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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2012
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Kyoko Kawaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
PANASONIC CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A posture estimation device that is capable of highly precisely estimating the posture of an object comprising multiple parts. Said device () comprises: a posture information database () that for each of multiple postures, holds posture information that defines the placement of multiple parts; a fitting unit () that computes, for each of the parts in an image, a correlation level between the placement of the parts and the posture information; a difficulty level information table () that holds an estimation difficulty level that is a degree of difficulty of estimating each part position and computed on the basis of each parallel line components of each of the parts contained in the posture information; and a posture estimation unit () that to the correlation level, applies a weighting based on the estimation difficulty level, and on the basis of the weighted correlation level, estimates the posture of the object.