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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2020
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yuki Maruyama, Osaka, JP;
Hiroya Kusaka, Hyogo, JP;
Taro Imagawa, Osaka, JP;
Akihiro Noda, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A prediction device for predicting the growth direction of a crack that occurs in a subject includes: an obtainer that obtains video of the subject; a derivation unit that derives displacement of each of a plurality of regions in the obtained video; a selector that selects, from among the plurality of regions, two or more regions each having displacement similar to displacement of a reference region included in the plurality of regions; and an identification unit that identifies, as the growth direction, the longitudinal direction of a collective region made up of the two or more selected regions.