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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2005
Applicants:
Hiroyuki Ohba, Otsu, JP;
Shinichi Oku, Otsu, JP;
Yasutaka Kawahata, Otsu, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Optex Co., Ltd., Shiga, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 13/194 (2006.01); G07C 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To provide a traffic monitoring apparatus capable of accurately determining the number of objects present in an area under surveillance without being affected by the difference in arrangement of those objects. Included is an object information acquiring deviceA for acquiring three-dimensional object information D related with an object H present in an areaunder surveillance, and a determining deviceA for determining the number of objects based on at least a volume, which is one of a volume and a height of an object obtained from the object information D.