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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Samsung Sds Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Jun Hee Heu, Seoul, KR;
Jong Hang Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jeong Seon Yi, Seoul, KR;
Yeon Hee Kwon, Seoul, KR;
Sang Hak Lee, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a people counting apparatus including: a reception unit which receives a video of an area including an entrance captured by a video capture device; a line setting unit which sets an inline at the entrance and sets an outline such that a specific region is formed on a side of the inline; a detection unit which detects moving objects in the video using information differences between frames of the received video and detects human moving objects among the detected moving objects; a tracking unit which tracks the movement of each of the detected moving objects; and a counting unit which determines whether each of the moving objects passed the inline and the outline based on the tracked movement of each of the moving objects and counts the number of people based on the determination result.