Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic I-pro Sensing Solutions Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Satoru Ooyabu

Yuichiro Mori

Yasuji Nakamura

Kazutaka Higuchi

Michinori Kishimoto

Yasuyuki Michimoto

Toshihiro Kuroki

A wearable camera includes an imaging unit; a storage unit configured to store video data imaged by the imaging unit; a sound collection unit disposed on an upper surface of a casing of the wearable camera and configured to collect a sound of a user; and a control unit configured to extract a sound of the user related to an imaging situation included in the video data, and add attribute information to the video data based on the extracted sound.

Wearable camera

An image signal processing DSP subjects an image captured by an imaging element having a zoom lens to image processing for identifying a tracking target. In accordance with zoom information generated by the image signal processing DSP, the main CPU controls the zoom lens and controls a turn table that moves the imaging element in panning and tilting directions in accordance with pan and tilt information, to track the tracking target. During tracking of the tracking target, a determination is made, from information about movements of the tracking target generated by the image signal processing DSP, as to whether or not the target to be tracked has intruded the inside of the area from the outside. In a case where the target has intruded the inside of a preset area from the outside, an alarm command is produced when the target continually remains in the area for; e.g., one second.

Monitoring camera and monitoring camera control method

An automatic tracking apparatus is provided, which is capable of solving a failure occurred in an automatic tracking operation in connection with a zooming operation, and capable of tracking an object in a stable manner, while a zooming-up operation, or a zooming-down operation is carried out in a high speed. The automatic tracking apparatus is equipped with: a first object detecting unitfor detecting an object from an image photographed by a camera and inputted; a first zooming control unitfor changing zooming magnification of the camera in such a case that a dimension of the detected object is smaller than a predetermined dimension on the image; a second object detecting unitfor detecting the object from an image again photographed by the camera after the zooming magnification has been changed; a template matching unitfor comparing the object detected by the second object detecting unit with the image photographed by the camera so as to specify a position of the object and to track the object on the image; and a second zooming control unitfor controlling the zooming magnification of the camera in such a manner that a dimension of the object to be tracked becomes a predetermined dimension on an image which is photographed by the camera.

Automatic tracking apparatus and automatic tracking method

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Kanagawa, Japan

Satoru Ooyabu