translucent mask images, and superposes the mask images on a background image, to generate a mask-processed moving image, and outputs the mask-processed moving image to a browsing apparatus through a network.

Monitoring apparatus, and moving image output method

To enable a user such as a store manager to easily grasp movement of persons at a location within a monitored area, a PC for analyzing the movement of persons within the monitored area is provided with a measurement condition setter that causes a user to perform an input operation of specifying a measurement area in a region in the monitored area and specifying an entry zone and an exit zone of a person relative to the measurement area, and sets the measurement area and the entry and exit zones as a measurement condition; a traffic line acquirer that acquires traffic line information of each person detected; a moving person detector that detects, in the measurement area, persons matching movement patterns defined by the entry and exit zones; and a screen generator that generates output information representing a state of movement of persons in relation to the measurement area.

Person movement analysis device, person movement analysis system, and person movement analysis method

A customer management device for managing states of customers visiting a commercial establishment that provides articles or services to the customers in response to orders from the customers, includes: a first image obtainer that obtains customer images of customers captured at some point from when the customers enter the commercial establishment till when the customers go through reception procedures; a second image obtainer that obtains customer images of customers captured at least either when the customers receive the articles or services or when the customers make payment; a customer information manager that, based on the customer images obtained by the first image obtainer and the second image obtainer, generates and manages customer information relating to customers in a state of waiting for provision of the articles or services; and a customer information provider that provides a user with the customer information managed by the customer information manager.

Customer management device, customer management system and customer management method

Provided is a sales clerk operation management apparatus including: an operation contents setter which sets operation contents of each operation executed by the sales clerk; an operation schedule setter which sets the operation schedule relating to each operation set by the operation contents setter; an operation detector which detects that the sales clerk has performed each operation with the set operation contents, based on the image; an execution information generator which generates information relating to the execution situations for each operation condition set in the operation schedule, based on the detected result of the operation detector; and a display information generator which generates and outputs display information showing the information relating to the execution situations for each operation condition generated by the execution information generator to be compared with the operation schedule.

Sales clerk operation management apparatus, sales clerk operation management system, and sales clerk operation management method

An activity map creating device creates an activity situation of a moving object, and outputs an activity map visualizing the activity situation of the moving object. The device includes a moving object detector that detects the moving object from a captured image, and a first activity value obtainer that obtains a moving object activity value for each of a plurality of detection elements. The device further includes a target area setter that sets a target area, a second activity value obtainer that aggregates, in the target area, moving object activity values of the respective detection elements, and a map generator that creates the activity map for the target area based on the aggregation. The device further includes an output information generator that creates output information on the activity map.

Activity map creating device, activity map creating system, and activity map creating method

A monitoring apparatus according to embodiments of the invention generates and outputs an output moving image obtained by changing an image area of a person detected from an imaged moving image of a monitoring area to a mask image. The monitoring apparatus includes a person image analyzer including a person detector which detects a person from the imaged moving image and acquires area information regarding each person and an attribute determinator which determines attributes for each person detected from the imaged moving image, a mask image setter which sets the mask image by the attribute, and a moving image output controller which generates and outputs the output moving image obtained by changing the image area for each person to the mask image by the attribute, based on the area information and the attribute for each person output from the person image analyzer.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kazuhiko Iwai