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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2024
Furuno Electric Co., Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Yuta Takahashi, Hyogo, JP;
FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A target monitoring device includes: a data acquiring unit, acquiring image data including a ship observed by an imaging sensor; an image recognizing unit, detecting a region of the ship included in the image data; a distance acquiring unit, acquiring a distance to the ship from an observation position detected by a sensor that is different from the imaging sensor; a course acquiring unit, acquiring a course of the ship detected by the sensor that is different from the imaging sensor; and a ship body length estimating unit, estimating a ship body length of the ship based on a dimension of the region of the ship in a horizontal direction, the distance to the ship, and the course of the ship.