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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2019
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Fumiya Sakashita, Osaka, JP;
Yoichi Hiranuma, Osaka, JP;
Shoichi Sakaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Shohei Fujiwara, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A monitoring system includes: a camera, a storage section, and a control unit. The camera photographs an object. The storage section stores a first photographed image photographed by the camera and a second photographed image photographed by the camera at a same photographing place of a photographing place of the first photographed image after the photographing of the first photographed image. The control unit includes a processor and, through execution of a control program by the processor, functions as an obstacle determination section and a control section. The obstacle determination section calculates a difference between the first photographed image and the second photographed image and determines, based on the difference, whether or not an obstacle is present in a photographing range of the camera. The control section performs, upon determination by the obstacle determination section that the obstacle is present, processing of reporting results of the determination.