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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2012
Masashi Iwasawa, Otsu, JP;
Masashi Iwasawa, Otsu, JP;
OPTEX CO., LTD., Shiga, JP;
Abstract
The configuration includes a laser range finder (), a scan mechanism (), a distance-data acquiring unit (), a memory (), a human-body determining unit (), which detects an object with possibility to correspond to a human body from acquired distance information, calculates a height and a width of the object based on installation state information stored in the memory (), determines that the object is a human body when detection of the object continues for a first predetermined time or longer in the case where a calculated object height is a predetermined height or more, and determines that the object is a human body when detection of the object continues for a second predetermined time longer than the first predetermined time or longer in the case where the calculated object height is less than the predetermined height, and an alert-output control unit ().