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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Genki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Genki Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information in which positions of an object in a vertical direction, positions in a horizontal direction, and positions in a depth direction at multiple points in time are associated with each other; a prediction unit configured to, based on a position of a predetermined object in the information previously obtained by the obtaining unit, predict a position of the predetermined object in the information currently obtained by the obtaining unit; and an extraction unit configured to extract, from the current information, multiple objects that satisfy a predetermined condition corresponding to the position of the predetermined object, and extract, based on a degree of similarity between each image of the multiple objects and an image of the predetermined object, a same object, of the multiple objects in the current information, as the predetermined object in the previous information.